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actually the national anthem has no relation to sports whatsoever and there’s no reason to play it before every game
Ty Schalter
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Ty Schalter
@tyschalter
Professional writer & talker (feature journalism, @PrideofDetroit, books & stories, more). Sports things & nerd stuff. Partnerships Director for @rankmivote.
- I am now supporting Elizabeth Warren for Mitch McConnell’s job.
- HOW YOU THINK TERM LIMITS WORK: prevents stagnation, holds the powerful to public account HOW TERM LIMITS ACTUALLY WORK: clueless newbies pass whatever the lobbyists tell them to, while second-termers jockey for lobbyist jobs"The Senate and the Congress doesn't work. It doesn't work because they need term limits." "We agreed we cannot have kings, yet we have dukes and duchesses running the Senate, making decisions for poor people!" - Chris Rock #SNL
- “Timeout Against Hate,” says the @NFL before allowing the most disgusting and vicious anti-trans ads to run during timeouts
- 40 years of never ever ever shooting Tom Cruise at this angle relative to a tall person blown in one moment
00:00 - Replying to @emeriticusYou were so blissfully ignorant you missed 9/11? That’s a you problem
- The wrong Jefferson is on Mount Rushmore.
- Replying to @jean_twengeYou wrote a whole book without Googling housing, education, health care, child care, and utility costs? Job stability, union representation, wage stratification? Changes in the availability of credit and fairness of credit ratings? What’s even in the book?
- Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I get cancer on company time
- LIONS FANS: “Our play-calling is the worst in the league, Dan Campbell should be fired right now” NATIONAL NFL ANALYSTS: “Lost it at the end, but the Lions’ staff coached their brains out today”
- 30 years of Michiganders moving to warmer and more prosperous states was a long con to take over every Lions road gameFord Field West
00:00 - Replying to @nytpoliticsAfter all this… ALL this. @nytpolitics both-sidesed us with “incivility.” How does something like this get written, let along edited and published? How are @peterbakernyt & @katierogers sounding the alarm on “vituperative words” when federal agencies are jailing babies?The contagion of incivility: President Trump says undocumented immigrants want to “infest” the United States. His critics respond with vituperative words of their own. nyti.ms/2tfiUZ3
- Folks, you’re hearing *prime* mid-Michigan white-people accent. Her voice sounds like a white-tailed deer rubbing its antlers on a white pineBIG GRETCH ALERT
- "Messi in MLS is too good, he scored TWO goals in one game already!" He was also too good for La Liga, where he averaged over one goal per 90' for SEVENTEEN YEARS
