Cesar Rodriguez

A man stumbling through life like all of us. Helping fellow men become better. Follow me!

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

Theee simple reminders for every day. Sometimes I get all three done. Got work to do!

[Kevin Heintz @AskCoachKev]

Daily Reminders:

1.) Your parents won’t be around forever. Spend more time with them

2.) Your current life is 100% your fault. Take the blame and do everything you can to achieve your dream life

3.) Somebody always has it worse. Be grateful for what you have and never complain

[Acyn @Acyn]

El-Sayed: Well, I’ll tell you this. Every time J.D. Vance opens his mouth, the first two things I can think are, man, that guy is boring. And second, Peter Thiel had to spend a ton of money to get that man elected, barely in the state of Ohio. 

But the confusing thing about it is that he thinks that there are some people who are more American than others because they can point to their Papaw who was here earlier. And my question to him is simply, why is it then, how do you look your parents-in-law in the eye and say that somehow they’re less American than you are? Because that’s what he’s implying there.

But bigger picture, this is about trying to change the channel. They’re trying to dissuade us from actually paying attention to the issues that we see laid bare when we talk about our kitchen table budget every single month.

My name and my background aren’t raising your gas prices. That’s what the Trump administration is doing. My name and my background aren’t picking trade wars to increase your costs. That’s what the Trump administration is doing. My name and my background aren’t the reason you can’t see a doctor. That’s because of the Medicaid cuts and the ACA cuts that are about to come down the pike next year because of what the Trump administration is doing.

So if you don’t want to talk about what you’re doing, that’s fine, but I encourage you to leave my name and my background out of it. This is an America that’s big enough for all of us, even if J.D. Vance doesn’t agree, except for the fact that he actually understands and benefits from the nature of immigration and the fact that we are a bigger country because we are inclusive of people who don’t have Papaws who were here 50 years ago.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: An ICE/Border Patrol agent approached a U.S. citizen at a gas station, in Lake Worth, Florida, demanded his ID, and when the U.S. citizen asked why? …

The agent’s said, “Because you’re an immigrant.”

Except that is not how the Constitution works.

In the video, the U.S. citizen is standing at a gas station when an agent walks up and says, “Let me see your ID.”

The man asks a completely reasonable question, “Why?”

The agent responds, “Because you’re an immigrant.”

And before the man has even been identified, the agents grab his hands and puts him in handcuffs.

People standing around immediately start questioning what is happening…asking the agents how they can arrest someone when they haven’t even identified who he is…

But the agents ignore them and walk the man to their vehicle.

The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. The Supreme Court has held that roving Border Patrol agents need reasonable suspicion, based on specific circumstances, to stop someone and question them about immigration status. And apparent ethnicity, by itself, is not enough.

So, what was the actual legal basis for demanding this man show his ID?

Because if the answer is literally… “because you’re an immigrant,” that should piss off every American.

You should not have to prove you’re a U.S. citizen before the government decides it has the right to put you in handcuffs.

And this is just another reminder that constitutional rights don’t mean anything if federal agents can violate them, over and over again, with no accountability.

[MAGA Cult Slayer @MAGACult2]

Explaining the save act to MAGA

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@BillSimmons Dang. Next the Dodgers are going to be sold to the Saudis (via the Kushners of course).

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@HawkEmDownChris lol, who would say Barry Bonds?

[Zoey 🌺 @Lfc_Zoey]

Cristiano Ronaldo said Real Madrid were going to three-peat the UCL.
Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez started laughing on the stage so he had to remind them he is HIM 🐐

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@VinnysCorner1

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@uttdkola Figo?

[George Jarjour @GeorgeOnTap]

The Los Angeles Lakers just sold for $12.5 billion, the most expensive sale in American sports history. And there’s some for a lack of better words, interesting connections. The seller is Mark Walter, who is under active federal investigation.

The buyer is Josh Kushner who’s brother is Donald Trump’s son in law and the man whose firm tried to buy the FIFA World Cup. The most famous franchise in sports just passed straight from a man being probed by the feds to a man who tried to privatize the world's biggest tournament. Let’s take a look at the full picture, because the full picture is ugly.

Let’s start off with some of the facts because this story is LOADED.

Mark Walter bought the Lakers 14 months ago at a $10 billion valuation. He didn't buy them to just flip them. He tore up the front office, rebuilt the scouting department, overhauled the business side, all the moves of a man planning to own this team for a decade. Then, 14 months in, he sold the Lakers?! Nobody does that. You don't buy your dream asset and unload it before you've finished redecorating, unless something changed and changed drastically.

Here's what happened. Walter is under federal investigation, a probe into the insurance companies he controls, the same case where the FBI reportedly seized his phone and laptop off a private jet at a Chicago airport. Separate investigations by U.S. prosecutors and the SEC are underway.

Now there is no proof of guilt yet. No one has pointed out for sure that the investigation forced this sale. Walter hasn't been charged with anything. The teams themselves are not named in the probe. Every serious outlet says the connection is unproven, and it is.

But you're allowed to look at the picture, and the picture is ugly. A man under federal investigation does not sell his trophy asset 14 months after buying it, at $2.5 billion above what he paid, in a matter of days, for no reason. That's not a normal exit. That's a fast, wildly profitable, remarkably clean getaway from the spotlight, executed at the precise moment the spotlight turned into a liability. You don't liquidate the Los Angeles Lakers this quickly unless you have a reason to want out. What that reason is, only the investigation knows. But the timing is not small.

But then who is buying it is a whole new story.

The buyer is Josh Kushner, founder of Thrive Capital. Weeks ago, that same firm was the lead investor in Gianni Infantino's $20 billion plan to sell off the commercial rights to the FIFA World Cup, the scheme that collapsed under a global revolt and nearly cost the FIFA president his job. Same man. Same firm. Different sport, different continent, weeks apart.

And there's a layer under the Kushner name that makes this bigger than sports. Josh Kushner is the brother of Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump. Which means the most famous franchise in American sports is now owned, in part, by the sitting President's son-in-law's brother. Not the President himself, to be clear. He has no stake in this and no role in it. But the Lakers just became connected by marriage to the First Family, at the same time the seller is under a federal investigation run by that same administration's Justice Department. You don't have to allege anything to notice that's a crazy plot twist.

Two of the biggest money scandals in sports right now, a federally investigated owner on one side and the private equity operator who tried to buy the World Cup on the other, just resolved into a single transaction. The investigated man sold America's most famous team to the FIFA guy, in days, at a record price, and most people are reading it as a fun headline about the Lakers getting a new owner.

Here's the thing about the money at the very top of sports. Fans watch 30 teams, 30 owners, 30 separate franchises with their own colors and cities and rivalries. But the capital behind all of it is a small room. It's the same few dozen people, and they keep turning up in each other's deals. The Lakers, the Dodgers, the Giants, the Heat, Liverpool, the World Cup itself, pull the thread on almost any of them right now and you find the same handful of names, buying from and selling to one another.

That's the lesson that runs underneath all of this. At the level fans watch, sports is a game. At the level that actually owns it, sports is an asset class, and it is a far smaller and more connected world than anyone lets on. The Lakers didn't just get a new owner. They moved one square on a board most people don't know they're looking at, from a man under federal investigation to a man connected by marriage to the President.

The Buss family owned the Lakers for 46 years. Mark Walter owned them for 14 months. The next chapter belongs to the man whose firm tried to privatize the World Cup, and whose brother is married into the White House. That tells you everything about how fast the money moves at the top now, and how very few hands it moves between.

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@kaydee_de Can’t tell skits from real life nowadays. I hope for the sake of humanity that it’s acted.

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@Lavozgalactica He’s the Shai Gilgeous Alexander of Football. Or viceversa.

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@HawkEmDownChris Pink Panther

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@HawkEmDownChris Jerry Rice

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@NoodleHairCR7 lol Que parodia

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

Wow

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This is great!

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@uttdkola Sir Harry Kane!

[Cesar Rodriguez @cesarifico]

@Suzierizzo1 $5.54 to 6.10 Regular (cash price which no one carries anymore so add a quarter or so) near me in San Diego CA. I drive an EV though 💪🏽⚡️

[Murcia con Limón ⭐️⭐️ @MurciaConLimon]

Los comentaristas argentinos en la final del mundial 😅