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Please explain exactly where and when the last election was not safe and secure. Be sure to back up your answer with facts and not innuendo. Please show all your work with supporting links

I remember driving with my dad in his truck in the pre-seatbelt era and if he had to slam on the brakes his big right arm would reach across the cab and save tiny me from crashing into the dashboard. He had long arms and a good reach. If he was Canadian he might’ve made a good hockey player.

Who can't be happy for Dusty Baker right now?

Quit bringing facts into it.

"Safe and secure elections" is not and never was a thing until Trump. This is how many times the phrase "safe and secure elections" was used in newspapers across the country. Source: Newspapers.com 1776 - 1829 - Unknown 1830's - 1 1840 - 1879 - 0 1880's - 1 1890's - 1 1900's - 3 1910's - 2 1920 - 1939 - 0 1940's - 2 1950's - 0 1960's - 1 1970's - 1 1980's - 0 1990's - 2 2000's - 91 2010 - 60 2020 - 2021 - 312 Wonder what changed in 2020? 🙄

haha that's the poster! Hung in my room for a few years before getting replaced by a Jenny McCarthy poster. It just so happened that he left the Lions right about the time I started puberty. lol

There was initial concern around voting machines since there was an issue in a northern Michigan county that was resolved. Nothing was done about proving the mail in ballots. I'm really trying to understand the people here. Some of you claim to be Republicans that don't like Trump but from the comments I haven't seen there's not one Republican here let alone a real conservative. I would think you would be concerned about what is happening to the country today than some businessman from Florida that has absolutely no power today to do anything.. Are you unhappy that on January 19, 2021 the USA -Didn't have a big problem on the southern border? -The Country was safer because people were not allowed in from terrorist countries? -Inflation wasn't a problem? -We didn't have supply chain issues -The President's son wasn't selling art work to anonymous people around the world. The same son who took jobs he wasn't qualified for from foreign business because his father was VP. -There weren't Americans stranded in Afghanistan? -Our enemies feared us and we didn't bow down to China, Russia, Iran, etc. - The economy was booming and unemployment for all races of people were very low until a pandemic when major areas of the country were closed down?

In other words you have no proof. All those investigations into “voting irregularities” by Rudy and his gang turned up nothing. The only voter fraud was dead republicans voting for Trump.

If you really wanted to know you would do the research yourself. There were many reports of signatures not being matched on absentee mail in ballots. This is not just in some po-dunk areas with 53 voters. It was a wide spread problem. Some areas did it well and some areas didn't. That is a lot of why people question results of the election. When results are in question its a major issue. Since democrats did so well they don't have a problem with the election but if the tables were turned and Republican won like this, Nancy, Chuck, Shifty and Jerry No-Nads would have more hearings than you could count. I know ...But Trump, but Trump, but Trump.....so save it.

I'll bet that neither Carlos Correa nor Cory Seager would object to working for a drunken sailor?

Didn't get a majority though did he? Another argument for ranked preference voting...

The best was when you were just the right size to stand on the tranny hill in the back seat with your arms folded over the front bench nosing into your parent's conversation.

We are all made of the same cosmic dust. Each baseball player is actually just a reflection of the Ur-baseball players who played in Mesopotamia and who arrived here on the Time Ark from our as yet, unidentified home world.

I would also say that a kind of consensus (or at least majority opinion) seems to be forming around here that it would be rational and acceptable for ownership to behave in the way that I have described. I would truly love for fans to demand more and better from ownership, even if it only results in our sharing opinions on a message board.

The last sentence is not a fact. It is your opinion of what he thinks.

MTG brings no value at all to politics. She is an ignorant jerk, an absolute disgrace.

She doesn't have beautiful thoughts like MTG.

Archie is the master of false equivalencies.

I think you are right. And that is depressing as hell. They are going to waste all of the epic losing that they used to get Tork and Greene to build a basically craptastic team around them and hope to sneak in every so often with 82-85 wins, while guaranteeing a bottom-10 salary structure every year. Unless they learn how to reliably turn a couple of non-tanking picks every year into solid or above average regulars, the above will be as good as it gets. I still hate the fact that this cheap-as-hell owner can't fathom a league-average payroll to support a playoff team.

Post- postseason SI cover, October 22, 1984

My experiences with older people who had lived through 1933-1945 when i was in Germany between 1987 and 1989 were different than my experiences when I visited in 2018. When I was there in the 80s, I knew a few older ladies in our area who wore black and nothing else but apparently were not widows. They were wearing black for Adolph. The anger of the kids who ran with the Red Army Faction toward their parent's generation was pretty real and raw. The weaker shadow of it that we saw on our shores was nothing like it.

Exactly. The framing of Manchin's views tend to be dominated by the left of the Democratic Party, who tend to call him a conservative or Republican-lite or things like that, almost to the point of it being kind of the built in assumption on his views. But at the end of the day, while he does fall to the right of the AOC wing and maybe doesn't desire the same level of expenditure that they do, when you look at the guy's voting record, he's just not anywhere near being a Republican. And he's made it pretty clear a number of times over the years that he doesn't like Mitch and the GOP. Setting aside that politically it would be dumb for him to switch parties now (especially given his Senate Energy Committee Chairmanship as well as his strong hand in negotiations on infrastructure), I just don't think the philosophical alignment is there. And while he can be a frustrating guy at times, I don't think he's unprincipled enough to throw out his beliefs to switch parties.... if he were, he probably would have done it during the Trump Presidency.

Basketball in particular.... one star player can be the difference between 58-24 and 24-58

It's not surprising that it is so rare for a team to win back to back championships in baseball. Due to the randomness in baseball results, it is mathematically very unlikely that a team that makes the playoffs two years will win both years. If we assume 100% randomness, it's less than a 2% chance. It's probably not 100% random, so maybe a 5% chance. And of course, a team has to actually make the playoffs twice in order to have any chance of repeating.

Doesn’t mean we have to just shrug and accept it.