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That ship sailed long, long ago, e.g., new stadiums for major league sports. Now this approach will be applied to everything once thought only a public institution. The Trump regime plans to starve cities and blue states of support at the federal level in order to redirect and pocket the tax revenue themselves instead. So, exit services maintained in the public interest by a democratically-elected government—enter privately-capitalized ventures such as tuition-only education subsidized only at the corporate level, and subscription-based police and fire service.

Yeah, this thread might pass Aisle Lunatic before long.

Just saw it yesterday. It will probably be the frontrunner for the Oscar, and not just for its actual quality of presentation, which I agree is top-notch. The type of story and the moral it tells is very trenchant for Hollywood at this particular time. Some people will think it too on the nose, but I’d watch it again if for nothing else than the photography and the performances.

Western civilization, baby.

You're probably right, but I still think it should go to Hinch, who actually had to manage a team that cycled rookies through 50% of the lineup because the players and pitchers they were depending on in April to help us win this year were either hurt, terrible, or traded.

You might be right on the QO, but I am not at all certain having Tork on the team as of today is all that much of a barrier. Your solution might be the one they go with.

Or the public drawing of guns in a dispute?

This is not at all the idea my post was contemplating.

I don't know, Skubal has been great so far, do we really expect him to keep it up until 2034 or so? Or even into the 2030s? I'm not sure I would.

We already had Gregory Soto once and it didn't work out for us. I don't know which outfielder we would dump to lock up Santander—I assume you mean Carpenter, but I don't think Santander is any more of an advantage for us in right field, and I don't think we're in the market for a minus right fielder to replace another one for big bucks simply because he's on the other side of the plate. Teoscar, same thing, plus he had a full season of 108 OPS+ just a year ago, so I don't know that he's necessarily guaranteed to be much better than that at ages 32+. I like the idea of Christian Walker. Plus defender, 20-plus-homer threat from the right side in Comerica, already playing the position his age requires anyway, and we should be able to get him relatively cheap, meaning, no more than three years guaranteed.

So, I had joined Bluesky on an invite last year, tried it out for a few days, saw it wasn't really getting much traction, and bailed, just like most people. This time feels different. I went to recreat my news/politics feed from Twitter and went to my Following list there to try to follow those same accounts at bsky. I would say that roughly two-thirds of them are not yet there as of this minute, including some real major Twitter players. Of the one-third that are at bsky, I see several of them posted a lot in the June to July 2023 timeframe, then not at all until anywhere from a month ago to a few hours ago. So it seems like people are rediscovering bsky, and I would bet there will be a huge surge in users and usage every day for the next few weeks, and the Bluesky Surge will become an actual news story at some point before the holidays really get revved up. Too bad I can't invest a few bucks in them right now. 😁

Wish I wasn't out of reaction, so, laugh!

What, no Baseball Crank??

I think the bigger question is why the Democrats super-cheated to win the 2020 election but didn't bother to cheat even a little to win this one. 😜

Well, it's not like he's the only one ... 🦆🦆🦆 I do think it will take some weeks to sift through the volume of data.

I don't know that it's a question of style as much as it's a question of timing. Is this the right time to spend $30 million on a player? Are we at the point where the roster as currently constructed can be expected to get into the playoffs, and a $30 million guy is what we need to go deep into October?

I'm a little fuzzy on what "preferred" timeline means?

How do we know Tork has above average work ethic? I'm not saying he doesn't, but I have not seen anything to indicate that he has above average work ethic.

I bet the Rays are kicking themselves for not trading Wander Franco to Al Avila's Tigers in exchange for Jackson Jobe.

I don't see how they could ever get away with a 25th Amendment on Trump, because the red hats voted for Trump the man, not Vance or Republicans in general or policies. They want to be entertained, not governed. The only possible way I can see 25A implemented is if the power of the red hat voter were to be completely denuded, so that any rebellion by them could be quickly and easily crushed. Maybe that's when the red hats would finally wake the **** up from their dizzy dream.

Man, we can’t get a pass even when there’s no actual advertising to show.

Oh, yeah, I forgot all about this one. lol businessmen leave their fortunes behind to go into government to help the people.

As the grand exalted president, Trump has nothing to prove to us. It is we who will be required to prove ourselves to him.