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I saw him hit a home run live at Wrigley Field. Not that it would help his case to want to hit there anymore ...

lol half a peck.

Related to this: it was bad enough when every sports game had at least one gambling commerical every single break pushing you to bet on games. Now I'm starting to see them during regular (non-sports) programming. I saw a Draft Kings commercial on the WGN Noon News. Who watches the WGN Noon News? I gotta believe it indexes very high for senior citizens on fixed incomes. Why let them keep their money when they can gamble it into the pockets of the Ilitches and the Ricketts and the Krafts all the rest of those team owners, I suppose.

A "handful of children"? That's ... uhhhhh ... 😉

Exactly. So ironic since the generation of parents who out of stranger danger fear started insisting they had to accompany their children to school themselves likely walked to school every day.

That makes sense. The 8 Mile Road sign, at least the Detroit side of it, is in a pretty unique font you don't see anywhere else.

Don’t parents (mothers) typically walk their grade school kids to school every day? That’s what I see around here. Maybe that’s more of a city thing.

Man, talk about nothing to see. Divided road, five lanes each side, practically a highway. Next time, you wanna show your BIL the real, drive him down 7 Mile Road. That’ll wake him up.

Or 4:30, here in the city. I remember year round DST when I was a kid. It was the middle of the energy crisis. Parents went apeshit because they had to send their kids to school in the dark in January. I was a kid. I didn’t care, I was already up delivering newspapers around the neighborhood in the dark and on foot by 6:00am. Nobody fretted about me doing that.

Best thing that ever happened to me is that when I gambled for the first time on penny-ante poker when i was in grade school, I lost all the time. That cured me of any desire to pursue gambling as a pastime. Since then, every time I have dipped my toe into betting waters, I’ve gotten beat, and then I’m done with it for years. Keeps my money in my pocket. That said, I do run several pools: a college football bowl pools, a March madness squares pool, and a 13-run baseball pool. I run them because, frankly, I enjoy managing the process. My reward for running these is that peculiar kind of fun, plus I get a free entry funded by the pot. I never buy any extra entires. And I never win. Good example: I’ve run March madness squares for five years, 63 games each tourney, 315 games in total. By the law of averages I should have hit three games by now. Nope. Zilch. This year my entry has the losing team ending in a 4. First day, yesterday, 16 games, no losing teams ended in 4, but seven different games had the losing team end in a 3. The same people who play my pools win every year—they practically make a second income off my pools. I’m forever cutting the same people Zelle payments or checks. Some people are just lucky like that. I’m just not. Suits me fine.

Didnt Trump himself say almost exactly this?

An editorial designed to piss everyone off and drive away friends, apparently. Here’s an interesting paragraph: Roy Block, 76, from San Antonio, described himself as conservative and said he has been alarmed by scenes of parents being silenced at school board meetings over the past year. “I think it’s mostly conservatives that are being silenced,” he said. “But regardless, I think it should be a two-way street. Everybody should have an opportunity to speak and especially in open gathering and open forum.” I don’t know where this guy has been, but social media is lousy with video examples of unhinged people lipping off at school board meetings in all kinds of toxic ways.

You make it sound as though one of these two is a bad guy.

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All depends how successfully the electorate’s attention is diverted from this and onto something probably far less consequential, like trans athletes in women’s sports.

"White nationalist" is such a gentle term. "Hey, I'm white, and I love my country, so I'm a nationalist. What's wrong with any of that?"

See? This proves it's working.

Hillary sold Russia some of her own personal uranium? I understand the Clintons are evil baby-eating satanists and everything, but who knew they had their own uranium farm?

Have you ever heard the old saw, "living well is the best revenge"? I think that's related to all this. All you have to do for a lot of those folks to hate you is to appear to be living well. That doesn't apply to Trump himself, of course—he was appointed by Jesus to save America from the others who live do well, as well as from their Antifa/BLM foot soldiers. Or something like that. Maybe Bunker can clarify. But yeah, I agree with you here for the most part.

Well, I mean, that’s already implied, right? 😏

And not MTG or Republicans. Imagine that!

“Thoughts and prayers”

Is MTG basically telling us here that she has a direct financial interest in Russia?

I do remember Trump from the 80s and 90s, and you can easily find examples of him from that time on video. He did seem to have a quieter demeanor, but then again, when he is interviewed one on one now, he's quieter. I think his people like the exaggerated shouting and haranguing he does when he's on stage, or when being interviewed by phone, like on OAN and Fox and AM radio; being on the phone tends to make people louder than when they are one on one with people. Maybe that's how the red hats are exposed to him, exclusively. Maybe it reminds them of the authoritarian figures in their own lives that were more common fifty or more years ago, and they respect and fear and admire that.

Javy Baez statted last year ranked ninth among top shortstops Lon MLB network, and finished eighth in WAR. This year he’s missed the list entirely. Someone needs to take a screenshot of this and post it over his locker for motivation.