🚨 Xabi Alonso told Real Madrid’s hierarchy in their final meeting before his departure:
“You cannot give players this much power. 😤
It’s impossible for a coach to impose authority in the dressing room when the club consistently sides with the players.”
(Source: @FabrizioRomano)
@Nancy_fcb Hey Nancy! Ah, the Supercopa final El Clásico—should be epic. Barcelona's on a 9-game win streak with strong scoring, while Real Madrid's won 5 straight but has defensive issues. Based on recent form and head-to-heads, I predict Barcelona 3-2. Enjoy the match!
Matthew Stafford
259 YDS / 4 TD / 0 INT
No QBgami.
That stat line has happened 2 times before, most recently by Mitchell Trubisky about 19 minutes ago.
I don’t remember Cristiano, Benzema, Bale, Ramos, or Marcelo leaking internal issues based on their personal opinions about Benitez. What we’re seeing now from the current squad is completely different, and that alone speaks volumes about the players we have today.
Xabi Alonso isn’t perfect, he has his faults, and he must take responsibility for them, but when it comes to desire, work ethic, focus, respect, and commitment, the players are the ones at fault. I’m not here to defend anyone, every single one of them carries responsibility.
Right now, we lack leaders. We lack personality. We lack backbone. Shame on the players who don’t work, who don’t fight, and who don’t give everything for the shirt they’re wearing.
My dear American friends,
We British Christians would get excited when, once a year, Queen Elizabeth would make a mild but sincere reference to the love of Jesus Christ in her Christmas address.
In Charlie Kirks' Memorial service, watched by tens of millions, I just heard:
- Multiple clear presentations of the gospel from men like @robmccoyus and @DrFrankTurek with clear calls to repentance and faith
- Worship songs full of Scripture sung by tens of thousands live and millions at home
- Personal testimonies of lives transformed by the work of Christ and the witness of believers
- Demonstration and explanation of the value of marriage, child-rearing and family
- Calls to Romans 13 for the government to bear the sword for the protection of good and punishment of the wicked
- Declarations of spiritual warfare on the forces of evil and promises to endure no matter the cost
- Calls to be prophets and call the nation to repent
- More Scripture references and Bible readings than I can count
- And a widow publicly forgiving her husband's killer because Christ forgave his killers on the cross.
All of it done before, and by, the most powerful people in your nation and the world.
You guys should be on your knees thanking God for your country. It is a light to the world.
Never stop fighting for it.
All the Charlie Kirk videos responding to questions should be clipped, categorized by topic, made searchable and the database made available on the @TPUSA website and also in an app for students.
He left an incredible encyclopedia of how to deal with the left and how to address all our various social and cultural issues.
I personally would like this to help make better arguments.
I wonder if @DataRepublican could help.
You know what we could all do for Charlie? Go to church this Sunday. Even if you’ve never gone, just find one, see if it seems like a values fit and go.
I didn't really know anything about Charlie Kirk
Until this week Kirk was a name and face I would occasionally see someone retweet on here and I would scroll past. I'd seen 2 or 3 short videos taken from Tiktok of him debating some low IQ college student but that was it.
I'm generally not interested in MAGA. I broadly believe in many of their goals, but find much of the rhetoric and policy implementation to be self defeating. To me Kirk was another Ben Shapiro or Tim Pool. All MAGA, all the time.
Immediately following his shooting my shock was political and societal. Another step down in what seems to be the never ending descent of American, and thus Western, society. Another sad day for free speech, no matter what you thought of the man's politics.
Then in the following hours my timeline was filled with videos of Kirk as a father, and my heart broke. I saw a man that was clearly devoted to his family and who loved them, and was loved in return, a great deal. I felt that love forever torn apart. I saw a daughter that would never run to her father and wrap her arms around him again.
The following day I saw more videos on here, and out of respect and curiosity I watched them all. Maybe they would make some sense of why someone felt the need to end this man's life and rob his children of a father. They did not.
Contrary to the tweets spreading through X as some kind of justification, what I found was a man who was deeply religious. I man that had a true belief system, and not one that he bent or shaped to fit to modern society. For example. he absolutely believed that homosexuality was a sin because that was what the bible told him, but he did not hate or think less of those people. Many of his close friends such as Peter Thiel and David Rubin were gay.
What I see when I watch the videos of Kirk is a fan of deep faith who put that faith above everything else. I see a man who treated everyone with compassion and civility. I see a man that was friendly and open and honest.
Honestly, I see a man that is braver and better than I. Not because he put himself in danger by wanted to talk to people, but by handing himself completely over to a belief system that I've never been able to get my head around. Like many of us, the idea is alien to me.
I can't say I don't watch his videos with a tinge of jealousy. What I see is a man who was completely happy. A man confident in his faith and who led his life accordingly. A man who not just believed, but acted on his belief.
At a time when so many people seem empty and depressed, it's hard not to be a little jealous of a person that seemed so fulfilled.
With this in mind, it's been incensing to see him slandered on here by people without any of the faith and none of the commitment. To see people take the man's faith and turn it into something twisted and hateful.
I knew nothing of the man in life, but I will try to listen to him more in death.
@Di9Fans Ehhh, disagree. It’s on-par with Fox, at best. Prime has both covered by a mile.
TNT used way too much on-board shots and missed massive runs at the front of the field. Also had several weird production glitches with audio and visual gaps. Onboard Audio never synched up either