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I don't know that it's a question of style as much as it's a question of timing. Is this the right time to spend $30 million on a player? Are we at the point where the roster as currently constructed can be expected to get into the playoffs, and a $30 million guy is what we need to go deep into October?

I'm a little fuzzy on what "preferred" timeline means?

How do we know Tork has above average work ethic? I'm not saying he doesn't, but I have not seen anything to indicate that he has above average work ethic.

I bet the Rays are kicking themselves for not trading Wander Franco to Al Avila's Tigers in exchange for Jackson Jobe.

I don't see how they could ever get away with a 25th Amendment on Trump, because the red hats voted for Trump the man, not Vance or Republicans in general or policies. They want to be entertained, not governed. The only possible way I can see 25A implemented is if the power of the red hat voter were to be completely denuded, so that any rebellion by them could be quickly and easily crushed. Maybe that's when the red hats would finally wake the **** up from their dizzy dream.

Man, we can’t get a pass even when there’s no actual advertising to show.

Oh, yeah, I forgot all about this one. lol businessmen leave their fortunes behind to go into government to help the people.

As the grand exalted president, Trump has nothing to prove to us. It is we who will be required to prove ourselves to him.

Oh, man, you are gonna get so doxxed for stuff like this. And I’m gonna get so doxxed for hearting it.

Aw, man, and here he thought you were one of the good ones …

Sounds like the perfect pick to round up immigrants like dogs.

I don’t know … weren’t most of those firings and resignations due to gross competency? Who’s going to qualify on those grounds in this regime?

So Marco is not deranged, is what you’re telling us?

Which means Marco will do exactly what Trump, or more likely his inner circle, instruct him to do, and he will bring nothing he learned in Congress about diplomacy to bear.

I am actively rooting for that, but I’m not holding my breath, because Trump looks up to Elon because of his money, which is the only thing Trump respects, and I can’t see how Trump would ever walk from the relationship. If anything, Musk threatening to end the relationship from his side will get a desperate Trump giving Musk even more than he asks for to mollify him.

The real shot across the bow is how they will turn public schools into MAGA indoctrination camps, dialing back on academic schooling and leaning into performative patriotism and religiosity.

They could make it a lot a lot harder to do a filibuster—i.e., make senators stand on the floor and orate a la Mr. Smith like they did in the old days.

Between the protests and the Nazi flag wavers, January 20 could make Jan 6 look downright chaste, especially if they clash.

I really believe he will do everything he can to get us as close to eliminating vaccinations as he can manage to in this country. He may or may not be able to get them oulawed outright, but if he can’t, he can drive policy to make them so expensive that only the upper 1%—like he and his own family—will be able to comfortably afford them. Getting them removed them from coverage on insurance health plans would go a long way there.

Right. Americans don’t need to be able to quote Voltaire or know where Ubeki-beki-beki-stanstan is while they’re picking cucumbers in the field.

So, essentially, this was a wealth transfer program: Trump’s took the new tariffs he imposed and then transferred the money directly to multinational agribusiness corporations, not to be shared by anyone else in the chain—rather than either leaving the prices where they were and allowing consumers to pay less for farm products, or using the additional tax receipts from tariffs to pay for other government programs. Result: more money out of pocket of consumers going directly into the pockets of agribusiness for the same amount of goods. Slick.

Especially on inflation. Biden will have done all the heavy lifting, Trump will take all the credit, and every red hat will totally forget that they are still paying 25% more for everything than they did in 2020, the very thing they hammered Biden/Harris for.

I probably shouldn’t do this—probably a leftover from my loose cannon days—but lately when I see some of those fugly tesla trucks on the street, I make a show of pointing and laughing, such that the driver can’t miss seeing me.