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It's true that the fighting and the battles did not take place on American soil. By the same token, people in America lived under the specter that it would for almost four years, and also, their loved ones and neighbors constantly became casualties of the war overseas. And even for the home front folks, even without local bloodshed, every day there were constant unceasing reminders of the war that affected everyday life for them. They were part of the living memory we needed to keep it alive. Without that, and without the same kind of monuments they have in Germany, the American People forget, and then eventually never really learn. Once it all becomes history in a book or a grainy black-and-white film, it no longer seems real or affective to us.

I agree with the consequences angle, and it’s possible that many of our neighbors are falling for the primrose promise of America First fascism because World War II is no longer in the living memory of anyone influential. If it were, the burning memory of it would still resonate with the majority of Americans. But it’s now almost 80 years on, close to a century, and nobody remembers Hitler in any real sense, so he seems like a harmless historical relic to far too many people, and even an attractive action figure to too many others. People aren’t seeing truly terrible things happen to anyone who looks like the still-prevalent power structure, which still looks like the majority of Americans. If it’s not happening directly to us or Western Europeans, too many people ignore it as though it’s really happening. And then we see all this starting to develop, and we wonder how to stop it. There’s only one way to truly stop it: consequences.

There’s a reason they don’t define it: the tighter the definition, the fewer things they don’t like that they can use it against. It’s the same thing with “social justice” and “diversity”, and when the economy falters, as all economies eventually do, it will be the same thing with “ESG”.

Oh, hey, are we doing antisemitism here now? Kewl.

Some pretty good jokes in that thread.

Also, lol zero hedge. Remember that Putin shit from the old board?

COVID for the 32nd straight month.

It’s my fault. I saw all four of those guys play in Sarasota yesterday.

I’m gonna give Harris some rope on this one. I’m not ready to write him off yet. Let’s see how he pans out. I just like the idea of finding talent in not the tired and true usual ways.

This is fantastic! Get talent wherever you can it! Given the Tigers new focus on kinesiology, they must be seeing something in his delivery that is smooth, strong and repeatable.

Teams play that shell game all the time. One common way they do it is to set off parking and concessions into separate companies and mark revenue to them instead of to the baseball company. When you have a closed book system like Baseball does, it’s easy to get away with.

You’re making a really good point here. Anyone who is truly following and reflecting the teachings of Christ doesn’t have to constantly declare that they’re followers of Christ. Actions, not words.

I know what Slack is. Can I be a congressman now?

I chuckle when I hear anyone in media who believes Fox viewers would be horrified to learn they've been lied to about Dominion fixing votes for Democrats. First of all, no matter how compelling the evidence is, they will never, ever come to admit or conclude that it's a lie. They think the whole Dominion suit is the real lie, and that the left-wing mainstream media and left-wing courts who are the lackey running dogs of the Biden Crime Family are all in on the conspiracy to continue to defraud them out of Trump's rightful win. And they think that because they've been told that by people they trust. Secondly, they don't watch media like Fox News to get the unvarnished truth, anyway. They go to hear what they want to hear, period. They don't want information that tastes like bitter kale. They want disinformation that tastes like cotton candy. Holding up Fox News to shame for, I guess, abrogating their journalistic ethics, or whatever, is a complete joke, and Fox is laughing at that joke all the way to the bank.

lol facts how precious

I don't think he has to get on every state's ballot. Just enough to throw a wrench into the works. He could make up a party out of thin air, get a hell of a lot of money from rubes and oligarchs alike along with hundreds of people smart enough and good enough at running things to bring it to fruition, and probably get on the ballot in at least a couple dozen states. The idea would be to steal enough electoral votes to force that very House vote. If the situation in November 2024 is roughly the same as today, could win probably every deep south state, and a bunch in the Midwest and west. Just a quick trip around the calculator while looking at states' electoral vote totals yields maybe 140 electoral votes, and that's counting on him losing Florida and Texas. I'm not predicting this is going to happen and I'm not certainly saying it's likely. I think the most likely thing is the Banana Republicans cave in and crown him the candidate in Milwaukee. But if it looks by this fall like the establishment is successfully freezing him out of the process altogether, then hell yeah he's going to try a third party run.

So would we. I trust Harris to flip Schoop for something useful way more than I did the former guy.

My wife and I are headed down to Miami to meet up with a buddy of mine who's coming in from Boston, and we will be taking in the Venezuela-Dominican game Saturday night. This will probably be the last game I see without the pitch clock, and if my experience in Cuba is any indication, it will be a four-plus-hour nine-inning extravaganza with vuvuzelas going off constantly around us. It's gonna be a blast. Can hardly wait!

This is definitely Jonathan Schoop's last year with the Tigers, and unless he has a near-All Star season, I would bet he goes in July for someone deep in someone else's system who is on nobody's radar but Scott Harris's.

Coming from the guy who salivated over the prospect of Trump winning the republican nomination in 2016 convinced that he was gonna get smoked by Hillary in the general ... careful what you wish for. Because Trump would probably win a bunch of states and DeSantis would win a bunch of others, including states that went for Biden in 2020, leaving [Insert D Nominee Here] to scrounge for whatever is left over, since it's almost certain they would not pick up even a single Trump 2020 state. And remember: if a candidate does not get the majority of electoral votes in the general election, the final decision goes to the House in the constitutional but nevertheless anti-democratic one state-one vote compromise solution. And in that scenario, a quite likely outcome is Trump becomes president.

The hell you say. Elizabeth Warren is nothing like George Santos. Literally. Nothing.

This comes from the same corner as colored people made white people lynch them because they were too uppity, and women make men rape them because they wear short skirts.

Agreed. They are relying on decades-old tropes about what economic geniuses conservatives are, effectively gaslighting their red hat base who are (perhaps willfully) ignorant of the actual history.

Who the fuck is Brandon J Weichert and why should I care about anything he has to say?

That won’t work for them either because they are failing on economic stuff, too.