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I thought I’d lighten the mood a bit.

You continue to express “what the left thinks” or “what the left wants”. Speak for yourself, not for others you don’t have a clear understanding of.

Dontcha just love it when these poor little rich boys who spent their entire lives enjoying daddy's money call other people parasites. Did these guys ever wear hand me down shirts and pants, go to school with their lunched wrapped in newspaper, use old bread bags inside their hand me down boots to keep them dry in the winter. Either walk to school or over a half mile to the bus stop. Hell did they ever ride a school bus? Who are the real parasites here. When did they ever pull themselves up by their bootstraps without having a servant or parent to help them

MTG and Backseat Bobbitt get to howl and heckle Biden with no repercussions. But let a black man stand up, all hell breaks loose among MAGA. Decorum in the House was lost the moment a Supreme Court Justice mouthed You Lie at a Black President

any dem who joins the censure vote for Al Greene needs to be primaried.

If Trump is still president after 2028, it will not be because they repealed the 22nd amendment, it will be because the Constitution has been abandoned.

LOL - maybe at some point they will get it. The main reason there are so many undocumented residents in the US all along is that no matter how you decide to try and change that situation, it's going to be very expensive, and no-one has ever really believed the problem is so serious to have appropriated the money to deal with it - from border security to asylum courts, it all takes money and no consensus has ever emerged in Congress that there aren't more important things to spend money on than that. So this is the dog catching the UPS van. They've manufactured a public belief in an immigration 'crises' to whip up the culture warriors and other miscellaneous xenophobes to get elected, but guess what they are finding out? Gonna cost a lot of money - and when it becomes a matter of finding money, suddenly the problem doesn't look any more serious than it really is, which in the overall scheme of budget priorities, isn't very.

Hahahaha this surely won’t backfire or anything.

What he really means is he wouldn't help any of them which he has proven with Ukraine. Projection as usual. That's the thing with narcissists. Once you know what they are, they are so predictable. Your country is going to get so screwed in any negotiation because all they have to do is offer something shiny that makes Trump look good or strokes his ego and it's an immediate yes without checking any of the fine print.

Yes, he did. I've been on the Hendrickson express for a year now and would love to get him. But I'm not building up my hopes that we're going to get him or make any major acquisition for a pass rusher.

The reason he wants to leave the Bengals is because he wants a big contract. I'm not sure trading for him and not giving him a contract is ideal. The Lions have an elite pass rusher. They need a good #2. The also have Za'Darius Smith who at this point in his career is still a good rotational pass rusher. Someone like Bosa on a short term contract while they draft a pass rusher makes sense.

The only thing I‘m proving is that you said the Democrats lost the election and the government because Joe Biden was moving the party too far left, and then 24 hours later you said we need to elect more Democrats so they can push the party left.

With Biden I don't know if he was done in more by his own policies than by his inability to be out there as an energetic advocate and explainer. He left the stage too open and it was was easy for the opposition to focus on democrats whose priorities are less attractive than Biden's.

I’m confident that Tarasenko is still good enough offensively to score goals against high schoolers.

It's amazing how well stocked this administration is with Marie Antoinettes

Traitor administration

FAFO

Sorry about this one guys. This is on me. I had Pistons as last leg of a 6 team ML parlay. My bad. I won’t do this again.

That already happened. See Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Andy passed away this morning. Faturday Forever and FTB

the shameful 10

And is so often the case I am right because there are no games scheduled for Thursday.

Biden's middle out economic policy angered billionaires to the point where the Tech Bros took over the country and used that fat bastard as a vessel.

If they push through an amendment repealing the 22nd, I am all for Obama coming back for a while until **** is working again.

Hindsight history is one of my pet Peeves. It's an easy cop out for the Dems to blame all the issues on "Reagan Started It" when they've had 20 years of the Presidency since to have done something about the direction things were going. Clinton and his 'New Dems' had bought into the "knowledge and finance future" paradigm as much as any repub ever did. And the concentration of the historical blame game continues to be an intellectual diversion from the effort of figuring out what to do about where we are now. The Dems still don't have any consistent economic message for how to rebuild a private sector middle class economy (Biden had an idea but never articulated it in any effective way) which is what has left the door wide open to a charlatan like Trump to sell his snake oil.

Rozier about to get another FBI investigation opened on himself.

Roughly one in 178 voters went for Jill Stein, which is 0.56%, and Kamala lapped Stein at the polls by 87x. And that doesn’t even take into account any votes Stein got that would otherwise have gone to Trump, an equally radical candidate, rather than Kamala, the relatively establishment choice. The far left fringe simply did not cost Kamala the election, nor are they the potent political force dragging down the entire Democratic Party that you and Bill Maher make them out to be.

I loved how Thompson couldn’t get a word in without a homer being inserted into the conversation.

a lot of things were disappointing about the Carter admin by the end. The Rose Garden paralysis over Iran really hurt him. Sure it was a crisis but you don't stop everything in a nation of 300 million over what's happening to a couple of hundred. He couldn't figure out how to hit the tone for something being serious without being all consuming. But all that said, without a plan to deal with inflation, Carter loses that election no matter what else he does or doesn't do.

They don’t really give two ****s about “saving money”

I think total runs in the Grapefruit league is a tie-breaker in the United Nations Security Council for declaration of wars and designation of treaty mandate territories.

Because his profile on the Tesla website lists him as the co-founder. He received that designation when they settled their lawsuit years ago. But he had nothing to do with Tesla until their first round of funding.

I walked by a cyber truck today. I gave it a dirty look. It didn't seem to care. It just sat there looking stupid.

Those of us who live in Chelmsford think Littleton is close and Boston is far away!

The government has been taken over by Russian Cartels.

If he went up in one of his own rockets... well... I'll just say there's a good chance that does the world a favor.

Donny had to ask if it was possible for him to pardon even before the arraignment. Those Capital policemen are for sure getting fired.

Bobrob’s 2025 Preseason Prediction #5 – Colten Thomas Keith 2024 was Colt Keith’s first year in the Major Leagues and it was…completely average. That’s not a bad thing for a young, 22-year old rookie, who hit .260/.309/.380 with 13 home runs and a 96 OPS+. Unfortunately, his defense was very much below average, with a -8 DRS and -8.7 UZR/150. This was enough cause for concern that prompted the Tigers to sign Gleyber Torres to take over second base and move Keith to first base for 2025 (despite having below average defense himself). Looking through Colt Keith’s splits, there isn’t much difference between his first half (.253/.309/.394) and second half numbers (.268/.310/.362). However, if you break it down monthly, there are highs and lows that are typical for any rookie (and even several veteran hitters too): APR/MAR – 99 PA | .154/.222/.165 | 0 HR MAY – 80 PA | .343/.388/.493 | 2 HR JUN – 84 PA | .220/.238/.329 | 2 HR JUL – 99 PA | .322/.404/.644 | 7 HR AUG – 111 PA | .264/.297/.330 | 1 HR SEPT – 83 PA | .273/.313/.351 | 1 HR Personally, I was ready to demote Keith to AAA after the first month of the season, but thank God I’m not the one in charge. Imagine having a full season of those July numbers! It’s too early in his career to know if Keith will always be this streaky of a hitter or if he will eventually become more consistent as he matures. In looking for any areas where Colt Keith could improve, one thing that stands out was how he hits against breaking pitches: Fastball – 271 PA | .291 AVG | .385 SLG | 4 HR Breaking – 157 PA | .228 AVG | .356 SLG | 3 HR Off-speed – 118 PA | .237 AVG | .407 SLG | 6 HR Kieth seems to provide most of his power against off-speed pitches. Again, it’s too early in his career to make any determination on how he will mature as a hitter, but it is interesting that he only hit .237 against off-speed pitches. This leads me to think that trading some batting average for more power might be in his future, but there is also no reason to believe that he can’t have both a high batting average and gain more power once he enters his prime. As for rate stats, Colt Keith had a 6.5 percent walk rate (11.6 percent in the minors) and a 19.8 percent strikeout rate (21.5 percent in the minors). The walk rate has room for improvement if his minor league rate is any indication, while his strikeout rate could increase as his power develops. Having a high strikeout rate is typical for a power hitter, although Keith is right around league average, 22.6 percent, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he stays there too. Basically, it’s just too early to tell. Keith also stole seven bases last year while only stealing 11 across three seasons in the minor leagues. If he can increase his on-base percentage and stolen base opportunities, I could see him stealing even more bases in 2025. We only have one year of data, and Keith is still only entering his age 23 season. He is still years off from entering his prime, which makes it especially difficult to predict how he will do in his sophomore season (I mean, they coined the term “sophomore slump” for a reason). Pitchers have more data on the type of hitter Keith is and will adjust. Now Keith needs to adjust as well. If all goes well, I could see a slight improvement in all of his numbers across the board. Experts’ Predictions/Projections: FGDC – 494 AB | .262/.324/.426 | 16 HR | 69 RBI | 4 SB | 45 BB | 116 K Steamer – 481 AB | .262/.326/.427 | 17 HR | 64 RBI | 5 SB | 44 BB | 105 K ZiPS DC – 495 AB | .261/.323/.426 | 15 HR | 73 RBI | 2 SB | 44 BB | 125 K ATC – 474 AB | .260/.319/.420 | 15 HR | 61 RBI | 5 SB | 40 BB | 106 K THE BAT X – 475 AB | .252/.309/.397 | 13 HR | 56 RBI | 5 SB | 38 BB | 106 K OOPSY – 500 AB | .262/.315/.416 | 15 HR | 56 RBI | 5 SB | 39 BB | 116 K RotoChamp – 482 AB | .259/.329/.419 | 15 HR | 62 RBI | 4 SB | 41 BB | 111 K CBS Sports – 426 AB | .268/.324/.401 | 12 HR | 52 RBI | 7 SB | 33 BB | 96 K ESPN – 485 AB | .264/.327/.416 | 15 HR | 62 RBI | 5 SB | 45 BB | 106 K My Prediction: 2024 Prediction – 467 AB | .236/.299/.375 | 14 HR | 47 RBI | 1 SB | 42 BB | 131 K 2024 Actual – 516 AB | .260/.309/.380 | 13 HR | 61 RBI | 7 SB | 36 BB | 110 K 2025 Prediction – 525 AB | .261/.316/.400 | 15 HR | 69 RBI | 10 SB | 41 BB | 120 K

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

The case you are trying to make if that you care more about whether an idea is right or wrong than whose idea it was. Reagan was right on some very big issues and older Americans in particular remember that. That is what the larger public want to see leaders do. You gain credibility with a voter if show you are willing to act in the public interest instead of only party interest, and you do that by admitting when the other side gets something right.

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 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.

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

(((Elissa Slotkin)))

I'll be at the one in Boston-it's about a 5 minute walk from my home.

Bears are not ready for prime time.

Zach Lowe still unemployed.