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I’m out of reactions, but Like.

There’s a good reason those closeted gay Republicans appear so publicly anti-gay. It’s related to the reason closeted people who are ashamed for being gay gravitate toward organizations that are the most vocally anti-gay, and the more shame they feel for being gay, the more violently they act out publicly, and the more crazy they behave privately when they go on a gay bender.

It’s taking a long time for them to get to the voter fraud part. It’s been, what, a whole day already?

OK, so, first this part … "If we see someone leaking, you’re fired," Eric Korsvall, the organization’s chief operating officer, said during the question and answer portion of the meeting. While Roberts stated unequivocally in his original video that the Heritage Foundation would never cancel "our friends," he said Wednesday he should have made clear there was a "limiting principle.” "You can say you’re not going to participate in canceling someone … while also being clear you’re not endorsing everything they’ve said, you’re not endorsing softball interviews, you’re not endorsing putting people on shows, and I should’ve made that clear." So the attendees are warned to not leak the meeting under threat of termination, and then Roberts pussyfoots around the apology clutching his pearls saying he would never cancel anyone. I don’t understand the point of apologizing internally while allowing the impression externally that Roberts is 100% behind Carlson and, by extension Fuentes. Separately, I found this interesting, from the end of the article: Roberts took questions from the audience, including from Robert Rector, a welfare scholar, who described himself as a 47-year veteran of the Heritage Foundation—"longer than most of you have been alive," he said. He harkened back to William F. Buckley Jr., the National Review founder. "I hope you know who he is," Rector said. "The boundaries that he set forth, William Buckley, in the early 1960s, were twofold. You have to expunge all anti-Semitism, all of it. But that’s just part of it … the other is you have to expel the lunatics. Ok? The lunatics who think that Eisenhower is a communist. And we have them back now. Ok? They are both here, back, just the way they were in 1959. And we have to go back and set the general parameters. You say, ‘Oh, we don’t cancel.’ We do cancel. Did we cancel David Duke? Yes. Did we cancel the John Birch Society? Yes, ok. Because they were harmful. Because if they’re in your movement you look like clowns. The issue here is Tucker Carlson … Tucker’s show is like stepping into a lunatic asylum." It took a guy with half a century in the organization to remind everyone of how the Foundation finally ended up canceling the crazies after all, in a way they refuse to today. He remembers. This is in part why fascism is making such a strong comeback in America today: te fascist world we fought to destroy in no longer in living memory. It’s just a tall tale to people today.

Which means, of course, that no other organization is likely to empty the top of the farm system for one year of Skubal.

To the degree it exists in other sports, that's probably because their players' unions had to approve it. I don't see the MLBPA agreeing to it, and since Baseball is a federally-protected monopoly and the other sports businesses are not, I would guess they would try to unilaterally impose that on Players who would have to get the issue adjudicated in a court of law.

I hope he saved his money and invested wisely. He's gonna need it.

Well, it's definitely not going to be the first thing they do.

A guy who expects the entire world to bend to his will is never, ever going to modify his approach to anything ever.

I wonder how much time they'll get to doctor some documents and destroy the rest?

Talking to her instead of beating the hell out of her? Kristi Noem is gonna have those guys so ****ing fired.

Caving in on what?

And I've been to a lot of republican functions and conventions, and they never once talked about helping people, it was all about getting elected and gaining power.

Sure, it's not going to get him to the table, but they have to at least go on record. If they didn't, that itself would have boomeranged back onto them.

I'll be impressed when they rule against Trump's constant usurpation of the power of the purse for Congress. If Trump had tried this same thing during the 2019-2021 Congress, it might have already come up and the Court might already have ruled against him.

I don't see us trading Mize unless we have options as good as he to cover him.

I believe that's exactly what the owners, or at least some owners, proposed during the birth of free agency back in the 1970s, and Marvin Miller negotiated away from that, because he knew a flooded market would keep salaries down.

I would think setting a hard limit on contract lengths would be struck down in court as restraint of trade.

Wanting to get a deal done is one thing, but offering it to him and setting an artificial deadline to accept it is a bad look, particularly when Tarik Skubal's agent is involved.

This is going to be one of the trumpublicans’ data points in support of the 2025 criminal communist democrat voter fraud case.

The first 24 hours, when politicians are actually on the spot to have to say stuff about stuff, is always the most revealing of what they truly think, and that includes Trump. After they have had time to marinate in the results, the Trumpublicans will devise the talking points they believe will win them support for the idea of widespread voter fraud in this election, in advance of declaring a national emergency surrounding the 2026 elections.

The Democrats definitely do care about the working people of America, even if part of the reason is to earn their support in the democratic marketplace of ideas. We all know who it is the Republicans care about, and it ain't the people who have to work for a living.

I guess the Aunt Jemima Strategy didn't work out so well for the Trumpublicans after all.

Either that or they are not as "mainstream" as they've appeared to be to this point.