Some More News on the Mind-Numbing Horror of Ben Shapiro’s “Lady Ballers”

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Hi. Last week, we looked at why The Daily Wire is putting out original content that they claim is apolitical. This week, we’re doing a deep dive on Jeremy Boreing’s magnum opus: Lady Ballers.

Note: Some of the clips included in this video are shorter versions of what we wanted to show. An extended version of this episode is available on our Patreon (patreon.com) and in audio form on our podcast feed.

Hosted by Cody Johnston
Executive Producer - Katy Stoll
Directed by John Conway
Written by David Christopher Bell
Edited by Gregg Meller
Produced by Jonathan Harris
Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker
Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway
Graphics by Clint DeNisco
Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales
Head Writer - David Christopher Bell

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00:00 - Intro
03:12 - The Basic Elements of Filmmaking
12:27 - Lady Ballers is a… comedy?
16:34 - Their political obsessions undermine the film.
26:07 - The character arcs are all over the place or nonexistent.
44:44 - They don’t understand what they’re attempting to satirize.
51:28 - Lady Ballers is bad even at being propaganda.
58:45 – This movie really hates women.
1:03:21 - The whole thing is based on a false premise.
1:07:36 - Here’s some other dumb shit in the movie.

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90 comments
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:46:38am

School sports in America are the unpaid minor leagues to multi-billion dollar professional leagues, so in that sense, Varsity Sports should be treated and regulated as an affiliate of Big Business.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:48:31am

Got CL’d:
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re: #283 Joe Bacon ✅

Trump now losing his ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream and lashing out at General Milley

rawstory.com

The financial walls are closing in on the Marquis de Fraud and he’s lashing out at everyone now.

If he doesn’t come up that half-billion by Monday, the whole world’s gonna see that under all his braggadocio, he’s really a broke-ass chump who’s been pretending to be one of the mega-rich for who knows how long.

He’ll be revealed as the ultimate poser - the king of the bullshit artists. And that revelation is Trump’s worst nightmare.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:49:07am

BINO

Billionaire in Name Only

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Decatur Deb  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:49:08am

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Including a player’s union.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:49:23am

Doc you are a genius for coming up with the Marquis de Fraud! ❤️

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:50:34am

The Real Corruption Risk Facing Trump

Close to mandatory reading:

…Trump needs money now—a lot of it—for both his campaign and himself, and he is not going to get it from a foreign power. He will, however, be on the hunt to rake in as much money as possible from deep-pocketed Americans. His campaign and his political platform are quite literally up for sale.

Trump’s recent reversal on TikTok is case in point. As president, Trump railed against the Chinese-owned video-meme app, going as far as to sign an executive order in 2020 to force its sale…But, as I argued last week, the most compelling argument for his reversal is simply that one of his biggest donors, billionaire Jeff Yass, owns a massive stake in TikTok’s owner, ByteDance. Trump met with Yass at Mar-a-Lago in early March, and less than two weeks later he came out against forcing the sale of the app. Yass has already spent $34 million to help elect Trump and congressional Republicans in November.

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:50:39am

re: #5 Joe Bacon ✅

Doc you are a genius for coming up with the Marquis de Fraud! ❤️

It goes with that whole faux-Versailles tackiness he’s so inexplicably fond of.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:52:01am

Trump had spent much of the GOP primary campaign insisting he was the one candidate who wouldn’t take an ax to popular entitlement programs. Indeed, his position on this issue helped him win the presidential nomination back in 2016, and surely helped again this year. Cutting Medicare and Social Security is a long-standing priority for Republican donors—but it’s deeply unpopular with the general public.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:52:47am

re: #4 Decatur Deb

Including a player’s union.

There have been some steps made in that direction but they are long overdue.

I am for something akin to a GI Bill: the athletes sign on to play for room and board for four years with the option of either studying parallel to their careers or returning later on to complete their degrees.

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jaunte  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:53:42am
03:12 - The Basic Elements of Filmmaking

#1 Use actors with talent.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:55:48am

re: #9 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There have been some steps made in that direction but they are long overdue.

I am for something akin to a GI Bill: the athletes sign on to play for room and board for four years with the option of either studying parallel to their careers or returning later on to complete their degrees.

I expect that there would be resistance to this from a number of universities since this essentially levels the recruitment playing field in that it defangs to an extent the “extras” their boosters supply on the sly. Would be nice if the NCAA embraces such an approach.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 20, 2024 • 10:59:33am

re: #11 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

I expect that there would be resistance to this from a number of universities since this essentially levels the recruitment playing field in that it defangs to an extent the “extras” their boosters supply on the sly. Would be nice if the NCAA embraces such an approach.

They want to maintain the illusion of the “student athlete” which has gone the way of the Gentleman Yeoman Farmer: a fine ideal but no longer a reflection of reality.

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lawhawk  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:00:17am
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Dr Lizardo  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:05:39am

re: #10 jaunte

#1 Use actors with talent.

And if you don’t have actors with talent (or maybe unpolished actors) get a good director who knows how to get a solid performance from said actors.*

Case in point: Conan the Barbarian (1982). Say what you will about John Milius, but his direction (and uncredited screenplay re-write) created a gold-standard film for the sword-and-sorcery genre, one that inspired a whole slew of knock-offs from the four corners of the Earth.

*I’d add that casting Max von Sydow and James Earl Jones - two acting heavyweights - also really helped, especially Jones as cult leader Thulsa Doom, as that gave the audiences a great charismatic villain that elevated the tone of the movie overall.

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jaunte  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:07:55am

re: #13 lawhawk

What to Know About Anti-Vaccine Math

“…How do you get a number like 72?

You can boost your count to make it look scarier by counting the DTaP, MMR, and Tdap vaccines as three separate vaccines each, even though they aren’t available as individual vaccines anymore.

To boost the Vaccine Doses for Children a bit more, they add pregnancy doses too. They leave out all of the doses kids got in the 1960s to make it look scarier too…
This trick of anti-vaccine math quickly turns these 8 shots into “24 doses.”
vaxopedia.org

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EstebanTornado1963  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:08:51am

And he lied again at the end of the clip as well

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:18:18am

re: #16 EstebanTornado1963

And he lied again at the end of the clip as well

By 2028 he will be able to dismiss all those contradictory clips as AI Deep Fakes

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Dr. Matt  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:31:37am

Lather.Rinse.Repeat

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:38:11am

re: #14 Dr Lizardo

And if you don’t have actors with talent (or maybe unpolished actors) get a good director who knows how to get a solid performance from said actors.*

Case in point: Conan the Barbarian (1982). Say what you will about John Milius, but his direction (and uncredited screenplay re-write) created a gold-standard film for the sword-and-sorcery genre, one that inspired a whole slew of knock-offs from the four corners of the Earth.

*I’d add that casting Max von Sydow and James Earl Jones - two acting heavyweights - also really helped, especially Jones as cult leader Thulsa Doom, as that gave the audiences a great charismatic villain that elevated the tone of the movie overall.

With a bad script, a bevy of A-listers won’t make it watchable. A bad director can turn a decent script and good actors into hash.

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darthstar  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:40:00am

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:45:13am

re: #18 Dr. Matt

Bar to the umpteenth degree.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:45:55am

In Havana syndrome patients, NIH scientists find no physical trace of harm

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Charles  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:49:06am

re: #8 The Ghost of a Flea

Anyone who votes for Trump because they believe he won’t mess with Social Security is a goddamned idiot.

If he gets elected, all of that shit will be on the chopping block.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:52:05am

re: #23 Charles

Anyone who votes for Trump because they believe he won’t mess with Social Security is a goddamned idiot.

If he gets elected, all of that shit will be on the chopping block.

He’s even said it out loud, for fuck’s sake! I have to seriously question anyone who believes he won’t completely gut Social Security and Medicare because, “Oh, he doesn’t really mean that, he’s just saying outrageous things to pwn the libs.” He is mendacious in many ways, but not in politics; when he says he wants to do something, no matter how stupid, he follows through. Often with disastrous results.

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DodgerFan1988  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:54:45am


Coming to MAGA America.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:54:54am

re: #23 Charles

Anyone who votes for Trump because they believe he won’t mess with Social Security is a goddamned idiot.

If he gets elected, all of that shit will be on the chopping block.

I’m shocked that Koch isn’t funding trump for that alone. That’s his White Whale.

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Teukka  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:55:35am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:56:30am

re: #23 Charles

Anyone who votes for Trump because they believe he won’t mess with Social Security is a goddamned idiot.

If he gets elected, all of that shit will be on the chopping block.

And a sizable proportion of the maga base are dependent on so many of the programs that Donnie plans to chop.

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jaunte  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:57:50am

Making attorneys get attorneys get attorneys get attorneys…

Pro-Trump attorney arrested after court hearing about leaked Dominion emails

“…Lambert had access to the Dominion files because she represents former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who is being sued for defamation by the voting company over his 2020 election lies. As part of the case, they have access to “discovery” from Dominion, whose lawyers said they have already turned over more than a million documents.

Lambert attended a hearing Monday in Byrne’s defamation case in Washington, DC, but was never seen leaving the courtroom, and questions swirled among the other attorneys about whether she had been taken into custody.

The judge told Lambert to stay behind as the hearing wrapped up. The other attorneys left the courtroom, and two federal marshals then went inside and locked the doors. Lambert was never seen exiting the courtroom. The marshals declined to say whether they arrested her, and she didn’t answer messages seeking comment after the hearing.”

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:58:55am

re: #23 Charles

Anyone who votes for Trump because they believe he won’t mess with Social Security is a goddamned idiot.

If he gets elected, all of that shit will be on the chopping block.

I think if we look at what he did in office, it’s clear that the populism never actually translated into policy, largely because he’s a bullshitter and most of what actually got passed and signed was done by the exact people who’ve been pushing conservative policy for years.

Now that he’s more desperate, he’s going to be even more for sale: he’s seeking patrons like other right wing personalities, and translating their preferences into his successful style of rhetoric.

It’s all kind of horrifying, because he’s not even a break from conventional Republican policy—advance oligarchy—just a different methodology to achieve the same Francoist ends.

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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Mar 20, 2024 • 11:59:09am

re: #19 sizzzzlerz

With a bad script, a bevy of A-listers won’t make it watchable. A bad director can turn a decent script and good actors into hash.

Oh my yes. Look at what was done with “Long Kiss Goodnight.” One of the great scripts of the 90s, a layered look at the dichotomy between a loving mom & wife, and an absolutely psychopathic assassin. Geena Davis, Brian Cox & Samuel L. Jackson did the best they could, but Renny Harlin had the directing touch of a bricklayer.

Just couldn’t direct an emotional scene, so he rushed through all the character development and chemistry between Geena & Sam, to get to scenes where Shit Blows Up.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:01:20pm

re: #27 Teukka

[Embedded content]

There is not a Nazi problem on Xitter because he doesn’t see Nazis as a problem. See? No problem.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:02:31pm

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The Ghost of a Flea  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:03:41pm

re: #28 Dr. Matt

And a sizable proportion of the maga base are dependent on so many of the programs that Donnie plans to chop.

Somewhere in here we get into modern variants of “the socialism of fools” that conservatives often use.

The way you get people to vote for these cuts is to not only convince them that their ox will not be gored, but once “the bad people” that get too much undeserved money are excised from redistribution…and punished with great extractive burdens…then the system will work as intended.

Trump’s now just an ad putting a personal spin on the existing conservative messaging he’s been handed a script for.

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lawhawk  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:04:54pm

re: #23 Charles

Anyone who votes for Trump because they believe he won’t mess with Social Security is a goddamned idiot.

If he gets elected, all of that shit will be on the chopping block.

Doubly so if the GOP takes the Senate and holds the House.

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Teukka  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:04:55pm

re: #33 Joe Bacon ✅

[Embedded content]

“Marjorie, it shows…”

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jaunte  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:05:42pm


wonkette.com

Pete Sessions pretending to be a serious investigator.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:06:33pm

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jaunte  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:06:58pm

Sessions needs to change his look before some fanatic mistakes him for Mike Pence.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:07:43pm

re: #37 jaunte

[Embedded content]

wonkette.comPete Sessions pretended to be a serious investigator.

HEY PETE! WHAT’S IT LIKE TO BE OUTTED AS A RUSSIAN PROXY?

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:08:29pm

OMG It’s B.B. Lincoln!

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:12:19pm

He can’t make the bond…and the motherfather is raising $$$ from that!

Trump Fundraising Off His Inability to Pay Fraud Bond

Rolling Stone: “Once upon a time, long before he set his sights on the White House, Donald Trump leveraged his massive real estate empire into a braggadocious reality TV show called The Apprentice. The show’s bombastic theme song sang ‘money, money, money, money,’ at viewers over shots of Trump’s New York properties, private planes, and helicopters.”

“Now, two decades after the show first premiered, the former president is begging his followers to fork over cash in order to preserve the assets on which he built his throne.”

Screamed one text mesage: “KEEP YOUR FILTHY HANDS OFF TRUMP TOWER!”

politicalwire.com

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:14:16pm

I did something yesterday that I knew was wrong (probably) and am still having anxiety.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:19:05pm

re: #39 jaunte

Sessions needs to change his look before some fanatic mistakes him for Mike Pence.

And try to hang him. Finish the thought.

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:19:25pm

re: #42 Joe Bacon ✅

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:20:29pm

re: #45 Patricia Kayden

More like BICO - Billionaire In Claims Only.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:21:00pm

re: #45 Patricia Kayden

BINGO

Bullshitter
In
Neccessary
Grifting
Operation

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:25:01pm

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mmmirele  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:25:19pm

I guess this didn’t get posted here, but on Monday, my state senator, Eva Burch (D-Mesa), announced on the AZ Senate floor that she was getting an abortion for an unviable pregnancy. The Republicans there apparently made themselves very busy as she spelled out what a pain in the ass AZ law makes getting an abortion.

The AP did an interview:

apnews.com

I admire her for speaking up. She’s also a nurse practitioner, so has more experience than most of the rest of the AZ Lege.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:32:46pm

Uh oh!

Prince Harry Lawyers Accuse New WaPo Boss and Murdoch of Hacking Cover-Up

Lawyers repping Harry and Hugh Grant allege Murdoch, WaPo publisher Will Lewis, and News U.K. boss Rebekah Jones were all personally part of the phone-hacking scandal.

A group of British public figures, including Prince Harry and Hugh Grant, on Wednesday sought to amend their phone-hacking lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) and rope in some of the company’s current and former top executives—including Murdoch himself and Will Lewis, the new publisher of The Washington Post.

Lawyers for the Duke of Sussex, Grant, and the other claimants alleged on Wednesday that Murdoch, along with Lewis and News U.K. CEO Rebekah Brooks were personally aware of efforts to cover up the company’s yearslong phone-hacking scandal at News of the World and The Sun. The amendments sought to include them in the lawsuit, along with numerous former journalists, executives, and private investigators.

The group raised their allegations as part of their lawsuit against the company over the alleged phone hackings between the late 1990s and 2016. The case is expected to go to trial in January 2025, nearly a year after Harry settled a similar lawsuit against the Daily Mirror’s publisher. The decision to name Lewis in the lawsuit was first reported by Byline Investigates.

thedailybeast.com

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Mike Lamb  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:34:33pm

re: #9 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There have been some steps made in that direction but they are long overdue.

I am for something akin to a GI Bill: the athletes sign on to play for room and board for four years with the option of either studying parallel to their careers or returning later on to complete their degrees.

That’s basically the system prior to the seismic changes regarding Name, Image, and Likeness payments

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:34:34pm

community notes strikes again:

bsky.app

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:39:35pm

re: #41 Joe Bacon ✅

OMG It’s B.B. Lincoln!

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And who taught Ol’ Abe to shred? That’s right! Keith Richards.

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jaunte  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:40:54pm

Bobulinski must mean prolix bullshitter in some slavic language.
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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:43:46pm

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:46:17pm

re: #55 Joe Bacon ✅

Yeah right excuses excuses.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:47:14pm

Wait!

Did I hear that right—Jamie moved to subpoena the Little Lord Privy Steal Jared????

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jaunte  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:50:06pm

re: #57 Joe Bacon ✅

And Jared Moskowitz just challenged Comer to call for impeachment today, rubbing their noses in the fact that the whole investigation is strictly for show, and they’ll never get there.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:50:28pm

re: #51 Mike Lamb

That’s basically the system prior to the seismic changes regarding Name, Image, and Likeness payments

I doubt, very much, ballers who leave school to try and make it in the pros, would ever return to finish their degree. Whether successful or not. And I also don’t think the schools would want them to. If successful, they’ll have more money than they’ll ever need and, if they couldn’t make the pros, what will a degree in general education or sports science do for them.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:53:14pm

just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water…

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:53:45pm

re: #24 Nerdy Fish

He’s even said it out loud, for fuck’s sake! I have to seriously question anyone who believes he won’t completely gut Social Security and Medicare because, “Oh, he doesn’t really mean that, he’s just saying outrageous things to pwn the libs.” He is mendacious in many ways, but not in politics; when he says he wants to do something, no matter how stupid, he follows through. Often with disastrous results.

In other words, the leopard will never eat their faces

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:54:46pm

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gocart mozart  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:54:52pm
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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:55:31pm

Criswell Bacon wondering how many times Sean Insanity called his lawyer today…

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:55:52pm

“You can’t handle the truth, Mr. Gaetz” - Lev Parnas.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:55:53pm

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Nojay UK  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:57:16pm

re: #59 sizzzzlerz

I doubt, very much, ballers who leave school to try and make it in the pros, would ever return to finish their degree. Whether successful or not. And I also don’t think the schools would want them to. If successful, they’ll have more money than they’ll ever need and, if they couldn’t make the pros, what will a degree in general education or sports science do for them.

My alma mater was one of the first in the UK to offer degree-level courses in sports management. I talked to a couple of the students taking the course, they were people like an aspiring Olympic-level cyclist and someone whose family business was in operating sports facilities.

The curriculum seemed focussed on finance and contracts etc. rather than the care and feeding of aspiring pro athletes. Teaching young college athletes about such dangerous things as contracts and financial deals before they sign up for the big leagues and go swimming with the money-shark agents would be good for them, but not so good for the big leagues and the agents.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 20, 2024 • 12:58:39pm

Mastodon

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:01:05pm

re: #68 Backwoods Sleuth

Live cat is thinking I better behave or they will turn me into pottery.

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:03:19pm

Marcy Wheeler AKA Emptywheel is just picking fights and insulting random ppl on bluesky who weren’t even talking to her. I used to really respect her info retrieval skills.

Now she’s going borderline stalker for her followers to go pile on Garland critics. She’s busy insulting me right now for suggesting that a given fact pattern can be open to multiple interpretation models. Eh.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:03:21pm

re: #19 sizzzzlerz

As noted in the credits of Deadpool, “Written by: The Real Heroes Here.”

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:03:56pm

re: #67 Nojay UK

My alma mater was one of the first in the UK to offer degree-level courses in sports management. I talked to a couple of the students taking the course, they were people like an aspiring Olympic-level cyclist and someone whose family business was in operating sports facilities.

The curriculum seemed focussed on finance and contracts etc. rather than the care and feeding of aspiring pro athletes. Teaching young college athletes about such dangerous things as contracts and financial deals before they sign up for the big leagues and go swimming with the money-shark agents would be good for them, but not so good for the big leagues and the agents.

I could have been more explicit. I’m referring almost completely to college baseball, football and basketball players. With a few exceptions, they aren’t in school to get a true education or to play for the alma mater. First off, they don’t have time for a serious education and, second, their only focus is on impressing the pro scouts. All the other college sports programs don’t require the same level of commitment.

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Axolotl  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:06:41pm

re: #286 Axolotl

Lucifer’s Hammer was really enjoyable back in the day. If I recall, the religiuos fundamentalists tried to take over after the comet strike but were beaten back by the scientists.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:09:49pm

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Scottish Dragon  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:10:24pm

re: #73 Axolotl

Yeah, I thought it was much of a dig on religious fundies rather than inner city POC. It did have an overabundance of the “COMPETENT WHITE GUY PROTAGONIST” science fiction trope TBF

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:10:58pm

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:11:46pm

re: #70 Scottish Dragon

Marcy Wheeler AKA Emptywheel is just picking fights and insulting random ppl on bluesky who weren’t even talking to her. I used to really respect her info retrieval skills.

Now she’s going borderline stalker for her followers to go pile on Garland critics. She’s busy insulting me right now for suggesting that a given fact pattern can be open to multiple interpretation models. Eh.

I was never a fan of hers, after the whole bmaz situation came out. I find myself somewhat unsurprised that things are headed in this direction.

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sagehen  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:19:05pm

re: #72 sizzzzlerz

I could have been more explicit. I’m referring almost completely to college baseball, football and basketball players. With a few exceptions, they aren’t in school to get a true education or to play for the alma mater. First off, they don’t have time for a serious education and, second, their only focus is on impressing the pro scouts. All the other college sports programs don’t require the same level of commitment.

A guy I went to high school with, played for Stanford and earned an undergrad degree; then he played for the 49ers for 8 years while attending Stanford Medical School in the off-season. After which he asked the niners to please trade him to the team in the city where he got his internship… he’s now a board-certified specialist in family medicine, and has two Super Bowl rings.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:21:44pm

Mastodon

Nine Republicans voted “nay”, including my asshat congresscritter Massie.

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Axolotl  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:23:38pm

re: #75 Scottish Dragon

Yeah, I thought it was much of a dig on religious fundies rather than inner city POC. It did have an overabundance of the “COMPETENT HANSOM WHITE GUY PROTAGONIST” science fiction trope TBF

Well it was the 70’s. Also, much (not all!) of Sci-Fi/Fantasty is wish fulfillment where the protaganist is the author’s avatar and women are props.

Don’t get me wrong, I ate the up as a kid but later in life when I re-read them with my teenage daughter we had a good laugh about it.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:25:54pm

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:27:02pm

re: #78 sagehen

A guy I went to high school with, played for Stanford and earned an undergrad degree; then he played for the 49ers for 8 years while attending Stanford Medical School in the off-season. After which he asked the niners to please trade him to the team in the city where he got his internship… he’s now a board-certified specialist in family medicine, and has two Super Bowl rings.

Sure, it happens. There are a lot of very smart athletes who do make it to the pros and they do go on to have successful lives once they retire. But there are thousands of players who believe they have the skills and just need a couple years to show them off. Those dreams are mostly short-lived and they’re left with nothing to fall back on.

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:29:33pm

re: #81 Joe Bacon ✅

lol. And you believe that I got some beautiful riverfront land I want to sell you.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:31:26pm

I still have a strong suspicion Trump will miraculously come up with the money just before the deadline.

I mean think about it: If you had the means, you could really turn the screws on him over the weekend and get all kinds of concessions befor you pull the trigger and give him what he wants.

That said, I do hope that doesn’t happen and the fucker has to admit he’s broke.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:32:03pm

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PhillyPretzel ✅  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:32:10pm

re: #84 Eclectic Cyborg

That is a possibility.

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Charles  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:40:56pm

Trump’s Epic Struggle to Pay His $454 Million Fraud Penalty | The New Republic

newrepublic.com

tl;dr Trump is fucked.

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Hecuba's daughter  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:41:14pm

re: #78 sagehen

A guy I went to high school with, played for Stanford and earned an undergrad degree; then he played for the 49ers for 8 years while attending Stanford Medical School in the off-season. After which he asked the niners to please trade him to the team in the city where he got his internship… he’s now a board-certified specialist in family medicine, and has two Super Bowl rings.

There was also Alan Page, who got a law degree while playing for the Vikings and subsequently became a judge.

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gocart mozart  Mar 20, 2024 • 1:42:03pm
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Markm1960  Mar 20, 2024 • 3:06:56pm

re: #88 Hecuba’s daughter

There was also Alan Page, who got a law degree while playing for the Vikings and subsequently became a judge.

Bob Thomas of the Bears appeared a law degree. I believe he also became a judge at some point.


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