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Is this post from April, 2023? 😉

You are not. Flaherty’s going to get at least four years. I mean, he’s a good pick up for a rich team with money to burn that a great pitching science staff and can see taking a chance on him being healthy and consistent enough be to a solid 2/3. But he is definitely not the ace of a staff that plays into November. The Yankees didn’t want him even for a stretch run because of history concerns. As for us, I don’t know whether our roster is mature enough to warrant paying something like 4/80+ to Jack Flaherty. Fans don’t want to hear this, but the rebuild is still not finished, although I do think we have crossed the midway point of the rebuild. We can still win while finishing up the rebuild, but I also think last season might have been this version’s 2006.

By the way, as long as we are now in this new world, we might as well actually read Project 2025, so at least we know what’s coming. Here’s a nicely annotated website that might help. I should probably keep this bookmarked. I hope their servers are in Switzerland or someplace equivalent. https://democracyforward.org/the-peoples-guide-to-project-2025/

I think it just falls off the radar and nothing more comes of it on our side. Russia will pummel Ukraine’s into eventual submission half the media will completely ignore it, while the other half will be excoriated for trying to keep the “Biden crime family” propped up. Whenever Putin rolls into other non-Western places like Georgia or Azerbaijan or Uzbekistan, it won’t be our concern. After that it’s a short step to get the other ex-republics in the fold, especially with help from North Korean and possibly Chinese troops. Speaking of which, when China invades Taiwan, I think the most likely outcome will be Trump will make a deal that will pay him and his actual crime family off to keep us from intervening. So, the clock is now ticking and the alarm is set for pre-2028.

Just in time for me to get there! I would not be surprised to see Social Security having been made age-ineligible to me, maybe even eliminated as a government-guaranteed program, by the time I’m scheduled to qualify in 2028. https://www.americanprogress.org/article/raising-the-retirement-age-for-social-security-would-cut-benefits-by-thousands-of-dollars-each-year/

They can help fund it the way the Germans funded the holocaust: by seizing whatever undocumented immigrants’ assets they can. They know it’s not much and it definitely won’t cover the costs, but it would be more about points for style than actually funding the operation.

Exactly as much as you hate immigrants, education, and democracy.

I wonder whetehr Joe will attend the inauguration. I can’t imagine him just sitting there listening to Trump insult him incessantly to his face. Joe also stands a non-zero chance of getting arrested on the spot.

He’ll be named acting attorney general. Everyone will be named acting everything and no one will go through a confirmation process.

Oh, I havent forgotten you, pal. I’m still waiting for receipts from you that I’m “extreme left”. Until you produce them, you’re full of **** on this one.

I’ll take this to mean you agree that I am not extreme left after all.

Do you believe the number of people who would not vote for a candidate because they are black or a woman is zero?

Funny how the Republicans spent the last four years not accepting the results of the 2020 election, and they accepted the results of the 2024 election in less than four seconds.

I'd like to think you're right, but they will blame Democrats for screwing up those things even though they had nothing to do with it, and it'll probably work.

Won't ever happen, because they think it's the upper 1% that makes Americas truly great.

As long as he keeps men out of women's sports and guts that part of the assistance programs that helps BIPOC people the most, the working man will consider the Trump presidency a win.

I said something very different from that, but here's a question for you: what percentage of Democratic Party voters do you think are racist or sexist enough that they would not vote for Kamala because she is either black or a woman? Do you think it's absolutely zero? Or do you think there is some percentage of Democratic Party voters who would not do so, and what do you think that percentage might be, in numbers? Just looking for a swag of how racist/sexist you think Democrats are.

I don't consider you far right. If you were you'd be all MAGA all the time, and I don't hear that from you. But you did refer to me as "extreme left" which, by definition, means the outer edges or limits, meaning no ideology is more left-wing than mine, including communism, Marxism, and anarchism. Those ideologies would be right in my wheelhouse, or even to the right of me, if I am on the extreme left. Is that really what you meant to put across here?

We've all been on hold for long stretches of time with utilities and retailers and doctor's offices and the like, and it's been like that for over a decade now, so the AI voice and the disclaimers about 911 and all that stuff at the beginning, there's no use whining about that. They do it because it's probably a liability issue or something. And we've all heard the music they play when you are on hold, probably taken from the list of the same four songs you hear being played no matter who you call. And that's fine, I accept that. And when we hear that hold music, I'm pretty sure that rather than hold the phone to our ears for however long it takes for them to field our call, we all put the phone down and let the music play while we continue working, until we hear a voice breaking in so we can finally talk to someone. But I absolutely HATE HATE HATE when vendors and offices program in an interruption of the music every 30 or so seconds with promotional announcements trying to upsell us to something or other. Even doctors' offices do this now. The thing I most hate about it is, I can't concentrate on my work while I'm waiting because whenever a voice keeps breaking in, I have to break my concentration on my work to determine whether it's just another promotional announcement, or it's an actual person coming on the line that I need to talk to so we can address my issue. Sometimes I wonder whether they purposely do this in order to annoy people so much that they just hang up, because customer service costs time and money and they want to provide as little of it as they can get away with. It does make sense because usually one of the announcements is how you can answer simple questions by going to their website, so they want people who are calling up just to get hours of operation or location information to stop wasting their time with that. That's not me, though. I'm calling specifically because I need help on an issue their website can't answer.

OK, fine. You wanna keep going on this, now you have to produce the receipts that I am "extreme left".

Probably because Carter helped people after leaving office instead of making multiple millions with an international agribusiness conglomerate.

If supporting Joe Biden's record as a president and voting for Kamala makes me extreme left in your opinion, then I guess I'm all in on that. I don't think most people, even along where you see yourself on the spectrum, would agree with that, but it's your definition and you have a right to define that for yourself. If you start calling me a Marxist and a communist, though, you're gonna have to come up with the receipts on that one.

I'm not talking about rounding up the Klan members in your town, so don't fret about that. I'm not talking about rounding up anyone. That's your party's deal. I don't know how you leapt to that—I assume as a distraction from the actual point to change the focus to some fantastic persecution of conservatives instead—but everyone else here can see what we were (or at least what I was) actually talking about, which is rescuing children from abusive parents, so I'm not chasing your laser pointer.

Because River Forest is just as irrationally frightened of Chicago as all Trump people were taught by him to be? That's my guess. Here in the actual city, contact solution is out in the open. Killers and rapists and gangsters and Ku Kluxers and child abusers are just some of the types who should not be allowed to raise their children as they see fit. YMMV on that.

If you think I'm an extreme left compared to other people in Chicago, you definitely have spent no time with any people here.