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I don't think Trump is ignorant and stupid and nothing else. He is an adult man who grew up in America surrounded by people with varying degrees of cultural literacy. I don't think he grew up so bubble-wrapped that he could never have heard of any of the things we've all heard of. Surely he'd heard of Pocahontas the Indian maiden before, if for no other reason then he saw a porno featuring the character. If anyone in America had ever heard of one and only one Indian woman's name, it's Pocahontas, just like if anyone ever heard of one Indian man's name, it's Tonto. And people have defintiely heard of Indian names, because this is America and if nothing else, we've all watched TV and movies, and Pocahontas is a big part of the whole Plymouth Rock/Thanksgiving story. I'd bet Trump came up with the nickname, and I don't happen to think it's particularly clever, which itself tracks.

Your posts about him the past couple weeks or so have shown frustration that he has not turned his process into results, which is fair, but I also seem to recall you kept leaving it there, without saying you expect the luck to turn around, which struck me as your bottom-line assessment on Torkelson: all process, no results, which would mean failure. Glad you clarified that here. Sorry for jumping the gun on that.

"Pocahontas" makes me roll my eyes. It's middle school stuff.

"Hey, but George Washington took documents home with him after he left office ..."

I agree with this, and I also think that at 674 career plate appearances, TORK! is still a long, long way from giving up on him because of outcomes based on bad luck.

Javy’s got great value in the field, but he’s also getting paid to do more than just that.

I think that, too, particularly if Rodriguez is adding up all his chronic injuries and other issues and making a financial calculation based on it.

That’s Overthrow America Network bullshirt. Any media industry pundit who thought Fox was going to be cowed after the Dominion crap and would change their evil ways is left holding their bag once again.

She didn’t make it up. She grew up being told her family has Cherokee in their background, and like all children would, she believed it. She didn’t just fabricate it for woke points while running for office—she contributed to an American Indian cookbook in the 80s, so this has been part of her life all her life. If anything, her sin was to lean into that early in her career for apparent advantage, which is disputed but still smells funny; and for the wrong-headed and ham-fisted decision to utilize DNA testing to try to prove her bona fides, and the Nation told her so at the time. To her credit, she saw her error pretty quickly and apologized, and the Nation accepted that apology. I don’t think any right-wingers can be expected to move on from this, because of Tiger337’s implication that they got nothing else on her, but I think it’s pretty certain that she is in the clear on this issue because she isn’t trying to gaslight everybody about it.

That's what you get with arguably the least-talented hitters in the game. Get more talented hitters, get more runs.

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If they can make this kind of progress with a team of schlubs, just think what they can do with actual major league-level talent.

If whoever was giving Craig Monroe scouting reports was trying to get him to memorize numbers, then they were doing it 100% wrong.

Maybe you're just a touch young to remember, but it was seemingly everywhere and seemingly everyone played it.

Asia by license plate:

This map shows the plan Germany had for Europe after they were to win the Great War.

Now this is super cool.

I understand what they're trying to put across, although it's still a bit hard to fathom.

I swear to you, every time I see her name, I follow it up with "man".

Racquetball was here to stay, too, at one time.

Always keep in mind that when Trump announced while he was president that there would be a crackdown on the mishandling of secret documents by former administration officials—specifically Hillary—he was telling us exactly what he was going to do once he himself got out.

I don’t think Christie is in it to win it. I think he’s in it to try to get enough votes on his side to influence the Republican platform next year.

True fact: I started an Elizabeth Warren for President thread on the old board back in 2011.

In the 80s, you couldn't take a piss without hitting a racquetball court. Now there are seven public courts in the entire city of Chicago, with five of them in modest means neighborhoods on the south side. That last part, I think, is pretty telling. I don't know even one person who plays. Do you? I'm not sure anyone who told me they are off to play a game of racquetball, or they recently played a game of racquetball, for at least a couple of decades now. And Wallyball! Man, I forgot all about that one, but yeah, I played that, too.