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The one thing Trump will prove to be very adept at is generating lawsuits against his admin. This will certainly be one of them.

Or put the other way, it all depends on what Torkelson has done with Torkelson. If he can add to the performance level he found after his return, he'll force his way into the lineup, if not, he won't or he won't be in Detroit. It's a no mercy business, that is unless they already owe you $25M or more.

But when cuts come, the question isn't 'who is good', it's 'who is worst.' Maybe he was the worst, maybe not. But they've assigned him as the 'worst' so that's what it is.

they'll almost certainly be classic agitprop: See the mess we're in? it's all the libs fault and 'those' people's fault and everything we did would have been golden but for the deep state opposing us at every turn. And the Magats will fall for it hook, line, and sinker, because the Orange One can't be wrong, he's been saved and appointed by God.

I hope his offense just needs some time to catch up with Amen's

Trump is going to find that no matter how strong he thinks the US is, the rest of world united is stronger, and he's doing a bang up job of uniting the world in opposition. He'll be remembered as the Saddam Hussein of the 1st world. Uniting the world against him - and unfortunately us. Fool.

She is such a waste of protoplasm.

You see the connection if you look at what the Koch brothers (now brother singular) did/have done for years. They spent a lot of money on drumming up grass roots right wing political strength in the white underclass talking basically libertarian virtues - which is just another twist on anti-social welfare thus anti-underclass- but what they got from helping GOP pols get elected was regulatory relief - the right to keep keep polluting and profiteering more. That's where the connection lies. With the religious right it's the same thing. But the targets are a little different. Moneid interests support the evangelical hierarchy on things like anti-gay and anti-abortion policies (other second class citizenships in the RW taxonomy) and again the quid pro quo for them is the religious right supporting laissez-faire economics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/technology/school-fight-videos-student-phones.html

We need to face it, the US public is too under educated to self-govern itself in a technological era. We either have to start educating people to an acceptable level of civic/economy competence, or prove Xi correct and let ourselves collapse. The problem is there is no short term solution at this point.

It's taken 2500 yrs, but Socrates' complaints about democracy are finally turning out to be true.

You do know that the majority of young people in the US have a television in their bedroom or a video enabled phone and that the majority of American parents have zero knowledge of how to implement any kind of audit or control on their home IT service. I sincerely doubt anyone has any kind of good handle on what American young people are watching. If it's on the mid tier cable/streaming packages, young people are seeing it.

So they didn't think he would make the team, which is a shame because he probably would have done less damage in the last pitching spot on the roster than Maeda will do in that spot before they finally have to release him. I think any sports team management that could truly get itself past the sunk cost fallacy would probably be good for another 5% on their winning percentage on that basis alone.

You haven't seen the jr/sr high tic-tok fight video craze?

the question is not what is directed at children, it's what do they actually see.

You notice how quiet China has been. They're smart enough to understand the one about not getting in the way of your adversary while they're shooting themselves in the feet.

exactly right. He clearly doesn't have a rational framework to how he thinks about interest rates and inflation, and he pretty clearly doesn't understand how the industrial investment economy works (Hint - it ain't like real estate).

to me, horror movies are a "two kinds of people" kind of thing. If they are someone's else's thing, I get that I don't get it. 🙈🙉

He has long believed the US has let get itself get the short end of the stick in trade negotiations so he thinks he's somehow helping the US worker/economy. But I just don't see these arbitrary, scattershot, capricious actions as being the kind of thing that's going to encourage any American businesses to start re-shoring. If Trump had a long term plan with investment supports, tax policy, and legally locked in tariffs over a term that a business could use as the basis to go borrow money to invest that would be one thing, but these kinds of actions are here today and could as easily be gone tomorrow based Donnie's daily choler. Hard to imagine any sane org making investment decisions based on this.

that's about $8.00/bbl. If you get 30 gallons of product out of a barrel of crude (typical - and that includes jet and diesel), that's $0.26/gal at the pump. But since a good bit of Canadian product - in particular the Tar Sands product - is normally sold at a discount to 'better' crudes I don't know if 10% would drive much market switching.

great summary. You can't over emphasize that they just have better players being better deployed. Edvinsson and Johansson are just better hockey players now than Petry, Holl or Gustafsson, and splitting Edvinsson and Seider gives a them a D man with more of a 200 foot game on the ice for 45+ min a night. And with McLellan letting them play a 200 ft game, that's a big difference. I'm loving watching Edvinsson. He just erases puck carriers on a rush - it's something the Wings have been missing so much for so long. the other honorable mention is that Raymond is turning into a star. He was doing well under Lalonde but his creativity has taken another step up under McLellan.

The Paredes back to Detroit idea is interesting.

of course even if he exempts oil from the tariffs, the Canadians may put a retaliatory export tax on it so the midwest has at least two scenarios to get screwed.

Jung is 24 now, he needs to be close to well done at this point!

Yeah - that has just moved from animation to live action - How many kids do you suppose have seen a John Wick before they are out of grade school?