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I wanted them to take Clingan...but Buzelis would have been better than Holland too

Biden should have ran in 2016 but Obama backstabbed him to clear the deck for Clinton.

I was thinking about the sitting Congressmen Trump primaried. They're still in office until November. What if they all grew a pair and voted against every one of his issues? Maybe they have the numbers but not the actual support?

Biden should have been President and Obama VP from 2008-2016. Then Obama should have run in 2016. Obama is very smart, but may not have been ready for the presidency. Biden was unimpressive intellectually, but knew how to work with Congress. Biden was too old and senile at the end and a more experienced Obama would have been a better choice at that time.

This is bad but I don't think this is it. Damning Pentagon leak reveals huge blow to US defenses

That plan is in the cooker for sure.

Or he could just drop some bombs on Cuba

Granted.

Biden was the reason Obamacare got passed. Biden is the sole reason for Obama’s crowning achievement.

Harris was the cipher of a vice president that every modern VP outside of Cheney has been. Even J.D. Couch****er is a big zero as far as that goes, no matter how loud he becomes or how many news cycles he hijacks. There is almost nothing in their vice presidency a candidate can point to and say that makes them qualified to be president, and Harris was no exception.

This might be it.

That was a failure of the media. Harris was never the border czar as the media portrayed her. Harris was also put in charge of rallying support in Europe for Ukraine and leading the abortion issue. Not buying it. Biden himself was VP and in charge of passing Obamacare which was not popular at the time. He did fine until the party ran a coop on him.

We could be like the Braves last year where injuries derailed the season (about the same timing too) but they recovered this year (2028 for us). Or we could be the Orioles - who looked like a young contending team two years ago - but the management didn't bolster it and those young players crashed down to earth and they look like they are ready to start rebuilding again after a two-year run. I feel like we are the Orioles here.

I was thinking about what the cost to the person would be, and while I agree with everything you say here, I also believe that no major media organization would hire a loose cannon like that, so any person who does this would have to have the strength of their convictions that they could carve out a living in the self-publishing space (e.g., podcast, Substack).

Cleveland did pretty good on a few deals. I dont remember the details but I read an article a few months ago about some of their trades. But yeah, it's pretty rare to get talent back. Who would trade future All Star talent for a couple of months of an All Star pitcher?

Last I looked, Republicans still have a majority in both houses even after the primaries.

Been reading Mark Bowden's excellent "Hue 1968" and that MOP/MOE always comes up. One of the more interesting historical questions I came away with thus far: Walter Cronkite and Creighton Abrams had a conversation during Cronkite's visit to the Hue battlefield in which he came away and did his "war is unwinnable" report. Abrams was friends with Cronkite during WWII and Abrams had good press in comparison to the Westmoreland who was basically every French General during WW1 . Westmoreland sued CBS in the 1980s. I wonder if anyone did a more in-depth book on that Cronkite/Abrams relationship and its impact on the course of the War.

I still don't know. Recency bias says yeah, but the same group played at 100-game pace for a full season. The truth is probably between the two extremes. The problem is playing .500 ball or little better after getting healthy again won't get them to post-season this year.

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name anything positive she got credit for. the highest profile issue Biden supposedly asked her to lead on was “the border” which was the single most toxic issue for the dems by the election. her 4 yrs as VP did her no favors in terms of building a positive political profile. was she bad at her job? did Biden sabotage her because he didn’t want her to have a strong argument for him not to run,? IDK, but VP did not turn out to be a very good gig for her. it’s really not a good spot to run from anyway, in recent decades VPs have lost more often than won.

I know a high percentage of people here are on board right now with selling Skubal, some of them believing so irrespective of how we do going forward. I have been opposed to this, and as a separate idea, I don’t think Harris and ilitch are going to sell, mainly because I don’t think that by the time late July rolls around, our record and prospects will be so bad that we will be forced in a sell-or-else situation. I think we’d have to have a W-L that’s far lower than it is even today, and playing in the most winnable division after having gotten most of the guys on the list back, we simply won’t be both this bad and this unlucky. That said, i would be open to selling if we do find ourselves in a situation that we don’t recover and we are something like .350 on the season on July whatever-teenth. The question becomes, who do you sell, and what do you hope to get back for them? You named six guys, and five of them were hurt this year (three on the list right now), and the sixth guy is in his late 60s. When I contemplate the possible return, the word “haul” does not show up anywhere in the results. If we want any possibility of a “haul” we would have to probably sell Riley high, plus Tork and Colt for potential and controllability, at minimum. Skubal, of course, but he will not return what everyone hopes, especially if he doesn’t come back Cy Young hard for at least a month. I don’t see how anyone else gets us anything else besides lottery tickets and throw-ins.

Even before the injuries they weren't exactly setting the world on fire this season, they were .500. I think we had a lucky stretch where McKinstry, Baez and a couple other players played way above their average and now they are literally crashing before our eyes. When Baez, Carpenter and Meadows come back - and they are still welll below .500 (which is what I think is going to happen), do they even consider changing managers? I just don't know why Hinch seems so untouchable. August 2024 - June 2025 looks more lucky than good now, doesn't it?

I think most of that list seems plausible to accurate. The dems should not be GOP lite to trans folks.

What was poor about her VP-ship?

the point about Harris having a poor VP-ship is absolutely true. The open question is “Why”. Did Biden not give her any high profile projects with easy wins because he wouldn’t or because she couldn’t? at this point the people who know probably aren’t saying.