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Oh **** that’s a genius move if they get away with it so much for democracy

Humphrey was charging toward the lead at the end and probably would have won were it not for the Chennault affair.

Nahh, can't be high schoolers ...

Fun fact: many Americans in the late 30s and early 40s had HDS.

They have to sell the idea to the red hats of Dems being wackjob disciples of Clinton, so they don't think of themselves as being such wackjobs for being disciples of Trump, which, the MAGA elite don't have to sell that one so hard to the red hats, anyway.

By ignoring these lies entirely and whatabouting something something Biden Clinton Obama Soros Feinstein.

Regarding the three friends abandoning Trump (I assume you mean), are these people you are shocked they abandoned him because they were so all in on him? Or are they people you were like, yeah, I can see them leaving Trump, they weren't such nutjobs about him?

While I respect your position on GB Jr., there's only so much alarmism we can allocate at any given time, and we can't afford to divert any of the 100% of the alarmism budget we should by necessity devote to Trump today to muster up outrage over the guy who's been gone from the scene almost 20 years now. There will be time for Junior later in the historical truth and reconciliation stage, but for now, first things first. It's not like we don't care at all about what you're saying him and the objectively awful things he did, but priorities matter here.

I believe this is ground zero to understanding the state of the world today. For eighty years, the United States had the world by the tail. We may have gone hard in places we shouldn't have, but for the most part we used soft power and economic might to bring the rest of the first world, and most of the attendant satellites, into our orbit. They went along with our agenda willingly, for the most part, because they entrusted us to ensure and protect the peace and prosperity of their countries. That's no good for Trump. He doesn't want the world by the tail, leading it by admiration and respect. He wants the world by the balls, leading it by fear and pain. He doesn't want other countries to regard themselves as willing partners, because willing partners want to have a say in how things operate. He wants other countries to be nothing more than toadies and supplicants, doing only what they're told while begging for our mercy and/or our discretionary largesse. Trump wants all others to feel the full weight of his power always and forever, because instilling fear and pain in others to make them do things they don't want to do is the yardstick by which he measures his self-worth. He gets his jollies by shaking down those who agree to be shaken down, ruthlessly punishing those who dare to delay being shaken down, and obliterating those who refuse to be shaken down at all. Not even the best gangsters brutally debase their most loyal subjects for kicks, as a matter of course, in this manner. It's the worst gangsters who do so, repeatedly and gleefully. The best gangsters meet their end with a peaceful death enveloped in the bosom of their families. The worst gangsters meet their bloody end in alleys, barber chairs, and the back seats of limos. This is what we're facing, and god help the world once this guy achieves his apparent goal of a North Korea-style hermit terrorstate supported by an amoral military, militias, secret police, and civilian snitches.

I think it would be a fine line between obvious and oblique for Obama to engage in criticism of Trump. He can't make it so obvious that he sounds like Trump himself, and he can't make it so oblique that he sounds like George Bush Jr. He has to find the line where the criticism is clear, but also clearly doesn't look as though it is coming from the gutter like Trump's broadsides do. If Obama starts using the language of Trump to slam Trump, he loses in the court of public opinion, meaning the public not in the cult.

Mark Cuban is more Cuban than Marco.

Fetterman is over states' rights when it comes to voting administration.

If Metro is a big source of corruption for Wayne County, then it was a genius move to make it a kickass airport, considered one of the best in the country, in order to divert attention from the corruption.

casimir is clearly an idiot. I'm not sugar-coating it. Good on me, too? 😁

Some years ago, maybe twenty or so, I happened to be in front of him in a line to go through TSA. I noticed him, he noticed me noticing him, I smiled and said hi, I know you, and he politely smiled wanly, humphed, and went back to looking at whatever he was looking at in line. That's the closest I ever got to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I very much do the same thing here in Big Shoulders. I have routes going to the north, south, and west sides, depending on which way the wind can blow me home. I try to mix up routes to get a look at fresh things while I am riding. Been pretty lucky no cars have veered off their paths and clobbered me from behind in my 20+ years of doing this on the streets of the city. And all it would take is one to end at least my riding career. Some may say I should move onto the sidewalk to ride to get out of the way of drivers who have a legal right to the road over me, but doing so is statutorily illegal in this city, plus, I have all the same rights (and responsibilities) on the road as a car driver does.

It's all about the MAHA fight against the phantom War on Protein.

What if you hate people? 😉

League I'm in now has that same rule, and some of the women will refuse to take the automatic walk because they're there to hit. When I see that happen, I push back in left field to where I play guys.

When I was in the Detroit ad league back when I worked in that industry, our shortstop had been in the rotation for the University of Hawaii in the early 80s, and I was the first baseman. Not only did he throw the ball blazingly fast, he was also a left-handed thrower, and had a natural tail to his throws I'd never seen before. I remember worrying somewhat that I miss slightly miss a throw and it ends up busting my nose and a few teeth.

Someone thinks the neutering of the independent media is ****ing hilarious.

Are there politics for any decent-sized jurisdiction anywhere that’ not dirty and slimy? One of the major underreported (for obvious reasons) problems is that practically all local media everywhere have essentially punted their traditional responsibility for reporting on the goings on of local politics, which serves to keep them accountable to the people. Someone/something who can successfully gain access has simply got to step in and fill that void.

I’m fine with safety first bases—prefer them, actually—but safety home plate in co-ed leagues is an even better idea, to reduce the possibility that a 24-year-old ex-college baseball player trying to score will end up even inadvertently plowing into a 41-year-old mother of two playing catcher.

This is exactly right, and I think we talked about that very thing here toward the end of last season. Riley is saying the right things about it, for the most part. We’ll see whether it results in much improvement over the long haul.

“Controlling the zone” and “be selective and mash” are not mutually exclusive concepts. They actually sound pretty compatible to me. Not every player is capable or maybe even willing to work on these, sometimes not even talented hitters. And sometimes a hitter is so talented that that coaches don’t push as hard to get them get at either or both as they might someone else, because they’ll at least get some decent level of production out of them anyway the way they are.