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It will move sales and donations. That’s what it’s about.

Yes, I agree, and the only problem with what sounds like should have been that perfect plan is that the Republican senators were afraid they’d be hanged, literally, by their own radicalized ride-or-die red hat constituents, probably led by their own states’ Republican congressional delegation. Would that have actually happened? No way to know, but those swing-vote senators were not about to FAFO.

The assassination of civility has been very, very profitable.

Don’t underestimate their ability to succeed at hanging this on Teh Left anyway.

Agree with you on all this, but none of that is required for evangelicals to get to heaven—they believe. It’s all about the acceptance of JCAYPLAS. Good works don’t mean did diddley. And that I believe is a purposeful distinction.

It’s the only way they can reasonably justify their otherwise generalized anger at time refusing to stand still.

That’s generally true of those I have met but this one is really self-absorbed and pretty absent when you’re around her.

Yeah, well, I don't know, maybe I'm a little ****ed up here, but, I tend to seek out the logic in arguments. 😏

I don't see how Trump and MAGA precipitated the Kroger cuts? Looks like the same thing that would have happened under any president. Or am I missing something in the story?

The one trans person I know best is a selfish jerk who’s unpleasant to be around. But even so, so what? She has a right to be as unpleasant as anyone else does. Everyone should be allowed to actualize their true selves on their own terms.

I don’t think it’s as much dip****tery and asshattery as it is a bid for narrative control about the shooter.

Wish there was a way for me to give two thanks on this.

This is a big ball of wax right here. This lays bare the whole fallacy of that born again nonsense, which stipulates the only way to get to heaven is by "accepting Jesus Christ as your personal lord and savior", and that good works or good behavior or good ethics count for nothing. Doesn't matter how evil you act because you're going to heaven if you've accepted Jesus etc. It serves as a cosmic license to lie and steal and kill.

How come?

I wouldn't expect much of anything from any of them, except maybe Finnegan, and that might be a stretch. But I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised.

Benetti who?

lol misread or misinterpreted

I see what you're saying, but I am talking about something more than attacking credibility and draining resources.

I can see the benefit to the administration of "never finding" the shooter.

I can kind of see one valid reason for doing so, in that relatively unsophisticated young men would be peppered with questions about it by reporters skilled in this kind of line of inquiry to elicit sensational commentary, and a player might end up saying something ill-phrased that would blow up in the team's face. The down side, of course, is that blocking access still looks punitive to the media. Kind of a no-win in this particular case.

No doubt, and that typically extends to the clubhouse as well. I'm sure there are misogynists of at least the casual variety even in this clubhouse. In any club comprising dozens of young men, there can't not be. But I do believe they are not part of parcel of the rot of ISE corporate culture, but rather, simply (and sadly) typical of any of the other 29 organizations. I'd like to think ours is better on some level, but that's admittedly hopeful thinking.

Says the guy who depends on the goodwill of the team for clubhouse access. 😏 That said, I do believe the players, field coaching staff, and the new front office are neither part nor parcel of the rotting ISE organization work culture.

I've been wondering which wave you and I are in? Definitely not the first wave, foreign nationals and citizens with particular skin color, which is happening now. Second wave will probably be Democratic politicians and liberal activists—that one might start up really soon. Third wave will be media, academia, research scientists, traditional medical establishment, non-evangelical clergy, and other thought leaders. So, probably fourth wave as run-of-the-mill lippy bastards. They'll almost certainly seal the borders from the inside before it gets to that. When that happens, that's when we'll know we're actually mortally doomed.

I have no interest in discussing whether the shooting at the trump rally was an honest assassination attempt. All I can say is, it's a convenient miracle that Trump's ear has since completely healed.

I wonder whether there is a race between federal police forces and local police forces to the be the one to locate the shooter for the purpose of controlling the narrative about the shooter's motives?