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Another thing about this, which I’ve voiced before, is that Trump would be even more dangerous as a martyred leader-in-exile, outside of US control, and living in a country friendly to fascist ideals who will give him all the resources he needs to make as much trouble as possible for America from abroad. The best outcome out of all this would be to make him live under house arrest where they can force him to live out his days living the upper middle class lifestyle of a schnook, surrounded by Secret Service loyal to the US and not to him, and completely cut off from the ability to conspire with his former top lieutenants, many of whom would also be detained for the long haul. For that to happen, though, I think the charges would have to be more related to the treason than to the payoff. Because if it’s only about Stormy Daniels and nothing else, he’ll get a fine and suspended sentence as a best case scenario, or will completely skate as a worst. Either way, though, he will walk as a free man into the Fiserv Forum on July 18 to accept the nomination. And then it will truly be game on.

Trump’s not going in cuffs. I’m still not convinced he’s going at all. Just because he’s daring them to come get him doesn’t mean they’re coming to get him. But, just to hedge his bets on the off chance the rumblings are real, he’s preempting their move with his announcement in order to mobilize the flying monkeys so that it’s go time the moment the federales get hold of him.

At least you knew what I meant.

Incredibly, because we live in a particularly incredible world right now, this will make Putin even more popular and even a martyr, to the red hat right and their enabler media.

You asked for it. 😁

Putin will get hauled in when Trump gets hauled in.

I never did read the book, but I saw the series right away because I love the concept of going back into history as your present self, or in your present state of mind. As a young adult, I once had a dream that I woke up in my 11-year-old body on the first day of sixth grade and went to school knowing what I knew as an adult then. I've become, if not exactly obsessed, then at least very intrigued with that idea ever since. I replay that dream in my head a lot. I've even noodled the idea of writing a book or screenplay based on that concept. I've never even written a treatment for it, so I'm thinking that will go nowhere. Anyway, 11.22.63 is a similar type of thing and I was super interested in it for that reason. There are things I would definitely change in the story, specifically in the way James Franco interacts with people and things during the period. I didn't love the cautionary ending, but I suppose that was the point of it, and of the book as well. But for the most part, I liked the journey a lot.

And so it goes.

Some shows that range from pretty good to really really good, and that have good period-type costuming and music in it, would include Peaky Blinders, The Crown, Call the Midwife, Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Mad Men, 11.22.63, Mrs America, and Godless.

I'd recently said I'm not writing off Jackson Jobe just yet because I wanted to see what this regime could do with him. But, honestly, I'm starting to trend toward that opinion as well.

If he’s a well-vetted college pitcher drafted #3 who can step into the rotation as early as next year, I could be down. As for Jackson Jobe—he may have been damaged goods coming in, and/or been (further) ruined by a year under the previous regime, and/or been (further) ruined by sudden changes in routine imposed by this regime (this one unlikely, but still possible, I guess). In any event, he was an 18-year-old drafted in 2021, so he probably wasn’t going to sniff a big league roster until at least 2026, anyway. So a loss of a year either means that gets pushed back to 2027, or it doesn’t make a difference on debut date anyway, which is still a long, long way off.

I don’t know, seems like they might have acquired more width than depth.

He’s preparing people for war. Against whom? You tell me.

I don't think this got highlighted here, but both Dan Szymborski and Ben Clemens over at FanGraphs believe Riley is due for a breakout. Szymborski: Clemens:

Not me. I'm confident they will adjust.

yeah, they don't see it as a problem at all.

I hadn't really thought of it in these terms but I can see where that might be true.

lol cuffs I don't think Biden would ever pardon his sworn political enemy, but it's a moot point anyway, because it will never get to that. I believe Trump won't be arrested, won't be indicted, won't even be subpoenaed. Shit, man, the Jan 6 committee dropped their subpoena of him just to testify. What leads us to believe he will be actually criminally indicted? What will happen is that Trump will run for president, will win the Republican nomination, and will win a bunch of states. Hopefully not too many states, but if he does, he will re-ascend to the White House, Joe Biden will politely step aside as is the norm, and that will be the end of that. But even if he does not become president again, Trump will get away with it. His family will get away with it. His top lieutenants, both business and MAGA, will get away with it. They will all get away with all of it. The only people who won't get away with it will be some true-believing mid-level accountant or campaign manager, some currently-anonymous mope who will be sacrificed on the altar and will never know what hit them. The main thing I do agree with you on here is that we are not all the same under the law. That's been proven out so many millions of times over the past 240-odd years that it hardly bears mentioning, except as a counterweight to any ridiculous assertion that we are.

Well, whaddya expect? He's woke!

It's about time someone stepped up to attempt to redefine the meaning of woke. Too often liberals allow the right wing to define all the words on their terms, like "patriot" and "liberal" and "woke". It's time to start taking these words back.

I agree with your points here, and I also read it as players who have a choice simply did not want to come to Detroit. The reputation we had under Avila was terrible, and Harris was/is an unknown quantity. Pus, everyone expects the team to lose 100 games this year, including many fans who believe in the Scott Harris hiring, and no player who has a choice wants to rush into that.

I don't think so. Does a runner advance on pitch clock violation? When I saw the Tigers and Orioles in Sarasota on Monday, de Jesus got called for balks three times in a single inning, all of them sending runners from second to third. None of them were either a pitch clock violation or a botched third disengagement. Umpires are just being much harder on deceptive motions, which is a big change this year no one is talking about yet.

What the balk is going on here?? Is it 1988 already?

No doubt, and I know he practices that art as well as anyone. But if it is his voice on the phone directly asking someone to do dirty work on his behalf, that is itself dirty work. Real capos know how give orders or approvals with a look, a gesture, or words completely unrelated to the act they are asking for, while making it all very clear what he wants. That's also why capos typically don't work by phone, unless there is an established code word (e.g., "it's a shame about it.")

I have no doubt that she is deeply dumb, although I do have my doubts as to whether there are any normal people in her world, where I would bet one must be either a MAGA patriot, or a woke CRT-loving ESG-addled libtard. Time to pick a side.