1984Echoes

I'm on board...

You need to include a southern state. Georgia would be best... especially now that it's so purple... If not then any of North/ South Carolina/ Virginia would have to do... I would choose Michigan and Georgia, personally... to get a read on a broader/ broadest base of Dem voters possible. California/ NY/ NJ are givens in a national election. After Iowa and NH (at least a read is there on New England Dems...?); Michigan would give the best read on midwestern/ rust belt Dems and Georgia would give the best read on southern Dems... including appeals to purple-area Independents.

BTW: Russians just emptied out of Kherson completely so no face-to-face confrontations. About as orderly as one could expect on the Russian side which actually surprises me... I thought it would be a lot messier and a lot more confrontational... But Ukrainian flags now all over Kherson...

The Ukrainians wouldn't be that beastly to them... Just capture them as POW's if able to do so. Cut them down or use artillery to blow 'em up if they can't. Both of which are acceptable in war. Torture isn't... and I've heard mostly humane treatment of Russian POW's by the Ukrainians...

OK gotcha. So it's automatic. They don't have to "elect" anything or file any paperwork/ procedures just... Service time = automatic.

Right... but what I'm saying is that they have to do "something". Technically, they are still with the organization if they've been outrighted... at least until they do that "something" that triggers their freedom (in loud Mel Gibson scream...).

Saw some further info as I am catching up in this thread... Not trying to get technical here, but... "outrighted to Toledo" means that a guy is still with the team, doesn't it? The player has to do "something", either refusing assignment or electing free agency, in order to trigger that free agency. They don't "automatically" become a FA if they've been outrighted to Toledo... Or am I reading that incorrectly?

Wait a second... if they've been "outrighted to Toledo", aren't they still with us? If they are "gone", doesn't that mean that they would have to "declare" free agency in order to be gone? And if they haven't declared, again, they are still with us...?

He's still with the Tigers. He's just not on the 40 anymore...

This is the best tweet of that thread/ quote (truncated...): "I think the reason you see a number of right-wing activists turning on Trump himself is simply that ... (p)olitically he's becoming an obsolete husk. " Obsolete Husk. I like that picture...

Sure, fine... You are technically correct that they timed it to try to damage Biden's/ Dem's mid-term election chances... if that's what you might want to stamp a foot down for... But I maintain that their timing is essentially meaningless... at least compared to needing the past few weeks to strip Kherson of anything valuable, including its people... and that timing this against Dems in the election and after some Republican's stupid anti-Ukrainian commentary is basically a non-factor. It had zero effect on the election. Everyone could see that this was going to happen regardless of their timing on any "announcement". And their typical "performance theatre" over this issue/ announcement was as much for their domestic audience, to cover Putin's ass, as for anyone else... Just my 2 cents...

I like this more than The Mandalorian.

I don't think Republicans winning or losing has anything to do with the current battlefield reality. Russia started pulling out of Kherson three weeks ago and every day since. Well before anyone would have any idea how last night would go. In fact, they removed Russian flags from Kherson three days ago. That was more telling than anything from last night.

To strip Kherson of anything and everything valuable. Including forcing every resident it could, by gunpoint, to cross the river onto Russian held territory (knowing they were going to give up Kherson City). They stripped every piece of equipment, artwork, metal, inventory, Ukrainian citizen that they could out of there. The Russian Nazi's Rape of Ukraine continues...

Dear Trump, Please take your MAGA sycophants out of the Republican Party and instead run as an Independent America First 3rd party. Thank you for your cooperation, Americans for a Constitutional Democracy.

Earlier bought a partial 1971 Topps set (about 580 out of the 726 cards, loads of high numbers) on eBay in what looks like ExMt-NrMt condition... Now I'm watching a 2003 Flix movie with Peter Dinklage in it... he just inherited a dilapidated train station no longer used along a disused New Jersey line... also with Bobby Cannavale (hot dog vendor) & Patricia Clarkson. He looks terribly lonely and they're trying to draw him out... could be interesting...

Lost the shootout...

Which is as it should be... I wanna see BLUE all over blue and purple areas...

Maybe it's just me... But the $300 billion in frozen Russian cash in western banks/ financial institutions... and after selling off all the seized oligarchic assets for whatever amount of $'s we can get... I'm just HANDING that over to Ukraine as War Reparations so they can rebuild their country. Putin and his cronies can all just weep into their vodka shots for all I care... Salt Water Wodka... hope they like the taste of it...

Not just Manning... But Brieske, Manning, Turnbull, and even Rony Garcia symptom free and normal off-season program... All of whom could be getting starts with the Tigers next year...

"Republican fascism, violence & lying/ cheating" was not one of the options?

Seeing SOOO many signs that people actually care about democracy again... There may be hope yet for this country...

The should have registered beforehand... Better late than never I guess... And... it's not late if they get their vote in today. So potentially... moot point. Keep it coming kids...

Wasn't certain I put this in the correct location... Whatcha think...?

Keep it coming kids... THIS... Could be a game-changer. Maybe they've finally learned the lesson of Democracy: non-participation leaves you subjected to the whims of other voters.