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Some will refuse to believe it.

They will definitely try that. At this point, I don't think we can be certain they didn't already do that in either 2020 or 2016.

I am just now learning how to make a decent veggie and Swiss omelet, and I'm hoping for some advice on how to make the cheese gooey. I am adding pre-grated Swiss to it and I want to know when and/or how to add it to get the gooey result I want?

I don’t care how tall he is or how much he weighs, but I do care if they are treating him preferentially, and deferentially, on the little things. I get that he has to be treated differently on certain very big things. He’s the ex-president, so he needs a visible security detail around him, and he has to be escorted through a special entrance, and everything around the courthouse has to be sealed off for blocks around, that kind of thing. That makes sense, because he affects the general peace around him just by his very presence, so they have to manage that. But I don’t think they should let him slide on all the little procedures that every detainee, defendant, etc., must themselves go through, simply because they deem him to be too important to make him bother to do so. I think allowing him to submit his own vital statistics, whereas literally nobody else gets to, would be one example of that. Some folks might be like, big whoop, so what, who cares, right? But I believe if he gets preferential and deferential treatment at that level, they will likely give him such treatment on more and more things, and then he will demand even more special treatment, until he gets across the idea he should be treated especially and visibly well. I think it’s possible if the system is seen to be treating him with obvious deference, that may affect the way the judge and jury see him as well, which may taint how they try him. I think he should be made to go through the same processes that everyone does in exactly the same way, and it should be made clear to the world that’s what’s happening. Justice for all.

I don’t know, I just don’t see people flocking back to Trump after having left him disgusted. He might get some people back who left him because they like his ideas but his style rubbed them wrong—I could see where time might heal that wound. I don’t think in enough numbers to swing the election, though, not with so many more people now energized by the abortion issue as well as his can’t-ignore-how-obvious-it-is-anymore criminality. I also don’t think there are so many undecideds on the sidelines anymore. I think he got most of those off their butts in 2020, also at a time there were so many more who came off the sidelines against him. I was wrong in 2016 about him, mainly because I mistakenly assumed that everyone knew all about him the way we know about him now.

PARKER MEADOWS!!! First big league homer is a walkoff!!!

Javy! What was Presley thinking!!

As things stand now, I don’t think he has such a good chance to win. He would have to motivate the many people who left him in disgust to come back to him. Plus, Trump is motivating many millions more people to come out just to vote against him. I don’t think Biden has quite either of those.

Is that what drivers in Michigan normally do, or did they let you slide on that?

I think it sets a bad precedent to allow him to submit his own vital statistics. What other detainee would be allowed to do that? But more than that, he’s testing them: if they let him slide on the little things to start with, he’ll start sliding on successively bigger things. Before long he basically becomes the one calling the shots. That’s the strategy, anyway. They have to put a stop to that now before it gets away from them.

Such an underrated gem of a movie.

Everybody is a man-on-the-street all the time these days. This forum is lousy with men-on-the-street.

Just saw one analysis that the trial could take more than a year to unspool. It would be interesting in a Chinese curse sense to see him continued to be tried as a sitting president.

Looks exactly like you would expect it to.

The Cubs have a very restrictive giveaway policy on promotional dates: most of them are first 5,000 fans only; a scant few are first 10,000; and, new to me anyway, several more are available only to those "fans who purchase their ticket via the respective special offer’s webpage". Those are really tight hoops to jump through just to obtain mostly multi-logoed trinkets.

Not for nothing, lifting the ball more is what's driving Riley's improvement this season as well.

Look who has an active LinkedIn page! If this baseball thing doesn't work out, perhaps he could return to ****'s or Publix as a fallback. Who knows, maybe his Microsoft Office skills could score him a store manager position! Or at the very least assistant manager! 😉

There's a possibility Jeimer might not have been shopped if the Tigers were close enough to contending to let it roll, and that would have also meant hanging onto Lorenzen, too. But I would bet Harris would have flipped them both to keep the process of cleaning up Avila's mess in motion, especially since neither had any future with the team.

I was just thinking the same thing—it works as a real emphatic call in the right moments.

I don't know, teams might be a little skittish giving a 29-year-old designated hitter with an active injury history ten years and half a bill. Maybe someone will bite.

Details, details ... 😉

I think Greene would love to be president.

I think Greene is a performance artist who is using Congress as a springboard to a bomb-throwing media career, so I wouldn't think she'd be interested in vice president anyway.

Heard this morning that the Tucker Trump thing on "X" got 100 million views in the first four hours.