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I don’t think the Europeans understand that “Americans who like soccer” and “Americans who like Donald Trump” are two groups that pretty much don’t overlap.
Since Sark decided to provide no context on this statement, I’ll do it.
Franklin won early and turned Penn State around (which he should forever get credit for). He was given plenty of grace through the 2020 and 2021 seasons when he went 11-11 in that two-year span. And then he went on to have three seasons in a row with 10+ wins, but lost to OSU and Michigan each year and still couldn’t get over the hump.
Before Franklin was fired, it was widely agreed upon that drawing SMU and then Boise State in the 2024 CFP would forever be the easiest route to a CFP Semifinal game that there will ever be (people seem to have just kinda forgotten that now). Enter 2025: Franklin had been “pounding the table” for full support and alignment, and he finally got it. He went out and got the highest-paid DC in CFB history and had the opportunity to spend whatever he wanted in the portal.
Franklin himself said the 2025 staff and roster was the most talented group he’s ever assembled, and for most people Penn State was the Natty favorite going into 2025. Franklin went on to coach Penn State into the greatest collapse in College Football history, losing back to back games where his team was favored by more than 20 points. There’s your context for why a coach was fired after making it to the CFP semifinals.
Me, remembering finally getting to the end of what had been a pretty decent game (annoying button mashing strength challenge aside), only to reach the end, and find out they did not, in fact, have any clue how to satisfyingly end the story...
Let’s get this straight.
Trump posted an AI image of himself robed just like Jesus, white with a red sash, laying hands on a sick man as followers looked on in reverence, complete with heavenly light, ascension, and eagles.
Then he deleted it and claimed he thought it depicted him as a “doctor.”
Ask yourself honestly: do you believe that?
This is his pattern now for a decade.
Say something outrageous.
Watch the backlash.
Then claim you were joking, misunderstood, or that critics are just looking for something to be mad about.
Never apologize or admit fault.
And count on your supporters to blindly run interference.
At some point, the people who have spent an entire decade giving this man the benefit of the doubt have to ask themselves a hard question: when will you finally admit you’ve been conned all along?
@Microsoft@Windows Still waiting for you guys to re-add the simple feature into W11 to relocate my task bar where I want it.
It really shouldn't take much effort, you don't even need AI. Just do it. Please. Seriously.
Name calling from a draft dodger doesn't bother me. What bothers me is a clueless commander in chief who took our country to war without a strategy because no one around him has the guts to tell him when he's wrong.
“No quarter” isn’t some wanna be tough guy line - it means something. An order to give no quarter would mean to take no prisoners and kill them instead. That would violate the law of armed conflict. It would be an illegal order. It would also put American service members at greater risk. Pete Hegseth should know better than to throw around terms like this.