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That's sort of my point though - Until '28 every election is still going to be dominated by the Trump/Anti-Trump split, and if the Dems can't win that easily after the disaster that is Trump's 2nd term, then all you can say is that the US general electorate is an irredeemable lost cause and look for some place to emigrate. But when Trump exits the stage, will Democratic strength dissolve again just like it did between 2020 and 2024? I think to a large degree, both parties are ideologically/programmatically exhausted and both are too captured by corporate money. That left the 'mainstream' GOP open to capture by the Trump Cult of Personality in '16. It's just left the Dems arguing with each other whenever they don't have Trump to keep their minds focused.

Why would Holmes publicly state his players are not very good and they are going to draft their replacements?

On Hulu for only 10 more days - Secrets of the Octopus. It’s wonderful. These creatures are amazing…. So damn smart. Episodes are about 45 minutes long. Definitely worth watching a few.

Agreed. Last night, Blaha said, in his opinion, last year was more impressive going from 14 to 44 wins. While I think 60 wins in crazy impressive, I'll defer to George's opinion. 50 years doing games give him a lot of credibility. I remember listening to him on the radio when I was a teenager...and I'm 66 now. Lol

It makes sense that Det merch is low. I took my son to Allen Park Rally House a few weeks ago to let him pick out some Pistons gear for his birthday. They had the smallest little Pistons section. I think Central Michigan had a larger area of gear.

Dems just won Wisconsin by 20 and have been dominating elections but ok. Keep in mind Trump was the first republican in 20 years to win the popular vote.

When the Dems proves they can win on more than just NOT Trump, then tell their critics to shove off. Till then I would say any good advice is in play.

NIL.

and my health care coverage is so cheap they refuse to pay my husband's cancer bills, but... ... HEIL DRUMPF!!!"

“My premium just doubled but thank you for saving me a couple hundred dollars Lord/Doctor Trump!”

So... She was a ... "Paid Actor"?

a deep thinker who thinks a tax reduction gets her closer to medical care than an actual health plan would.

The more I hear from Brad, the less likely I think it is they take a OT in the first round and just draft whoever their BPA is on their board.

“I’ve said in the past, I thought Borom put out good tape this year. I don’t foresee that—I don’t have a crystal ball—but from what (the) last thing I saw on tape (was) I do think that he’s got starter-level ability and same as Wonnum,” Holmes said. “You’re talking about guys that have been starters in the NFL, but you just kinda look at where the trend is going, where the arrow is going. The last time, they’re still young, but we feel good about both of them. So we don’t feel like we have to supplement them.” - Brad Holmes from today's press conference.

Now he has to TACO again and look weak again.

That's incredible. Everything is staged with this crew

Yeah - that shoe had to drop eventually. It was a different matter as long as it was Iran blocking shipping, even if we were the proximate cause of them doing it, but once we block shipping directly, we become the agent in violation of all the rules based order we pushed on everyone else for 250yrs. Another example of this admin acting reflexively instead of thinking strategically - or thinking at all.

I like the trajectory of San Jose. Have missed the playoffs 7 straight years but were in the conference finals as recently as 2019 and didn't bottom out until 2024. Of course one can easily ask where they'd be without Macklin Celebrini but they sucked at the right time and won the right lottery, to complement u-24s like Will Smith, William Eklund, Collin Graf (44 Pts in 78 GPs this season from a 23 year old who went undrafted), Michael Misa (moved down 1 in lottery but still got #2 overall in 2025), Igor Chernyshov (16 PTs in 25GP this season from a 2024 early 2nd rounder), Sam Dickinson (69 GP this year from a 2024 #11 overall).

I remember the same people lecturing Dems on what they need to do said anybody but Biden would win.

I read a piece recently that argues that one of the Dem's problems is that in recent years they have tried to build party from policy, instead of building party with a cultural framework, general governing philosophy and letting specific policy flow as a more secondary set of concerns rising from more organically from a wider general constituency. While that is a bit of an idealization there is a core of truth in it. At one time you were Democrat because of who you were, a member of a labor union, or a teacher, or an urban minority. At that time Democratic policy grew up out of the concerns of people who already shared some level of a polity. Today they are trying to stitch together constituencies by adopting interest group program objectives, but the problem with being program first is that program is always a double edged sword, even in your own party there are going to be a lot people that don't like the program pushed by this or that sub-sect. The depth to which the Israeli/Arab question splits Dems being an example. It's understandable how this happened because as the demographics of the Democratic Party have shifted from the working class to the educated class, it was inevitable the older identifications would be lost, but they have not been replaced by anything as durable. I don't know how to put that more communitarian kind of social structure back together on the left - but it is what the right does have around cultural issues that is part of its recent success. Trumpers share a cultural ID that makes Trumps policy faux pas less damaging to him than the internal arguments over policy on the left seem to be because it's hard to build cohesion that can withstand policy disagreement when there is no unifying ethos beyond policy.

Did he work at the Red Cross the same week he worked at McDonald's and waste management?

He’s a blasphemous , stupid , ignorant mother-F’er. Plain and simple. I hate his guts.

I’m not a poker player but Trump is playing on full tilt.