Mark McCaskill

@lynk0x That's not what they net. First, demand deposits aren''t the sole source of funds. Plus you have overhead, service costs, default cost, etc The average commercial bank makes about 1% to 2% net profit. If you want to talk about Wall Street banks that a whole different story

Your bank pays you 0.5% interest on your savings. Then they turn around and lend YOUR money out at 7-8% on mortgages. They're making 15x what they pay you. Using YOUR cash. And somehow YOU should be grateful for the account. THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCAM NOBODY TALKS ABOUT.

@callen0013 You just described how hard it is which is a reason for help not against it. It's crazy that you're more concerned with the umpires than the game itself which is absurd.

I despise the new ABS system in the MLB. You’re asking umpires to call a pitch going 95-100 w/spin/movement in a split second and then a batter or catcher can tappytap their helmet and let a computer determine ball or strike by a fraction on an inch. BS

Funny, the soullessness we feel is the continuous trend of Congress not passing reasonable budgets, continuous shutdowns, stupid filibusters, insider trading and endless corruption at our expense. And what do we have to show for it? $40T of debt and a Congressman that posts about replays. Think this makes you relatable? Read the room!

I don't know, man. Maybe I'm too old fashioned, but I don't love the trend of machines and constant replay review taking the place of umpires and refs. To me, there's just a soullessness to machines enforcing the rules. I don't mind the umpire mistakes (especially on balls and strikes) - I'd just rather have humans in charge. Also, Gov, if you could nudge Gunnar Henderson to start hitting ASAP - he's a staple on my fantasy team.

@ProudSocialist Come'n use a little brain power. You don't bring to help with winning. You bring it to finish it

What the fuck! The US is deploying a third aircraft carrier to the Middle East: The USS George HW Bush, which is a nuclear aircraft carrier. You don’t deploy a third aircraft carrier if you have “already won the war.” This proves Trump is lying & that the war is far from over.

@TAT1SSZN The only way to do this is to shrink the abs zone so that when it hits the edge a larger percentage of the ball (say 25% or 50%) is over the actual surface home plate.

a lot of the people saying it shouldn't have been overturned don't realize the implications of that. If it was overturned then where does the strike zone "end". what's a ball and what's not. just opens up a massive can of worms

@DavidBCollum This doesn't come across as an opinion as much as a hypothetical scenario laced in tone of wishful outcomes.

Unpopular Opinion: Iran must bring the global economy to its knees. By doing so without being destroyed, Iran ensures that the next time some random country tries to bring them to their knees (no names mentioned), every other country in the world will say "Stop! The last time you did that we all suffered badly. We won't tolerate that again." For Iran, it is a win for the long term, not just today.

@MarkSeddon1962 Need to widen your lens to future repercussions of not doing it. Such a week statement for someone with your credentials

Does he not understand that NATO members are under no obligation to aid the US in an unprovoked illegal attack on another country?

@RealBirdLawyer It is. They showed him on the broadcast

Matt surely has a better view in the stadium but that…doesn’t really look like Mahomes?

@BruceBartlett @JohnSmithk2gpv You're welcome!

@markmccaski11 @JohnSmithk2gpv Thanks for giving us Trump.

I'm a single-issue voter--I support whichever Democrat has the best chance of winning the general election. There is no other issue I care about. Sadly, that is not the top priority for many Democrats.

@JohnSmithk2gpv @BruceBartlett I voted on both sides of the aisle depending on the race. Regarding the Presidency I left that one blank as I couldn't bring myself to vote for either.

@markmccaski11 @BruceBartlett Who’d you vote for in 24?

@im_jf3 @BruceBartlett I'm sorry my friend but you just amplified my point. With that, good luck in your endeavors l!

@markmccaski11 @BruceBartlett No, it’s an understanding that the worst Democrat is better than the best Republican.

@game7__ Dude you're obviously a homer that is unhinged at the moment. I get it. It was an unbearable way to lose and you want that terrible feeling to go away. But you're way off base. No one wants to see it that called.

It's rare that sports fans agree on anything. But everyone seems to be in agreement today: Duke got robbed this weekend. Dan Hurley and UConn have been flagrantly ignoring the rules for the entirety of the NCAA Tournament. Sunday was no exception. There were still 0.4 seconds on the clock. The game was live. Dan Hurley walked toward a referee on the sideline. He got in the official’s face. Then he pressed his forehead directly into the ref’s forehead. SI called it a “menacing forehead tap.” No technical foul was called. If it had been, Duke shoots two free throws. Down one. With an 86% free throw shooter at the line. Here's what actually happened and why this should be a much bigger story than it is. Braylon Mullins hit a 35-foot three to give UConn a 73-72 lead with 0.4 seconds left. It was the shot of the tournament. Nobody is disputing that. But in the seconds after the shot, Hurley walked toward a referee, got in his face, and pressed his forehead directly into the official's forehead. Sports Illustrated described it as a "menacing forehead tap." The clock still showed 0.4 seconds. The game was not over. A technical foul on a head coach for making contact with an official during a live ball is one of the easiest calls in basketball. There is no gray area. Contact with a game official is a technical. If it's called, Duke's Isaiah Evans steps to the free throw line, trailing 73-72. He shot 86% from the stripe this season. Makes both? Duke wins 74-73. Makes one? Overtime. That wasn't the only violation. When Mullins' shot went in, UConn bench players ran onto the court to celebrate before the game was over. They caught themselves and ran back, but they had already entered the playing area during a live ball. Duke's radio announcers immediately called for a technical. That wasn't called either. Two separate technical foul violations. Zero calls. In the span of 0.4 seconds. And here's what makes the Hurley part impossible to ignore. Three weeks ago, on March 7, Hurley was ejected from UConn's game at Marquette in the final second for getting in a referee's face. He was chest-to-shoulder with the official. Double technical. Ejected. The Big East fined him $25,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct. In the Sweet 16 against Michigan State on March 27, Hurley challenged an out-of-bounds call, got it overturned, and then sarcastically offered his glasses to the ref who got it wrong. Lip readers caught him asking about Lasik. Nothing was called. Two days later against Duke, Hurley was officially "warned" during the game for leaving his coach's box. Told to stay put. Then after the buzzer beater, he went forehead-to-forehead with a ref. Ejected and fined $25,000 at Marquette. Taunted a ref to his face at Michigan State with no consequences. Warned during the Duke game for leaving his coach's box. Then physical contact with a referee in the biggest moment of the tournament. The full breakdown of every missed call and what would have happened if any of them were made is here: itsgame7.com/news/duke-got-… UConn came back from 19 down. Mullins hit one of the greatest shots in tournament history. That part was earned. But two technical foul violations in 0.4 seconds, and neither one called, on a coach who was ejected for the same thing three weeks ago? That's not intensity. That's a pattern. And last night, it changed the outcome of a game.

@glenn_tunes The all-caps sold it for me

I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT IRAN DID NOT HAVE ANY NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND THAT THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ WAS OPEN FOR BUSINESS BEFORE TRUMP STARTED THE EPSTEIN WAR 🤷

@i_zzzzzz Good!

ABS has turned baseball into the true sport of our time. Human experts trying to prove their continued worth in the face of a soulless machine that can humiliate them at any moment

@joni_askola That's because radical's on the left chased him out and started burning/vandalizing Teslas. Crazy

Elon Musk promised absolute miracles with DOGE if Donald Trump won the election. None of it came true. The public debt is higher than ever and still climbing. Keep that in mind the next time he tries to tell you how to vote

@ChrisMurphyCT Yes, it is Karen

ABS is not making the game better.

@Zigmanfreud Way to focus on the wrong things

I hate bad umpiring as much as anyone, but is this really better for the sport in the long run? 1) You can no longer immediately celebrate a called 3rd strike without fear of it being overturned 2) What kind of losers are going to dedicate their lives to being umpires now?! 🤮

@mehdirhasan Same can be said for you

Who gives a flying f**k what this guy thinks about anything, let alone Iran, the Middle East, and the draft?

I don't know. That was a little on Quantraro. He had know command and threw 15 balls on 27 pitches. And his strikes were floating high in the strike zone. I'm all for giving players confidence, but sometimes you gotta give the team confidence by letting them know you'll do the right thing for the team and get the victory

Carlos Estevez losing tonight's game is on him. If it happens again, it is on Quatraro. You shouldn't overreact to one game, but this isn't one game. This is an entire spring. He has nothing. He shouldn't be pitching in close games, let alone closing, until that changes.