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4 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I know you are talking about adults and I've known people like that.  I'm pretty sure we all have.  

It takes very little intellectual calculation at all.  What I disagree with is that you talk like every word and action of his planned out and every dumb thing he says is done with a purpose.

You need to provide the receipts showing me saying everything he says is for with a purpose. Take as much time as you need.

25 minutes ago, LaceyLou said:

The clear trend is only those who share your political views should be forgiven-especially if the victim is 'only' a female.

By “your” you mean Trump, right? That’s what my like is predicated on. 😁

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

LOL, I may not be a man of the world like you, but I'm painfully aware of those things.  Painfully aware.  In fact, I think anyone who has attended public jr high and high schools becomes very aware of those things at an early age.  

I also know that Trump likes to appeal to his base, but I just don't believe he is calculating and nuanced about it as you claim.   

lol man of the lower middle class working world.

I’m talking about grown adults. People who never outgrow their middle school personas, which tracks with Trump, who talks like a middle school bully. That’s why they love him so much!

I also think you might be overselling the intellectual calculation and nuance it takes to act ignorant to appease your audience.

Here are three royal proclamations I think we will see in the next year:

• All natural born citizens born to undocumented immigrants will be denaturalized and subject to deportation.
• Police officers at local, state, and federal levels will no longer be required to identify themselves as police.
• A national emergency related to elections will be declared, the federal government will seize control of the election processes on all levels, and an emergency redistricting of congressional districts will be undertaken in advance of the 2026 mid-terms by a centralized commission at the direction of the White House. 

1 hour ago, Tiger337 said:

He was a being salesman.  He wants something from him, so he showers him with insincere praise.  If you are saying that he knew that English was his native language and he was pretending otherwise, I don't buy it.  

Does insincere flattery get you want you want? I would think having the power and might of the United States in your back pocket would be more effective. I would also think none of those leaders would ever interpret it as flattery, and I'm convinced Trump didn't mean it to be. This was not anything like a mistake, which implies honest effort.

Trump may or may not have known English is the official language of Liberia—that's a debatable, and insignificant, proposition—but his condescending question was purposeful in his bigotry toward the “colored guy” and in the appeal of that to ardent true-believer MAGAs.

You may not be aware of this because you’re surrounded by highly-educated academics for whom pursuit of high knowledge is its own worthy goal, but from firsthand experience, I can confirm for you that among certain people of the working class, it is socially advantageous to overtly demonstrate to those around them that they don’t know things that are considered eggheaded, such as what the official language of any given African country is. If someone traveling with that group were to show they know such things, they would—they do—get suspicious looks and comments from the people they hang out with, and it would—it does—actually hurt their standing with the guys (and it’s almost always guys), because then they can't trust that the undercover egghead is one of them. So it’s best to show, actively and overtly, that they absolutely don’t know stuff like that. And the way I see it, since a large portion of Trump’s fan base is made up of certain people of the working class, that appears to be what he’s trying to accomplish here.

Trump doesn’t have to be a genius or well-educated to know that it’s advantageous for him to demonstrate his ignorance of that kind of thing. None of the guys I inexplicably tried to ingratiate myself with back in those dark days of my life were any smarter than Trump, and yet, they knew how to show ignorance of eggheaded things, even when I knew they knew such things. It's an integral part of getting approval from that crowd. And when Trump does this, at least that portion of his base swoon over it. This is an example of him knowing just what he’s doing in situations like this.

1 hour ago, RatkoVarda said:

Hao-Yu Lee

He seems to be the most expendable of the upper-tier prospects, although I'd like to be assured that Bryce Rainer is going to be OK before we offer up Hao-Yu in trade.

11 minutes ago, papalawrence said:

ARod?

Kudos!

I will whether they will program it to run wokemobiles off the road?

10 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

Dumb as ****.  

Also, making a point.

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

If vis is really bad (fog level) and I've slowed and I think the guy coming up behind me could clobber me, OK. Otherwise if you are moving with traffic I say keep them off.  In A^2 the bus drivers have taken to driving their buses with their flashers on - just stupidity. You know I just might like to know which the hell way you are taking your 55ft barge at the next corner or when you are across from me at an intersection.....Do you think I can't see your BUS!

For some time I have wondered why it isn’t standard on cars that when you have your hazards on and you put on a turn signal, the turn signal controls until you complete the turn and then it goes back to hazards.

2 hours ago, oblong said:

I've absorbed everything Zep related over the last 35 years and the great thing about that doc was the footage I'd never seen before.  Kind of a whitewash in some respects but that's the game when you get them to participate like they did.  John Paul Jones showed his great humor and hearing the interview with Bonham was emotional.  Audio clips of that guy are very rare.  I saw it twice in the theater and once again on Netflix.

 

 

Yeah, there were a lot of mudshark- and occult-related items that did not make the final cut. But it was really entertaining to hear how the whole project came together in the first place and those heady first couple months touring America. What a thrill to hear John Bonham weighing in from the grave.

I just noticed that Joe Jr. was one of the most recent big leaguers to make his debut as an 18-year-old. Of the 358 big leaguers to play at age 18 or younger, only 16 of them debuted after Joe Jr., and in fact, only one in the past 47 years. Kudos to you if you know who that one is without having to look it up.

A baseball nepo baby during an era when that was still pretty rare. RIP, Joe Jr.

Riley must have both the ugliest batting swing and ugliest running gait of any big regular position playing regular. It looks for all the world to me as though neither will age well, although I can provide no evidence or examples to back up my concern. 

11 hours ago, ICroupier said:

I want DeGrom and Bednar. 
 

I don't have any confidence come playoff time if we can't land a true #2. Mize has been very good, and I'm fine with him as a #3. But Flaherty has been too inconsistent and far too hittable at times to be trusted. And Olson is too unproven to be counted on in the high pressure playoffs.

I'd be willing to trade Liranzo, Hamm, + for DeGrom. And then Lee+ for Bednar. I'd be willing to move others for another bullpen arm if Lange is out again.

 

My favorite part of this post is how you made Lee the highlight of the trade for the best available controllable reliever on the market just hours after Lee disintegrated on the mound. Here’s hoping the Pirates’ front office sees it your way. 🥂

12 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Apple has great series. I highly recommended Shrinking with Harrison Ford, phenomenal.

That’s another Apple show with a Freak and Geeks alum, and a pretty high quality one. I wonder what Apple will be doing with Linda Cardellini and Busy Phillips?

12 hours ago, IdahoBert said:

Studio on Apple TV was really good. It’s amazing how they managed to make studio execs characters you could empathize with, sort of a “sympathy for the devil” kind of thing.

The Studio is one of the best shows of the year, although I wish against hope that they would dial down the slapstick, and dial up the absurdity related to professional intrigue. The Ron Howard scene is Exhibit A for this point. The way he eviscerated the Seth Rogen character in the conference room was utterly delicious, so amazingly against type—but once it evolved into a slapsticky physical fight, complete with faceplants into food, that really took the shine off it for me. 

But hey, it’s Seth Rogan, so I have to accept that as part of the bargain. I would be a nice surprise to see them ratchet down the slapstick for Season 2. 

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Not a cult.

I hope someone asked him whether he would forgive Hunter Biden if he had raped his daughter.

45 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

I actually first  got it from Romad, but it's been a favorite of mine ever since.

I am familiar with the Profumo affair, just not in much of the details. I should watch the Prime series they have about it to catch me up on those.

43 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

Mandy-Rice-Davies; who once famously said "Well, he would (say that), wouldn't he?"

Of course, how silly of me. 😉

8 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

MRD - as we used to say.

Minimal Residual Disease?

https://www.google.com/search?q=mrd&udm=14

18 hours ago, romad1 said:

Only one thing would make me trade for Skenes and that would be the premise that we would have Livy Dunne as this generation's Kate Upton.   

Livvy Dunne >>>>> Kate Upton. 

17 hours ago, papalawrence said:

Skenes isn't getting traded because he is under team control for years. The Pirates won't trade him unless a team makes an offer like the one espn proposed. Of course Det would say no! Hence no chance Skenes gets traded this year

Skenes is also the Golden Goose for that entire franchise.

23 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

ESPN today

But Skenes is a pitcher -- and pitchers get hurt. So, if the Pirates are open to listening ...

Offer No. 1: New York Mets offer SS/CF Jett Williams (No. 20), RHP Jonah Tong (No. 50), RHP Nolan McLean, IF Ronny Mauricio, OF Carson Benge

Offer No. 2: Los Angeles Dodgers offer C/OF Dalton Rushing (No. 14), OF Josue De Paula (No. 17), IF Alex Freeland, RHP Emmet Sheehan, LHP Jackson Ferris

Offer No. 3: Detroit Tigers offer OF Max Clark (No. 8), SS Kevin McGonigle (No. 11), RHP Jackson Jobe, IF Colt Keith, RHP Sawyer Gipson-Long

The one that could get it done: Tigers.

A playoff rotation with Skenes and Tarik Skubal? Thank you very much. Reminder: The Tigers haven't won the World Series since 1984.

It's not escaping my notice that the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports™ is advocating a far higher price for the flyover team than for the Los Angeles or New York teams.