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Gerrymandering doesn't help with statewide votes. But you are already seeing Red states trying to arrange to vote the EC by district.

Yeah - Licht is trouble. He thinks there is some triangulation between truth and falsehood waiting to be found. He's wrong. He labors under the same illusions as Desantis. Trumpism Lite is a losing proposition. You don't attract any of Trump's audience by pampering their addictions to fantasy because you can't do that better than Trump or Tucker or whatever talking heads real RW media puts out there.

The morning show is maybe not the place where CNN wants that level of contention, but then you shouldn't book that guest. But he deserved the pushback - if there is a bigger problem in US jounalism today than giving BS a free ride I don't know what it is.

well I can't fault Don on this one. The idea that Black American gained any Civil rights ground in the US as the result of the 2A is about as totally FOS as anything you'd find on Russian State Tv.

I'm watching for Torkelson to start walking. That's his game. He's already starting putting the barrel on the ball more and he's not late on fastballs this season so that's big progress. With the umpiring being so horrible in two of the Tigers series already it's tough to judge, but when Tork is confident and seeing the ball he's going to walk more. I have some hope he's going in the right direction. OTOH, Greene seems to be regressing. As posted above, I think his swing is getting long and loopy. Maybe he can get that back under control without a step back to easier pitching, maybe not, but right now I think I'm willing to give Torkelson a little more rope than Riley, which is the reverse of where I have been in the past. The other ironic thing with Riley is that he recently has a lot of trouble with low and in, which is often a happy zone for a LHH, but not for Riley.

You can never take what a manager says all that seriously, but with regard to Greene he just falls back on his "Riley has to swing at strikes" mantra. Whether he actually believes that and whether they are actually coaching him strictly on that basis are open question to me. So in recent years there has been a lot of talk about keep the bat in the 'hitting zone' for a longer time. To me this basically means you have to swing the bat at least close to the plane that the ball is coming in at - probably between about 5 and maybe 15 degrees tops depending on the pitch type. Any more upper cut than that and you start making the job of finding the ball with the bat from a one dimenisional problem into a 2 dimensional one. Judge for yourself if you think Riley is swinging that close to level much of the time. It looks to me like he often lets himself get too much uppercut. Now maybe Hinch is right and when he goes after better pitches he doesn't do that, but Scales commented yesterday that Riley needs to hit the ball further out front, and you can't have too much uppercut or by the time your bat gets out front you will just top the ball into the ground or just swing over it completely.

I would take that to mean it was an on the spot decision by Rupert or Lachan. I'd guess at some point this AM somebody put a number in front of one/both of them that motivated a call.

sure - it all goes into the mix, at some point the ledger balance says cut your potential losses.

A number of harassment charges catching up with him as well.

Gotta be Chris Hayes, nobody could wear such a nerdy pair of glasses and not be hiding evil somewhere.

It won't be the same without Fox's imprimatur though. When the last time Bill OReilly made anyone else's new feed?

The other thing to add to the mix with Dominion and the harassment suit is that Tucker has become an absolute star on Russian State media and that might be a bit much even for Murdoch.

this is interesting. And the thing about harassment suits is that if there is anything to them, once one woman comes forward there will undoubtedly be more. It would be ironic if after doing his damndest to destroy the republic on the air in public, he ends up being brought down by frat-boy behavior in private. But he wouldn't be the 1st and I won't knock it if it's true.

LOL at the offensive calls on Bellamy.

You can argue that Scrub had already begun the breakup of the Reagan GOP voter coalition but I don't think there is much arguement that Trump has considated the political movement of the white collar suburbs from the GOP to the Dems as well as pretty much every college educated woman. This is going to make it very hard for the GOP to build winning national coalitions in the future. Now as long as there is Gerrymandering, the GOP be able to hold the House on and off, but the damage to the GOP as a functioning *majority* party has been pretty absolute.

Yowza!

Yup. Christie is out there trying to prove the counterfactual, but he carries so much baggage (figuratively and iiterally!) that he's got a big hill to climb.

Very good. But #1 probably outspends the rest at least 2:1. Maybe Trump's greatest political strength has been his ability to direct fund raise to his own personal brand, but that's Trump's particular personality cult gift. Most pols are not going to be able to do that and so will depend on those Corp interests more than Trump had to.

Right, which is the answer to your question. Trump was there for them on taxes and dereg, so that cemented his 'appeal' in American boardrooms. I guess what I'm saying is that there are true fiscal conservatives out there, and the corporate interests love to mimic their rhetoric about the virtue balanced budgets and Yankee thrift, but in the end the corporate money doesn't care about those things and the those conservative philosopher types don't supply the money or numbers to be a real factors themselves.

the accomplishment is pretty hollow if the other side isn't trying.

"Fiscal Conservative" is the cover label these interests use, but its really corporate money fueling them, so it's not any kind of Burkean philosophy behind it but just pure profit - taxes and deregulaiton. Trump gets a A on both those and esp the corporate tax rate cut. All other doubts about him end there for your fiscal conservative/corporate sector interests.

MTU, you have to understand none of that matters anyway. For most of America, but esp the GOP, politics, which was only ever loosely tied to policy in the US anyway is now completely umooored from it. And TBH, we pretty much have a policy ignorant population anyway. So it's all about the snake oil. It's all personality, entertainment and tribal identity now. The only role of policy is as subject matter to hang rhetoric on in order to create the public persona. Trump could take any position on any policy but as long as he talks about it in terms of white greivance and owning the libs and makes it all about him, it would still sell to his supporters equally well. You have a whole generation of GOP Congressional leadership who have built their popularity without having accomplishing anything at all policy wise or legislatively (MTG/Bobert/Jordan McCarthy etc). US politics, esp on the right, has to be observed through the lens of the WWE. That's the model.

I'd put this view as the roof (or maybe the antenna tower) of the Maccabees building at the corner of Woodward and Warren). Smoggy.

We don't normally allow music in our teaching lab, but sometimes if we put on a open work period we'll let it go if someone turns on a playlist - 90% of time is either 60-70's or 90's. College freshmen. Go figure.

Curiously, Baddoo has actually made a couple of decent throws this season. Hart may have had it right up thread when he said Baddoo simply didn't anticipate him trying to score, got there too late and so didn't get set up to make a better throw.