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are they really going to play tonight and tomorrow?

Javy made some plays last night early on that I'm not sure another person we'd have put out there would have made. In a 1-0 game that matters. Javy giveth and taketh.

I didn't realize there was going to be another debate. That's news to me.

and the eyeliner

I saw a tweet that talked about how Gen X identifies so much with Boomers in one sense. We were the latchkey generation, children of divorce, etc. So we were home alone a lot. We had 3-4 TV channels. Reruns were huge. So we grew up watching the 50s and 60s on TV, at least how they represented it, but we also saw the modern 70s and 80s. To us women and moms were both June Cleaver and Rhoda. Later generations didn't have that cultural link to the one above them like we did.

Seinfeld is the bookend to the time I dated my now wife. We started dating not long after it started airing consistently and it ended a week before our wedding. I don’t know what it means other than kind of representing my 20s slacker years.

I also pay. Not sure I will keep it for the Wings. But I think we will have another solution by then.

I bet they miss the exit and end up in Highland Park.

"Particularly" "Necessarily". those words should be banished. I hate them.

I did see it said that he has something that I won't dare pronounce or spell, but it's a condition where the feet go numb. That's why his gait is the way it is. My wife says it's not even age related. Someone who is 35 can get it. While I can't say it's common, it's something she as a therapist is very familiar with and sees quite often in patients.

but all these morons on twitter are saying.... I've unfollowed about 10 "pundits" over this.

This week could be brutal.

A discussion with the creator of the Seinfeld theme

They will be protected in their ivory towers.

I’m reminded why I hated democrats for most of my adult life and I don’t feel as bad. Once again they will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

I don’t think the teams can do anything until Ballys ceases doing them. But as I said earlier I do have a friend in the industry, a contractor, who said there is buzz.

But see… I think voters are actually thinking about policy but it’s our overlords in the media who think they still have the power to dictate what people think. And when you push back on them they expose themselves as knowing their livelihood is threatened. But rank and file voters don’t really care about it and know Biden is old and will take the risk. It’s the pundits who have a problem. They need ratings and podcast hits and clicks.

Which makes the jokes about "in this WI diner folks are wondering about…." really satire than jokes.

That’s a good question. Laziness and just going with their echo chamber. I think it’s an element of a group of people realizing their time has passed and they get bitter about it. I saw a meme that explained that older people often bash the tastes of younger people as a reaction to understanding that what’s hip and popular and all of that is not about them anymore. The “grumpy old man” syndrome. I think that’s true with political punditry. They are used to setting the narrative and they can’t do that anymore. I will say it until I am blue in the face. They are not relevant anymore.

I said this in the other thread too but for the vast majority of people nothing has changed. Yes Biden is old and might die or need to resign. That is as true in 2024 as it was in 2020. Voters were ok with that and having a Kamala Harris presidency and they are ok with it now. This is nothing new because in addition to possibly Biden dying, Clarence Thomas, Sam Alito, or Donald Trump might die too within 4 years. Having a President Biden or Harris deal with that is preferable to the only other alternative.

Right! Imagine headlines “Biden won’t have any events until lunchtime”.

The thing is… people are not surprised by Bidens performance and even if he, ahem, passes away or resigns… so what. How are we hurt by that? If someone is inclined to vote for Biden why would that scenario stop them? They already voted for an old feeble guy with Harris as the waiter in wings. I’m supposed to believe that actual voters saw that and said “damn, he is old. I can’t vote for him, he might die and Kamala is president”? That was the choice in 2020 and he won. The post debate reaction are sports fans venting about their favorite team after their closer blew the game in the 9th. They are pissed and angry. But tomorrow they will be back at the game cheering them on. you know who else might die? Clarance Thomas or Sam Alito.

I believe the wording is such that you have to be eligible for POTUS to be VPOTUS. 35, natural citizen, etc. Bill Clinton was reportedly trying to find a way to get on a ticket and since he’s a constitutional scholar decided he’d not win a challenge Such a stipulation doesn’t exist for speaker or other positions in the line of succession. You could be speaker of the house at age 25 since that’s the requirement to be a member of the house.

Axel F is fun. If you liked one and two then I think you would like this one too. It knows what it is supposed to be.

I didn’t interpret it that way. It’s to consolidate rather than play phone tag to decide what they should do or suggest they do. They haven’t decided.