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No--I'm sorry, but fuck him. He came into my country, availed himself of its openness, opportunity, and kindness. And while doing so, actively worked to undermine all those things. He came here and stanned for a guy who tried to violently overthrow the government of the United States. He openly supported a guy who promised to undermine the Constitution, carry out vendettas against his political opponents, and eliminate the rule of law. He's an enemy of the United States. He has campaigned to destroy the country I love and that my forefathers helped build. And if he dies in the deepest darkest hole El Salvador has to offer, then it'll be precisely the death he deserves.25 points
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Public and vocal support affects the outcome. Every single idiot who wears MAGA gear and loudly supports Trump who is ejected from the country is a small win.19 points
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The same reason we have to call out anyone spreading the hate and maga cult bullshit. If someone brings that shit up around you it is your fucking duty to shut it down. We are far past the point for polite dialogue. Tell them the fucking truth straight to their grease covered faces.16 points
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There are far better people than MAGA fucks that deserve to be let out of their hell holes. Rumeysa Ozturk, Abrego Garcia, etc. I think you should write that letter when THOSE people get out. Just a reminder, and Donald said it a few days ago: these people voted for this. Edit- and I just want to add, not only did they vote for this, they are plenty cool with others getting this treatment, so yeah, they donβt just get zero sympathy from me, they get pure freude, because I have no shame at laughing at them. DOUBLE EDIT - yeah, this guy didnβt vote for this, but he openly supported and advocated for it.14 points
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Any institution that backs down to these bumble fucks deserves what happens to them.13 points
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I mean, if the MAGA people who supported, and openly advocated for the implementation of Trump's sadistic policies don't deserve to suffer the outcomes of these policies, then who the hell does?? And no, the answer is not "nobody deserves this!". Uhh, yes, yes some people absolutely deserve every bit of this, and more. Party of personal responsibility ya'!13 points
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Feel like I have a pretty good guess what the blurred faces look like based on the other pictures.13 points
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I don't...I don't think you understand how sex works.12 points
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Iβm doing my part. If you have any Trump paraphernalia on your jacked up truck, you get the finger from me on the road. I imagine that I will be shot dead before too long, but they can pry my fuck you finger from my cold dead hand12 points
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Could be wrong thread not sure, but felt so good after meeting with two Fidelity reps today. I am self-directed, and am retiring from education officially on August 31. My last day at school was April 8, as my super wonderful principal let me take all of my accumulated days. My saving grace was probably about 5 factors. 1. decision to leave Texas, move to rural Alaska to teach SPED in 2018. First three years got back on the bicycle of investing just the max for the traditional IRA, but then my wife read my mind one evening in early 2021. "Okay, you can go up north and make the big bucks, but I reserve the right to go live with my sister in Euless." I smiled and the best three years of my life began in late July 2021. My appetite was super-strong to save and invest for retirement and it happened, beating my wildest hopes and dreams. 2. About the same time I moved to above the Arctic Circle, someone on this board suggested I take a look at bogleheads.org. Thank you whoever you are!!! I had already received a tip from my principal in southwest Alaska about something new to me called the S and P 500 Index fund. In Alaska education we have control over our retirement account, because that is all we get. In Texas, the ERS and TRS recommend a "three-legged stool." In Alaska, there is only one leg, your retirement savings. So when I switched future investments from a target date fund to all S and P 500 fund for the last three years in Alaska, it was on, and by on I mean I saved and invested like a man with his hair on fire. I maxed out a 457b with 100% S and P 500 fund as well. 3. My investigative curiosity about purchasing service credit began way back in 2012, when I purchased my 6 years of state of Texas service. I called the IRS in 12, made sure I was doing the purchase correctly, asked for the IRS agent's first name and ID number, put that info in an email to myself and it worked out almost exactly as planned. Sure enough, about two months after filing the return, here came the mean letter from IRS, claiming I filled out forms wrong. I pulled up email I sent myself, filled out form with agent's name and ID number, and sent it back. 2 more months and a 2nd letter from IRS, giving me the nod. I remembered all of that info. as I planned to buy my out-of-state service from TRS. I completed the transaction early this spring, and my Alaska retirement account performed so well, I got out of the market in May 2024, knowing I had hit the target. I beat the target by about $9,000. I had 96k, and the six years cost me $87,500. Stayed safe with that money from May 2024 until purchase in February 2025. Along the way I took a huge portion of my S and P 500 gains and moved them into a 55/45 fund at Trowe. I was anxious to have money with both Trowe and Fidelity. I am an index investor with Fidelity for the traditional IRA only. I will never be a Roth man, as you can see that I purchased 12 years of service credit total. My Trowe money is down only about 3% since January 21, 2025, which astonishes me. Very exciting! 4. Goal setting. I had done well with goal setting for my fourth graders in the 2010s at the charter school in south east Dallas, so why not try it in Alaska? There was plenty of spare time. I went back and realized my net worth was about 165k when I arrived above the Arctic Circle, so I decided to make a serious goal of doubling that before I left Alaska for good. I remember exactly where I was in February 2024 when I hit my goal of 330k, but it didn't end there. it was rolling like a snowball. After the dust finally settled after the last paycheck in summer 2024, the number was 390k. Before the correction, buying the years of service, and moving a bunch of money to Trowe I think the number was 450k, not sure. My goal when I landed above the Arctic Circle was to work in education until age 67. That number quickly went south as things happened at a crazy good pace. After two years up there the goal was down to 61, and I am retiring this year at age 60! 5. Research attitude. I don't know where it all started but I have been researching financial stuff forever. At some point I started calling both ERS and TRS on a regular basis, to make sure details were the same. I am retiring from ERS because of the free health insurance premium for me, for life. Money is the same from both systems. I started calling once a year, and met some of the nicest people. Turned out the ERS people were highly trained and more knowledgable. Then after a while it became once a semester, then more often, etc. until the week the check arrived in Austin from Trowe. I called TRS once a day that week, and they were still nice about it! It was done! Woohoo! I believe there is a message of hope in this, especially if people know somebody who has a strong spender for a wife. I survived, but it never ends. I possibly set the world record for years between a full year's IRA contribution, as my last full year of contribution before marriage was probably 1993, and then I resumed once again in 2019. It can happen!12 points
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SIAP, but Scipio let it slip on the latest EGAT that Jordyn Tyson at ASU was the WR we were hoping would enter the portal.11 points
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I knew this day was coming sooner than later. It's still hard. IMO, Pop is the greatest NBA coach/executive of all time. (Spare me the Red Auerbach/Phil Jackson talk today.) I'm sure I've told this story before. (But I'm gonna tell it again.) It's 1996 and I'm fresh out of UT and working for free as a sports intern at KMOL. I was earning some walkaround money covering HS sports for the Express-News. TV was my main gig and what I thought I wanted to do, though. As the intern, I got to cover all kinds of stuff that came through town -- the Alamo Bowl, and Oscar De La Hoya fight, etc. But the Spurs were the main thing in town, for good reason. As the only major pro sport in town, we covered them on a daily basis once training camp got going. With Pete Delgado and Don Harris back at the studio, I was the person they sent out to practices, shoot-arounds and all the home games with a videographer to get soundbites, run tapes at the Alamodome, etc. The 96-97 Spurs were fresh off a second-round loss to the Jazz and Bob Hill was back for Year 3 as HC. The Spurs were two seasons past having the best record in the NBA and a crushing loss to Houston in the WCF. Franchise player David Robinson was coming off summer back surgery (or something). He would miss the first 18 games of the season and the Spurs stumbled to a 3-15 start. Oddly enough, just as Robinson is about to start playing again, Pop fires Hill and names himself head coach. How convenient. I couldn't believe it. I *think* this was his first year back in SA as the GM and he'd never been a HC anywhere that mattered. And he seemed like an asshole. But Robinson is back and the Spurs could maybe win enough to sneak into the playoffs as the lower seed that nobody wanted to play. Well, it didn't quite go as planned. The Spurs were 3-3 in six games and then stunningly we learn that David is out long-term. To this day, I'm not sure if he was healthy enough to have come back near the end of the season but at that point, losses mattered more than wins. And the Spurs were doing plenty of the former. They cycled through players like Jamie Feick and Jason Sasser. As you can imagine, interest quickly waned. It wasn't long before the only reporters at practice or gameday shootaround were myself and the SAEN beat writer (can't remember if it was Jerry Briggs still or if he was on the national NBA beat; it might've been Tim Griffin). That was it. Let's fast forward to the night of March 14. The putrid Celtics are in town. Avery Johnson is out of the lineup because he's having his tonsils removed or something. Second-year PG Cory Alexander gets the start, plays 47 mins, makes five 3's, scores 22 points and dishes out 10 assists. The Spurs win and "boost" their record to 16-47. (The Celtics finished with the worst record in the league and had the most balls in the lottery hopper. Ask Rick Pitino how that turned out.) All I need for the news that night is a nice quote about Cory's game from Pop. We assemble in the post-game press room and I'm sitting on the first or second row. It's me, maybe the guy from the AP and Briggs or whoever from the EN. Oh, there's some videographers at the back of the room who will shout out a question if necessary. I can't remember if I got the first or second question. ME (with a smile creeping across my face): "So, uh, does Avery need to worry about his starting job when he's ready to come back?" Hey Pop, just smile, maybe laugh, and give me a Cory blowjob quote that we can run with 20 seconds of highlights on the 10 pm sportscast. Didn't happen. He thinks for a second and looks at me like I told him to go fuck himself. POP: "Who are you? You're with who? Why are you here?" Or something like that. It's hard to remember exactly. I was mortified. My face went flush. Somebody mercifully asked another question. Unbowed, I fired off another question before we wrapped things up. I wanted to show him I wasn't intimidated. (I was.) As I made my way to the room where we'd send the tape back to the station, KENS weekend sports anchor Chuck Mikitinic runs me down. He tells me he's appalled that Pop treated me like that. Said it was completely uncalled for and very unprofessional. Whatever. He's an asshole, I thought and I didn't think he was long for the franchise at that point. We made it through the year without incident and the Spurs kept losing. And losing. And losing. But I noticed a funny thing. The team competed. Every night. They were talent deficient for sure. But damn if they didn't play hard. I moved over to print journalism full time that summer and remained there until leaving the business In 2006. I left SA a year later for DFW and have not spoken to Pop since the end of that 20-62 season. A few times I was helping out with the Mavericks' playoff coverage but a Spurs-Mavs matchup never materialized before I left the business. I so wanted to pull Pop aside and ask if he remembered that March night at the Alamodome. (BTW, I'm pretty sure I was one of the first -- if not the first -- to get Pop's legendary "sideline reporter" treatment.) I didn't want to make him feel bad. I hoped we could share a laugh about it and I would (off the record) thank him for fulfilling my childhood dream of seeing the Spurs win the championship. I'd still like to see him in person again. I think the story would be far funnier to him today than it would've been in 2003 or so. Or maybe he'd ask me what I was doing there. Today is a bittersweet day to say the least. Pop is the Spurs as far as I'm concerned and they will always be my favorite professional sports franchise. It's Texas Football and Spurs basketball. Those are 1A and 1B and they're pretty much interchangeable. And that cantankerous motherfucker made the Spurs the envy of American professional sports. Thanks Pop. For everything.10 points
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@immamac Can we get a leopard emoji?10 points
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These judges ruled against Trump. Then their families came under attack. | Reuters10 points
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This is an instance in which I will gladly step up my financial contributions to NPR and PBS to help compensate for the cuts.10 points
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Congratulations. This is the worst usage of this meme in the history of the internet.10 points
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Our society is no longer capable of differentiating that this is kind of amusing when say a sports teamβs socials do this to another sports team, and not so much here. Context used to matter. Now itβs all WWE all the time.9 points
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Welp. https://apnews.com/article/trump-npr-pbs-republicans-public-broadcasting-f0e3e1acb96986732a0211833165bf849 points
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I post dumb stuff that makes me laugh, but at least when I post about the Longhorns, I don't have to quote what 3rd parties write about them. Clockwise L to R: (Gunnar, Jahdae, Isaiah, Quintrevion), Demarvion, Cedric B, Colt, Arch, Quinn) FYI, I'm really excited about another Longhorn event happening soon and will share.8 points
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Sounds like he got exactly what he wanted. Why get in the way of another manβs dream?8 points
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This one has it all leopards for arkansas a letter to santa tariff on shit-eating membranes from china And how did the people of benton county, arkansas vote? Eat shit, motherfuckers. Youβre gonna have lots to eat now that you canβt afford the tariffs on the shit-eating membranes from china. governor sanders weighs in on the situation8 points
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He has upper management written all over him. It is a sign of program health to have perfectly serviceable guys need to transfer out in order to receive playing time. It is a good sign to have guys leave and still land at P4 schools instead of the Sam Houston State's of the world. Texas is no longer locked into bad evals, or developmental gambles that yielded guys who are just good, decent, players. Texas is quickly becoming a place where if you can rise to the level of starter, you will likely get drafted. If you aren't that kind of player, you probably will need to move on and enjoy your years as a college player elsewhere. All of those guys had different obstacles/left for different reasons. But the bottom line is that they simply were not good enough. I was initially worried that Sark was too nice of a guy, but he has managed to build a culture where the guys like each other and there is camaraderie, accountability, and competitiveness - but there is also the knowledge and understanding that change is constant (unless you are Max Merril.) The money helps, to be sure, but they've been smart with it so that it is a tool rather than an obstacle.8 points
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