John Poffenbarger

When is @AggieFootball gonna fix its leadership problem? Why is that so hard to see? You can’t lead with fear.

@joshuawells @CFBReport To your point, the game probably says more about A&M’s true ranking than Texas’. If a team beats 3 top 10 teams but loses the other 9 that doesn’t work. Where’s the cutoff? The commmittee’s focus is revenue and job is to dress it up as conpetition. See Notre Dame for details.

Should Texas be considered for the College Football Playoff?

@CoachMikeElko you do realize the game started a couple hours ago right? Your fear is contagious - you can see it in every single player.

@AggieFootball to @IndianaFootball: “Hold my beer”.

Fundamentals are everything. The use of AI to “streamline” will never make up for a lack of understanding core principles and proper strategy.

Trump vs Musk. Who wins? The CCP and Vladimir Putin. Not Americans and the West. Irresponsible leadership - or lack thereof. This is no example for others to follow. It’s not what built America. Thankfully, checks and balances limit damage

If you say this is 9 and you have engineer in your title, you're fired.

#NCAABasketball #MarchMadness to FIFA: "Hold my beer".

THIS IS MARCH!!!!! presented by @thejointchiro #ForTheCity x #MarchMadness

32 commercials in 12 minutes of gameplay. So it’s a three hour commercial spot with basketball breaks. Text from ppl at the game complaining about all the breaks. No kidding. #MarchMadness indeed.

51 and done. #coogshouse #MarchMadness

Corrupt officiating isn't new to the NHL. And it's unfortunate. I would have liked to have seen who would have won. We'll never know. #usavscan #4nationsfaceoff

@TheReal_ChrisW Exactly correct. If they win 3 SEC games next year I’ll be surprised.

Elko’s success is going to be severely limited by his first coordinator hires. Bateman and Klein have both been inconsistent, mind numbingly stupid, and straight up out of touch with reality. They’ve been out coached over and over.

@netflix is a perfect example of why industry needs to stop slapping engineer titles on those who aren’t and hire real ones. The growing absurdities about how to design. build and maintain distributed systems are perfectly exemplified here. Told ya so…

@netflix absolutely terrible. Total incompetence. And completely avoidable. But hey work life balance right? Who cares about paying customers. If I’m Paul or Tyson I’m livid. As a customer I half expected it. Without work ethic such things are inevitable.

@BretBaier I believe Charles K. would be proud. Tonight we got to see tough but fair journalism. I for one would like to see more of this - it's to the benefit of our great country.

@davidmarcus Welcome to the party. So very nice to see. Excellent perspective. Looking forward to more.

I am crossing the Rubicon and backing the Republican Party and President Trump. Many — including a former version of myself — get trapped in a mental framework that becomes their identity and prevents them from radically evolving their thinking with new facts and information. I finally broke free from it. My journey has been a gradual political 180 from where I stood in every previous election. It has been an eye-opening process of disenchantment, zero-basing lifelong beliefs, and rebuilding from there. In 2017, a good friend enlisted me to pitch the DNC to raise $100M from Silicon Valley founders and executives. The aim was to use these funds and know-how to build a CRM and tech platform to prevent a repeat of Hillary Clinton’s inadequate, outdated 2016 campaign. We met with DNC leadership, who told us we could raise that money, but it would have to go to the general fund; a single-digit percentage would then be allocated to tech. In the wake of one of their most shocking failures, they didn’t want the help. The next series of realizations began in 2019 while I was at Meta, right after we announced the Libra white paper. I testified before the Senate and the House and subsequently spent significant time in DC, engaging with lawmakers, cabinet members, regulators, and two White House administrations. At the time, I still believed the mainstream idea that Democrats were all about serving the People. However, I was shocked to learn that, for the most part, Republicans cared more deeply about their constituents, while Democrats, in my experience, cared more about government power and control. This is my observation on balance, with many stories to back it up. I also found that more Republicans wanted to understand our project’s goals and took the time to learn about the risks of censoring payments and controlling the network. I found myself remarkably aligned with them. Then COVID came, revealing more. While I don’t subscribe to the most malicious vaccine conspiracy theories, I do take offense at the censorship machine put in place to hide the origin of the virus from the NIH-funded Wuhan lab and all dissenting voices on vaccinations and lockdowns. At that time, I fully appreciated why Republicans value freedom of speech and preventing censorship. This trend of spinning and manufacturing a parallel reality to serve the Dem agenda, solidified by complicit mainstream media, hit home with the Hunter Biden laptop story, the coordinated vilification of President Trump and his followers, and President Biden’s cognitive decline — depriving voters of a voice in a proper primary. These examples displayed the hubris of the current Dem leadership. You must think the American people are fools to believe the spin on these issues. I despise this elite vs. general population ideology viscerally. This version of the Democratic Party is sidelining moderates and centrists and has adopted an increasingly leftist ideology. This drift to the left has dictated policies from which I’ve found myself estranged. On the domestic front, there has been a total departure from the core American value system of meritocracy, an extreme and weaponized DEI agenda, an open door to massive illegal immigration, and a once-fringe narrative, now mainstream within the party, of vilifying success. This shift is also causing us to fall behind due to an anti-innovation regulatory climate, notably on crypto and soon AI — two non-linear technological breakthroughs that will likely determine tomorrow’s leading countries. On foreign policy, the administration is exacerbating tensions with Russia through an aggressive NATO expansion narrative focused on Ukraine and prolonging an unwinnable war. This is costing American taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, the world hundreds of thousands of lives, depleting the U.S. military arsenal and risking World War III. On Iran, this administration is continuing a misguided Obama-era plan to bring Iran closer to the West by unfreezing Trump-era sanctions, thus giving the Mollahs’ regime the ability to fund terrorism and pursue its anti-America, anti-Israel, and anti-Jewish agenda. The withdrawal from Afghanistan was also handled disastrously. We’re leaving a door open for China to invade Taiwan by coming across as weak. Most importantly to me, concerning Israel, the administration is enabling Iran to fund Hamas and Hezbollah, restraining Israel in its fight against its enemies, thus prolonging another conflict, which is costing more lives on both sides and allowing unprecedented levels of antisemitism to rise at home. I believe we need a President who is unequivocally pro: America, the Constitution, business, Bitcoin/crypto, innovation, Israel, small government, legal immigration, free speech, meritocracy, and common sense — and anti: regulatory proliferation, illegal immigration, unjust wars, Iran’s current regime, and domestic groups that oppose American values. These issues are central to President Trump’s platform. Naturally, I disagree with President Trump and the GOP on some issues, particularly women’s reproductive rights. While I’ve come to learn that extreme views exist in both parties, I firmly believe that women should have the unalienable right to make their own decisions on this polarizing topic. President Trump confirmed he was against a national abortion ban and supported the Supreme Court’s decision on maintaining access to mifepristone, which was reassuring and a sign that the party was moving closer to the center. It’s impossible to close this post without mentioning President Trump’s recent assassination attempt. The courage and resolve he displayed seconds after being hit by a bullet was awe-inspiring for his followers and detractors alike. This was a man, however imperfect, who, at that moment, incarnated the American spirit in the most vivid way, starting to bring a split nation together. Some claim that reelecting President Trump will bring our democracy to its knees. However, the alternative — having unelected individuals with this much power and no accountability run our government coupled with four more years of bad policies at home and abroad — might present a more significant threat. Neither will likely change in a Harris administration and could potentially worsen. In this pivotal moment, confronted with the choices we have, I am endorsing and supporting a return to a Republican administration in 2025.

@CoachSchloss just gave a Masterclass on, "avoiding losing". 7 outs away, save your best pitcher for tomorrow after we give up this lead and go to a third game. The results are exactly as intended. @Vol_Sports coach of the year.

@astros it’s not easy to come up short but it’s even harder to do it with so much class. If that’s what winning looks like they can have it.

Yea AI gonna rule the world. I’ll worry when auto correct starts to resemble my intentions.