Be @kalanifsitake :
>Born in Nuku‘alofa, Tonga in 1975
>Family leaves for Hawaii weeks later
>Parents divorce
>Father moves you and your siblings to Provo, Utah
>Money is tight and can’t afford tickets to BYU games
>So your dad parks outside the stadium and you all listen to the radio and the roar of the crowd
>Live in a modest two-bedroom apartment
>Carry laundry bags to the laundromat because there are no baskets
>Dad buys cheap cones and jump ropes at thrift stores and trains you and your brother himself
>You look after your younger siblings while he works
>Move to Kirkwood, Missouri for high school
>Show up and become an all-state running back
>Head to BYU as a fullback under LaVell Edwards
>Serve a mission for the LDS Church in Oakland
>Come back, start for three years, help win a Mountain West title
>Get a brief shot with the Bengals
>Back injury ends the playing career
>Start coaching at Eastern Arizona College
>Graduate assistant at BYU
>Stops at Southern Utah, then Utah
>Become the first Tongan defensive coordinator in FBS history
>One year at Oregon State
>December 2015: @BYUfootball names you head coach
>First Tongan to ever hold the job
>Take over a program stuck in independence
>No conference, hard schedule, limited national attention, “nobody watching”
>Grind through the lean years
>Big 12 invites BYU in 2021
>Join the conference in 2023
>Shock the world by immediately contending for the conference
>Multiple 10- and 11-win seasons
>Alamo Bowl, Pop-Tarts Bowl, ranked teams
>Prime-time windows, national broadcasts, big-stage matchups
>First Tongan head coach in major college football
>Inducted into the Polynesian Football Hall of Fame
>Take the program from listening outside the stadium to competing on the biggest stages with the lights on
>And now a prime time heavyweight matchup with Notre Dame
>And as always, dancing through it all
Kalani is someone who has had every reason to lay down and give up, and continually rises to the occasion and beats all expectations. Proud to have him as our coach and as an example for my boys to look up to.
Ask me if I care what happens to Gaza.
The answer might surprise you.
I do care.
I think the Israelis have been much too kind.
If these semi humans did this to my people, the retribution we would inflict would have them invoking our name to scare children for 100 generations.
The Palestinians deserve everything they’ve received, and much much more.
Dear Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines and,
UNITED BOARD OF DIRECTORS;
• Edward “Ted” Philip — Chairman
• Brett Hart — President
• Michael Leskinen — CFO
• Rosalind Brewer
• Michelle Freyre
• Matthew Friend
• Barney Harford
• Michele Hooper
• Walter Isaacson
• Edward Shapiro
• Laysha Ward
• James Whitehurst
That Mr. Kirby is still CEO of United Airlines after he ‘pledged’ to make your airlines less safe by hiring ‘diverse new pilots’ instead of the most qualified pilots says that you and the United Board of Directors are dangerously putting passengers at risk!
Even more concerning is Mr. Kirby’s inaction, and United Airlines Board members inaction, NOT firing PRO- HAMAS TERRORIST PILOT IBRAHIM R MOSSALLAM is despicable, racist, and disgusting and another DANGER to United passengers.
I will no longer fly United Airlines and I ask that MY FOLLOWERS NO LONGER FLY UNITED AIRLINES and that they RETWEET THIS FAR AND WIDE!
Sincerely,
Rob Schneider
Former Customer of United Airlines
Not long ago we were getting rocked to sleep. Trump showed up and did exactly what we needed him to do.
He brought American pride back and reminded the world we’re still the gold standard. That’s was the assignment. 🇺🇸 #explore#fyp
So there is now a psyop fully engaged to strip seniors of their Social Security entitlements from those who did the right thing by earning, saving, and investing their entire lives and have built a nest egg. I'll make a deal with all you scoundrels: I'll take, in one lump sum, what I paid in all my life, without any compounding that I would expect from a normal investment. After that, I will not take a dime from the system. Deal?
@barstoolsports This sport is so cheesy, a touch and they fall and fake injuries, the timing at the end of games is awful, when does college football start…
I retired as an Army colonel, Admiral. Tours in three of America's wars, my tactical assignments were mostly in the 82nd, and the VA says I am 60% disabled.
Happy to send you a copy of my DD214 (with my SSN redacted) if that means you will publicly apologize for accusing me of stolen valor.
Thomas Massie chose to end his career with this despicable line about Congressman-elect Ed Gallrein: “I had to find him in Tel Aviv.”
Rather than exit with dignity, Massie just proved President Trump was right to send him into early retirement.
🚨 AWESOME! SecWar Pete Hegseth just REENLISTED Joey Jones to the Marine Corps
JONES: "I'm doing it because I have a debt left to give... It means the world to me to be here to finish the story that I started writing twenty-one years ago."
PATRIOT. 🇺🇸👏🏻
Mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests
I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system..
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The mayor of Charlotte, NC asks that we not post about this lady murdered on a Charlotte train by a repeat offender with 14 prior arrests!
I say in Iryna’s memory please share and make this go viral! A repeat offender with 14 prior arrests should not be roaming the streets of ANY city! They should be locked up!! Epic failure in the justice system!
🚨 NOW: SecWar Pete Hegseth goes FULL DOGE MODE on the Pentagon, saying he has ABOLISHED allowing military contractors to double dip on taxpayers
Pete was a great SecWar pick 🇺🇸
"They charged you the taxpayer to build their factories and then charge you again for the final product! And despite paying companies to make weapons faster, scheduled delays were constant and cost overruns were the norm. All while their CEOs got rich. But today, President Trump's War Department is flipping this rigged system on its head."
"We're not tolerating delays in production or cost overruns anymore. We've pushed out the bureaucrats who've made these deals in the past and replaced them with the most talented negotiators in the private sector."
"Now when a defense company expands its production to sell more equipment to the U.S. military, they pay the bill. They pay for new factories, assembly lines, manufacturing plants. Not the taxpayer."
"President Trump's historic $1.5 trillion defense budget will make a generational investment in our arsenal of freedom."
"This investment will secure and protect the homeland, and ensure America's military remains the most lethal fighting force on Earth for generations to come."
"We're going to spend every dollar of that money responsible, because that's what you deserve, that's what America needs, and that's what this President demands."
Yes, Tennessee is awful and the people are dumb. No one who votes blue should move here. You’re all too smart and sophisticated for all us ignorant rubes down here.