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Did my part today.

Dems should set up their own town halls and have a delegate on stage and put a cardboard cutout of the chicken GOP rep next to them.

Now the term they are using is "price movements"

What is ironically funny about all this is that Marx has never been in less favor yet a good chunk of his analysis that capitalism has deep inherent problems in terms of creating any kind of just society is today being proved spot on in the US like no time since the 1930's. He solution was as wrong as his analysis was right, so now we don't pay any attention to the analysis either, but all you have to do is look and see it coming to fruition. If you look at it in terms of a mathematical or mechanical system, capitalism inherently drives to the extremes. The greater the capital amassed, the more profitably that capital can be deployed, so there is an inevitable wealth concentration effect that leads to either a fascist oligarchy or a robber baron pseudo democracy. It's such a fundamental misunderstanding that's been foisted on Americans by the conservative movement. The WSJ matra - "Free people, free markets" couldn't have it more wrong. The necessary role of the government in a free society is not, as the right would have you believe, to facilitate capitalism, but is in fact the exact opposite. In a free capitalist state the government must regulate that capitalism into some kind of reasonable social equilibrium by taxation, provision of public goods, and defense of consumer and worker rights. It role is exactly the opposite of facilitating unfettered 'free' markets. Related to this, the (ex?)conservative Peter Wehner had an NYT column this week where he talked to a well known evangelical philosopher, who when asked how the US evangelical right wing is getting it wrong, said that the evangelical church is so hung up seeing the government as the guarantor of liberty, this it has forgotten that the Bible taught that the most important role of government is provision of Justice. Whether you are religious or not I think that is spot on also.

I wish we had someone like him.

you left out the best one though, Tesla down 6.5%

has anyone coined the term Gryfto yet?

How could anyone else get coach of the year?

I recall toward the end of last season, with Maeda being used for long relief, Johnny K interviewed him and he was almost apologetic about his season. You could tell he felt bad about his overall performance. He seems to be a very humble guy. I have no doubt that he put in a lot of work this off-season to prepare. He still might be done. But right now he looks like their #5 starter

this is why tariffs were the wrong way to go about any rebuild of US manufacturing in the first place. If the approach were via investment incentives, corporate governance reform, financial system reform that would reduce the profit in cannibalizing manufacturers, worker training support -the whole nine yards - THEN you could have have an evolutionary regrowth and an economy that continued to grow while changing. If Trump produces a recession in the name of helping US workers it will be 110% an unforced error.

Better hurry. After 2026 they don't control their 1st round picks until 2031 or something like that.

a lot of people were sold a lot of jive this election.

what a totally normal human response to the suffering of others.

At his age, this could very likely be career ending, not just season. With AD about to turn 32 in a few days, and always injured anyway, Dallas is heading to rebuild territory.

This is a bad move for them. The ones who do maintain their connection to their voters will survive.

I would reinforce that when they say there will be pain, people like Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg etc won't be feeling the pain.

Are any of them, other than Foley, making this team anyway? Ah, can't worry about spring training performances until March 15th anyway. Might be working on new things they're not comfortable doing yet. Won't do that when the games count.

Trump understands things in the most elementary-like terms. He talks about things the way elementary school kids would if you asked them a simple economic or policy-related question. He has no capacity to articulate a factual, measured, thoughtful policy point of view or statement. Mr. Trump, how are you going to lower oil prices? Drill baby drill! Mr. Trump, how are you going to lower natural gas prices? Frack, frack, frack, frack, frack! Mr. Trump, how are you going to lower grocery prices? It will be easy to lower them. We'll just make them lower.

Silly these elected representatives are allowed to waste congressional time and effort on ridiculous **** like this. Too bad there isn’t some type of agency that cracks down on on government officials who carelessly bloat and take advantage of their federal job

I think he wanted to get his cabinet confirmed first. Prove to any potential GOP dissenters that he can do whatever he wants and no one should even try to lift a finger to stop him.

Go anti-woke, go broke

Its too bad the sports journalism community has to use a site owned by a nazi.

That song was originally recorded in the early '60s by Johnny Burnette. Made #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Pot, meet kettle

It's too bad you can't even read the Tigers forum on this site without having some whiney liberal with severe TDS post their politely crap.

Right because if theres on thing companies do its not pass costs to consumers.

Cmon Joni, not that kind of caucus!

Real "Great Leap Forward" vibes....

**** anyone using that app.

I say this just about every game but dang, this Piston team is fun to watch. The fast pace makes it so exciting.

I really like the NBA review policy. It's quick and they give an excellent explanation. It's really well done...

Nero fumes while a Red State burns. Not to mention no comments or forth coming aid for far SW Virginia, Tennessee and Western NC following more storms a couple of weeks ago. He hates his voters unless they send $$$$

It got me for a second too, but then I realized it said ankleS and I could not see how he would have broken both of them.

"Somehow, in the war between Russia and Ukraine, the first country to surrender was America" Tristan Snell

The league announced JB won eastern conference coach of the month for February.

The authorities said it was a case best left...unsolved, really.

Is this too obscure a reference?

No, she was still wrong. She said only half of them were deplorable.

To be clear, I never said that Al Stump's characterization of Cobb was correct. I am as certain as anyone else that it wasn't. What I said was, Lehrsehn did a poor job of trying to demonstrate that Cobb was a man who was merely ordinary for his time in terms of his racism, to the point of even discounting contemporaneous Detroit Free Press articles which stated that Cobb was a man of unusual racist tendencies (which was really saying something for 1905).

Pretty manageable schedule coming up. Not that the games will be easy by any means but they have 1 real playoff contender on the schedule in the next 12 games... @Utah, Clippers, Warriors perhaps without Butler, Blazers Wizards (twice), Thunder at home, @Pelicans, Heat and Mavs probably without AD then Pelicans and Spurs at home This will be an opportunity to make a real run at the 4 seed or at the very least strengthen their hold on a playoff spot.

Starmer is putting in work, Trump is Putin's bitch.

Successful day. I'll be in Section 131 Row 5 next season.

Today is the most underrated important day of the year for Season Ticket Holders: Seat Relocation Day! Will I sit next to criminally insane people again next year? Will Ford Field construct a Tiger Stadium style pole directly in front of the seats I choose? Most importantly, when we win the NFC Championship next year, how far of a run will it be to take down the goal posts?