We at the Schloss-Blog think we've found a common thread between Lane Kiffin, LSU's new football coach, Donald Trump dozing off at Cabinet meetings, Admiral Mitchell Bradley saying there was no "kill 'em all" order and the Kalshi politically predictive - OK, gaming - website latching onto an agreement with - CNBC(?).
As usual, we have our panel of experts to discuss, as they say on MSNBC - uh, we mean, MSNOW as it's known NOW - and you've never heard of any of these people.
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Lane Kiffin is now the head football coach at LSU, leaving the University of Mississippi to assume those duties. Mississippi is 11-1 as this is being written. Eleven wins, one loss.
What pro coaches leave after going, oh, 16-1?
None.
He is getting an insane amount of money to jump ship from Mississippi (you won't see me call it "Ole Miss" because of its racist origins, stemming from the term slaves would use to describe a plantation owner's wife and the school's deep roots in its segregated past).
Kiffin says he tried to work it out to coach the team through the College Football Playoff, in which they'll be a middling seed among the 12 participants, but do you want to play for a coach you know is abandoning you?
Yeah, me neither.
Kiffin will be expected to win a national championship at LSU, as three of its previous four coaches have done, except the one, Brian Kelly, who Kiffin is replacing.
Good luck, Lane, because 11-1 isn't gonna' cut it at LSU without a national championship within the next four years, which was how long it took those other three guys.
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Kiffin's "cousin," Donald Trump, who jumps anything for money, likes to dream about it.
At Cabinet meetings. Seems our president has a habit of falling asleep at these meetings as well as on other public occasions.
Trump is one of the most unpopular presidents in our history, with approval ratings for everything from foreign affairs to immigration and especially to the economy and the affordability of life in general.
Overall, he's at a 36% approval rating for EVERYTHING.
That pretty much sucks.
So does he. So is Lane Kiffin still popular at Mississippi now that he abandoned them for LSU?
Probably about 36%
By the way, Republicans who condemned Joe Biden for apparently dozing off on similar occasions are quick to rush to defend Trump for doing the same thing.
Hmm...
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Admiral "Mitch" Bradley, who oversees operations in the Caribbean and the Pacific, is saying there was no "Kill Them All" order regarding the Venezuelan boat blown out of the water, and survivors attacked and killed on a second run.
Clearly, he's lying, because they're all dead. They were defenseless. Signaling for help. No clear evidence they were armed nor carrying drugs.
The same way that Trump is killing Americans by denying them food (SNAP funding) and healthcare (ACA subsidies), he's now killing folks in the Caribbean.
On purpose.
It's up to about 87 dead and 20 boats sunk, again, no evidence they were carrying drugs, nor weapons.
The only ones armed were the Americans who killed them. Clearly, they were ordered to do so, although the Admiral and the Secretary say there was no such order given and the president says he wouldn't have given such an order until he woke up.
Yeah, right.
Reached for comment, the White House said the president was dozing off in a meeting. The Pentagon said it wouldn't answer questions from unauthorized media outlets that didn't get permission to ask questions, let alone use the information solicited from them.
Bradley, by the way, has had a distinguished military career. Now, we'll bet, he's looking at "early retirement."
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Kalshi is the prediction market best known for directing political direction and establishing odds therefor.
However, it looks like you can get odds on business futures now that Kalshi and CNBC (no, not CNOW), have inked a three-year deal.
Not only does that expand Kalshi's footprint into the digital media world, it makes CNBC your predictive markets home.
For the World Series and Super Bowl too.
Prop bet on the market? Kalshi and CNBC.
Will the publicly held Green Bay Packers go on the NYSE? Kalshi and CNBC.
How long will Trump's nap last? Will he sleep through the Fed's next interest rate-drop announcement? Kalshi and CNBC? Quite the prop bet, huh?
Who will give the next "Kill them all" order and will it impact the markets? Kalshi and CNBC.
Will Jimmy Kimmel last? Kalshi and ABC, un - CNBC.
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Stephen A Smith has gone off the farm, saying that Mark Kelly is disrespecting the military by saying that illegal, unlawful orders do not have to be followed.
Kelly's right and I no longer view any programming on ESPN that features Stephen A. Smith.
And never will, from now on.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you one more time, Emily Capdevielle.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show.
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