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  1. That article is awesome. Even aggy fans couldn't write something that bitter and whiny. Dodger fans have out-aggied aggy.
  2. Just more proof that his hospital tweet storm the other day wasn't really him. Around 20 tweets and nothing was misspelled.
  3. Umpiring has been terrible overall this postseason. In the AL at least. I have yet to watch a game with a consistent or correct strike zone.
  4. Fear based leadership decreases the sense of hope for the future. So abortion rates go up. So do crime rates.
  5. Your last sentence is the biggest problem for most anti-choice people. They also generally believe in the conservative bootstraps ideal. So not only do they want to prevent a poor potential mother from having an abortion, they also want to make her solely responsible for raising a child, and then also ultimately punish the mother or child when/if they make the bad decisions that some poor people make. In many ways, the USA is a political clusterfuck because the supposedly laissez faire right wing takes a hardline on issues like abortion but provides no backstop at all for them. Realistically, while I am against banning abortion, any ban should also come with a fully funded nanny state that allows the mother to fulfill her dreams while also paying for the child to be raised. This needs to go far beyond SNAP and TANF, and needs to include day care and tutoring at the very least. We also need to reform the adoption system that essentially "sells" babies. Adoptive parents shouldn't have to go into debt to adopt a baby. That money should go towards raising the baby. However, this idea that the potential child is a part of the "people" and not just the child of the mother is something that the USSR believed and it was why they banned abortion up until 1955. But even there, it failed, as the USSR had a very high illegal abortion rate prior to 1955 and the highest legal abortion rate in the world after 1955. At the end of the day, for a potential mother, whether a baby feels like an anchor to her isn't only, or even mostly, based on finances. As for your first 3 paragraphs, fetus is an old word. All of what you say is just semantics. There are multiple bright line events that occur in the growth of a fetus. Heartbeat. Brain function. Viability outside the womb. We could probably find an agreeable cutoff point. Yet everyone fights this fight in both directions with the "if I give an inch, they'll take a mile" strategy. But also, it should be a women's choice. And there's a reason that women largely support abortion remaining legal. Its entirely on them. Humans are a fragile species. Our young aren't truly capable of surviving on their own for roughly the first 10 years of life. And the fact that humans not only still exist, but thrive, is due entirely to women taking the responsibility of motherhood seriously. Yet ever since we were living in caves, some women probably weren't ready and threw newborns off the cliff. So while men like you and I can certainly have opinions, and we can save newborns from being tossed off the cliff these days, the decision on whether or not to allow another lifeform to grow and feed inside someone should fall on the person who has that lifeform growing and feeding inside of them. If/when we invent an artificial womb, then perhaps others can or should be involved in the decision making process. Yet even if that occurs, I imagine we will then be looking at a significant number of people that follow the artificial womb/orphanage/prison route because the only form of socialism that US conservatives seem willing to fund is the prison system.
  6. Or maybe he will try his hurricane nuking idea this time. Do paper towels clean up radiation?
  7. Trump's ability to lay down cover fire is unparalleled. Sometimes its intentional. Other times it isnt. I'm pretty sure he really has covid. I'm also pretty sure his team is going to try to steal the election. Even his support of white supremacy was cover fire for that. The GOP will do the same thing it always does to disenfranchise. Minority precincts in GOP controlled states will have fewer polling locations and will have "technical problems" at their polling locations. Voters with minority sounding last names will find themselves magically deregistered. These things suck, but we are accustomed to them. But Trump is also going to try to defraud the mail-in ballot system. Whenever Trump repeatedly accuses Dems of doing something, he has been shown to be doing it himself instead. I dont think this is any different. His team is going to send in fraudulent ballots for registered voters that don't normally vote. And if we don't catch them doing it, Trump will win.
  8. There was some of that. But also, the bats didn't play as well with the weight of expectations last year. When they got down, they had a hard time battling back. The bats we saw come back today, down twice, didn't exist last year. They did exist in 2017. Still, I have no hopes.
  9. I watched the debate. All the cocaine in the world couldn't have put him in that state if he was already symptomatic.
  10. Still only been 4 to 5 days. Second week of it is where its the worst.
  11. You know you can't change spots at a time like this.
  12. They have probably been doing that for four years. I bet he shits his depends so bad it could be classified as chemical warfare.
  13. Better than watching Baker Mayfield sell shit.
  14. Not if they recommended he stay, but he decided to leave anyway. Its not prison.
  15. Social media is a weird thing. My neighborhood goes 70 to 80% Dem in every election. The Facebook groups for my neighborhood are 75% maga olds. And they'll even shit on posts about things like restaurant openings. And it nearly always has an underlying racist intent. Still, even though they are loud on Facebook, they arent even the majority voice among white olds around here. Most white olds in my neighborhood also vote Dem.
  16. Now that all the people around Trump are catching it like dominoes, the odds go up that at least one of them is going to die from it. Christie might be the favorite right now. Of course going to the hospital is the right course of action. But Christie is the type that clearly doesn't give a shit about his own health until its too late, at which point he was always going to start racking up the hospital bills in order to extend his life just a little bit longer. While there are a lot of people that don't currently have access to "wellness" care, Christie has never been one of those people. Now he is going to jack up the premiums for everyone on Aetna or UHC or whatever insurer he is using. He was supposed to be a good little conservative and wait until he is on medicare to become a burden.
  17. My cousin in Bama is a full on Trumper, but isn't gonna vote for Tuberville. Not gonna vote for Jones either, but sometimes those half votes matter.
  18. Don't they have a body double? Surprised they dont fake release him. The double just has to wave from the suv.
  19. Cart before the horse. An obese man in his 70s that has already been on oxygen ain't beating this in 4 days. I think he does beat it, but its gonna be right around election day before he is his old shitty self again. And if he does beat it quickly, the message should be about the fact that Trump has access to that level of healthcare while the rest of us are left to die alone in the hallways of hospitals when we catch it. Even Trumps rich friend that died from it.
  20. Nope. I'm a single issue pro-Space Force voter. The security of outer space is the only thing that matters. I've seen Independence Day. I was wavering because I am against every single other thing he does, but I'm now back in the fold.
  21. None of those tweets are from him. Nothing is misspelled. 401(k) with parentheses. They are designed to look like he typed them, but it seems unlikely that today is the day he figured out how to spell check.
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