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We've created a society where being suspicious of experts is considered critical thinking.
But being suspicious of conspiracy theories is considered closed-minded.
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I suffer from a rare condition where I keep thinking people will change their minds when presented with facts.
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LSU was supposedly great because they blew out Clemson. That's the same Clemson who is 64th in FPI efficiency with the 109th ranked offense in college football. By the transitive property, Ole Miss was supposedly great because they beat LSU at home.
Florida was supposedly great because they handily beat Ole Miss (42nd in FPI Efficiency) at home, and Florida got talked about as a likely playoff team by a bunch of pundits.
Missouri will now get sunshine-pumped in the polls because they blew out Florida at home - the same Florida that is 77th in FPI defensive efficiency.
(By the way - Florida's chances of making the playoff are now lower than Nebraska or Northwestern. I have a sneaking suspicion that won't be brought up by very many people)
Alabama's offensive dominance has been racked up against the 30th, 35th, 44th, 82nd, and 91st rated defenses.
Kentucky's two SEC wins are by a total of 11 points against the 40th and 57th teams in FPI efficiency.
Baylor beat Arizona State on the road by a bigger margin than Texas A&M beat Arizona State at home.
Nobody launders overrated wins into undeserved AP votes quite like the SEC.
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Allan’s right: no-trade clauses are negotiated protections. Players trade away other rights to get them, and teams agree to those terms.
How can anyone blame the PLAYERS? Like what?
It’s ridiculous how often fans side with management when players use those protections. The Rangers strong-armed Jacob Trouba toward a trade with the threat of waivers, then waived Barclay Goodrow, who was claimed by San Jose. Wade Redden and Karl Alzner were sent to the minors over their contracts; Montreal sent a healthy Scott Gomez home to preserve a buyout. And those are only a few examples. Teams use every lever available. Players should be able to use the rights they negotiated.
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Yes, to every bit of this. Trump 2.0 is what Trump 1.0 would have been if the actual adults in his first admin hadn’t had to babysit him. The myth that Trump was ever a good president economically or otherwise was always a lie.
Summary:
Trump is a terrible person who has no understanding whatsoever about public policy, government, history, law, the Constitution, foreign relations, or much of anything.
He won the 2016 Republican nomination in a fluke with a minority of Republican votes, probably because Kasich wouldn't bow out soon enough.
Unexpectedly even to him, he won the 2016 election with the thinnest of margins.
He agreed to House Republicans' (Kevin Brady's) already designed tax reform bill, based on long established conservative tax policy.
That bill strengthened the economy, particularly the corporate tax cut. The strong economy compensated for Trump's many other policy wrongs.
Covid wrecked the economy and showed Trump in an even worse light. In 2020 voters rejected Trump.
Biden worsened rather than improved the Covid economy through spending-driven inflation.
In 2024 voters returned to Trump because they wanted a return to the pre-Covid economy.
But Trump hasn't delivered on the economy because his policies are harmful to the economy. The people who designed the 2017 tax reform are gone, driven out of office or retiring in disgust.
What went right during Trump's first term was the doing of others, who understood policy and deterred him from his worst inclinations. No one like that was permitted influence in the second term.
Second term Trump is the real Trump, and the second term results are the real Trump results.
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People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.
I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.
Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.
Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.
Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.
So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.
PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.
Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.
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The rule at Ground Zero has stood since 2012: no politician gets a podium. Just the names, 2,977 of them, read one by one.
Trump asked to speak. When organizers said no, he chose not to show up at all, headed to the Pentagon instead, where he would get a microphone.
Obama, Biden, Bush, and Clinton showed up anyway, with Michelle, Jill, Laura, and Hillary standing beside them, on the 25th anniversary of the worst day in this country’s history.
Four presidents chose silence over a stage.
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9/11 while the Twin Towers were still burning, thousands were dead or trapped under rubble, a nation stood frozen in horror; Donald Trump got on TV & bragged about his building now the tallest in Manhattan...
That's who he is. That's who he's always been
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This is actual psychosis.
He learned several months ago that dumb has a B when he told someone his brilliant idea for “dumocrats.” This left him a severe narcissistic injury. So he has constructed, through sheer repetition, an alternate reality where “most people don’t know.”
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This is a better way to visualize Columbus’ voyages than the traditional way (that shows him traveling through a modern map)..
It looks a lot crazier and more daring when you see it as a trip into the unknown.
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: The U.S. military has a Pete Hegseth problem. Period.
Our troops are not props. The Pentagon is not a playground for incompetent fox news hacks with something to prove about their manliness.
I carry the names of 13 brothers I lost in war tattooed on my body. I know exactly who pays the price when the people at the top screw up.
It sure isn’t Pete Hegseth. It’s the kid strapping up his gear and walking outside the wire.
cnn.com/2026/08/31/politics/…
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An unscripted underdog saga unfolded in the most unlikely setting. Indiana University’s perennially overlooked and outmatched Hoosiers transformed into the #1-ranked team in the country.