Good

Several of us should be able to read several.

I propose we create a Read for America Day that day when we and all of our kids could dedicate that time to reading together.

That would be a truly patriotic initiative to get behind!

No words .

Watching reasonable and intelligent US wealthy business owners and politicians having to suck up and lick that fat pig's small shoes is really vomit inducing.

Musk, Thiel, Bezos and many others. Jamie Dimon said let’s not criticize him. Before the election they started purchasing large swatches of traditional and internet media. They didn’t want regulation so they backed a demented sociopath. Oh well.

Important stuff. Already in my day-timer! In INK!

I, myself, have paint to watch drying, seems more exciting.

silly old man

Trump is a severely emotionally damaged and cognitively declining danger to the world.

His bluster about this game is meaningless but annoying.

As for the game itself? It is not possible for me to care less.

What Trump wants -- barring networks from airing any other football game during the time when the Army-Navy game is being televised -- is stupid and as an executive order, unlawful and unenforceable.

But characterizing it as seeking to "force" people to watch the Army-Navy game is such an easily rebutted bit of hyperbole is dumb and makes what he actually is doing seem less offensive.

"The United States will watch what the president demands, including football games, Ted Nugent concerts, and propaganda."

Fingers crossed, he'll be taking his dirt nap.

in December. It's been that way for years. It's the last game of the college football regular season. CBS isn't going to give up its exclusive rights to game either.

I usually watch at least some of it. It's been a true rivalry game since it's inception. I love to see the uniforms each service academy selects to wear to honor its history. One year Army wore the camo uninforms of the 10th Mountain Division. It happened to snow that game and Army's players ended up being very well camoflagued!

CBS --owned by Paramount -- has exclusive rights to the Army-Navy game through 2038. What Trump wants wouldn't take away those rights -- it would protect them by ensuring not only that CBS is the only outlet for the game, but that no other football game would compete for viewers when the Army-Navy game is on.

I doubt that the other networks and other football conferences will go along with this idea.

It has been that way for years. It's the final game of the regular college football season and only game of the day when it's played.

Trump's EO does nothing to change anything. There are so many viewing options now, no one will be "forced" to watch the game.

Yes, today the Army-Navy game stands alone -- no other college games are scheduled on the day of the game. But that could, and might well change -- for example, several conference championships, such as the ACC and SEC, are held the week before. But there is nothing that prevents a change in that scheduling for the future and money talks, so it might change. Trump thinks he can prevent that, and thereby protect his Paramount pal from competition --- if the SEC championship was played at the same time as the Army-Navy game, it would significantly reduce viewership for the Army-Navy game.

The headline -- Trump wants to "force" people to watch the Army-Navy game is nonsensical hyperbole. No one can or would be forced to watch the game. But the college football fans would only have one choice -- which is what they have today. And that would be great for Paramount. Fortunately, Trump doesn't have the authority to bar the football conferences from deciding to schedule games against the Army-Navy game if they decide it would be in their financial interest to do so.

Will they present him with some kind of a trophy at half-time?

In one word:

NO.

No beating around the bush I'll just repeat it here. NO!

I am not watching it forced

what an a**hole

He's out of control

dont have cable or over the air tv nor do i care about footbal or pro sports for that matter.

Give Vlad A Blow?

"I don't know if it is the "best" football" . . . during the 2016 game when his stupid ass (after cheating his way past Hillary) was in the booth during the broadcast questioning the "level" of play during the game. Orange "Heel Spur" fuck questioning the athletic level of anything is laughable. FUCK HIM!!

✊!

But I did serve 28 years of active duty -- Army, 1967-1998, one tour in Vietnam.

It's a glorified high school game at this point, and most elite football high schools could beat either team.

A snoozefest. Trump again living in the past.

Demands a football game be played at a certain time and day.

In a football game.

Give me strength…

... but his were funny.

-- Mal

So I don't have a better thing to do.

Nevermind that he would NEVER have been accepted as a student at either institution.

But it's probably all just another grift-- a way to get networks to purchase an exemption (with the funds going directly to TSF's offshore account. )

when he has always been a coward who could only buy his way into any institution of higher learning, because he's also a dumb shit. His personal cowardice is not so important for his unfitness for public office; but his imbecility is.

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With the TV on my dad was Navy, and my uncle was Army. They were yelling, "Army!", "Navy!".

can't force me to watch it since I don't like football

I'd look it up on FanDuel, if I ever get FanDuel.

of the Marines Academy vs the Air Force Academy.

Space Force doesn't have its own academy; they attend the Air Force Academy.

Believe it or not, the Coast Guard Academy has a football team. It's Division III - the lowest level of NCAA sports - and inside Division III they are well-respected. I looked up the Coast Guard Academy's 2025 schedule and they beat MIT by 10 points...which made me think "MIT has a football team?" Not only do they have one, it's good - in the 2024 season they went undefeated.

Maybe we can do it... never. Yeah, never's good, does never work for you Donald?

Bur no worries, I have a DJT toilet bowl scrubber. I'm good.

I like football but not when a game is shoved down my throat. I will even unplug the TV to make sure this household is not counted.

Variation #1

Watched both and apparently living both today!!!!

We are living it and I do hope we will survive it. The jury isn't in on that one yet.

have no idea what it meant to "adjust the horizontal or vertical" on a TV!

OL often really scared me.

TZ not usually.

I never watch it

.......the military academy's would have the best players that money could by considering today's NIL payment system in college football.

Because it seems to me a normal reaction revolves around something like 1. Who cares? That's not at all how shit works anyway, only in broken brain does the idea that everyone is a captive audience of network tv reside. 2. Who cares? Only in broken brain is one captive to network tv. 3. More evidence that our president is addled, petty and incapable of understanding normal American lives.

Historians "care" because it is the fledgling first step in creating "state-run television" (and by "television", I would more accurately include ANY "media" - print/broadcast/satellite/cable/internet) IF the courts don't halt it first.

Are not law nor are they precedent setting. They are also not enforceable without coercion and therefore entirely reliant on voluntary cooperation in the absence of coercion. We already have TV, radio and internet providers gleefully broadcasting propaganda into homes across the country and have for at least 30 years. There is no need for "state-run television" and in fact, they're obviously against it because the "state" can change to talking about big bird again. So no. Plenty of reason to point and laugh, much less to hand wring, imo.

I know what E.O.s are SUPPOSED to be for - directing and guiding employees, like I was, on how to implement the law (including developing regulations that must go through a Federal Register process). Meaning they are NOT for "making law".

But that is not happening at the moment until the courts smack them down as they mostly did his first term, but have been thwarted by "Daddy John Roberts" this 2nd term.

What I mean by "state-run television" is the literal co-opting of the airwaves with an identical message (not "variations of RW lunacy" ) everywhere.