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It’s probably one of the reasons they want to throw every person of color they can manage into prison and throw away the key. The 13th Amendment allows for the use of prisoners as literal slave labor.

I don’t think Joe has to pander to anyone like that. People who believe this stuff would never vote for Joe, anyway. They are too far gone—they probably have always been too far gone—and, fortunately, there are too few of them to make much of a difference, anyway. I think the only way they could ever come to make any difference is if a Trump-like character somehow took over the “Democrat” party, which is the fervent fever dream of the Bannonites. I can’t even imagine who that might be—my best guess would be a yet-to-be-known white male version of AOC—but I’m sure someone in Moscow is working on that puzzle right now.

Republicans don’t want the solution. They want the crisis, because that’s where their power comes from. It’s basically the same reason they’re going to spend the next nine-plus months trying to crash that part of the economy that benefits the middle and working classes.

If anyone thinks American baseball can’t turn out exciting players, then they haven’t seen Corbin Carroll.

Because he is held to no standard at all, this will promptly be filed under W, for Who Gives a Sht.

If he were stateside his whole career he would not have been in the majors at 18, but he would have been as close to 4,000 hits as anyone.

Yes, his pleasantness was good for fans to see, and even more so, good for the media to deal with. That alone will win him votes, I'd bet.

CC has a ring and a Cy Young, plus four other top five CYA finishes. He also has six All-Star appearances and more than 3,000 strikeouts. For the sabermetric kids, he cleared the 60 bWAR threshold and his career ERA+ of 116 is certainly high enough to qualify. On top of all that, he was a pleasant personality and played his final 11 seasons as a Yankee. I think he's in first ballot next year, along with Ichiro and Billy Wagner.

I didn't think Beltre was going to be unanimous but I did think he would top 98%.

Which is why the whole PED thing is nothing but a cudgel to punish people who prefer to dance to their own tune than to that of Baseball and the running dog media.

"FREEEEEE BIRRRRRRD!"

I wonder how much the playing of first-shooter video games in which kids this guys' age take on villain roles with real-world impunity feeds some sense of invincibility among these young dumbasses.

Well ... Nixon did try to make it close ...

It does pass the smell test tho

It's not about getting Republicans to watch the Daily Show and then turning them away from Trump. It's about getting the Democrats and independents who watch the Daily Show to get motivated to go to the polls.

I love how Trump got momentarily freaked by a black guy coming up from behind him.

Of course she will, because Nikki Haley is not a leader. She is a follower. If she's not explicitly following Trump like a puppy dog as a sycophant in his administration, she is following the whims of the mob whose votes she desperately craves as a measure of self-esteem.

Even Obama can't campaign from the grave.

Should I book it under the Yamamoto and Hader signings? 😉

If only it did not make complete and total sense to the red hats ...

Which is why he is shifting gears on attacking Haley herself and is now attacking anyone who might support Haley.

I think of Morrissey as emblematic of the burying-crystals-in-the-garden-to-charge-them-with-the-Earth's-energy left. I should know. I had this one girlfriend ... Marianne Williamson is their candidate.

Something here, in a big liberal city? Yeah, I can see that.

Well, the media being the enemy of the people and all …

Yeah, he's 30 and he's not going to become an on-base guy with power, but if they mitigate to the point where he's .320 vs .270 on base with the same SLG, that would work out fine.