J Scott Smith
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J Scott Smith
@SundaySpectator
COMM Professor. Studying crisis communication, politics, and sports
Inscrit le Temmuz 2014
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SNAP benefits are actually good for the economy and help keep prices stable for consumers. Places like Walmart are able to turn profits because SNAP benefits are used there and for every $1 injected into the program, there's a net economic benefit from $1.50-$1.79
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This 14 second clip got over 13k+ likes in under 48 hours
“You ever think that maybe food is so expensive because, I don't know, 42 million people get it for free?”
Really think about this
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@LevAkabas Get rid of 17 games. If you have to lower the bar to playing only 75% of your games for people to qualify for awards, you're playing too many games
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Nikola Jokic can only miss 1 more game and still be eligible for NBA awards
Wemby can only miss 3 more
Cade and Ant will likely be ineligible due to current injuries
Get rid of the 65-game rule
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@BillSimmons How can you be the most valuable if you've missed 25% of the games?
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If Silver announced today that he’s changing the MVP/All-NBA minimum from 65 to 62 (20 games missed max), would anyone object? Just admit you made the number too high and fix it on the fly. Cade missing out on All-NBA would be outrageous.
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@CreamRecruiter @theblockspot He was first team all-defense five years in a row. He was a monster on defense in his prime. Maybe you want to say Dwight Howard was better during that time (certainly a reasonable position), but you're not giving LeBron his due here because of basketball reference.
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@SundaySpectator @theblockspot He was never the best defensive player in the league at any season during his career. Only once has he ever averaged two steals per game in a season and he’s got four seasons of one block or better per game with a 1.2 career high.
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@AddictedHoosier @theblockspot That's 7 years. LeBron was an elite player outside of his prime. The best of LeBron was in the MIA/CLE window.
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@theblockspot @SundaySpectator Dude said bron had like 6 prime years
......lol
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What are some good things to stock up on right now before prices go through the roof?
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The medium is the message. No statement on Truth Social is "extraordinary"
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: President Trump just published the most extraordinary statement of the entire war. It was not a press conference. It was not a briefing. It was a Truth Social post. And it contained more strategic architecture than every NSC meeting of the past nineteen days combined. Read what he said. Israel acted “out of anger” and “violently lashed out” at South Pars. The United States “knew nothing about this particular attack.” Qatar “was in no way, shape, or form, involved in it.” Iran “unjustifiably and unfairly” hit Qatar’s LNG. No more Israeli strikes on South Pars “unless Iran unwisely decides to attack a very innocent, in this case, Qatar.” If Iran does, the United States “will massively blow up the entirety of the South Pars Gas Field at an amount of strength and power that Iran has never seen or witnessed before.” One post. Six moves. He blamed Israel for acting without American knowledge. He shielded Qatar as innocent. He condemned Iran for retaliating against the wrong target. He ordered a halt to Israeli energy strikes. He created a tripwire around Qatar’s LNG that makes the next Iranian attack on Ras Laffan an automatic trigger for the destruction of South Pars in its entirety. And he told Iran he does not want to authorise that level of violence but will not hesitate. This is not diplomacy. It is a Truth Social post that restructured the security architecture of the entire Gulf in approx 200 words. The production asymmetry makes the threat existential. South Pars and Qatar’s North Field share the same geological reservoir, the largest gas deposit on Earth at roughly 1,800 trillion cubic feet. But Iran produces approximately 2 billion cubic feet per day from its side. Qatar produces 18.5 billion. Iran’s side funds a fraction of its budget. Qatar’s side funds 80 percent of government revenue and the world’s largest LNG export operation. Destroying the entirety of South Pars would eliminate Iran’s gas production while risking catastrophic reservoir pressure migration that could damage Qatar’s North Field for decades. Trump is threatening mutual geological destruction. He is telling Iran: hit Qatar again and I will destroy the gas field you share, knowing that the destruction migrates through the rock to the asset I am claiming to protect. The threat is credible precisely because it is disproportionate. Nobody bluffs with geology. While Trump posted, four Gulf states were burning simultaneously. Ras Laffan in Qatar: explosions and fires at the world’s largest LNG facility. Riyadh, Jubail, and Samref in Saudi Arabia: confirmed hits. Habshan, Bab, and Al-Hosn in the UAE: shutdowns from missile debris. Bahrain desalination: incident confirmed. The IRGC’s Shekarchi threatened to reduce it all to ashes. The sealed packets in Bandar Abbas continued executing. Qatar expelled Iranian military diplomats within 24 hours. The Fed held rates with PCE revised to 2.7 percent and Middle East “uncertain.” China draws commercial reserves at a million barrels per day. The farmer in Iowa plants soybeans. Trump created a tripwire around Qatar’s LNG. He handed Iran a choice: stop hitting the ally or lose the gas field permanently. He distanced the US from Israel’s strike. He capped the energy escalation. He preserved the threat of total destruction as leverage. All on Truth Social. All in one post. The strait runs on sealed orders. The war runs on Truth Social posts. And the urea at $610 does not read either. Full analysis: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@WillBurgh18 @theblockspot No way. His prime isn't measured in PPG. It was the total control of a basketball game, which I actually think ended in Cleveland
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@SundaySpectator @theblockspot Averaged 28.9 and went to the WCF in the 22-23 season, thats definitely his prime. Last season was his first season under 25 ppg for a season
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@allentanner Yes. But no one loved dunking on dudes like Nique
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@SundaySpectator Did you watch Carter on the Olympic run? Insane
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@WillBurgh18 @theblockspot Come on guy. The best of his best wasn't that long. It's actually disrespectful to how good his prime was
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@DanielBShapiro Pfft. Only unjustified to you. If you were a regime on the ropes, you'd pull out all the stops too. CENTCOM knows this too
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Trump can post whatever he likes. But there is zero, I mean zero, chance the IDF would conduct a strike in that location without giving CENTCOM full visibility.
Trump knew (and approved). Now he realizes it caused a major escalation with Iran's (entirely unjustified) attacks on Gulf energy targets.
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@theblockspot Hmm. Maybe to 2016 when he carried the Cavs in a hilarious way. But he stopped playing consistent, elite D before leaving Miami.
The most dominant LeBron I remember was with the comeback Cavs, but he'd routinely take possessions off on defense then
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@ja3k_ It is a universal marker for cost of living that is immediate. In your face costs are a big deal in US politics
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@UnderdogNBA @RodWalkerNola Let's be honest. Get him out of there and to a more serious team he could help
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Dejounte Murray on the Pelicans if he had been healthy all season, via @RodWalkerNola:
"I think we could’ve been pretty damn good."
NO with Murray this season:
119.3 ORTG
116.2 DRTG
5-4 record
Without:
114.3 ORTG
119.0 DRTG
19-42 record
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Only an ignorant person would say this. Obviously, you want an independent voice to make intelligence assessments.
Gunther Eagleman™@GuntherEagleman
🚨 BREAKING: DNI TULSI GABBARD GOES FULL PRO-TRUMP — DROPS A MASSIVE TRUTH BOMB! “The ONLY person who can determine what is and is not an imminent threat is the PRESIDENT!”
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@JakeMarsh18 No way the NFL Divisional Round isn't on here. Some random CFB Oct/Nov calendar is better than the first weekend of NFL playoffs? GTFOH
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Top 10 Sports Days of the year, ranked:
1. March Madness Round of 64 (Thursday)
2. NFL Sunday, Week 1
3. March Madness Round of 64 (Friday)
4. Sunday at The Masters
5. The Oct/Nov loaded CFB slate
6. College Football Playoff (New Year’s Day)
7. Christmas Day (2 NFL, 5 NBA)
8. Thanksgiving (NFL Tripleheader + CBB)
9. MLB Opening Day
10. Thanksgiving Eve of Feast Week
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Steven Berkoff doesn't get enough credit as an elite bad guy in Octopussy, Beverly Hills Cop, and Rambo: First Blood Part II. Incredible intensity, while maintaining a level of menacing fun. True talent
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