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I learned about the world from Bullwinkle even before I discovered Mad Magazine.

I would be willing to bet that the age breakout of all the swing-off polls we'll be seeing in the next month or so will show that something like 70-30 of fans 55 and over will oppose it, and 70-30 of fans under 30 will be in favor of it.

As for the swing-off—is that the accepted nomenclature for it now? "Swing-off"? Good god—my prediction is that it starts during the 2027 regular season, or whatever season will be the first of the new CBA, since the swing-off will be codified within. Because that will definitely be one of the things both Baseball and Players want.

I would be OK with zombie runners starting in the 11th, although I am starting to make my peace with the thing starting in the 10th. At a certain point, I have to recognize the thing is never going to change to something I would prefer that no one is talking about anyway. I will never OK with ghost runners. I think we need an actual human being on the bases out there. 😉

I don't care about college football overtime because I don't really care that much about football to start with.

This from the guy who wants to see an eight-man batting order. 😉😘

Sure it's all done at the moment—in the service of an overall strategy, one that's simple as it gets, to simply blame everything bad that happens on Biden and the Democrats. That's a strategy, one that he is adhering to quite well. So give it up to him for that, at least. 😁 It doesn't take a guppy or a goldfish to think up a lie in the moment. If he were really as random about what he says as you seem to be implying, wouldn't he be saying roughly 50% of the time that he himself is responsible for the bad things that happen around him? According only to the laws of probability, that's what a guy incapable of a strategy and speaking randomly would end up doing.

In other news, Robert Kraft gifted Vladimir Putin a Super Bowl ring in 2005.

Not only will Trump not suicide, but I wonder whether, whenever he gets to the point that he knows he's going to die and soon, he won't try to figure out how to take as many people as he can to the grave with him, possibly by trying to push buttons on the way out.

Hasn't Trump's approval rating been between the high 30s and low 40s for most of the last eight years now? I'll sit up and take notice when it drops to the low 30s and stays there.

I believe a lot of conservative women are fine with the misogyny because they've learned how to navigate and benefit from the patriarchy, in many cases because their looks are (or once were) valued on their own terms. A lot of them probably grew up in circumstances in which their looks were valued by their families more than any other attribute they might or might not have which, right or wrong, is true for many families. Plus, trading on their god-given looks is a lot easier than learning stuff in school, or learning how to make a living based on hard work and gumption.

So you’re going to answer the question on behalf of the guy I sent it to, instead of him? Fine, I will reply to you, then. This is not a question of whether Trump’s fans should or shouldn’t care, or how they should react. Not germane to my point. This is a question of whether we can fairly assign responsibility for making untrue statements to Trump himself. If the implication is that Trump is too stupid to understand literally anything he himself says, then how can he be held responsible for what he says? If he can’t possibly know that what he is saying is not the truth, because he is simply too stupid to know that, wouldn’t that presume that he is making an honest effort to tell the truth when he says blatantly untrue things, such as Biden was the one who hired Powell? If that’s so, that would mean Trump can’t actually be held responsible for telling a lie, because as a famous man once pithily observed, “it’s not a lie if you believe it.” But if Trump is a dishonest man, as everyone presumes he is, that means he must know he is lying. That he knows what the truth is. And that’s why I keep saying Trump knows what he’s doing when he lies. He knows what he is trying to accomplish. Of course Trump is not some super genius or literal god who can control all events the way he can control the people who have glommed onto him (at least up to this point). Fun as it might be to hang that one on me, I never said or even remotely implied that he is. But it also can’t be both “he’s too stupid to know when he’s lying” and “he’s lying even though he’s too stupid to know that he’s lying”. That’s just not possible. Either he doesn’t know what he’s doing and thus is making an honest effort to be truthful, or he knows what he’s doing and what he’s trying to accomplish because he’s lying. I mean, think about it: do you really believe that all of these untrue statements Trump constantly makes are simply honest mistakes on his part? That there could not possibly be anything like a persistent strategy on his part to reflexively blame anything and everything bad that happens to him on Biden and the Democrats, even when he knows it was he who did the thing himself, like hire Powell? That there’s no possible way he could even adhere to such a strategy, because he’s simply too idiotic and moronic to pull off even something as simple and elementary as that? Does that really pass your smell test with flying colors? Personally, I think that’s giving Trump too much leeway. That’s why I keep saying, don’t let him off the hook like that. Recognize that he knows what he’s doing when he does that, because he does. And then hold him responsible for that. He should be, because he knows what he’s doing.

Oh, **** me, here we go …

So, honest mistake, then?

TBF, they’ve been getting double digit rate hikes every year for at least a decade now.

What, now “rapist” is the new r-word?

It’s not an honest mistake. He’s doing this on purpose.

The more relevant question is what does my Rottweiler feel about kids who step onto my lawn? 😉

I hear you all about Tarik and the civvies. Just, it doesn't really sit right with me, during a game that's still being contested. Strictly a me thing.

Oh, well, that's acceptable, then. 😶

I honestly don't understand why they just don't create fake documents to cover this and anything else that's inconvenient to them. It can't be easier for anyone to do so more than it is for the most powerful country with the most resources in the world. Anyone in the opposition who tries to out the lie will just be called liars themselves and will have the weight of sanctioned government harassment rain down on their heads; and anyone from the inside who leaks the effort can be summarily and harshly dealt with. Even if everyone in their hearts knows the Trump regime is lying when they provide doctored documents, if the regime makes the price for outing them harsh enough and public enough, people will eventually stop trying to out them. Russia's been handling it this way for nine centuries.

"Transparency" might be code for "doctor the logs".

Tarik Skubal was standing around watching the swing-off in his civvys. Even for an exhibition game, I don't quite cotton to that.

Wait, which client list? The client list on Pam Bondi's desk, the client list that doesn't exist, or the client list created by Barack Obama?