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I think he heard they were going off the value menu this time around.

First, I didn't say you got it all wrong ... that's your interpretation and probably why you are focused on a singular aspect. You said it's about a single administration and she has clearly been protesting, on the same issue and in the same circumstance ... national anthem ... over the last two administrations. The fact that she's currently protesting the Trump administration, doesn't make it singular.

Speaking of threes ...

US Women's Soccer has the numbers on their side, but that's not making the difference. For example, in 2015, US Women's soccer produced more revenue than US men's soccer. The 2015 team hold the top spot for the largest viewership of a soccer match in the US by male or female teams with their FIFA Women's World Cup Finals match against Japan. The second largest audience in the US was the 2014 FIFA World Cup Final, but that was between Argentina and Germany ... not the US men's team. The women's game this past week against Thailand garnered more viewers on an English-language broadcast than any game since last year's men's World Cup Final ... and again, that game didn't include the US Men's team. Arguably, especially from a casual fan perspective, the women's team and its players probably have more recognition on the street than the men's team. The men's largest World Cup game victories are both 3-0 and came back in 1930 ... when it had its best showing at a World Cup with a 3rd place finish. Folks that remember those are certainly not pitching in on the revenue in stadiums nowadays at 89. In the last 20 years, looking at the big awards that get world recognition, the US women's team has three Olympic gold medals and a silver medal. It also has two World Cup 3rd place finishes, a 2nd place finish, and two World Cups. In the history of the FIFA Women's World Cup, the women's team has received in medal in every one. In that same time, the men's team has mustered a 4th place finish at the 2000 Olympics and an 8th place finish at the 2002 World Cup. If the issue is about increasing audience share, I'm not sure what more you could ask the women's team to do; especially compared to their male counterparts. The issue of stadium attendance may also end up being less of a point too in the overall revenues too. There was an article that came out last year that talked about the revenue generation of TV vs. in-person attendance and, in the Premier League, that over half the teams would have made before-tax profits even they played their entire season in front of an empty stadium. Granted, there's something to be said about watching soccer on TV with a packed house, but there's the realization in this age that venues outside of the physical are a new frontier. I'll get a chance to ask additional questions as my class here in Madrid will be getting a business lecture regarding Real Madrid and then heading out to the stadium to look at the tech there. Had some stuff a couple years ago with the guy who developed Real Madrid's e-commerce and social media models. The money is way beyond the ticket.

The problem with this statement is that she was protesting back during the Obama administration; as was Kaepernick. She was kneeling back in 2016 BEFORE said "single" administration was even in place or might even be in place. Also, the fact that she doesn't sing the anthem is based on the fact that U.S. Soccer implemented a rule that forbid players from kneeling. With that avenue taken away, she still protests ... just in the same silence that she did before, but without a knee. I hear you ... figuratively. 😃

I'd venture a bet that several, along with citizens, don't know the words.

That's actually not something that's new for her. She was one of the first non-football, non-Black athletes to join Kaepernick in a show of kneeling for the anthem back in early-fall 2016. She now stands, but doesn't sing based on a rule put in by the power sthat be that athletes have to stand and honor the flag.

Plenty of others who do or who have an interest in diverting US attention toward Iran plus a few who are just looking for targets for notoriety.

Domincans?

While Denver is one city where this happened, Overton, TX, is another city where it happened as well. So it's either not a partisan issue or the "libtards" have done such a great job of infiltrating GOP ranks as to have taken the extreme Mr. Gohmert and made him a Manchurian candidate since the county where Overton resides, Rusk County, is pretty much awash in red and represented by the likes of Louie Gohmert. Rusk supported Trump over 77%. The other county that Overton resides in is Smith, which supported Trump almost 70% and also represented by Gohmert. Can't get less "libtard" than that.

https://news.yahoo.com/notorious-us-gangster-wrote-letter-121426364.html

And gained, as of December 2018, over $45 million in recouped fraud losses, stoppages, and seizures. http://fortune.com/2018/12/14/mueller-investigation-cost-tax-cheats/

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/watch-gop-rep-jim-jordan-quickly-corrects-himself-after-saying-mueller-found-no-obstruction/ FTA: “I think the one question most Americans want to know, when did you first learn there was no obstruction,” Jordan began, then quickly corrected himself. “Or excuse me, no collusion?” he continued. “The central charge of Bob Mueller — the central task was to find if there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.” It was then Stephanopoulos’ turn to correct Jordan. “Actually, he says he didn’t look at collusion,” Stephanopoulos said. “That’s not what he said. When he spoke in his report, it says very clearly he didn’t examine that question. What he did say is that he could not establish a conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia.” Undeterred, Jordan continued to insist that Mueller be asked about not establishing “collusion.” “After 10 months, if they couldn’t establish collusion, how long did it take Bob Mueller?” Jordan asked, and said he thinks “that’s a question I think the whole country has for Bob Mueller.” Jordan’s slip, while inadvertent, demonstrates the gravity of Mueller’s press conference, which makes it impossible for claims of “no obstruction” to carry any weight, while also putting Democrats on the spot to do something about it.

Or the likes of Rep. Rob Woodall. https://www.newsweek.com/republican-woodall-read-mueller-report-msnbc-1443125 FTA: Georgia Republican Rob Woodall offered a boastful explanation for why he has no interest in reading any part of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, even citing his past disinterest in reviewing accusations against Bill Clinton in 1998. I guess he doesn't read anything?

Trump made the mistake of liking one of his GID posts and now he's stalking him. 😀

The FBI's probably the least of everyone's concerns. Facebook has better facial recognition algorithms and probably a larger database of images. Oh, and plenty of your friends and family just helping them expand that by posting pics and then tagging them with your name for clarification. Not to mention the machine learning processes that then find the stuff that isn't tagged and metatags it.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/tale-2-invoices-beto-orourke-pays-el-paso-080100582--abc-news-topstories.html?.tsrc=notification-brknews

Thanks Obama. 😠

I found this line in the article to be interesting ... albeit maybe because it wasn't written well: Per the investigation detailed in the Post, an employee pulled the incorrect version of a video the employee had been using for years. It was not fully watched before it aired. Something doesn't make sense in that and also there's something else going on with the various denials. AOC has only been around in the national spotlight since around the start of the year and this is the first Memorial Day since her rise as "an enemy of the people.". How many videos have been cut with her in them like this for the Grizzlies? I would expect just the one. If it is the "incorrect version" why it is sitting around in the production bins? It's not like it's a video of a hall of famer that shows every year on their induction anniversary and it's been twenty years since they've been inducted so there are several versions of it lying around that have actually been played in production. Similarly, someone had to have made that video and someone else had to have reviewed it to have deemed it as inappropriate/incorrect, so it's not like this snuck up on them. Also, what would have led them to consider it incorrect? What'd they do? Misspell her name in the last one so they weren't going to use THAT one? More likely, it was deemed incorrect for the exact reason that we are seeing now. Seems like another one of those "plausible denial" situations where the trial balloon can be floated and then either raised to higher heights if it works or quickly dismissed off on a low-level employee to deflect consequences if it doesn't.

Trade wars are easy to win, but I'm not sure that farmers are believing it or living it. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trade-war-news-farmers-china-120113700.html FTA: Beijing basically stopped importing U.S. soybeans in 2018 and promised to ramp purchases in 2019 as negotiations moved forward in early 2019. But China has now reportedly put a hold on buying U.S. soybeans as talks sour, and the pain is being felt once again in the U.S. heartland. ... “Farm income is at the lowest level it’s been in years,” Brunkow said. “It’s had a tremendous impact on us.” Last month, Bloomberg reported that “personal income for farmers fell by the most in three years in the first quarter.” This is largely due to the agricultural losses from the trade war. “All of my neighbors have been impacted — anyone who grows soybeans,” Brunkow said. “You can even take that down Main Street in our towns — implement dealerships, car dealerships. We’ve cut back on purchasing and repairing things. And so, it’s had an impact all the way down the line in rural America.” And although the USDA announced last week that it will be providing $16 billion to help American farmers affected by tariffs in the U.S.-China trade war — after previous aid totaling $7.7 billion — that might not be enough. China didn't actually completely stop in 2019, but the decrease in imports was roughly 83% and, when China is the largest importer of US soybeans, in 2018 importing almost nine ties what the second-place importer, the EU-28 countries, that's a big hit. As a matter of fact, China imported almost twice as much soybean volume as the next nine of the top-10 combined. As things continue to stall with China, Trump's about to toss a little more rain on the scarecrow. In case anyone's keeping score, Mexico was the 3rd largest importer of US soybeans and their imports had increased over 30% between 2018 and 2019 during a time where the US saw soybean exports drop over 30%. Wonder how long that'll last. Hey calling it your job ol' Hoss sure don't make it right.

Wouldn't they similarly have even more choices if Missouri's government wasn't intervening ... in those other states as well as in Missouri?

He pulled that "good people on both sides" kind of stuff. Claims to have no knowledge of the situation and then follows up with the idea that the person responsible was "well meaning" [sic]. Seems to be lying about one of those and seems to be OK about the activity if the first part isn't true.