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If you had to assess....is this Tigers team (2024) and organization (beyond 2024) on the right track? Broken 1-1 pick does not help my feels.

Yes

Well, the GOP sure doesn't want good government anymore.

Good empowered IGs make for good-ish government which makes for stable and secure economics.

Rent-seeking is the truth. the "pure market" is the joke.

The socialist system has a problem with this phenomenon as well. When state owned enterprises or quasi SOE companies are at risk due to stupid decisions or just the way technology and society evolve, the government steps in because they don't want to unduly risk all the jobs. It was the sickness of 1970s Britain that required Thatcher's shock therapy. In those scenarios they were worried about the overweighted votes of the union leaders. Now, to keep it real, the US does not have that problem at all in any sectors except sports and entertainment. E.g., If a union of nurses were to fight a labor action to keep a hospital open, people would laugh and jeer at the ridiculous nurses.

They also buy those products at Walmart, hate people of color and immigrants. We shouldn't listen to people like that.

NYT is so f'd

Did you know you were living in a military junta run from Brussels?

"Susie" is Susan Wiles the respected normie who is running Trump's campaign. Her team's stories will be very interesting when this election ends.

Memory is a fickle thing.

I should hope Michigan Democrats rally to the defense of the MAS 36 rifle. Because that makes JUST AS MUCH ****ING SENSE!

The lightning-in-a-bottle that would be required does not appear in my forecasts. However, bring up a crazy hitting Torkelson, Parker Meadows or whoever (so that's 3 hitters who are suddenly shifting our offensive fortunes) and we would have a shot. Maybe they need to trade for that though. That does not seem like something this management/ownership group would do. Maybe the Illitch family with the Tigers are trying to make the Ford family feel better about the 1963-2023 shame by beating that record of perverse futility?

We are closer to a WC spot than Houston. Weird

Wednesday night we are going to score 20 and go back the next day to being awful

4-1

Kwame is a criminal. They flock together.

The Robert DeNiro commercial that Biden had playing during the Tiger game was fire.

Free trade, the rule of law and collective security ensures peace or helps create stability and the conditions for peace. Trade based on insider deals and tariffs among a crooked oligarch class who seek to break down international collective security so as to empower authoritarian and totalitarian regimes as part of an effort to enrich themselves creates the conditions for war and tyranny.

Learn from it kid.

This gets back to Kamil Nanjiani standup bit about the Koran saying that women shouldn't drive. If in his estimation it actually did say that. He knows two things: Women shouldn't drive and everyone would be in the mosque right now. The document written in the distant past does not take into account the advances of the future. If there had been an amendment saying: "A prosperous and happy life is made by the internal combustion engine; therefore the right to own and drive a car shall not be infringed." People would lose their ever-loving minds if you introduced EVs because it went against the Constitutional right to drive an ICE. They would lose their minds if you made them have car insurance. They would lose their minds if you had to wear a seat belt because it would infringe on that right. We definitely need personal liability insurance for firearms ownership. Store your weapons in secure, safe condition. Know how to operate the thing safely and responsibly. And for God's sake, lets take them away from nutters and people on schedule 3 and higher drugs.

I really wonder what is up with both sharks and hannibal lecter references.

We should expect a lot of crazy to happen between now and Monday with the court winding down for this session. This link presents a very interesting set of headlines. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court

another idiotic thing