Balta1701

In a normal market? Sure. In a 2018 style constrained market? I'm more skeptical. In the nightmare market that I'm expecting... Basically, I think the prediction we saw a couple days ago is right. A couple teams like the Mets, Giants, and Angels will go out and sign 1 big name each, taking Realmuto and Bauer off the market, at moderate discounts perhaps. The middle part of the free agent market will then collapse, as no one will be willing to spend money on anything there, too many teams cutting payroll.

Rick Hahn didn't have to know who the manager was going to be, even if Reinsdorf had decided months in advance.

While that's true, people in the government now need to worry about their own party. Especially with 2 senate runoffs next month - there are levels of "bad" that he can pull off that could cost them those seats. They're also going to have a hell of a problem with hospitals nationwide in a week or two. Virtually everywhere.

I mean, a lot of that is law enforcement (or whatever other security they're using) having planned for this well beforehand, because people spent months gaming out worst case scenarios of what Trump might do.

I don't think he is. I think that's exactly the only reason why JR was willing to fire Renteria - he already had talked to LaRussa about it earlier this year. In the same chat about how he gets to choose when and how black people should protest and it should never be in any way he has to deal with, he also talked about wanting to return to managing. There were some clips from Reinsdorf included in the project. I'll bet you that was where they started talking about it, and when Hahn asked if he could fire RR, Reinsdorf shockingly agreed, only to spring LaRussa on them shortly thereafter.

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Predicton: he rejects it, he has to wait until the compensation expires before he signs anything, like Keuchel and Kimbrel had to.

I remember back to 2016 when Trump's outright racism and ignorance propelled a boost of excitement from the GOP base that we haven't ever seen, and he swept to the top of the polls almost instantly because of it. I see plenty of reasons to suspect that is exactly what the GOP base will continue to want, and if they're running against standard politicians like Pence and Haley...they could go straight for it again. Who else is going to openly court the angry racist and ignorant vote?

I mean,... https://www.startribune.com/charges-boogaloo-bois-fired-on-mpls-precinct-shouted-justice-for-floyd/572843802/ In case someone happens to not know, that's a far-right, strongly pro-Trump group. This event was staged and triggered by Right Wing groups so that the "leftists" would take the blame. So how many of the times it went over the line were actual "leftists" and how many were staged?

Pennsylvania will be officially called for Biden later today and that will end this. The others will correctly take days to be more certain. If Pa had these vote totals on Tuesday it would have already been called for Biden, but no one wants to do that yet because it makes him president-elect.

Just FYI, the Trump tax bill raised your taxes. It just waits for 2021 to kick in. By 2024 it will have gone up a few hundred a year from where it was in 2017. That bill was a huge middle and lower class tax increase, they used it to offset the top level tax cuts. For some reason they just delayed the increase until after the election.

I think Bernie did just fine on fundraising. He swamped Biden.

So your job is not to run Sanders or AOC and watch the attacks become effective. It’s to get the grass roots work done to build support for years. Decades even. ”I agree with you 100%. Now make me do it.”

Remember this though - every president faces crises. He’s sort of lucky it took him this long to have a real one. Might have something to do with how well set up the government was to run after 2016, it takes a while to dismantle that level of effectiveness and skill.

I don’t know my Illinois comparisons fully, but that sounds right. If McConnell wants nothing to pass because he believes that benefits him, nothing passes. For example, this is why there was never a Dream Act fix passed. It could easily get 60+ Senate votes, Obama would have signed it, McConnell will not bring it up for a vote. He has held those people hostage for a decade.

They litigated this in court weeks ago. Their printer mailed the wrong ballots to a set of voters showing them races they were ineligible to vote in. They have to manually remove votes from those ballots in local races and verify that people only sent in one ballot if they received a replacement. Everyone could vote in the Presidential race, but they have to check for duplicates.

You will probably get a similar amount from Pittsburgh tomorrow, they are just delayed due to a contractor printing problem that they have to double check by hand.

McConnell controls all. He decides what bills come to the floor. If he personally doesn’t want a bill to be voted on, it dies. They have to pass a few budget bills otherwise the government shuts down. Otherwise he basically must approve.

? go find the threads of people celebrating the end of the offseason last year.

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I mean they absolutely tried, it was as badly done as the last one, but this time when Giuliani tried releasing forged documents that just happened to show they were on a phone on a Russian telephone network, people caught on. The press went along willingly in 2016, for a number of reasons.

Dude the vote was 98-0. Rip him for the Iraq war vote.

The most notable is Chad Wolf, who has been acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (FBI, CIA, FEMA, ICE) since November of 2019. In September, a judge ruled that he was illegally serving in that role, and that many of his actions and policy changes likely will be invalid. He's also the one who was in charge of, for example, the assault on protestors in Portland.

To be fair, many of his interim appointees could not have gotten through the Senate despite Republicans being in control, because they were that bad. The hearings alone would have been a nightmare of bad press for the Republicans in the Senate.