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Definitely. Either way, it seems yet another case of a loud but otherwise small minority of the population commanding way more media attention than it should. I suppose it was a phenomena before COVID, but it feels like its gotten worse.

Some could also be seasonal drivers who aren't currently working because of the winter season?

Or as Reagan said, "peace through strength".

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/war-with-russia-has-pushed-ukrainians-toward-the-west/ This article from 538 kinda details some of the polling from Ukrainians. Its a bit all over the place, but the trend line among the population clearly is trending west. Make of that what you will, but it seems like a clear majority do not want to be in Russia's sphere

Saager Enjeti is a reporter? Does that make MSNBC prime time legit reporters too? I dont care, what Stacy Abrams did was dumb and it probably will, at least in the short term, hurt her image, but I'm not sure why I would trust reporting from someone who hosts an opinion show.

My understanding is that most Ukrainians want nothing to do with Russia at this point. Hence its relationship with the west being one nexus of this conflagration

But. Hillary's. E M A I L S

Seems applicable lol

I definitely think this system is probably in better shape overall than it has been at most points during my lifetime. But I understand the skepticism as well in the sense that you need to see some guys meet their potential and there isn't a history of that happening in this organization.

This is a lot of what I see below Greene/Tork when I look at the Tigers prospect lists... they have some talent that projects to be major league material, but nobody who is can't miss or projects to be much beyond serviceable. Things can change, but that's the status quo at the moment

Or whether they would be withdrawing from Belarus and into Ukraine?

Just to expand on this, there are parts of the country (Atlanta, Houston, DFW) where Section 2 helps the GOP more than it hurts them. On the whole, i think the decision is more bad than good in terms of minority representation, significantly so even.... but, for instance, if state lawmakers in Texas were, in practice, to eliminate the VRA vote sink district that spans between Fort Worth and Dallas and allot it to other adjacent districts, it would potentially be a net negative and could potentially put a couple of districts that are 15> GOP in play. A ruling against Section 2 seems like it would be symbolically pretty terrible, but how it would play out in practice would just vary based on the geography.

I'd guess the comparison is pretty apt in that the average person probably doesn't like freeways being blocked regardless of whatever political message is being pushed.

Idiotic as Bob may have been, I'd be surprised if he were calling the shots from the afterword lol

This one has "Ron Gardenhire" hire written all over it.

From this past draft? Or just historically? Certainly past results don't justify trust, I'm on board with that, but I do think we need to keep an open mind about who is in the system currently and entered the system in 2021. Past results may not predict future performance, particularly with the org turnover they have had.

This is the distinction between what Murphy is doing and what Youngkin is trying to do in VA. Local versus state control.

I take it the meeting with Macron isn't going well for someone....

Connecticut joins NJ, OR, CO as well....

I get it.

It really depends on whether one believes that what has happened in the past will largely continue going forward. There have been enough organizational changes that have happened in the past 1-2 years where I don't know that's a safe assumption to make.

This makes sense to me.... again, it's a numbers game. What is Canada's vaccination rate, 80% or something? The outsized voice that a small minority of the citizenry gets during the age of COVID is puzzling... I suspect the need for the mainstream media to frame everything as two equal sides plays a factor, but the reality is that both messages are not proportionally represented at all in the population as a whole.

There's no defending it, it's really dumb IMO. I do question how much resonance it will have as a political issue, particularly if masks do largely go away come campaign season.