For that matter, would he recognize the Iowa GOP of today?

Did I miss the thread about the unidentified drones in New Jersey? Apparently one as large as a truck fell out of the sky.

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Jordan Bohannon & Keegan Murray did it in 2022 at Maryland.

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It is great to be an Iowa Wrestling fan.

Go Hawks!

Ross and I detail the addition of Chattanooga wide receiver, Sam Phillips via the transfer portal, as well as Isaiah Johnson-Arigu's commitment to the Hawkeyes after hitting the portal part way through his freshman year with Miami.

What Phillips will bring to Iowa, Getting another weapon for Mark Gronowski, adding Phillips and not replacing anyone, Johnson-Arigu's future role with Iowa, his skillset, Iose Epenesa's All-American Bowl performances and more.

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As Fran shared today, expectation is that Thelwell plays Saturday. On the other hand, we may not see Cooper Koch again this season.

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The fires in LA are a prime example. Folks are gonna want to rebuild there ASAP but insurance companies and others are reluctant because of the $$ and the chances of this event repeating itself. Yet folks will want their homes back, their picturesque views back and want the “government” to insure their future safety….Yet these folks will fight tooth and nail not to pay taxes to allow these things get done. LA is built to control house fires and not rapidly expanding wildfires. The water supply is inadequate for the demand and the infrastructure is aged, outdated… and most of it was built during the Great Depression if the 1930’s. New infrastructure is not cheap to construct.
There is a reality here that must be addressed. How is this problem going to be resolved? Where is the $$ going to come from? California, Florida and “Hurricane Alley” have some serious soul-searching to do here. Or they will wither in the vine.

Alexander Smirnov has been given a plea deal after he spent years lying about President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, which resulted in a years-long investigation by Republicans in Congress, flagged national security expert Marcy Wheeler.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and former Attorney General Bill Barr all bought into the false claims, resulting in years of investigations that probed the bank accounts of the president, his brother, and his son.

The court filing posted on Thursday said: "The events Defendant first reported to the Handler in June 2020 were fabrications. In truth and fact, Defendant had contact with executives from Burisma in 2017, after the end of the Obama-Biden Administration and after the then Ukrainian Prosecutor General had been fired in Feb. 2016 — in other words, when Public Official 1 could not engage in any official act to influence U.S. policy and when the Prosecutor General was no longer in office. Defendant transformed his routine and unextraordinary business contacts with Burisma in 2017 and later into bribery allegations against Public Official 1, the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties for president, after expressing bias against Public Official 1 and his candidacy."

Public Official 1 can reasonably be assumed to be President Biden.

The defendant then repeated the false claims to FBI agents in Sept. 2023, where he also changed his story and had new false stories about Public Official 1.

The court filing also revealed that Smirnov was given "more than $2 million in income from multiple sources in 2020, 2021 and 2022. He then used the money to prop up his and his girlfriend's lifestyle in Las Vegas. Expenditures included a $1.4 million condo, a Bentley, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of clothes, jewelry, and accessories for himself and Domestic Partner purchased at high-end retailers in Los Angeles and Las Vegas."

Incoming president Donald Trump has not indicated whether or not he intends to pardon Alexander Smirnov, only that he will pardon Jan. 6 defendants.

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A day late and a dollar short, Americans are realizing that President-elect Donald Trump plans to short them a few dollars. That’s right: Since the election, U.S. consumers have become more likely to say they expect prices to rise next year.

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Trump based his 2024 campaign on an seductive promise: He’ll bring prices down. Alas, it is virtually impossible to reduce prices; the overall level of prices almost never falls unless an economy is really sick (as it was during the Great Depression, the last time we saw widespread deflation). The best that economists generally hope for is for growth in prices to slow and for prices themselves to more or less plateau. This is already happening for some consumer products, such as groceries.

However, none of this is intuitive to non-economists. And Trump has taken advantage.


Only after winning last month did Trump fess up, belatedly acknowledging he can’t bring prices down. “I’d like to bring them down,” he told Time magazine. “It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard.”
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Got that? There was no plan, there is no plan, and there was never going to be any plan to reduce prices. The only thing surprising about this admission is that he said it out loud.
One thing Trump didn’t acknowledge, however, is how his economic agenda — tariffs, deportations, tax cuts and kneecapping the Federal Reserve — could worsen the problem that voters hired him to solve.
But Americans seem to be catching on anyway. Every month for decades, the University of Michigan has surveyed consumers nationwide about their views on the economy. Since the election, there has been a surge in respondents saying that now is a good time to purchase big-ticket items, because prices will probably rise. Respondents became more likely to anticipate price increases for major household purchases (furniture, appliances, etc.) as well as for vehicles.



Consumers’ expectations for inflation overall (not just for major purchases) have also gotten a bit worse since the election. On average, consumers expect that prices a year from now will be 2.8 percent higher (up from 2.6 percent in November). It’s a small increase, but it also happens to be the first month-over-month increase in inflation expectations since May.
We don’t know for sure what’s driving these shifts in consumer views. Most likely, Americans are absorbing news coverage of Trump’s proposed tariffs and their potential to raise prices on food, cars, apparel, appliances and other common household purchases. Researchers at the Peterson Institute for International Economics estimate that 10 percent global tariffs and 60 percent tariffs on Chinese goods could cost a typical American family about $1,700 a year.
Threats of mass deportations and reduced legal immigration for seasonal agricultural workers have also led to more news stories about how U.S. farms could be left shorthanded, driving up fruit, vegetable and dairy prices. And though I don’t really expect American voters to be paying a ton of attention (yet) to Trump’s threats to Fed independence, that should also be a five-alarm fire for anyone who cares about inflation.


Meanwhile, some U.S. companies are already pulling forward purchases and stockpiling imported goods. This precaution is not only to front-run possible tariffs, but also to avoid other geopolitical and supply-chain threats. Iran-backed Houthi attacks against merchant vessels in the Red Sea have forced U.S.-bound ships to reroute around southern Africa. Meanwhile, potential strikes at U.S. ports across the East and Gulf Coasts could begin as soon as mid-January. The possible strikes are nudging companies to bring over imported goods early, or to consider costly alternative shipping routes.
These factors are already driving up shipping prices, and forcing U.S. companies to absorb the costs of purchasing and warehousing inventory they’re not yet sure they’ll need. Some of those costs will likely get passed along to consumers.
Trump could easily make all of these problems worse.




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For some reason, he’s threatening to take over the Panama Canal, a crucial transit point for U.S. goods. This month, he supported U.S. dockworkers’ demands for ports to abandon planned investments in automation. To be clear, U.S. ports are among the least efficient in the world, precisely because they have put off basic technological improvements. Delaying automation further will lead to higher consumer prices in the long run, while protracted labor strikes against this measure could drive up import costs in the near term.
Consumers might not be totally aware of all these risks. But they seem to have a growing sense — “vibes,” if you will — that a second Trump term could bring more uncertainty to the U.S. economy. And that sense of unease in and of itself can lead to bad economic outcomes.
“If sufficient numbers of consumers follow through with preemptive purchasing to avoid future price escalations,” explains Joanne W. Hsu, the director of the University of Michigan’s Surveys of Consumers, “such a burst of spending could in itself exert upward pressure on inflation and could potentially contribute to a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
Sigh. If only voters had realized all this before Nov. 5.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds says she is ready to use "every tool at our disposal," including deploying the state's National Guard and law enforcement, to carry out President-elect Donald Trump's plans for "mass deportations" of illegal immigrants, according to a joint statement by Republican governors.

Trump has signaled he wants to see an overhaul of the country's immigration system, starting with deporting immigrants living in the country illegally who have violated the law.

"On Day 1, I will launch the largest deportation program in American history to get the criminals out," Trump said during his campaign's closing speech at Madison Square Garden.

Reynolds and 25 other Republican governors vowed in the statement to stand behind Trump's plans to seal the border to illegal immigrants, which they said President Joe Biden's administration failed to accomplish.


“Republican governors remain fully committed to supporting the Trump Administration’s efforts to deport dangerous criminals, gang members, and terrorists who are in this country illegally," the governors said in their statement. "We understand the direct threat these criminal illegal immigrants pose to public safety and our national security, and we will do everything in our power to assist in removing them from our communities."

Reynolds' office did not immediately respond to a request for additional information on how the National Guard and law enforcement might be deployed in the deportation effort.

I know I’m beating a dead horse here but holy shit. I’m sure many of you have read the contrarian viewpoint, that Caitlin Clark isn’t the sole reason for viewership increase across women’s basketball.

But that clearly isn’t the case. She is literally the only reason. I mean the whole nation got to watch every game she played last year.

If I’m reading the TV schedule correctly even #6 LSU/Tenn #16 & #18 Bama/Texas #5 are on pay per view channels.

It’s insane !!

A bitcoin mining facility in Grundy County was destroyed by fire Sunday evening.



Firefighters from Wellsburg, Holland and Grundy Center responded to a call at the MiningStore facility located eight miles west of Grundy Center at approximately 6:15 p.m. Sunday, according to Grundy County Emergency Management Coordinator Chase Babcock.


Babcock said when crews arrived on the scene the fire had already vented through the top of the hoop building on the property.




According to MiningStore’s website, the industrial-scale cryptocurrency mining facility, which uses energy generated from a partnership with the Grundy County Rural Electric Cooperative, had 1,700 crypto-mining computers with nine on-site engineers maintaining the on-site servers. Babcock said no injuries were reported at the scene.


Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency that’s used by people to send money to each other without a bank or third party. Bitcoin transactions are verified and monitored by independent computers running a secure algorithm to solve blocks of numbers that represent groupings of transactions. These computers, or “miners,” race to solve each block with the payout being the next block of bitcoins, which is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.


The Gazette reported in 2022 that the Grundy County facility, which opened in 2020, was one of Iowa’s first bitcoin mining facilities.






The company’s founder and chief executive officer, J.P. Baric, said he chose to build in Grundy County because of low energy costs. In 2022, the facility used more electricity than all the residential customers in Grundy County, population 2,800, combined. Baric said the daily electricity bill was about $5,000.


A representative from MiningStore could not be reached for comment about the extent of the damage to the mining site or future plans for the location.

Neither Fox or super spaz spokesman Steven Cheung are denying that Fox was so worried about how Trump would perform that they gave grandpa the questions.
Something, something, media bias protected Biden and Harris.

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Fantastic breakdown

Not like.. pepper flakes or ranch. Something you can share that most of us will go "huh.. never thought of that before."

1st ILLEGAL re-entry = castration! 2nd ILLEGAL re-entry = summary execution! Why the **** not??! >

5pm BTN

Biggest game of the year so far!

Maryland (13-0, 3-0) comes to Carver with a perfect record, although they haven’t had a tough non conference schedule, outside of a win against Duke.

Iowa (12-2, 2-1) has won three straight and is playing solid basketball.

I see a tight game with Maryland pulling away late and grabbing a 83-75 victory.

Time to have a conversation.

Due to his penchant for not understanding how things get done, Trump may find sucessfuly executing his agenda challenging.


President-elect Donald Trump's advisers have been hoping county sheriffs in border states will assist with the incoming administration's mass deportation campaign. But several sheriffs are already publicly promising to not lift a finger.

According to a Tuesday report in WIRED magazine, Trump's top immigration advisors like Tom Homan and Stephen Miller have been having conversations with several far-right sheriffs who have expressed an interest in helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement remove immigrants from the United States.

But that effort is unlikely to pick up traction, both for legal reasons and because other sheriffs have said they already have their hands full and don't want to take on more work.

Currently, ICE's 287(g) program allows for state and local law enforcement to collaborate with ICE in its efforts "to protect the homeland through the arrest and removal of noncitizens."

However, this does not include sheriffs themselves rounding up and detaining undocumented immigrants. Additionally, no federal funding has been appropriated to any sheriffs' offices that help ICE, meaning just 125 out of 3,081 sheriff's offices in the U.S. have signed up.

And Yuma County, Arizona Sheriff Leon Wilmot told WIRED that the Supreme Court has already established that enforcing immigration law is outside the jurisdiction of local police departments and sheriffs' offices.

"[T]hat's not our realm of responsibility," Wilmot said. "If we wanted to do immigration law, we would go work for Border Patrol."

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Her female partner, who is a Swiss National, was adopted from Sri Lanka at 3 months old.

Also….

“Weidel already gave her answer seven years ago in an election campaign speech. She was not in the AfD despite her homosexuality, but precisely because of it, said Weidel, making the connection to security and migration policy. Gays and lesbians could hardly dare to walk the streets arm in arm. There are no-go areas for homosexuals and "Muslim gangs" that hunt them down.”

Stop the madness.

Notre dame is now doing their 3rd trophy presentation after the game for winning a playoff game lol.