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WhatTheBuck

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  1. It’s no coincidence that Trump’s first overseas trip as president was to Saudi Arabia. And they knew exactly how to play him.
  2. What’s an extra hole in the golf course worth?
  3. Which cult are we talking about? Trumpism or Mormonism? Wasn’t Joseph Smith a con man who bore some similarity to Trump?
  4. Huh? That doesn’t even make sense. You’re trying too hard. Put away your refrigerator magnet political slogan kit. I predict that Biden, being an old Cold Warrior and a normal person, not a deranged demagogue and narcissist who thinks he’s king, will let the military handle his punishment as they see fit. I don’t know what the appropriate penalties are for someone who does what he did. I’m sure the first steps are to see what condition he’s in and to find out how he was treated, whether he was tortured, etc. We have to assume the Norks investigated every possibility to use him as a propaganda tool. Of course we don’t know what the Biden administration might have been doing behind the scenes to secure his release. I’m not sure there’s much that could be done. Joe Biden’s not one for either petulant name calling on Twitter or the exchange of love letters with murderous Commie dictators. It its fair for you to go CR then it’s fair for me too. We can speculate that Trump might have been starting to like the guy until he learned his bestie had no use for him. I guess he’s not getting a “Blacks for Kim” t-shirt and a seat behind the lectern at the next rally in Pyongyang.
  5. Just saw on the news that N. Korea is kicking him out. Found confirmation: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66936277
  6. One of the guys on local sports radio suggested referring to them as “Iwa” since they have no O. I swear I heard someone on Stadium TV refer to them that way last night. Maybe it’s just stuck in my head now.
  7. I didn’t know that the judge had found him liable for fraud so it was breaking news to me. The news isn’t that he’s a fraud. We all know that. We’ve all known that for years.
  8. I think you should be addressing the judge, not CNN.
  9. Not bad. Not spectacular, but not bad. Kind of a turnoff when she said she still considers herself a Republican. Not like Trump but more like Ronald Reagan and Mitt Romney. She’s still in her 20’s. I’ll bet her understanding of both men is pretty shallow and superficial. Still…wood.
  10. I think they saw what happened to Minnesota when they fired Glen Mason and don’t want that to happen to them. They probably also saw what happened when Nebraska fired Frank Solich. And they keep tying themselves to Ferentz with massive buyouts so they can’t afford to fire him during periods of piss poor performance.
  11. Tax cuts are all they can hope for when wages are stagnant. But when the vast bulk of the tax cuts favor the ultra wealthy, my tax cut doesn’t change the fact that my share of the tax burden has actually increased. How about instead of a tax cut you give me a big pay raise? Increase the taxes on the wealthy so they pay their fare share. Use the revenue to fix the highways and bridges, invest in clean energy so we can end our addiction to fossil fuels, fix the public education system to benefit everyone and stop diverting public dollars to fund private schools to benefit a few at the expense of the many. If we find ourselves with a budget surplus, use it to pay down the debt rather than for another tax giveaway benefitting the rich. Take home pay is what matters. I had a friend who worked for JP Morgan Chase, somewhere below middle management. He loved whatever pittance of a tax cut he got from Trump. He mentioned once that his annual raise was limited to a max of 2%. After a quick Google search I told him I hoped he got the whole 2% because the cost of living went up 1.7% that year. Judging by the look on his face I gathered he might have fallen short of that 2%. I wonder how much Jamie Dimon’s compensation went up during the time my friend was employed there and how their tax burdens compared. What if my friend’s taxes had stayed the same but he got a 5% raise every year? I’ll bet he’d come out ahead, especially if it also means living in a community/country with better schools, better infrastructure, cleaner air and water, better public services, and a brighter future for the next generation(s).
  12. Cassidy Hutchinson was interviewed on Rachel Maddow’s show last night. The interview lasted for about half an hour. They didn’t spend much time on the Rudy Giuliani creeper groping stuff. They didn’t address that until the final five minutes. But she mentioned that John Boehner also made some creepy comments and that Matt Gaetz came on to her a couple times. Gaetz of course denied her claims but said they had briefly dated. Cassidy said they never dated and didn’t speak too highly of him as a man or a politician.
  13. If you’re not posting a link to your source then I’m not reading it anyway. I can’t do anything with that information so I’m not wasting my time. This was published in April: In a thriving Michigan county, a community goes to war with itself Ottawa County offers a glimpse of what happens when one of the building blocks of American democracy is consumed by ideological battles https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/22/ottawa-county-commission/ Textised link: https://www.textise.net/showText.aspx?strURL=https%3A//www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/04/22/ottawa-county-commission/#main-content
  14. Not sure where to put this but since she played a prominent role in the Jan 6 Committee investigation I’ll put it here. In case anyone is interested, Cassidy Hutchinson will be the guest on Rachel Maddow’s show tonight. She’s hawking her new book, I’m not sure how much more there is in it that we haven’t already heard. I don’t know how much time they’ll spend on the salacious creeper stories about Rudy. She’s going to be on Deadline White House with Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday and it’s probably safe to assume she’ll make the rounds on the Sunday morning talk shows. But Rachel gets her first and I figure maybe she’ll give her the most air time. Just thought I’d share.
  15. Really? Is that your take on the Georgia game last year? That OSU lacked toughness? They lost it on a missed FG. That and Marvin Harrison Jr. getting hit in the head and knocked unconscious with no penalty called. Georgia had no answer for him. And Clemson? Ryan Day is the first OSU coach in history to beat Clemson. One could argue he broke Clemson. The Bucks hammered them in the playoff 3 years ago and they haven’t been back. Clemson was favored by 7. The Bucks lost a competitive game to Clemson the year before that, also as an underdog. I don’t know if Lou talked about those games. I read about his comments but never watched the video or paid attention to what he said because he’s a doddering old man and who cares what he says? Of course he’s picking the Irish. But yeah, anyone saying the Bucks were soft in those games is a fucking idiot. Day’s mistake was overreacting and going public with his overreaction. I guess he used it as bulletin board material to motivate the team and that’s fine. But airing his grievances in public was pretty amateurish, the sign of an inexperienced head coach. All I could think was, how would Jim Tressel have handled that? He probably would’ve said something cryptic like, “I’ll have to send Lou Holtz a thank you note” and never explained what he meant.
  16. He was the DC before being promoted to head coach after Brian Kelly left for LSU. I don’t know how responsibilities are divided among the staff but you would think Marcus would be more tuned in to what’s going on with the defense than the offense. And in that situation there wasn’t any reason to be thinking ahead to another potential offensive possession anyway. Maybe his deal with Al Golden is that Al’s in charge and Marcus will keep his hands off. I don’t know. It’s just hard to understand how a defensive minded head coach could miss something like that, especially in the biggest game of his young career. You gotta figure he’s going to be more hands-on in the future. They’ve got USC coming to town in a few weeks and they can’t afford any more mistakes like that.
  17. Had some young dude walking toward me on the sidewalk awhile back with his head down, staring at his phone. I was on one side but he was walking straight down the middle. I waited for him to notice me until he was a few steps away and finally had to say, “Heads up!” to keep him from walking into me.
  18. When I die, I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather did. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.
  19. They’re actually trying to avoid one.
  20. Domers are going to be agonizing over that for decades.
  21. It’s 36.5. But that reminds me of the 2004 Iowa-PSU game which Iowa won 6-4 in State College. Penn State’s offense was particularly dreadful at that time but they still played solid D. Up 6-2 late in the game, Iowa faced a 4th down close to their own goal line. Rather than punt the ball and risk it getting blocked and returned for a score, Ferentz had his punter run out the back of the end zone and give up the safety. Then they could kick it off, safe in the knowledge that PSU could never drive the length of the field to score when even a FG would win the game.
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