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A disastrous, do-nothing, chaotic, investigation-filled (of absolutely nothing), zero-policy, near-government-crashing (due to a lack of funding/ debt ceiling agreement) next 2 years would show just how bankrupt Republicans are. Which looks like exactly what we'll get from this version of House Republicans. The economy is still in full recovery and waiting to just take off, inflation and supply-side issues will soon resolve and get back to normal... so in 2 years Democratic policy/ choices will look golden and Republicans will resemble the aftermath of an alley cat fight. 2024 choices will be easy and engineer another Blue Wave. With or without Trump as the nominee. If Trump wins the nomination or goes 3rd party, that wave becomes a Tsunami... IMO.

I think the only way a Non-Trumpist has a chance is if trump himself gets pissed off and takes his football home. IE: DeSantis starts at 35% and Trump starts at 12%. Trump's supporters are starting to flock to the next big thing. trump gets mad, quits the primary, and says he is starting a Make America Great Again 3rd party. He steals at least some of MAGA out of the Republican primaries, opening up the field to any and all types of conservative candidates. I think that's the only hope a moderate/ centrist conservative has... including Pence and Hutch... But I also think it's not a great chance for them because even if Trump did run off like that, DeSantis or who ever had grabbed enough of a lead to piss off Trump would already have the momentum towards the nomination... The sooner Trump takes his football home and leaves the primary game... the bigger the chance for the field to open. Just my 2 cents.

Well that was a sucky finish...

I still say Hronek is playing so much better this year, even with some mistakes... And that that is largely due to Maata...

Ned's played better... I'm not worried. He's still a good 1B... just a slow start this year...

This was a huge tree farm... Might've even been 40 acres (LOL... JK...) !!! Don't know if they kept it up all these years since we were last there...

If there's some crazy talented position player that slips through great... Not counting on it though... Plus we pick about 6th or so I believe... Maybe a LH'ed reliever...

I don't remember which road we had the 20... I was in the Army in the 80's and then college in Boca Raton so it's at least 40 years and my memory is fading quite badly... Dad sold it sometime in the 80's too. It might have been Shelby Road... we were right next to a farm and in back of the 20 was a Christmas Tree farm, basically... That's as much as i remember... That and Uncle Ken sneaking into the tree farm so we had free trees every Christmas for awhile...

I consider this response to be insulting.

I was annoyed by that too... I wanted to give Bol Bol a shot...

Who said anything about WWIII? Article 5 has nothing to do with WWIII. Try again.

DO it.

We did the cottage thing in Canada when I was small... until my mom's sister moved down to Margate, FLA in 1971. Canada with cousins on my mom's side. Fishing in the Detroit River for walleye or Lake St. Clair for perch... with my mom's brother and my cousin David. Only one brother and sister so not a direct large family... However... My dad has 8 brothers and sisters. I have cousins coming out of my ears from that side... Those 20 acres between Hart and Shelby...? A summer camping trip there for two weeks? Populated by at least 40 aunts, uncles, cousins, mom & dad & sis & brother & grandpa & grandpa and we're all playing volleyball, baseball, local canoeing, bonfire with 10 campers or tents surrounding it, or a trip to Lake Michigan or to Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes and with that many cousins coming out of my ears... Pandemonium. Every single year.

Didn't help him at all. She's winning.

We did have 20 (my dad) camping/ hunting acres near Hart (south of Ludington) for all of 70's and 80's though... swam a lot in Lake Michigan and went to Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes several times...

It's been almost 50 years since I was up around Petoskey.

A-Hah! Now I know where I'm going to retire to...

McCarthy would be a hard NO. If it's Dems backing a Republican Speaker, it would have to be a serious centrist; certainly not Kevin McCarthy...

Don't waste your Penix on a Hooker. Nope... I'm out.

Long-term, that's the way I see it. Short-term, I'm hoping Trump is forced, and jumps, at going 3rd party anyways. I think that would create a certain level of destruction within the Republican party, which I want. And from the ashes... we'll see what kind of Phoenix will arise. Ideally, in my mind... a new Republican Party has to be more socially liberal than today's version. But I might just be wish-casting...

OR... When I see the nails in Trump's coffin. (referencing my post from above...).

I believe this is all true... I just want to hear the fat lady sing...

This is where I'd like to see Establishment Republicans (I have no idea how many remain in the house versus MAGA) appeal to Democrats with just such a candidate and a cross-aisle consensus gets an impartial Speaker with ~350 votes. Even Progressives would be on board with a consensus Republican impartial nominee versus a hyper-partisan MAGA nominee... I would like to believe. Although... that may require some negotiation that is just unworkable... Which Republican will agree with the Democrat side of the aisle in nominating a Speaker under the agreement that NO Impeachment or Hunter Biden inquiries will commence? And for that matter... even if that promise were given... how on earth could any Republican be trusted to keep their word/ that they are not lying?

+1

And the Vikings, and the Packers... But I know where you're coming from... (Sorry for he double entendre... 😉)