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They are desperate to deflect their own racism by highlighting liberal racism, two words that really don’t even go together.

I stopped watching when they had Trump on basically every day for a while.

Persecution complex, along these lines:

This is a right-wing trope. “You’re criticizing what I’m saying, you’re not agreeing with me, oh my god, I’m not allowed to have free speech anymore!” It’s essentially the same thing as when right wingers accuse any news organization that’s not in the tank for Trump is being part of the biased leftist MSM trying to destroy America. There are callers in to Washington Journal accusing C-SPAN of that literally every week.

The QAnon wing is going to have a field day with this picture. There goes the Pizzagate vote, I guess.

Apart from Skubal, the whole starting rotation is a big steaming #2 right now.

Grifol was Al Avila’s first choice!

Have you been to Nashville? This is the official vehicle: They deserve a team that doesn't care, like the Tigers!

Or Hinch. Or the coaches. Or the players. Or the minor leaguers. Or the fans. Fire them all and move the team to Nashville!

Yeah, the idea that Trump would be the people's champion against the Russian mafia and organized crime and sleazy corporate interests is laughable on its face.

lol no shĭt you don't say

Shining a light on the lunatics.

Can't even log into my brokerage. Is this how they getcha? Because it's not really your money until it's safely in your pocket, is it? Until you can pry it out of their clutches, it's theirs.

Whoooooo gives a ****

I did not realize they cheered after he said it. What were they cheering for? It couldn’t be because they really want electric cars after all but couldn’t because Mr. Trump Sir hated them but now he likes them so it’s OK to get one, can it? I think it’s more like they were spacing out and heard “blah blah blah blah Elon supports me”. Perhaps 80% of those clapping were paying attention to something else like their phones, heard people start clapping, and then they started clapping in response not knowing what it was for.

I believe there’s a clear difference between swatting a kid on the butt once to get their attention, and as a completely unusual and out-of-character response to a situation that signaled its practically grave consequences, versus carefully planning and preparing a beating over a period of time before administering a painful corporal punishment for something like backtalk. I think the healthiest relationships between children and parents are those in which discipline is rooted in a loss of privileges and an explanation of why, versus loss of privileges AND a savage beating AND the silent treatment during and afterwards.

Burying the subheadline ledes—still telling people to hate Biden for it, but admitting he’s supporting it because it’s quid pro quo: Donald Trump said at a rally on Saturday that he supported electric vehicles because Elon Musk endorsed him. But he also criticized EV infrastructure and Biden's EV mandates. Musk has publicly backed Trump recently but denied a rumored $45 million donation.

Man, what an awful, awful way to lose this game. Just a swift kick in the nads after the high we got yesterday.

Oh, Jesus, first pitch bomb with two out in the ninth and the last pinch-hitter puts the Royals up 3-2. Goddamit.

I really like Andy Dirks on TV. He's a business-first guy, a la Dan Dickerson, and he keeps Benetti's tendencies to go way off-topic in check. Benetti can be a really good business PxP, and Dirks keeps him in check. It's when Todd Jones comes into the booth where they go really off the beam, and Dirks doesn't seem like he wants to go there so much.

I've been listening to the ten-part podcast "What Happened in Alabama?". The host's father grew up in Jim Crow Alabama before moving with the family to Minnesota when he was 12. The host was born there and grew up as one of the few black people in his St. Paul suburb. A common theme of the pod is how the host's father regularly beat him and his sister as children to within an inch of their lives. The working hypothesis is that the father did so because, as with so many black parents, beating the children was a way to teach them that they had to grow up fast and learn how to navigate a white world super carefully so they don't end up getting killed by racial violence. The pod also ties the beating of children back to slavery days, where violent punishments established itself as something that got passed down through generations through the descendants of both enslaved persons and slaveholders. I just got to episode seven and the pod threw a bit of a curve ball: rather than discussing yet another aspect of Jim Crow directly, they veered off into the topic of corporal punishment of children. The host had experienced regular beatings, and as an adult thought things through and determined that even though he had thought it was a normal and even beneficial way to grow up, he was now questioning the efficacy of the entire idea, and he brought on a doctor who'd studied the effects of corporal punishment on children, and how the nervous system is altered by it. He also brought on an African American Studies professor to discuss how corporal punishment extends beyond the home into schools. There were several really good points I had not contemplated very deeply before. One that had crossed my mind was that constant beatings—and, as importantly, the constant threat of beatings that could come at any moment for any or no reason—likely rewire the brain in unhealthy ways that manifests in the children growing up and behaving that way toward their own children. It's a form of traumatic stress disorder. I also knew that there are certain states, most of them concentrated in the old slave south, still allow corporal punishment in schools. But the one idea that had never crossed my mind was how we allow punitive behavior against children that would be considered cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment were they to be practiced on adults. At one time the flogging of adults as judicial corporal punishment in the US was common, particularly used against enslaved people and, later, black people during the Jim Crow era. As such, it's a holdover punishment from slavery times that still resonates strongly with a large portion of the United States. But while there is no longer any judicial corporal punishment of adults, people still feel free to administer beatings to children, who with their small and vulerable bodies and brains simply break more easily than adults, even in taxpayer-supported institutions such as public schools. When you think about it in those terms, the idea just seems absolutely bonkers. I remember we had a spirited discussion on MTS many years ago about corporal punishment, with one proponent who was very supportive of it, and would counter with arguments such as "I was spanked when I was a child and I turned out fine" (Did you? Really?), and "Are you a parent? No? Then you have no right to weigh in on this." It's a controversial topic, which is why I put it here in Politics. But the link below leads to a very thoughtful discussion of the issue, admittedly all anti-corporal punishment and nobody on the pro side, that might be worth your time to take in if you have any interest in the topic. https://www.whathappenedinalabama.org/episode/2024/06/26/ep-7-spare-the-rod

That ball must have started tailing away from Meadows because he had to stretch his arm way to the left to get it.

Don't all those AI women have the exact same face?

How about a six year contract to a 29-year-old? 😉