FondrenRoad

Last year, I would have thought you left off a zero or two.

I had forgotten that 3 run home runs were possible for the Astros. I've seen other teams hit them, even yesterday, and read about the Astros hitting them in history books.

Pleasantly surprised but yep. He needs to reset to his original game. He can put a bat on any ball. He needs to try to be more Ichiro and less Cecil Fielder. Altuve could hit 400 if he just tried to put the ball in play.

Lol at comparing Trump to any of them. Flawed as they all were, they all actually cared about the country and were capable of empathy in general. Trump is a sociopath who doesn't understand the feelings of others. He is a useful tool for Mitch and Barr who are taking all this too far. Never in our history is there anything comparable. Wake up. If you want the deregulated lawless world that Trump is bringing, then that's fine too. Let's do it. I've had to fight just to eat before in this country. I'll do it again. Like Trump said, what do you, buzzrock, have to lose?

While I have never thrown a can of tuna fish, you know, he might be right. It does have a nice weight to it, and you could probably get good spin and distance on it if you throw it right. Not sure why you would buy name brand for throwing though. Generic comes in the same can at a cheaper price. But I'd bet that Trump has never held a can of tuna or soup in his hands in his life.

You have already dipped your toe too far in the water for a snowflake like yourself. Be careful diving all the way in. If Trump wins reelection, this nation is over. You and Mitch need to understand what happens if you take it too far. Judges only matter in a nation of laws where the social compact holds. How long do you think a tyrannical minority can hold the majority hostage? Especially when that minority are all cowards like yourself. And you don't get worked up about hypocrisy because you are also a hypocrite with no ethics. As a proven coward and hypocrite, what value do you even provide to the world? I'm guessing your dad owned stuff that you now own. The people are gonna come for that if you don't wake up.

We need more HoR members. It is billshit that it is capped at 435. A rep cannot reasonably represent a district with 1m constituents. That leaves people in the dust. I'd like to see each rep have about 100k constituents max. Agree. I'd also take measures to end the nationalization of both the House and the Senate. All campaign donations and volunteers must come from the district. Politicians from outside the district are banned from offering opinions on races where they are not a qualified voter. PACs banned altogether. And we should ban parties altogether at every level. If you can't draft your own platform based on your own ideals, you have no business representing anyone.

They have cooler uniforms than us too.

How do you know if they really received it? If Trump went on stage and injected himself, the only way I would believe it wasn't a placebo would be if I watched it every step of the way from manufacture to injection.

Snowflake.

I don't think JV is ever coming back. Astros surely shouldn't rely on it. He has earned his Astro for life rainbow jersey though. Hope he wears our hat in the hall. Need to sign a pitcher from elsewhere for next year. But as bad as this year's pitching has been, its the shitty bats that have us where we are. We could have Cy Young, Nolan Ryan, peak JV, and roid Clemens pitching and still be treading water.

The amount we spend on defense is atrocious. The issue is that it is simply a self fulfilling pig trough rather than a force for actual defense. We prefer the most expensive weapon over the most effective weapon. We could have almost no military at all and nobody is going to invade us. All of our "defense" wars over the past century have been elsewhere. For the biggest one, we ramped up on the fly which is what normal countries that give a shit about their own citizenry do. Vatican City does have a small force. It is incapable of preventing invasion from Italy. Italy is incapable of preventing invasion from Germany or France. Yet all are satisfied with their defense spending.

To be fair, they were always full blown propaganda. Neither have ever been truthful about anything.

No need to change the map. PR is going to have a side square like Hawaii has. DC is already on the map. Plus, both are already filled with American citizens. Why do you hate Americans? Plus the flag has changed a lot over the years. Just like the Constitution. I'm sure that every time a new state has ever been added, people were like "oh my God, think of the maps, the flags." And you're the coward who is afraid of change. Flags and maps. Lol. You're afraid of your own shadow. Which is why the west and northeast should secede. You and your pussy king aren't going to do shit about it. Personally, I would like to go back to the original 13 stars. Like the founders intended.

Dems need to go scorched earth if they get the senate. Also, Mitch won't approve a single Biden appointment for 2 years if he holds the senate. The GOP is all in on ending our democracy. Dems need to wake up.

I agree to an extent. However, Nikki Haley, like so many others, does nothing at all lately except carry Trump's water. There aren't too many politicians that are able or willing to pick up the full Trump hate platform. They ride on it when Trump is running it, sure, but outside of Miller and the head of the neo-nazis, nobody else even wants to run the full Trump platform. And when Trump is gone, someone else will take over the GOP and swing it slightly in their direction. Haley would try to passify the deplorables, but she wouldn't implement most of their platform. Some of this shit even made Jeff Sessions pause. Think about that for a second. If racist Jeff Sessions is pausing, however briefly, because racist tactics are going too far, then they are going to be hard pressed to find a Trump 2.0. Nobody else can combine showmanship with a platform of pure hatred, while also being narcissistic enough to focus on the grifting aspect while not giving a shit about running a platform of hatred. The true believers aren't showman and aren't likable even to the hardcore Trumpers.

It isn't really about defunding. Its about justifying military intervention after stealing the election. This is the entire reason for trying to paint liberal cities as lawless. NYC continues to be safer than red state small cities. There is still zero anarchy and very little crime even though crime has gone up some in the middle of this global depression. That never really mattered though. Also, the NYPD aren't really defunded at all. DeBlasio played a shell game. Moved school safety to the DoE. That's it. The other cuts are part of the across the board cuts the city is making. And for the NYPD, that means skipping a single recruitment class and little more. I would be ecstatic if the federal government would fully fund the NYPD on its own. Pay each cop 500k a year. Hire more if you want. They will still have to comply with state and municipal regulations. If that is what Trump really wants to do, I doubt Deblasio and Cuomo would complain. They'd get the entire NYPD budget back to use for other things.

She would have supported it in 2016. And she would have supported it now if Garland had been confirmed like he should have been. Given what happened to Garland, she would not support a new Trump appointment now. The Republicans changed the rules in 2016. They need to remain consistent with their new rules. Alternatively, the truly right thing to do would be to appoint and confirm Garland now, and then reset this new nonsense Mitch implemented so a President can be President for 4 years once again.

Okay Karen. You'll be fine with 4 more years on non socialism. Maybe if you shitbags actually cut taxes to match.

Fuck off and go back under your bridge, troll. Let people with real values have a discussion.

I see him floating it as an idea, but it will open the door for court packing which he doesn't want. And that's the other thing. None of these people have real beliefs. It's all about getting elected. If Collins loses, she will never set foot in there again to vote. Same with most of them.

He won't. He doesn't know anything about judges. He just uses the federalist society list. The only question he probably asks them is how they would rule when he is the defendant. Other than that, they are just names on a list to him. He peeks at their Facebook to make sure they are white guys, asks them his one question, and then sends them to Mitch.

I dont think so. He is up 5-4 now. Ramming it through puts him up 6-3 temporarily if the Dems get the Senate. Dems will make it 7-6. If he sits pat with a 5-4 lead, Dems won't even attempt a Judiciary Act. Worse than that though is that, if the GOP keeps the Senate, he will ram it through and he won't confirm a single one of Biden's appointments.

Aiming for the lame duck period is the best strategy for him politically. But he will only ram it through then if he is keeping the Senate and losing the Presidency.

Louis XVI's impact on French history was immense too.