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What people?

This was the first thing I thought of

Wait was his surgery really announced by his mom? Iowa really likes having their parents make statements for them huh

That’d be interesting if AJ considering both AJ & Terukina have had off the mat issues. I guess Koll thinks he can rehab them

Yes, he pushes them out as “recommended”

Before he owned Twitter he couldn’t make everyone read his opinions like he can now

Also, are we completely ruling out the chance that Ryder stays at PSU if they up his dollar amount?

So he’s saying he spoke with Ryder’s family, which is weird to start with IMO. But if that’s true, it could have been a biased perspective. Also could be the truth, I don’t think we really know.

He also didn’t own Twitter and push his opinions out to everyone on the site

Other car companies? Last I read the car market has slowed (likely in part due to concerns about the economy)

Well you said “wrestlers,” not starters.

So you are saying there was no inclination that Ryder might transfer prior to the talks with Welsh?

“Being political” is not the same as “being a politician”

Because their cars aren’t very good. Probably why they still have so much inventory

Well if you read the article, you would have noticed they said the deal is on stuff they already had in inventory, AKA wasn’t effected by the tariffs.

If he wasn’t a special government employee then, then no

Was he a “special government employee” then?

Except to go to South Dakota State

Uh, I was part of it from the beginning

Well the President is a politician

Congrats, you’re a sucker for marketing. Pretty sure “employee pricing” isn’t that much of a deal anyway and they have offered it at times historically (far more than “1%”). They’re just trying to capitalize on the current press and misunderstanding about the tariffs. A lot of people probably don’t realize that a lot of “foreign” cars are produced in America, and some “American” ones aren’t. Here’s the “American made index.” Honda has the most models in the top 20 (5) and Toyota has 4. The first Ford model comes in at #31 and the next at #56. https://www.cars.com/articles/2024-cars-com-american-made-index-which-cars-are-the-most-american-484903/ Also, I don’t think many sane people were saying prices will go up on “everything.” Cars had seen crazy price increases due to Covid, so may be due to come down even with the tariffs. Possibly in part because it’s a major purchase that people might put off if they’re not confident in the overall state of the economy.

I didn’t dispute that rural was red, I was saying there was a middle ground between rural and suburban. And also that “rural America” hasn’t really produced all that many top wrestlers recently.

No clue if this account has any inside info, they do have 6k followers which is on the higher side as far as wrestling twitter goes

Saying otherwise about what exactly? Welsh said he got offered “a lot more” to go to other schools, that doesn’t mean he wasn’t also offered “a lot” to go to PSU, or at the very least more than the minimum that everyone on the team gets.

Actually your source has more data available, with the most recent (2023) leaning red: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship-in-rural-suburban-and-urban-communities/ But according to that it’s pretty even, although I’d still bet it’s skewed by a few bigger metros where the suburbs do lean blue, but many don’t. Also to your earlier point about farmers or whatever, there is a middle ground between suburban and rural, towns that are like an hour or so from bigger cities, and the further from the city you get the more red they generally lean. If I had to guess I’d bet many top wrestlers are from exurban areas like that. For example looking at this year’s champs based on the hometown listed on their roster, I would probably only count one as being from a rural area. Robinson: Chicago (urban) Byrd: Cincinnati (urban/maybe suburban) Mendez: Crown Point, IN (suburban/maybe exurban depending on your definition) Lovett: Post Falls, ID (suburban/maybe exurban depending on your definition) Taylor: Millard, NE (suburban) Mesenbrink: Hartland, WI (suburban) Hamiti: Joliet, IL (exurban) Starocci: Erie, PA (urban) Buchanan: Loyal, WI (rural) Hendrickson: Newton, KS (exurban)