Can here looking for the Barry-YOLOing-On-Oliver's grave meme and was not disappointed.
Something that needs to be understood: the NFL is a profit sharing arrangement.
The player's salaries are not fixed, there is no law that says they have to get paid more every year. The player's get a fixed percentage of the total league revenues.
When revenues go up, owners make more, and players make more. When revenue goes down, everyone gets paid less. There is a direct link between league revenues and player salaries. Its a profit sharing arrangement.
If the NFL gets woke and goes broke, and league revenues fall, the salary cap number falls, and players get paid less. That's financial physics.
The NBA has the same arrangement, NBA players are paid a fixed percentage of league revenues, that's what the cap and luxury tax number are for.
Confession: I didn't know the Emmys was tonight until I read this post from thedonald.win. Thanks for telling me so that I don't watch by accident.
Of all the memes in the world, this is the one that will be forever young. It will never grow old.
She's so beautiful, and smart, and .....well, you guys know, right?
I had a dream a few nights ago that she passed by me on the street. I waved to her. She didn't see me wave and she kept walking on her way. I watched in silence as she walked away to where she had to get to and I silently said: 'that's okay that you didn't wave back, I know you're busy doing God's work and saving our country. Go get 'em."
Sometimes, I don't think people like her and GEOTUS are human the same way I am.
I realized this about Oliver shortly after the 2016 election. I realized every single one of his segments flow exactly the same way, no variation. Once you know what the technique is, you start seeing through it and you see all the poor reasoning he's using.
I stopped watching his show about 2 years ago.
Yup, for Donald Trump and for thedonald.win, this kind of thing happens every single day that ends in "y".
Today's deal is a huge fucking deal. Trump has put yet another stone into peace in the middle east. You want to know why people hate it? Here's the best explanation I found, courtesy of vox.com:
First, it means Israel won’t — at least for now — annex parts of the West Bank, a move that would have all but shut the door on a two-state solution between the Israelis and Palestinians.
I have some really, really bad news for Alex Ward who wrote this article: the two state solution isn't real.
Believing in the two state solution is like believing in Santa Claus, or the easter bunny, or the tooth fairy. Its something children believe in, but should grow out of as they get older and wiser. The two state solution hasn't been a possibility since Jimmy Carter was president, Yassar Arafat put the nail in the coffin at Camp David during the Clinton years. Its been a myth for 40 years now. Its not happening.
That's what they HATE about Trump: they have the solution to the middle east problem already in their head. They know what the destination they want looks like, and they are trying to force their way there. Trump only wants peace, and he has no pre-determined idea what that looks like, because he isn't an ideologue whose job is at a foreign policy think tank. He's open to getting peace, any way that looks like.
They don't want peace in the middle east, they want a peace in the middle east that fits into their neat little ideological categorization of "fair".
The problem is, no one on the ground, whose actually fighting over this, wants the solution the powers that be are trying to force upon them. If you think about it, it really is imperialism and colonialism all over again: its Europe carving up the world according to what Europe thinks is "right" and not according to what any of the people who live there actually WANT. The two-state solution is a paternal, racist European interpretation of what is fair.
This is, however, a really, really bad day for the Palestinians, and there's no way around that. For 70 years now, ever since the birth of Israel, the Palestinian's leverage to say "no" to any peace deal has rested on one plank: the broad support their cause had in the wider arab world. If Sunni Muslim nations are sick of their shit, that's a major problem for them. If Israel could ever divide the Arab world over the Palestinian question, and peal off any support whatsoever, the leverage the Palestinians have would erode.
They are cornered and trapped. They are completely reliant on Iran and Hezbollah to keep them afloat. They don't have any other sympathizers in the broader Arab world who are willing to bail them out. I suspect even the Shiite nations are starting to grow tired of the Palestine question and also see profitability in a relationship with Israel, even if they can't say that.
If anything happens to Iranian help, and we know what a sorry state Iran is in right now, the Palestinians are out of luck. The settler movement will continue apace, and its only a matter of time before Israel has enough broad support to annex the territory outright. Now that UAE has taken the plunge, other Sunni countries will probably follow suit in the next few months.
An Israeli-Palestinian peace deal will happen, because if anything happens to Iran, the Palestinians will be unable to support themselves and they will have no choice but to stop fighting and sign on the dotted line. They won't like it, but it will be preferable to total extinction and isolation. That is how we get to peace.
Here's another legend that Trump reminds me so much of. It came to me when I had the following realization: the reason people think Trump is a bad leader is because they've been without leadership for so long that they don't know good leadership when they see it.
The issue with being Alexander the Great or Trump is that there are things even an Emperor or a President can't overcome. The Deep State is not a new thing, its been in every civilization throughout history and is tens of thousands of years old. The name was just different in the past.
Way back in Ancient Egypt, during the late Bronze age, there was a pharaoh, a literal God on earth, who challenged the Egyptian Deep State; the priesthood. It resulted in the Heresy of Armarna, because those who possess institutional power will destroy anyone who challenges that power. Akhenaten, has a super-model for a wife (one of many) and he is the only Egyptian Pharaoh who is depicted as he probably was; not ideal facial features and a beer belly. Akhenaten tried to change the Egyptian religion, from polytheism to monotheism and the worship of one God, Aten. Not much is known about why he wanted to do this, or how everything went down, but guesses can be made. He died (Akhenaten did not kill himself) and his 10 year old son, King Tut, was made puppet......er Pharaoh and undid all of his father's reforms.
King Tut was the Joe Biden of the ancient world: Biden has about the same cognitive abilities as a 10 year old, but the reason the deep state of that time and this time favors them is one and the same: they will both be puppets who will undo the previous regimes reforms and rubber stamp the agenda of those who were thrown out of power. Akhenaten was a radical reformer, after his death, any trace of his rule was erased from history. Statues of him were defaced and desecrated, he was edited out of all the history books, his every word and deed censored and removed. We don't know precisely what Akhenaten tried to do, we just know that he pissed off just about every single source of institutional power in ancient Egypt, which means, he was probably on the right track.
Public education is a massive, big, fucking lie.
I did very well in school. Never failed a class before senior year in college. Got accepted to a really prestigious university and finished a master's degree.
I didn't get wealthy until I unlearned every single fucking thing I learned in school.
I went to christian schools until the end of high school, my Bible study classes are the only ones I still use every day. I have a technical job, so I still use a lot of math. The rest of it? There are better, faster ways to teach basic science literacy, math, english, etc.
Remember, your education is NOT designed to provide you with a happy or fulfilling life. Your education is designed to teach you how to be a happy worker bee, by emphasizing rote memorization and mind-numbing amounts of busy work. Your education is designed to make you a good little slave that feeds the machine.
That's why bad students so often wind up better off than great students: they have less to forget.
You want to know the difference between wealthy, happy and well-adjusted people and the malcontents? Some of it is circumstance and luck, obviously, and we should absolutely help those who are struggling, but its mostly mindset. Not intelligence, not charisma, and not anything else, but a mindset that makes working fulfilling and rewarding.
Here's the summation of that mindset, in its purest form: the poor are taught, in school, how to vote for politicians, the wealthy don't vote for politicians, the wealthy BUY politicians. Its very obvious exactly WHY you aren't taught how to BUY politicians in school!
metoo. The GUI of the new reddit is clearly designed to make it look better in the reddit app that reddit asks me to install everytime I try to browse reddit on my phone. Don't want the app, hate the new site design, all my reddit bookmarks (still use it for a few cool subs and my sports subs) are always old.reddit.
Them Duke Boys and their darn sneaky General Lee, I'm going to get them Duke Boys!
Not all heroes wear capes, anon. Turning Clairo into a viral waifu for robots is an important accomplishment too. Some people are the heroes we need right now, you, my friend, are the hero we deserve.