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calguy's JournalLots of empty seats at the Niner game
Have ticket prices increased to the point where fans can't, or won't, pay a week's salary to watch multimillionaire players entertain them for three hours?
More bad injury news for the Niners
The San Francisco 49ers received the worst-case scenario for defensive tackle Javon Hargrave on Monday. Kyle Shanahan said Hargrave suffered a partially torn triceps and will miss the rest of the season.
This comes after Shanahan said that Hargrave had his best game of the season against the Los Angeles Rams. Hargraves injury requires surgery, which will sideline him for a few months. Shanahan said theres a chance Hargrave could return, but it would be late in the playoffs.
The Niners are expecting Kalia Davis to return soon, per Shanahan. Hes scheduled to return from the Injured Reserve in the coming weeks. The 49ers will exhaust every option available to them to fill Hargraves role. Other options on the team include T.Y. McGill and Evan Anderson on the practice squad.
Hargrave led all defensive tackles in total pressures in Week 3, and Myles Garrett was the only player along the defensive line with a higher pressure rate than Javon. Needless to say, this is a gut-wrenching loss.
https://www.ninersnation.com/2024/9/23/24252653/javon-hargrave-brock-purdy-kalia-davis-49ers-injuries
Taylor Swift drove 405,999 visitors to vote.gov in 24 hours after Kamala Harris endorsement
Taylor Swift's post endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the White House on Tuesday drove 405,999 users to visit the site vote.gov over the course of the following day, a sign of the potential effect her decision to speak out could have on November's election.
Vote.gov is run by a federal agency known as the General Services Administration, in partnership with the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. The site includes information about how to register to vote and cast a ballot, and directs users to state sites where they can register.
A spokesperson for the GSA said 405,999 users had visited vote.gov through Swift's link in the 24 hours after she posted it. The spokesperson noted that new voters must ultimately sign up to vote through their own state-specific website.
Vote.gov saw an average of roughly 30,000 visits per day over the course of the week before Swift's post, the spokesperson pointed out.
In her endorsement of Harris, Swift wrote that the vice president "fights for the rights and causes I believe need a warrior to champion them," and called her "a steady-handed, gifted leader."
She signed her post "Taylor Swift, Childless Cat Lady," a reference to comments by Sen. JD Vance, former President Donald Trump's running mate. In a 2021 interview, Vance said that the country was being run by "a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable in their own lives."
On Fox News on Wednesday, Vance questioned the impact of Swift's endorsement.
"We admire Taylor Swift's music, but I don't think most Americans, whether they like her music or are fans of hers or not, are going to be influenced by a billionaire celebrity who I think is fundamentally disconnected from the interests and the problems of most Americans," Vance said.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-endorsement-vote-gov/
Trump Media shares plunge premarket after GOP nominee's debate with Harris
The share price of Trump Media plunged more than 14% before the opening bell Wednesday, a day after its majority shareholder Donald Trump delivered a widely panned presidential debate performance against Vice President Kamala Harris.
Investing in the Truth Social makers stock has come to be seen as a way to bet on the political fortunes of Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.
The steep stock decline on the heels of the debate could signal that some of Trumps supporters werent pleased with what they saw on Tuesday night.
Both liberal and conservative political commentators said Harris appeared more prepared, articulate and even-keeled on the Philadelphia stage than Trump, who repeatedly bit on bait she tossed to throw him off topic.
Harris team, projecting confidence, immediately challenged Trump to another debate after the first one ended.
Trump said he may not agree to another one.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/11/djt-trump-media-stock-debate-harris.html
Anyone catch Tom Brady calling the game today?
He was as bad as it gets as far as I'm concerned. Greg Olsen and Kevin Burkhardt were a perfect fit, and sticking Brady in there simply because he's Tom Brady was a stupid move.
The ideas in Project 2025? Reagan tried them, and the nation suffered
Nice to see the media starting to pick up on publicizing the evils of this "project".
Project 2025, the Heritage Foundations conservative playbook that would overhaul much of the federal government under a second Trump administration, has sparked fear and concern from voters despite the former presidents attempt to distance his campaign from the plan. But while Project 2025 might seem radical, most of it is not new. Instead, the now-famous document seeks to reanimate many of the worst racial, economic and political instincts of the Reagan Revolution.
If todays economic inequality, racial unrest and environmental degradation represent some of our greatest political challenges, we would do well to remember that Reagan and the Heritage Foundation were the preeminent engineers of these catastrophes. Perhaps no day in Reagans presidency better embodied his policy transformations or the political ambitions of the Heritage Foundation than Aug. 13, 1981, when Reagan signed his first budget.
This budget dramatically transformed governmental priorities and hollowed out the nations 50-year pursuit of government for the common good that began during the New Deal. Once passed, it stripped 400,000 poor working families of their welfare benefits, while removing significant provisions from another 300,000. Radical cuts in education affected 26 million students. The number of poor Americans increased by 2.2 million, and the percentage of Black Americans living in poverty rose to a staggering 34.2%.
Of course, this was just the beginning of Reagans war on the poor, the environment and education. Following a Heritage Foundation plan, the Environmental Protection Agencys operating budget would fall by 27%, and its science budget decreased by more than 50%. Funding for programs by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that provided housing assistance would be cut by 70%, according to Matthew Desmond's "Poverty, By America." Homelessness skyrocketed. And, as Project 2025 proposes, Reagan attempted to eliminate the Department of Education but settled for gutting its funding in a manner that set public education, in the words of author Jonathan Kozol, back almost 100 years. As funding for these issues nosedived under Reagan, financial support for the war on drugs skyrocketed and the prison population nearly doubled.
All the while, protections provided to the wealthy ballooned. Tax rates on personal income, corporate revenue and capital gains plummeted. For example, the highest income tax rate when Reagan took office was 70%. He would eventually lower it to 33%. And to ensure that wealth would be a long-lived family entitlement, Reagan instituted a 300% increase in inheritance tax protections through estate tax exemptions in his first budget. In 1980, the exemption stood at $161,000. By the time Reagan left office in 1989 it was $600,000. Today it is $13,610,000. This means that today nearly all wealthy children enjoy tax-free access to generational wealth.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-ideas-project-2025-reagan-100049263.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO&ncid=crm_19908-1202929-20240826-0&bt_user_id=ZpcvUkPom2aAqjW7hprNQz5nilTOKQsTTTf8URb97u0rjuciGZzQBhKRemTjhB%2Ba&bt_ts=1724679565201
Okay, so far I've heard all the fine people that were on Kamala's short list for VP speak
I like Shapiro, Kelly, Beshear, Whitmer, and those I can't remember right now. They're all good, but Tim Walz, who I'd never heard of, was by far the best choice Kamala could have made. They fit. They c!ick. They'll win.
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