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Well written reply. I appreciate much of what you say here. I would reply only that if that 11-year-old lodged a death threat against the president, then the USSS visit would be an appropriate response. But if all the kid did was something that’s the equivalent of “Trump is a poopyhead”, then unless you are an intractable red hat, we should all seriously worry about our country and ourselves. So, which do you think is likely to be the case here? And as you ponder an answer, just consider that if it were an actual death threat, or any other kind of bodily threat, do you think the USSS agents could have been successfully turned away from the door by elementary school administrators?

Is that what happened with the 11-year-old at the school? I didn’t see that in the story.

Oh, NOW we know why ICE didn't just hold administrators at bay at gunpoint and walk in—they weren't ICE at all. They were Secret Service. That totally checks out, because there is no forking way ICE would ever take "no" for an answer when they want to just go in and raise hell. But now we know: if you post anti-Trump content, they're coming for you. I mean, I guess most of us should be getting a little worried now? Because this subforum is lousy with anti-Trump content from everybody except, like, four or five guys.

Looks like we're gonna get our taxes to fund religious schools sooner than later. And when I say "religious", I mean only one religion.

Putin solidifies his MAGA bona fides; red hats swoon.

Hasn't Trump had a major forking hard-on for windmills ever since the Scottish golf club incident?

I hope so, too. That's really all we wanted him to be.

I don't take those away, nor do I take away Flaherty's injury seasons or his overall poor 2023. They are all part of his body of work which points to his inconsistency, as well as the iffiness about his ability to stay on the field. If we sign Flaherty for bunches of years anyway, I'll root hard for him, because he'll be on my team. But I don't think we will. If we sign him at all, it'll be after waiting him out and he has no other alternatives, and it'll be either for two years max, or more years only with team options. I'd be downright shocked if we backed a Brinks truck into his driveway.

I will fear a Tampa situation in Detroit when we have an actual Tampa situation in Detroit. I won't write off Harris until he proves he's feckless and/or incompetent. That said, I don't expect him to make us like one of the Big Six franchises. We may be able to put together a good run for a number of years, and I'm reasonably optimistic but we will never be spoken of in the same breath as the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, Giants, Red Sox, or Cubs. I will expect, though, that he makes us something like the Cardinals, with plenty of playoff appearances and very few seasons under .500.

Holy shirt, we're gonna invade, aren't we?

Yeah, nice gesture but it's not going to hold up, and Mehta will just be removed.

Why didn't they just hold administrators at bay by gunpoint and just walk in? Do they think Biden is still president or something?

They're not going to go after windmills in Texas. They're going to go after windmills in blue states.

The precursor to encouraging neighbors to turn in neighbors for words and acts of disloyalty.

We all know what’s gonna happen, right? States that are “very nice” to Trump will get federal help, and states that are not “very nice” to Trump will be told to go pound sand.

But he does look like a real POS.

Not only that but they’re going after people charged with a crime, not convicted. Well, ****, man, don’t they think being undocumented itself a crime? And if they have only to be charged and not convicted, well, then it’s self fulfilling, isn’t it?

Where’s the money in nuclear for Trump? After all you can’t drill for it.

OK, at this point I’m thinking destroying only America won’t be enough for him.

Can’t help but notice he added all the exceptions to the end of the bill. The ultimate troll would be to just leave the bill as is, all cases, no exception, but he understands there’s a good chance the bill would pass because it would be so stringent, and no chance it gets passed because it has those exceptions.

I feel as though Lou might get overlooked because the entire discussion will be about Bonds and Schilling. All three should be named to the Hall. Instead, I’m gonna predict it will be Mattingly and that’s it, I’m guessing because the committee will want to make a moralistic statement about it.

I ask because Jeter had a much better career in the majors, and was also broadly more popular than Ichiro. Fans practically wanted to hunt down the lone voter and destroy his life over it. The way I see it, Ichiro got one of the greatest vote totals in history and that should be celebrated.

His fascination starts at skimming billions off the development costs of it into his own pocket, and ends at being able to use it to lie about, smear, then arrest enemies.

Ironically—or perhaps not—the higher egg prices go and the more it gets reported on, the higher retailers and distributors can continue to raise egg prices, since news about it psychologically prepares us for that very thing. I hypothesized the same thing years ago when I would see this happening with gasoline. I would bet there even a name in Psychology for this phenomenon, and that someone here knows what it is.