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That's what I'm starting to wonder, whether Biden is merely calling his bluff, assuming Trump will bail on it. Biden made the offer, so he can't be the one to pull out.

I'm wondering what such a debate will even look like. Trump has no incentive to follow any rules, so what kinds of controls will be in place to stop him from simply yammering over Biden and shouting him down? How do they get Trump to agree to any decorum? Because if he acts out and gets completely out of control, and moderators can't or won't enforce any sanctions on him in the moment, then what's Biden's recourse? Shout back at Trump? Get in a fistfight with him? Walk off the stage? I feel as though any response along these lines would hurt Biden far more than Trump. I assume they've already game-planned this out enough that they can make the offer in the first place, but I'm having trouble seeing how the inevitable breakdown during the debate will benefit Biden.

With any luck, this will all be dismissed on the right as fake news and the Trump party will traipse blithely into the teeth of a November bloodbath.

Sometimes I do wonder whether, if Mike Pence were murdered by that mob, would it have broken the MAGA fever that still grips this country? Would it have been a bridge too far for 80% or 90% of the people who are still MAGA today? Or would the Trump cabal have successfully muddied who did the murdering, pinning it on Antifa and BLM (or “BLT”, as some Washington Journal callers might have called them), and caused more chaos than we have seen since? I think that might have gone either way 50-50.

At least it should be shocking and outrageous, and it is to many people. But not to enough.

NOW who’s ignorant and arrogant? But hey, at least you’re getting your money’s worth here.

Thinking more about it today I was thinking it is an age and experience thing, but I also wonder whether it’s a generational thing. She’s Eastern European, probably Russian because the doctor is, and Russian is widely spoken there, but I don’t necessarily think it’s a cultural thing.

OK, let’s jack a quick bomb and go home!

Maybe we can trade him to an Asian team for a lottery ticket … 😏

I didn’t notice with my first post that it wasn’t Kristol who wrote it. I assumed he did because it was his tweet I clicked on to get there.

This umpire has got to get raked for his outside strike calls on righthanders tonight, consistently two or three inches off the plate.

Maybe I’m dreaming, but if the Tigers can score two or more here, Reese might come back out. If they score only one, I think he’s getting the hook.

I read it until I got here:

FWIW, I love 6:40pm starts, and I wish the Cubs would keep them all year instead of switching to 7:05pm between Memorial and Labor days. Weirdly, to me anyway, the White Sox do the same thing except to have 7:10pm starts during the summer. I wonder whether any other team in the majors does this?

Brooks lee in the Twins organization, but they would never trade him here, and we would never trade any of our rotation there. Luisangel Acuna with the Mets can play short, but with Lindor there he's been getting reps at second. he's super young and cheap, but his bat in AAA is barely any better than Javy's bat up here Bottom line seems to be, if you're looking for a quick fix that gets us a better bat with similar glove who is cheap and young, good luck.

Javy Baez, shortstop. A man barely alive. We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster ... Ehhhhh, maybe not so much ...

That first one actually didn't look so bad. The top of the strikeout is pretty low.

Javy is going nowhere as long we have no better option to replace him.

One thing I am not ignorant of is the United States Constitution and its Bill of Rights, which makes no mention of my freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, petition, due process of law, trial by jury—as well as freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, excessive bail, and cruel and unusual punishment—as being gifts to me courtesy of the military. In fact, the only place anything military is mentioned in the Bill of Rights is the part that says they can't force me to provide them lodging in my house. So don't tell me I don't earn my freedoms, because I'm paying big money for them. Not everybody has to pick up a weapon and stand a post to do their part.

And this after I offered to stop here. Serves me right, I guess. *sigh* OK, here goes: The working class poor did not give me my free speech. And neither did you. And I don't feel guilty for exercising it. But hey, you and your brethren are welcome for the hundreds of thousands of my tax dollars that funded your experience. Now can we stop? Or do we need to keep going?

I've been living in this country, especially since 2001, so I think I do have more than a clue. But I'll stop here if you want.

Remember this? We've moved a big step closer.

Maybe you didn't want an idea of why so many Americans want autocratic military rule after all, then.

So the complaint by Bill Kristol is that the thing he thinks should have been page one news didn't make page one? Maybe he should campaign for editorship of the Times so he can make those decisions going forward, then. I don't know whether the problem is so much the Times is totally in the bag for Trump, which I guess is Kristol's conclusion, than it is that Trump continuously unleashes such a firehose of nonsense all day every day nonstop that it would look unhinged of the Times to put all of it on page one every day.