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Yes couch fucker. We had dumb Repug that fucked everything up and then we had Democratic geniuses who fixed the Repugs fuck ups and then they came back and re-fucked everything up and the Democratic geniuses came back again and fixed everything.....🖕 U couch fucker.

The alarming rash on Felon Orange Stain’s neck could have drawn attention to a potentially fatal health condition, according to new reports.

The topic of Felon’s health has been in the headlines for years, but never more so than in when he began his 2nd stint in the WH in 2025.
(So, get on w/ it😡)

After the roundtable, college admins told Yahoo Sports that their focus remains moving SCORE through the Hse & hoping for a negotiated compromise in the Senate.

Is this realistic?

The sitting Felon doesn’t think so. In fact, he’ll be slicing open the butt end of a toothpaste tube.

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Cruz pointed to Democrat-backed labor unions & Democrat leadership as preventing their members from reaching a deal on his legislation. He said “zero” Democrats in the Senate support the SCORE Act — a jarring and unsettling message for college sports stakeholders to hear.

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The issues in the Senate were identified during Friday’s roundtable by attendee Cody Campbell, the Texas Tech billionaire booster and acquaintance with Trump, and Cruz himself, who for months now has drafted a bill but failed in negotiations with Democrats.

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However, problems brew in the Senate. Even if SCORE passes the Hse, a long fight awaits in the other chamber, where a 60-vote margin for passage means 7 Democrats must vote for legislation that, many of them believe, grants too much power to the conferences & unnecessarily prevents employ.

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The SCORE Act, a Repug-backed college sports bill, would mostly grant the NCAA & conferences their antitrust protection to enforce rules, prevent athletes from being deemed employees & create a new governance model in college sports.

Speaker Moses Mike & majority leader Steve Scalise, told dignitaries that they have the necessary votes to pass the SCORE Act & that it should reach the floor for a 3rd attempt at a vote this month.

Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark urged lawmakers on the roundtable to act w/ a “sense of urgency” in passing a bill as soon as possible.

There are two tracks for potential legislation: the House of Representatives & the Senate.

In the room during Friday’s roundtable, Hse Repug leadership,

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Will Cantwell & Schmitt’s proposal spur action? Will the WH roundtable spark more discussions?

Those questions remain unanswered, but they must be solved quickly if any legislation is to pass this year. Congressional work normally slows to a crawl in the summer ahead of Nov elections.

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Schmitt and Cantwell’s bill is meant as a step to potentially reaching agreement on more of a sweeping bill to govern college athletics. But in six years, Congress has failed to agree on such a bill despite negotiations among Cantwell, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) & Chris Coons (D-Del.).

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In fact, during Friday’s roundtable, American commissioner Tim Pernetti told the Felon that amending the SBA to provide consolidated rights is a revenue path that should be considered.

Meetings are unfolding across college athletics related to the consolidation of rights. External forces are leading campaigns w/ the support of many from the Big 12, ACC & Group of Six conferences, including one that transpired just this week in Dallas.

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want to explore the concept to generate more revenue in a potential new distribution model for college sports.

The legislation, expected to be in the Senate next week, offers leagues only the option to consolidate their rights. Amending the SBA- consolidating FBS conference TV rights — has caused a rift between the SEC & Big Ten & all other leagues, some of which,

It was a landmark compromise between two sitting senators on either side of the aisle regarding one of the most divisive issues percolating across college athletics — a potentially groundbreaking endeavor (the pooling of rights) that could change the landscape of the industry.

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Two U.S. Senators, Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), agreed on a bipartisan bill to amend the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, permitting college conferences to consolidate & sell, presumably for more revenue, their media rights.

In fact, as the more than 50 people conducted the roundtable on Friday — many of whom never even spoke — something else brewed, perhaps even more interesting, about a mile away. At the U.S. Capitol, a congressional compromise actually unfolded.

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It was a brief but important moment emblematic of the divide in Congress.

Friday’s hearing included no current athletes, & though roundtable leaders say that athletes will be involved later in the process, Rep. Lori Trahan — one of the few Democrats in attendance — took exception to the lack of athlete representation & identified serious flaws in the SCORE Act, too.

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“Lawsuits are killing us,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips told the room. “You don’t like a rule, you just go to a local judge.”

The industry is nearing the “point of no return,” Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua told the room, describing football as a “runaway financial train” that is gobbling up resources meant to fund Olympic & women’s sports.

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Meanwhile, college athletics — its leaders resistant to collective bargaining — twists in the winds of soaring player salaries, unenforceable rules, mounting legal threats & budget deficits.

Friday’s meeting, scheduled for an hour, turned into a wild near-two-hour political meltdown of sorts — a Felon criticizing his enemies: the courts for "destroying" college sports, & congressional Democrats for preventing legislation to pass that might fix it.

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While writing this order — which is expected to be issued in a week, he said — Felon demands that lawmakers continue & expedite negotiations 4 fed legislation, despite the Felon himself believing that passage of a bill is virtually impossible because of “lunatics” in Congress, he told the room.

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have “destroyed” college athletics w/ their deeming of NCAA rules to be in violation of antitrust. & that includes, he exclaimed, the SCOTUS, whose 9-0 decision in the NCAA v. Alston case, though not about compensation specifically, paved the path for the industry’s current unregulated market.

The executive order will be strong enough in its language that Felon expects it to invoke legal challenges. His hope is that the lawsuit & subsequent appeals find favorable judges, he says, that will rule differently than a host of judges who, he says,

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Felon announced plans to release a 2nd executive order — this one “more comprehensive,” he said — that is intended, it appears, to reimplement unlawful policies of the pre-NIL era.

In fact, Felon plans to attempt to do just that, he said during the 100-min college sports roundtable event that left many in the room a bit mystified & those watching from afar somewhat stunned.

While disregarding & disparaging court decisions that have opened a path for athlete compensation,

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He wants to put college sports’ proverbial toothpaste back into its collective tube.
Why can’t the industry “go back to the old system?” Felon asked a room of astonished & stoic faces. “I’d like to go exactly back to what we had & ram it through a court.”