We ran the defensive breakdown on Wednesday. If you missed it, check it out. Here's Tajwar's in-depth review of the offense ...

Great exchanges and a GREAT win. Oh yeah, and because of the batshit crazies on campus, the meet was closed to the public.

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DEI Cronyism and Woke Grifters​

The high cost of ideology replacing meritocracy.​

April 16, 2024 by Victor Davis Hanson 7 Comments

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When ideology replaces meritocracy or provides immunity from the consequences of illegal behavior, systemic mediocrity follows.

Under toxic National Socialism, Stalinism, and Maoism, millions of cronies and grifters mouthed party lines in hopes that their approved ideology would allow them to advance their careers and excuse their lawbreaking.

The same thing has happened with the woke movement and the now-huge Diversity/Equity/Inclusion conglomerate.

Grifters and opportunists mask their selfish agendas under the cloak of neo-Marxist care for the underprivileged or victimized minorities. Meanwhile, they seek to profit illegally as if they were old-fashioned crony capitalists.

During the disastrous COVID-19 lockdown, California governor Gavin Newsom pontificated about leveraging the quarantine to ensure greater equality: “There is opportunity for reimagining a (more) progressive era as it (relates) to capitalism…We see this as an opportunity to reshape the way we do business and how we govern.”

Meanwhile, Newsom did not seem very “progressive” when he was caught in one of California’s most expensive restaurants dining with sidekick lobbyists while violating the very mask and social distancing rules he had mandated for 40 million others.

Probably all set at WR numbers wise. Hopefully the other emoji today was for a certain 300+ pounder.

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This is a freaking great move by the USC Athletic Director...

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GDP growth slowed to a 1.6% rate in the first quarter, well below expectations​

PUBLISHED THU, APR 25 20248:31 AM EDTUPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Jeff Cox@JEFF.COX.7528@JEFFCOXCNBCCOM
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KEY POINTS

• Gross domestic product, a broad measure of goods and services produced in the January-through-March period, increased at a 1.6% annualized pace, below the 2.4% estimate.
• The personal consumption expenditures price index, a key inflation variable for the Federal Reserve, rose at a 3.4% annualized pace for the quarter, its biggest gain in a year.
• Consumer spending increased 2.5% in the period, down from a 3.3% gain in the fourth quarter and below the 3% Wall Street estimate.

Right here:

Sings a 120MM extension in Motor City. 77MM guaranteed. Attaboy, ARSB.

Fight on!

From Max Tuerk's family..

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Truth in 5 minutes​

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The Trump indictment is Bragg’s version of ‘stop the steal’ regarding the 2016 election.​

You just didn’t know it was going to be about 2016, not 2020, and that the election denier is Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg, not Trump.

That is the untold story about the trial that starts in earnest in New York on Monday, with opening statements expected, followed by witness testimony.

We have spent much time on the manifold flaws in Bragg’s prosecution, including:

• A business-records-falsification indictment against Trump that Bragg, the paragon progressive prosecutor, would bring against no one but a political enemy.
• The impropriety that Bragg, a state prosecutor, is purporting to enforce federal campaign law — without a peep of protest from the collusive Biden Justice Department, naturally — in a matter that both DOJ and the Federal Election Commission (the federal agencies with actual jurisdiction over the matter) decided not to pursue against Trump.
• The fact that Bragg is accomplishing this by making up his own version of what federal law requires, again, without any pushback from the feds — although you can only imagine the howling we’d be hearing if this were being done to a Democrat.
• And the fact that this criminal case, mirroring New York attorney general Letitia James’s outrageous civil fraud case against Trump, involves an alleged fraud scheme in which the state can prove no fraud victims — i.e., Trump is charged with falsifying his records with fraudulent intent, but the state is not claiming that anything or anyone, including the state itself, lost a penny.

Any one of these infirmities — and I’ve just hit the main ones — should be enough to explode Bragg’s prosecution, to say nothing of all of them in concert. But in focusing on the trees, we miss the forest: Alvin Bragg is an election denier.

That’s what this case is about. It is an elected progressive Democratic district attorney’s version of “stop the steal” — the fraud that Democrats claim leaves “our democracy” hanging by a thread. Don’t take my word for it. Just read the Statement of Facts, so-called, that Bragg published in conjunction with the indictment.

Chris Hawkins hammered with 4 year show cause penalty…

https://www.cbssports.com/college-f...e-penalty-for-ncaa-recruiting-violations/amp/

Was joined by the LA Times' Ryan Kartje for an all-encompassing assessment on what we learned (and didn't learn) this spring. I'll aim to get that up tomorrow.

I had mentioned earlier that Anthony Ruta was likely to follow Muss from Arkansas, along with his son Michael Musselman.

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