Nick Killpack

I have many interests, but the only ones Twitter seems to care about are sports and politics

[World Baseball Classic @WBCBaseball]

TEAM VENEZUELA 🇻🇪
CHAMPS 🏆
#WORLDBASEBALLCLASSIC

[Dan Carlin @dccommonsense]

See, that's where you've made a mistake. They aren't "arbitrary laws" they are "unalienable rights" that you get just by being born a person. The fact that you think they may BE arbitrary is in part why we are in this mess we're in.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

In the last 48 hours, I've been called a libtard, a left-wing shill, and a hack for criticizing DHS and the killing of Alex Pretti. Now:

- Polling suggests this shooting is a 70-30 issue (at best) with growing support for abolishing ICE
- Dozens of Rs in Congress have come out calling for an investigation and/or for ICE to leave
- WSJ, NY Post, and National Review editorial boards are all calling for ICE to leave MN/Trump to pull back
- John Mitnick, who helped establish the Department of Homeland Security and worked in Trump's first admin, is calling to abolish DHS and criticizing its "fascism"
- And now, in the video below, a Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate — the lawyer *representing the agent who killed Renee Good* — is dropping out of the race and saying he can no longer stand with Republicans or support DHS going beyond its public safety mandate.

But yes, please keep telling me how this is a divisive issue, the shooting was justified, and I'm a partisan hack for being on the side criticizing DHS.

[Tim Alberta @TimAlberta]

Okay so,

1) an American citizen exercises his First Amendment right to peaceably assemble and his Second Amendment right to bear arms, out of apparent concern that a tyrannical federal government is violating basic protections afforded under the Constitution

2) after coming to the aid of an unarmed woman who's been shoved to the ground by a masked federal agent, the citizen -- impaired by pepper spray, holding nothing but a cell phone -- is dragged to the ground by a group of other masked agents

3) during the scuffle, shortly after one masked agent removes the weapon from the restrained citizen's person, several other masked agents open fire, unloading 10 shots from close range and killing the unarmed citizen

4) despite video evidence, a spokesman for the federal government says the citizen approached agents with a gun, provoked a violent confrontation, and planned to "massacre" law enforcement

You really want to defend this? Go ahead. Just know, you look like an absolute fool.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

Pope Gregory XIII in 1582:

[Avinash Kunnath @avinashkunnath]

Hey, remember when USC blew up the Pac-12 to escape Oregon and Washington and Kyle Whittingham and Pac-12 After Dark, only to end up with Oregon and Washington and Kyle Whittingham and Pac-12 After Dark.

[Dane B. @Dane_BHam]

I don’t think there is a single Utah fan that is upset that Whittingham decided to take the Michigan job (Maybe his family).

What they are upset by is his saying he wanted to leave the program in a great position, but then goes on to raid and try to burn it to down.

[Stewart Mandel @slmandel]

Some of the most prominent voices in media spent this week dunking all over Tulane and JMU.

I couldn’t take it anymore. https://t.co/X4VWPm0S3e

[Jim Bennett @StallionCornell]

Good morning! As loopy doofuses continue to lose their minds over people not treating the Book of Genesis like ancient journalism, I thought it might be fun to explore what Tim Ballard’s stupidity can teach us about genre in scripture.

Buckle up!

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[Stewart Mandel @slmandel]

I'm old enough to remember when the winner of the AAA league (Utah) whooped Alabama in the Sugar Bowl.

[Nick Killpack @NKillpack]

@BradenShamo Each state gets to pick two statues for the capitol. Kaine must have played a role in getting Virginia to make the change.

Now, as to why Virginia chose him…

let’s just say the Lost Cause Myth has really messed with the Southern understanding of the world

[Josh Newman @Joshua_Newman]

The Pac-12 championship game would be starting soon in Vegas.

Never forget what they took from us.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I’ll say it again. If you sell plans from the same insurance carriers that sell med advantage or ACA plans through Amazon or Costco or anywhere else , what exactly do you expect to change ?

Nothing. It will be the same garbage.

It’s not like going to Starbucks and you pick from a menu. “Do you want your deductible to be $5000 or $10000 ? Would you like a lower premium with that , say $600 dollars ?” Hell No. They have to set their plans. Maybe they add a single 10k deductible , lower premium plan. And guess what …

Customer “ how much is your commission on this plan ? “ “I want choices, why are there only 3 plans i can choose from ?” “Excuse me Costco insurance rep , can you promise me they won’t remove my doctor from their network “ “if I find a lower cash price somewhere else, will it count against my deductible ?” “ speaking of deductibles , will you charge me the full retail price for my branded meds during my deductible phase and keep the rebate ? Or do I pay the net price at my pharmacy ? And does my pharmacy lose money ?” “What happens if I can’t afford my deductible?””why do I when to buy from your speciality pharmacy ? It’s more expensive “

GTFO. It will be THE EXACT SAME GARBAGE consumers get today. Or worse.

Why worse ? Because they know the insurance clerk at the retail store isn’t going to spend hours exposing options. They will be thinking. “Always Be Closing “

They know retail customers will get less info than today and opacity and info asymmetry is a gold mine for them

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[Nick Killpack @NKillpack]

@slmandel

[Nick Killpack @NKillpack]

@Uteman_forever He was! You must have had him for the last year or so. My trainer and his group went home in December ‘04, we likely served around some of the same people.

What areas did you serve in?