billyhoyle

This is a publicity stunt meant to make it look like they are being tough on immigration. They could use Gitmo to hold Cartel members that they might capture in raids in Mexico, but there's zero chance that illegal immigrants captured in the U.S. who are awaiting deportation orders will be held there.

Every time one of this guy's recruiting threads pops up: 507445c7-8700-4a22-baf3-294664376ed8.mp4

That is because the southern border is the most porous point of entry, so its easy to use. Once it is blocked, the smugglers will get the drugs in through airports and shipping. There's a strong argument to be made for securing the border, but stopping drugs isn't one of them. You don't pardon a guy who facilitated hundreds of millions in narcotics sales if that is your goal (but having him in jail was doing nothing to stop drug sales anyway because for every person you lock up, others come and take their place). The only way to stop the drugs is to stop the demand. People will always find a way to import drugs into the U.S. if the demand is there because of how lucrative it is, and additional enforcement on traffickers only makes smuggling more lucrative for those who succeed. And it can be pretty much guaranteed that the smuggling is done by U.S. citizens because they get the least scrutiny at the border. Drug smuggling has nothing to do with immigration. It has to do with economics.

I'm all for stopping 1 and 3, but stopping #2 is impossible. As long as there is demand for drugs, there will be supply. Even if the border with Mexico was completely secure from foreign smugglers and every cartel in Mexcio was eliminated, U.S. citizens would smuggle in drugs through airports or through the Canadian border. Drugs would also be smuggled in through the ports just as part of regular shipping (and U.S. citizens working the ports would be paid to help). Neither party actually cares about stopping drugs-probably in part because they know it's impossible. Trump just pardoned a guy who was running one of the largest underground drug markets (Silk Road). And obviously the democrats want legalization or decriminalization of pretty much all drugs. I do think #1 and #3 can be addressed though and hopefully there will be improvements in them.

Probably. Although at one point the jets hired two of the greatest head coaches of all time back to back (Parcells and Belichick).

I know this might seem like a joke, but honest question here. Trump got a ton of support from wrestlers during both of his campaigns. Gable, Jim Jordan, Penn State wrestling... The wrestling community in PA probably shifted that state to him. Could he sign an executive order that puts pressure on universities to add wrestling programs back? Obviously it can't say that directly, but some type of executive order "protecting" non revenue sports, especially those that teach the traditional values stuff that he's all about? Why as a community are we not pushing for this? This is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

It never made sense anyway that municipal bonds were tax free but treasuries are not. The result is treasuries became a less attractive investment, have to be issued at higher interest rates, and we end up adding more to the debt than we otherwise would have. And why shouldn't the top income bracket get to pay lower taxes? We just had an election on this exact issue, and it was pretty convincingly decided that we want the wealthy to have lower taxes and have a more fair burden paid for by the middle/lower class. Yeah, maybe you pay a bit more in taxes to send your kid to public school, but the rich are paying for private school tuition on top of having to pay taxes for other people to go to public school. They deserve some type of tax relief.

The issue with the GLP-1 agonists as PEDs is the muscle loss that accompanies the treatment (that's why the people taking it look so wacky and stand out with their body shape). There is some question as to whether the muscle loss is more diet related (people needing GLP-1 agonists tend to not be focusing on protein rich diets/resistance training) or inherent to the mechanism of the therapy. Some pharma companies are developing drugs to co-administer to preserve muscle mass (see: https://www.biospace.com/regeneron-looks-to-target-lucrative-weight-loss-market-with-muscle-preserving-antibodies). It's not clear whether this is really needed, since the health benefits are clearly there even with the muscle loss.

Yeah, it's like the Flu vaccine. You can still get covid or the flu after gettin either vaccine, but it is protective against some strains and makes homologous strains less severe. Who makes money from the Flu vaccine? Is that a conspiracy too? Nobody cares whether you get a flu or covid shot anymore now that everyone has partial immunity-it's just a matter of personal choice. In a military setting (or medical setting), both or either will sometimes be enforced.

The amount of information they get on people with tiktok is orders of magnitude larger than any type of hack on a federal database. They also have the power to influence people to support pro CCP policies by controlling what's shown on Tiktok.

Come on..Would you rather have a wrestling team or pay this QB they got from Duke?

Notre Dame took the endowment from their wrestling team and redirected it to football. So if anything, the wrestling team is working against Ohio State here.

The Covid vaccine works as well. It generates immunity against the antigens that the mRNA encodes. It's just at this point everyone with functioning immune system has partial immunity through prior vaccination or prior infection. So all the covid vaccine updates do is prevent the equivalent of the flu/a cold. It's like the flu vaccine, which is good if you don't want to get the flu, but really only needed for the elderly..And only protects against some strains.

Tiktok wasn't even going to be banned. The law was going to force its sale so that the Chinese don't have access to the data of everyone in the country. Think about how many Americans are immediately compromised because of this. The CCP knew that Trump wasn't going to enforce the law, so they had no reason to sell.

Nope. All a vaccine does is generate antibodies/immune cells that are specific for the antigen that is part of the drug. The efficacy of the vaccine is completely separate from whether it is or is not a vaccine. There are cancer vaccines in development to create antibodies against tumors, although they don't seem to be sufficient to clear the tumors. The issue with the Covid vaccine was the rate at which Covid evolved. So the initial vaccine was for specific antigen sequences, but Covid eventually evolved to render the vaccines less effective. It's the same reason we can't just create an HIV vaccine. With that said, the reason Covid was a dangerous disease is that it was a completely novel virus. So the vaccines offered a level of partial protection even against the evolved virus variants that limited serious disease. If we were to get into a military conflict and a new variant of Covid emerges that is going to cause a widespread flu-like outbreak, it would be in the best interest of the military to quickly deploy a new vaccine update that targets the new variant. That's why mRNA vaccine research was initially funded by DARPA.

Seems like nobody cares about crimes committed against federal law enforcement on either side.

Only for federal crimes committed prior to the issue of the pardon. Could still be tried by the states for past crimes or feds for future crimes.

The thing with a religious exemption is you can't be selective about which vaccines you take. You need to oppose them all and practice something like Scientology that opposes all pharmaceuticals. The Covid vaccine went through a clinical trial, so obviously the government was going to vaccinate the military. Remember that entire Naval ship that was pretty much taken out of service by covid before the vaccine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_on_USS_Theodore_Roosevelt#:~:text=The severe acute respiratory syndrome,ship was ordered to Guam.)?

Completely correct. At the very least, if a pardon is issued, it needs to come with the specific crimes that it covers (the actual statutes in federal law should be cited) and an admission of guilt by the person who accepts the pardon.

And Hendricks was stuck!

I think the most popular conspiracy theories are: 1. JFK assassination had another shooter/was orchestrated by FBI/CIA. 2. 9/11 was an inside job/not the result of hijacked airplanes. 3. UFOs are aliens visiting the planet and covered up by the U.S. government. 4. Covid was "planned" by US Government/Trump/Fauci/Biden to control population/get them vaccinated (or the result of a Chinese bioweapon attack) and covered up by U.S. 5. Lots of anti semitic BS surrounding the media/hollywood/holocaust (A big part of the 9/11 conspiracy theory is anti semitic as well). 6. Sandy Hook/Marjorie Stoneman Douglass/Las Vegas shooting/every other school shooting were all inside jobs with crisis actors to take away guns. 7. Moon landing/flat earth, but nobody really cares about this one anymore. 8. Every natural disaster is a conspiracy so FEMA can do something (you see something like this after every natural disaster). People believe this crap because the average person in this country is extremely stupid.

So you asked us to list, "top siblings that competed and had notable college careers, but wrestled for different schools," and you don't like the Schultz/Deans answer, who were both pairs of siblings with notable careers and wrestled for different schools. But cousins you do think counts.

I do not believe they were brothers.

Dave and Mark Schultz are the most notable.