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Or whether we would believe her when she says so. Why is it the only reporting I can find on this is from local Hawaii media and YouTube? Why aren't AP or Reuters, or CNN or even MSNBC, reporting on this? Wouldn't a former congressional representative being put on a terrorist watch list constitute national news? And why is it that none of the stories I see focus on her being put on the watchlist, but rather, only on indignant reactions by Gabbard and others to her being put on the watchlist? This all smells funny, as in, maybe it is she who is making the claim she's been put on the watchlist in order to, I would assume, acquire right wing persecution cred.

Sure, but it's not just Gutfeld I'm talking about, it's that whole right wing government/pundit class from the Bush Jr era. We could hear the fascism-wannabe in the things they were saying and pushing for, the thing that's shocking today to the dyed-in-the-wool Reagan/Bush Sr conservatives who wanted to believe Bush Jr/Trump were part of the same thread, but those of us outside that bubble could always see where it was fated to go.

I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but we could see all this during Bush. Really, go back and listen to what was said back then. You’ll see.

I think it might be they’re trying to protect their access to the Trump campaign. If the so-called MSM start writing the unvarnished truth, they’ll not only never get another Trump official on the record anymore, they’ll also probably get a lot fewer off-the-record leaks as well. Then they’ll be forced to write nothing but speculation pieces, and no media outlet wants to look like an outsider looking in. On the other hand, they could write anything they wanted about Biden, and they would never lose their access, because if the campaign looks like they’re shutting out the public via the media due to a grievance, it will be a bad look to D voters; whereas the Trump campaign wields grievance-based withdrawals of access by the MSM as a badge of honor, and among their fans, they’re right. It’s simply a different media landscape for each campaign.

Also, not for nothing, the article reads like Carlos Monarrez is Tork’s agent.

So is that what it is? He’s always been a great major league hitter and it never was a swing issue? It’s a confidence issue? Yeah? Oh my.

I don’t know whether we can or should put up with Tork’s lack of glove for the long term. Doubles and triples down the first base line can turn an 88-win team into an 84-win team over the course of a season. If he can end up raking to the tune of .270/.350/.500+ on the regular, maybe we can long term him at DH as long as we can cover 1B with a good glove and halfway decent bat. Absent that, his career trajectory is second division slugger.

Platoon where?

As long as we're getting personal with each other, you have absolutely gone off the rails of late. Now we're even, the score is settled, let's move on from this.

Along these same lines, I recommend to everyone that you connect PayPal to your credit card, then use it to pay for anything online you can manage to, as a way to shield your actual credit card details from any number of one-shot-deal online vendors from which you might be buying that thing you suddenly need.

It's garbage analysis by people who lack the technical knowledge and/or proper articulation in the moment, which is exactly why jocks talk that way.

Good point. I have wondered how many of the so-called Hamasholes have been Putin-Trump operatives. EDIT: Now that I think of it, are we sure they did it for free?

If WCBS 880 bails, then it won't be much longer for WWJ 950 and WBBM 780.

In a race where opinions have more or less calcified, it's less about convincing people and changing minds than it is about staying top of mind, driving turnout, and not ceding that particular part of the arms race to the opponent.

Ivanka is not a good guy and never has been. Let it go. 😉

Exactly. As I've said, it's absolutely bonkers that people blame high gas prices and grocery prices on the president of the United States, instead of on the oil companies and the major grocery chains. It is the same strain of intellectual dishonesty that says that Trump was a better president than Biden because we were in no wars under Trump and we are in two wars under Biden, when in fact not only do we no troop involvement in those two wars cited, we were in an active war in Afghanistan during the entire presidency of Trump and Biden got us out of that.

How much you wanna bet the Republicans will pay actors to portray Hamas supporters to try to disrupt the DNC, and I believe they will do so precisely because they accused Harris Walz of paying actors to show up at their rallies, and really, who would make such a way-out accusation literally no one else is contemplating, except people who would engage in that kind of chicanery themselves?

Ah, yes, there it is. That's why (italics mine). ⚡ The latest: The Trump campaign said yesterday that its internal email had been hacked, with documents "obtained illegally from foreign sources hostile to the United States, intended to interfere with the 2024 election and sow chaos throughout our Democratic process." Steven Cheung, the campaign communications director, warned reporters in a statement: "Any media or news outlet reprinting documents or internal communications are doing the bidding of America's enemies and doing exactly what they want."

I just think the board can tend toward having our heads way, way up our own ass on certain topics, and Hillary is one of them.

I don't think the vast majority of Democrats believe that Hillary is the liability everyone here believes she is.

I like the idea in general, but it's a huge risk making Trump the bogeyman of the DNC. They have 2-1/2 months of rallies and commercials that can do so afterwards. I think they should make Kamala and Walz the star of the DNC show.

Their existing hatred of Democrats is the nail, and the price of eggs is a hammer. If eggs dropped to 99 cents, they'd forget all about eggs and use another hammer.

Maybe it's a passing of the torch thing?

So you’re basically saying managers lose games? 😉

Never mid playing the Yankees, play the LLWS champs. It would be a closer contest. 😏