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I find it incongruous that Bombers rants about Democratic purity tests, then rants about progressives (actually calling out a small fraction of same) not being worthy of respect or inclusion. Every segment of the political arena has some fringe actors that like to act out. The vast majority of progressives I know are not in that small fringe. They are practical and pragmatic, knowing that change can be incremental and aligning with the nuts is bad for everyone. Progressives are not the problem. It is pretty clear who is, why waste time on slamming “the left”.

I could never figure out why so many Billionaires who pledged to give most of their money away still try so hard to avoid paying taxes. Heck, this is often the reason for the philanthropy in the first place. I’d love it if they stopped competing with each other by buying mega yachts and parts of Montana, and instead posted the check they write to the IRS each year. That would be a meaningful sign of amazing wealth and power.

Jones is making quite a case to make the roster.

No they aren’t. That’s a pretty broad brush.

Trumpers like to post Bible verses, not read them. Or apply them.

I know that Rickey has passed away now, and may he rest in peace. And so with that in mind may I, just one more time, tell my Rickey Henderson story? A friend and his wife were on vacation in Bermuda one year in the early 1990's, they went to a restaurant one night, and my friend saw Rickey sitting with a lady a few tables away. He was wearing a short sleeve white shirt with a sort of black and gray pattern, but he was too far away for my friend to discern what the pattern was. So, having ordered his dinner, my friend got up ostensibly to use the men's room but really he just wanted to walk past Rickey's table to get a closer look at his shirt. And this is what he saw: he saw Rickey Henderson sitting at a table wearing a short sleeve white shirt with a black and gray pattern, and the black and gray pattern was a collage of newspaper articles about Rickey Henderson. RIP Rickey, everyone loves you.

That might create a rip in the space-time fabric that I don’t want to see.

Jeff Bezos' ex-wife MacKenzie Scott is also a very good philanthropist. Jeff Bezos is on the self-obsessed program though.

European leaders are aware and appear to be taking the necessary steps.

I'm tired of these purity tests. Biden kept moving to the left and it was never good enough. They wanted to pull out of Afghanistan, he did that. They wanted to cap insulin, he did that. They wanted Medicare to negotiate drug prices, he did that. They wanted him to cancel student debt (which was unpopular), he did that. They wanted investment in climate change, he did that. They wanted to grow unions, he did that. All of this with the slimmest of majorities and a party who didn't think he was legitimately elected. It was never good enough and they rat****ed him at every turn. We will not see a president to the left of Biden in a long time. No president is going to listen to the left because they completely abandoned the one president who tried to please them. They are worse than MAGA.

I'm sorry but the left needs to realize that they won't find a perfect candidate for them that will also win elections. Stop litigating 40 year old battles. Her point on Reagan was to highlight the changes within the GOP today.

Not the trump bible (only $70 to get one)

I think the folks who feel betrayed by the current iteration of the GOP (think someone like Walsh or much of The Bulwark or even The Dispatch) are much more clear-eyed about the moment we are in than a lot of the liberal punditry out there to be honest.

When guys like Joe Walsh become one of his most severe critics. Remember this dude was a leader in the Tea Party Movement

I know the broader market seems to move 2-4% on based on 25% tariffs. But, there are probably some specific stocks that move a lot more giving a great opportunity for graft if you know the timing of the announcements.

I'm OK with the $250 bill as long as they don't repeal the relevant part of the 1866 Act of Congress.

A planet full of his Musk offspring. Just went from SciFi to horror.

As did the GOP and also MAGA but here you are lol Just like Dan Gilmore said we all know who is the problem. Well almost all of us...

Trying to outscore the Lions.

Manning just doesn’t look right. Whatever was going on at Toledo with him last year hasn’t gotten any better. It looks like he’s giving max effort, but when it comes out of his hand, there’s nothing on it.

That's across the street from me. My house is bone-dry.

What if someone's view are so far left that they don't support either Democrats or Republicans? For example, there are a lot of people, especially young people, who believe that we are doomed if we don't make drastic changes to combat climate change. They think that no other issues matter and neither Democrats nor Republicans come close to addressing the issue sufficiently. Why should they "get in line" when there is no party to line up behind? Regardless of what MB thinks, the Democrats are not entitled to those votes. Everybody's vote is their own and no party is entitled to it.

It didn’t dawn on me that my magic number had been met. I was just too excited to check the score.

I think they're also richer, relatively speaking. The Howard Hughes "it makes you crazy" kind of rich.

Youtube is now saying 2:30.

yeah - Back in an era when noblesse oblige was a thing, you could elect the rich guy because he was harder to bribe. The problem is that today's rich guys don't want to serve, they just want to get richer.

that is pretty much what I was going to say. And TBH, I would not blame Reagan for what happened in the 30 yrs since he left office. Reagan was capable of changing his mind and he became a Republican not because he was in bed with the Oligarchs, but because he believed the left was hurting the working class. Given that, I would argue there is at least a 50/50 chance that when he saw what was happening to the middle class, he would have moved toward revised policies. When Reagan took office the most important issues on his plate were inflation and the Cold War and he dealt with those things about as successfully anyone could have asked. Nobody was ruminating on the possible future of the middle class or making predictions it was at risk at that point in history. Plus it's also not uncommon for 'movements' to end up claiming far more in the name of their founder than the founder would ever recognize - a fact in evidence all around us everyday.

I roll my eyes at a lot of identity politics but then, I'm sickened to my core by racists. I know a lot of identity politics are just the "most convenient hammer" of people trying to get something from the system. But I also know that racists f's exist and they do cause systemic problems. Class politics are also very weird. I'm deeply offended as a middle class person to be the bastion of the tax base so a bunch of power and wealth-accumulating sickos can buy better Gulfstreams and bigger yachts without paying any taxes.

well, now

I have never understood why people (even reasonable ones) keep insisting that Trump is smart. At no point in his life has he ever demostrated any intellect whatsoever.

Progressive here 🙋‍♂️. Thanks for the kind words. I don’t align with everything Slotkin believes, but I also would vote for her over and over again. I also miss Manchin, as much as he sucks because the alternative is much suckier.

Biden went left, progressives **** on him, said he was doing a genocide, and forced him out. **** progressives.

Speaking of Cobb again, I’ve posted both of these clips on this board before but in case you haven’t seen them I’ll post them here. One is Cobb on a tv game show in 1953, the other is a 15 minute interview with him a few years later in which gave he discusses the 1908 pennant race A third one I came across more recently is an interview with him at his home in 1930 as he pets a dog throughout

Slotkin is an up and comer. She's like a younger, better spoken, female version of Biden. She pisses off the leftists so you know she's good.

For everyone that didn’t watch last night, make sure to check the Slotkin and rebuttal.

Almost all of those biopics are garbage. I am seeing a lot of non-truths in the new Bob Dylan biopic and he did a table read for it. What? If you want a good biopic that is fairly accurate, according to just about everyone who is still around - Love & Mercy (about Brian Wilson). Okay, the hairpiece that Paul Giamatti wears is a bit much, but he did a lot of the things that Eugene Landy actually did to Brian. He really did help him at first, but then he got greedy and took advantage of him.

Romans 12:9-21.

Stuff we might explore in confirmation hearings.

Volume shooter.

I’d have laughed at anyone suggesting home court for a play in game. And here we are, home court for the first round is a legit possibility.

If Torkleson goes 3rd person, maybe that’ll unlock his potential?

I’m going to trademark Yo-yo Tariff Policy.

What a bitch, he couldn't even last a full day.

The start of his run to the Cy Young Award.

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

grovel. they were supposed to grovel and supplicate.

has anyone coined the term Gryfto yet?

SoCal had made the comment about Ty Cobb in regard to the BBWAA Rule #5. As for the gambling accusations, Cobb and Speaker were almost certainly guilty of what they'd been accused of, which was fixing games for a bet, and they were both forced to resign their managerial positions because of it, and banishment from baseball was on the table. But they were not banished because Landis, for reasons of his own, was disinclined to do so, so they remained in good standing with Baseball, at least technically, And that's they were not declared permanently ineligible. Unfair? Sure. But I would not agree with the unsaid proposition that Rose should be allowed back into Baseball as a result. I wonder whether Manfred would cite Cobb and Speaker if he were to allow Rose back in?

Cobb was an educated guy from a wealthy family, when most players at that time were not. The "rubes" resented him and he hated them right back. He also hated the other team, umpires, ownership,probably the fans that gave him a hard time as well. His own father thought a career in baseball was beneath him. He was 18 when his mother shot him which drove him to a maniacal/hostile will to succeed and prove that his father was wrong. So basically anyone writing about him back then would probably have found numerous people in and around the game that hated him and would be happy to share/invent stories about him. I think Stumps book is a little accurate, it just leaves out a lot of the good things Cobb did and the context in which some to the negative stories happened. Which only look worse as time passes and the social norms of the day are forgotten.