Tripnsweep

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/20/1106229988/texas-gops-new-platform-says-biden-didnt-really-win-it-also-calls-for-secession DeSantis just acts like he wants to secede is all.

Sorry that was the Texas Republican Party. It was even in their platform.

Ron DeSantis threatened the same thing.

That's not even close to being the same thing and you know it.

Short of Mexico deploying their military to the border, which is as impractical as us doing it, no you are not going to stop people from doing it. Even if you did that, people would figure out a way around it. Which is why the whole "seal the border" makes no sense. I don't think people realize what doing something like that would actually do, and it would go very very badly for a lot of people. Ostensibly the point of border patrol is to make sure people who don't have a visa or anything don't come into the country. Which is fine if you have say a hostile neighbor. Instead we're just villainizing desperate poor people who are mostly looking to avoid living in extreme poverty. So we are wasting money and resources to protect us from people who want to come here to do menial jobs? And I'm sure you'll say that drugs and trouble come across. I'm sure that along people willing to risk their life to come here and wash dishes at Olive Garden, some have probably less than sterling criminal histories. Drugs on the other hand, the huge majority come through legal ports of entry. So even if you could stop a few enterprising people who think lugging a 50 pound pack of drugs across an unforgiving desert is a good idea, you wouldn't make a dent in drugs coming into this country. The days of guys like Sal Maglua, Jon Roberts, Willy Falcon, Mickey Munday, etc are long over.

Trump lied? Say it ain't so https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89v4w51dzyo.amp

The governments mentioned don't control the illicit drug trade or have anything to do with immigration to this country. It's basically like saying that if Hollywood doesn't stop letting gay people work on in movies that we are going to put a big tax on movie theater tickets. Mexico can't really do anything for various reasons. This is going to go very badly and the people who will really suffer are the ignorant clods who thought voting for Trump was a good idea.

Just like Trump he can avoid personal responsibility and ask suckers to give him money.

Glad your primary source of news is an app teenagers use to troll each other. I can't see how that could go badly ever.

Benefits of having an Ivy League educated family I guess.

Except I don't just blithely believe whatever Trump and his ilk say and take it as truth.

Honestly I don't think he cares what happens when he does pass away.

He's a clown who lives on credit. Everything he owns is mortgaged to the hilt. Once he dies his kids aren't going to have anything left. The banks are going to step in and take whatever they can.

Tell us you're stupid without telling us you're stupid.

Herm Edwards ruined the program. Hell the state of things caused the AD to be fired, or rather he was allowed to resign because of how badly that experiment went. Since he used to be Edward's agent and all. It wasn't like ASU was some powerhouse that had a few bad years. They just had poor leadership and hadn't won 10+ games for about a decade. It wasn't like the talent was never at ASU. They put plenty of players in the NFL. Even one of their head coaches they fired in 2006 ended up becoming a head coach in the NFL. They just badly underachieved for years, hired the wrong people, and just assumed everything would be OK and things would eventually get back to the way it was when Frank Kush roamed the sidelines.

Looking beyond that, the football program was all around terrible. The year before they got blown out by Eastern Michigan and beat a losing FCS program by 7. Then they had sanctions against them, lost most of their assistant coaches, and lost most of their top players. The guy who won the Heisman last season started at ASU for 3 years. Not to mention that a ton of other talent left, including a first round WR pick. The change of schedule helped, but keep in mind ASU was picked dead last and the over/under betting odds on their win total was 4.5 for this year. Fortunately I bet the over but enough sports books had those same odds for a reason, which isn't losing money. Dillingham basically resurrected a corpse of a football program.

ASU lost their biggest and possibly only financial backer of wrestling. The writing is on the wall. No more Sunkist money flowing in, scant NIL deals that go through the ASU "collective", which given that the football coach has basically performed a miracle by tripling the win total from each of the last two seasons and has them in the discussion for being in the playoffs, he is going to get whatever of it he asks for. Certain people saw that there should have been a change a few years ago and it was strongly hinted this would happen, but nobody did anything to try to avoid it. If Figueroa stays next year I'll be shocked. ASU is sadly going to regress a lot unless they somehow get Bassett to commit and sign.

Combination of both. One of my friends has been pitching me for years to move to Europe. It's closer to her family and the only relatives that I have here that talk to me regularly have the means to frequently travel to Europe. Different lifestyle there, less stress, and just a better quality of life. All without a bat*I poop my pants, don't laugh at me* insane person who pledges to rule as a dictator.

LeBron James is like 6'7.

The worst they tried to get him with was that he was supposedly communist because a company he owned or held a stake in did business with the Chinese government. Oh and that he's anti gun because his wife almost got assassinated. I think you get a pass on that if you have something like that happen.

I think that 2028 is going to be interesting, it'll be open on both sides, similar to how 2008 was. If the Democrats shift gears in the right direction, they'll nominate somebody who is outside of the Biden administration, not a cabinet member, VP or anyone he appointed to anything. Honestly if Fetterman didn't have health issues, I'd put him as the guy who should come forward. But absent him, I like Mark Kelly, you can't really be more accomplished than him. Navy pilot, astronaut, now US senator.

Like USA Wrestling did with Simmons?