NoSoma

Exiled Critical Thinker

[NoSoma @NoToTheSoma]

“One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them”—Huxley

[John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. @MrJohnJnr]

Michigan 2020 election worker found that EVERY Military Ballot that was logged into the system had a birthday of 1/1/1900.

When she asked the election supervisor to challenge the military ballots, she replied, "We're not doing that."

The 2020 election was stolen.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

To the public, Hunter Biden’s laptop, Russiagate, and Hillary’s email server appeared to be separate and unrelated events. But they never were. In fact, the best way to understand them is as a single, decade-long FBI operation to deceive the American people.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

These are the changes in R*PE statistics over 25 years...

Guess which countries have an illegal immigration problem and which don't

[John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. @MrJohnJnr]

There was never a water main break at the Georgia State Farm Arena during the 2020 election. It was a diversion tactic to commit fraud. But there was some of the most compelling election fraud ever caught on video.

There was over 1.7 MILLION original ballot images missing in the GA 2020 election, which prevented a proper audit and the authentication of ballots, covering up the fraud.

There were thousands of duplicate and fraudulent ballots, all with the same exact marks, and signatures, and video of the same stacks of fraudulent ballots being run through election machines all throughout the night until Joe Biden cleared the margin of victory.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Chauvin followed protocol. The suspect died of an overdose. That suspect was black. The woke mob hated Trump. It was the middle of lockdowns. The mob was stressed and wanted blood. The justice system facilitated the lynching. It wasn't Floyd who was lynched. It was Derek Chauvin.

[James Wolff @TolleEnthusiast]

I haven’t really talked about this yet, but I kind of feel obligated to put out a post about it, so here’s my take:

First, please understand this is an MLB take, not a Red Sox take. I’m saying this as a baseball fan, not as a Red Sox fan complaining about the Dodgers. This does NOT excuse Red Sox ownership whatsoever. Boston is a massive-market team with plenty of money, and I’ve criticized ownership plenty for not spending like one.

As someone who DOESN’T want a salary cap, what’s coming out about the Dodgers leaves an absolutely disgusting taste in my mouth.

For YEARS, we’ve heard the same argument about the Dodgers: This is what good ownership looks like. Every team could do this. Your owner is just cheap.

And now we’re learning it apparently wasn’t that simple.

Roughly $1.45 BILLION in debt tied to the Dodgers’ media operation is reportedly held by insurance companies connected to their own ownership group. The structure potentially allows money to remain within that ownership ecosystem while reducing the net TV revenue subject to MLB revenue sharing.

Think about what that potentially means.

We spent years being told every team could operate like the Dodgers. Meanwhile, other teams realistically could NOT replicate this structure, and the Dodgers may have actually been reducing the amount of their TV money being shared with those same teams while building the financial machine that helped support their unprecedented spending.

And this is where I have a major problem with the national baseball media.

Jeff Passan. Ken Rosenthal. Jon Heyman. Bob Nightengale. These are some of the biggest and most influential reporters covering this sport.

I am NOT accusing any of them of knowing this was happening (Well Passan maybe not sure if anyone else saw that report).

But now that these reports ARE out, where is everybody?

Because after YEARS of discussion about the Dodgers’ spending, competitive balance, deferred contracts and whether other owners should simply follow LA’s example, I cannot understand how something potentially this significant isn't dominating the conversation.

And I have a really hard time believing that if allegations this serious emerged and supported the opposite side of this debate, they would be met with this level of silence.

If we learned that smaller-market owners had potentially constructed some elaborate financial structure to artificially make themselves look poorer, collect more revenue-sharing money and justify refusing to spend, does anyone seriously believe baseball media would just shrug and move along?

They’d be getting DESTROYED. And frankly, they should be.

That same scrutiny needs to apply here.

And after years of being told everyone else could simply “do what the Dodgers do,” this leaves an incredibly disgusting taste in my mouth.

[The Yankees Realist ™️ @YankeesRealist]

Where you at?

@JeffPassan @JonHeyman @Joelsherman1 @Ken_Rosenthal @BNightengale

This is the biggest story in sports and you’re not even covering it? Have some integrity smh.

[𝕊𝕠𝕝𝕒 ℂ𝕙𝕒𝕕 🎚️ @sola_chad]

Kinda wild actually.

[Farai Mazhindu @FaraiMazhindu]

When the ANC assumed power in 1994, they inherited the most sophisticated economic engine on the African continent.

They were handed a deep-water port network, a highly complex rail system that efficiently moved freight from the interior to the coast, an integrated national power grid that generated some of the cheapest electricity in the world, and a professional, rule-bound civil service.

That system possessed underlying engineering and administrative principles that were globally competitive.

The historical task of the new government was simple: maintain the existing engineering standards, scale the capacity to include the black majority, and expand the productive tax base.

Instead, the ANC executed a 30 year masterclass in structural vandalism.

They introduced cadre deployment, incompetence, corruption, and political impunity, systematically replacing competent engineers, financial auditors, and institutional administrators with politically loyal party hacks.

The results are not ideological; they are physical.

It takes centuries of capital accumulation, spatial planning, and disciplined maintenance to build an interconnected civilization, but it takes only a few decades of deliberate neglect to destroy it.

You can see the rot in real-time.

The ultimate tragedy is that the liberation movement successfully decoupled its survival from the material reality of the country.

The ANC did not "decolonize" South Africa; they simply consumed its foundational capital.

They proved that an elite equipped with nothing but liberation slogans and an insatiable appetite for state contracts can liquidate 300 years of built infrastructure in just three decades, leaving the next generation to inherit a broken, unmanageable corpse.

[Ami Kozak @amiKozak]

Math is SUS. 🤯

[Sarah Fields @SarahisCensored]

🚨Karmelo Anthony Update - Prosecution - “A lot of people have asked why Karmelo Anthony took a knife to a track meet?” “those reason were captured in our 404 motion”

On the morning that Karmelo stabbed Austin, Karmelo’s ex girlfriend went to the assistant principal saying she “broke up with Karmelo and he was stalking her”

A text is then shown from Anthony that says “I’m lowkey on the verge” the morning of the stabbing and emphasized it.

He also threatened her with a knife in one message and told her in another text "when I stab somebody I'm gonna lick their blood off the blade".

I warned a long time ago that they did not want to open up Karmelo’s history. But this is what you pushed for.

And I know from MY MULTIPLE sources that there is SO much more. Behavior.. AND texts on his phone that go back for years.

[Montreal Expos @Montreal_Expos]

Work to bring back the Expos is temporarily on hold while we start up several life insurance companies

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

Watch how many times @paleochristcon had to ask Candace Owens whether Lance Twiggs’ DNA was found on Tyler Robinson’s rifle during the debate - a claim she was lying about up until a week before the debate.

Candace herself admits she realized the claim was wrong - so why didn’t she correct it for her audience?

It took a $300,000 paycheck in the form of a debate with Andrew Wilson - and being confronted with the same question over and over again - but it was only at the point of Wilson going to play a clip of her saying it that she finally acknowledge that what she had been telling her audience was wrong.

The most hilarious part? On her show today, Candace declared that she’s all about accountability and admitting to her audience when she makes mistakes.

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

Just to add a bit to my Mark Walter and Ohtani post:

"The MLB CBA does make LA pre-fund the deferrals, But go read the actual rule: that money is “subject to the claims of the Club’s general creditors.” It’s not a real escrow. If the team goes bankrupt, it’s in the estate and Ohtani’s just another creditor."

None of this is a prediction just feel like this whole Dodgers, Lakers, Mark Walter story is crazy. He helped spend money at Chelsea the same way too.

[Garbage Human @GarbageHuman24]

Another sad factor in the whole episode was Chauvin immediately called in for an ambulance when Floyd started complaining.

The ambulance was about three minutes away but when they drove by they worried for their safety because of the crowd, so they went and parked somewhere for 17 minutes.

Floyd was on the ground for 9 minutes. If not for the crowd freaking out over a lawful arrest Floyd would have OD'd in the back of the ambulance and Derek Chauvin would still be eating donuts instead of prison hoodslop today.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

If your empathy is dictated by race, it isn't empathy....it's racism.

[Shazi @ShaziGoalie]

Basically, the Dodgers’ owners appear to have created a closed financial loop within their own system. Their TV network borrowed about $1.45 billion from insurance companies connected to the same ownership circle. The network pays interest to those insurers, while that interest expense reportedly reduces the TV income counted for MLB revenue sharing. They’ve also deferred over $1 billion in player salaries, freeing up cash to spend today. So they control the team, parts of the TV business and much of the financing, with money and debt circulating inside the same ecosystem. That’s how they can keep carrying a massive payroll other teams can’t match.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed.

The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer.

That is the truth.

[Amiri King @AmiriKing]

They opened a KFC in Africa and it goes exactly how you think it would.

I’m not even making this up.

[Milo Hamilton’s Microphone @MicrophoneMilo]

Jeff Passan suddenly lives under a rock.

Why isn’t the leading reporter for @MLB talking about what looks like a major financial scandal for the sport’s crown jewel, the Los Angeles #Dodgers ??