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You’re close—more like, they’ll explain it to you like they’re a four-year-old.

Not for nothing but Oprah needs to be held accountable somewhat for unleashing Dr Oz and Dr Phil on us. I don’t know how. Maybe just shaming.

Whoever posts it, it wasn't done on a Trump phone.

Except that that is exactly what Israel is doing today in the West Bank. The State of Israel has bought and paid for the critique they are getting. Having sympathy with anyone is dubious when there are no good guys. 🫤

Not I-I had exactly the number of babies I planned on. Zero.

I know it’s been said many times, but these people are ****ing weird

Israel responding to being attacked is not a genocide. It’s been 2.5 years now and Gaza still exists. Israel isn’t that good at doing a genocide. This is a right wing op. Why did the protests largely stop when Trump took over? Trump has been worse for Gaza but they still follow Harris around protesting her instead.

israel is not a "colonizer" state. the situation in gaza is infinitely complicated by all the actors directly involved and those tangentially involved. israel lives next door to multiple states who base their entire existence upon israel's destruction. its in their founding documents, for god's sake. THAT is the underlying issue. the inability of "the palestinians" (really, the leadership of certain ethnic groups in the levant and iran's proxies) to move on and stop treating their people as human martyrs to the cause of killing jews. that doesnt excuse israel for certain actions and things theyve done during the war, but it does set a certain tone for how it is forced to deal with its neighbors. the naiivety of many on the american left when it comes to hamas and iran reminds me of their naiivety surrounding their embrace of communism in the 50s and 60s. anything that is anti-western is good. again, people being horrified by israeli tactics is understandable and not "anti-semitic".

can you pre program VTT for all caps or does he just have to shout at it?

whoever wins this game wins the series.

the protests at universities, the harassment of jewish students, the violence against jewish students, the increase in violence against jewish people all over the country, especially in large cities. swastikas painted in new york and other places. there were violent attacks last week against jewish people in new york again outside a synagogue. there are security details in chicago assigned to synagogues up here by me. multiple jewish people have been shot walking down the street in chicago over the past few years. there has been a huge uptick in anti-semitic violence in major cities. yes, the far right is always against jews (see tucker carlson and that nutty band of ignorant ****s), but now you've seen it in liberal areas as well. the human rights commissioner for chicago recently resigned because mayor johnson insisted that she amend her report on anti-semitism in the city. the report cited the huge upsurge in violence and threats against jews in the city, but johnson refused to release it unless it was changed to focus on other minorities. the equivalent of making "black lives matter" into "all lives matter" so the report could be diluted and it wouldnt upset his far left supporters on city council like sigcho-lopez or rossana rodriguez. the anti-israeli art exhibit at the chicago city museum. the attacks on the two israeli students at depaul. again, protesting israeli military actions in the middle east is one thing - everyone is entitled to their opinion on the war. but its spilled over into a huge surge in violence in urban areas, fed largely by online agitators and the hysterical and over-the-top way we present news on social media now. people are taking out their feelings about israel on jewish citizens. its akin to people assaulting asians after covid, but on a much much larger scale. we have 3000 years of history telling us how people treat jews differently.

MAHA means culling the weak from the American society by allowing them to die from preventable diseases. Survival of the fittest. Meanwhile, MAGA means total discrimination and keeping the poor hungry. Eliminate the elderly, who soak up too many resources and are too expensive to support. And remove any foreign speaking people from our country unless they are wealthy enough to pay their own way.

Refs were bad. Piston players were bad. Piston coaches were bad. It was just bad.

How can you stand on the sideline 82 times this season and still not understand how much offense this team generates from its defense?

This team is missing a super strong, all nba level on-ball defender. They’d be really tough to beat if they had someone like that to play 33 minutes including most of the 4th. I know those guys are hard to find but it would make such a difference.

the game is getting important. how do you know? harden is pretending he's injured already.

I think he's finally gotten so besotted that he's starting to cross lines with real costs. The Jesus pic, and not\w this. There isn't much that GIs hate more than this kind of thing.

LaceyLou, you are FIRE! The 1850s would actually be perfect for him: slavery still in force, nation divided and ripe for the pickings ...

Sorry, out of reactions: 😂

My problem is when it seems forced. I can see the Red Sox doing their thing on marathon Monday because it’s organic. There’s a direct link and they always played early on that day. But you can’t force this stuff. I thjnk San Diego did something similar with camo jerseys and that city is almost synonymous with the Navy stuff there. That’s all fine. But don’t force Kansas City and Detroit and the Dodgers into something that’s not immediately evident.

He sure has the 'gilded' down pat, judging from his choice of decor.

I think he might mean the 1850s. I'm pretty sure he doesn't want the tax rates from the 1950s.

At this point I'd go further and call them perverts.

To be clear, I’m agreeing with your take on MAHA and MAGA. These movements diminish our humanity.

The Tigers have a .463 winning percentage because of injuries. The Mets have a .375 winning percentage because...they suck. So are we gonna get swept? We need that good Flaherty tonight.

I disagree with last part. He will never let America see him in a wheelchair or with grey hair. He will never want to look weak. He will never be taken down anyway. Too many dangerous people love the guy.

facts not in evidence on this one. but yes, I absolutely will grant you that the kind of atrocities committed by Hamas are beyond the pale (btw they are all the exact same ones committed in at the turn of the century in the Turkish nationalist frenzy against the Armenians that I heard about from 1st hand eye-witnesses even as a child.. so you have no surprises for me on that front.).There are some uniquely grotesque and evil ideologies/mindsets that come out the ME that are absolutely hard to fathom. I will even grant you the old saw about "two wrongs don't make a right" goes pretty much out the window in war. But what I will stand on is that States with more power have more responsibility and Israel is trying hard to fail on that score. The attitude that populations are grass that needs to be periodically 'mowed' with high explosive in perpetuity is a pretty terrible mindset also.

I don't know if he's even there. It wouldn't be hard for someone to type that stuff on their own. Even then, he has to own it. .

i dont think "the left" is anti-semitic. i think the left is anti-american and anti-western. the left has bought into the idea perpetuated in universities that israel is a "colonizer" and that therefore it is bad. and trump supporting israel has inflamed the left because they hate everything trump touches (with good reason). but i DO think that the rhetoric matters. what the fringe right and the fringe left say filters into the mainstream (israel as a colonizer state is a good example of a fringe idea that has become mainstream left wing doctrine), and the left does have a number of prominent political figures who are moving ever so gently down the anti-semitic path. ilhan omar is anti-semitic. rossana rodriguez is anti-semitic. to your point, those are fringe figures, but the fringe sometimes becomes the mainstream. "i dont hate jews, i hate anti-zionists" is the equivalent of "i dont hate black people, i hate n-words." and i say all of this 10x about the right. they dont try to hide it like the fringe left.

I think him typing crazy posts in the middle of the night would be even stranger than hiring someone to do it, but either way it's incredibly stupid and he has to own it.

He's just got this huge pile of whatever substance (adderal?) in front of him and his sister just eloped with his friend...he's got troubles because Sosa is angry he failed to kill the guy who testified at the UN. Or, He's got this cocktail of drugs administered to him in the bunker by his doctor to keep him going, and his field marshals keep telling him the war is going badly and so he needs to rail about his old political adversaries. Or, [insert some Hunter S. Thompson-esq ref to Nixon in the final days of Aug 1974] He's got nothing left to gild, destroy, or to make shabbier so he's got to go against Obama.

the refs knew the assignment.

If I’m Trajan I’m texting JB and his assistants right now. “Put Ausar in or look for any other job”

If not for LaVert and Reed it would be 30.

jb refuses to believe ausar can be valuable on offense by playing great defense.

If they aren't roasting Robinson they are roasting Harris. At least Tobias gets a little back on the other end

0 Paul Reed minutes in the first half is criminal

If they could just cut these turnovers down and quit being so damn sloppy with the ball they could be leading this thing comfortably. They are so sloppy this is ridiculous.

Duren with a jump shot. It's our best option? I bmnever wanna see that again.

Immediately benching. Put Reed in.

Peace through strength seems to be the favorite line.

Even when LeVert isn't terrible I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop.

Praying for Duren foul trouble as it’s the only way to get JB to put him on the bench.

the best thing james harden can do to help the pistons is drive at jalen duren so he can get him in foul trouble.

If Rakestraw only spends two games on IR that’s a win.

Uncommon[ly Stolen] Valor.

Well, I’m quite possibly enraged enough to cover your “non-enragement”, and at least that of 100 more.

No, "being unhinged" and "knowing what you're doing" are not mutually exclusive by necessity. "Unhinged" typically means acting wildly, unpredictably, or outside social norms, e.g., impulsive rants, bold risks, or chaotic energy. "Knowing what you're doing" implies competence, awareness, and deliberate control over your actions. Trump exhibits both. You're going to focus on the "competence" part. Trump is not anything like competent when it comes to managing the economy, for example. A president absolutely should be competent when it comes to managing the economy. On that, we can agree. The breakdown occurs when we contemplate the difference between "should be" and "is". I would counter that managing the economy is not even his goal. Trump does not care about the economy. He cares about his own aggrandizement, control of others, and personal enrichment. He is very competent when it comes achieving those goals, and the economy is merely a tool in the service of those goals. This line of logic may enrage you. Certainly defensible. I don't like it, either. But just because he is incompetent in something that is traditionally important for presidents but that he cares hardly a whit about, it does not follow that he must by definition be incompetent in everything else, and in every way imaginable. Trump is unhinged. Trump also knows exactly what he is doing. It's simply bad luck that that which he knows exactly what he's doing is in an area that doesn't help the American people, or the rest of the world.