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Appeals Court Tosses Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Ruling Against Trump Over El Salvador Deportations This tweet is in the article before 1032045&383858 asks if I follow this dude https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/appeals-court-tosses-judge-boasbergs-contempt-ruling-against-trump-over-el-salvador-deportations/amp/

I’m surprised Iowa hasn’t scooped him up. He’d fit right in.

First step: Find the baddest dude in that room and get close to him.

I honestly wonder how much self sabotage was part of Howard’s last few years? He is a legit career broadcaster. His life was centered around ratings for all 40+ years of his career. It is the life blood of tv/radio. In his middle - late years. Let’s say 1995/2000-2012 ish he constantly bragged about his syndication as well as his industry leading ratings. It’s a form of him selling himself to other markets. It was what pushed him into the satellite radio market. He is beyond well aware that he is a slave to ratings. To consciously denigrate half your audience is beyond stupid. Imo there is a 3000% chance idea in he knew this. He knew what he was doing. He started this super liberal behavior around Covid when he was around 66 years old. He is 71 now. He is likely in that phase of his career where he doesn’t care to play the game any more. He is also wealthy so the money is irrelevant. How much of this was conscious and fire me I don’t care?? he used to be friends with Trump. Trump was on his show a ton. For those of you non fans the change was beyond visible. He hated Rosie o’donnell. He hated Ellen. He hated Leno. Larry King. He hated tons of these celebrities he is now buddies with.

As a spectator it's hard to agree with him. Rules: Folkstyle makes sense to people who like fighting. Wrestling definitely is a combat sport. Folkstyle wrestlers transfer to MMA and submission grappling more successfully. Folkstyle rules are less reliant on the officials' judgement. Not having to release a hold before getting more back points is something Freestyle could learn from. Can we limit subsequent rolls to only 1 point each? People fly around the world starving to make weight just to have a 90 second match that could have been competitive. League: The Olympics had 6 weights with 16 wrestlers in each and a repechage which isn't as many matches as consolation bracket. NCAA championships has 33 in 10 weights. A consolation bracket. 7 minute matches. Less passivity/stalling points. Less referee stoppages. More accurate calls about who is doing the stalling/passivity. No grounded out of bounds stoppages. We want more wrestling. Freestyle matches have shorter time limits. They more frequently end before the time limit. There are many times fewer events to watch. It's hard to even find results of national championships held in the major countries like Japan, India, Iran, let alone the minor ones. Google and AI engines can't find them even in those languages. Way easier to find NCAA division 2, 3, and high school. With so little wrestling going on, the freestyle seeds are always way off. They only seed the top 8 which doesn't make sense in a 32 person world championship tournament where unseeded people regularly win. Difficulty: Being a folkstyle wrestler is excruciating - more conditioning, more weigh ins. More rematches mean you both have to adjust. Plus with the skills to be an a NCAA champion, you usually make team USA as long as there isn't another NCAA champ knocking you out. You can wrestle freestyle against similar talent in Japan or the Caucasus region get world level accolades. Or just the Americas and Europe -- You dominate really poor programs and get world level accolades. You don't have to wrestle 25 matches in 4 months. You make weight 3 times in a year on average. Then knock off these guys who are "champions of entire continents". Africa doesn't have any countries trying. The truth is there are hardly any countries developing wrestlers at all let alone talent that wouldn't get teched by the top 5 countries. So that's why wrestlers like freestyle but fans like folkstyle. Some fans get hooked in by the glamour of the Olympics and the mystique of the best foreign wrestlers. With the USA training Freestyle more than in the past, much of that mystique is going away. The competition level is actually lower internationally than in the US in college Jore Volk won u20 gold. He is 51-17 so far in college (2 years). 7th in ncaas. Bennett Berge got u20 silver and u20 bronze. He is 63-19 so far in college (2 years). 4th in ncaas. Ben Keuter got u20 gold and u20 silver. He is 24-10 so far in college (2 years). 8th in ncaas. Nick Bouzakis got u20 silver. Ranked 7th, never past round of 12. Meyer Shapiro got u20 gold. Reached 3rd place. Camden McDaniel got u20 bronze. 20th seed, got 8th. Matt Singleton got u20 bronze. Got 7th Zack Ryder got u20 silver. Redshirted his only year so far Justin Rademacher got u20 bronze. Only been a true freshman. Did not qualify. Jacob Cardenas got u23 Silver three times. In NCAA got 4th twice. Isaac Trumble got u23 gold. In NCAA got 4th. Tanner Sloan got u23 silver. In NCAA got 2nd. Anthony Cassiopi got u23 gold and bronze. In NCAA got 3rd. Jay Aiello got u23 bronze. In NCAA reached round of 12. Sean Fausz got u23 silver. In NCAA reached round of 12. Richie Lews got U23 Gold without any international experience. In NCAA reached round of 12. Ty Walz got U23 bronze. In NCAA reached 4th. Youseff Hemida got U23 silver. In NCAA reached 6th. Braxton Amos got u20 gold. Qualified but did not reach round of 12. 7th at big tens. Stevan won seniors a few years after college. Reached 3rd in NCAAs. Sebastian Rivera won the Olympics and got 2nd at the senior world championships. In NCAA Reached 3rd twice. Myles Amine got 3rd in senior world's. Got 1st-3rd four times in the european championships. Bronze in the Olympics while still in college. In NCCAs got 2-4th all five years. Thomas Gilman got gold, silver, silver, bronze in sr world championships and olympics. Got 2nd-4th in NCAAs. Bekzod Abdurakhmonov went to college in the US. In community college had 84-8 record. In NCAA had 74-17 record. Was 3x bronze medalist in world seniors and olympics. Our best: John Smith and Jordan Burroughs had more success internationally than in college. OK state just wrestled China in freestyle and won by a large margin Two-time NCAA qualifier Konner Doucet bested Habila Awusayiman 3-0. Awusayiman represented China at the 2024 Olympics in Paris at 97 kg. Incoming freshman Ronnie Ramirez also grappled with a 2024 Olympian in Zou Wanhao at 61 kg, with Ramirez capturing a 4-3 win. Iowa State transfer Casey Swiderski wrestled Shen Tao at 74 kg — about 163 pounds — with Swiderski winning via a 12-1 tech. Cody Merrill took on U23 Asian Championship bronze medalist Narenmanduhal at 92 kg, with Merrill cruising to an 11-0 tech. Alex Facundo wrestled U23 Asian Championship gold medalist Cao Nan at 86 kg and Facundo beat Nan 4-1. Dee Lockett dropped his bout to Lu Feng. Lockett is a U17 world champ and a U20 silver medalist. He picked up a senior gold medal at the most recent Pan American Championships. Feng is a U23 Asian Championship gold medalist and represented China at 74 kg at the 2024 Olympics. Joey's not really laying out pros and cons. He has an opinion.

i don't think that's true. how about you? is it binary? are you picking Ruiz or would you react with shock and awe if he won? you're saying those are the only choices?

Maestro. You are a very talented man. Captured beautifully. Though my wife was a little freaked out.

Sure ... the more outrage whether original or outrage about outrage the more fun.

What pants?

We can also agree on the fact he hasn't lowered the cost of living

Example of cancel culture: Stating "All lives matter" then losing job of 20+ years the next day. Not examples of cancel culture: Not having your tens of millions of dollars contract renewed because your show loses tens of millions of dollars every year due to your antics alienating 50+% of the population.

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One thing I know We can all agree on. One thing Trump is not living up to his campaign promises is that I don’t think he is deporting enough illegals. Hopefully they can kick it into the next gear and get the machine ramped up.

Again. Just like you. Bahahahahahahahah

The single biggest issue being ignored on this is those pants are ugly. As hot as she is, she can't make those look good.

It’s about all the wokester outrage for sure

Here's Jimmy!!!! Gotta make sure he comments on every last thing! All work and no forum makes jimmy a dull boy...

Why because he does the same thing as you do? The exact same thing just from the other side.

Even with a margin of error at plus or minus 10 points they’d still be the worst on record.

Where have I ever said that?? I’ll wait.