And as foretold, the antiChrist has the nuclear codes

I have been wrangling with the idea that Trump is the antiChrist for years, but tonite really puts the oomph into that idea with that picture he posted. I am a vague neo-pagan quakerish quasi-gnostic and tonite I'm screaming HERETIC! BLASPHEMER!

This is useful. They do seem a bit innovative with things like drones. How would their level of professionalism compare to the Iraq of Saddam Hussein?

I'm assuming the Iranians have thought through all this and would not be taking their cues from Bluesky. But if I am mistaken about that, then he should not respond.

Thank you for this detailed explanation. My next question: the Iranians get a vote too, and while their primary convention assets have been wiped out, what can they do with asymmetrical means? In other words, if you were Iran, how would you defend against the deployment of two MEUs by the US?

I just really don't care any more. There are a few articles Id want to save but it just feels weird to be erased like that. They didn't warn me or anything, of course the decision-makers there probably have no idea who I am-was.

It has come to my attention that Vox Media recently took all my MinorLeagueBall content off line. We'd agreed when they laid me off that the site would stay up since it was the repository of my entire 12 years of work. So it's all gone, my entire baseball career.

This is totally evil and a very very large step down the slippery slope to religious fascism. The only point of this is to harass people, divide them, embarrass them, shame them, make transgender people "other" so they can be isolated and purged.

Sickening. I am ashamed to be a Kansan.

Unfortunately I doubt there are many Albert Speer types around who will resist the Nero Order to destroy the country once Orange Adolf realizes he has lost.

I have been fully retired from baseball writing for a few years now, going on six.

It was good to me for a long time and I am thankful for that, but I must admit I do not miss it.

I especially do not miss daily blogging and the way I was treated by Vox Media towards the end.

The choice in 2024 was between a candidate who helped stop sex trafficking of women and girls vs a candidate who was in charge of sex trafficking women and girls and boys and who raped so many people. 2/3rds of this country were like "meh both are the same". And that's why we are where we are.

I believe his title is Reichsfuhrer-GOP

The real question, Tom...do you read Sutter Kane?

President of what?

At this point, they didn't have the budget for a shuttlecraft. It wasn't until they made a deal with AMT model kits and AMT helped finance a shuttle mini for filming that they could start doing shuttle episodes. Before that it didn't come up in scripting. In my head canon it was due to weather.

As Trump's dementia progresses, his already leaky social filters will continue to weaken.

He's at the "posting racist memes" phase.

Within 6 months he will slip and use the Nword in public. Mark it down.

He just oozes menace and bad faith. A poisonous presence even worse than Trump, because he is more conscious than Trump is.

President Melakon

The dog was obviously a domestic terrorist.

Part of this is probably to get them out of Minnesota, probably send them to a red state that may not extradite easily once the murder charges come.

We’re barely 1 year into Trump’s term and Republicans have already abandoned their 60+ year commitment to the 2nd Amendment out of pure fealty to their king.

"You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people, but an earnest people and will fight too, and they are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it."--- William T Sherman

Diversity is a positive good.

On my mom's side, I am Palestinian and Greek, immigrated in 1960s.My mom had blond hair when she was a kid.On my dad's side Dutch-German-English mixture. "Sickels" derives from Van Sickles who came to New Amsterdam in the mid 1600s. My middle name is Arabic. I love having a mixture of backgrounds.

Then Herman Goering as head of the Prussian police gave the new SA-cops absolute immunity for any crimes committed attacking Jews, non-nazis or people who protested.
History doesn't repeat exactly but it sure as hell rhymes. 2

One of the first things the Nazis did after taking power was hire Sturmabteilung thugs into the regular national police forces and firing anti-Nazi cops. 1

The immorality of invading Venezuela and "running it" is exceeded only by the stupidity and impossibility of the task.

D) Anonymously pay off a bunch of GoFundMes. E) Big checks every year to every food bank and woman's shelter in the country

What about the bum who vaporizes himself with the phaser? Perhaps his death is what creates the TOS timeline by setting in motion events that lead to advanced genetic engineering, nuclear rocket engines, and suspended animation by the 1990s...the death of the bum sets up the Eugenics Wars.

I love is that Christopher's jet is an F-104 Starfighter, which was notorious for being very fast but very fragile. It would definitely not hold up to a tractor beam. Of course I know logically that they just used available stock footage but it is fun to believe they picked the 104 on purpose.