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MAGA has a problem. A big problem.
This isn't just "Tommy," a random Republican, you see. This is Thomas Teepell, son of Gov. Jindal's chief of staff and former ops director for Sen. Josh Hawley.
He's a PROFESSIONAL Republican.
And he made a campaign ad for El-Sayed.
El-Sayed is a progressive. He likes big government solutions. He wants the government to do more things and have more power. He thinks this is the best way for government to help people. He's wrong, of course.
Republicans could easily challenge him on his policy ideas. But they can't. You see, Donald Trump and the postliberal MAGA movement that has attached itself to him also like big government solutions. They also want the government to do more things and have more power. They also think this is the best way for government to help people. They're wrong, of course.
They only disagree on the details.
And so Tom Teepull, a professional Republican, sets up El-Sayed with an absolute softball question like a complete amateur. He makes himself look foolish. He creates a viral moment for a Democrat. He's starring in their campaign ads and he didn't even get paid.
This is all that Republicans have left: Culture war. They can't disagree with Democrats who want to impose their left-wing collectivist economic central planning by force, because they also want to impose left-wing collectivist economic central planning by force. So they attack his religion in an attempted "gotcha" moment that completely backfires.
We've seen this happen repeatedly. It's not isolated to this one incident. Just look at the attacks on Mamdani - they are almost all either attacking his religion or attacking gay people. They cannot challenge his socialist ideas, because to challenge Mamdani's socialism is to challenge Trump's socialism. When they attack Elizabeth Warren, it's over her debunked claims to be Native American, not the economic views she shares with Tom Teepull's former boss Josh Hawley. This is becoming the GOP MO: ad hominem to hide how similar their own socialist views have become.
This is why Republicans will lose. Not just electorally, but morally, intellectually, and culturally. Republicans have decided to be nothing more than rude and stupid Democrats.
They stand for nothing. They claim to defend "Western civilization" while attacking the classical liberal Enlightenment principles that Western civilization is built on. They have become a movement based entirely around a single individual, whose policies are incoherent and whose ideas have been proven wrong over and over again.
There is nothing left of the Republican Party but their bigotry, and as we can see, it is not only repugnant, but irrational.
@LADWP Power out between Lindley and White Oak & Sherman and Hart. After that $1500 bill we just received would hope this gets fixed up post haste
Have you told @LASchools that they may need to cancel school at Bertrand Elementary in 5 hours?
There’s a secret clock that only the replay officials know about that’s the actual clock. You dumbasses have thought the game clock publicly projected for all to see was the real clock these 100 years of college football. Bunch’a rubes — @B1Gfootball explanation
Jason Bolton retweeted
Royce White tryna play with Paige Bueckers but can’t even step foot on a plane, bro worried about the wrong Wings
Jason Bolton retweeted
Trans athletes are such an existential threat to the WNBA that a 6’10” former NBA player has to pretend to be one just to manufacture the threat.
Jason Bolton retweeted
BIG RANT HERE FOR @USMNT
As someone who watched his son go from the youth levels all the way to high school through all of the tournaments ODP, living in Europe and other Training platforms let me be clear about something:
Technical talent and IQ are not rewarded in the youth stages. I’ve watched big fast, technically deficient, and honestly super low IQ (borderline retarded) players make and get opportunities over other players who were technically, tactically, better. Often what gets rewarded is “activity”. People like seeing players just run in circles.
Our overall youth system is a disaster. We have tournaments with gigantic butt holes running them, charging an obscene amount just a park a damn car. They’ll charge you $80 to park a car but can’t find a decent center ref for a championship game.
We have U8 players and families traveling 2500 miles just to play in a tournament for three games.
The system is always going to fail because we encourage kickball and athleticism. Ask any college coach what they’re looking for. They are looking for big and fast. Division I games a lot of times look like high school games with balls being played to a big fast guy who just goes straight to goal.
How is the national team even made? It sure as hell isn’t made by open tryouts and finding the best players. It’s made by bull crap Academies that use friendships and connections to get players in. We cannot say that we are truly serious as a country with the system that’s in place now.
If we truly want our country to develop as a nation, we need to be clear about the goal. It’s not just the best athletes. It’s starting them young in a high-quality environment.
The biggest issue our country has, is that the best coaches don’t coach at the young levels. U10, U8, and below are typically coach by Dad who played baseball or football or something else.
Even if they played soccer, they’ve spent zero time developing themselves as coaches. Which is why by U12 most of the players look terrible.
Most of the coaches that want to get higher licenses and Coach the older groups missed the point. If players come to them with 1/3 of the development that they should have, what good does their higher level knowledge do?
This is the best analysis I've seen over this past 24 hours
The U.S. soccer federation is a poor return on invested capital.
I played soccer for 20+ years.
Grassroots.
Academy.
D1 college.
Pursued professionally after.
And I’ll say the quiet part out loud:
The US soccer infrastructure is broken.
In America, we treat playing D1 soccer like it is the peak achievement.
For most families, clubs, coaches, and players, the entire youth soccer machine is built around one goal:
Get recruited.
Get a scholarship.
Play college soccer.
But if the objective is to produce world-class players, D1 soccer is a terrible development path.
From 18-22, some of the most important technical development years of your career, you are preparing for a 3-4 month season built largely around athleticism, direct play, set pieces, fitness, and survival.
Now compare that to an 18-year-old in Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Italy, England, or France.
That player has likely been in a professional environment for years.
Training daily.
Playing meaningful matches year-round.
Competing against grown professionals.
Getting thousands more touches.
Learning how to solve the game under pressure.
The gap is massive.
And it shows.
American players are usually athletic.
They are usually fit.
They usually compete hard.
But at the highest levels, that is not enough.
The biggest difference is technical comfort.
We do not move the ball like Spain.
We do not combine like Argentina.
We do not play with the same fluidity, rhythm, and confidence you see from countries where the game is embedded into the culture from childhood.
That comes down to volume.
Volume of touches.
Volume of street soccer.
Volume of futsal.
Volume of unstructured play.
Volume of high-level training environments.
Volume of meaningful games.
In the US, youth soccer is expensive, overly organized, overly coached, tournament-driven, and too often built around winning games at 13 instead of developing players for 23.
Parents spend thousands.
Clubs charge thousands.
Travel teams fly all over the country.
Showcases become the product.
Recruiting becomes the scoreboard.
But the return on invested capital is poor.
We probably spend more money on youth soccer than almost any country in the world, yet the technical output does not match the investment.
That is a broken operating model.
And like any business, if the output is weak, you do not blame the customer.
You inspect the system.
The US has talent.
The US has athletes.
The US has money.
The US has facilities.
But the foundation is wrong.
We built a pay-to-play, college-recruiting machine and confused it for a world-class player development system.
Those are not the same thing.
Until we fix the grassroots layer, increase meaningful touches, make development less dependent on family income, and stop treating college soccer as the top of the mountain, the US will keep underperforming relative to its resources.
I’m not saying this to trash US Soccer.
I’m saying it because I lived it.
And if we actually want to become a powerhouse, we have to be honest about the infrastructure first.
48 players made the 1st, 2nd and Frosh All-SEC teams. None were Sooners. All 48 are at home on the couch eating beans and weenies!!! #BMFS
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Jason Bolton retweeted
For anyone putting loyalty to a person above loyalty to the Constitution, Justice Gorsuch’s remarks should be required reading. His words are a reminder that our highest duty is to the rule of law and the founding principles that define America.
I hope this can reach somebody from @FreelanceWhales These are my triplet girls singing Hannah 15 years ago. This song means the world to us - still does. I used to sing it to them and hold them “upside down.” ❤️💚💜
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Phillip Rivers’ High School Football Team going nuts after he threw his 1st TD pass in the NFL in over 1,800 days.
This is what it looks like when your coach says have no fear and then practices what he preaches by coming back to play at 44 years old.
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