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I don't get this even a little.

As much as I can agree with this, I don't think Dan Dickerson would ever get hired as the primary PxP guy on TV. For one thing, he's too old; for another, he's too serious about the game. They want Millennials and Gen Zs who, sure, have at least a passing familiarity with the game, but who also can confidently riff on pop culture, confortably joke around with miked up players during the game—which is a lot harder when there's a span of two or more generations—and can unironically provide prop bet gambling odds in the moment. Something else I've noticed: he does not do sponsor reads with much relish. I'm sure employers notice this, too.

I love winning games after reading that people are on the verge of bailing on the team.

Fine by me as long as Dan does TV.

I think the bigger point is that if the numbers are public and everyone knows exactly how much money they're making, that puts pressure on them to ratchet up player payrolls dramatically.

I just worry what he is capable of when he realizes the mortal jig is up for him. He is so self-loathing and wants everyone to be more miserable than he so he can feel better. People who hate themselves project that self-hate onto everyone else and they want to leave a legacy of hate and misery in their wake. So, if Trump is in a position to understand he's going to die at any moment, what is he capable of on the way out?

Hey, she was askin' for it ...

I copied the headline which says median, so, who knows. It's probably median, though, which is typically how income is reported.

I would like to see something like this for US congressional districts. Median Gross Household Income In Great Britain By Parliamentary Constituency

Countries Where More People Died Than Were Born In 2024

I think this is partially right. There was a fair amount of fascism already baked into the very conservative precepts of the modern Republican Party, such as performative patriotism; the elevation of religion and the military in civilian life; the scapegoating of certain groups of people considered outsiders; corporate control of the national economy in conjunction with the government; and maybe a few others. Cheney, Kinzinger, and Romney at least benefited from all this, if not driving it themselves entirely, and even though they basically left the party, a lot of their fellows who travel along these lines have stuck around. Then the other elements of fascism really came to the fore in in the past decade—the authoritarian leadership; the desire to suppress dissent; the whitewashing of history; the mass propaganda rallies; the rejection of liberal democracy, pluralism, and individual rights—which I believe drew a new element into the Republican party that had been completely outside of it, where they were considered oddballs and kooks at best, and dangerous actors at worst. They were not already in the party, which they considered part of the liberal order they wanted to topple, but now that the party has embraced the fascism completely, these dangerous elements have found a home within where they now have a veneer of respectability and gravitas they could never have had before. So I think it's both Trump exposing and highlighting certain noxious aspects of the Republican Party, and the elevation of those aspects and the embrace of other fascist aspects that has attracted extremist outsiders who'd never felt welcome there before.

Maybe. He would have been going on a third term and there was a huge backlash (or "blacklash", if you prefer) waiting in the wings for a Trump to exploit. I think a lot of people in the middle, the true swing voters, would have given the "successful businessman" his chance at it.

Maybe.

Not a media bias critique at all. That's a total The Onion-style headline.

Phoenix New Times? Is that what The Onion is calling themselves these days?

Close—Biden was elected because he was a white guy who wasn't Trump.

Correct, the numbers definitely kept dropping through August and beyond.

The only way Trump will lose any influence is when he dies, and even then it won't be by much, because his syphilitic ramblings will be compiled into a tome akin to holy scriptures, and that will posthumously guide MAGA, which at that point will led by Cocaine Donnie, the only other personality red hats adore.

Further to this point ...

You sure the withdrawal wasn't in June? That's when it seems to have started for him.

What did Biden do in the August of his first time? Not easily googlable.

Fighting men who think won’t turn on their countrymen. It takes fighting men who can’t think to do that.