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Do you mean the Facebook embed? First you have to find the original FB post you want to embed. (You can get to the original by clicking on the post's timestamp beneath the site heading on the top)

Click on the 3 dots in the upper righthand corner which opens a dropdown. Then click on 'embed'. Another tab will open, then click on 'copy code' and then paste it in the Extra Text box.

Buck, who left Congress last month after announcing that he wouldn't seek another term back in the fall, repeated his "Moscow Majorie" nickname for the Georgia Republican during an interview with CNN's Erica Hill.

"Well, 'Moscow Marjorie' has reached a new low," said Buck after Hill tossed to a clip of Russian TV personalities claiming Greene as "running Congress" and "believes Americans should help Putin win."

He continued, "You know, during the Russian Revolution, Lenin talked about American journalists who were writing glowing reports about Russia at the time as 'useful idiots' and I don't even think that Marjorie reaches that level of being a 'useful idiot' here."

Buck said Greene is mouthing Russian propaganda and added that she's "really hurting" U.S. foreign policy in the process.

"She's acting completely irresponsibly," Buck said.

If Democrats and Biden aren't constantly pointing to both her and Trump - and their outright disdain for Ukraine and their alignment with Putin and Russia - as the faces of today's GOP, they're simply not doing it right.

"The prime minister has asked us to withdraw U.S. troops, and we have agreed to do that," a senior State Department official told The Washington Post in an interview. The decision was sealed in a meeting earlier Friday between Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Niger's prime minister, Ali Lamine Zeine.

"We've agreed to begin conversations within days about how to develop a plan" to withdraw troops, said the senior State Department official. "They've agreed that we do it in an orderly and responsible way. And we will need to probably dispatch folks to Niamey to sit down and hash it out. And that of course will be a Defense Department project."

For years, the Pentagon has deployed a mix of mostly Air Force and Army personnel to Niger to support a mission scrutinizing militant groups in the region. Until the coup last year, the arrangement included counterterrorism drones flights and U.S. and Nigerien troops partnering on some patrols.

This is a huge deal, and 73% in favor sends a massive signal to other auto manufacturing workers in the South: Yes you can become unionized and have a greater say in your own working conditions.

Welcome into the family VW workers ... and leave the door open for Nissan, Mercedes Benz, BMW, Toyota, et_al. to join you later.

Didn't the Supreme Court just hold event organizers responsible for ANY damage caused by their protest?

Wow. I hadn't even thought to make that connection. Trump called these people to DC and he gave them their marching orders.

Pretty cut and dried, isn't it?

#81

You're not paying attention. Soccer is still a foreign sport trying to make inroads in the US. Basketball is quinessential heartland passion. It's popularity is not going to phase itself out anymore than our other seasonal sports do.

And CC is already becoming a national pitchman for products Americans already use and consume daily. When her shoe comes out, it will break all existing records possibly reaching Jordan status over time. EVERY kid can wear CC shoes. Women's soccer had/has no game related product to market other than jerseys and those are licensed to USWNT not the individual players themselves.

NBA rookie salary is $10M.

Only for the number 1 pick. No other rookie makes that amount.

My prediction is that by the next CBA we'll see the top players salaries between $500K - $1M.

The discrepancy exists not due to sexism. It exists because of the difference between revenues.

If the W's viewership numbers even reach 50% of what the NCAA tournament saw, the next W contract will also rise exponentially, probably into the low billions from today's around $60 million.

78 cont.

2 tickets 3 rows off the floor in front of the visitor's bench are going for $1900 apiece for a Fever game here in Indy.

2 floor tickets next to the bench in Brooklyn when the Fever play the NY Liberty on going for $7155 apiece. Tickets 4 rows back are $2355 apiece.

It would have boosted sales, attendance, interest even farther...

Almost all her games are nearing sellouts for the entire season as it is, and the average ticket price to see the Fever play is hundreds of dollars higher than with any other WNBA team. So how could the above be true?

If anything, people are going to start complaining of being priced out of being able to see her in person. Even here in Indianapolis with 21 upcoming games, the upper deck seats that were $5 are now $55, and on the resale market some are priced at $160+. Other cities ticket prices AVERAGE $500+ for Fever games and these are arenas with upwards of 20,000 seats.

What the W pays Clark is really irrelevant to those interested in seeing her and her team play.

It would have boosted sales, attendance, interest even farther...
it certainly would not have been 'out of line', for her projected impact.

As I showed you earlier, Clark will not make $75K from the WNBA this season, she'll make another $250K due to the league's Player Marketing Agreements.

I can't think of a single person who's NOT going to watch Clark because of the predetermined WNBA's salary structure. It's existed for 25 years under various iterations. No one can pay someone based on the future in the present. Not to mention the fact the other players would rightly revolt if the league decided to pay one player more than the others, especially veterans.

The earnings gap between W and NBA players will start to shrink as soon as the next WNBA player's CBA is negotiated at the end of the 2025 season. Simply demanding more for one person is not how union bargaining works.

Seems he really is just another despicable Republican.

He's a squish. He does believe in the Constitution, but he's still willing to give deference to GOP political orthodoxy if doing so doesn't clearly cross an inviolate line, especially when it's the Democrats on the other side.

I don't know how much of it was a wrongful assumption vs simply assigning that position

First, the writing was only the author's opinion, it does not represent a unified viewpoint from which all Democrats operate. Second, Speaker Johnson just stood side by side with Trump last weekend in public agreement that there were "issues" with the 2020 election which is nothing more than propagating Trump's big lie in service of extracting even more money from those who believe the same. That IS alignment with Trump.

And it's fact that Ukraine's faultering military condition has been front and center for many months, yet until this moment, Johnson hasn't acted as though its defense needs were of immediate concern. Doing nothing is a positive for Putin and Trump at this point in time, as both don't want Congress to authorize more aid.

There were many opportunities to forward Ukraine funding - as has been publicly raised by Biden and Democrats on a near daily basis.

"We the governors of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas are highly concerned about the unionization campaign driven by misinformation and scare tactics that the U.A.W. has brought into our states," their joint statement reads. "As governors, we have a responsibility to our constituents to speak up when we see special interests looking to come into our state and threaten our jobs and the values we live by."

It is no shock to see conservative Republicans opposing organized labor. But it is difficult to observe this particular struggle, taking place as it is in the South, without being reminded of the region's entrenched hostility to unions - or any other institution or effort that might weaken the political and economic dominance of capital over the whole of Southern society.

The history of Southern political economy is to a great extent a history of the unbreakable addiction of Southern political and economic elites to no-wage and low-wage labor.

She wants Liv Golf money,

You don't even know what the issue is. CC doesn't WANT anything. It's about what she's bringing to the table and how she will be the economic tide to lift all boats - meaning both the WBNA and her fellow players.

and we definitely do not agree on fundamentals of tv ad sales.

It's not just about tv "sales", it's about global marketing potential on all platforms, not just tv. CC will bring eyeballs to WNBA games and she'll spur sales of the products she's paid to represent. Again, this isn't conjecture, it's reality.

Sitz, if you use Google you can find hundreds of stories in financial and popular media trying to speculate about all the things I've mentioned far beyond what's been posted. You literally have a trodlodytic view of what's about to happen as it regards the economics of CC than it already has over the last few years.

The Tiger Woods analogy is apt. CC will drive interest in her sport just like Tiger did for the PGA. More interest, means more advertisers and sponsors, higher tv ratings and ultimately much higher revenues than ever before. It's only a matter of days before this rocket takes off, so it's not going to be long for this to manifest itself.

Did you bother to note the ticket sales and prices she's driving? CC is a game changer and the other star female basketball players will also benefit from the focus she's bringing to herself and the game so many enjoy watching her play.

State Rep. Austin Smith (R) - who was senior director at Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA - was accused by a Democratic activist of submitting petition sheets with rows of voter names, addresses and signatures that "bear a striking resemblance" to Smith's handwriting, according to a complaint. Smith "personally circulated multiple petition sheets bearing what appear to be forged voter signatures," the complaint said.

Smith submitted his resignation to Turning Point Action on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about it publicly. Smith also publicly ended his reelection campaign.

In cases like this, I feel that charges involving intentional voter/election fraud should carry a lifetime voting ban if the person is found guilty by a jury of their peers.

#62 | POSTED BY TONYROMA AT 2024-04-18 10:11 AM | FLAG: (CHOOSE) | FUNNY: 1

I love it when I present people with accurate information and then they want to make that presentation about me. I'm not "invested" in anything but gathering and analyzing information as it's presented to me.

Really?

Yes really. But why do you keep trying to conflate economics with other factors? Of course she's not going to have the cultural/social impact just like Tiger, but she's already having a cultural impact by attracting both young and old to watch her play that weren't interested in womens basketball before.

Where she's like Tiger will be her economic impact on the league and other players and enterprises tied into both. She's getting ready to sign the most lucrative shoe contract in woman's history with Nike. Sound familiar? Tiger did the same thing for golfers with his initial contracts, and his bending of the curve in popularity/marketability began long before he joined the PGA. CC is heading into economic-impact territory that no woman has occupied before.

A single CC game can be worth millions to the city where it's played. This is already quantified by her college journey. And the W's placement in the sports calender and its lack of competitors will only enhance the effect her popularity has already established.

Until we know, we're not going to know, but that's how I see it for the reasons I've listed ad nauseum. We'll all see what happens within the next handful of months. But I'm watching what's happening every single day already, which is why I feel so strongly about my predictions. They're not as much forward looking as they are historically based. This is what happens to America's sports darlings (both male and female) when they transcend their sports and become singular celebrities and marketing juggernauts in their own right.

Making sure she became the 1st female player to make
over 100k per year.

Most of the top WNBA players make far more than $100K per year. It's documented above in one of the first posts.

The WNBA can't pay money that they don't yet have. Salaries will balloon as soon as popularity does - hence the underlying dynamics of this thread.

#55

No, we're having a "look at the trajectory of what's happening" moment and realizing when a transcendent talent - like Tiger - emerges and captures the masses' attention, and then extrapolating what that means as it regards all the business related to that dynamic.

Your bigoted remark looks foolish based on the history of Tiger Woods and how he changed professional golf. Her talent makes her popular in its own right. And of course, it doesn't hurt that she looks like the girl next door for quite a lot of people.

But most of this is based on what CC means for all the others who also stand to profit from her ability to draw crowds and perform her sport in a manner that is both unique, attractive, and entertaining to the point people are willing to pay top dollar for the privilege of watching her do her thing.

The NBA record attendance is 100k.

That's a one off, not a venue where an NBA team plays 41 home games each year.

And what's your obsession with attendance? Most teams (especially in major media markets) make the bulk of their money from television/media deals these days. Most professional sports could be played on studio sets without fans and the enterprise would still be worth billions.

Need I remind you of the Bubble just 4 years ago with zero fans? The in-arena/stadium fan experience can be wonderful, but it's increasingly priced out of most American's budgets.

#49

Your apple/oranges comparison of sports shows you have little idea how things really work. The largest NBA arena seats 23K. Some football stadiums can seat 100K+, but most NFL stadiums are between 60/80 thousand. Baseball stadiums are typically between 40-50K and they play 81 home games per season.

The W plays 40 games per season in the summertime, a non-traditional time for the sport.

No one is making any claims that women's sports is poised to dominate television ratings. The point being made is that interest in Caitlin Clark has been outsized compared to the numbers you noted when compared to ALL sports viewing combined. More people watched her, her team, and competitors in the NCAA tournament (18.9M) than ANY OTHER TELEVISED SPORTING EVENT since 2019 besides top NFL games and Olympic coverage.

The fact that 2.45 million people watched a DRAFT when the actual W Finals competition only averaged 1/3 the eyeballs proves that her presence is peaking public interest in numbers never seen before.

The comparison isn't against other non-sports programming, it's about how she's bringing eyeballs on tvs and putting butts into seats in unprecedented numbers. Those numbers are going to translate into a spike in revenues for all those who stand to profit from the wave she's riding.

Am I certain the viewership numbers will remain at the NCAA tournament level? Highly unlikely. But what is almost a lock to happen is an increase in viewership related to her in multiples of current norms which in turn will help popularize the other teams and opponents within their own cities and regions brought to the game through their interest in her.

So, attendance is headed towards new records and it's likely the Fever will sell out every game they play this season, home or road; television ratings will hit new highs for WNBA viewership on all the network's platforms; and she'll continue to reap larger and larger personal endorsement contracts as companies will want to tie themselves to this popular comet that only comes around once or twice in a generation.

CC is simply the perfect storm of marketing opportunity meeting otherworldly skill, desire, and talent that will drive billions of dollars in revenues for those fortunate enough to be in her wake.

For the United Arab Emirates, it was the largest rainfall event in 75 years, the country's National Center of Meteorology and the government announced on social media.

Why is it allowed?

Deregulation.