Kentucky House representative Massie confirms he will not vote for Johnson for speaker of the house. Is their do-nothingness going to continue? Are they going to have another days long fight over who's going to be their speaker? If they can't even agree amongst themselves on a leader, how are they going to govern our country? It's so sad the level of dysfunction and ineptitude they continue to show.

Seriously, the game has passed you by

Interesting little coincidence that there.

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The British Government has been covering up industrial scale gang rape of British youth since at least 2008 and allegedly for decades.

Now the criminal who allegedly covered it up for 5 years, is Prime Minister.

What the hell is going on in the UK?

TL: DNW

The manufacturer allegedly puts code into the software to cause them to malfunction and rakes in millions of dollars in repair bills every year.

Taylor is the Manufacturer, out of Rockford, Illinois. FIBs alright.

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Interesting read about Delaware's representative to the US House which will be seated in a few days. It's much harder to hate someone when you get to know them and see who they are through their accomplishments. Trigger alert for some of you, there are kind, complimentary words from McBrides Republican colleagues in the Delaware legislature.
Those that know her respect her.
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“When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country, that statement was constantly refuted by Democrats and the Fake News Media, but it turned out to be true," Trump falsely implied, hours before the FBI identified the suspect as a U.S. citizen from Texas.


The fact that so many idiots voted for this man is perplexing.

Caught up with James Dunnigan for some follow up on @Greg Smith's intel he shared yesterday.

Playing for Phil Parker appears to be a potentially strong pull for him to Iowa City.

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Our landscaper just planted a of camellia in our back yard. The deer have already started eating the leaves. What is the best way to keep them out? TIA

Has to be a few of you.

Sorry in advance if trauma

Just finished up a rough look at what Iowa's defensive depth chart could look like in 2025.

Some thoughts, nuggets from bowl prep, where the Hawkeyes have question marks and need portal additions, + more.

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We’re sending you back to Europe, you white b–ches,” one female demonstrator wearing a keffiyeh shouted at counter-protesters outside the event, video posted to social media shows. “Go back to Europe! Go back to Europe,” she repeated.

“2024 was a year of struggle against the crime of Zionism,” one speaker shouts through a megaphone in the heart of the Big Apple.

The crowd also chanted, “We will honor all our martyrs.”

The demonstration happened just hours after a suspected terrorist, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, plowed a pickup truck bearing an ISIS flag into New Year’s Eve revelers on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing at least 14 people.

Jabbar, 42, was shot dead by cops in a gunfight. Three improvised pipe bombs were found nearby in the tourist-drawing French Quarter, including one in Jabbar’s truck.

The guy driving the big truck into the crowd in New Orleans was a Biden donor. The other guy who rented the Telsa was obviously an anti-Trump and Musk guy.

Two consecutive years of 20+ percent increase on S&P 500.

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That worked so well for them in 2024, they should keep doing it.

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We don't have the athletes. We don't have coaches with any imagination or creativity. QB play is non existent and has been for a long time.

Overall, college sports are not what they use to be with NIL and Portal. We will never be able to compete with either......NEVER!

The players will be looking for:

* A to-be-determined percentage of media rights revenue.

* Medical care for players after their college careers have come to an end. Funds from the B1G would purchase medical insurance policies for former players that would cover the treatment of injuries from their college football careers.

If the B1G does not make significant progress on doing more for players, the players' next step could be to register as a 501(c)(5) labor organization and potentially begin the process of becoming a union.


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Are we supposed to like take time getting back into a normal routine where you're not drinking by 2pm every day? Or just roll on through Sunday in a sustained debaucherous way on into the new week where you kicked in the penis.

John G. Roberts Jr., in his year-end report on the federal judiciary, didn’t call out JD Vance by name. But the chief justice took an unmistakable — and well-deserved — swipe at the vice president-elect over his reckless suggestions that it is sometimes acceptable to defy the rulings of federal courts.


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Roberts has multiple concerns when it comes to defending the imperative of an independent judiciary: violence or threats of violence directed against judges; efforts to intimidate them, fueled by the rise of social media; and disinformation, including by foreign actors. But on the eve of the inauguration of Vance and Donald Trump, Roberts’s most compelling warning involved the prospect of government officials defying court orders.
Judicial independence, he wrote, “is undermined unless the other branches [of government] are firm in their responsibility to enforce the court’s decrees.” He cited, of course, the response to the court’s 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, when governors throughout the South sought to defy court orders to desegregate public schools.


“The courage of federal judges to uphold the law in the face of massive local opposition — and the willingness of the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations to stand behind those judges — are strong testaments to the relationship between judicial independence and the rule of law in our Nation’s history,” Roberts observed.
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And in case you missed the pointed reference to the role of both Republican and Democratic administrations in enforcing court orders, Roberts went on, and he’s worth quoting in full.
“Every Administration suffers defeats in the court system — sometimes in cases with major ramifications for executive or legislative power or other consequential topics,” Roberts wrote. “Nevertheless, for the past several decades, the decisions of the courts, popular or not, have been followed, and the Nation has avoided the standoffs that plagued the 1950s and 1960s. Within the past few years, however, elected officials from across the political spectrum have raised the specter of open disregard for federal court rulings. These dangerous suggestions, however sporadic, must be soundly rejected.”
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These words cannot be read in a vacuum — nor, I suspect, were they written in one. Because of all the “elected officials from across the political spectrum” who have toyed with defying court orders, the most prominent by far — and the one who ought to know better — is JD Vance, Yale Law School Class of 2013, whose wife, Usha, clerked for Roberts from 2017 to 2018.
And yet defying the courts is something Vance has repeatedly suggested. “If I was giving him [Trump] one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state,” Vance said on a 2021 podcast. “Replace them with our people. And when the courts — because you will get taken to court — and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say: ‘The chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.’”
This was no casual, one-off comment.


Vance reiterated his position — although he tried to soft-pedal it — in a February interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos:
Vance: “The president has to be able to run the government as he thinks he should. That’s the way the Constitution works. It has been thwarted too much by the way our bureaucracy has worked over the past 15 years.”
Stephanopoulos: “The Constitution also says the president must abide by legitimate Supreme Court rulings, doesn’t it?”
Vance: “The Constitution says that the Supreme Court can make rulings, but if the Supreme Court — and, look, I hope that they would not do this, but if the Supreme Court said the president of the United States can’t fire a general, that would be an illegitimate ruling, and the president has to have Article II prerogative under the Constitution to actually run the military as he sees fit.”


Then, in an interview with Politico Magazine the following month, Vance made clear that he meant defiance of the federal courts, and not just in the narrow case of the president’s authority over the military.
“If the elected president says, ‘I get to control the staff of my own government,’ and the Supreme Court steps in and says, ‘You’re not allowed to do that’ — like, that is the constitutional crisis,” Vance said. “It’s not whatever Trump or whoever else does in response. When the Supreme Court tells the president he can’t control the government anymore, we need to be honest about what’s actually going on.”
So, here we are. Trump and Vance are about to be sworn in. The prospect of a standoff between the Trump administration and the courts is not theoretical — it is real. Trump’s contempt for the courts and the rule of law has long been evident. Now, he will have Vance by his side, seemingly ready to egg him on.


When the Trump administration loses an important case before the Supreme Court — and its first-term record implies that is likely — will Vance counsel defiance and what Roberts called “open disregard”?
That would be, as Roberts warned, a dangerous suggestion. Usha Vance should urge her husband to mind the Constitution and the chief justice. Meanwhile, the rest of us need to brace for what Roberts might have to report a year from now.

WHY IS THIS POS STILL GETTING A PAYCHECK?


President Biden and his administration were largely absent from the onerous negotiations on government funding that gripped Capitol Hill this week.

Instead, President-elect Trump and his allies were the ones wrestling with lawmakers over a continuing resolution as a government shutdown appeared increasingly inevitable.

The White House on Friday blew off a host of questioning over Biden’s absence from the talks, insisting they were staying out of it in part because it was Republicans who had to clean up a “mess” they created. But, Biden’s silence, with no indication that administration officials were heading to Capitol Hill as the funding deadline approached, could prove damaging to the president’s final days in office.

“We’re just not seeing them. And he’s completely disappeared,” GOP strategist Doug Heye said of the president. “Biden is AWOL and it’s reasonable to question whether some of that is because he’s just not up to the task.”

When peppered with questions about why Biden has made no public statements or appearances regarding the funding fight, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said it was part of a “strategy” to make it clear that “this is for Republicans in the House to fix.”

That did little to deter more questions in similar veins about what Biden’s plans were if the government shutdown over the holidays, why Biden himself wasn’t speaking to reporters, with some reporters asking if Americans deserve to hear from the president hours before a shutdown.

Others also asked about Biden’s leadership position at the moment and why Biden doesn’t want to counter Trump and Elon Musk’s messaging on government funding.

Some Democrats took note that, on the flip side, lawmakers aren’t pleading with the president to jump in and help reach a funding agreement, pointing to a larger issue that his party is ready for the Biden years to end.

“The bigger story is that no one is asking him to be involved. Democrats in Washington just want the Bidens and their people to get the hell out of town so we can move on from them,” a Democratic strategist told The Hill.

If Biden had been more involved with continuing resolution negotiations, former Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) questioned if he would even be listened to considering how absent he has been.

“President Biden has been in lame duck status for most of this year. Even if he had something to say, it doesn’t seem there would be anyone listening,” Curbelo said. “His only strategy is to let President Trump, Elon Musk, and the Speaker own the chaos, since it was their decision to torpedo that bipartisan agreement [Speaker Mike] Johnson had built.”

The White House did release two written statements on the matter during the week. On Thursday, the administration bashed the Republicans’ plan B as a “billionaire giveaway” before it failed on the House floor. It has yet to weigh in onHouse Republicans proposals since, other than insisting that the only way to fund the government is for lawmakers to pass the first spending agreement that was negotiated by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and that Democrats were on board for.
The White House approach is in stark contrast to that of Trump, who injecting himself fully in the fight, at one point even torpedoing the initial agreement and asking for the debt ceiling to be negotiated before he takes office.

Trump then warned Republicans who voted for that measure that they would be primaried if they support legislation that doesn’t tackle the debt limit.

When questioned about tackling the debt limit as part of the CR, Jean-Pierre said Biden’s “focus right now is keeping the government open” without addressing that subject matter. Biden and then-Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) negotiated a debt ceiling hike during Biden’s term after weeks of back-and-forth negotiations that the White House was much more involved in.

Former Rep. Joe Crowley (D-N.Y.), a former House Democratic caucus chair, argued there was no need for Biden to get involved in inter-party chaos among Republicans.


“I really don’t see how this is the president’s issue,” said Crowley. “Clearly Johnson, he can’t govern with the majority he has. How’s he going to do this when he has less of a majority?”

Other Democrats agreed, saying that the struggle to fund the government is the Republicans’ problem.

“This seems like an inter-party squabble, and I’m not sure that Biden or any Democrat has a role in solving it,” said Ivan Zapien, a former Democratic National Committee official.

Meanwhile, a former Democratic leadership staffer said that the negotiations are the problems of Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.), not Biden’s, considering he is on his way out.

“These negotiations will shape next year’s legislative and political dynamic on multiple levels, so by definition, the center of gravity for Democrats is with Jeffries and Schumer,” the former staffer said. “Unified Republican control next year will inherently be constrained by narrow margins, so Jeffries and Schumer will continue to ensure that Democratic votes are not taken for granted.”


Still, Biden risks being blamed for a shutdown under his watch, some Trump is trying to take advantage of

Trump on Friday morning called for there to be a shutdown while Biden is president and not after he is sworn in in a month. Trump had also insisted that a debt ceiling hike also happen during Biden’s administration to avoid any blame that came with that.

When questioned about Trump’s comments, Jean-Pierre again blamed Republicans for sinking the initial measure.

Trump was president during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, which occurred just before Christmas in 2019 over funding for his border wall. The second longest was under former President Clinton in 1995 over spending cuts, and the third longest was under former President Obama in 2013 over the Affordable Care Act.

At the time, those shutdowns had mixed public opinions over who was to blame.


After the 2013 Obama-era shutdown, Republicans expanded their majority in the House and won the Senate in the 2014 midterms. After the Clinton-era shutdown that lasted through December 1996, the president was reelected. Trump was reelected in November, despite the lengthy shutdown in 2019 and the House and Senate are both going to be controlled by the GOP in January.

Biden’s strategy to not give public remarks and not sending his staff up to Capitol Hill is one way the White House thinks he can stay above the fray, Crowley said.

Me(age 13), my younger brother (age 11), and my dad went to an Iowa vs. ISU meet in 1981. It was in the Fieldhouse and it was packed! The weather was horrible. The Iowa Highway Patrol updated the weather in between each match. The meet was almost over and Lou Banach was wrestling Wayne Cole. Cole took Banach to his back, but then Banach was given an injury timeout (I think it was an ankle problem). At that point we thought the match was over so we were leaving to get to our car. Before we got outside there was a gigantic roar and we ran back just in time to see Banach pin Cole!

I watched many meets on PBS, but this was the first one in person.

3-80 wasn't there yet so we traveled on Highway 218. It took us two hours to get home(usually it took us around 30/40 minutes. We lived in Cedar Rapids.). My mom was not happy with my dad for taking us out in a blizzard!

My dad also tapped meets when they were on PBS and would mail them to me when I lived out of state. I was a wrestling junky and I could not wait to get my next fix!

This is the story that got me hooked on all things Iowa Hawkeye Wrestling.

Sadly my dad is no longer with us. He died from Parkinson's and dementia some years ago.

I would appreciate any donations. Right now I am sitting at $1065.00 and in first place in the team standings. I would love to get at least $1500.00 and more would be awesome.

Thank you!

This is the link to my donation page: https://boom.hawkeyewrestlingclub.com/team/625106

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