Trump Executive Order re: college sports

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Volman678 said:
Honestly I like Trump but this is not his place to stick his nose in this business. He needs to worry about running the country and not ****** up college athletics
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College sports are already ***** up. Nothing can un***** it as long as the NCAA stays in charge.
 
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omghulkhands said:
This is meaningless and unenforceable.

There is no federal body to enforce this. Unless they wanna spend more government money to create a bunch of college sports NIL investigators and auditors etc..

So this is just virtue signaling.
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Correct, but the underlying threat is the withholding of funds for schools that don't comply.
 
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kcvols1 said:
Or an emergency tactic to distract from the Epstein matter.
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Or, the Epstein matter is being played as distraction from the RussiaGate/Obama/IC collusion matter.

Like everyone, I have my opinions. But I have to temper them with the realization that Washington DC is filled with people on several sides whose every waking hour is devoted to manipulating me in one direction or another--and they have enormous resources for doing it.

I feel most confident saying that the world's most powerful's interests are best served by having the American people in constant disagreement with each other.
 
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I don't have TV, and maybe there they're featuring this story. But I had to google it specifically to find anything on it. For sure, I'm not seeing this story on any "conservative- or libertarian-leaning" news sites (didn't check Fox, considering them to be more "Murdoch" and uniparty than ideological).

Since the MAGA base are the people most incensed by the Epstein reversal (and the ones Trump would most immediately need to distract or reconcile), you would expect those websites to feature anything intended to distract from Epstein.

This Exec. Order just seems too low-key to be a politically motivated distraction. Trump wants everyone focused right now on the Fed, rousing public pressure on Powell to lower interest rates, and make home buying affordable again... and the released papers on RussiaGate. Those are the issues he'd prefer to have dominating the national discussion.

Whether this Exec. Order is wise or not, it just doesn't have any of the earmarks of a distraction. I'd argue that this indicates that even Trump has doubts it will work.

Hard to say, and hard to discuss because we all live in information silos that each have their own facts, narratives, and agendas. Even though I try to keep a broad sampling of news sources, I know the online technology knows what it can successfully push toward me.
 
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RandomUTfan said:
The order is unenforceable. It's simply political grandstanding.
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I wouldn't stake my life on that. It may be unenforceable as it stands now, but this might just be a first step. Jawboning Congress and working through the Justice Dept might just get the ball rolling for some legislative action. If he's really determined he can be a tough force to stop.
 
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I think we're all pretty certain they lobbied for congressional action. This may have been a byproduct, because I don't think it'll do what they need. I trust everybody is aware, due to the other very long thread on this, what they actually need and why.
 
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kcvols1 said:
Or an emergency tactic to distract from the Epstein matter.
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LSU-SIU said:
It really doesn't change anything. Even if Congress removes the Sherman act.
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Congress isn't going to remove the Sherman Act. It governs every business in America.
If it's removed, hello to monopolies like the old railroad and shipping barons ran, or like Bell Telephone before the feds broke them up.

The Sherman Act isn't primarily about sports.
 
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