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I remember in 1990, just as the first Gulf War was getting started, I went into Vegas Party Shoppe, the one that was in the old triangle-shaped architect's office, on the corner of Stanley and Van Dyke. The guy who owned it was Chaldean—natch—and basically within one day of the Kuwait invasion, he put this cartoon up right by the cash register. He was no dummy. He knew who his customers were.

These are also the same people who want to go to single-day voting with paper-only ballots that are hand-counted only which, I guess, is more secure?

Right, the likelihood is small, definitely way less than 50/50. But it would be essentially malfeasance to ignore taking it into account and not plan for possible related contingencies. And I believe there is also a non-zero chance that the state is frozen into inaction on going after him with great guns for the settlement money for fear of the potential blowback. Not high at all, but non-zero. I do think the most likely thing will be that New York goes after and gets all the money, and hardly any blood will be shed over it.

I won't pretend to know better than anyone else, especially you, one way or the other, but I'm just having trouble squaring the circle between Trump's history of anti-Muslim rhetoric and action, and the idea that Muslims will in great numbers vote for him. It would be tantamount to voting for their own expulsion from the United States, regardless that they are citizens. (Don't think a Trump administration would find some way to deport Muslim citizens that would hold muster with his handpicked Supreme Court? Hold my beer ...) But again, I can't say for sure that they could never.

Here's a reason to feel a little more optimistic about the election in November—assuming it's a free and fair one:

Thanks a lot, now I have coffee sprayed all over my laptop and desk.

I think the issue is the political cost of going after his money in a heavy-handed manner, and feeding into his victim complex. Hey, I am all for bankrupting the mother****er, same as everyone else here is, but there is not just one guy or his (crime) family being affected here. It's his red hat army up to 100 million strong. They need to go after the money, for sure, but they can't do so while ignoring the potential for social chaos once they do. They have to take it into account and figure out a way to mitigate that.

Sure, which is why I said beyond their history. I definitely would love to see Montreal come back to MLB. I love baseball French!

I don't think you have even a single thing to worry about here.

I would be rather surprised to see many, if any, of the Dearborn voters contemplated here voting for Trump in November. And even if they stay home, I'm having trouble envisioning how they can swing the state to Trump from a 155,000-vote margin for Biden in 2020. I am going off the assumption that Trump will not be winning any Biden 2020 voters in numbers enough to win the election, and flip side, I do believe Biden will securing more Trump votes than the other way around by a factor on multiples, and lead other marginal Trump 2020 voters to just stay home. Because when the rubber hits the road in October and people in Michigan finally start paying attention, to the election, I believe they will pull the lever for the Democrats in big numbers.

I am not OUTRAGED or UPSET at all. I don't have any personal feelings tied up in any of this at all. I'm just saying I think it's shameful that IDF is ignoring civilian deaths in its count, and that's worse that the Gaza ministry combining total deaths into one number, since the Gaza ministry is at least making an apparently good faith effort to count all the deaths which, to me, is the thing that really matters when it comes to making the tally. Good to see you're not making this personal! 🤣

Who is Isaac Schorr—and who is Lord Andrew Roberts, for that matter—and why should I believe their off-the-cuff, citation-free assessments couched in a The Telegraph op-ed any more than I should believe the Gaza health ministry? They just look to me like another party with interest here.

More like Putin-Trump tho

She is using, I assume from the Kremlin playbook, a tactic I've been seeing from the red hats a lot lately: more or less, "Show me where Putin specifically said he wanted to invade all of Europe." It runs along the same lines as saying "Trump didn't cause January 6th Capitol thing happen because he told the crowd 'go peacefully'". They will always look past clear intent that would be considered obvious by any sentient human being and demand, "Show me where he said in so many exact words exactly the bad thing he said he would do. Can't find the exact words? You're a libeler, then. You're the one who should be arrested."

Unless the Tigers make a move this spring, which is certainly well within the realm of possibility, I think Kreidler has the edge over Malloy because of backup versatility, at least to start the season with.

Which is why their number is completely full of ****, and why the media aren’t paying attention to it. Ignoring the civilian deaths in their reporting is shameful on their part, and embracing the idea they should not be reported is inexplicable on yours.

Yes.

And the best part is that he will say if it weren’t for Biden and inflation he could have sold the sneakers for $99. But if you buy today you will be sending a message to the corrupt Biden that you can’t keep America from being great again …

I assume Lipcius at second and Jung at third, as Keith will more than likely start at second in Detroit.

I don’t know what I’ve been clicking on lately but I sure have gotten an upgrade in ads at the bottom of the site.

Avila might not have ever learned he had the ability to do this. Or, perhaps, he did and concluded it was so complicated he could never have figured out how to pull it off.

Even better: Top 50! I have always respected Fangraphs’ top prospect list far more than MLB’s Pipeline.

Not sure I can even imagine that. It’s such a foreign way of thinking.

Fair point. I was keying off the implication from the clip that the sexual peccadillo was the thing that finally turned him off Trump.

You would hope as much, but as you allude to in your follow on statement, the German industrialists did swimmingly under Hitler, and bonus, even after they were pressured just a little bit after the war, they still got to keep their money and businesses, too. https://watson.brown.edu/rhodes/events/2023/david-de-jong-nazi-billionaires-dark-history-germanys-wealthiest-dynasties tl;dr The moral of the story is: it doesn’t matter what the system of government is, because Money always wins. Bonus: here’s a cautionary tale that relates to what’s going on at this moment in Republican politics. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis