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Since we can swear on this site, I'm gonna avail myself this time: What a bunch of fucking idiots

The latest stunt with the VADem staffers dressed up with tiki torches today was a nice touch. You couldn't possibly telegraph "I think I'm gonna lose" in a more transparent way.

Especially Javy Baez. No thanks

The stadium is in Cobb County, which voted against Trump by close to 15 points. I'm guessing he'll get a mixed reception.... maybe more cheers than boos. But really, I don't think it matters.

You're trying to be funny, but I've been thinking a lot about California leading up to this election and how, setting aside the significant polling miss, some of the CW leading in regarding the suburban vote just completely fell apart when the votes were cast. Orange County being the classic example: as far as I can tell, all the experts (such as Wasserman) seemed to think that YES would win the OC, when it ended up losing 52-48. Loudon County has been getting a similar treatment to the OC in the press leading up to this election, and again, the CW seems to point to a narrower win for TMac (ie. high single digits, low teens), which would be enough to swing an election to Youngkin. I've seen enough elections at this point in my life to know not to bank on polling errors. The polls call for a close race, Youngkin has the momentum and I'd probably pick him to win based on the public polling I've seen as of today. But if TMac does end up winning and ends up winning in Loudon and other suburban counties with numbers closer to what Biden pulled in 2020, I'm going to have a lot of questions about how pollsters are gauging the electorate Post-Trump. Because it'll essentially be California 2.0, and basically I haven't seen much of a reckoning for the polling error in that race.

I thought it was interesting that the Dem LG / AG are running ahead of their R Challengers and ahead of TMac by 3-5 points in that WaPo poll. Leads me to believe that at least some of his struggles are self-inflicted. Environment is certainly part of it (economy isn't doing well, Biden's approvals are down, inflation, etc.), but TMac has really run a shitty campaign. I think, as a Dem, you have to play the Trump card, but I think he's done way too much of it at the expense of the fact that he actually has a relatively good record to run on as a former Governor.

Tigers have had history dealing with Boras.... I don't know that it makes it any more or less likely, although I'd prefer they look at Correa, Seager or Story first.

Particular to baseball, the fact that there isn't halftime or intermissions makes the panels pretty useless. I'll sometimes watch halftime or intermission in the other sports (as a sort of captive audience), but I'm not showing up for the panel in pregame. So it's easy to miss the panel in baseball. With the Tigers, since MLB.TV has started running post-games, I'll sometimes watch after a Tiger game to see AJ's remarks. But that's about it.

It's absolutely fair to investigate what happened here and, as needed, for indictments to be issued. In general, my initial post was more about partisan journalists who couldn't even wait for Halyna Hutchins to reach room temperature before making shitty political humor out of it. It's pretty ghoulish and cynical.

Wouldn't you agree, by that same token, that if it were Don Jr. and people were cracking jokes hours after someone died, the Archies of the world would be crying foul? The right behavior shouldn't be predicated on situation or who was involved... that's the biggest issue I have with it.

How long will Morton's injury sideline him? That'd be my only concern

Jan. 6th: Overblown and no big deal, yet also a false flag perpetrated by agitators

In Atlanta's defense, they have played stellar ball since the deadline. Certainly better than 88-73 ball. But yeah, it doesn't matter which of these teams prevails, just because they do doesn't in and of itself make them the best team in baseball.

Well, that escalated quickly...

I haven't watched cable news regularly for multiple years now. Definitely one of the better decisions I've ever made. The big thing is the business model - it all runs on outrage, which the need to draw ratings and make money. Just better to cut that shit out and stick with print journalism (particularly local) or even local-TV news...

Can some tell me how "They Called Themselves the KKK" ended up on the blacklist? What's the objection there?

Beginning to think all the talk about "snowflakes" and "safe spaces" was all projection all along.

We've come a long way from Dr. Seuss lol

Just a riot.

So, are we doing predictions or what? Astros in 6

I tend to think that's common in a lot of suburban areas though.... there was hardly any visible Trump support during 2020 in my neighborhood, although there were plenty of signs for other GOP pols (ie. local State Reps). I can only assume that almost all these people voted for Trump anyway despite not putting his sign out. I guess what I'm getting at with my comments on this issue is this: one thing the association of the mainstream media with liberalism misses is that GOP consultants do a really good job of leading coverage in a lot of these publications.... specific to Virginia, we saw this with MS-13 four years ago, and the education discussion surrounding this election seems similar. That's not to say that TMac isn't vulnerable or can't lose (obviously, the polls show a close race), I just think that the focus on these particular issues and how they play in NoVa is gives Josh Kraushaar and Jonathan Martin types more to write about than "Candidate from President's Party Struggles in Tough Mid-Term Environment"

Yeah, I saw the map.... didn't realize the South Side and Braidwood were communities of interest lol

It may not be that bad in reality because of some of the decisions that some state GOPs have made (particularly Texas, who went with more of an incumbent protection map than trying to squeeze out additional seats). But a lot will depend on how aggressive states like Illinois and NY are and, conversely, Florida and NC on the R side.

Watching from afar, I can't tell how much of the broader conversation about education in the VA GOV race is real and how much of it is the GOP consultant class flooding the zone for national political pundits (most of whom live in DC Metro and have additional interest in the race because it's in their backyard)... to an extent, we saw the same dynamic four years ago with the MS-13 stuff. I do think TMac is in some trouble, though he's still favored to pull it out.... I just suspect that it has more to do with the national environment surrounding COVID (which is having an impact on Biden's polling) than it does any of this CRT shit.

It's become almost cliche, but as Yeats said, "the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity"