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I certainly won’t be praying for a recession.

End of 1st quarter
Mali 14-12 Cote d’ Ivoire

Gov Hickenlooper will drop out of the presidential race today

3rd qtr:
Nigeria 47-27 DRC

TheShopKeeper:
Trump was supposed to give a speech on energy. He went way off script.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/13/donald-trump-energy-speech-pittsburgh-1461337

Here are some of Trump's most off-key comments:

On the supposed benefits of natural gas over renewable energy: “When the wind stops blowing, it doesn’t make any difference does it? Unlike those big windmills that destroy everybody’s property values, kill all the birds. One day the environmentalists are going to tell us what’s going on with that. And then all of a sudden it stops. The wind and the televisions go off. And your wives and husbands say: ‘Darling, I want to watch Donald Trump on television tonight. But the wind stopped blowing and I can’t watch. There’s no electricity in the house, darling.'”

On his construction chops: “I was a good builder. I built good. I love building; in fact, I’m going to take a tour of the site.”

On doing some campaigning: “I’m going to speak to some of your union leaders to say, ‘I hope you’re going to support Trump, OK?’ And if they don’t, vote ‘em the hell out of office because they’re not doing their job — it’s true.”

On his love of trucks: “I love cranes, I love trucks of all types. Even when I was a little boy at 4 years old, my mother would say, 'You love trucks.' I do, I always loved trucks, I still do. Nothing changes — sometimes you know you might become president, but nothing changes — I still love trucks. Especially when I look at the largest crane in the world, that’s very cool. You think I’ll get to operate it? We’ll put the media on it and I’ll give them a little ride, right?”

On pundits suggesting he might not leave office willingly: “Can you imagine if I got a fair press? I mean, we’re leading without it; can you imagine if these people treated me fairly? The election would be over. Have they ever called off an election before? Just said, 'Look just let’s go, go on four more years.' You want to really drive them crazy? Go to #ThirdTerm, #FourthTerm — you’ll drive them totally crazy.”

On what Trump perceives as a trade imbalance with Japan: “They send us thousands and thousands — millions of cars, we send them wheat. Wheat. That’s not a good deal. And they don’t even want our wheat. They do it because they want us to at least feel that we’re OK, you know, they do it to make us feel good.” This assertion is false.

On the price tag of the presidency: “This thing is costing me a fortune, being president. Somebody said, 'Oh, he might have rented a room to a man from Saudi Arabia for $500.' What about the $5 billion that I'll lose — you know, it’s probably going to cost me, including, upside, downside, lawyers, because every day they sue me for something. These are the most litigious people. It’s probably costing me from $3 to $5 billion for the pleasure of being — and I couldn't care less, I don’t care. You know if you’re wealthy, it doesn't matter. I just want to do a great job.”

On his pledge to salvage manufacturing jobs: “You guys, I don’t know what the hell you’re going to do. You don’t want to make widgets, right? You don’t want to make — do you want to learn how to make a computer? A little tiny piece of stuff. ... You put it with those big, beautiful hands of yours like … you’re going to take these big hands, going to take this little tiny part. You’re going to go home, ‘Alice this is a tough job.’ Nah, you want to make steel, and you want to dig coal — that’s what you want to do!”

On the number of members of the media at the event, at about 2:45 p.m.: “That’s a lot people back there for, like, an 11 o’clock speech. That’s a lot of people.”

On the Oscars: “Like the Academy Awards during the day, it used to be — you know the Academy Awards is on hard times now, you know that right? Nobody wants to watch it. You know why? Because they started taking us on, everyone got tired of it. It’s amazing. That used to be second after the Super Bowl, and then all of a sudden now it’s just another show because people got tired of people getting up and making fools of themselves and disrespecting the people in this room and the people that won the election in 2016.”

On attacking Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden, potential 2020 rivals: “I did it very early with Pocahontas, I should have probably waited. She's staging a comeback on Sleepy Joe. I don't know who's going to win, but we'll have to hit Pocahontas very hard again if she does win. But she’s staging a little bit of a comeback. What a group — Pocahontas and Sleepy Joe.”

On Mexico deploying soldiers to stem the flow of Central American migrants: “I want to thank Mexico, it’s incredible. We have close to 27,000, you think of that. We never had three — I think we had about 2½ soldiers, one was sitting down all the time. We had nobody.”

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Danielnino00:
Senegal's biggest advantage over us this time is being the host.... If we meet at a neutral venue bro we will beat them. forget the ranking.
These girls have improved a lot since Otis took over...

Ive noticed that the team has improved mostly it’s defensive shape. Compared with the 2015 and 2017 tournaments, the ladies are better organized when defending

somehow:
Ranking based on their recent games right?

Has to be

Giroud scores the first competitive goal in the Lampard era!! KTBFFH

Giroud!!!

Will this female referee keep up the pace in the second half?

Nyingifa won’t tempt me with her thirst traps

Nigeria faces DRC in the quarter finals, tomorrow, at 12:30pm Nigerian time

DRC are presently leading Cape Verde with 26 points in the fourth quarter of their game. So, it’s now pretty much confirmed that D’Tigress will face DRC in the quarter finals

daveP:
I hope they dont score Cameroun's Score when on the global spotlight this time around. Im outpressed. Lots of gray areas needing finesse. But an improvement is there.

Yes, they need to improve a bit on their free-throws, and their 3-point shooting. Otherwise, they’ve been impressive so far

** Off topic **

D’Tigress are through to the quarter finals of the Afrobasket after beating Cameroon 106-39 yesterday! In their first game, the Nigerian ladies crushed Tunisia 75-26.

D’Tigers are good enough to advance to, at least, the quarter finals. Funny enough, if they finish 2nd in their group, they could face the United States in the semifinals!

steady986:
Pardon me, is it 12 or 15 men that would be taken to FIBA?

It’s 12 players. Three more will be dropped

Njong our (Cam) led the scoring with 16 points, while Amukamara led the Nigerian scoring with 14 points.
Cameroon only converted 20% of their 2-point attempts, Nigeria concerted 65% of their two-point attempts

raumdeuter:
Why do Democrats always look to punish success? The wall street billionaire we rail about, went to the same high school as us, only that he studied hard got into ivy league schools, took risks and became a millionaire.

So why should he be the one to pay for those of us who couldn't put the hard work he did into his life.

This billionaire in wall street, he did not go to free college before becoming a billionaire. so why does he need to pay to make college free for others.

This sense of entitlement to another person's hard earned income is what I don't get about liberals

America was founded on putting in hard work, taking risks and when you make money keep it for yourself and your family

It's been proven that excellence comes when you encourage people to keep their money.

Good luck getting the next wall street or silicon valley risk taking guy when you tell them upfront that govt will take the bulk of their income to pay for free college

Eliminating most of the loopholes billionaires and multi-millionaires use to pay as little tax as possible, seems fair to me.
BTW, tuition-free public college/university would cost an estimated $70 billion/year, which is only 10% of the Pentagon budget for this year. So, money could be moved from the DOD to fund this program without even raising taxes.

Random fact:

It was Elizabeth Warren who proposed to her husband in 1980. He obviously accepted her proposal and he moved to join her in Texas.

Breaking news:

Tulsi Gabbard’s campaign has garnered 145,000 donors, surpassing the 130k threshold required to qualify for the September and October debates.
All she now needs is to score 2% or more in at least 3 DNC-approved polls.

raumdeuter:
Medicare for all and elimination of student loans who will pay for it? Maybe add reparations to it. The talking points for the socialist liberals. Is basically for more govt spending,

Explain how govt will pay for free these things for all.

Maybe those who Biden appeals to are the realistic people not the "woke" people living in nirvana

The people who swung the elections for Trump are not the young people in cali and New York, they are the forgotten blue collar workers in the rust belt. Do you think a blue collar worker wants to hear that govt will increase his taxes to make college that he did not go to free or reduced student loan?

An education is an investment in yourself and like every investment you need to put money into it.

College education is not compulsory for everyone. Why should govt subsidize college education and not the blue collar guy opening a plumbing business or carpenter or the cable guy.

2 friends graduate free high school, one decide to go to college, one decides to be a blue collar, explain why the second one should have his tax dollars used to give his friend an education

Well, most of the money to be used to wipe out student loan debt/make public college free, and pay for universal healthcare coverage, will come from tax hikes on Wall Street trading and the multi millionaires and billionaires.

But I’m sure that if you ask the carpenter to choose between (a) a system that could bankrupt him even if he has private health insurance or (b) a system that wouldn’t bankrupt him, but cost him a little more in taxes: which one do you think he would pick?

Temple1288:
That ASAP or whatever he's called should thank Kanye West first, then go ahead and thank President Trump. He'd have remained in that Prison room while his fans keep masquerading the whole place with #FreeASAP or #FreeRocky...... Tho his Ego won't allow him to publicly acknowledge the protagonist behind his temporary release but he should do so privately. Them 4 show am pepper!

Trump had zero influence in the release of ASAP. Trump tried to intervene in the matter, but the Swedish PM warned him that Sweden’s judiciary is completely independent. The decision to free Rocky ASAP was made solely by a Swedish judge.

Per the Washington Examiner, the candidates have qualified for the September 12 (and possibly 13th) debate: Sanders, Biden, Harris, Warren, Booker, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and O’Rourke.
The likes of Castro, Yang, and Tulsi Gabbard, are 1,1, and 3 polls away, respectively, from qualifying for the debate.

raumdeuter:
I love a fair contest and it pains me to see the Dems in this type of clueless disarray
Try to give Trump a fair fight. Let me tell you With Socialist Sanders and Warren, Trump wont even need to campaign. He will simply ask the voters, Do you want to be a Socialist/Communist country like Eastern Europe Venezuela, Cuba Russia?

Harris is a joke. Biden is the only worthy opponent,

If dems start trashing Obama well good luck in 2024 as they can forget 2020

You can’t be too sure whether the key Midwest/Rust belt voters wouldnt be receptive to the progressive policies of Medicare-For-All, and the elimination (or significant reduction) of student loan debt. People in those areas are not big fans of the current sick-care system and the high burden that student loans are putting on millennials (and some Gen Xers).

Last week, I read a story about a man, in the US, who was presented with a hospital bill of $500,000 for treatment of his coma. Now, how would that man pay off that huge cost? It’s impossible! But with a Medicare-For-All system, which will be paid for by a slight increase in taxes, nobody would ever go bankrupt due to massive healthcare costs.

With regard to Biden, most of his support comes from elderly voters within the party, with those under 40 mostly supporting either Warren, Sanders or Harris. If the Dems want to turn out their liberal base (which largely stayed home in the swing states in 2016), they would need as many under 40 voters as they can muster by offering them a true progressive roadmap for the country. And I don’t see Biden as the guy who would motivate the liberal base to turn out enmasse in 2020.