Well, that is a bad way to go.
Also, Licking County. LOL
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I don’t know why I even waste my time over here with you complainers.

like I said in the past KF is miles ahead of 99% of you guys and like I said two days ago great news would be coming …hammer time was right again. Why don’t y’all quit bitching and donate to the swarm as a penalty!!

Last thread I started on Brody I believe it went 13 pages.

Anyway, for you guys that don't subscribe to the lounge, Brody will be at the Midlands 100% only if he stays healthy till then. His weight is down to 141 now and on target. IMO would not be surprised he only went a couple matches and take it slow up to Big Tens. Now... hope I'm wrong as I would love to see him win it all like all of us, but wrestling 4 or 5 matches in two days might be asking for to much that soon. We shell see.

Thomas discusses what Iowa likes about his game, why he may ultimately choose the Hawkeyes, growing up a fan of Nebraska and we drop an evaluation.

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One of the best football plays I've seen in a long time.

Pure heart.

Don't ever kid yourself that video game football is where it's at

Since nobody is talking about the Swarm these days, I thought I'd start a new thread about it.

First, let me echo what others have said in recognizing the amazing job Brad Heinrichs has done in building this thing from nothing. If Brad had not stepped up when he did, there's no telling where Iowa's NIL program would be today. Perhaps someone else would have stepped up eventually, but we'd likely be a couple of years behind where we are right now.

Back in 1908, a journalist by the name of William Allen White reportedly said, "There are three things that no one can do to the entire satisfaction of anyone else: poke the fire, make love, and edit a newspaper.” I think that perhaps this quote could be updated for modern times to include "run an NIL collective."

That said, it hasn't stopped me from thinking about some of the things I would do if someone ever made the grave error of putting me in charge of the Swarm. To be clear, I am generally aligned pretty strongly with those folks who despise NIL, and I will likely never be a particularly big contributor. But I can see that NIL is necessary, at least for a while, so it's worth thinking about how to do it better.

Here are a few of the things I would try:

• At all times, refrain from getting pissy about the number of Swarm members or trying to guilt people into joining. All that does is annoy people and foment negative attitudes about the Swarm. Stay positive at all times. Always stay on-message: thank those who are members, and say you'd love to have more join.
• Try to avoid using the word "donate." Guys on the football team are going to college for free, and with the House settlement money, they will be earning 6-figure incomes on top of that. People think of "donations" as something you give to people in need, and college football players do not fit that description. Instead, use phrases like "support the Swarm," "join the Swarm," or "become a member."
• While many fans are obviously loath to make cash donations to players, they still love sports, love the Hawkeyes, and are willing to spend money on this form of entertainment. So look for more opportunities to raise money by giving fans something tangible in return for their investment. Swarm beer is a great example of this. Other ideas would be autograph sessions or other events featuring Hawkeye athletes, where people have to pay to get in, and the proceeds would benefit the Swarm. Maybe host a 5K in downtown Iowa City, where players appear/participate, and all proceeds benefit the Swarm. Need to get creative here. Fans are willing to spend money, but they're reluctant to just give money away. There needs to be something tangible in return.
• Continue efforts to create things like a small surcharge on tickets or "rounding-up" options at concessions stands, with that money going to the Swarm. In those cases, you have people already spending their money, and the idea of spending just a little more usually will be easy to stomach -- certainly easier than simply making a cash donation.
• Ditch the original Swarm Collective model in which all participating players get an equal salary in exchange for performing public service work in the community. For one thing, with the House money, a "base salary" is no longer needed. For another thing, players have always done public service work, and it looks bad when they are now doing it for money. But most of all, it doesn't make sense to ask fans to contribute money just so you can pay the third-team long-snapper hundreds of dollars for reading books to first-graders ... you need to be using that money to recruit/retain high-level players, which is how Swarm supporters probably intended their money to be used in the first place.
• Step up the PR campaign. You've got to do more than beg for supporters on Twitter and on the podcasts. Create testimonial ads from people who are supporting the Swarm, and have them explain why they do it ... "Here's why I love supporting the Swarm." Even better if some of these testimonials come from former players or other celebrity types. Talk to some players about pooling their NIL income to support a local charity -- it would do wonders to demonstrate that these athletes are not just using this money to buy sports cars and fancy clothes. Are there any players using NIL to support their family back home? That would be a good story.

Oregon/Ohio State are obviously pulling talent from around the country, but I do have to give Debbie some props in getting Elijah Pickett. Really hoping the hawks can pull in an OT yet to bolster the line.

The moron has absolutely no understanding of economics:

Donald Trump is obsessed with raising tariffs. Though it’s tricky to predict how much he will hike them, they will be higher than today’s average rate of 2.4 percent. Hardly a day passes without Trump mentioning how “beautiful” and profitable tariffs are. And this week, he laid bare why he will raise them this year: He needs money to pay for bigger tax cuts.


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While vowing to make these tax cuts “even better” with no taxes on tips, Trump wrote on his social media site: “It will all be made up with tariffs, and much more, from countries that have taken advantage of the U.S. for years.”
This is Trump’s worst argument for tariffs yet. The math doesn’t add up. Extending his 2017 tax cuts for another decade would cost $5 trillion. But putting 10 percent tariffs on all imports (plus more on China), as the president-elect has suggested, would raise about $2.7 trillion over the next decade, and that is an optimistic estimate.


At some point, it will sink in that American consumers are the ones who pay for hefty tariffs. A typical household would pay more than $1,200 a year. The Tax Foundation ran the numbers and found that the bottom 40 percent of households would lose, because they would pay more in tariffs than they would get back in tax cuts. The Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the bottom 80 percent would be worse off, and only the richest Americans would benefit.

Many business leaders believe they can thwart Trump’s plan. They have been making pilgrimages to Mar-a-Lago in hopes of persuading him to restrain his tariff ambitions. Many of Trump’s top economic aides are also trying to pare back his expressed desire to place a 10 or 20 percent tariff on every single import to something more targeted. And still, the president-elect keeps saying he wants big hikes.
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On Main Street, on the other hand, people are taking Trump’s words seriously. Families are starting to stockpile goods, and people are telling pollsters they want to buy big-ticket items such as cars and appliances before the tariffs push prices up. Main Street is reading this right: More tariffs are coming, and they will be costly for Americans. Trump himself has admitted he can’t guarantee that prices won’t rise.



The scope of what Trump is vowing to do now is so large that it’s hard to comprehend. In a worst-case scenario, the average tariff rate could spike to the highest level since the Great Depression.
This will be different from Trump’s first term, when inflation was low and few people noticed the targeted price increases on steel, aluminum and some Chinese imports. In total, his first-term tariffs covered about 10 percent of imports. Back then, he also had a clear rationale for tariffs: He was pushing back against China, whose cheap products and refusal to play by international rules were costing U.S. jobs. Americans largely supported this, and President Joe Biden kept most of the China tariffs in place.
In 2025, it continues to make sense to target China. The Chinese economy is struggling, and, rather than spur Chinese consumers to buy more, President Xi Jinping is once again trying to undercut other countries by ramping up exports. Trump would almost certainly find that European countries and many others would be willing to push back, too. On top of this, people are increasingly concerned about Chinese access to data, cellphones and other critical technology. As Andrei Iancu, who served as director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in Trump’s first term told me, “We need to collaborate with our allies and trade partners and form a united front.”


But Trump is not focused on China. Instead, he’s threatening “very high” tariffs on Denmark if it doesn’t give up Greenland. And he’s fixated on punishing Canada, claiming its trade deficit with the United States is $200 billion. In reality, it’s about $50 billion, and it exists mainly because the United States imports 4 million barrels of Canadian crude oil a day. Trump wants to use tariffs to satisfy his every whim.


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Historically, tariffs have worked best when they have been targeted to achieve a clear objective. Ronald Reagan’s quotas on Japanese cars in the 1980s are a good example: They led to trade deals and incentivized Japanese automakers to open factories in the United States.
By raising tariffs on all countries, regardless of whether they are friend or foe, Trump is likely to lose the trade war with China. His actions will anger allies and push them to raise tariffs on the United States. Americans of modest means will suffer more financially. And all this chaos will make China look, in comparison, like a beacon of global stability.

or have your semen be replaced by actual feta cheese? So when you cum, you'll shoot chunks of feta cheese out your penis. For the sake of this question, it won't be painful to have chunks of feta cheese come out of your dick. You also will still be able to impregnate someone, so the ability to have kids shouldn't factor in.

Also, you can explain to people that it's feta cheese coming out of your dick, but nobody will believe you. Everybody will think it's somehow dried up chunks of semen. So if you think you are going to go win America's Got Talent (never seen the show but assume this is the type of stuff that is on there) by shooting feta cheese out your dickhole, that ain't happening.

People who stormed the Capitol on 1/6 breaking shit and being violent deserve to be prosecuted and punished accordingly or that people here illegally who commit violent acts shouldn’t be summarily deported, then there really is no hope for the future of our country.

2050 Edition. I'll take US Presidents for $2000 Alex. Question; who is the only US President to take office as a multiple time convicted felon AND a confirmed sexual abuser? Answer; Donald Trump. Ding ding ding... you win!

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Howdy all, and welcome to another gameday for the Iowa women, who tip off at 6 PM at Illinois (BTN+, sorry). Illinois is 10-4 (1-3); Iowa is 12-3 (2-2).

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Can both teams lose?

Per the Chicago Tribune. Awfully interesting.

Sitting here having some diner coffee, listening to the local redneck council meeting chatter on and one of the fellers said, “You know, I used to have a truck that had three on the tree and I loved that thing?”

Took me a minute to get what he was talking about then I realized “Oh, a three gear shifter that’s up on the steering wheel tree.” Three on the tree! Makes sense.

Then BOOM! Holy shit…that’s what “Four on the floor” must mean. A four gear vehicle with a foot clutch. I never knew what that meant and now I do. At least I think I do. Right?

Thank you kind redneck!

Edgy Tim, who covers preps and recruiting in Illinois, caught up with one of Iowa's latest offers, 2028 WR Marshaun Thornton regarding his recent offers, including Iowa. He was Iowa's first 2028 scholarship offer.

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We are looking for a couch for the game room. We still have a lot of little kids at the house, so the wife wants something easy to clean, utilitarian, but comfortable. She also likes the ability to design the sectional to fit the rather odd shaped room. The market for midlevel furniture is not great and the online reviews of Lovesac are all over the board.

Easily one of my favorite music writers