I get absurdly patriotic during the Olympics and root hard for every American individual and team. This honestly makes me wish we’d lost.

The refs certainly seemed to want it to be closer!

You literally brought up per capita gdp earlier in this thread.

But I’m not sure that nuance, context, and complexity are your strong suits

Also comparing per capita gdp across countries is tricky because the relative strength of currencies makes direct comparison difficult. Like, 36k might be way higher than a lot of countries but also gives you way worse quality of life than in those same countries.

Ok, I concede that even super poor counties have globally high gdp per capita, you concede that using that metric means that compared to cities, US rural areas are shitholes?

Deal.

I mean, it doesn’t matter, because if the convo is about per capita gdp then your argument about US cities being shitholes is done.

I don’t need to discuss further with someone who’s pretty clearly never been to a US city, let alone left the country

Smooth trick switching from cities to states. A++ goalpost moving

I’m sure you do. But both are standard measures of quality of life.

Since you mentioned guns, you should look up suicide rates, or total fun deaths. It’ll make your beloved rural America look a lot less pristine.

This is hilarious. Should we compare the per capita gdp of rural America to all of Brazil? I don’t think you’re going to love the results

How about this? Where you live in the middle of nowhere has the same rates of college educated people as some 3rd world countries. Therefore your town is a shithole. See how stupid that is?

I’m for sure not going to try and explain because you are clearly determined to not understand regardless.

With all due respect, comparing a city to a whole country is monumentally stupid

You’ll enjoy knowing there is not a single American city in the top 25 of homicide rates globally

Anyone calling for the 25th Amendment clearly doesn’t know how it works and/or has never watched one of his sycophantic fever dream cabinet meetings.

Schumer’s milquetoast responses are easily explained: He doesn’t work for us.
We’ve seen him fight hard for the interests of his wealthy donors, but the “people” don’t write big enough checks.

Evergreen skeet 😬

Either way, I doubt we’re far apart on our estimation of this hire.

But he’s a solid floor and his extensive experience running a functional, stable, successful program probably has outsized value in UM’s current state.

Seems like chicken/egg

Either the sites have a blind spot irrespective of the coach, or the coach has a special talent for identifying talent that fits his scheme (or is able to maximize said talent) We saw that at UM the last 5+ years.

UW is a good example of how that is likely tied to a coach.

Not sure I’m understanding your argument. Is it that recruiting rankings are unreliable, ergo outperforming them is irrelevant?

Either way, whether Whit did more with less, or found talent the sites missed, is a mark in his favor for me. (I could be wrong!)

“Doing the most with the talent at hand” seems pertinent for every coaching job.

The question it raises is why he didn’t bring in better talent at Utah and can he do so at Michigan.

“Wildly impressive”, no.

But he consistently outperformed his recruiting rankings, by a fair distance, and there’s something to be said for being consistently quite good. He easily has the highest floor imo.

The biggest question to me is if he can recruit at a top 10 level

He’s going to read the entire Epstein Files start to finish

The best part about this nonsense is that you can tell, after Newsom’s mocking, that he really tried to avoid all caps and just couldn’t keep it going

Intelligent voters understand this is Mamdani’s platform. He is signaling the issues and the people he will prioritize. Who knows if he can accomplish it. I do know that I’d rather vote for the candidate who sees the affordability struggles in NYC and will ACTUALLY TRY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

I *guarantee* you she does not.

“You’re much shorter and fatter in person, but your hands are just as small as they look on tv!”

There’s zero chance he would have the attention span to write an entire op-ed.

If this was a tweet in all caps, then maybe.

Also, my guess is it wouldn’t jump to $30 overnight, as this graph implies.

Not only that, but you see his old rap videos and his current social media vids of him walking through neighborhoods talking to folks, he is *so clearly* a NYC kid. People who grew up here have a way of interacting with all the cultures of the city that is so unique, and profoundly American.