Guy Chamberlin

• Donald Trump was exonerated and will not be making Putin-friendly decisions in office. • Donald Trump isn't going to fight the results of the 2020 election • And if he does, Donald Trump isn't going to do something crazy, like instigate a violent coup. • And if he does instigate a violent coup, the Republicans will quickly distance themselves from him. The "election hoax" rhetoric will fade to oblivion and the GOP will return to issues-based campaigning. • As they distance themselves from Trump, the GOP will embrace saner alternatives, like Ron DeSantis. • Trump's Supreme Court appointees are reasonable folks who made it clear they're fine with the Roe v Wade precedent. Why are you freaking out? • The Marjorie Taylor Greene wing will not exert any significant influence on the party itself. • What paranoid world do you live in where Donald Trump inserts his daughter-in-law as the RNC chairwoman, and funnels the money to himself? • Our electoral college system held, and only a worrywort would think red state legislatures might take a lesson from 2020 and reengineer the rules to make it easier to overrule the popular vote. • We remain a nation of laws. It's not like the Supreme Court is going to look America in the eye and say a President is immune from the laws we citizens must follow. That's a dictatorship, man. • And if they do, it probably won't come into play. Because Biden is going to win so handily over Joe Biden, even MAGA will accept defeat and work together to advance this great country of ours. • And when the guy I voted for twice promises a scorched earth, day-one dictator second term, he's just kidding to get you libs riled up. What has he ever done to make you think he'll go off the rails and take as many people as possible with him?

Largely mitigated by the fact that so much of what the advice-giver swore would never happen, has happened.

Turns out there's a lotta drama in the Niners pick. They are currently in negotiations with their #1 WR, Aiyuk, who is holding out much like Nick Bosa and Deebo Samuel did, although everyone figured it was posturing and the deal would be made, as it was with Bosa and Samuel. Then they grab this Pearsall guy, despite there being several WRs on the board rated higher. Turns out Pearsall is built a lot like Deebo Samuel. And now this is being interpreted as a clear sign that the Niners will make a deal with Aiyuk and trade Deebo, who they just resigned to a large contract. Too bad, because I love Deebo. Every Niner fans loves Deebo. A real difference maker, especially with Shanahan designing a playbook around him. It's simply a money crunch. Niners already have too much all-star talent to pay accordingly, and next year they will have to pay Brock Purdy at the QB market rate.

I've been told I should relax and trust our system of checks and balances, but it feels like the SC just turned up the heat on our Boil the Frog scenario.

I love that you can ask Ai to create a commercial for a non-existent 1950s theme park for you, and marvel at the nightmare it comes up with.

That's nuts. The difference between #2 and #5 is meaningless, but the difference between #1 and #2 demands an explanation.

Once you open Pandora's Box, you can't control access to it. I am losing work to Ai as we speak. Doesn't help me, but I think society really digs Chat GPT.

They swear that the benefits of Ai are massive -- the ability to solve complex problems like climate, income inequity, disease, agricultural efficiency and basic human fulfillment in ways we literally haven't imagined. And yet it's so easy to see how it would get co-opted by the worst opportunists. If history is any indicator, the first wave of innovation will come from the porn industry.

Not to veer into P&R territory, but when Deion came to Colorado from an HBU and drew a lot of haters with him, Colorado gained a major profile and rooting interest from Black Americans, including those with no previous college allegiance and many who didn't otherwise follow football at all. Deion was a huge mainstream media story the first few games of the year, with millions of dollars swirling around him and the University, but it dropped off the map when Colorado plummeted to the bottom of the conference. I don't see the hype coming back, even if CU adds two wins and gets to a bowl game. If he sticks around and genuinely builds the program, he'll deserve the respect. That just feels like a long shot right now.

The official NBA review of the refs revealed some missed calls that went against both the Sixers and the Lakers in the final minutes. They also found some missed calls that went against the Knicks and the Nuggets. So yeah. It's about being down 2-0.

Yeah, I think Deion's leaving will be orchestrated by Deion

By this logic, do you reinstate the wins forfeited by Alabama, Ohio State, SMU and others for simply being years ahead of the curve?

If Colorado is losing players because better players have jumped them on the depth chart, Colorado might be pretty good. If there's something toxic about the program and the leadership that's making them flee, Colorado will be a dumpster fire. I think it's fair to say that a season without improvement would signal the end of Deion's run.

I gotta think our Athletic Department has earned some credibility for its non football success in recent years.

Always interesting to hear what the NBA players think when they get to be anonymous: https://theathletic.com/5433545/2024/04/22/nba-player-poll-2024-lebron-jordan-goat-celtics-nuggets-rudy-gobert-timberwolves/?campaign=5888993&source=dailyemail&userId=11186373

I don't have a dog in the hunt anymore, but those two games yesterday were pretty damn entertaining.

I don't get it. What's the "fine people" corollary here?

I don't expect you to find a post to back that up, as you generally pride yourself on your laziness. It's sad, because I took a few seconds to consider your predictable response and chose words that would make it clear that concern for the people of Palestine doesn't equate to supporting Hamas, and can even be the opposite. Now I will never get those few seconds back.

University cops did not intervene on the white nationalists waving Confederate flags at Charlottesville, and indeed the standard for protecting free assembly has been pretty consistent for both wings. University administrators definitely let themselves get boxed in on the pro-Palestine, anti-Israel outburst, and if you'll recall they either resigned or walked their wishy-washy declarations back per the pressure from their own liberal ecosystem rather than a viral post from Pradheep Shankar. I'm trying to imagine a right wing protest against transgenders, featuring a rainbow flag being pulled down to a cheering crowd. That would be pretty ugly. Cops wouldn't intervene, but I can easily imagine social media blowing up about it, applying the same standard of outrage as Pradheep here. Also, minor niggle, but the police in fact did arrest 47 protestors and the action was immediately condemned by the President of the United States. As a trade-off, could we ask Republicans to openly declare that casting doubt on the legality of the 2020 election is both unfounded and detrimental to the nation? And if you want an equivalency to the Yale douchebags, encourage the farther right wingnuts to lay low on declaring the J6 prisoners hostages and the opposing party cannibalistic pedophiles. Yale Arrests Pro-Palestine Student Protesters As Tensions Escalate On Ivy League Campuses Zachary Folk Forbes Staff Police began clearing out the protester encampment at Yale University on Monday morning, the Yale Daily News reported, as tensions mount between protesters and leaders concerned about growing antisemitism on college campuses, which had prompted the White House to condemn “calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting Jewish students.” About 47 protesters were arrested at the encampment at Yale’s Beinecke Plaza on Monday morning, before being charged with misdemeanor trespassing and placed on shuttle buses, Yale Police Chief Anthony Campbell told the student newspaper. Police cleared the plaza encampment by about 8 a.m., but more than 300 protesters gathered in the streets and blocked a key intersection near the plaza. Videos circulating on social media show police officers entering the camp and instructing protesters to leave early on Monday morning: “we will give you time to leave, if you do not leave, you will be arrested.” The Yale Police Department did not immediately return a request for comment from Forbes. The Yale arrests come after over 100 student protesters were arrested at another encampment on Columbia University’s campus on Thursday—which was quickly reorganized over the weekend. WHAT ARE THE PROTESTERS CALLING FOR? Both the Columbia and Yale protests were organized to call on their respective universities to divest from arms manufacturers that provide weapons to the Israeli military and other companies tied to the state. Columbia College Student Council previously approved a measure asking the university to divest from “companies and academic institutions that profit from or engage in the State of Israel’s acts of occupation, apartheid, and genocide,” the Columbia Spectator reported, but the student government tabled the motion after pushback from administrators. Last week, Yale’s Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility approved a resolution to divest from companies that sell assault weapons to the public, but declined to divest from military arms manufacturers, rebuking protesters. “Military weapons manufacturing for authorized sales did not meet the threshold of grave social injury, a prerequisite for divestment, because this manufacturing supports socially necessary uses, such as law enforcement and national security,” the university said in a statement.

I do believe that pollsters have identified Russia and abortion as liabilities for the 2024 elections, and the Republican strategists are acting accordingly.

Impressive. But how long can you keep a monopoly on the technology? If I'm an enemy of the United States and I have a microwave weapon, I'm not aiming it at our defense facilities, I'm taking out civilian internet and cell-phone servers and watching the entire nation panic. Has anyone heard about Stuxnet? It was an incredibly successful piece of malware created for the U.S. military, who continues to deny its existence. It was so good that it was able to destroy Iran's nuclear centrifuges and make it look like an internal glitch, leaving no trace of the foreign attack. It was a collaboration with Israel, who got so excited about the success that they doubled-down against the wishes of the U.S. At that point, computer vendors got involved on behalf of Seimens and Microsoft, unaware of the top-secret origin of the malware, so they unwittingly outted the U.S. and Israel as the culprits. Stuxnet was devised by the NSA under Bush and expanded under Obama. Fascinating documentary on the subject called Zero Days. Worth watching.

Tattoos are one thing. Tattoos that loudly announce your satanic leanings are another. Giant nose rings and face studs are yet another thing. You don't do any of this if you don't like reveling in negative attention, especially from the people you have no intention of impressing. That's why that clip feels like clickbait. She knows exactly what she's doing.

It's true, the money they "save" won't even bring them under the luxury tax. If you're willing to live with a huge payroll and penalty tax, you need to see something for the effort. It turns out owner Joe Lacob is that kinda owner and I think he'll be advocating for the bold move. Might not happen this particular off-season, but someone always comes into play, and they are throwing out names like Karl Anthony Towns, Dejounte Murray, Pascal Siakam or Brandon Ingram. I'm just worried that if you mortgage your young, homegrown, affordable talent to rent a star for 37/38 year old Steph Curry, you could be no better -- or worse -- than you are now. Maybe they just need a Naz Reid kind of player or two. Costlier than the exception, cheaper than a Klay, Paul, or Wiggins. But I honestly don't know how much a Naz Reid would cost in this market. And yes, Paul's second year isn't guaranteed and there's little chance the Warriors will pony up. I believe Dunleavey was able to get Washington to absorb Jordan Poole's contract so that money is no longer on the Warriors books.

You'd have to get something in a trade for Draymond, and if you could find a taker you could get at best a solid role player. Which you're gonna need. If you let Klay and Chris Paul walk there are no transactions involved and you suddenly have $75 million to spend. No free agent worth that kind of money yet, but there are always a few surprises and unhappy stars cropping up, like AD. Kerr is coaching the Olympic Team, the best assembly of talent since the 1992 Dream Team. Doesn't hurt for him to spend the summer coaching and socializing with the superstars.

That's my era. I didn't really need a student loan in 1980, but I took one out anyway because the rate was 7.5% and I could put it in a 13.5% money market account.