Michael Wrobel, Jr

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[Ryan Ripken @ryanripkenshow]

"I've never seen a window close so fast. I mean, when they won 101 games they look like, here they come it's going to be just like the Houston Astros... It's embarrassing to see this franchise not take off..."

@BNightengale didn't hold back when talking about the current state of the Orioles ahead of August 3rd's deadline.

[IandrewDiceClay @IANdrewDiceClay]

Here's the unedited version of the January 4th 2010 Impact, where Jeff Jarrett was sent out to be lambasted and told "Dixie Carter saved the company, you ran it into the ground."

And it backfired when the fans chanted "bullshit" and booed Hogan! Blew up in Dixie's face huge.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

"When the Roman Empire was collapsing, they instituted a system called bread and circus. Whenever shit gets really bad, you hand out free bread and you have a free circus to distract people from what's really going on. The UFC fight was the circus. They haven't handed out the bread yet"

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Mark Rutte

"You sit next to Donald Trump at moments when he talks about conquering Greenland, talks about lashing out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

[NBC Sports Philadelphia @NBCSPhilly]

Charles Barkley didn't hold back on what he thought of the Jaylen Brown trade. 😳

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Lost in the news this weekend, the Trump administration is moving forward with a wholesale gutting of the agency responsible for enforcing our gun laws.

They are ending the zero-tolerance policy that let inspectors pull the licenses of gun dealers caught breaking the law, the same policy that revoked more than 600 licenses from dealers who falsified records or skipped background checks. 

They are reinstating the gun show loophole, so private sales and gun shows no longer require background checks.

They are restoring gun access to some people with a history of mental illness. 

They are easing scrutiny on stabilizing braces, the accessories used in mass shootings to make weapons more lethal.

Even the administration’s own analysis admitted the risk. It said one change could range from minimal to, in their words, potential mass casualty events.

All of this is happening while ATF has already been hollowed out, with hundreds of its agents pulled off gun enforcement and reassigned to immigration raids.

If we take the majority in November and we will do everything possible to write these protections back into law, so no administration can quietly strip them away with the stroke of a pen again.
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[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

MTG on Trump enriching himself: "I was one of the loudest voices attacking Hunter Biden for what I perceived to be corruption while his father was president but I was really blown away [with Trump's]. Even Fox News had something to say about it and that's pretty shocking. The Trumps have made a lot of money better than ever before. It's just wrong."

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

Apparently hell has frozen over. I’m reposting Glenn Beck now.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The single richest man in America personally bankrolled the Revolution, kept Washington's army alive with his own money, and then died broke in a debtors' prison. The man who funded the country got thrown in jail for being poor. Meet Robert Morris.

If the United States has a financial founding father, it's this guy, and almost nobody knows his name.

He was born in Liverpool, England, in 1734 and came to America as a 13 year old boy. He got into the shipping business in Philadelphia and was so good at it that by 1775 he was likely the wealthiest man in all of the colonies. Ships, trade, credit, money moving everywhere. He was the money.

Here's the wild part. At first he didn't even want to declare independence. He thought it was premature and voted against rushing into it. But once the decision was made, he didn't hedge. He signed the Declaration of Independence and threw his entire fortune behind the cause.

And thank God he did, because the young country was flat broke. The army was starving, unpaid, falling apart. So Morris did something almost nobody would do. He used his own personal credit and his own personal cash to keep the war going. When Washington needed money to march on Yorktown for the campaign that basically won the war, Morris helped raise it, at times pledging his own name and fortune to cover it. He became known as the Financier of the Revolution, and it's not an exaggeration. He kept the lights on.

He's also one of only two men to sign all three of America's founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. When Washington offered to make him the very first Treasury Secretary, Morris turned it down and pointed him to a young Alexander Hamilton instead.

Now the tragedy. After the war, Morris poured everything into massive land speculation, betting enormous sums on the future of the country. The bets went bad. Spectacularly bad. He ended up owing something like three million dollars, a genuinely staggering fortune for the time.

And so, in 1798, the man who had personally financed American independence was locked in a debtors' prison in Philadelphia. He sat in that cell for years. The Financier of the Revolution, penniless, behind bars, while the country he'd funded moved on without him.

He finally got out around 1801, aided by a new bankruptcy law, and lived quietly and broke until his death in 1806.

A man who was richer than anyone, gave it to a nation, and died with nothing.

Robert Morris. He bought America's freedom and went bankrupt doing it.

[Michael Wrobel, Jr @MWrobelJr]

@lilMissBehaved3 Welcome back!

[Wrestle Ops @WrestleOps]

Sami Zayn crashes out after losing the Undisputed Title to CM Punk:

“After 24 years of crawling for every inch — after I finally get it…9 days?! That piece of sh*t can walk back in here after not being here for months? That motherf*cker.”

[Michael Wrobel, Jr @MWrobelJr]

@footnotesxo25 Let the intrigue build

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

Director Keenen Ivory Wayans waited until after shooting the rest of 'Scary Movie' (2000) before filming the opening scene with Carmen Electra because the studio kept pushing back on having her join the cast. The Studio didn't want to cast her as they thought she was cheesy. Wayans tried to explain the reason for casting her, but they didn't think she could do the role. Wayans finally asked the studio to allow him to shoot the scene & if it doesn't work out, he promised to shoot the scene with someone else.

In the words of Keenen Ivory Wayans:

"Miramax just didn't want to cast her. They didn't think she could do it. They thought she was cheesy, because—and this is no disrespect to Carmen—she was one of the first celebrities to be known more for who they were than for what they'd done, you know? But what they didn't like about Carmen was what made her perfect, and that's what I kept trying to explain.

I kept saying to them, 'Look, trust me. If it doesn't work, then we can hire somebody else, but let me at least shoot it.' And so they finally gave in, and not only was Carmen amazing and really got what was funny about her [being the target], she just committed 100 percent to it."

("Carmen Electra looks back on her iconic Scary Movie opening scene", Shirley Li, Entertainment Weekly, 2017)

P.S: On this day, 26 years ago, 'Scary Movie' (2000) was released in the USA and Canada.

[FADE @FadeAwayMedia]

LA KNIGHT WITH ANOTHER GENERATIONAL PROMO AND THE CROWD LOVED IT

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[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

Carli Lloyd not mincing words on USMNT or Christian Pulisic

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy sh*t, EVERY LAST WORD that Michael Steele said here! 🔥 🔥

He blasted trump and Republicans for trying to sell Americans a bunch of bullshit on Communism.

"Who's buddy-buddy with all the big name Communists in the world? Donald trump."

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Maybe the consultants can do a better job vetting the candidates they recruit. Especially ones who came out of nowhere. Otherwise it looks like you either knowingly scammed us for a grift, you’re willfully negligent, or grossly incompetent. The consultant class sucks. A lot.