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As we're all watching the Purdue vs Miami game, cheering on Purdue's opponent as usual, a fun tweak to this game is, every time the announcer says, "Just then" you have to take a drink. #iubb #gocanes

@Cabbyfromgreene @AYoung123174 I remember a video where Valentine talked about how he wasn't going to let Knight intimidate him. It was like he was in a fight, it had nothing to do with basketball. He was a little, insecure man. So many people were hurt by his actions, it's crazy the B10 allowed that.

Im old enough to remember a tournament game against Duke when an official, with an obvious vendetta against Indiana, blatantly cheated...

15-seed Queens HC Grant Leonard on facing 2-seed Purdue: “Every mid-major knows if there’s one top seed you want to play, it’s Purdue. So yeah, I like our chances. They get upset every year. We’re just next in line.” $5 on Queens to win =$137 sportsbook.draftkings.com/social/post/65… #iubb

@eurofounder - Free healthcare - Strong privacy protections - Diversity - Pension benefits In the US, healthcare is paid by your company and you get a small deductible. Privacy protection (haha) and diversity isn't income. US companies do matching 401K's instead b/c of better returns.

My cousin Dietrich is one of the best paid engineers in Germany He makes €41,000 a year before tax Last week he got an offer from a big tech company in the US that would net him $350,000 "Are you going to take it?" I asked him "It's a good offer, but I would actually earn less than now" He is right. In Europe, he makes €41,000 and gets: - Free healthcare - Strong privacy protections - Diversity - Pension benefits If you count this in, it's much more than $350,000 European salaries are the highest in the world if you adjust for quality of life

@eurofounder In the US, if you have a job, your healthcare is paid by your company for the most part...you have a small deductible, in my case $2k/yr for my family. An engineer at a large company would be roughly similar, and the quality is much better. Cost of living is similar.

You’re over there in the U.S. - I’m here in Papua New Guinea. Let’s say you decide to protect my neighborhood. You spend the money. You build the security system. You hire the guards. You patrol the streets. In fact, you’re paying about 80% of the cost to keep my neighborhood safe. Years go by. Then one day trouble breaks out just down the road - in Australia, south of where I’m sitting. You come to me and say: “Hey, we need your help.” And I respond with: “Sorry… that’s not really my problem.” You’d be furious. You’d be asking: Why am I paying to protect you if you won’t lift a finger when it matters? That’s the argument President Trump has been making about NATO. For decades the United States has carried the overwhelming burden of Western defense. When Trump first took office in 2017: • The U.S. was paying about 70% of NATO’s total defense spending. • Many wealthy European nations weren’t even meeting the 2% GDP defense target they agreed to in 2014. Trump’s response was simple: If America is going to defend the alliance, the alliance needs to defend itself too. So he pushed hard. • He pressured countries to hit the 2% GDP defense spending target. • He threatened to reduce U.S. commitments if they didn’t step up. • He pushed NATO to change its funding formula so the U.S. share dropped from 22% to 16%. • In his second term he’s pushing for a 5% defense spending goal as global threats rise. The result? Non-U.S. NATO defense spending jumped by over $130 billion, and total NATO defense spending has grown from about $900 billion in 2016 to over $1.5 trillion today. But zoom out even further. Since World War II, the United States has spent over $20 trillion fighting wars and defending other countries. American soldiers have paid the ultimate price: • 36,516 deaths in Korea defending South Korea • 58,220 deaths in Vietnam trying to stop communist expansion • 2,459 deaths in Afghanistan fighting terrorism after 9/11 • 4,431 deaths in Iraq removing Saddam Hussein • Hundreds more across Bosnia, Kosovo, Somalia, and the fight against ISIS In total, roughly 150,000 American military deaths tied to overseas conflicts since WWII. The U.S. now maintains around 800 military bases across 80 countries and spends about $921 billion a year on defense, roughly 37% of all military spending on Earth. That’s the cost of being the world’s security backbone. So when Americans start asking their allies to contribute more… The real question isn’t: “Why is America demanding this?” The real question is: Why did the world get so comfortable letting one country carry the bill?

@antmillionsbot Things have been bad in Cuba for many years, before Trump came around. This is just one more thing but the Cubans don't blame the US, they blame the communists. The Cubans in Miami don't blame the US, they blame the communist govt in Cuba. Only misinformed liberals blame the US.

TRUMP JUST TURNED OFF THE LIGHTS ON 11 MILLION PEOPLE Cuba has had zero oil shipments since January. No oil means no power. No power means hospitals go dark. Hospitals going dark means people die. The UN calls this a war crime. Trump calls it "making a deal." TRUMP JUST TURNED OFF THE LIGHTS ON 11 MILLION PEOPLE Cuba has had zero oil shipments since January. No oil means no power. No power means hospitals go dark. Hospitals going dark means people die. The UN calls this a war crime. Trump calls it "making a deal." This is the first blockade of Cuba since the Cuban Missile Crisis. And he said "I can do anything I want." That's not foreign policy. That's a siege.

@dlLambo @SweetJamesJGP3 The last medical breakthrough Cuba invented was the leach. Every Cuban in Miami and Cuba is praying this will be the moment when the people take over their government again. Only liberals in the US want to see the people of Cuba continue suffer.

@SweetJamesJGP3 Of course - let's remove free healthcare and open up to US corporations

CNN: Breaking news. Cuba's electrical grid has suffered a complete and total collapse. The USA is a terrorist state. Hospitals, nursing homes, water treatment plants. All without power because of a cruel and illegal medieval siege of a tiny island.

@allenanalysis If Hitler had been stopped before WW2 would they say the same thing? If they listened to the US when we warned that Putin was about to invade would he have been stopped? If Iran gets a nuclear bomb, they'll use it. Israel will nuke Iran, and soon the world will be uninhabitable.

🚨 Japan has officially rejected Trump’s request to send naval ships to the Strait of Hormuz. Japan. America’s most reliable Pacific ally. Host to 54,000 US troops. The country that just signed a $9 billion arms deal with Washington. No. 70% of Japan’s Middle East oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz. Iran is mining. Their own energy security is at stake. And they still said no. France: no. Germany: no. Norway: no. Canada: never. Japan: officially no. Switzerland: airspace closed. Trump is now threatening NATO with a “very bad future.” The allies he’s threatening didn’t start this war. Didn’t authorize it. Weren’t consulted. And won’t fight it. 10 countries asked. Zero warships coming. The most powerful military on earth is alone in the Strait of Hormuz. $21 billion spent. 14 Americans dead. Oil at $102. Taiwan is surrounded by China. Baghdad evacuated. And the world said no. Never stop connecting the dots.

Sports make a great game - but a terrible God. Listen carefully if you’re an athlete… One day the season will end. One day the career will end. One day the applause will stop. If your identity is in the game, you’ll feel lost when the game is gone. But if your identity is in God, the game simply becomes a platform. Sports are meant to be played. They were never meant to be worshipped. Train hard. Compete with excellence. Honor God with your effort. But never forget: Your purpose is bigger than your performance. “You shall have no other gods before me.” {Exodus 20:3}

@danzu72 You say that as if it's a bad thing. Why do US taxpayers have to pay for other countries expenditures? Why do we have to pay for DEI projects? This is a misuse of taxpayers funds. If somebody misuses funds for 30 yrs before they're fired, you're making my point...

I worked for USAID when It was closed, these guys literally were firing senior Foreign Service Officers with 30 years of experience on the spot. These kids were drunk on power and a reckoning is coming. I will always be hot about this shit. I know for a fact we allowed children to die because of these snotty shits.

@BishopJaxi Yes, Catholics are saved by grace too, of course. Some Catholics have faith in traditions (ie: I go to church, I pray the rosary to Mary). I worry that those things replace a personal relationship with Jesus and faith in him. He alone is the intercessor.

If faith in Christ is all that is necessary for salvation, then every Catholic is saved. Catholics believe in Christ, trust in Christ, are baptized into Christ, confess Christ as Lord, and worship Christ as the incarnate Son of God. So when Protestants say Catholics are damned, they are revealing that they do not actually believe faith in Christ is enough. They have additional invisible tests Catholics must fail.

@BishopJaxi If you have faith in Jesus, your soul is saved. The danger is when you supplement your relationship with Jesus with others. The pope warned of Catholics treating Mary as a deity. Praying to dead intercessors isn't biblical. Rev 22:8-8, Acts 10:25-26, 1 Tim 2:5

@BishopJaxi As a protestant surrounded by Catholics, I agree with you, but I hesitate to judge and say all Catholics are saved (or any other group.) Some Catholics go to church and can't wait to leave and think that's checking a holy box. That's not evidence of faith. Also...

@Bricktop_NAFO So if I had a bad day, and I shoot you, would you make a post that talks about the people that made me have a bad day? People/countries are response for their own actions. Why do liberals always make this argument, and why aren't you pissed at the actual people that killed him?

This Chief Warrant Officer Arnaud Frion. He was killed yesterday evening when Iranian suicide drones hit a French military base in the Erbil region of Iraq. He has lost his life because of Donald Trump. RIP.

@allenanalysis ... And this is why the Iranians repurposed a military building on a military base, and kept school open while the country was being bombed. They hoped these kids would be killed so that weak western liberals could have something to rally around to show the Iranians as victims.

A Spanish assembly member just stood up in the Madrid parliament and said what most world leaders won’t: “Do you think the mothers of 160 dead girls would thank Trump for killing their children? You have become a bootlicker of Trump.” The chamber erupted in support. This is happening in Madrid. In Washington, senators are competing to prove their loyalty to a foreign government. In Texas, Ted Cruz told Christians he won’t stand with them if they won’t stand with Israel. In South Carolina, Lindsey Graham is recruiting parents to send their children to the Middle East. In Madrid, an elected official is saying the mothers of 160 dead girls out loud — in parliament — on the record. Spine: 100%. The moral clarity that is absent in Washington is showing up everywhere else.

@NotDauntedBlake Crean is a great coach and a great guy. Remember his last game, the NIT was supposed to play in Assembly Hall, and IU admins said no...play in Ark instead? That sweet 16 game was a robbery. Our guards pushed into the stands while dribbling and no fouls called. Not his fault.

firing tom crean cursed this program forever and only one thing can reverse it

@kbo_coyote @JesseKellyDC Serious question... They say they represent Allah's will, therefore they do? Why wouldn't you question that, given what they've done to the country? Do you believe people who speak of killing/revenge and spread suffering, even killing their own people do Allah's will?

@JesseKellyDC What makes you think a majority of the 92 million who believe they live their lives to serve Allah, that there is no significance or meaning to this life other than to serve Allah, are going to uprise in mass against those who represent Allah?

QUESTION: We have seen the Iranian people risk death by swarming the streets many times before. Now their leaders are dead and strongest army on earth is playing bodyguard for them. So why no uprising? Not judging. Just a genuine question. Where is the uprising?

@NoAlphaLimits Hmm...you need some perspective. We spend that much on Somali childcare fraud in a month. In perspective, that's really not a lot of money. We spend about $1T on the military this yr, give or take. The stock market will always fluctuate-the longer this goes on, the less impact.

Something shifted in the last few hours. Most people won't realize until it's too late. Iran has NO intention of winning militarily. None. They figured out something far more dangerous: – The US burns $1 BILLION every single day this war continues – The stock market has lost DOZENS of billions since this started – Recession probability just spiked by 50% Iran is TAUNTING Trump to keep attacking. Not because they can win — because every day he does, America bleeds money. Think about that for a second. A country with a fraction of America's military budget found the one weakness no amount of firepower can fix: The US economy can't afford an endless war. And Iran knows it. 🚨🚨🚨 RT this so others can see what's really going on. 🚨

@AntiTrumpCanada Read the sentence before that. When a terrorist walks into a room and pulls out a gun and shoots people, and a cop pulls his gun and kills him, saving many lives, that's a good thing and he should be proud of his actions. This is the same thing on a much bigger scale.

The 2026 World Cup shouldn’t be played in a country whose president just posted that it’s a “great honor” to kill Iranians. Move every match to Canada and Mexico. Or every nation should withdraw. The FIFA Peace Prize recipient is now bragging about genocide. Read that again.