I mean— it’s an overused trope/hot take but the US doesn’t exactly channel our best athletes (speaking here of soccer specific athletes none of this “oh man Lebron would be unstoppable on set pieces— though yeah he’d potentially be interesting in goal)— towards soccer in the way peer states do (the real athlete drain…

The Ashley Lelie example is perfect-- all the tools with an odd glaring exception-- if Lelie wasn’t a burner who got open deep all the time or Altidore was this chiseled specimen it wouldn’t be half as frustrating. 

The frustrating thing with Altidore has always been the disconnect between his obvious tools and the on the field results those tools generate— take this clip —even at his advanced age he shows these flashes but doesn’t finish.

Isn’t the World Cup payout disparity from FIFA almost entirely due to the revenue the respective tournaments generate from broadcast rights and sponsors? 

Thank you on the Serena Joy bullshit- it’s not even a use of “the Good Nazi” trope- she wasn’t some foot soldier roped in to helping Gilead or even a General who was serving his/her country and slowly realized it was madness- she was there at the beginning and helped spur it’s creation— at best she’s freaking Rudolf…

Um.... I hope it's name recognition, the alternative is that that there's a big section of the primary electorate that wants an old white dude regardless of ideology. 

Extremely large majorities and watering down Social Security in a far worse way than even Obama’s harshest critics on the left accused him of selling out Health care reform-- Social Security explicitly and intentionally omitted jobs employing large numbers of African Americans to ensure the votes of Southern Dems

Jack Stack for Crown Ribs (seriously, I don't think anyone else does them and they're amazing) 

Wait... You mean BBQ that’s basically just brisket? Cool, cool Texas BBQ is like Cali BBQ- a great but heavily limited style. 

Which, I mean come the fuck on- even if you think Biden was right and just wanted to dunk on him— have a freaking policy answer for the obvious follow up.

This. Roberts is a hack but he’s a hack playing the long game; the thing he cares most about is preserving what’s left of the Court’s reputation as a nonpartisan branch of government dispensing erudite opinions from on high. Hurting that reputation erodes his own power and his ability to tilt the US in a conservative…

Ryan Grim isn’t exactly an objective observer.

So.... Harris is trying to have this both ways- get the shot in on Biden, then adopt essentially the same position as Biden on the issue when pressed: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.apnews.com/586b1e81cb684654b0cf689b9074c1cb&ved=2ahUKEwiW_e2e4pvjAhUGC6wKHQG0CK4QFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw…

Harris was smart especially since she apparentlynhas virtually the same position as Biden on busing:

What? Not Brian Kemp’s office!? 

It also makes raw percentage improvements not an especially useful statistic-- a better one would be % of new hires or associate profs granted tenure vs. associate profs as a whole. 

On the one hand it’s nightmare for breaking in, on the other hand it’s a hard fought benefit for existing unionized staff and allows academic freedom in a way that wouldn’t otherwise exist preventing Universities doing things like firing Professors with politically inconvenient positions (for good and ill- see…

I’ll give him this, and only this— he fucking loathed Jarvanka and did his best to blackball them.

Might confuse his Proud Boy brownshirts, Sherman’s- both the tank and their namesake weren’t kind to those fucks ideological predecessors

No, but he is bragging about keeping the Abrams in production* despite the Army being the body that wanted to end the line (since they’re literally mothballing the things at this point and would like to move to the next generation).