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I know people here hate Maher so maybe I’m a jerk for watching him. I will stipulate as much. He had Megyn Kelly on this past Friday, and she was spouting that ****ing nonsense about grade school children being transitioned to another gender after visits to psychologists, and I was screaming at the TV for Maher to ask her for the data, tell us how many, give us numbers instead of merely spewing some hysterical scenario, because I don’t think there are any numbers, probably because it has practically never happened, and all Maher did was agree that in same cases that does happen. I think my flying shoe may have scratched the screen.

Man, just cutting through them like a hot knife through soft butter so far.

I haven’t see Liz Cheney shill any Democratic Party policies. All I have seen her do is draw the line between a normal candidate and a Hitler-loving fascist who, not for nothing, is not anything like a conservative. She appears to me to be a conservative who is will to put up with Democratic policies instead of allowing the country and its Constitution to collapse into the dustbin of history. Maybe you don’t want her to do so, but I sure do.

I'd be interested in examples of (1) the left demonizing previous Republican Presidents, and (2) political correctness that they have constantly pushed. Not a whole slew of examples—maybe two examples for each. I want to understand what your bar is.

Right. Without the groundwork laid by Bush, and also by Gingrich and daddy and Reagan before him—not to mention Limbaugh throughout—we don’t get Trump at this moment.

I think there’s a good chance it’s less that Trump doesn’t remember what happened during whose administration, and more that he totally remembers and he is merely rewriting history on the fly. Because how many times have we seen red hats claim the same lies that Trump does even after clear debunkings? It getting to the point where we don’t even express mild objections anymore because the world is taking a Trump-will-be-Trump attitude to him.

Anyone here actually listen to this guy’s pod? I haven’t consumed any Joe Rogan content since NewsRadio. Did he debrief his audience on the crazypants stuff, or is he totally on the Train?

To drain the swamp, you have to be of the swamp …

I don’t know whether a team can win with a Tork (at least as currently constructed) at first base year after year. He might end up hitting a couple hundred homers, but if he’s always hanging around 1 WAR or so every season, how can that help spark a team? I’m trying to think of an equivalent—maybe Eric Karros? He had a couple good years but he was mostly an anchor for an otherwise mostly decent team, and he went to the playoffs only three times in his 14-year career. The Dodgers wasted the entire 90s keeping him around. I don’t want that to be Tork’s legacy here. I don’t know of any franchise who could keep a barely average first baseman around and win playoffs series year after year. I think you really do need big production from first base to win.

Tell you what, though—for an October where not only do I no longer have any skin in he game, but the teams that are left are two behemoths which is like rooting for Goliath vs. Goliath—this has been a hell of a playoff season.

Steven Miller will get all their booing names and put them into the death camps as part of the first wave.

Awesome! Now tell me some coincidences between Abe Lincoln and John F Kennedy ...

I never even came close to even implying men think butt squeezing is OK, let alone "asserting" as much. I didn't even use the word "OK" in my post! Well, everyone can see exactly who said what up the page here, so I'm just going to stop here and just leave it up to the people to review and decide, if they care to.

Probably checking her Truth Social feed for likes and retruths.

You didn't say it wasn't, and you didn't say it was. You didn't contemplate its status as sexual assault either way. In any event, this wasn't meant as a way to hammer you, but rather to demonstrate how people view certain acts as entailing different levels of severity, even in subtle ways such as mild language laundering.

This is a commercial for a local congressional race, not for president, but I wanted to share it here because it's so darn good. I can't extract only the video from the Insta page for the candidate, but I hope you click through to watch it: https://www.instagram.com/mrvanforcongress/reel/DA_wgmaSFKn/

I don't know. I don't think everyone can even agree on exactly what constitutes sexual assault, so I can't hazard a guess on numbers. After all, you just said a butt squeeze is not "OK", but you also avoided labeling it sexual assault, which I suggested it might be considered by some people—I would think more by women than by men. I'm just saying I would bet money that whatever the definition is, the percentage is probably much higher than most men believe it is, and probably not much, if any, higher than what women believe it is.

You also think the vast majority of men have never sexual assaulted, so who knows.

Yeah, I was a little nonplussed reading that the "vast majority" of men never sexually assaulted, therefore it must all be due to serial abusers. I don't think I can buy that at face value. I don't know if we can get at the numbers for that, but I'm pretty sure it's higher than most men would believe, although probably not higher than most women believe. I also think there's a line at which a woman would definitely consider an act as being sexual assault, but the man in the incident would honestly not consider it so. I think such incidents would serve to increase the estimate on percentage of men who have engaged in assault. A good example might be a butt squeeze in public view. Sure, there's no blood or other fluids being spilled, so a man might be surprised to learn a butt squeeze would be considered assault, but it must certainly considered by a woman so as an unwelcome public assault on her body and her dignity, particularly by a stranger or by a mere casual acquaintance. I don't know where along the continuum of "the women is being too sensitive" versus "the man is an insensitive clod" such acts would fall, but I would give the benefit of the doubt to the woman in every case. It's her body, so she gets to say what is assault versus what is no big deal.

This is why the whole idea of mass voter fraud makes no sense on a logical level. Not only is the voting system sealed practically airtight to prevent it on the front end, the sheer amount of effort to implement such an operation on the back end to the degree needed to move the needle in an election is practically prohibitive.

I didn’t tell anyone an old man on my paper route shoved his hand down my pants to fondle me while I was collecting for the Free Press until decades after that happened, so, I can kind of relate.

Not in the court of public opinion. Out here, it’s preponderance of the evidence.

How great is it that Derek Jeter has to sit on a panel while Dave Roberts, the guy with the steal that sparked the Red Sox comeback against the Yankees in 2004, talked about beating his Yankees in the World Series Game 1 this year? Couldn’t be better. And he had not a single word to say.

Wow great post

Taken on its own terms, Game 1 of the 2024 World Series will go down as one of the all time greats.