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I think it's more than just that this time. I think it is about the oil after all.

Green energy companies and executives don't shower Trump with money and praise. Oil companies and executives do.

Either that or Californians are notorious in Indiana for being lawless scofflaws.

Red hats explicitly want theocracy, and they see Trump is their holy man.

NY Times haters, avert your eyes ... Legacy newspapers took strikingly divergent positions on the Trump administration's operation in Venezuela:

Disingenuous, because of course this is. Chuck Schumer was not demanding that Trump bring an end to the Maduro regime. He was calling Trump on his horse**** rhetoric about the Maduro regime. He knows as well as anyone that it is neither Trump's sole responsibility nor privilege to waltz into any other country, kidnap the president, and steal and sell off their natural resources for his personal profit and that of his crony investors. This is, of course, a criminal act of invasion and theft undertaken against another sovereign nation. Regardless of how much you might hate the United Nations for its rejection of American supremacy policy, both we and Venezuela are members in good standing of that body, and discretionary invasion of one against the other is specifically forbidden by charter. We, a prime signatory to that charter, now stand in breach of it, and eventually, there will consequences. Because if empires lasted forever, we would all still be Akkadians.

I remember when Michigan first allowed right turn on red, early 70s, and my home city of Warren immediately put No Turn On Red signs at literally corner at every traffic light in the city, probably thousands of signs. It was so prevalent and obvious that there were actual news stories about it, and I think I remember them being pressured by the state to stop that nonsense.

I cannot begin to tell how nuts it drives me when an emergency vehicle is approaching with sirens blaring, and I see cars in front of me pull to the side—and block driveways or even streets. Hey, nimrod, does it not even dawn on you that the vehicle might need to turn into the driveway or street you’re blocking? Jackass.

Was she grown up? I thought she was in high school?

Honestly, does Marco have an alternative at this point? It’s not as though you can just quit the Mob and live to talk about it.

Will this? Honest question: does he really need Congress for anything he wants? Looks to me as though all he needs is a proclamation, and an entire apparatus just makes it so. And that will continue to be the case until someone—or, more likely, enough someones—finally stand up and say no more.

“Maybe.” I’m with you on that,

Red hats didn’t vote for or against any policy. They have no actual policy imperatives, outside of generalized cruelty to people of color. They didn’t for tariffs or foreign policy or regulatory reform or any of that, not really. That’s not what red hats voted for. They voted for their idol. They are idolators. Simple as that.

Just in time for me to take a nine-day trip out of the country! Yay! 🤪

I may be a third category: good-rule follower and bad-rule breaker. I assess, admittedly IMO, whether the rule I am being asked to follow makes sense in the moment, or is more of a control mechanism. I’m enough of a “bad-rule breaker” that, if I come to an intersection where I stop for a red light and I see there is literally no one in sight to the left or right of me, I’ll just drive through it. I would never blow through a red light without slowing down or even stopping, but I’m not going to stay stopped for practically no reason, either. I also acknowledge I would be marginally better off always following rules whatever the reason or circumstance.

Do you have a particular trade in mind that could have filled this bill, or is trading lesser prospects for solid major leaguers more a whiteboard strategy?

And what team wouldn't be all in on giving us real pitching or hitting help for a lesser prospect in return? 😉

After winning a pennant and thisclose to winning a ring, I have trouble seeing Bichette leaving Toronto—unless they don't really want him.

I also believe he will get more aggressive to sign players when we are farther along the development curve as a team, which probably won't be until McGongle and Clark are up for good, at minimum, and maybe Briceno as well.

How about you go talk to your boss's boss and tell him/her they can't do the thing you don't want them to do? 😏

Is Miggy Trump's great friend? It absolutely would not surprise me in the least. Venezuela is a member in good standing of the United nations, a sovereign nation that is supposed to be in charge of its own affairs. They are now a United States possession. This is nothing but flat out imperialism. The Soviet Union was right about us the whole time. It's one thing if a coalition of nations were to work together to remove a citizen-murdering despot from power. That is eminently defensible. It's another matter when the biggest baddest mother****ing country on the planet overthrows a government just to drill, steal, and sell off the oil, which is precisely what Trump said today we are doing. Notice how he didn't say boo about fighting drug trafficking during the press conf today? If Trump wants to give the rest of the world a real hot foot, he can put that ex-Honduran president he absolved of drug trafficking in charge of Venezuela now. Think he won't? Keep on eye on Kalshi, it might just show up there as a prop bet. I'm sorry, I want to be happy as the next guy that Maduro is out, but I would have wanted that to happen the right way, through the people of Venezuela, and not through the military adventurism of the United States. This was more than merely the brazen and craven act of a convicted felon dictator. It's also a huge middle finger to the rest of the world, except for Russia and China, for reasons romad1 has already articulated.

I don't know, Barney Rubble must have been considered a snack to be able to keep that stone hottie Betty in the fold.

Right, I get that much since Harris hasn't actually signed anyone to an actual six-year deal yet. But everyone here acknowledges that he tried to do so by offering Bregman the biggest contract of any team—one exceeding what Ben Clemens and the readers of FG projected for him—even if people enjoyed hammering Harris when Bregman turned it down to sign for less money and fewer years elsewhere.

I don't think of Torres as a "signing", per se. We gave Torres a qualifying offer possibly hoping he would turn it down and we would get the sandwich pick. Instead, Torres ended up being one of a record-breaking four players to take the offer, possibly because none of those guys wanted to sign a low-dollar multi-year deal going right in the teeth of a lockout.

How does making a six-year offer not prove that Ilitch/Harris are willing to sign players to long-term contracts? Isn’t that the point you were making earlier?