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An exclusive look at OSU's new eye candy – the Boone Pickens Legacy Experience

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An exclusive look at OSU's new eye candy – the Boone Pickens Legacy Experience

  • Aug 8, 2024 Updated 8 hrs ago

    Bill Haisten​

    Tulsa World Sports Columnist & Writer

    Daniel Shular​

    Tulsa World Staff Photographer


    STILLWATER — During a Thursday tour, and while staying out of the way of workers who painted walls and delivered pieces of new furniture, the Tulsa World was given the first look at the bones of the Boone Pickens Legacy Experience — a museum positioned in the west end of Boone Pickens Stadium.
    The privately funded museum is only a few steps removed from the Boone Pickens statue and, fittingly, from the Oklahoma State football offices.

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    While his money and influence touched all facets of the university, Pickens had a pronounced impact on the development of the Cowboy football program since 2003.
    The Tulsa World’s tour guides were Andy Anway, who will retire from an impressive career as a museum designer after this project is completed; Mike Holder, OSU’s athletic director in 2005-21; and Jay Rosser, a longtime Pickens associate who now is the director of the T. Boone Pickens Foundation.


    Within the Pickens museum is a replica of the tiny Holdenville house in which he spent his childhood. There is a 1955-model station wagon like the one Pickens drove and worked out of as a young wildcatter for Phillips Petroleum.




    There are countless images and memorabilia pieces chronicling his life in the oil-and-gas industry, his philanthropy, his relationships with figures like President Ronald Reagan and his love for Oklahoma State.
    Anway is the founder of Boston-based Amaze Design LLC. Alluding to the flurry of activity on Thursday, he explained that he and his staff have shifted to “hustle mode” on their Pickens job. This is Anway’s final project before he slides into retirement.

    A Boone Pickens Legacy Experience VIP sneak-peek event is scheduled for Sept. 10 — one day before the fifth anniversary of Pickens’ 2019 death at the age of 91.

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    While the museum will be accessible to the public, Rosser said, an official opening day has not been scheduled. The museum probably won’t be open on home-game football days because the traffic would be overwhelming.
    “We can’t wait for the Oklahoma State people to see this,” Rosser said. “I haven’t been here for a month, and I’m blown away by all the of changes I’m seeing today.”
    Anway’s body of work includes Smithsonian displays, the master planning of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., and the design of the H. Ross Perot legacy library in Dallas.
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    “Our goal was more to inspire people,” Anway said of his company’s ideas for the Pickens gallery. “For someone from a small town in Oklahoma to achieve what (Pickens) did — those are the takeaways.
    “If you’re fortunate enough to be wealthy, what do you do with that wealth? How do you manage yourself? Those are the lessons to be learned here.”

    At the museum entry, a Pickens-narrated video is presented on a large monitor. “Before I go out,” Pickens says during the nine-minute video, “(and) before it’s over with for me, I’ll be sure I’ve done everything to make OSU academically, athletically and in every other way as good as the next school.”

    Before the tour began, Rosser gestured toward Holder and said, “I’m so grateful that he is here today. None of this would have happened without him and his friendship with Boone.”

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    If not for that 1973 introduction, Holder said on Thursday, “Boone — he probably would have stayed disenfranchised from OSU. Maybe for perpetuity. I don’t know.”

    “Losing football is not attractive,” Holder continued. “Boone didn’t like losers. Coming back for a (Cowboy) football game — that was not (a priority). After one of our homecoming games, he said, ‘I get tired of leaving here and looking down at my shoes.’ ”

    Holder recalled a 1980s football game attended by Pickens, who sat with other prominent alumni in a primitive suite of sorts in the Lewis Field press box. Served at halftime: a ho-hum snack of cookies and punch.
    At one point that afternoon, and after having taken inventory of Lewis Field and its lack of amenities, Pickens stood and addressed everyone in the room: “Hey! Is this the best we can do? Are we going to continue to tolerate this? Look — I’ll give the first $100,000. Who else in here will give $100,000? Let’s do something about this.”

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    The response was silence, and Pickens’ response to the silence was to disconnect from Oklahoma State football until the Les Miles-coached Cowboys scored Bedlam upset victories in 2001 and 2002.


    In 2003, Pickens donated $20 million for the start of a stadium renovation, and the facility immediately was given a new name: Boone Pickens Stadium.
    After Holder became the athletic director, Pickens stepped up with his most famous gift — a $165 million donation that resulted in a far more comprehensive stadium rebuild than had been planned.
    When the renovation was completed in 2009, Pickens cut the ribbon before the Cowboys’ season-opening victory over Georgia.
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    Until the Pickens project work began, this museum space had been used as a store for the sales of OSU apparel.
    “We always had this space,” Holder said, “so it just made sense to put the Boone Pickens (museum) in here. I mean, my gosh — his name is (branded) above us on the stadium.”
    The Boone Pickens Legacy Experience is taking shape as a dazzling tribute to an OSU billionaire hero whose final donation was made in June 2023. When it was announced that the university had received $120 million from the Pickens estate, the overall total on his giving to OSU had reached the $651 million mark. The Pickens audio used throughout the museum is taken from interviews recorded in 2017-19. The ground-level, entry-way video includes this comment on his generosity: “I’ve had the money to give,” Pickens said, “and I’ve enjoyed giving it.”

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Trafalgar Group - Polling (Only poll that had 2016 correctly) - Other thoughts

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Seems everyone will be posting polls like they are an accurate scoreboard form here until the election. Trafalgar was the only poll in the 2016 election that had Trump winning the election They indicated part of the reasons why they were more accurate was the following:

1. They discovered part of the population was shy Trump voters who would never admit to anyone they were voting for him. Did not want to be called names, wanted to stay out of the political hate, etc... Once they discovered this, they adjusted their questions in a manner to try to determine who these people were in their sampling. No one else did this.

2. They attempted for each sample to be reflective of the actual registered voters by category: Rep, Dem, and Independents. Keep in mind on a percentage basis within the population, Reps are Dems are basically equal, almost exactly. Most of your legacy polling in place leans liberal, and they typically sample more Dems than Reps, don't believe this? If they publish their polling data look it up. And also see if they are sampling registered voters or likely voters, big difference. Likely voters are your motivated voters. This allowed for a more accurate poll.

3. Trafalgar said up to 4% (if my memory from 8 years ago is correct) in some of their samples they could identify as shy Trump voters. They adjusted their polling for this, but I don't think it was a 1 for 1 adjustment. This also explains why Trump usually performs better than his polling, this has nothing to do with Trafalgar but a simple fact.

In this upcoming election I believe you still have shy Trump voters, probably not as many as in 2016 or 2020 that voted for him, but the off-set to that is how many "never Trumpers" will now rise to that category? It is happening.

This is why the Trafalgar poll is very interesting to me.

Trafalgar missed on some subsequent elections after 2016 pretty good, but how many other polls have blown it as well? My guess is that Trafalgar may have done some weighting on Rep shy voters that no longer applies when Trump is not in the actual election. But they are on to something when Trump is in the race, and they are the only poll that tries to even identify them.

I thought it was very enlightening and true that a political analyst said starting around 2004/2008, parties moved from persuasion (logical) campaigning to motivation campaigning (emotional). Most of us on this Board are locked tight who we are voting for and yet we still try to persuade those in the opposition party why our team has it right. Complete waste of time. If you own 50% of voting public, if you can get 1% more out to vote for you from your base because you think the end of the free world is at stake, you will be motivated to vote and you win the election. The VP selections for both candidates reflect a mostly motivation campaign.

The election will be determined by independents and undecided voters, who need persuasion. That is the challenge for both parties. I am biased but if Reps stay on point, they can win that hands down, but they are going to have to be skilled to get the message out. Thankfully, X allows free speech for this election. Thank you Elon. Liberal legacy media already distorting facts, things we lived thru and have seen with our own 2 eyes.

At the end of the day, I believe for independent and undecided voters, the election will come down to, 2 things:

1. The economy. It looks like things are going to get worse before it gets better. Credit card debt up, retirement funds down, less money in your pocket. Green is green and is not political. Trump with SOLID polling across the board on this area, every poll, far more than the sampling error.

2. October surprise - Wildcard and X factor. Who knows?

Lastly, in this country in many states it is basically legal to ballot harvest and have signatures on ballots with no idea who they are. Illegals voting. The fact is, there is not one single legit CPA firm in this country that would take on validating the results of the election for Prez or Congress because the internal control environment does not exist. How do you prove or disprove a vote is valid or invalid, with ZERO controls in place to authentic the vote prior to be counted? No reliable testing procedures could be developed to express an opinion. No one talks about this.

Republicans are STUPID to not ballot harvest just like Dems and get the votes, it is essentially legal in some states. And BTW - Beating them at their own game? The ONLY way they will ever want proper ID to be able to vote, FACT. Once the votes are counted? No one is changing them, and you can't prove or disprove who cast the ballot anyway. Just the way Dims want it. Need to play by their rules. Going to be fun to see if Kamala if she loses the election, will she certify the election. Hopefully a debate is on FOX and someone asks her this.

The polls are like recruiting rankings, basically mean nothing. I do know this: After the assassination attempt on Trump his supporters will walk over coals to vote for him this November. Let's hope the independents and undecideds vote with their pocket books.
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Fighting Christian Men

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I submit to you that given events in the UK this year and of course the summer of the demon Floyd in 2020, and what is about to happen in this election in 2024:

I have spoken with many of you. Many of you think we are 5 minutes to midnight. We are not. We are 3 minutes PAST Midnight and the moment to strike has already been lost.

I weep for the UK. So Disheartening to see thousands, nay, millions, demonstrating that they want to be slaves. The ENGLISH!

The ballot box will never solve our problems.

Plan accordingly.
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Shadowy ad cabal GARM shuts down after Elon Musk’s X files antitrust suit over censorship

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Shadowy ad cabal GARM shuts down after Elon Musk’s X files antitrust suit over censorship

On Thursday, the World Federation of Advertisers, which organized the GARM initiative, informed its members that GARM was “discontinuing” activities.
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Interesting development with this case.
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I Thought Some Of You Might Want To Read A Moderate Leftist’s Opinion Of Walz As The VP Pick

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He may be a better choice than you may have thought. His debate with Vance, should there be one, could be epic. I’ve made no secret of the degree to which I despise Donald Trump, but the thought of Harris at the helm scares the bejesus out of me.


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The Democrats' new sunny vibes

Suddenly, the country has an opportunity to leave the madness of the 2010s behind.
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College football’s odd couple bring the Razorbacks to Stillwater

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Bill Haisten: College football’s odd couple bring the Razorbacks to Stillwater​

  • Jul 30, 2024 Updated Aug 6, 2024
Among the many prop-bet opportunities on the BetOnline.ag is this one: “first coach fired” after the 2024 college football season begins in one month.
Interesting figures on the current “first coach fired” list are five from the Big 12: Baylor’s Dave Aranda (at 7/1), BYU’s Kalani Sitake (10/1), Cincinnati’s Scott Satterfield and West Virginia’s Neal Brown (each at 14/1), and Colorado’s Deion Sanders (50/1).
Southern Cal’s Lincoln Riley and Clemson’s Dabo Swinney are at 25/1. OU’s Brent Venables is at 33/1.
It’s unfortunate for Razorback fans that their head coach — Sam Pittman — is high on the “first coach fired” list. At 5/1, he trails only Florida’s Billy Napier (4/1).

The combination of Pittman’s hot-seat status and the looming presence of his new offensive coordinator Bobby Petrino double the drama of the first Arkansas-Oklahoma State football game in 44 years.

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If there were a “next Arkansas coach” prop bet, might Petrino top that list?

While it seems awkward that a former Razorback head coach now would work for the current Razorback head coach, Arkansas athletic director Hunter Yurachek insisted during a Hogs+ interview that Petrino was not hired “to take Sam’s job.”
“(Petrino is) here to help change the dynamics of our offense,” Yurachek stated. “Who better to do that than one of the brightest offensive minds in college football?”

Petrino is back at Arkansas after having been the Hog head man in 2008-11 and fired in 2012 — after a conduct misstep involving a 25-year-old female staff member and a tipped-over motorcycle.
The Sept. 7 clash of the Razorbacks and Cowboys already is a Boone Pickens Stadium sellout, with an 11 a.m. kickoff on ABC television.

These programs are separated by only 180 miles, and yet they meet for the first time since 1980 and for the first time in Stillwater since 1978.

As the 62-year-old Pittman fights for his job and the 63-year-old Petrino attempts to become reestablished as viable for a big-school, big-money head-coaching situation, Arkansas should bring a high level of motivation to the OSU campus.

We’ll learn more about these guys as we get closer to game week, but there are two very interesting new Razorbacks: Taylen Green, a quarterback who last season made 12 starts at Boise State; and first-year freshman Braylen Russell, a four-star, 253-pound running back from Benton. That’s not a typo: Russell is a 253-pound running back.
Former Bixby star Luke Hasz now is an Arkansas sophomore and the projected starter at tight end.

The 2021 Razorbacks were 9-4. There were victories over Texas, Texas A&M and LSU, along with an Outback Bowl conquest of Penn State. Pittman’s approval rating was extremely healthy.

In their last 22 games, however, the Razorbacks are 8-14.


In April, Arkansas made a statement by hiring basketball coach John Calipari away from Kentucky. If the Arkansas people are tired of inconsistent basketball, you have to believe they’re sick of underachievement in football.

For Pittman, every game is an exercise in pressure management.

OSU starts its Big 12 schedule with a challenging bang — with a Sept. 21 hosting of preseason favorite Utah and a Sept. 28 test at Kansas State.
Before those games, OSU will want the momentum of having run the table in nonconference dates with defending FCS champion South Dakota State, Arkansas and the University of Tulsa.
Mike Gundy, by the way, is 5-4 against Southeastern Conference competition. OSU’s 2009 season-opening victory over Georgia was the only one of those Cowboys vs. SEC games played at Boone Pickens Stadium.

Having Razorbacks and Razorback fans in Stillwater is a fun, significant event, and that’s why the Arkansas game is the only one of OSU’s six home games that already is sold out.
The others eventually will be sellouts, but Sept. 7 has been an airtight sellout for two weeks and it’s the opener of a long-overdue, four-game OSU-Arkansas series.
Cowboy teams visit Fayetteville in 2027 and 2033, while Arkansas returns to Boone Pickens Stadium in 2032. For each game on the contract, the visiting school gets 3,000 tickets.

There is heavy speculation that if Arkansas doesn’t have at least an eight-win type of 2024 season, Pittman won’t be coaching the 2027 Razorbacks.

Arkansas has enough money to have attracted a rising-star type of coordinator who doesn’t have a tarnished history, and yet the university chose to bring Petrino back to Fayetteville. His path since 2012: he was the Western Kentucky head coach in 2013 and the Louisville head coach in 2014-18. In 2022, Petrino was the head man for Missouri State’s FCS program. The 2021 Bears lost only 23-16 at Oklahoma State, and that Cowboy team went on to finish with 12 wins.

Last season, Petrino coordinated Jimbo Fisher’s final Texas A&M offense.
When Petrino wasn’t retained by new Aggie coach Mike Elko, he again was a free agent and wound up with an improbable return to Fayetteville.
Petrino’s 2010 and 2011 Razorback squads were 21-5 overall and each was 6-2 in the SEC. Each team averaged 37 points per game.
In 12 seasons since Petrino’s firing — with John L. Smith, Bret Bielema, Chad Morris and Pittman as the head coaches — there hasn’t been a 10-win Arkansas season overall or a six-win record in conference play.

Picked to finish 14th in the 16-team SEC, Arkansas is starved for signature victories. Success in Stillwater would be a signature Saturday for Pittman and Petrino — college football’s odd couple.
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Oklahoma State football's Lyrik Rawls aims to reclaim starting safety spot after ACL tear

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Oklahoma State football's Lyrik Rawls aims to reclaim starting safety spot after ACL tear​

Portrait of Scott WrightScott Wright
The Oklahoman

STILLWATER — Last Friday afternoon was a celebration for Lyrik Rawls.

Oklahoma State’s first preseason practice in shoulder pads.

It was a day Rawls had been waiting roughly 10 months for, since suffering a torn ACL last September that ended his redshirt sophomore season.

Last fall, he could only watch from a distance as his Cowboy teammates made a run to a 10-4 season and an appearance in the Big 12 Championship Game.

In the spring, he could take part in some of the non-contact drills, but was relegated to the sideline anytime the pads were popping.

Yet last Friday, he strapped on his shoulder pads with intent.

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“I was holding it in, trying to keep all my excitement in,” Rawls said with a smile. “Once we got back out there, it felt good to be there. I been waiting on this.”

With the Cowboys a week into preseason camp, Rawls is ready to fight for the starting safety job he had earned a year ago. But a lot has changed in the last 10 months — some of it a direct response to Rawls’ injury.

After he went down four games into the season, Cameron Epps moved into the starting role and showed significant growth. Dylan Smith shifted from cornerback to safety and showed flashes of talent as a true freshman.

The Cowboys added another safety in the offseason, bringing in Kobe Hylton from UTEP via the transfer portal, and he has the potential to jump into a starting role.

Suddenly, the safety jobs look to be the source of OSU’s most intense preseason position battle.

Of course, the biggest move involving safeties is that of Kendal Daniels into a role that will see him frequently slotted as a linebacker. That opens up some playing time at the middle safety position, where players like Rawls, Epps and Ty Williams are getting extra work while safeties coach Dan Hammerschmidt searches for his starters.

Trey Rucker is back as a super-senior, likely filling the same spot he held all last year, which tightens the competition even more.

“It’s making me go even harder,” Rawls said. “It’s making me see it’s not gonna be easy for me to go back and get my spot. Any move I make wrong, somebody waiting to get in. And then I’m going to get them. So I feel like this is making the whole room better.”
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More About The Most Moral Country In The World & Its Military, The Most Moral Military In The World

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Gee, those are some really fine people, a moral example of how every society should behave. Just call yourself the victim and every atrocity becomes self defense! Brilliant!


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Israel is in a death spiral. Who will it take down with it?

Israel's zealots are ignoring the pleas of the top brass. They want to widen the circle of war, whatever the consequences
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Oh Dear, Is Hamas Propaganda Working?

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AIPAC better step up its game. Our politicians are facing a dilemma. Keep following the orders of the lobbying group that put them in office to begin with, or suffer the wrath of the ones who vote. Is AIPAC losing its mojo because of the actions of the most moral military in the world? How can that be? Israel is the victim here. It’s always the victim. That’s the message all the AIPAC money is used for. Are Americans not listening ? Come on, fellow Americans, follow the money!


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Majority of Americans Oppose Sending US Forces to Defend Israel if Attacked by Iran

Whether attacked by its neighbors or Tehran, majorities of Americans oppose using US troops to come to Israel’s defense.
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This is what the Republicans need to hammer home against Commie-la

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During her first run for president in 2020, Harris was in favor of doing these things:

* She was in favor of scrapping private health insurance for a government-run system
* She endorsed policing reform, including redirecting law-enforcement budgets to other priorities.
* She was in favor of decriminalizing undocumented entry into the US and even floated the idea of abolishing ICE
* She backed the sweeping Green New Deal environmental legislation
* She supported a ban on fracking and off-shore drilling.

Along with the economy, the border, and Those are things that Trump, Republicans should be hammering home every way possible.
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How far left is Tim Walz???

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Don't let the fact that this guy is former coach and history teacher fool you!

Most people who are coaches and history teachers - like myself - run pretty conservative. But once Walz became governor of Minnesota, the most liberal state in America between New York and California, he went all woke - thanks in large part (in my opinion) to his wacky liberal wife.

So how far left is Walz?

* When there were riots in Minneapolis the summer of 2020, he did nothing for three days while numerous businesses burned to the ground. (His wife even said she opened the windows to their house to smell the burning tires! Yikes!)
* He signed into law a bill that made Minnesota a sanctuary spot for trans KIDS, so they could come to get sex change operations - WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THEIR PARENTS!
* He signed into law a bill that gave women the most liberal abortion laws IN THE COUNTRY! Included in that bill? 1) A woman could get an abortion at any stage of a pregnancy with essentially no restrictions AND 2) minors could legally get an abortion without their parents consent.
* He signed into law a bill that requiring public schools to provide menstrual products — including pads and tampons — to students in 4th through 12th grades, including BOYS! And he did this at the tax payers expense.
* Walz is so pro-immigration - that due to the influx of men from Somalia - part of Minneapolis has been called Little Mogadishu and the state is now the home to 25 PERCENT of ISIS recruits. What does Walz say to that? "Refugees strengthen our communities," he said in 2019. "The inn is not full in Minnesota."
* When it comes to crime, homicides have nearly doubled since Walz has been governor. Carjackings in Minneapolis are up OVER 500%!!!
* A lot of this could be attributed to his far-left wife. Her stance on crime is that minorities are incarcerated at an unfair rate due to racism and that the criminal system should be overhauled. When asked how many chances someone convicted should get before being put in jail, her response was "as many as it takes."

* As far as his military service? In 2005, Walz retired as a command sergeant major in the artillery – and faced criticism for leaving as his battalion prepared to go to Iraq.
* Also, when he was 31, he was stopped while driving at 96mph in a 55mph zone and failed a sobriety test. How he wasn't charged with DUI is beyond me.

This is a MODERATE?????? The MSM is trying to make you - I'm sorry, the naïve American public - think so.
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Hey @my__2cents...

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I've been perusing the board the last couple of days and you've been chirping an awful lot. You seem pretty confident Harris is going to whip up on the Donald. Now that the ticket is set I'm going to give you another chance, my bet is still on the table. Harris/Walz vs Trump/Vance. Permanent ban. Trump wins you go away forever and I'll do the same if Harris wins. You in? None of this waiting until the weekend before the election to figure out if you want to take me up on it either. You already tried that. Now or never.
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