JTP

damn good dawg. the first non-brazilian person to travel backward through time.

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

I’m glad Matt wrote this because something I’ve noticed at CFB games this year is how much more stadium PA music is being played, instead of the marching bands. I hate it.

[parker fleming @statsowar]

Imagine college football adopts a system where teams are regionally clustered and schedule the schools close by. Then, every year, the teams from each cluster are paired up for competitive matchups in destinations where fans can go celebrate the season and watch a great game.

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

@patrickgarbin @AnthonyDasher1 What an insane game this was. Will forever remember the video of that guy jumping through the window after we won.

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

mags 🤝 maga
getting destroyed

[Cody Alcorn @CodyAlcorn]

BREAKING | A driver crashed into Magnolia’s Bar at East Broad and South Jackson streets in Athens, Georgia, causing major structural damage. Athens-Clarke County firefighters expect an extended operation and ask the public to avoid the area.

[Bernard Stanford ✡︎ @stanfordNYC]

Republicans are going to have a terrible night, and the simple reason why is that Trump has put up perhaps the worst *performance* this term of any president in a century or more.

Remember that he entered with an actual mandate: the House and Senate, a popular vote victory and a swing-state sweep, and 6-3 Supreme Court. Democrats were afraid enough to vote for mild but real immigration restrictionist legislation in the Laken Riley Act. Everyone wondered how far the "Vibe Shift" would go.

Trump managed to turn that into essentially zero durable wins whatsoever. He personally *hates* the very idea of legislation, the notion that he would have to spend time going back and forth with Congress, learning details and making compromises. So he simply didn't do it! He didn't make a compelling case for abolishing the filibuster. He didn't try communicating clearly to the public in support of popular bills to get to 60 votes. He just decided not to do it at all.

So they passed an unpopular tax cut, some funding for ICE, and a sop to the crypto industry, and that was basically it. Least productive Congress in decades, due to the tastes of one man.

Trump adopted one of the worst macro policies we've ever had: high deficits, high tariffs, and attacks on central bank independence. We managed to pay higher interest rates while still having high trade deficits AND weakening the dollar. Just a total failure.

On immigration, perhaps THE signature issue, Trump essentially min-maxxed effectiveness and backlash. Instead of trying to leverage the political moment for new laws and a self-deportation agenda (that is, walling off the economy to remove the benefit of irregular presence in the US), he opted for a maximally aggressive approach. The administration spent attention, funds, legal manpower on stunts like deporting random people to Salvadoran prisons with essentially no due process. ICE and Border Patrol were encouraged to be aggressive and confrontational, which helped contribute to the shooting deaths of American protestors. It turns out, that's extremely unpopular!

What about the approach of going after employers? The obvious vector? Trump hated that idea! He repeatedly has said he doesn't want to target businesses (especially farms) that use large amounts of illegal labor. This is just an incomprehensible position. Instead of charging a few dozen businessmen and removing the incentive for millions of illegal workers to be here, you arrest people off the street one by one at the cost of thousands of dollars in manpower per each, while their crying wives and kids post TikToks about it.

Upshot on immigration: electoral strength turned into a crippling electoral weakness in exchange for deporting maybe 6% of the illegally present population.

The tariffs were a total shitshow. Embarrassing rollout, no underlying theory of action at all. No targeted focus on key industries. Our country tariffed products we can't grow. We tariffed *inputs* of our own valuable exports. The schemes and amounts changed constantly, sending the stock market reeling and presenting scenes of chaos to the world.

Trump's messaging throughout has been generationally bad. While facing nearly 2:1 unpopularity, he spends his days posting AI slop, saying he'll rename New Mexico or invade allies, among other bizarre remarks. He brags about a ballroom and a pool repainting while gas hits records. At no point has he ever attempted any kind of message discipline.

Then there are the deeply unpopular attacks on rule of law, his "game-recognize-game" pardons for all manner of scammers and criminals, the crypto schemes that he and his family engage in, the evilly conceived and embarrassingly executed legal attacks on Comey, Jerome Powell, and others. With his monthslong stand on NOT releasing the Epstein files, he became maybe the first president ever to stake out a 99-1 issue on the 1% side.

That's not even getting into Iran, DOGE, his candidate recruitment choices, or countless other things. Simply put: Trump has managed to royally screw up virtually every single facet of his presidency. It's been undeniable, voters have noticed, and there's really no escape from it. This is what the GOP base chose in early 2024, and this is the world they're living with now. Where they handed the reins of history to a fat, vain, washed-up old man and let him drive.

[960 The Ref @960theref]

Jacksonville Teal 🤝 Atlanta Red
#GoDawgs

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

@sunnyright Go Dawgs

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

@680TheFan @GeorgiaFootball @GatorsFB Georgia 35
Florida 17

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

@3YearLetterman Will Muschamp as a lame duck is inexplicably 2-0 against top-10 Georgia teams

[Andy Masley @AndyMasley]

Jon Stewart's really horrific effect on the general epistemic environment educated people are in remains under-discussed

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

I’m going to once again remind you that the SEC voted to go to a 9 game schedule at the advice of it’s leadership and got absolutely nothing in return!

And then everyone just moved on like it wasn’t a massive blunder and everything was fine!

[Stop 24 @CFBStop24]

Before you close X tonight:

1. Sign at https://t.co/6Sk9KK9iov.
2. Recruit one fan from another school.
3. Email the CFP your concerns.
4. Repost this plan.

The deal is close. It isn't final. This is the window to be heard. #Stop24

[Josh Pate @JoshPateCFB]

Good teams with flawed resumes missing out isn't a bug. It's a feature of a properly-sized CFP that balances access & urgency.

[Barrett Sallee 🇺🇸 @BarrettSallee]

Nobody hates college football more than the people who run college football.

[Justin Toscano @JustinCToscano]

This is awful.

No one was asking for this — except, of course, the people set to make money off it. Those people continue altering our great sport for their own benefit. They do it under the guise of competitive balance, more opportunity, etc. Just brutal.

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

@BobbyWilson1004 they called the game in 2024, so this graphic is probably from then.

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

@CFBStop24 @bamaperspective it’s gone the exact opposite direction

[I Don't Hate Your Team* @ih8yourteam]

The rapid gathering of momentum for a 24-team playoff in the face of 'nobody wants' this reports from every corner of the sport tells you it's cynical, money-driven suit decision making.

There are only downsides here and they don't care. They'll be long gone with a cushy advisory job at Procter & Gamble by the time the full weight of their destructive decisions crush the sport.

We somehow saw the destructive measures Larry Scott took in nuking the PAC 12 and decided we wanted the final boss version of that for all of CFB.

The pursuit of money above all else tends to ruin most things. But college sports fandom exists outside the bounds of a normal market, and will be uniquely decimated by the dogged pursuit of only profit.

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

@Vader_Red_ the “JP Poll” is obviously a play on words, but it’s also… not a poll. And it doesn’t serve a similar purpose to the AP Poll. You can’t expect someone who just finds it in an X post to assume any of how it really works.

[JTP @jtwsmfp]

@Vader_Red_ If you listen to his show once, you should be able the get what he’s talking about, but his terminology is bound to confuse people.
his “a power rating isn’t a ranking” line isn’t quite true: teams are rated by his model and then ranked based on how they’re rated