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Its a great tool for manipulating events though.

Hopefully this is a metaphor

This isn't sport to Manfred. Its premium entertainment.

Its not irrational if they always want the Yankees and Red Sox to be the best teams and there are a handful of similar big market teams and the rest are the chum. Manfred thinks the AL Central for example are all chum.

Good. Shame on anyone who does not shine a light on this horrible act of sedition.

The corruption of the process is astounding.

Manfred will manipulate the shit out of that lottery to deny picks to teams he doesn't approve of. JUST like he did with the juiced and non-juiced baseballs last season.

I remember the breathless friends of mine who would ask me if Jade Helm was really the government's preparations for martial law.

check yourself before you wreck yourself.

that would be interesting

I have a fine memory of a night I spent driving to one of the GLCM bases in Belgium with my captain to snag a bunch of furniture from the just built but also just closed facility. It was something like built in April and now closing in January the following year. It was a snowy January in the Ardennes and I was driving the same roads Patton did to approach the base from the South. I was grooving on the historicalness of it. That was HW Bush and Brent Scowcroft who knew a thing or two about collective security. This here link says my dates might have been slightly off but essentially accurate. Florennes - United States Nuclear Forces (globalsecurity.org)

I hope this is confidence and fighting spirit and not a false sense of security.

"Russia if your listening, I hope you have a good plumber. "

I guess not all the Ukrainians are secret quislings

Russian FM Lavrov basically declared the UK FM Liz Truss to be an idiot to her face. In olden times, you'd see redcoats on the crimean peninsula over that sort of thing.

Interesting thread

The Russians are truculent bitches

I do not accuse anyone I've chatted with here of this view. Only some in other spheres.

We can do a lot. We just won't. Until he touches NATO

I guess he's not going to lose his yacht. Repairs are still pending.

I'd say some of them are clear eyed about the Russian donations. Paul Ryan knew plenty about the ones who were.

Pre-invasion.

Was hearing that some Republicans wanted to do per-invasion sanctions. I'm [shrugs] about the difference. So long as we speak with a common voice and let the bully know that he will pay a potentially regime-ending price for war with Ukraine. Now, how do you do sanctions that are dangerous to his regime? Castro never had that. Kim il Sung never had that.

Blair had to swallow invading Iraq

The German political hot house is really against cancelling Nord2 because it would be like telling Louisiana and Texas that we won't pump oil if Canada wins a gold in the Olympic hockey. Except for all the death and violence of course.