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It’s not being used in the same way anymore. Now it’s a word MAGA uses to delegitimize all the court cases being brought against their election stealing.

I have a feeling we’re going to be hearing the term “lawfare” a lot during this one.

That checks out. He was also the same guy who said gays already have the right to marry, as long as it's someone of the opposite sex. I believe he was an attorney.

Because rights are enumerated in the consecrated Constitution, and not in hubristic man-made laws. Amirite?

Well, all I said was it's a core campaign tactic. I didn't say it's going to win him the election ... 😁

For a very good hitter to get 3,000 hits in his career, he has to (1) start his career no later than their early 20s; (2) strike out and walk at below-average levels; (3) hardly ever get hurt; and (4) play into his late 30s at the very least. That's a tall order, especially #2.

Isn't being in court a core campaign tactic for him?

Projection Junction, that's their function!

From the story: Jim Hoft published a message on the website that read, “TGP Communications, the parent company of The Gateway Pundit, recently made the decision to seek protection under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code in the Southern District of Florida as a result of the progressive liberal lawfare attacks against our media outlet.” I have been hearing the word "lawfare" more and more as an attack on liberals, and I have no idea where that comes from and how it applies to anything. Are they simply trying to make it sound like the reliable bugaboo word "welfare"? Or is there something more to it? EDIT: I suppose a simple googling of the word would have quickly revealed to me that lawfare means "the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter an individual's usage of their legal rights." So MAGA are, ironically, using it to delegitimize legitimate court cases. Now that Agent Orange is in court, I suppose this will be overused to the point which it will appear on the list of Lake Superior State's banished words by the end of the year.

You may be right.

I remember going round and round with OMF on this one. Certain as can be he still believes it's a privilege that should be withholdable by discretion of the lord of the manor, but he's been out of my life for maybe 15 years now, so I don't know for sure.

We might be seeing the end of polling as we know it.

They are otherwise engaged for the time being.

Agree with much of what he says, although I strongly disagree with the idea that voting is a "civic privilege". It is a civic right. A right is something that accrues to you by dint of your citizenship as long as you otherwise qualify (e.g., minimum age). A privilege can be withheld from you at the sole discretion of whoever deems themselves, and whoever you agree is, the holder of that discretion. After all, it is not called the Voter Privileges Act.

Is this a shorthand way to determine who's with the Russians? A lot of the usual suspects ...

Did you see all the Enquirer headlines presented in evidence at this link? No wonder the knuckleheads flocked to vote for this guy.

If he is found no guilty and still goes to jail for the contempt charges, that might bring some undecideds back to vote for him. All they will know is that he is innocent but the deep state still sent him to jail.

I also wish they would stop referring to her as a "porn star", because that just makes Trump look good even to reasonable people. After all, who wouldn't want to bang a porn star, right? Guys who bang porn stars are cool. After all, they're porn stars. The best of the best. Knowhutimean? She should be referred to as an "adult film actress". Make it as sterile and free of opinion as can be managed.

I’m rooting for the White Sox to beat the Twins right now. I’ll root for them against the Guardians and Royals as well.

Also Babe Ruth.

You most remember Frank Thomas's early days.

Fair post. If a casual fan looks at Miggy's baseball card and see those stats, he will conclude that Miggy is an all-time great. And of course he is: out of the 10,000+ position players in history, he is in the Top 100. If another casual fan remembers seeing in 2012 when he won the Triple Crown, he might conclude that Miggy an inner-circle Hall-of-Famer. If yet another casual fan remembers him as he was after 2017, he might conclude that Miggy was an overrated, over-the-hill DH. And if a fourth casual fan remembers all those, he might conclude that Miggy was on track to be one of the greatest players in history, only to limp along to an ignominious seven-season finish, wondering what might have been. I don't think a fan would have to be a sabermetrician, or even more than a casual fan, to conclude any one of those things, depending on what stage of Miggy's career looms largest in his mind. I will hypothesize, though, that the average casual fan outside of Detroit gives Miggy approximately the same consideration as the average casual fan outside of Chicago gives Frank Thomas.

Speaking of which: where is Miggy today? Is he actually living in Detroit and doing actual work for the Tigers as a special assistant to the president of baseball operations? Because I haven't heard boo about him since he hung out on the field in Lakeland for exactly one day on March 12.

I guess by any objective metric, this is true. Miggy is firmly in the 99th percentile of all players. He has a Triple Crown and a ring. He has 3,000 hits, 500 HRs, and a .300 batting average—all the traditional benchmarks that constitute baseball greatness. And, barring anything horrific occurring in the meantime, he will make the Hall of Fame in five years on the first ballot with well over 90% of the vote. That said, Miggy will not be considered an inner-circle Hall of Famer in the long run. Sure, he will be referred as such while the voting is going on, because he is alive and current and the people who will be talking about him on The Network know him personally and all that. Recency counts. But ten or twenty or thirty years after that, Miggy will recede to the background of baseball consciousness, more or less in the same way Frank Thomas and Eddie Murray and Paul Molitor have. All great players in the 99th percentile, to be sure—but when you are talking about The Greatest Players in Baseball History, you have to name a whole lot of names before you get to theirs. And the same will be true of Miggy. Miggy had a chance to be a true inner-circle Hall of Famer once, and to us, he is, because he was ours for a while, plus he's been gone for less than a year. But to the rest of the baseball world, he will be considered just another pretty good Hall of Famer. Nothing to be ashamed of, of course, but it will be an appropriate consideration for a guy who finished with a lower career bWAR than Dwight Evans, Craig Nettles, Robinson Cano, Kenny Lofton, and Bobby Grich—and, not for nothing, also lower than Frank Thomas, Eddie Murray, and Paul Molitor.

Fun fact: Casey Mize, our 1/1 pick from six (!) years ago and from whom we have been waiting for something anything ever since, is going to be 27 years old next month. He is also going to arbitration next season.