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It's almost as though the poster who named this thread was engaging in projection.

Fingers crossed it will matter.

I think it's about wearing down the consumerist instincts of the red hats so they will be on totally board with shortages or rationing or whatever the regime is planning for us, after which the rank and file can lord their high-and-mighty christofascist morality over the rest of us profligate eaters as they loc up for whatever they think the final battle will look like.

They are all in, and honestly, they are not afriad to die, because they think Trump is fulfilling prophecy to make Jesus come any time soon. And they might be right, although what they don't realize is that Trump is the Antichrist in that story. “And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived ..."

And you misspelled Stephen Miller. 😉

Nahhh, he can't be that clever ...

You misspelled "weeks". 😉

Is that really true? I hadn't heard that. It's the ultimate power move for despotic leaders to humiliate their minions by making them do things they would never choose to do on their own.

Why would anyone bring it up? All that would happen is he would yell at them, and then as soon as they left the room Trump would order their boss to fire them.

What does Kalshi have as the over-under date on a nuke? Once it happens, say hello to terrorist dirty bomb drone attacks on American cities at civilian gatherings like street festivals and Lollapalooza, which, actually, I guess MAGA would kind of dig, since that's not real Amerikkka anyway.

I think Kevin's just marking time until he moves to 2B, anyway.

Agreed.

Is Tom Monaghan back?

No one is as deep as the US. But as we have seen, any team can beat any other team on any given day. Even the Rockies beat the Dodgers twice last year.

Venezuela taking on the United States of America in the championship. How poetic is that?

Oh, good lord, Tork, really? https://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2026/03/15/from-framber-valdez-to-spencer-torkelson-to-riley-greene-detroit-tigers-flash-spring-muscle/89166860007 The Tigers jumped all over Yankees right-hander Luis Gil Sunday and didn’t stop. Torkelson’s three-run homer got the party started in the first inning, sending a changeup over the left-field wall. “This last week my swing has felt great,” Torkelson said. “But I fell into that spring training trap where you are trying to make sure your swing is dialed and you kind of forget you need an approach to hit.” Torkelson, for as good as his swing felt, came into the game hitting .160 with two extra-base hits. “I was like, what the heck is going on,” he said. “I wasn’t really hitting with any plan. I came in with a plan today. So that was reassuring.” Tork admits he didn't have a plan for hitting until yesterday? His mental game has been off the entire spring? Maybe he's the best we have at first base today, but I don't think I have much hope long-term for this guy anymore. It seems like he's trying to skate by on his innate talent. Unless he changes my mind this year, I'm all for moving on from him before his three years are up. Some will disagree, I'm sure.

I couldn't get it off last night ...

Well, I'm glad you don't see him as that. Makes me feel loads better. 😉

Cobb would totally nail “you can’t handle the truth!” Can he do the smarmy charm we see in the Gitmo scene? That’s the only part that gives me pause. I was weighing both Robert Mitchum and George C. Scott for the role as well. I think Mitchum can do the Gitmo scene really well, but I am unsure about whether he can do the courtroom scene effectively, so I’ve been leaning toward Scott, but I don’t have a firm conviction on the role yet. Natalie Wood is a great actress and definitely easy on the eyes, although she was also only 23 in 1962, coming off of West Side Story in which she played a vulnerable and emotional teenager. Galloway needs to project professional competence, military bearing, and controlled determination. She’s fighting to be taken seriously in a male-dominated world, so she can’t be too emotional or vulnerable. She needs to seem buttoned-up and authoritative first and foremost, with passion showing through strategically. Given that, I like Shirley MacLaine for Galloway. She was 28 that year, had more of that no-nonsense, “I’m here to do a job” quality while still coming off as warm and determined. Warmth is the part where I feel Demi Moore lacks just a bit in 1992, so I think if you could port 1962 Shirley to 1992 to play that role instead of Demi, she would actually be better at it.

I don’t think Lancaster could do Kaffee because the character is a brash young hotshot lawyer coasting on his father’s name, and Lancaster is almost 50 years old in 1962. Too old, too authoritative for a boy-to-man arc. Lancaster as Jessep is a legitimately good fit. Cold and controlled, could be physically intimidating, could convey the quality of absolute righteousness, had the star power. He’s on the short list, I think. Rethinking the Tony Curtis for Kaffee idea on the fly here: Cruise brings a kind of upper middle class Harvard energy to the role of, again, a hotshot pretty boy coasting on his dad’s name. Tony Curtis is definitely a pretty boy, but he’s also a brash, Bronx-accented, indeterminately-ethnic working-class guy fighting for everything he’s got. I think you’d have to lose the WASP-y nepo baby angle to shoehorn him into the Kaffee role. is that OK for the story? If not—if we must keep that angle—then Newman is just right for it. He has the genetics, the charm, the ability to be both cocky and vulnerable, and the dramatic chops for the transformation the story calls for.

I hadn’t thought of Tony Curtis, but I agree he would have been on the call list.

See, that’s the worst part: as Alarmist Non-sense, this is actually plausible. It’s more than just me blowing off steam.

I definitely would have gotten put out of the eighth-grade spelling bee on that one!

I am seriously starting to wonder that since he's 80 and basically going to die soon, he's decided that if he has to die, then nobody else can live beyond him. The chances he pushes the button on the way out the mortal door are decidedly above zero.

As I think about it, Robert Ryan could work as Jessep. My question is, could he do the charming twinkle in his eye at the same time while being menacing like Nicholson?