RichSpad

content in the north

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

I'm getting very, very tired of being held hostage by people who think politics should be a source of spiritual fulfillment.

[Izengabe @Izengabe_]

Mamdani's new proposed salary would pay him more than the combined salaries of the Governor of Florida & Texas. NYC Council Members would earn more than Members of Congress and the state legislators in all 50 states. Legalized robbery.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Kerry McQuisten’s Common Sense Sanctuary @KerryMcQ4Oregon]

Let’s talk reflecting pool. Warren G. Harding built it on swampland and the structure beneath it would have been fine - if it had been built on stable ground. The whole thing started sinking slowly.

Presidents all the way up through Carter kept trying to prop it up with little cement pours, and regularly draining and cleaning it. Algae was a problem even then because there was no real circulation system. No pumps. No filters.

Reagan added some more concrete, realizing the entire pool was now 12 or 13 inches lower than it should be. It had sunk over a foot and pulled loose from its structure.

Clinton publicly acknowledged that the entire pool needed demolished and rebuilt, and that it would take hundreds of millions of dollars to do it right.

The Bushes just kept trying to plug leaks and clean it. Every time they had to drain and scrub the thing, it cost around $100,000 to do so. George W. Bush actually had plans drawn up to rebuild it. 

Obama decided to revise and execute the Bush renovation, which was needed, but it was flawed, and he spent tens of millions of dollars on it. He raised the pool up with a timber under-structure so the water ended up being even shallower, which means that’s the point at which the water started getting warmer. He also turned off the chlorinated city water supply into the pool and began pumping water in from the tidal basin - that’s the somewhat stagnant water that comes in from the Potomac River and surrounds the Jefferson Memorial. There was algae before, but with those changes came even more algae. Obama‘s reasoning was that the basin water would be cheaper instead of using the city water supply. He had the pool tiles removed from the bottom and another layer gray cement put in place along with gray-tinted reflective paint, which gradually faded away.

By the time Trump’s first term came around, the cleaning had to be done every three or four months, some of the Obama structural repairs were failing, and the leaks were rampant again.

By the time Biden got into office, Obama’s reflecting pool fixes were cracked and the pool was leaking hundreds of thousands (probably millions) of gallons of water. Biden opted to clean the pool, but performed little maintenance, and did no substantial refurbishment.

Trump’s fix was to try something that the other presidents hadn’t. Whereas Obama had used a gray reflective paint and cement, Trump tried a combination sealant liner - it isn’t paint. Those sealants are similarly light-reflective to what Obama used. Trump switched up to blue from the dark gray. He added nanobubblers.

When we walked around it the other day, there was only a small patch on the middle of the left side that may have been coming up. It was too windy and stormy to see why. It was not as if the sealant was coming up all over the pool and floating to the top because it wasn’t. We did see the algae cleaning going on and the crews, you could tell, were tired of being harassed for doing their jobs. 

Vandals have damaged the grass, they’ve cut into the liner in other places and the knife lines are clear in the videos. We did see the National Guard soldiers coming in. We also saw them placed around the America 250 construction area and in between the museums. Five vandals have been arrested since we walked through. It’s unbelievable to me that they want to destroy something we could all enjoy out of hatred for a president whose policies they don’t even understand.  And the mainstream media is reprehensible. They aren’t reporting. They’re spinning propaganda as usual.

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

This is the worst thing I've ever read. I don't know how it can be done but the reality is most people won't read the full report. It needs to be made into a documentary and played in every home and every classroom. If someone doesn't know about this by this time next year they should be publicly shamed. It's the worst atrocity ever committed against children.

[Jeremy Siegel @jersiegel]

Norway fans are doing a “Viking Row” up the escalator at Boston’s South Station before heading to the World Cup

Adding this to the list of things I’ve never seen before and probably never will again

[RichSpad @RichSpad]

Coach Cam is stupid

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

Remarkable moment. Northern Ireland Police announce they will arrest anyone who protests against their beheading.

[Lozzy B 🇦🇺𝕏 @TruthFairy131]

23 year old Sudanese migrant Abubaker Mohamad Awad, stabbed 19 year old Tommie Lindhn to death in his own apartment in Härnösand, Sweden after Lindhn tried to stop Awad from raping a Swedish girl at knife point.

After killing Tommie, Awad continued to rape the young girl next to Tommies dead body.

The Sudanese migrant had already previously been convicted of several crimes, including sexual harassment, drug offences & shoplifting.

Had he been deported, Tommie would still be alive.

The media painted Tommie as Far Right, implied he was racist & that his life didn’t matter.

Tommie’s life DID Matter, all White Lives Matter.

Tommie Lindhn was a HERO

R.I.P Tommie 🤍🕊️

There is no justice without completely overhauling the broken system in the West & without Remigration.

Locking up violent foreign criminals AFTER they kill does not stop the next innocent person from losing their life.

No justice, no peace.

[RichSpad @RichSpad]

That’s gonna be a fun one once someone goes through a biology course…or a backdoor way to ban abortions..

[KATU News @KATUNews]

An effort to criminalize the killing of animals for food in Oregon is a step closer to being on the November ballot.

IP-28 would make it illegal to injure or kill animals and would effectively ban hunting, fishing and the breeding of animals. https://t.co/Je1Z43xKAm

[KATU News @KATUNews]

An effort to criminalize the killing of animals for food in Oregon is a step closer to being on the November ballot.

IP-28 would make it illegal to injure or kill animals and would effectively ban hunting, fishing and the breeding of animals. https://t.co/Je1Z43xKAm

[Michael Torres @MindofTorres]

Remarkable, but unsurprising. The AP is no longer advanced.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

Rofayda Qaoud — raped by her brothers and impregnated — refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the unwed teenager a razor with which to slit her wrists. So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says she did what she believes any good Palestinian parent would: restored her family’s “honor” through murder.

This is Palestinian culture.

Nothing has changed. Western media just stopped telling you about it.

[RichSpad @RichSpad]

I bet the budget fixes itself if you cut administrative staff by 50%

[Melody Wright @m3_melody]

https://t.co/fIYH5sbX0V

[Radical Left Receipts @radleftreceipts]

How ruthlessly effective is the Democrat machine?

Eric Swalwell is asked to drop out of the race because a Republicans may actually win.

He refuses.

Party operatives tap into their pool of white liberal feminists and just like that, he's hit with not one...not two, but FOUR sexual assault accusations.

Of course, none of the victims can remember any details, just that it happened. The exact Blasey-Ford and E. Jean Carrol playbook.

Within an hour, the victim is being interviewed on @CNN.

The email goes out.

Almost immediately, the teacher's union is condemning him and Schumer, Pelosi, Jeffries and every other Democrat on Twitter is calling for him to drop out of the race.

Keep in mind, when Tara Reade accused Biden of forcibly sexually abusing her, they called her a liar and nobody called for him to drop out.

This is all a coordinated attack because they've seen the internal polling that Steve Hilton may actually win this thing and they are sacrificing Swalwell because liberal idiots like him are a dime a dozen.

[RichSpad @RichSpad]

Well both those group dislike kings so it’s valid

[Fox News @FoxNews]

BEHIND THE PROTESTS: Fox News investigation reveals 'No Kings' demonstrations backed by network of 500 organizations, many tied to socialist and communist groups.
https://t.co/SRzH2DibA0

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Here’s how communist PR deception works:

They have two protests minutes away from each other, but one protest starts 2.5 hours after the other ends.

The media is an ally, so they will report massive attendance at both without admitting it’s the same people.

[✝️Skylar✝️ @dogbsj]

He raped and killed a girl, blamed it on a black person and went to the KKK to throw him under the bus. The KKK defended the black man as he was innocent.

This organization got founded to run damage control for a rapist and murderer lol

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The whole concept of an “insanity plea” is total nonsense. If someone is too delusional to understand that they aren’t supposed to randomly shoot people, that’s all the more reason to simply execute them. Society is not morally obligated to keep psychotic killers alive until they die of old age. It’s madness.