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Statues and memorials are not about preserving history. They are about honoring historical persons and events. Take down the statues of Confederate traitors to the United States and the historical accounts of them are still available to peruse in any number of other sources. People who support memorials for Confederate traitors while opposing memorials to pioneering fighting forces of color are telling us everything we need to know about them.

I still say MLB is largely at fault for partnering with gambling organizations. Sure, the pitchers broke the rules and should be banned from the game and punished for whatever cimes they committed. But MLB is sending a very bad message with their hypocrisy. This kind of thing was inevitable.

Question: after the Romanians overthrew Nicolae Ceausescu in the Christmas 1989 revolution, do you believe it was disrespectful of them to tear down statues that his regime erected during his time in power?

Playing against the hawks today

Fast forwarded it as much as possible

Convicted felon and serial rapist swears in new military recruits, getting them to defend something called the Consti-Lu-tion, while getting booed by real Americans, which Fox edited out of their coverage.

It's a loophole. Since Washington committed a penalty and the kickoff was at the 50, the penalty for kicking out of bounds puts the ball at the 25 instead of the 40.

I think Morton called the last two plays.

up to 65 years in prison if guilty..now that's a long term contract.

If the party that controls the Senate wants to find a way to reopen the government, they should probably start by trying to do things to win the requisite votes to reopen the government. Or if they are so inclined, maybe they should just nuke the filibuster if it's so damned important. Either way, it's on them to figure it out. Hence why the majority of Americans place the blame solely at the feet of Trump and the GOP.

Can SoFi handle a crowd of 15,000?

Just stop with the nonsense, you know damn well this has been going on for months now. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o

It's not even the first time I've asked this question! Pretty sure when this subject was more prominent in 2020, I asked it then as well... and didn't get much of a response from Stanpapi or whoever was engaging at the time. European countries aren't perfect and have their own internal issues, but if one has ever been to any of them, one realizes that they didn't just preserve the statues of the losers and (often) evil figures of their history. Certainly didn't see any statues from the Third Reich while traveling in Germany some eight years ago, for instance. This whole "statues as history" thing is primarily an American phenomena and, IMO, a way to avoid having to grapple with the moral implications of the actual historical record. It's both cowardly and a factor in why everything is *gesture's hands wildly* the way that it is right now.

No, I’m not picking and choosing history. I’m recognizing the difference between remembering it and glorifying it. Criticizing a politician isn’t a mental health issue — it’s part of being an informed citizen.

Gerrymandering is not anything like voter ID. Gerrymandering is explicitly designed to blunt the will of a state's voters through geographical technicalities. And out-of-cycle gerrymandering is intended to be outright hostile to democracy, which is why the Supreme Court should put an end to that. But you can rest easy, pal, because we all know they won't.

It wasn't. It was a compromise to get southern slave republics to join as states. The worst part is where, if there is not clear EC majority, the election gets throw to the House where each state's delegation gets a single vote, and the guy who gets the most state's votes wins. It's wildly antidemocratic, and beyond asinine.

Please do all of your venting in this thread, and not the Game Thread. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

With Dan Campbell calling plays now, I need to see Goff be able to be successful without McVay, Johnson or Morton.

Why are they having Trump on a broadcast? Did they ever have Obama, Biden, Bush etc?

There's a special thread in the political forum for it.

My god, this production crew is awful.

He looked like he made contact with the official. Should be automatic.

ok TP 😛

I don't know, but that 2-point conversion was MCDC telling the Commanders to go F themselves.

LMAO! Keep talking your ish, Washington.

Love it when the announcer predicts a pass on 3rd and medium to the team’s leading receiver. Solid analysis, good thing you’re paid for this.

It’s like Jeopardy. It’s all about hitting the buzzer quickest.

And millions of Americans will be forced into medical bankruptcy. MAGA is fine with that? Starve people until democrats agree to take away their health care;

More auto recalls. This from a couple days ago; Honda to recall over 406,000 US vehicles over wheel detachment issue, NHTSA says Wheel "detachment." Really? That's a nice way to say your ****ing wheel might fall off the car. Usually not a good thing.

Wanna talk about deficiency in model construction? How about when a guy who is nothing but a DH, as Shohei Ohtani was in 2024, has a defensive WAR of -1.7, as he did last year? That suggests he lost almost two games for his team with his glove, even though he never touched a glove the entire season. Now that one, I may never understand.

Yeah - I get that, but since everyone *has* to play a 1B it seem to fly in the face of logic to automatically make a negative adjustment for the *average* quality player at that position across the board. OK - so as a formalism I can accept that you construct a model where that is a requirement for the numbers to come out, but to me that kind of oddity smacks of a deficiency of the model construction. An *average* fielding 1b isn't really costing you 12 runs in any real sense. By real world definitions the average 1b isn't adding or subtracting anything on the field. I can see there is sort of a built in paradox here that there is probably no easy way around. Of course a SS is worth more defensively than a 1B, but OTOH, you can't actually play 9 SS. So you have to pick a baseline and either way you pick is going create an anomaly.

Woke....this was in the Free Press today. A perfect definition of woke;

Am sure you agree, but this may be part of why conservatives fight the statue thing so hard: having to deal with the actual historical accounts requires being confronted with the morality (or lack therof) of the southern cause. Have been reading Ron Chernow's biography of Ulysses Grant so this subject is top of mind.

One problem with voter ID is that certain parties within state government can manipulate what is and is not considered valid ID with the apparent purpose of suppressing the vote among certain classes of people. Some states require voter ID strictly and only official state issue; others allow non-photo ID such as fishing licenses. In such cases, certain types of people more likely to engage in those activities are privileged with looser requirements to prove their identification than others who are not given to those types of activities. Native American communities, low-income, elderly, and rural voters are disproportionately affected by voter photo ID laws. This is partially because photo IDs aren’t as common as many people assume: 18% of all citizens over the age of 65, 16% of Latino voters, 25% of Black voters, and 15% of low-income Americans lack acceptable photo ID. Elderly and low-income voters may not have the availability, financial resources, or mobility to obtain the necessary identification, and rural voters may face significant barriers to obtaining the necessary documentation due to their geographic isolation. Further, many rural and Native Americans born at home or on reservations and tribal lands lack the mandated paperwork needed to obtain a government-issued ID that fits the legal requirements to vote. In short, many citizens find it difficult to obtain government photo IDs both because the ability to get to the facility to obtain it is limited or blocked, and because the necessary documentation, such as a birth certificate, needed to prove one's identification to obtain valid photo ID for voting is often difficult or expensive to acquire. Aside from class and racial discrimination, there are other peculiar ways voter photo ID laws turn voters away from the polls. For example, people who change their last names after marriage or divorce and don’t have a permissible ID that reflects their name on the voter rolls may be unable to cast a ballot. College students are also uniquely impacted by these laws, as their primary form of ID can often be a student ID, which isn’t always accepted as a valid form for voting. In all these cases, voter ID laws deny eligible voters access to the ballot box. One other problem is that on the ground, the law can be applied on an uneven and discretionary basis. Poll workers can take it upon themselves to choose to ask certain people showing up for every piece of required ID needed to cast a ballot and refuse them if they are missing any, or if they consider even one piece to be invalid based on their own discretion; while the same poll worker can wave through someone else without requiring proof because the poll worker knows and likes that person, who may not even be legally registered to vote.

The statues were erected by groups like sons and Daughters of the Confederacy to honor those who REBELLED AGAINST OUR NATION. I'm glad you support TRAITORS? Most of us acknowledge that several of our founders owned slaves. It's just that Generals and politicians who were traitors. I've spent a major portion of my life living south of the Mason Dixon Line and prefer an honest portrayal of the folks. Not the made up history many of us of a certain age were taught. To those people history does hurt. That's why they tried to whitewash it.

Carpenter in 2025: vs RHP: .257/.300/.512, 120 sOPS+ in 401 PA vs LHP: .217/.238/.400, 78 sOPS+ in 63 PA Defense: Fielding Run Value: -3 (30th percentiles) Range/OAA: -3 (21st %); Arm Value: -1 (43rd %) Kerry Carpenter has been quite good enough for us the past couple of years, but make no mistake, he is not Mr. Right. He’s Mr. Right Now.

Soon they will be issuing white sheets to members of the military. Thread History hurts, so called conservatives a hell bent on white washing it

He just turned down a 16 mil contract. Probably looking for 2/32 or more. Lifetime ops .701 and ops+ 97. He is an upgrade over Sweeney. I just don't think he moves the needle much

Recommend "House of Dynamite" but I also warn you not to start placing current administration people in the roles.

You can tell someone is completely fos when they say they used to belong to the "democrat" party.

Argentina does have the model for Peronism … and lots of ex Nazis

But what if the people take the money that's supposed to go to healthcare and use it to buy caviar and lobster on Amazon instead?

Who wants to tell Naziholic that employer insurance is subsidized?

Only if they turn the big new ballroom into a practice facility. Imagine naming a stadium after the man who single-handedly bankrupted a football league

It was said by a poster here that they've been to Democratic meetings and they never talk about helping people. I'm here at our 12th Congressional District meeting and we're talking with our Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib about how we can donate to local food panties and help people effected by the Republican government shutdown and Republican SNAP benefit cuts.

Apple TV+ series Pluribus is pretty cool and I’m watching the first two episodes that dropped simultaneously. The “hive mind” thing is pretty salient and gripping.

He’d be a lot cooler if he drank and did drugs. 😉