This was from my thread 2 weeks ago during the horrifying "civilization will die" waiting game. I'm maybe a smidge less terrified because Trump so desperately wants a deal (and Iran does too though they still have the leverage). But the choices are still humiliation or escalation.
Never Wanted to Find Out?
I never wondered what it would be like to have the absolute dumbest people in charge of the country, but whooo boy I sure am finding out.
As I stare down the specter of turning 50 next month nothing about aging bothers me more than my weakening eyes (he types into a screen zoomed in to a level that just a year ago he would have found comically large).
There is no clearer window into Trump’s psyche than this post.
Hmm. Forgot about that. Smiths under contract through ‘33, but Freddie’s only signed through next year. I guess using Rushing as a utility guy for 2 years then giving him first base is a more viable plan.
Trade him or trade Smith. They’re both too good to only play 80 games a year.
The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.
Small sample size and all but if Dalton Rushing keeps this going in any way he's going to force the Dodgers into having to make a really uncomfortable decision.
Peanuts in the shell. With this guy tossing it straight into my lap from two aisles over, behind the back.
Here's another that's less jokey: The Democratic Party offered Hillary Clinton a clear run at a safe-blue Senate seat as a quid pro quo for not divorcing Bill during his presidency.
MLB facilitated the Dodgers acquisition of Mookie Betts as a tacit apology for the 2017 World Series
Anyway it's hilarious to pretend Chavez-DeRemer was fired for drinking when Patel and Hegseth still have jobs. Equally hilarious to pretend she was fired for abuse of power when...fuck, all the rest of them still have jobs.
Kristi Noem, Pam Bondi, and Lori Chavez-DeRemer all seem to have something in common. It’ll come to me, I think
This is also the take of someone who's never travelled with a child.
I...uh...no? Just...no.
I mean, we can all make judgements about the tradeoffs of checking a bag. Your tradeoff doesn't have to be my tradeoff. There's nothing inherently good or virtuous about not checking a bag.
As they used to say, you can't teach height.
That was less than 10 years ago.
Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments (functionally, kicked out of the GOP caucus) for saying stuff less racist than this.
It might be a bit cliche but I Will Survive might really be the GOAT song in the English language. It's certainly in the discussion.
Thanks, but it's not a problem. We all do it.
I don't know about first, but I forgot about him and yeah he should probably take Ralph's place.
There's a lot of room on the list.
Oh yeah.
If I had to rank-order the top 5 people most responsible for <<waves arms>> all this, it would be
1. Donald Trump
2. John Roberts
3. Mitch McConnell
4. Newt Gingrich
5. Ralph Reed
*misusing the power of his office but LOL that's a pretty good typo.
Patel is a bad person who's missing the power of his office but his boss is a also bad person who creates horrible incentive structures for his underlings. Which, not for nothing, is why only bad people work for him.
It's insanely corrupt for the head of federal law enforcement to sue a media outlet for defamation but let's not also forget that Patel *has* to be seen as fighting back to placate his boss because we have a president who thinks that people who don't swing back are suckers and losers.
I dunno I'm starting to think this Trump guy might not be on the up & up.
