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United Methodist is always my first choice, but I get there only once or twice a year and arrive early.

The real TDS scourge is Trump Dependency Syndrome

mamdani's wife reposted and liked posts praising the october 7th massacres. the nyt just published that jews are training dogs to rape arabs. the list goes on and on.

By the way, I think we can just go ahead and knock the S off the TDS. It’s just Trump Derangement at this point, because his behavior is completely out of range for normal presidents.

i dont disagree with much of that, however, mb's points are all true. the democrats are now becoming the party where it is acceptable to cheer for the deaths of israeli jews. i think that MIGHT change with a different government in tel aviv. but it might not. and i wouldnt be so blase about it if i were a jewish democrat.

The question is right in the post.

at the end of the day, the most likely scenario is cossa backs up gibson in detroit and postava stays in GR to split time with augustine.

Now you’re getting the picture! 😉😝

The Democratic Party is where Republicans were circa 2008. The Tea Party was fringe until it wasn't. Democrats have their version of the Tea Party. It's centered on whites. An elected congresswoman said from the river to the sea. The mayor of New York said to globalize the intifada. The Democratic nominee in Maine, who has the backing of many prominent Dems, is a literal Nazi. A congressman in Illinois, who was one of the most progressive in the house, was forced to retire because she wasn't sufficiently anti Israel. A senate candidate from Michigan sympathized with the shooter of a Jewish temple. Democrats have to stomp this out now instead of letting it take over like the Republicans did.

i dont think cossa has the trade value we think he does. he HAS to be on an nhl roster next year and he's proven nothing at the nhl level. he's been passed at the ahl level by postava. if he does have value, its to a rebuilding team. im not sure why edmonton is mentioned so much except for the fact that he played there in juniors. gibson would seem more of what theyre looking for, especially if the wings took back salary. i would be shocked if cossa got you a first round pick. he might get a second. maybe. more likely, he gets you another team's mid-level prospect or he's part of a deal for a nhl regular along with another wings' prospect or two.

you might use one of the 57 other threads about trump to discuss that.

Gratiot Avenue.

I don't view Olson or Jobe nearly as optimistically as I view Max. A Pipeline-ranked pitching prospect is always viewed more cautiously than the same Pipeline-ranked hitting prospect.

Oh that's right, when we point out a woman is mean and has a temper and is unfit to be the head of the largest state in the country, it's misogyny.

woman strong like man problem

And that will be well and good if that happen, but it will only flip around when R takes the state back, which will happen not long afterwards. We can keep treating the symptoms, but nothing really changes until we cure the disease.

And you know it will strike a nerve when TrumpSocial starts calling for Hakeem to be hanged as a traitor.

I'm assuming her berating a staffer isn't an isolated issue. There's also the fact that she showed the same attitude to a reporter before storming out of an interview over a question every candidate was asked. She has massive Karen vibes. Beccera is the best candidate and it looks like Dems are coalescing around him.

Shocking—in that this is a rare case of Republicans engaging in repugnant and quasi-illegal political behavior that they did not accuse the Democrats of doing to them first.

The possibility of trading Gibson crossed my mind. But on second thought, the trade value for Cossa is almost certainly going to be higher than the price we paid for Gibson and that we could get for him. Also, I think it would be a bad signal to the team to trade away Gibson, who was such a security blanket for the team. If the front office wants to demonstrate that it is aiming for the playoffs, I don’t think you can trade away the reliable veteran who nearly dragged the team there last season.

It could be argued it's not a lie at all, because it is not a salary that he is taking.

From today's NYT

I think we agree more than this exchange might suggest. My core point has never been that the left is blameless. It's that there's a meaningful difference between a party feeling electoral pressure on Israel policy versus a party being captured by antisemitic ideology. The former is happening with Democrats more so in recent times. The latter is what's happening on the right, and the two aren't comparable in scope or depth. That's my core point. I'll note here that your hope that a new Israeli government brings Democrats back does suggest that the break between the two, at the governing party level at least, is really about policy, not prejudice, and that's a distinction I've been wanting to draw all along.

Some of the political coverage coming out of CA is predictably silly. Porter pilloried because she yelled at a staffer, Steve Hilton's biggest coverage seems to be about the definition of a 'street Taco'.

There is actually a decent chance Democrats win control of the House in Texas. If they can also win governor, they can look to undo the Texas gerrymander.