James Dolan invited his friend Donald Trump to watch Game 3. In order to do that, they have to ban the organic, historically joyous parties happening outside MSG for fans who can't afford to be inside. Modern sports in a nutshell
No MSG watch party outside the Garden during the biggest game of the year because a selfish weirdo chooses to want to make himself the center of attention during a moment where the vibes have been immaculate . Y’all president is really a weirdo.
Jared Harris might be the ultimate nepotism loophole. The man is so consistently good that half the audience doesn’t even realize he’s Richard Harris’ son until someone points it out years later.
This may be unpopular, and it pains me to say it, but our build-up to this World Cup may actually be even more insufferable than England's. We slaughter them for their 3 Lions and 1966 pish, but we've got 90 Gerry Cinammon tributes and Susan Boyle on the Forth Bridge. Can we not?
Mick Foley explains why he distanced himself from WWE after their relationship with Donald Trump.
“For me, it was the comments about Rob Reiner. Just heartless. Unbelievably cruel comments coming from the most powerful man in the world finding joy in how somebody died. I don’t want to paraphrase, but belittling the man who just died, somehow tying his death into Reiner’s dislike of Donald Trump. For me, that was the ball-peen hammer tap that broke into the windshield. I just think WWE had a very cozy relationship where there was definitely the illusion of a relationship there. The perception, rather. I think when five different people are posing in the Oval Office and they’ve all received Stone Cold Stunners, that’s a little cozy. I felt like even though I wasn’t technically employed by the company, but because I had a legends deal and because my name’s been associated with WWE for over 30 years, that I was complicit in my silence. So I did speak up. I reached out to the head of talent relations, who I consider a friend, who I still write handwritten letters from Santa to every year… basically, I give up the legends deal. It runs out at the end of this month. I realized that by giving up two very easy, high paying jobs at WrestleMania week for WWE that I had to work 24 hours on my own to make what I could’ve in six, I’m okay with that. So I’m good with my decision. Everyone I think has to make a decision that’s right for them, and in my case, I just didn’t want to be in a position where my grandchildren are asking what their grandfather was doing when things were really tough. I want my children to be able to say, ‘This is what grandpa did.’ So I made the move that I thought was right for me. I love that company. I’m not going to disparage them, but it didn’t seem like a good fit. Didn’t seem like a fit that would allow me to look at myself in the mirror before I went to bed.”
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The thing that blows my mind about Palantir is they've chosen the name of a wondrous seeing stone that was secretly debased by Sauron and ended up corrupting and destroying all who used it.
“The West”, whatever the fuck that means, is not free. Revoking the visa of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur over criticism of Israel is one of the most brazen and pathetic attacks on free speech I’ve ever seen. The same idiots celebrating this authoritarianism will turn around and call you antisemitic for even pointing out that perhaps the Israel lobby has too much power. Good luck moving forward because the entire younger generation hates you, as they should.
ironic because a year ago, i delivered a speech at oxford union about the dangers of conflating judaism and zionism & how this foments antisemitism. since then the government has arrested pensioners for protesting against israel and let iof war criminals roam free!