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cobragardens · 1 year ago

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Self-Therapy in the Form of an Open Letter to Neil Gaiman and My Fellow Ineffables

Dear Ineffables, and Dear @neil-gaiman

I want to talk about Good Omens for a sec, ok? You are not obligated to listen! But if you want to listen, I have a Thing I need to say. And it's important to me and I have a Tumblr, so you can see where this is headed.

I know Crowley and Aziraphale's relationship, book and show, is primarily about the absurdity and tragedy and miraculousness and contagiousness of being human. I know it's about wanting friendship and cake instead of victory and ashes, and I love that. I know it did not start out as an intentionally or unequivocally queer story, and I know that neither the queerness nor the Christianity is the main theme of S1 or the book. And I think those are all good things: one of the big strengths that makes Good Omens so remarkable and so charming is its lightness of touch.

But Crowley did not start out as a demon, and Aziraphale did not start out as a butter-smooth liar, and they are neither of them the angel the other knew, and there are reasons for that. And S2 starts discussing those reasons, and now Crowley and Aziraphale have shared a very human kiss and have started a more overt phase of their ongoing conversation about what they are to each other. So one of the things we need to talk about is what it’s like to love the wrong person in a world like the world of Good Omens.

And I feel like I have some (very small) amount of expertise in this field. I do not have the skill as a writer to tell you what that was like to grow up Christian and deeply in love with my (also female) best friend in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the evangelical Christian Mecca of the United States. But I did it--or, rather, it happened to me--so I'm the person who has to write about it now.

It was Before Ellen. Homosexual sex was against the law in around half of U.S. states. Only one state (Rhode Island, which I am not convinced actually exists) had a law prohibiting discrimination against LGB people in housing, services, or employment. One U.S. state—my state, Colorado—amended its state constitution to prohibit prohibiting discrimination. Same-sex marriage did not exist. Same-sex couples could not adopt children. Being any flavor of queer could cost you custody in family court of any children you did have.

Queer young-adult novels did not exist. Movies and tv shows with queer characters did not exist unless they were serial killers or dying of AIDS. Safe-sex education did not exist, the LGBTQ section of the bookstore did not exist. Social media did not exist, the Internet was in its infancy (I was typing up papers in AppleWorks on an Apple IIe), smartphones did not exist. Porn was in magazines your friend’s older brother or uncle kept under his mattress.

The guy everybody in school thought was gay got beat up daily. The girls I'm not sure about. I only ever saw two girls/women who were out before I was 28 and met an openly lesbian woman in a university class.

In Colorado Springs, bumper stickers for Colorado for Family Values and Focus on the Family, both headquartered in the city, were common. Crosses and ichthys decals proliferated. There were only a few “God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve” stickers, but “Marriage = One Man + One Woman," or the same message in Ladies and Gents toilets symbols (with a pair of ladies and a pair of gents crossed out) were a regular sight on the backs of cars every day, every drive, my whole life there.

This was a world where there was one very specific God, who has one very rigid Plan, and whose Agents and Enemies fight each other for the eternal souls of every human being. And every player on the board was clear about this.

I was 12 when my dad and I met two women on a hiking trail and, after we all said hello and they three had chatted a bit and the women had walked on, he asked me if I had "gotten any spiritual witness about them." He told me he suspected they were lesbians.

I was 14 when I burst into tears and shouted at my dad when he spoke viciously of the two gay men who had come into his place of work earlier in the day. He called them “flaming” and “faggots.” I told him we were Christians and we were not hateful about people in that way. I didn’t know what the word faggot meant, not for sure (I picked up the meaning of flaming from his imitations), but I could tell it meant they were people who did awful things, and that he hated them.

I had never seen my dad like that before, hating someone. I had never heard him speak that way about anyone.

I was 16 when I rode in the back seat of our next-door neighbors’ Ford Focus on the way to Bible study and listened to the handsome Christian newlyweds up front discuss how awful it was that gay and lesbian couples were now allowed to adopt children in the state of New Jersey. It was bad, they said, that children could find homes with queer people “because children learn from their parents.”

I was 17 when 2 straight men beat and tortured Matthew Shepard and left him tied to a split-rail fence on the side of a road 3 hours north of Colorado Springs as a warning to the rest of us. A scarequeer.

A joke in poor taste, you may feel, this little pun. It is a pun, but it's not a joke.

One of Shepard’s murderers used the gay panic defense in court. In the U.S. the gay panic defense is one of reduced responsibility: a man cannot be held fully legally responsible for murdering another man if he claims he thought his victim was gay and making a pass at him. Because, under U.S. law, it is considered common for men to go temporarily insane and murder men they think may be gay and making a pass at them. I have rewritten this paragraph five times and that is the absolute least bananas I can make this sound. It is real and it is still a thing.

I was also 17 when Pastor Luis, the head of my church, preached in sermon about a member of the congregation who had fallen in love with another woman. He told us firmly: "She is no longer a lady. She is a lesbian."

He refused to counsel or marry them, services he insisted upon performing for the heterosexual couples among his congregants. He said he told the woman and her fiancee that they and their sin were not welcome in his house of God. He told us, the ones left, that we were not to contact the ejected woman or continue any friendships with her.

It was a small church, only about 60 people. Pastor Luis looked right into my eyes and held the eye contact with me (other peoole turned to look) when he said, "And if you don't agree with that, you are not welcome here either. You can leave now and never come back."

I did. For 10 years after that, I thought God had told Pastor Luis about me. That Pastor Luis had gotten the same "spiritual witness" off me that my dad had gotten off the 2 women we met backpacking. That he somehow knew—that any Christian might know if they listened, if they sniffed carefully enough. The smell of evil, I thought, must linger on me.

I was 18 when I got my first tattoo. My parents were relieved when I told them that’s all it was. "We thought you were going to tell us you were pregnant, or gay," they said.

I was 19 when a trans woman at a coffee shop told me about how she'd been fired as a substitute teacher from the biggest school district in the state. She didn't pass, so she dressed as a man when working. One day she made the mistake of wearing a women's button-down shirt (with the buttons on the left, not the right), and someone noticed and complained.

I was also 19 when my boyfriend's parents became concerned that he might be gay. (He had gotten his ears pierced and dyed his clipper cut pink while away at college.) As Christians his parents were against premarital sexual activity of any kind, including masturbation or sexual desire, so my bf couldn’t tell them how he knew he wasn’t gay, and for over a year they wouldn’t believe him. His mother bought some books from Family Christian Booksellers, the biggest Christian publisher in the U.S., about how as a Christian she should respond to her child’s queerness.

Throw them out, cut them off, and do everything you can to make sure your child starves and suffers, said the books. (I read them all.) Hunger and homelessness were the goal, they advised, but any misery you could cause was helpful. Turn other relatives against them, don't let them take their belongings when they go, cancel phone contracts and insurance plans.

When your child asks for help because they can't support themselves, you can force them to leave their beloved and drop their friends in exchange for survival, said the books. They will either eventually see that you and God are right and loving, and repent of their sin, or you will catch them lying to you and sneaking around, which is proof that homosexuality and other sins go hand in hand.

One book acknowledged that cutting them off would endanger teenagers and young adults and leave them vulnerable to rape, murder, and human trafficking (though it called being trafficked "prostitution"). But Christian parents acting in the name of God's love would not be responsible for the harm their kids suffered, it said: the children were bringing whatever happened to them on themselves as a natural consequence of living a sinful lifestyle.

In fact, said the book, being attacked or abused could be good for your children: if they suffer enough they may realize it’s their gayness that has caused all their problems and repent of their disgusting unacceptable love and desire.

In the United States, LGBT children represent 40% of homeless youth under 18. "Family conflict" is the number-one cause of LGBT youth homelessness.

I was 22 when the pastor of my boyfriend’s church received news that one of his congregants was engaged in a same-sex affair. Extramarital affairs were very common in his church—three of the deacons were cheating on their wives with other (also married) congregants, and my bf’s parents had been swingers —but this was the first and only time the pastor ever called a church member to the altar, outed him by described his sin to the congregation (c. 350), and demanded the man apologize to everyone and ask their forgiveness. The pastor told him that if he did not apologize he and his wife and children were not welcome to continue attending.

I was 23 when I heard that same pastor’s sermon on avoiding sexual temptation. Give up affection if it causes you to sin, he said. Scoop out your own eyes, cut off your own hand. He instructed men only to hug other men side-along, one arm around their shoulders, lest a real embrace cause them to feel sexual desire for another man. (No mention was made about how women should hug, or that women might ever feel sexual desire at all.)

I remember listening to this pastor's sermon and thinking, I know something about this man that he does not know about himself.

I was 24 when I went with my boyfriend to Pulpit Rock Church, seeking answers from the sermon they advertised on their signboard about sex and sexuality and gender. My boyfriend loved wearing women's clothes. Transgender and cross-dressing were just starting to replace transsexual and transvestite as the accepted terms for the things he might be. Nonbinary and genderqueer were not words we had. He wasn’t sure yet which thing he was; the thing he was was still, for us, unspeakable.

"Men are created to be men and women are created to be women," preached the pastor at Pulpit Rock. "Men and women are different in a way that can't be explained, and they fit together in a relationship in a divine way. A man and a man or a woman and a woman may love each other, but they'll never have the spiritual connection of a godly relationship that a man and a woman can have. We don't have to understand it, but we shouldn't question it, because that’s the way God made it."

Then he talked about how he and his wife could both make French toast (or maybe it was pancakes), but the way his wife made French toast was female somehow--ineffably--because she was a woman, even though the French toast was the same. My bf and I left in the middle of the sermon.

I was 25 when Ted Haggard, best friend of Focus on the Family founder James Dobson (of “Spongebob is teaching our kids it's ok to be gay” controversy) and pal of George W. Bush (the POTUS who pursued, in his own words, "a Crusade" in Iraq with the U.S. military to fight the influence of demons "Gog and Magog[…] at work in the Middle East"), was publicly outed. Male escort and Mike Jones—whom Haggard hired to sell him meth and give him happy-ending massages—recognized ‘Pastor Ted’ as the leader of Colorado Springs evangelical megachurch New Life Church, a nationally famous preacher who denounced the evils of homosexuality from his pulpit, and Jones, a big damn hero, tipped off the press.

I had heard Pastor Ted preach twice. New Life Church was a lot like Heaven in Show Omens in that it had a lot of open space and bright fluorescent lighting and smiling well-groomed people in it, as well as several giant digital screens floating in the air to either side of its dais on which the face of the straight-passing white man bringing his people the word of God was projected as he spoke. This latter feature also resulted in a slight resemblance to a Hitler rally, but there was more medium-stained oak in play than either Hitler or Heaven would find tasteful.

I was 26 when I acted as an informal lettings agent for one of my landlord's other apartments and the young Christian woman living downstairs asked me refuse shelter to any gay or lesbian people because she didn't want to have to live in the same building with them.

When I asked her how I was supposed to know whether someone was gay, she said, “Well you can just tell, can’t you?”

I was 30 when I came out to my Christian parents. Having read the Christian parenting books, I was hugely relieved when they didn't throw me out of their house, where I was living after college (and a few major depressive episodes and two global recessions). I was relieved that they wanted to continue to have a relationship with me at all, in fact.

"I still think it's a sin, though," my mother gently reminded me. My father has refused ever to discuss it at all.

I was 31 when I moved to the UK. I've spent 11 years trying and failing to scrape a living in the Thatcher-hollowed market towns around Manchester, under the fucking Tories, through fucking Brexit, through fucking May and fucking Boris and that weird little cabbage Liz Truss, in order to stay out of Colorado Springs. I can't get medical care on the NHS and I can't work or leave my apartment bc I can't get medical care and I can't heat my apartment in winter on Universal Credit and I’ve been threatened and assaulted by doctors and raped by a nurse and I’ve tried suicide a few times, and I'm in some smallish danger of dying here in Britain's left armpit, but I am not in Colorado fucking Springs today, am I. So that's something at least.

I was 41 and living in the UK for a decade when a homophobe with Christian parents shot up the only gay venue in Colorado Springs, Club Q, murdering 5 people and shooting 19 more. I'd been to Club Q a few times, on dead nights, when I lived in the city. The shooting was 24 years after homophobes tied Matthew Shepard to a fence and left him dying as a warning to the rest of us.

I never told my best friend I was in love with her.

Instead I had anxiety dreams in which my subconscious warned me I wasn't safe. In one dream, Not Yet appeared tattooed on the back of my hand as I looked at a female classmate who was dating another girl. I had to wear gloves to hide the rainbow that had appeared, indelible, on my ring finger.

My first kiss was with a (Christian) boy.

I knew what I felt for my best friend was effervescent and golden and breath-stealing. I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her, knew I wanted to live with her in a little house in the Pacific Northwest in the mist and the trees and make her coffee with a Turkish press anytime she wanted it and cuddle her on the closed porch and gripe about the wool in her sweater prickling my arms when I hugged her. I knew her eyelashes made her eyes look like they had stars in them and that she had the lushest curves and most perfect skin I had ever seen, and that when she smiled or laughed the shape of her mouth made something in me ache like tuning forks must ache when they're struck and made to sing.

I never told my best friend I was in love with her because I didn't know those were the words for what I was feeling.

Not until years later, after she had left my life. I had been told (frequently) by a Higher Authority that queer love was disgusting and ruinous and sinful and ugly and twisted and inferior, not this perfect fragile thing as soft and trembling-alive as a bird in my hands. Why would I think this was queer love?

I didn't catch the worst of it. I wasn't chained to a bed or forced to drink water from a dog dish, like the foster parents of the gay kid in class did to him. (The school asked him to give a talk to our class so they'd bully him less, so he told us about his life as the teachers looked on. He was 12.) I wasn't sent to conversion therapy like one classmate. I didn't spend most of my childhood in Bible School like other devout Christians' children; my family read the Bible a lot, and prayed together, but my parents weren't regular churchgoers. I was so, so lucky.

It destroyed me anyway.

The thesis of my essay runs thus, fellow ineffables: A happy ending for Crowley and Aziraphale is necessary.

It is necessary not just because Bury Your Gays is an overdone trope and an act of homophobia in the hands of straight writers; not just because Good Omens has been crafted with such loving care in both book and show incarnations to be optimistic, even sunny, against a backdrop of Orwellian, cosmic, and Kafka-esque horror; not just because casting miracles of the magnitude of David Tennant as Crowley and Michael Sheen as Aziraphale happen once a generation and it would be a shame and a waste not to write more magic for them to chew on; it is necessary because, in most places here in Shitworld, there are real people having the experience Crowley and Aziraphale are having, and not all of us are able to make happy endings for ourselves.

We don't have ethereal/occult powers or authorial control, so we need stories to show us how to love and when to fight and why to fucking bother. And the harder those things are to see in this world, the more we need those stories. And the more we need people with influence and audience and privilege telling them, not just all us little Tumblr rats and AO3 and Pillowfort perverts.

Crowley and Aziraphale exist in a fascist universe run by the ultimate Authoritarian—not Big Brother, but Big Father. There is nowhere for them to go, not even their own minds, where it is safe for them to love each other openly. I am completely prepared to believe someone in those circumstances could go 6,000 years without realizing the love they feel for their best friend is the kissing kind of love. I know someone can go a whole lifetime without saying it.

The hosts of Heaven and Hell will take away even the words for love when they can. We need people who don't just wield words but the power of the word spreading the message "There is a way to make this work. There is a way to exist. You can make a new world."

Mr Gaiman, I know from reading some of your other work that a big part of your whole Deal as a writer is an ongoing enthusiasm for the immense, even mystical, power stories have to shape individual and shared realities—sometimes to doom people and lock them into a destiny, but as often to let them escape their fate by imagining and conceiving a new way of living, or of living with each other, where none was possible before.

Hate and hope are the result of the stories we tell each other--I know you know this because I know you know that in saying it I am referencing a story you wrote. Like the hate, that hope only exists if an author says it does. And real people’s hearts, real people’s lives, are made and broken by listening to the wrong stories or hearing the right ones.

Crowley and Aziraphale are your characters, and Good Omens is your story to tell. You have written a setup in which, if you want these characters to be able to love each other, you (they) will have to create a world where that is possible. Please write us a romance. Please put enough sweet in with the bitter that we can survive it.

We have such faith in you because you have shown your readers and your audiences that you deserve that faith. Please choose your phrases wisely. ❤️

#good omens #good omens 2 #human rights #Colorado Springs #lgbtq #writing #religion #christianity #aziracrow #aziraphale x crowley #neil gaiman #stories #ineffable husbands #good omens s2 #trauma #mental illness #tmi #say your right words the goblins said

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cool-in-denverco · 1 year ago

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cfbtransferportal · 2 years ago

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12/26/2022 CFB Transfer Portal Update #2

Since my last post, 11 of the players that I discussed have made their commitments. In this blog post, I am going to cover the choices these student-athletes made and their potential fit with new programs.

The once five-star prospect will look to take over as the starting Quarterback for the Purdue Boilermakers after Transferring from Texas where he was the backup to Quinn Ewers. This could prove to be a good move for Card because He was already a backup at Texas and next year will have another five-star top-ranked quarterback joining the room to bring even more competition. He joins a system with much less competition at Purdue where last year's starter in Aidan O'Connell is leaving for the NFL draft.

Shedeur Sanders did exactly as most thought he would which was to follow his dad to Colorado. Shedeur will step on campus as the immediate starting QB and be a share to the face of the program with his father, Deion, and teammate, Travis Hunter. He also is a big asset to future recruiting for the Boulder program as he can message players and talk with other athletes in grace periods when his father is not allowed by the NCAA to recruit.

After seeing Oregon State Quarterback Chance Nolan enter the transfer portal earlier in December the program is bringing in D.J. Uiagalelei to compete with last year's starter, Ben Gulbranson. This can be a fresh start for D.J. after a shakey 2 years of starting at Clemson. His brother recently committed to the University of Oregon so they will be able to play each other every year in the Civil-War rivalry game.

LJ Johnson will look to prove why he was so highly touted coming out of high school and take over as the lead back at SMU which had run by committee backfield last season where 5 different running backs split a majority of the workload. In my opinion, this can go either way for LJ. With so many capable runningbacks in one room, it will be hard to steal all of the reps and be a clear-cut #1 on the team. With that being said, if 5 running backs shared the majority of touches last year then Johnson has the potential to show the coaching staff that he is their do it all back and can perform the same capabilities as some or all of the other running backs at SMU.

RaRa Thomas committing to Georgia is huge for the Bulldogs as they add even more weapons to their already #1 ranked team in the country. With Stetson Bennett running out of eligibility and leaving for the NFL before next season, it is unclear who will be the QB throwing RaRa balls in 2023. If Georgia finds a ready-to-win QB for next season, they and RaRa are going to be a force to be reckoned with in CFB.

Ajani Cornelius committed to the University of Oregon where he will most likely make an immediate impact starting at either the left or right tackle position. This was a huge get for Oregon as they look to protect their returning starter at QB, Bo Nix, who was on the fence about going pro or returning for his final season of eligibility. This also brings a lot more national attention to Ajani that he wasn't necessarily getting at Rhode Island.

Amari Kight found a new home at the University of Central Florida where and will hope to shine as one of their best lineman in order to boost his draft stock in his final season of eligibility. The Big bodied tackle the frame and mobility that the NFL loves.

Braden Fiske decided to go with the East coast and commit to Florida State rather than the likes of USC on the West. The massive interior defensive lineman will look to not only prove that he can compete against the best playrs in a power-5 conference but will also hope to gain attention from NFL scouts.

Tunmise Adeleye is leaving the heat of college station Texas for the shivering cold of East lasing Miching to join the Michigan State Spartans. This move makes sense for Adeleye because he in joining a much more run-heavy conference in the BIG10 as compared to the SEC. This will allow Tunmise to display his run-stuffing abilities as there will be far more opportunities.

Travis Hunter decided to follow his head coach and top hall-of-fame cornerback, Deion Sanders to Colorado. Travis will fit right back into Coach Sander's system where he played on both the offensive and defensive side of the ball last season for Jackson State University.

Tony Grimes decided to join the Texas A&M Aggies who have seen the departure of 4 defensive backs through the transfer portal in just this past month. Grimes will make an immediate impact at corner as there isn't much competition for his spot.

Thank you for reading my post that covered all of the now-committed players from the transfer portal who I talked about in my last blog. In the near future, I will post my update #3 and talk about programs that have been the most successful in replenishing their teams with talent from the CFB transfer portal.

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stubobnumbers · 8 days ago

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CFB Breakdown - November 16th, 2024.

CFB Breakdown - Saturday, November 16th 2024.

SEC: Texas at Arkansas - 11 AM ABC. Texas leads the series, 56-23.

LSU at Florida - 2:30 PM ABC. LSU leads the series, 34-33-3.

Tennessee at Georgia - 6:30 PM ABC. Georgia leads the series, 28-23-2.

Missouri at South Carolina - 3:15 PM SEC Network. Missouri leads the series, 9-5.

OOC - UL Monroe at Auburn - 11:45 AM SEC Network. Auburn leads the series, 11-0.

OOC - New Mexico State at Texas A&M - 6:45 PM SEC Network. Texas A&M leads the series, 1-0.

OOC - Murray State at Kentucky - 12:30 PM ESPN+. OOC - Mercer at Alabama - 1 PM ESPN+.

B1G: Oregon at Wisconsin - 6:30 PM NBC. The series is tied, 3-3.

Nebraska at Southern Cal - 3 PM FOX. Southern Cal leads the series, 4-0-1.

Ohio State vs Northwestern - 11 AM BTN. Ohio State leads the series, 65-14-1.

Michigan State at Illinois - 1:30 PM FS1. Michigan State leads the series, 27-19-2.

Penn State at Purdue - 2:30 PM CBS. Penn State leads the series, 16-3-1.

Rutgers at Maryland - 5 PM FS1. Maryland leads the series, 12-7.

ACC: Clemson at Pittsburgh - 11 AM ESPN. Pittsburgh leads the series, 3-2.

Wake Forest at North Carolina - 7 PM ACC Network. North Carolina leads the series, 72-36-2.

Boston College at SMU - 2:30 PM ESPN. The series is tied, 1-1.

Syracuse at California - 2 PM CW. The series is tied, 1-1. (Last meeting was in 1968).

Louisville at Stanford - 2:30 PM ACC Network. First meeting.

OOC - Virginia at Notre Dame - 2:30 PM NBC. Notre Dame leads the series, 4-0.

Big 12: Utah at Colorado - 11 AM FOX. Utah leads the series, 35-32-3.

Cincinnati at Iowa State - 7 PM FOX. Iowa State leads the series, 1-0.

Kansas at BYU - 9:15 PM ESPN. Kansas leads the series, 2-0.

Arizona State at Kansas State - 6 PM ESPN. Arizona State at Kansas State, 5-1.

Baylor at West Virginia - 3 PM ESPN2. West Virginia leads the series, 8-4.

P2: OOC - Oregon State at Air Force - 2:30 PM CBSSN. First meeting.

OOC - Washington State at New Mexico - 8:30 PM FS1. Washington State leads the series, 2-0.

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riseandshinehoney · 4 months ago

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TYLER TYSDAL DENVER: ACCUSED OF FRAUD IN 2024?

TYLER TYSDAL DENVER: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

Tyler Tysdal, who is 51 years old and is from Lone Tree, Colorado, was sentenced to six years in jail for his role in the orchestration of a Ponzi scheme that lasted for 10 years. Additionally, he was responsible for perpetrating another financial fraud operation that targeted rich investors, including professional football players. The following review will help you obtain more in-depth knowledge of Tyler Tysdal, who is from Denver. It will also help you assess whether or not he is a reliable individual.

TYLER TYSDAL DENVER: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

The company Freedom Factory, which is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is a business brokerage that promises to free entrepreneurs by assisting them in selling their enterprises for the highest possible price. Tysdal Tyler Denver is a founding investor of Freedom Factory.

For the time being, Tyler Tysdal Denver is concentrating on establishing Freedom Factory and providing assistance to business owners. It has been stated that Tyler Tysdal Denver has handled millions of dollars for investors and players in the entertainment and sports sectors.

Through his expertise in managing private equity funds, he demonstrates his professionalism. A venture capital investment was made in Leesa.com to reduce homelessness.

HORRIBLE BACKGROUND OF TYLER TYSDAL DENVER

A Lone Tree resident was found guilty of defrauding wealthy investors—including professional football players—of millions of dollars, and he was given a six-year jail term. According to his plea deal, Tyler Tysdal, 51, was given the highest punishment possible: two consecutive six-year sentences for felonies, followed by three years of probation.

Tysdal admitted to misleading people at his sentence hearing and blamed his conduct on hubris and a fear of failing. He acknowledged that his motivation was a fear of failing and said that he did not know about investment failures.

Tysdal agreed to pay $18.5 million in restitution as part of his plea agreement, with $2 million to be paid before sentence. Tysdal’s attorney argued against Tysdal’s incarceration, arguing that his client had a sincere belief in the initiatives and did not directly profit from the investors’ money. Tysdal’s close family members, who also lost a lot of money on the investments, begged for mercy and suggested probation with little time behind bars.

In response, the prosecution emphasized Tysdal’s responsibility for two offenses, including operating a Ponzi scheme in which he used the money of new investors to settle the debts of previous ones. Citing the seriousness of Tysdal’s actions, they stressed his guilty pleas and requested the court to impose the maximum six-year sentence.

The prosecution characterized Tysdal’s activities as blatantly illegal, rejecting arguments that he was just an honest financial manager who made errors. They highlighted the damage done to investors who put money into Tysdal’s scams, including well-known sportsmen like Carson Palmer and Matt Cassel.

In summary, Tyler Tysdal Denver’s activities were defined as purposeful fraud and deceit, causing investors to suffer large financial losses. The prosecution underlined the necessity for punishment to prevent similar illegal activity and safeguard the community, despite calls for mercy.

TYLER TYSDAL DENVER: SEC ACCUSED OF SEVERAL FRAUD SCHEMES

Relatively recently, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed a convoluted network of fraudulent operations that included Tyler T. Tysdal, a resident of Lone Tree, Colorado, as well as his business connections. Both the misappropriation of cash from a variety of investment endeavors and the deception of investors over the nature of their investments were central to these scams.

At the outset, Tysdal and his business partner Grant M. Carter established Cobalt Sports Capital, LLC intending to extend financial assistance to sports organizations and players.

On the other hand, rather than putting the money from investors to use for the purpose for which they were meant, they redirected around $15 million to failing startup firms that were part of the portfolio of Impact Opportunities Fund, L.P. Investors in cobalt suffered huge losses as a result of this move since the real destination of their money was obscured.

For a second scam, Tysdal and his firm, Impact Opportunities Fund Management, LLC (IOFM), imposed concealed monitoring costs. Some of these fees were to Tysdal’s profit, which further eroded the finances of the Impact Opportunities Fund and its investors.

In the third fraudulent scheme, Tysdal intended to mislead investors in TitleCard Capital iFund by exploiting two advisory businesses that were under his control. These firms were TitleCard Capital Management, LLC (TCCM) and TitleCard Capital Group, LLC (TCCG).

The investment limits of the fund were broken by L.P. Tysdal and his accomplices when they orchestrated the acquisition of cobalt from Impact Opportunities Fund. To hide their conduct, they misrepresented the value of the cobalt in investor reports.

Britt J. Haugland and Michael A. DeJager, two other persons who were involved in Tysdal and Carter’s misleading tactics, reached settlements as a result of the investigation conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

It was determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that Tysdal, TCCM, and TCCG had intentionally violated the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and its rules. In addition, it was discovered that Carter, who was Tysdal’s partner, had intentionally violated sections of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Haugland, on the other hand, was involved in breaches of the Securities Act.

As a consequence of the conclusions of the SEC, Tysdal consented to censures and accepted a three-year ban on some professional groups, in addition to a ban on investment companies.

In addition, he was mandated to forfeit $843,099 in prejudgment interest and pay a $320,000 civil penalty. While Haugland and DeJager were each forced to pay a punishment of $15,000 in civil penalties, Carter was compelled to pay a fine of $160,000.

The investigation, which was directed by the Denver Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), shed light on the intricate intricacy of the fraudulent operations that Tysdal and his accomplices were responsible for orchestrating. This highlights the significance of regulatory monitoring in safeguarding investors from schemes of this sort.

CONCLUSION

The dishonest activities of Tyler Tysdal Denver have ruined investors' faith and his reputation. By setting up Ponzi schemes and fooling wealthy individuals, including famous athletes, Tysdal has caused huge financial losses and legal issues.

The involvement of Tyler Tysdal Denver in frauds, such as stealing from Cobalt Sports Capital, LLC, and engaging in dishonest business practices with Impact Opportunities Fund Management, LLC, reveals a pattern of deception to financially benefit himself at the expense of investors.

The TitleCard Capital I-Fund scam by him and his associates shows the extent of his fraud and the harm he caused unsuspecting investors.

Their severity is shown by Tysdal’s six-year prison term and massive compensation order. Despite requests for leniency, the prosecution labeled Tysdal’s acts as premeditated fraud and deceit, highlighting the potential damage to the financial sector.

As the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates Tyler Tysdal Denver’s fraudulent schemes, tough regulatory controls are necessary to safeguard investors from similar unlawful activities.

As a warning about the consequences of dishonest financial conduct, Tyler Tysdal Denver will likely be remembered for harming investors and the community.

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TYLER TYSDAL DENVER: ACCUSED OF FRAUD IN 2024?

TYLER TYSDAL DENVER: A BRIEF OVERVIEW

Through his expertise in managing private equity funds, he demonstrates his professionalism. A venture capital investment was made in Leesa.com to reduce homelessness.

HORRIBLE BACKGROUND OF TYLER TYSDAL DENVER A Lone Tree resident was found guilty of defrauding wealthy investors—including professional football players—of millions of dollars, and he was given a six-year jail term. According to his plea deal, Tyler Tysdal, 51, was given the highest punishment possible: two consecutive six-year sentences for felonies, followed by three years of probation.

At the outset, Tysdal and his business partner Grant M. Carter established Cobalt Sports Capital, LLC intending to extend financial assistance to sports organizations and players.

It was determined by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that Tysdal, TCCM, and TCG had intentionally violated the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 and its rules. In addition, it was discovered that Carter, who was Tysdal’s partner, had intentionally violated sections of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Haugland, on the other hand, was involved in breaches of the Securities Act.

As a consequence of the conclusions of the SEC, Tysdal consented to censures and accepted a three-year ban on some professional groups, in addition to a ban on investment companies.

The investigation, which was directed by the Denver Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), shed light on the intricate intricacy of the fraudulent undertakings that Tysdal and his accomplices were responsible for orchestrating. This highlights the significance of regulatory monitoring in safeguarding investors from schemes of this sort.

Conclusion

The dishonest activities of Tyler Tysdal Denver have ruined investors’ faith and his reputation. By setting up Ponzi schemes and fooling wealthy individuals, including famous athletes, Tysdal has caused huge financial losses and legal issues.

The TitleCard Capital iFund scam by him and his associates shows the extent of his fraud and the harm he caused unsuspecting investors.

As the Securities and Exchange Commission investigates Tyler Tysdal Denver’s fraudulent schemes, tough regulatory controls are necessary to safeguard investors from similar unlawful activities. As a warning about the consequences of dishonest financial conduct, Tyler Tysdal Denver will likely be remembered for harming investors and the community.

#finance #investing

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