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I could be talked into orange jerseys, as long as they have white pants. It's bad enough the current Connects look like PJs—I wouldn't want to see my team looking like clementines in the next iteration.

Right—with the quote made without center field explicit within, or in direct response to a question about center field, it is at least 50/50 that Petzold broadened the context of a statement Harris made when he might have been thinking about his infield work, versus Harris making the statement in an unqualified way. All that said, even though Kreidler played two innings of CF in 2022 and one inning there last year, there's probably a good reason he hasn't played any more innings there, so I would be surprised to see someone Harris regards as an "elite center fielder" have his time so limited there. I'd bet it's the same situation as Baez getting reps in center: we need a third or fourth option to play there if we see many more better options go down to injury. I think the idea of kicking the tires on Moniak is interesting, although he is essentially a left-handed hitter, which we are lousy with, and there's probably a reason a team much worse than we cut bait on him.

I didn't see where Harris said that Kreidler is an elite center fielder.

Fire Harris, too. 😜

That sounds good on paper, but Whitewater worked because nothing bigger or more horrific happened to replace it. With this regime, something will happen within a week that will dwarf this and make us forget all about it. It seems unbelievable and even impossible, since this is an existential national security issue, but really, just wait and see.

in the bag

Within the thread: This incident has the potential of ... ahem ... signalling the beginning of the end of the free press in America. How can this be stopped?

There's always that probability, too, since she is starting to get the publicity she needs to goose her follower numbers.

Fire Hinch. 😏

I've given in on the concept of City Connects. I just really dislike this version. I would like to see them change it to a sleeker, less cartoonish look, as the Astros have.

I think he cares, and I think he's on top of them, but in order to achieve different ends than we would normally expect from our president. They're not stupid, and they're not making mistakes.

I've stopped short of believing this was a setup to entrap the MSM, but I am totally believing that the regime will use this incident to openly clamp down hard on all MSM.

It's even worse than that: they are completely conflating loyalty with competence, 100%. We should probably remember, though, that the goal of who benefits most in a trade agreement negotiation is almost certainly far different for MAGA than for Democrats.

Maybe because she knows she would win a safe district and lose a swing district? Council members can't get social media engagement and spike their income like congressional reps. That said, I don't know that she's a MAGA in progressive's clothing, although she is certainly good-looking enough to be.

They don’t want you to have the money. They want that money. They first have to get you used to the idea that Social Security will not be there for you when you need it. That will make this job much easier for them. I think people are inadvertently misleading themselves (and others) when they term all the bad stuff happening to the government because of Musk as “mistakes” and/or that the Muskovites are “stupid”. Characterizing this in that way simply lets those people off the hook by portraying them as honest actors trying to work on behalf of the American people and that things are merely not going as well as planned. Let’s be crystal on this: they are not stupid, and they are not making mistakes. More to this particular point, they are not making mistakes with Social Security, and they are not doing all this because they are stupid.

I won’t hold growing up in a Reagan Republican household against her, but I am a little skeptical of the whole TikTok influencer background, which means she seeks to attract extreme attention first and foremost, and her very young age, which means she just barely solidified her prefrontal cortex. She may still be bouncing around various ideologies to see what fits best, and she might be trying out different approaches to see what gets her the most engagement. I wouldn’t vote for her just because she’s a D who’s easy on the eyes.

The flip side is that he is so weak-minded, he will sign onto whatever the last person who talked to him tells him to do.

This is exactly what you would expect from people who value bluster and hubris over knowledge and experience.

So wait a minute here ... How is it that a decision was made to add Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the (presumably) enemy-of-the-state publication The Atlantic, was added to a Signal chat involving top war-planning personnel in the first place? How exactly does that pass any smell test?

Except Spiro Agnew was born half a century too early.

Sure there is: a low level of incompetence. They won’t stand for that. Because remember: education, experience, and knowledge are suspect.

already in progress

They don't give a s***. Their whole mission is to disrupt the world and strip it for parts.

2016 tho

TBF, Trump was a monster long before this. Now he's a ****ing Frankenstein.