Logan 🇺🇸

Live and let live ✞ #Gamecocks #FlyEaglesFly #ForTheA

[Mark Valorian @markvalorian]

Once you fully debunk the “technical justification,” the argument against Balogun’s reinstatement collapses to an irrational cling to normalcy:

“This has never happened before, therefore it is unfair.”

I can understand the gut reaction, but this is just as fundamentally illogical as the technical justification.

If we concede the red card was undeserved, why is it a bad thing for FIFA to adapt and correct a wrong? Is it preferable to deliberately allow an unjustified suspension to be carried out?

And why is it fundamentally unfair for this to be the first time they do it anyways? There is “legal” precedent; FIFA has the documented ability to review disciplinary measures and suspensions. Just because this scenario happened to play out at this stage of the tournament doesn’t change the fact that the red card was totally undeserved.

If there were another immediate example in this tournament of an egregiously incorrect card being applied that was NOT corrected by FIFA, then there would be an issue. But as it stands, there is simply no rational argument for why this should not be the first.

Of course, when you boil it down, the argument is not really about either the technical justification or the normalcy, but more that it’s just the USA that is the beneficiary. And I’m sorry to say, but if that is driving your sentiment, you need to get over yourself.

The facts of the matter are clear: this was an unjustified red card that should have been corrected, regardless of the team it was applied to. FIFA absolutely made the right decision, and the game and tournament is better for it.

[Logan 🇺🇸 @LD_in_SC]

Let'sss gooooo America! #USMNT

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Openly gay comedian Tim Dillon asks Joe Rogan how his bank and his favorite sports team coming out as gay are making his life any better.

DILLON: "Why do the Padres have to wear gay uniforms? That doesn't make any sense to me."

"As a gay person, I never said why I need the Padres to be gay."

"Why is Citibank gay? Why is Chase gay?"

"Why does this help anyone that a corporation is trans? Why is Chobani Yogurt trans? What's the point of this? Does this get people healthcare? Does this make people happy?"

ROGAN: "It makes some people happy."

DILLON: "It makes some people happy that I worry about because I just don't understand, and it makes more people angry."

DILLON: "That's why gay marriage has lost 11 points in support. More people are annoyed."

"When did my bank come out as gay? And I'm okay with it, but could somebody have told me, what are we doing? This doesn't make anybody's life better."

"You're shoving a worldview down someone's throat."

He says it was supposed to increase acceptance. But actually, it does the exact opposite…

[Logan 🇺🇸 @LD_in_SC]

@T0P8D @FlipFlip Was wondering same thing. I just left there and it is as bare as it was last week.. and the week before lol

[The Driven Man @Thedrivenman]

The older you get, the more this makes sense

[Logan 🇺🇸 @LD_in_SC]

Wow

[The Reddy Room @thereddyroom]

The Real Reason South Carolina Roads Are So Bad

For years the people of South Carolina have been told that our road problem is a funding problem. Raise the gas tax. Increase the fees. Send more money to Columbia. That has been the consistent answer from politicians who have no idea how to confront the real problem.

We have raised taxes. We have increased revenue. We have poured billions into SCDOT. Yet we have the worst roads in America. It makes no sense at all, until you dig deeper.

DOGESC recently completed a full audit of SCDOT regulations using artificial intelligence to examine every provision line by line. We reviewed 78 regulations containing 913 separate provisions. Each provision was classified as either explicitly required by statute, expanded beyond statutory intent, or entirely unauthorized under state or federal law.

Only 3.1% of SCDOT regulations were explicitly mandated by statute or federal law.

60% expanded statutory mandates beyond what lawmakers clearly authorized, relying on vague language to justify broader regulatory control.

37% were outright unauthorized, untethered from any clear statutory authority.

That means 97% of SCDOT’s regulatory framework either stretches beyond what the legislature approved or operates without clear legal foundation.

When nearly the entire regulatory structure of a major agency exists in that condition, the issue is not potholes. The issue is a complete disregard for the separation of powers created by our founders 250 years ago. They built the system to keep power in check. Here in South Carolina the legislature has taken all power and built an agency state with unchecked power. Your life is being controlled by unelected bureaucrats who think it's their job to go after the citizen. They create regulation with the force of law and those regulations stay on the books forever because there is no sunset provisions. The result is a massive agency that no one really runs and no one knows how to fix.

When projects fail, who do you fire? When costs escalate, who answers? When we remain at the bottom year after year, who owns it?

The buck stops nowhere.

One hundred seventy legislators cannot manage a multibillion-dollar infrastructure operation. Committees cannot execute complex logistics. Boards diffuse power. Bureaucracies expand their reach. Our audit shows how that expansion occurs - provision by provision, rule by rule, until agency authority quietly exceeds statutory boundaries.

Until SCDOT is placed clearly under executive control, until we have a cabinet level individual who understands construction management reporting to a Governor who understands the role of CEO, we will not make progress. Today SCDOT is managed by a 9-member commission, 8 of whom are appointed by the Legislature and the 9th who is the Transportation Secretary is picked by the 8. The roads , of course, remain a mess and the politicians keep asking for more of our money.

Citizens cannot hold a board accountable at the ballot box. They cannot remove a regulatory provision through an election. They cannot discipline a bureaucratic structure. But they can hold one executive responsible and fire him at the ballot box for incompetence.

We have replaced self-governance with the power of an all-powerful agency state. It must and will end.

— Rom Reddy

[Logan 🇺🇸 @LD_in_SC]

@Ladyclarkbars @JonnyRoot_ Grow tf up

[PFT Commenter @PFTCommenter]

USA USA USA USA USA FREEBIRD USA WERE NUMBER INE HOCKEY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

What a fucking game. Sports are the best. America is the best

[CBS Sports @CBSSports]

USA MEN'S HOCKEY TAKES GOLD IN OVERTIME

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

LET’S FUCKING GOOOOOO

OLYMPIC GOLD MEDAL COMES HOME

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[Logan 🇺🇸 @LD_in_SC]

@FurkanGozukara Wow. Pretty bad

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

This hits really hard! 😢

[Logan 🇺🇸 @LD_in_SC]

@ChristinaPushaw I'm not gonna pretend I couldn't understand a single word and was not impressed with the production value lol

[LibertyJ @LibertyJen]

Never thought about it this way.

[Logan 🇺🇸 @LD_in_SC]

@jonathanrwall SM 11

[Logan 🇺🇸 @LD_in_SC]

@Rainmaker1973 Hell yeah

[South Carolina Football @GamecockFB]

Battle Armor ⚔️

[South Carolina Football @GamecockFB]

Focus. Fight. Win.