Ribs & Brisket

Expert project juggler, lover of life, journeyman puzzler, and smoker of meats (those are ribs in my profile pic)

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

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[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@TonyBabel Crap, yesterday was super busy at work - is this one all done? I love your work, and I'm collecting whatever I can!

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Real story:

Judge was about to throw out the case bc Trump controls both parties.

Before it’s dismissed, Trump tells both parties to reach a “settlement.”

Settlement shields Trump from any future audit and creates a secret slush fund that can dole out money to anyone with no transparency.

Mind-boggling corruption.

@SpeakerJohnson - you may not know it, but your job is to conduct oversight of the admin. You can’t run away from this one.

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@LateRoundQB That's an elite response about people being bored, hot damn!

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@ffdataroma @FantasyPtsData Any chance you can add in 2023 and then also break it down by targets per route run by player per position? I'm just saying that if I have choices between AJB, Smith, and Dotson, Dotson isn't going to get many of those targets....

Last year also feels fluky overall IMO.

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@EPatGolf Did anyone know he might have an injury coming into this?

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@DKDFStrength @TheMasters I'm definitely going to try! Best of luck to you as well this week!

PS - I really hope Hatton and Spaun are as low-owned as you project as those are some of my guys this week.

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@DKDFStrength @TheMasters That makes sense, and thanks for the thoughtful answer!

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@ThePME @Underdog I can't find miss cut options on @DKSportsbook. What absolute cowards.

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@PGASplits101 I'm hoping to backtest some of these categories against T-10 finishes (so I'm not just looking to predict the winner). Is there an easy way to grab historical data for something like last-7 events before the Masters or do I need to build out a whole DB with results from each? Ty!

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@ThePME Any chance you can share how you pulled this data? I'm hoping to recreate something similar but to predict making the cut instead, and I'm finding it difficult to rebuild things like top-10 in at least 1 of 3 events before Augusta, unless I'm going to have to recreate all events?

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@splashsports @RickRunGood Done!

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@splashsports @RickRunGood RICK

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@fantasynational qq for you - if I subscribe for a weekly sub today to get started on my Master's research, will that last until next Wednesday? Or how does the weekly sub work? Thanks!

[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

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[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

@EtherBubu We will see if this is actually worth anything. Doubtful, but the allure of free money is nice...

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[Ribs & Brisket @RogueGremlin]

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