Timothy 🇺🇸

I am a teenager that has interests in Science and History.
Update, I'm a 24 year old that has interests in Science and History.
Update, I'm getting older

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@Isaac__Trotter Let's see, KY born boy's/men getting to play in the NBA and reach their lifelong dreams. I think that's a win for UK. We'll find better players if he leaves for the NBA. Good for him, whatever choice he decides. He was a great player for Kentucky basketball. That LSU shot, whoa!

[Rich "Corky" Erie @RSE_VB]

This was something I was known for when in the Navy. I learned it from my Dad (36 year Naval Officer). The more "exciting" things got, the calmer he got. I eventually learned to model that as a young Officer.

Key question: "Is anyone currently bleeding to death, not breathing, or about to die? No? Then let's take some time and solve the problem." And even if someone IS, do what the SEALS do: Slow is Smooth; Smooth is Fast.

An Aviator has three primary things to really worry about:
1. Serious uncontrolled fire.
2. Out of control flight below 10,000 feet.
3. Dual engine failure in the landing pattern.

For virtually everything else, you have time. Freaking out, running around in circles waving your arms in the air, and screaming like a little girl solves absolutely nothing. It also freaks out your Sailors.

My Dad also taught me that Naval Officers never run down passageways, for the same reason above (unless you're the SAR launch). Panic is infectious. Don't start it.

Speak in calm, measured, authoritative tones. Speak clearly. Give clear, concise orders/guidance. My Dad would even talk quieter to make sure everyone leaned in and listened.

This is Leadership 101 level stuff.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@MarioMaitland_3 Just another Shaedon Sharpe, that's just my opinion. They shouldn't ever allow this situation to happen again at the University of Kentucky Men's basketball program. I hope he does well, but he never was a Wildcat (Jayden Quaintance.)

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Watch the Navy Blue Angels choreographing their air show performance. It’s that precise! Absolutely zero wiggle room involved in performing these maneuvers. Crazy.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@BRamseyKSR Pat Kelsey is a dog when it comes to recruiting, so far, at least. Let's see if he'll coach these players as well as he did with last years group. But these are arguably better players. Time will tell on both Pope & Kelsey on how good they are, and how long fan patience will last

[Mary Elizabeth @missmaryeliza]

My @KentuckyDerby Top 10🌹

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@John_Zannis I miss the old Spurs dynasty, the Warriors dynasty and the Lakers dynasty. Even the Bulls dynasty and the era of Lakers vs Celtics in the 1980's. At least basketball back then was more filled with grace and had harder working players, for the most part.
This isn't pretty to see.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

Amazing flying, God protect our American soldiers, in combat, and afterwards as veterans.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@bigbluegoose How many times over the years did Coach Calipari say that the SEC tournament didn't matter, though? I do think some fans feel both ways, they see his success this year and miss him. But, at the same time, they know that it was best that he left KY for Arkansas. That's my opinion.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@WallStreetApes I think they do this because it's easier to build and costs less because there's no variation in their designs, obviously. But, they also do it because they're greedy, and they don't care what people think about it, so long as they make a profit on the builds. It's pretty sad.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@JeffBiesinger He's a good guy.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@Cats_Coverage I guess that's how some coaches think they can act when they win a national championship. I know right now that Coach K, Roy Williams, Dean Smith, Bill Self, jay Wright, Bob Knight, Denny Crum. They'd never act like this, and they'd never allow their players to. It's distasteful.

[Repole Stable @RepoleStable]

I’ve been in horse racing for over 20 years.

The more my team, and now many passionate supporters of this sport, dig into the major issues that have plagued racing for decades, one name keeps popping up over and over again: Bill Lear.

William “Bill” Lear is a powerful attorney in Lexington, Kentucky and Chairman Emeritus of the law firm Stoll Keenon Ogden.

According to his own bio with The Jockey Club, his firm represents Breeders’ Cup, Keeneland, The Jockey Club, and Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association.

He is also:
• A steward of The Jockey Club
• A trustee of Keeneland
• And by his own admission, the principal draftsman of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act.

Optically… that’s a lot of influence concentrated in one place.

When I began my legal battle with The Jockey Club, the first response letters we received came directly from his firm.

Another interesting coincidence:

The current CEO of Breeders’ Cup, Drew Fleming, and the CEO of Keeneland, Shannon Arvin, both previously worked at Stoll Keenon Ogden.

So it raises a simple question.

How many candidates were interviewed for those CEO jobs???

Because in most industries, CEOs of major organizations are usually operators, people with deep experience running businesses, building revenue, sales, marketing, and growth.

Not lawyers from the same firm.

To many people looking at this from the outside, it starts to look like a very small circle running a very big sport.

Now let’s fast-forward to today.

After three years of giving HISA a chance, many owners, trainers, breeders, and tracks feel the same thing:

Costs going up.
Participation going down.
Small participants being squeezed.

And the principal architect of the legislation is still sitting inside the governance structure of the sport.

So I’ll ask the question many people in racing are already asking privately:

How does it make you feel that the principal draftsman of HISA is also a steward of The Jockey Club and trustee of Keeneland???

Another question I’m curious about.

During the 5 Stones investigation, which targeted certain trainers, I wonder:

Were any trainers connected to Jockey Club stewards ever investigated???

Transparency matters.

I’ve been in racing over 20 years and, interestingly, I’ve never met or seen Bill Lear at a racetrack. I also couldn’t find any record of him owning a horse over the past 30 years.

Yet his influence over the sport appears enormous.

You can draw your own conclusions.

But the words I hear most often from many people in the industry when Bill Lear’s name comes up are:

“Pain in the ass for the industry.”

And

“Puppet master.”

Team Horse Racing…what do you think???

[Russell Varone @Russell_MFG_USA]

Everyone rushing into manufacturing right now, let me drop some wisdom...

Hire this guy.
Keep him on a a bit of a leash.
Let him vent every now and then.
Regulate his exposure to new hires.

Promise you that dude will move mountains for you...

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

In truth this is *supposed* to be the largest shipowner conference in North America.

Once it was. Just five or six years ago maritime companies used to buy out every billboard along I-95. Every hotel within 20 miles sold out months in advance.

Now it’s a ghost town. I booked a room at the host Hilton near Greenwich, CT this morning for $195. Just before COVID, rooms for next year’s event would already be gone. They just announced the conference is shutting down.

Why?

If you ask shipowners, they’ll tell you the United States is no longer relevant to global shipping. But there’s more to the story.

Shipping started strong under Trump 1.0 until NYTimes did an expose on Elaine Chao, and her husband Mitch McConnel’s, close ties to Chinese shipping… so they turned their backs on the industry.

Attendance stopped growing but remained steady.

Then@PeteButtigieg absolutely refused to send anyone from DOT for four long years. Shipowners grew frustrated with Biden’s non-response in the Red and Black Seas.

Then, roughly two years ago, word spread that China was tracking which owners attended shipping events in the United States. I could never fully confirm it, but the rumor was widespread and it changed behavior.

Last year, European shipping agencies and owners started declining because they hate Trump. This year it’s full-blown TDS.

Meanwhile, at a similar event I attended in Hamburg last year, 48,000 visitors attended with over 2,200 exhibitor booths. Shipping events around the world are setting records.

And here in the United States we can’t fill an average-sized Hilton.

But is America actually irrelevant to shipping?

It’s true have only 82 🇺🇸 ships in international trade while China has thousands and Europeans have tens of thousands.

But Wall Street is the number one source of ship finance in the world. The United States is the largest importer on Earth. We have more diplomatic leverage than any nation, as Trump just demonstrated by killing the UN @IMOHQ carbon tax. Our maritime sanctions enforcement is the strongest in the world.

And our Navy is the only one capable of protecting international shipping lanes.

Right now, shipowners are screaming bloody murder for U.S. Navy escorts in the Red Sea. They want the Navy to reopen the Black Sea. They want more capital from Wall Street and U.S. private equity. They want to flood American stores with imports. They want handouts from the Trump Maritime Action Plan and the SHIPS Act. They want our military to keep shipping supplies to Ukraine.

And now they want us to clear mines in the Strait of Hormuz… a very dangerous job.

They want all of this from the United States. But they refuse to participate. The major shipowners and CEOs won’t even take a single day to visit and hear our perspective or visit DC.

The Europeans who did show up (presumably far more pro-American than those who didn’t) are mostly consumed by TDS and anti-American sentiment.

They want our money. They want our service members to risk their lives in the Red Sea. But they won’t engage with us.

They refuse to even show up.

And the most arrogant part? I have heard repeatedly: “If Trump wants us to transit Hormuz, he should fly to London and engage with us there. We are the center of shipping, not him.”

Here is reality. Yes, we hit Iran. But we don’t need their oil. We don’t need the fertilizer, the food, or the cheap Chinese products transiting those straits.

America has enough wealth and resources to sustain itself. Cutting off world trade would hurt the average American. It would absolutely devastate Europe.

If I were Trump, I’d keep the Strait of Hormuz closed until the CEOs of the major shipping and oil companies come to Washington. You want American escorts? You want American capital? You want American military power clearing your sea lanes?

Then show up. Or stay home and explain to your shareholders why you didn’t.

I’ve had enough of their arrogance. And I pray the President has too.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@TomMcMillan63 That menu has got to be a nightmare to learn for any novice or beginner waiter/waitress. I hope that if they do memorize the menu, that they actually take the time to really educate themselves on who and what those people and battles and divisions represent. That would be cool!

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@BBN_Commenter Remember all of the excitement over the new "Throwback'' Denim jerseys? Yeah, that's long subsided. I think KY is stuck with Pope until 2028. I just hope we can stay relevant in this timeframe while, either Pope figures it out, or they get a new coach.
Things are looking bleak.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@corymbowman Yes, elect the commonsense candidates. It's the best thing for the residents to do. It's so simple, just do your research before you vote.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@KySportsRadio @DKSportsbook Kentucky would win by 40.

[Timothy 🇺🇸 @ts_insight]

@Lizzsweet6 Nice!