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This is really at the heart of republican politics. They purposely break government and tell their base government doesn't work. Just so their donors can privatize everything they possibly can.

higher gas prices in one month than when biden was dealing with covid economic inflation is insane

Two things 1. I’ve never heard anyone admit this out loud 2. That’s gotta be crazy because everyone who hangs out with him knows that he’s thinking they’re all losers

Imagine Biden’s FCC chair going to a left-wing conference and bragging about getting Fox hosts fired and new liberal ownership for rightwing media outlets.

Found this under the Druski vid about Erica kirk. This is one of the wildest "This you" ive ever seen.

Talked to an HVAC guy who's working two jobs to pay rent. He has no savings and worries about retirement. Tariffs make it hard for him to import parts. Then this big strong guy who never cries, he said, he said to me, "I just wish Trump's name was on the dollar." Then he cried.

NY Times reports Hegseth just struck 2 Black and 2 female officers from a promotion list — and says Hegseth’s Chief of Staff told the army secretary “Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events” More: nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/…

@dontmindme85 @eaglesfan9181 @BudElliott3 Notice that he still has not answered the question posed below. He never will. x.com/i/status/20376…

@eaglesfan9181 @_Nescience_ @BudElliott3 You have *responded* to every question over and over. You haven’t actually provided any answers.

Senator proposing this had 3 head coaching jobs in 6 years, and walked out of a dinner with recruits to secretly take another job Source: usatoday.com/story/gameon/2… This was all when there was no portal so players were stuck playing where he signed them believing he would be there

@eaglesfan9181 @BudElliott3 "The time investment is the same" "Youre lying." There is a certain level of detachment from reality beyond which productive discussion really isnt possible. This post confirms you are well beyond that level, so best to end this one here. Good talk. Have a nice weekend.

@_Nescience_ @BudElliott3 Your first point isn’t correct, are some schools working around it maybe and probably likely. But it’s all levels. The time investment is the same. All levels to demand those things. You’re lying. And I know, I lived it.

@dontmindme85 @eaglesfan9181 @BudElliott3 Take it from the guy who has been going back and forth for a while now: he is never going to answer your question. He will continue to dodge, obfuscate and otherwise avoid actually responding to this query. Save yourself the effort, it will be fruitless.

@eaglesfan9181 @BudElliott3 @_Nescience_ I see you’re back on that illogical argument. Please tell me, with actual sense, why students on music scholarships can transfer anywhere and immediately be participants in musical performances, etc. but students on athletic scholarships are “different” and have to sit out a year

My first point is correct, and you already explained why: at the D1 level, everyone works around that limit. This is not hard to do - game days, for example, count as 3 hours against the limit, but in practice take up much more time. Voluntary training, film study, and recovery sessions are necessary to remain conpetitive, and are outside of those 20 hour limits. Players do not even have time to maintain side jobs on campus, and are actively discouraged from doing so by the programs. These are 40 hour weeks in season. Off season time is definitely less, but not dramatically less if you are a competitive athlete who does not want to be replaced by the next big name 4 star recruit your school will inevitably recruit. Off field commitments are also higher in the offseason - hands need shaking, the programs needs its players to reach out to the community constantly. Standards are not the same at every level. Football players at Amherst, Bowdoin, Cornell and Yale do not have the same demands placed on them as athletes at Alabama, Ohio State, Penn State or USC. The standards to enter and remain at these programs are far higher - and that standard isnt just about talent. Practices, film study and physical training are more technical and more demanding, and the amount of time one must devote outside of the mandatory 20 hours to recovery, voluntary training and study (in addition to media, fan and program cultural engagement) is much, much higher. Doing the bare minimum at that level isn't enough to even remain on the roster, much less actually play a snap. I really should not have to explain why a Big 10 or SEC athlete must meet a higher standard for time and performance than an Ivy Leaguer or a NESCAC player. You are really, really stretching believabilty here. Finally, the revenue is very consequential. The higher standards and greater time demands are directly correlated with revenue potential. Bigger programs have far more money at stake, and so push harder. Even programs that "lose" money at the D1 level are generating nine figure revenues annually. That kind of money comes with responsibility and higher demands. There is no free lunch. At lower levels, there are lower revenues and less pressure to generate higher ones. That means coaches have longer leashes to build their programs and players can spend less time on football. Absent all of that money, things would not be the same at all. All of college football would basically look like the Ivy League or NESCAC. These college programs are billion, sometimes multiple billion, dollar businesses. Those businesses cannot run on D3 or Ivy League standards and continue to be what they are. Your argument basically boils down to this: you can have absolutely elite levels of performance and revenue (D1 FBS) with performance standards and time investment that are on par with the lowest level (D3). In your world, one does not need to do more to get more. What players at Colby College do is more than enough to generate the results that players at Notre Dame are able to get. That is not how college sports work. That is not how ANYTHING in life works. There is no free lunch.

@_Nescience_ @BudElliott3 You’re 100% wrong. On your first point NCAA restricts athletes to 20 hours a week do they work around it, I am sure that they do. In the off-season is not nearly as much. I know I lived it too. And it is common in D1 AA, D2 and D3. D3 added spring practice about 15

Top level college football is a job. I will explain why: 1. The work is full time. At the top level, players devote 40+ hours a week to the game, and that extends into most of the offseason. This is not common at lower levels of football. At the top level, players must treat the game like a job. That is a requirement. 2. The standards are very high and very strict. Players must meet a very high bar to perform at the top level - schools admit only the best, and constantly cycle through to eliminate underperformers. Failure to meet the standard means elimination. 3. Revenue is massive. D1 FBS football generates over $14 billion annually. Top programs are worth more than many professional teams in major sports leagues like the NHL or MLB or MLS. This is why the standards and time demands are so high. Now, you said a couple of other things. First, you argued that playing at D3 and other lower divisions is not really a job. And I mostly agree, actually! D3 guys generally do not have football as a job. But here is where you slipped up: you argue that top level D1 guys do the same thing as D3 and other lower divisions guys, and use that comparison to explain why the top level guys do not have a job. That is not true. As I said above, what makes football a job at the top level are the extreme demands on time and the exacting standards all players must meet continuously to qualify at all times. These things are, in turn, driven by revenue - its the money at stake that forces more time and stricter standards. Players at lower levels do not have the time demands elite athletes do. They are not held to the same strict standards for competition. And there is far far less money at stake, so everyone is OK with that, and there is no pressure for everyone (including the athletes) to grind for more dollars. We arent fooling ourselves. You are just ignoring a clear reality. This is a job, because it makes demands of a job. This is done for profit - you need more pressure to generate more revenue. Top programs have chosen revenue as the focus. Now, does it have to be this way? No! We can make it something else if we like, and ensure football isnt a job. Lower standards for athletic performance (focus on grades more), reduce time demands, and just focus less on revenue. Do all of those things and you will have something akin to Ivy League Football or D2/D3 football. And I would agree, as someone who played Ivy League football myself, that this is less of a "job". Back in the Ivy League, admissions were based first on grades - you had to be a great athlete, but couldn't get in without meeting a tough score cutoff. We practiced a lot, but the focus was on school first and foremost - we devoted more time to studies than sports. There were ZERO athletic scholarships. Players could leave the team whenever they wanted and stay at the school. Transfers existed, but they were less common (and still are today in the portal era) because of the academic standards. Coaches were paid well, but nothing outrageous - a good Ivy League head coach made less than a top professor at those schools. NIL and money are there, but not in huge numbers. No fights over TV deals - its a few games on ESPNU and ESPN2 each year, then ESPN+ for the rest. Simple and easy. When you say "college football is not a job", I think this is what you have in mind. But that is NOT what you have at the top level. And this is the disconnect. If you reorganized the top level to look more like the Ivy League, you would have a great argument! But most fans dont want to do that, do they? They want to keep the elite standards and extensive time demands so that their schools can keep producing elite on-field product and generating massive revenues on par with professional spprts franchises...but then they want to insist that their players are just amateur students, like D3 athletes. This just does not work man. You cannot have your cake and eat it too. You need to pick a side.

@BudElliott3 @_Nescience_ It’s not a job. It’s never been a job. It still isn’t a job. We’re fooling ourselves.

@leo1_ss @dje2606 @Algeria_FC Blah blah blah "Jewish conspiracy", blah blah blah "you are gay retard", blah blah... Like a 13 year old bot. Boring and pathetic. You are a loser backing a losers ideology. Its over for you. 4 replies to one post is enough. Go outside and touch grass.

@_Nescience_ @dje2606 @Algeria_FC There’s almost no one in Jamaica especially ones that are black. Which is clearly is not you. That would a team full of Hindus. You’re a retard.

France's 1986 World Cup squad: Manuel Amoros 🇪🇸 Luis Fernandez 🇪🇸 William Ayache 🇩🇿 Patrick Battiston 🇮🇹 Michel Platini 🇮🇹 Jean-Marc Ferreri 🇮🇹 Bernard Genghini 🇮🇹 Jean Tigana 🇲🇱 Yannick Stopyra 🇵🇱 Daniel Xuereb 🇲🇹 Again, not qu(wh)ite sure what the issue is .. 🤔

Donald Trump was able to use evangelicals and to get them to betray every value they had once claimed to stand for, because as Mark Noll once observed: "the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind." Evangelicalism had time to change course, to develop a more robust and serious intellectual tradition, but instead it turned further to one-dimensional hermeneutics as made concrete by the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy, young-earth creationism, nationalism, and rapture eschatology. One of the best examples of this is the pro-life movement. What should have been fleshed out as a broader care for all life, including care for the poor, respect for the elderly and those with disabilities, and environmentalism (as is done in Catholicism and JP2's Theology of the Body), became a narrow political wedge issue that lacked any actual theological discourse or philosophical structure.

It is time for Trump supporters to face the fact that Trump is a failure and electing him was a mistake. There were genuine grievances in 2016. Rural America had been overlooked for decades. The middle and working classes were struggling more with each passing year, and politicians were focused on the wants of corporations and the wealthy instead of the needs of the many. Washington needed to change. But electing a lifelong conman and QAnon conspiracy theorists was never the solution. It created a movement plagued by grifters and extremists that sought to exploit your frustrations for their personal gain. You must see that now. Nothing has improved with these charlatans in power. They use their positions to enrich themselves with billions and to flout the rule of law whenever it suits them. The only way that ends is to remove them from power. Show them you will not support such ineptitude and corruption. Hold Congress accountable. Target incumbents election after election until politicians see that they will only hold power when they work for us, not for corporations, not the elite few, for the hard working Americans that keep this country running. You were mad, and had a right to be, but it is time to realize your anger blinded you to the fact that MAGA has been a con from the start. Trump has used your votes to earn billions and pardon his criminal associates while the booming economy slowed to a crawl, American manufacturing declined, life became harder, and we switched from creating millions of jobs to losing tens of thousands. America is in decline. Put the country over party and demand better.

I appreciate how this campaign isn't hiding that it is explicitly racist. We are going to learn how much appetite there is for explicit bigotry in US politics.

The question was about the coaches integrity. You used that note to dismiss those questions, and excuse that coach. Also, you said student, not student athlete. That is a revision. To quote you: "Coaching is a career. The other is a student." If you are going to stick with this revision, then your original statement does not work. Student athletes have careers. That is precisely why they receive so many of the things you highlighted that students do not.

@_Nescience_ @BudElliott3 It wasn’t integrity. It was a note that a coach is a profession.the other is a student athlete. Student and student athletes are not the same. if you’ve been to a major college program you know that. Student athletes have access to tutors, special dining hall training, faciliti

@realmorgthorak @emeriticus Gun to my head, I probably take Vance (he is abysmal but perhaps a little less chaotic, which would be welcome), but its a tough call for sure.

I think some of this is not in support of Vance in 2028. It comes from wanting to get rid of Trump via the 25th or impeachment, and then having to tolerate Vance until 2028. Which is worse, Pedro? Trump until 2028? Or Vance if Trump can be removed or forced to resign? Those are your choices, what say you, Pedro?

It’s very funny that are people on the right who can’t deny anymore that Trump is a failure, conceding it at last—but their solution is to point us to Vance, who has all of Trump’s negative qualities with *zero* personality, which makes his Trumpian lies and exaggerations hit like nails on a chalkboard. You can tell he doesn’t believe in the words that are coming out of his mouth. He stopped posting on here because he kept getting mocked over it, and now he limits his humiliation to these press conferences.

The metaphor is fine, it just doesnt do anything to explain the question, which is: why are athletes not as free to transfer as other students. This is an important query, since you basically dismissed an attempt to hold a coach to basic standards of integrity on the basis of "they are just students". If we are going to use the "student" label to excuse coaches of basically any moral failing in engaging players, then at a bare minimum we should ensure that the athletes get the full benefits all students receive (like free transfers). And if you insist they should not, because they are somehow very different from other students, then we should be asking if your initial comparison has any value at all.

@_Nescience_ @BudElliott3 I provided you two people with a scenario of driving, but the situation was different. Because not every situation is the same. Clearly couldn’t follow the metaphor.