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Yes. This here is the single best video on the internet right now… ????
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 17, 2024
Don’t Alienate Family and Friends Over Politics
Does this only go in one political direction? I don’t feel insufferable hate toward people who disagree with me and I don’t understand people who do.
You Want Censorship and I Don’t
Money for Nothing
Outrage at MSNBC after Al Sharpton took cash from Kamala pre-interview https://t.co/fPKsGCA8eX via @MailOnline
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) November 14, 2024
Sharpton has been doing this for decades — giving his blessing to people, companies and organizations in exchange for money.
Given his history, why anyone would want to tout his blessing is a mystery.
The payments to Sharpton’s organization came as part of a $5.4 million fund the Harris campaign dished out to black and Hispanic advocacy groups to help bolster her candidacy among minority voters.
Given that minority group voters migrated en masse to Trump, I think Harris should be entitled to a refund.
I’m not sure about this, but I don’t think Trump paid anyone to endorse him or give him a softball interview.
Democratic Governors Launch Pro-Democracy Group Four Years Too Late
Democratic governors J. B. Pritzker (Illinois) and Jared Polis (Colorado) revealed on Wednesday that they will spearhead a national gubernatorial initiative to protect against threats to democracy.
— nationalreview.com
These guys are a little late to the party. If they really cared about threats to democracy, the time to take action would have been the last four years, in which the government was censoring political dissent, censoring “misinformation” (i.e., facts that would expose government lies), criminalizing, prosecuting and imprisoning political enemies, trying to put the Republican presidential candidate in prison before the election, trying to remove his name from the ballot so no one could vote for him.
The electorate has already solved these problems by voting out the dictatorial regime that was causing them.
You Know You’ve Got a Great Country
And Nothing Is Forever
Promise you’ll be with me in the end
Say we’ll be together and that you won’t forget
However far away (However far away)
You will remember me in timeWomen’s Rights Are More Than That One Thing
I also voted for my daughter’s rights.
I voted for her right to free speech.
I voted for her right to practice her religion.
I voted for her right to peacefully assemble and protest a tyrannical government, regardless of her political leanings.
I voted for her right to bodily…
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) November 5, 2024
Thomas Jefferson: Election 2024 TL;DR
We’re tired of being condescended to by the Obamas, by Oprah, by rich celebrities, by corporate media people with multi-million dollar salaries, all with large homes in which they live, paid off along with their summer homes in the Hamptons and Martha’s Vineyard, telling us the economy is doing very, very well. We only think that we’re economically struggling because we don’t understand the data.
We’re tired of being insulted. We’re not Nazis. We’re not garbage. We want to be able to buy things. We want to be able to walk around our neighborhoods without being harassed or robbed or killed. We don’t want unchecked immigration.
We are trying to improve our lives and our jobs and our communities and no one is listening because they’re too busy posting selfies with Alex Soros.
We have a government telling us that they’re defending democracy while simultaneously doing things that we thought only happened in totalitarian dictatorships: censorship of political enemies, censorship of “misinformation,” prosecution of political enemies, trying to put the Republican presidential candidate in prison before the election, trying to remove his name from the ballot so no one can vote for him.
We hate the political status quo and we repudiate all of it.
My fellow Americans –
I’m proud of you today. I knew you could do it. The tree of liberty has been refreshed by the blood of tyrants.
You rose up to say, “We are Americans. We are not an afterthought to massive corporations and hedge fund billionaires and illegal immigrants. If your plan is to raise a ton of money and run nasty ads saying we can’t vote for this person, that he is flawed — well, stay up late election night and see what we’ve done.”
God Bless America.
My Boyhood Sports Icons Are Dying: Luis Tiant
Luis Tiant won 229 games, with 2,416 strikeouts, a 3.30 ERA, 187 complete games and 49 shutouts. He was a three-time All-Star for and four-time 20-game winner. He was the American League (AL) ERA leader in 1968 and 1972 and the AL leader in shutouts in 1966, 1968, and 1974.
In today’s game, where you can win a Cy Young award with zero shutouts and zero complete games, those stats would send you straight to the Hall of Fame but Tiant was not elected to the Hall of Fame.
In 1968, Tiant Led the American League in ERA (1.60), shutouts (nine, including four consecutive), hits per nine innings (5.30) and strikeouts per nine innings (9.22), while finishing with a 21–9 record. His .168 opponent batting average set a new major league record, and his 19 strikeout/10 inning performance against the Minnesota Twins on July 3 set the American League record for strikeouts in a game. His 1.60 ERA iwas the lowest in the AL in nearly half a century (since Walter Johnson’s dead-ball era 1.49 in 1919).
He did not win the 1968 Cy Young Award because Denny McClain of the Detroit Tigers won 31 games in 1968, won the AL Cy Young Award (unanimously) and the AL MVP.
RIP Luis Tiant
33 Ways to Leave Your Party
This document should be in the Smithsonian. It should be preserved as part of the written history of American democracy. I can hear the spirit of Thomas Paine saying, "Well done." https://t.co/vSs4BpfBU4
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) October 13, 2024
People I Thought Were Dead
- Jim Bakker – televangelist
- Richard Benjamin – actor
- Joe Biden – U.S. president
- Elizabeth Dole – U.S. cabinet secretary
- Sandy Koufax – baseball player
- Kreskin – mentalist and TV host
- Ralph Nader – consumer activist
- Richard Petty – auto racer
Updates
- Jimmy Carter, died 12/29/2024, age 100
- Kreskin, died 12/10/2024, age 89
Be Careful What You Wish For
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) October 8, 2024
I live in the greater L.A. area, so I’m familiar with Gascón. How many times has this happened over the past few years? Voters elect “progressive” DAs, only to vote them out at the first opportunity when it turns out that progressive prosecutors don’t want to prosecute anyone, resulting in high-crime areas that no one wants to live in.
A couple of years ago in San Francisco, voters didn’t even wait till the next election. DA Chesa Boudin was ousted in a recall election. I’m not as familiar with Boudin, but if you’re too progressive for San Francisco, you’ve got to be completely off the charts.
Be careful what you wish for.
Cockiness Gets a Scolding
Let’s Play Some Soccer!
"This Is about Biology': New Hampshire Girls Soccer Players Boycott Game over Male Opponent https://t.co/30nbu2XWwT
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) October 3, 2024
The team didn’t boycott the game, but several of the players did, which required the coach to fill out the roster with JV players. According to the story, this happens in every game that the Kearsarge Regional High School team plays — multiple girls on the opposing team refuse to play.
I don’t blame them. Aside from being unfair, it’s obviously totally unsafe.
I’ve seen men beating the hell out of women in boxing and MMA. I read about a high school girl suffering brain damage from being hit in the face by a volleyball spiked by a boy. I’ve heard about high school girls getting their teeth knocked out by boys playing on girls’ field hockey teams. I’ve seen a large high school boy playing girls basketball and every time he moved, girls were being knocked to the floor.
Even in sports where men compete against men or boys compete against boys, there are often multiple competitive divisions depending on the age and/or size of the competitors. Boxing and wrestling have weight classes. Junior hockey has age brackets in two-year increments. A team of 14-year-olds can’t compete fairly or safely against a team of 18-year-olds.
There’s actually a law in New Hampshire prohibiting high school boys from playing girls’ sports but the Kearsarge School Board voted this summer to ignore the law. I didn’t even know you could vote to ignore laws.
Refusing to play is one method of protesting male intrusion into women’s sports, but if I were coaching a team of girls competing against Kearsarge, I wouldn’t fill out the roster with JV players, I’d fill out the roster with players from the boys varsity team and tell them, “Just say ‘I identify as female.’ Anything beyond that, you say “Talk to my coach.”
Now let’s play some soccer!
My Boyhood Sports Icons Are Dying: Pete Rose
Pete Rose was the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen. If I had to explain baseball to an alien from another planet, I’d show the alien a highlight reel of Pete Rose.
Rose is baseball’s all-time leader in hits, won three World Series championships, three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Gold Gloves, and the Rookie of the Year Award. He made 17 All-Star appearances in an unequaled five positions (second baseman, left fielder, right fielder, third baseman, and first baseman).
Yankees pitcher Whitey Ford gave Rose the nickname “Charlie Hustle” after Rose sprinted to first base after drawing a walk, which he did his entire career. (Current players rarely sprint to first base under any circumstances.) Despite, or because of, the derisive manner in which Ford intended it, Rose adopted that nickname as a badge of honor. There’s another version of the story in which Ford bestowed the nickname after Rose, playing in left field, tried to climb the fence to catch a Mickey Mantle home run that was about a hundred feet over his head.
Rose was placed on baseball’s “permanently ineligible” list in 1989 by then-Commissioner Bart Giamatti, allegedly for gambling on baseball games, although MLB made no formal finding on the gambling allegations, and Rose continued to deny them for many years afterward.
Giamatti died of a heart attack eight days after announcing the Rose ban, which I’ve always viewed as a message from God.
As far as the gambling, I think every baseball player should be required to place a bet on his own team every game. You’d see a lot more players sprinting to first base, I assure you.
Rose still holds dozens of MLB and National League records, including the highest career fielding percentage for a right fielder at 99.14% and the highest National League career fielding percentage for a left fielder at 99.07%.
RIP Pete Rose
Perverse Incentives
CORRUPTION: Ever wonder how politicians get so rich? They funnel billions into NGOs where their families work and who pay them to speak and to serve on boards. The $24 billion California spent on the homeless crisis went almost exclusively to NGOs who rely on a steady stream of… pic.twitter.com/48g8WkO9Y0
— @amuse (@amuse) September 22, 2024
This is common. People make money advocating for the solution to a social problem. They don’t solve the problem, they advocate for a solution to the problem.
If the problem were solved, their money stream would dry up. Perverse incentives, as the poster says.
Fear
NBC: Trump Is Just Asking to Get Shot
So he was asking for it, according to NBC. Use fierce rhetoric, get shot. No mention of the possible effect of fierce rhetoric used *against* Trump.https://t.co/yPQEnLSujz
— Paul Epps (@paulepps) September 16, 2024
Another Instance When it Would Be Great to Have Functioning Media
If indeed this turns out to be true, which is looking increasingly likely, consider the character of the presidential candidate that would cheat in a debate, allowing her staff to negotiate the questions in advance, the camera angles, the required fact checking of her opponent,… https://t.co/RrmYoy151N
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) September 15, 2024
I’d like to see CBS or NBC or some other news outlet look into this but I don’t think it’s going to happen. Everyone seems to be on the same team.
