Yeah, I’m digging both of them actually.

His point is that the NFL has three times as many employees as the NBA, so they can not pay their employees as much. Presumably, he means they can only pay their employees one third as much. My point is that the NFL has three times the revenue that the NBA does, so that renders his point wrong.

“One business has fifty-three employees; it’s the NFL. One business has fifteen employees per team, and that’s the NBA. So by definition the smaller business is going to be able to pay their employees more money per employee than the bigger business is ... I wish more of the certain members of the sports media would…

Yeah, it’s not that hard to understand. Here’s this:

Came here to say just this. It’s pretty simple. They have by far the worst union of the four major pro sports in the US who hasn’t even come close to putting up a fight for one of the most important things for their membership - a guaranteed contract. All the other reasons are moot to this point.

This is a whole lot of words that give a whole bunch of irrelevant explanations. It’s not the salary cap, and it’s not the injury risk, it’s that the NFL union has done a far worse job over the decades than their counterparts in other sports. Nothing whatsoever prohibits a market where all NFL contracts are guaranteed…

But, you didn’t collude in an intelligent way. You did it in the most brazen, stupid way possible.

So the plan is: if you can no longer plead ignorance, plead incompetence? That’s not an improvement, and has you offering the opinion that you are distinctly incapable of doing your job.

I think they were too stupid to collude with Russia in a way that actually benefitted them, and were also too stupid to not get caught.

How’s that a perk?

“We’re too stupid and disorganized to collude with the Russians!”

We’re really lucky that he’s not very smart. A smart person would be able to get away with all this. He’s not going to. He’s fucked.

Much as I hate Twitter threads, this one (re: *45's dictation of Jr.’s exact statement, which was misleading at best, though probably more accurately “full of lies”) from Josh Marshall rather nicely ties things together -

This is what will make it so hard to prove outright collusion. It is highly unlikely that any evidence gathered on any evidence gathered through intel sources (CIA, NSA, etc.) would be used in the criminal probe, as it would jeopardize those sources.

Kushner: “We’re too stupid to collude with Russia, duh!”

The defense itself doesn’t make much sense, of course it would be more difficult to ‘collude’ with your local offices. There were likely something more than 50 local offices staffed by campaign volunteers. Any collusion with Russia would have been handled almost autonomously by a small group of experienced Russian…

Kuschner was essentially Trump’s campaign manager.... so what does that say about him?

I love Kushner’s “fastidious young mortuary assistant” look, especially when he greedily eyes the soon-to-be-deceased.

I mean, you shouldn’t drop/leave anything on the beach.

Let’s nip this one in the bud: filming opposing teams’ sidelines was only legal from designated areas in the stadium, and the Patriots’ tapes were filmed from outside those areas. So argue over how big a violation it was, but it was technically illegal the whole time.