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Painting No Kings as anti-American was never meant to stop it from happening. It as meant to stoke rage and a sense of vengeance in all the gun-toting red hats who are anxiously awaiting their deputization.

Let’s also be clear on this: They will force confrontations at a future one, if not the next one, to stop it as it happens. Also: look for false flags plants there to try to create chaos and disorder.

Haven’t they already?

Why did the border agent hide? Why didn’t he just shoot everyone in the house dead? He’s clearly not very good at his job. He’s going to get replaced for sure.

Remember: not a genocide. Oops—wrong thread … 😉

This might actually end up being a canny response on his part, as it might wear down any remaining objections there might be among the red hats to the idea of Trump being king. Because if the people they have burning hate for protest the idea of Trump being king, then wouldn’t their only “rational” response be to completely and utterly support the idea that Trump is a king, and should be a king, and not a mere president? I mean, haven’t we already seen that here?

Stupid may be part of it, but ignorance is the large majority of it, and the stupid part of that is that the ignorance is happily self-imposed.

Getting closer to the 3-1/2% threshold … They do have to find a way to do this more often than every four months, though. They need to keep the momentum up while it is up there. Pretty sure that’s on the dance card.

Or not.

I don’t think so because the Epstein files is about girls.

Someone here busted a nut when they read this.

lol likely

The bigger story here is that 34% of Americans love the idea of ICE crashing into random cars and arresting whoever’s inside. A third. There’s your nifty shorthand number for the percent of Americans who have completely flipped their lid.

“No kings equal no paychecks”? So, kings equal paychecks? We need to allow Trump to act as a king because otherwise people won’t get paid for their labor? Do I have that straight?

Call me anti-American if you will, but I think of getting vaccinated as a social responsibility, because I don’t think people should be allowed to spread dangerous diseases throughout their communities.

Why didn't they just shoot her dead in her car? And why didn’t they just shoot dead everybody taking videos of them? They’re not very good at gangster fascism. Trump will probably end up ****canning those guys and replacing them with someone better at getting **** done.

Maybe Riley should go back in time and play in 1954.

I’m not sure what else Harris could have done. Frontline starting pitchers weren’t even close to falling off trees in July.

Fine by me.

You know what I’m going to ask you next, right? 😁

I am starting to warm up to the idea of trading Skubal during the offseason. But if Harris does do that, he absolutely cannot make this a worse team that has more trouble competing for playoffs in 2026, because he would, rightly, be hammered for ****ing up our current team by falling in love with prospects and dreaming of a Tiger team that dominates baseball in some vague and indeterminant future—which is exactly what practically what everyone here who doesn’t like him criticizes him for doing right now!

Not having heard anything Hinch has said about this, my guess would be he was trying to balance the scales between getting as much as he possibly could out of Skubal, and not completely ruining his arm in advance of the ALCS. And hey, it almost worked. In fact, he could have gone the seventh, and he could have gone the eighth, but he would have to have come out anyway, because no way he was going fifteen. Apropos of nothing, I never noticed before that you put a space before your punctuation.

I am not advocating ten years. I am not advocating anything specific. I’m simply pointing out that given the precedent that Gerrit Cole set with his contract, there is zero chance Skubal accepts as the only and only offer he can receive that gives him fewer years and fewer total dollars than that. There’s nothing in it for him to accept that when in literally everyone’ estimation, he can do way way better on both measures when he goes on the market. You can make hay of the AAV part, and I agree that’s not nothing, but to players, that matters only for short-term contracts with first-year opt outs so they can be paid like a top tier guy while they are betting on themselves to get the years/dollars they really want. That’s exactly what Bregman did. Speaking of Bregman, I promise you that if he got the same 6/172 with a second-year opt-out offer from the Tigers this offseason, he would not take it, unless his market collapses this winter and that offer is clearly a cut above all the others, and I don’t believe anyone thinks that’s going to happen. If six and 172 were his targets, he would be here right now.

I don’t think there’s any perfect solution that equally satisfies teams, players, and fans. The reserve clause helped teams and fans but not players. Free agency helps players and some teams and their fans, but not other teams and their fans. I guess that’s the mark of a really good compromise: when it happens, no one is completely happy with it.

All due respect, yes, it does matter as long as you’re repeatedly hammering Scott Harris for ****ing up opportunities to improve the roster simply because he’s failing to, I guess, wave his magic wand and make it all better, and you can’t identify what actual opportunities he’s missing. That’s what we see emotional fans do during their knucklehead moments. Someone in your position may reply that it’s not their job to figure it out, it’s Harris’s job, we don’t have to figure it out for him, Harris is simply ****ing everything up by not figuring it out, so he better figure it out pronto or lose his job. We hear that from posters here on occasion (although I don’t recall ever hearing that from you.) But that line of rhetoric is OK only for casual fans who don’t pay even a shred of attention to the team when we’re losing. When we hear casual fans like that lash out about the team, the rest of us can smile and ignore their whinging as we might a child’s. But give the high quality of adult-level discussion about the Tigers that takes place here, there’s a certain standard of discourse posters are expected to uphold, and that includes having an idea of how to fix the things we insist is going wrong with the team. “It’s not my job to figure it out” is nothing more than a pathetic copout. This is not a demand that you come back with a solution for Harris—there’s certainly no rule requiring that.