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a deep thinker who thinks a tax reduction gets her closer to medical care than an actual health plan would.

Yeah - that shoe had to drop eventually. It was a different matter as long as it was Iran blocking shipping, even if we were the proximate cause of them doing it, but once we block shipping directly, we become the agent in violation of all the rules based order we pushed on everyone else for 250yrs. Another example of this admin acting reflexively instead of thinking strategically - or thinking at all.

I read a piece recently that argues that one of the Dem's problems is that in recent years they have tried to build party from policy, instead of building party with a cultural framework, general governing philosophy and letting specific policy flow as a more secondary set of concerns rising from more organically from a wider general constituency. While that is a bit of an idealization there is a core of truth in it. At one time you were Democrat because of who you were, a member of a labor union, or a teacher, or an urban minority. At that time Democratic policy grew up out of the concerns of people who already shared some level of a polity. Today they are trying to stitch together constituencies by adopting interest group program objectives, but the problem with being program first is that program is always a double edged sword, even in your own party there are going to be a lot people that don't like the program pushed by this or that sub-sect. The depth to which the Israeli/Arab question splits Dems being an example. It's understandable how this happened because as the demographics of the Democratic Party have shifted from the working class to the educated class, it was inevitable the older identifications would be lost, but they have not been replaced by anything as durable. I don't know how to put that more communitarian kind of social structure back together on the left - but it is what the right does have around cultural issues that is part of its recent success. Trumpers share a cultural ID that makes Trumps policy faux pas less damaging to him than the internal arguments over policy on the left seem to be because it's hard to build cohesion that can withstand policy disagreement when there is no unifying ethos beyond policy.

The Wings front office is the sales room in GlenGary GlennRoss. The question is who is going to give them the Alec Baldwin speech.

Susan Wiles move.

Burns is doing a little click bait here. If you read the article, he's not saying that Orban's defeat is bad for the Dems at all; all he is saying is the same thing everyone and their brother who has looked at the Democratic party Post Obama has said and continues to say, which is that the current national Democratic party is still a mess and can increase its chances substantially if they can do a little of what Magyar has done, which is persuade the public that they aren't same tired old group the public has disliked about as much as they are coming to dislike the GOP. BTW, is " Magyar" running in Hungary is a like a guy named English running for PM in England. Almost too cute, but it is apparently his real name.

then again, after seeing him go to 2 probowls and get a SB ring maybe they'd be less inclined to make the same decision again.....🤷‍♂️

As per BR. a guy named Charles Thomas played 36 games in the 91-92 season and wore 14. Became a college asst coach.

what make you sure he'd refuse? He's the guy who has publicly expressed dissatisfaction with the org. Athletes generally want two things, to get paid, and to win. As he he starts seeing the end of his career come into focus, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Larkin wouldn't welcome a trade if it got him to an org with a legitimate shot at a Cup.

No knock on the brave dedicated people who worked this project, but objectively, this mission was mostly a reprise of re-purposed, warmed over 80's rocket tech. A broken down thespian mounting a production of Hamlet when he's 70 just to prove he's still alive. We fall back on these kinds of demonstrations whenever national confidence wanes. I wonder if they make any difference,

Don't be fooled. it's actually Trump sucking the life force out of another of his poor supporters to keep his rotted corpse from decomposing on the spot.

You go Donnie!

You can't walk into a room to negotiate - esp with Middle Eastern people, plop down a proposal, say take it or leave it, and expect anything positive to result. It just goes to show the depth of the ignorance of the people on our side about what they are doing. 1st rule, learn something about your enemy.

NYT Story today that *50* ex-staffers signed a letter telling him to get out and calling for investigations. Whether he's guilty of the particular accusations at play here or not, how do you tick off that many of the people who have worked for you? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/eric-swalwell-staffers-campaign-governor-resign-house.html

I have zero confidence this FO could put together any trade that was long term net positive for the Wings.

they've achieved the best run differential in the division as of today. I wonder if this year's Pitching Chaos innovation is going to be Anderson as a virtual split starter for either of Mize or Flaherty to get them out of games early before they self-immolate without burning 4/5 relievers to finish the game. I might like to see this become a thing - If Anderson holds up.

the baseball world is a lot better at 70F.

It's just not that complicated. In a capped league there are only so many avenues to get better - lopsided trades, drafts, and better development. Unless your FO can outperform other FOs at those tasks, you will never put a better team in the ice than your competition. So to say that this FO "did as well as.." is useless. They have to do *better* than the other guy, otherwise you just stay where you are. So not many second rounders make it? That's a loser's take, if you are going to win *you* need to be the guy that finds the 2nd rounders that do. That may sound harsh but that's the reality of pro sports, it's not a forgiving business. SY often bemoans the fact that it's hard to better - so the 1st step is finding people who can do what's hard. What sports organization goes 10+yrs under performing its competition without any personnel changes being made? We are basically waiting for the blind squirrel to stumble into a nut somewhere with this org (OK they did once with Moritz so they've already burned one allotment of luck). If they want a different result, it's time to have different people driving the result, or maybe turn it over the ClaudeGPT.

The question is whether he is a poor coach given that his team collapsed at the finish, or a good coach that had them playing way over their heads through a good part of the season until reality struck against other teams raising their games? Personally it always seems unlikely to me the personnel on this team should have been able to achieve and hold a divisional lead for as long as they did at all.

today’s money supply drives tomorrow’s inflation.

Slight hole in the baseball terminology. You can reach base in ways that don't count toward an 'on-base' streak - in this case he reached by fielder's choice, which means from a batting standpoint, he made an out. But runs scored count to your credit regardless of whether you were on base because you were 'on base' or not. 🤔

Conditioning issue?

bad chase from Tork.

Riley's best AB this year. You could see Junk was setting him up for a high fast ball but then he left it middle middle instead of getting it up high enough and Riley didn't miss.

that's cold.