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I don't see how indicting Trump is political suicide for Alvin Bragg. Is Manhattan borough Trump Country? I don't think so. Who in Manhattan would kill Bragg's career for indicting him? Nobody I can think of. This looks like red hat wishcasting to me. If anything, going this far and then not indicting Trump would be political suicide for Bragg. The only reason I can think of he hasn't moved yet is that they need to make sure the case is airtight, because when they do indict, they have exactly one chance to get it right and get the conviction.

I do think they want to be accepted or respected, which makes sense, and I believe they feel neither is happening (and they’re probably right in some cases). I believe it’s that perception of neither happening which animates the fear and the loathing and the resentment and the hatred, and Trump is the embodiment of all of this for them. He displays all these cues of a lower middle class guy with his rhetoric and mannerisms and accent, and I think red hats identify strongly with that. And I can see them thinking, if it can happen to him, with all his success living the American dream, making billions—if it’s not about what he’s accomplished, but about who he is underneath it all—then what chance do any of us have with the elites? We can never win their acceptance or respect. And these people, these elites, they’re running the government and the media and the schools and the woke tech economy, and it’s un-American, so we have to take that all back. And when we do, we’ll make them respect us. I think that’s a lot of what’s going on.

Watching the game the other day and Greene at the plate, he fouled a ball off his leg and he hopped around a bit, and my heart just stopped briefly. I processed a lot of thoughts for those couple of seconds.

Well, whaddya know? Turns out you have to be smart and actually plan things out to effectively implement fascism. You have to actually think things through. Who knew.

I don’t think so.

I don't think that's true. Everyone wants to be accepted by the in crowd. They resent that they never will be, because they are laughed at and made fun of. That's what stokes the burning hate, it's what drives Donald Trump, and this is what attracts his most ardent red hat following. He is literally promising retribution and revenge on their behalf against the in crowd who spurned him! If all people wanted was to be left alone and have nothing to do with elites, they wouldn't care enough to hate them, let alone be animated enough to go to rallies to get riled up about them.

The fact is that the red hats would never ever find out Trump is not wealthy, because none of their media would ever tell them that. Only the non-RW media, aka the mainstream media, would reveal that he's not wealthy, and red hats would dismiss it as a typical libtard hit job, which "we" are perpetrating probably because we are all jealous of him and of the freedom that red hats enjoy of which we choose to deny ourselves, or something like that. They would also not regard Trump as a loser for getting perp-walked, because their hatred of libs is bound up in a weirdly-religious persecution complex because they're not rich enough, not educated enough, not beautiful enough, for the "elites", who they secretly long to be a part of, or at least well-accepted by. They would absolutely, and without irony or shame, equate a Trump perp walk to the passion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday. And man, does Trump ever want that, because his support among that sweet reliable-voting evangelical base is starting to fray.

@1984Echoes, careful what you wish for here ...

Exactly.

Now every media outlet in the country is filing stories about the impending indictment of Trump, which now makes it look like the media are rooting for it and further positions him as a victim martyr for “the people” in red hat eyes. And they are doing this mainly because of his social media post. Say what you want about how ignorant and even how stupid Trump is on so many levels, and that would be accurate. But when it comes to manipulating people’s emotions and establishing the direction and the terms of the national conversation, the guy is simply a fucking genius.

Fuck ****, you can.

That's what I see, too, plus Vierling has crushed it at times in the minors without a high BABIP, including last year in a short stint at AAA. Plus he had much better BIP luck against LHP (.337) vs RHP (.260). Flatten those out to league BABIP average of .291 and the numbers come a lot closer to each other (.241/.297/.335 vs. RHP, .254/.296/.377 vs LHP). Neither of those are fantastic, but he is still only 26 so probably a bit of room to grow. He was the guy I liked best from the trade, so I would love to see him prove out.

ESPNFLNBA sucks.

I think Vierling has a chance to win an everyday job eventually and put up good numbers.

It was a post highlighting Kari Lake's tweet about "globalist elites", which, everyone who's even moderately up to date knows what that really means. Interesting because Arizona is only slightly less Jewish than the US as a whole, and right on the money if you remove two states from the equation. A lot of Jews like to settle in that particular desert, so she must be punting on their support.

There is probably a lot more of that going on that we care to picture.

This had not occurred to me but yeah, makes sense.

The projection ... it burrrrns ...

Boy, wouldn’t that be a testament to the power of a full organizational commitment to modernization.

Hey G-man, here's one sport that got the memo about deadening the ball:

They were both very verbose working together, which I actually like, but I could see how it would rattle some listeners. I thought maybe I'd accidentally stumbled onto a radio version of His Girl Friday ...

I hardly know how batters can hold onto the bat!

I did the exact same thing on my survey! It's the only thing I wanted to do! I was wary that it was going to be the kind of bullshit survey that was mostly centered around "would you recommend MLB to your friends" ...