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Biden should have run in '16, but would have lost because Hillary's supporters would have stayed home.....

QFT.

a lot of momentum in the wrong direction to overcome!

Obama carried a lot of baggage being the 1st black President. I'm sure he feared, and rightfully so - since history proved it happened anyway, that if he allowed himself to be labeled as too 'radical' it would be an end to the chance of another black man being elected. He picked what he thought was the single most important thing he could do and put all his political capital into it. Yeah - if he had been more experienced he might have been more effective, and you can always look back in hindsight and see other options his admin missed, but I'm not going to slam him for doing the lift that he did, which was one no-one else had achieved in 50 yrs.

interesting. Since Baddoo hasn't done much to argue for his call up, I wonder if this is the end of the road for someone like Robson.

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The Russian bank on it, but I wouldn't be so sure the Ukranians won't go after Russian planes in Belarus airspace next time.

fair enough - at least until the next verdict comes in Nov.

yeah - the 'problem' is that she still runs the best operation on the Hill.

hadn't she already promised to step down from the Speakership after last term? For a while it seemed she was at least putting some younger Reps out there as spokespeople but it seems like it's back to her and Hoyer. It is a bad look in terms of the party's wider appeal.

will they go back to 12/13 to dress for a game next season?

Soto's slider made its reappearance as an effective pitch tonight.

bad AB by Candelario. Gets up 3-1 with a man in scoring position goes straight to hack mode.

want to see Riley do something in one of his ABs later in the game.

Baddoo 0/4 2K tonight...🤮

Gee, does that mean Detroit women can just go to Dearborn since they have Sharia law there? <g,d & r>

Tork (and Grossman) are getting killed depending on the umps to save their ABs. Try to spoil some of those pitches instead of hoping the umpire can actually call an accurate strike.

Not sure I can think of anyone in the Democratic party I would not have voted for in preference of Hillary. I voted for her in the general anyway.

and you know what? Each time you hold your nose and vote for the guy that is marginally better, you increase the odds that the candidates in the next election are marginally better than that. That's the only way it will ever change.

4 runs in 4 IP tonight. No-one will make a liar out of you faster than a Tiger minor-leaguer... ⚾

Yeah - Biden won his election, if you want to blame someone i would pick - in this order: the people that didn't show up to vote for Democratic candidates; the candidates that didn't run better campaigns; maybe the people that didn't donate enough or that the party didn't support enough for them to run a winning campaign. Bottom line is that elections have consequences. The public can't blow the election and then complain about the results. The public has to get over this idea that "Well I don't want to give the whole government to one party." If you want something done you either do or you are a fool.

Column about how medical (pharmaceutical) abortion will go on in the face of the overturn of Roe. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/opinion/abortion-pills-online-roe-v-wade.html?

Well, in a sense, the decks are now cleared. The GOP has put two of the most theoretically energizing issues in front the left/middle left if could have. The GOP is still tied to the worst leadership in it's history. If the Dems can't sweep 2022, then we can forget about the left/center-left building any kind of winning coalition for at least a couple more cycles. 2018 provided a teaser, but that coalition didn't grow and ground was lost in 2020. Employment is still high, COVID worries have dissipated, gas prices will be falling by fall, and Presidents are blamed for inflation more than Congresses and he isn't running. This year or never.

that was one of the reasons the Supreme Court wrote Roe in the 1st place - you had wide discrepancies in the law around the country and no prospect of clear or consistent Federal law guidance. But the idea among Justices that the SCOTUS was actually there to try and make thing work better in the US, instead as a beachhead for revanchist conservative social policy has long been lost.

True, but it probably won't be quite like buying garage lab Fentanyl. More like a grey market than a. black one. These are pill preps already in standard use around the world and probably in many US states where abortion will remain legal. I imagine they will be available for order via internet and shipped by suppliers like generics manufacturers in India that are fully certified for export by the FDA but beyond the reach of any US state law.