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This right here is a huge pet peeve of mine, because it's such an obvious line of horse****.

Out of reactions, so: 😆

Obviously if Ttump actually dies he can't preside, but I'm not sure any level of cognitive decline would lead to his removal, because no way could that be sold to his voters. After all, these people did not vote for J.D. Vance, or the Republican Party writ large—they voted for Jonald J. Ttump, period. So any effort to remove him from office had better be accompanied by a casket, because otherwise there will be hell to pay. He could decline enough to make late-life King George III look downright lucid and I still don't think he's going anywhere. The power of everyone around him is tied explicitly to Ttump himself. If he ordered a nuke dropped on Chicago his people might actually get checkmated trying to figure out how to get out of such a pickle.

Man, I super-botched this first-thing-in-the-morning-cobwebs-still-in-the-head post. I meant to say that the idea that this federal government conspired to withhold aid from people for political purposes is demonstrably untrue. Just in case anyone cares to hang me for the morning cobwebs in my head.

That was a nice little joke which actually dovetails into a serious point. In my view, strictly speaking, I don't regard him as my president. He's the political president of the country I live in. I don't believe there is any expectation of allegiance or obligation I have to the man himself. (Or do you believe there is? That's a different discussion.) Now, maybe he's your president because you like him, claim him, have allegiance to him, and maybe even feel obligated to carry out whatever demands of his you hear in your head. 😉 And that's fine, you're free to claim him as your president in that case. But I don't think just because I live here, I have to express allegiance to him, carry out obligations on his personal behalf, or claim him as my president, any more than you have to claim Joe Biden as your president. You have the freedom not to, a freedom I sincerely hope we don't lose. These may all be distinctions without a difference to you, but they aren't to me.

I think of it as something that they get hammered for, even unfairly, because it comes on the heels of the Oakland debacle. Perhaps you've seen this kind of thing before in your own life: you did something you got hammered for that you fairly admitted was your fault, and you accepted that. But when it was quickly followed up by a mishap that wasn't your fault, you still got unfairly hammered for that, and you're like, heyyyy, that's not fair, that one wasn't my fault! But you got hammered anyway. Lots of guys go through that with their wives or girlfriends. That's how I see the Tampa situation. Maybe it wasn't Baseball's fault because they can't control the weather, or at least all their fault because their franchise could control the facility's response to the weather. But they're getting a little hammered for it anyway.

Maybe, although not necessarily. Could also be the Giants, Padres, or Mariners.

Nah, I'm just faking sociability. 😁

You’re right on all this, although I’m not talking about just the Tampa thing, which in isolation wouldn’t look so bad. In combination with the Oakland debacle, I think it has a multiplicative effect on how second-rate it makes MLB look. And you’re right, no drainage in a park specifically built for MLB is inexplicable. Or maybe not so much, I don’t know.

The idea that this federal government conspired to withhold aid from people for political purposes is demonstrably true, of course, but the ore important takeaway is that this tale will serve as justification for when the Trump government actually does withhold aid from various places because they are disloyal to him, or insufficiently loyal to him, or voted fro Kamala in this election. It will happen, because he already tried to make it happen in the past, and he’s already said he will do it in the future.

The Confederate governor was your governor? Yikes.

US was already going to leave NATO. After all, Putin wants it gone. US just needs cover, although leaving it over this is really weak.

Baseball forced itself into a bad look by allowing the A’s to **** around the way they did, and the Tampa thing is just adding to the bush league vibes.

Well, good lord, Susan Sarandon is an actress, for crying out loud. She has a B.A. in Drama. No wonder she wants Trump in there to screw everything up for four years so Bernie can rise from the ashes. She likes drama.

Trolls don't do evidence.

I'm just having trouble envisioning Tork ever becoming a great major league hitter. I think he could be very good for stretches here and there, and who knows, maybe even make a All-Star team someday. But i don't see him as a cornerstone of a World Series contender year after year. He's just got too many holes, in hitting and defensive technique certainly, but also, it appears, in makeup. I envision his ceiling as being a second-division regular into his early-to-mid 30s. Maybe a 10 or 15 WAR guy by the time he's all done. Again, think Eric Karros, who I mentioned as a comp for Tork on Page 2. Another comp I'm thinking of is Mitch Moreland.

Do you know anything about the political aims of the CSA? Was it ever their intent to march on Washington, overthrow the US government, install their own there, and claim the remainder of the country as a confederacy? Not that they could ever have done so since they were outgunned by a factor of multiples, but was that ever a stated goal anywhere in their papers?

Sotomayor has health issues. She should volunteer her seat.

You realize, of course, that there's always a point at which tyrants move from merely admiring dictators to actually emulating dictators. No one with designs on ultimate power ever sets a limit on it—as in only just so much, and that's it. The temptation to become a god on earth is just too great to avoid.

Wasn't there an attempt in January, 2021? Or are you thinking successful coups? Is secession technically considered a coup?

Preventing active duty troops from mowing down citizens on American soil at the orders of the president is the kind of coup d'etat I support.

Not if filibuster rules get changed, which I now give a better than 50-50 chance of happening after January.

OK, now you’re just flinging poo.

I'm uninterested in how you think your resume relates to this exchange, and I stand by my post which, bottom line, was about me and not about you. Your baseless assertions are outright lies, and everyone can see that because you've done nothing to produce any receipts. All you have produced are personally-insulting accusations flung at me. I don't see why you feel that's necessary, and I'm not sure what your goal is. This forum was explicitly specified to be an area of civil discourse free of personal attacks, and you have continually undermined that here.

I believe you mean the Nationals? Had the Yankees offered 15 years to Soto, wouldn't that be seismic news?