WOW: PAT MCAFEE RESPONDS TO PEOPLE RIPPING HIM FOR INTERVIEWING PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
“Got a lot of people that don't know what a football looks like telling me they're never watching my show again. I would like to let you know… good! F*CK YOU”
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Here is my last point on Kimmel. If Kimmel came on and apologized like this the day after his remarks he probably wouldn’t have been suspended. But by all accounts he wanted to double down. Again for the billionth time this isn’t a free speech issue. He works for Mickey Mouse on NETWORK TV. Nobody said he was going to jail. He was dealing with the consequences of making off color jokes about the murder of a guy who meant a ton to a ton of people and blamed it on the very people who love him the most before the body was even cold. So yeah there was outrage that Mickey had to deal with. Then the pendulum swung the other way and they put him back on air. Either way it was never a free speech issue. When you work for somebody else and you offend a ton of people you deal with the consequences. Him framing this as free speech is a joke.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "Today, over 100 members of Congress support a bill to fund Ozempic with Medicare at $1,500 a month. Most of these members have taken money from the manufacturer of that product, a European company called Novo Nordisk. As everyone knows, once a drug is approved for Medicare, it goes to Medicaid."
"And there is a push to recommend Ozempic for Americans as young as six over a condition, obesity, that is completely preventable and barely even existed 100 years ago. Since 74% of Americans are obese, the cost of all of them, if they take their Ozempic prescriptions, will be $3 trillion a year. This is a drug that has made Novo Nordisk the biggest company in Europe."
"It's a Danish company, but the Danish government does not recommend it. It recommends a change in diet to treat obesity and exercise. Virtually Novo Nordisk's entire value is based upon its projections of what Ozempic is going to sell to Americans."
"For half the price of Ozempic, we could purchase regeneratively raised organic agriculture, organic food for every American three meals a day and gym membership for every obese American. Why are members of Congress doing the bidding of this Danish company instead of standing up for American farmers and children? Because Novo Nordisk is one of the largest funders of medical research, the media and politicians and the medical schools all go along with them."
The Pacers chartered two flights for their employees to attend Game 1 of the NBA Finals in OKC.
This is their employee section when Tyrese Haliburton hit the game-winner:
The race footage in the Amazon Earnhardt doc is so badass. Visually incredible. A symphony of speed. It felt different back then. Grittier.
Maybe because it wasn't so readily available as it is now. Maybe because there was a sense to us that NASCAR gave shine to rural America, authentically Southern, something we kinda knew about all along that the rest of the world was just discovering. Like we were on the leading rough edge of a new frontier.
The personalities and the conflict and the refusal to back down. Rivalries that didn't end with a text message apology. They lasted years. Books with chapters.
There was a mystique about speed back then, too.
We've lost that a bit. We forget drivers are gladiators. It takes a special cat to sail it off into 1 at 200 mph with no guarantee you'll come out of Turn 2.
NASCAR is experiencing a rebirth right now. I watch every race and I feel the resurgence. Awesome racers wrestling a challenging machine. But that footage from the 90s put me in a nostalgic blender.
Those motors at full song. The suspension travel and the body shapes and Goodwrench and DuPont and Quality Care and Kellogg's and MGD and Coors Light, stopped me in my tracks.
It all felt so important. Motorsports Mozart.
🚨 BREAKING: Elon Musk says that there should be law that ALL bills introduced in Congress should be digitally accessible to the public at least 7 days before any vote in Congress.
Do you agree with Elon?
A. Yes
B. No
Football is gay
Football is queer
Football is transgender.. these are wild statements to make..excuse my silliness.
I’m going to proudly tell my boys football is none of these things.
I have nothing against Gays but this is far from right
This is brilliantly put by Vice President Vance on the lack of ideological diversity at Harvard 🔥🔥
"If 80% of people voted for one candidate, you would say 'Oh that's kind of weird. That's not a super healthy democracy.' If you said 'Oh 95% voted for one party's candidate' you'd say that's North Korea.
The ideological diversity of these universities has to get much better. And I think if that got better, if you actually had a place where people were open to debating these things, and weren't terrified they were going to lose their job for saying something that was a little outside of the Overton Window, I think the science would get better.
The quality of the institution would be so much better, and that's what I want because we need high quality universities. Right now the problem is we don't have them."
He's spot on. The ideological diversity of the average American university resembles that of North Korea. This must change.
@JDVance
Former Alabama QB Greg McElroy on @macandcube if beating Florida in the SECCG or beating Texas in the national championship was the bigger deal in the 2009 season:
“We had no ill will at all towards Texas. Yeah, we wanted to win but it was really more of a relief. Beating Florida was by far the bigger game. No doubt.”
(pic via @AP)
Spent quite a bit of time watching college baseball this weekend. I will only watch a select few teams from here on out. Reason? They have coaches that respect the game and their opponents and demand the same of their players. Any team that doesn’t wear the uni correctly, taunts the other team, and has a coach that condones this behavior, is a disgrace to the game. Big fan of coach Schnall at Coastal Carolina! Him and his team represent what college baseball should be like. Well done, sir! U stand for proper behavior.