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Both our recent posts could be true and perhaps even feed off each other.

I texted my buddy right after the monologue that it will go down as an all-time classic.

Will it? I don’t know … Americans have short memories, aided by sophisticated media messaging …

The old board might have been two-thirds Republicans when I first joined. Those were the second-term Bush years. The only time I ever voted Republican was in a grade school mock election. I voted for Nixon because my mom was for Nixon (three times!), so I wanted to be on her team. But my crush at the time voted for McGovern, which made me re-evaluate my own vote. As far as adulthood was concerned, I was out on Republicans during the first Reagan years. He came in talking like a warmongering cowboy who was going to get us nuked by the Soviets, and that was all confirmed for me when he invaded Grenada. All the Republicans supported it, the only senators who did not were Democrats, and practically every US ally condemned the invasion. That was the cherry on top for me.

The white dude thing will never change. I merely thought they their votes would be crushed by everyone else.

That’s what I mean. I thought everyone could easily see the same guy I saw, but you’re right—they couldn’t. I’m talking about a lot of smart people, people ignorant of the depth of his history (e.g., mobsters) and the things he said and did (e.g., Central Park Five); people ignorant of the corrosive effect his fame had on people; and, frankly, people who wished to remain willingly ignorant, even ordinary people with mere slightly-above-average incomes, because they wanted some sweet minor tax cuts.

If I were more skeptical or even cynical, I might conclude that so-called liberal mainstream media kept wishcasting a red wave through aggressive pro-Republican reporting because of how profitable it was for them the last time liberals were scared shitless a fascist government was thisclose to knocking on their doors.

This tweet harks back to what I posted on the old site seven years ago, something along the lines of: yeah, awesome, let the Republicans field Trump in the election against Hillary. He’ll get absolutely crushed because people will be sprinting to the polls at two in the morning on election day to make sure they don’t lose the opportunity to vote against him. I mistakenly thought everybody saw the same guy I saw. I don’t mean conservatives who might or might not vote for him, but I mean people who would never vote for him. I figured people who might not normally vote, or who are typically on the fence about whether to vote in any given election, would be super motivated to vote against Trump. I mean, come on, no politically-engaged person with any memory of what this guy had done over the previous three decades could ever vote for that guy. Turns out I was seven years too early with that assessment, but here we are now. Finally.

But isn’t that prefect? Because they can let these wackjobs advance to the general to be slaughtered all they want, as far as I’m concerned.

Watching CNN right now feels like Christmas. Or maybe, because the good news has been coming every day, more like Hanukkah.

FIFTY!

Yeah, I alluded to that in a post a couple days ago in which I said our view of what a good team should be so skewed that we still view the sub-replacement-level players we have had knocking around for years as being acceptable options for the Scott Harris Tigers.

Nor I. But many casual Tiger fans consider him an integral part of the recent teams, and so his departure surprises them. Someone here (who's not at all a casual fan) expressed surprise.

I don't care how long it's been going on. That doesn't legitimize it. It's never the wrong time to put a stop to it. Maybe the door to do so is starting to crack open.

I get where you're coming from, but he started almost 300 games for the Tigers under Avila and at one time was actually considered one of the pieces of a future resurgent Tigers team, so to Tiger fans, that is a big deal!

I don't know if this can't be done, necessarily—the Cubs did this in 2015—but it definitely could not be done by the Avila cabal.

Yes, this, because after seven years of dog-paddling in place, we need to start putting some Ws on the board already. I don't require playoffs this year, but I simply can't take yet another deferred-gratification season of 100-plus losses.

Because you've given up on TORK! already? 😉 Even if, Josh Bell is all bat and nothing else. We had an entire team of that drive us into the rocks for years on end. Pass.

Oh, good God almighty ... If by any stretch the corrupt influence of the fascists is finally sufficiently on the wane, can we please do something to stop this already!

It’s a trap. Trump et al will use this as proof of concept that Section 230 must be repealed, since Democrats will be on board with prosecuting Twitter, i.e. “an interactive computer service”, for content posted by a Twitter user, i.e. “another information content provider”.

Since 1954 lol

It appears that his #1 qualification for Senate will be his ability to murder Democratic colleagues with whisper quiet.

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