Balta1701

I'm out.

Used your language from earlier. You said you "oppose" that but then you added in your usual clause about how you hope that Trump Succeeds regardless of his party. Ripping apart families because they are Mexican is what he wants to succeed at. You then added that failing to serve this person at a restaurant was "Sub-human". So, as far as I can tell, you don't like ripping apart families but want politicians to succeed regardless of party, but don't be mean to them just because they ripped apart families, that is what you describe as "sub-human". 21 hours ago, greg775 said: I said on here I was against the separation of kids from parents. I've said many times I dislike Trump but everybody thinks that's not true. You know, some people can dislike certain members of their own party. Some people can root for government officials to have success no matter the party. Obama wasn't universally praised but I respect the guy and liked him. I dislike Trump; how many times can I say it. I know ... I'm lying. I have some hidden Trump agenda. Sorry that I feel the doctoring of food is gross and sickens me and makes me think that behavior is sub-human as well.

I love how to some people having a 2 year old ripped from their parent and thrown in a cage with no contact with their parent is a minor deal while a restaurant refusing service to the people who defended that is a huge outrage. Actually no I hate that.

Frankly, thus far, yes.

For example, you, who want society to politely treat them as though what they're doing is normal.

Tolerating these people, letting them back into civil society, letting the people who ordered wars and torture come back and campaign like they did not commit war crimes...that is helping us lose elections.

I mean I dislike Rick and Kenny as much as anyone, but this is a little far even for me...

That's your own hangup dude.

Normally I'd be excited about dealing a body-blow to the Cubs, but I loved watching Jose pitch so much when he was with us that I'm much more sad to see him falling flat than I am anything else. Dude pitched his tail off for us and we did jack squat to support him, he deserved a shot to be appreciated and win games on a good team.

I think that we have turned a blind eye to people who should have been disgraced long ago as they kept getting jobs over at Fox News and elsewhere. Legitimate criminals like Oliver North, the architects of the Bush administration's torture policy, outright racists like Pat Buchanan. Polite society has not shunned them even when they ordered despicable acts or committed outright crimes, and the end result has been that they continued working to undermine polite society. The people who are in this administration should never, ever hold jobs in public service again. They should be working in the mailroom somewhere in South Carolina. They should feel uncomfortable about what they did every single day of their lives.

Jesus Christ, you wrote "Harley Davidson taking a few jobs out of the country" is a "body blow" on the day that the Court upheld the Muslim ban thanks entirely to a Supreme Court seat they rewrote all the rules to take, and the day after they approved the racial gerrymanders in Texas and North Carolina that will help them keep the House this fall?

If the premise is that we should be ok with what is happening and this is just normal politics, then we have absolutely already lost because Trump's side is not fighting that way.

So Tesla's hundred-million dollar assembly line is working so poorly that they rented a huge tent and set it up in their parking lot and are now building their cars with limited automation in that tent while they struggle with the assembly line.

When you take the first punch, and then the second, and then the third, eventually it's you who winds up unconscious.

Is it? Let's put it this way. When Mitch McConnell first spoke about Donald Trump's proposed ban on Muslims, he stated that it was ""completely inconsistent with American values." He then held open the Senate seat that today allowed it to be upheld. When it was upheld, he shared a picture of him shaking Gorusch's hand. Something that 2 years ago was "completely inconsistent with American values" is now something he brags about. Polite society is losing.

1. If a restaurant in Austin wanted to make a policy of No Aggies eating there...more power too 'em, I kinda like those rivalries. 2. Let's just go with yesterday arguing that "“Just because you don’t see a judge doesn’t mean you aren’t receiving due process" as a way to justify the president's support for an illegal policy of kicking people out of the country without any right to a hearing. 3. One of the lessons of the past few years in my eyes is that allowing these ideas to fester inside the Republican party, that not challenging them, that treating "birtherism" and "white nationalism" and now the "incel" movement, that has allowed them to grow and take over the entire country. We gave those movements space, expecting them to flame out, but with a little support from a foreign country, they exploded, and now supporting prominent neo-nazis is a thing that happens regularly from congresspeople and the President. Treating white nationalism like it was just another political movement, that it was still respectable, helped us get here.

He was a #9 draft pick for a reason. The kid has good stuff, his pitches are hard to pick up with good velocity and a ton of movement on everything, but his delivery has been tinkered with over and over again, it was a high energy and hard to repeat delivery in the first place, and the White Sox have given him zero chances to develop consistency with it, starting with him being called up to save the bullpen in 2016. 2k5 regularly points out that he's had fewer innings since being drafted than I think anyone else in our rotation. His stuff is absolutely good enough to give him dominant performances on occasion, even against big leaguers, so having a great performance in the minors should not surprise. Repeating that success...that might be legitimately surprising, but there's a good pitcher in there if we can ever put the puzzle pieces together.

1. You brought up, yourself, "it isn't ok to f*** with people who are having abortions". This country has, for years, deemed the opposite to be true - that if you are a woman going to an abortion clinic, you have the legal right to be f***ed with until you enter the door. They climb fences, they take photographs of people entering, they yell, shout, swear, etc. This country has repeatedly said we're ok with that. Given that standard, I'd be ok with that same treatment following around every member of this administration. That's what the law has said and that's the example you gave. 2. I haven't moved the goal posts. The top person in this administration, that she chooses to work for, described people chanting "Blood and soil" as "Very fine people". They regularly describe immigrants as "Vermin". If that is just "having different ideas", then you and I have different ideas of what legitimate political discussion should be. If they're willing to cross the lines of decency then people should not have to treat them decently.

I've always hoped that the best version of Anderson is Jose Reyes but with fewer steals. Guy who starts out way too aggressive and never is a walk machine, but eventually gets to about a 10% walk rate, who then hits 15-20 HR per year and puts up an .800-ish OPS for several seasons.

I'd like to note that the Supreme Court has in fact knocked down any attempts to bar protests and harassment at abortion clinics. Hell just today they ruled that it's ok for "Crisis pregnancy centers" to pretend to be licensed medical facilities and the state of California can't require them to note that they're not. What you just said isn't good precedent to set happens all the time in this country and we're totally ok with that.

No a lawyer who defends a serial killer should not be harassed and that example comes no where close to the kinds of acts we're talking about here. If a person has declared publicly that they believe you aren't worth as much as them because of your background, are you going to be polite to them and serve them? If your cooks are hispanic immigrants and a member of this administration is at the table, and they have publicly advocated that people like you are dangerous criminals and worth less than them because of your background, should your cooks be forced to serve them? Should a jewish cook at a deli be required to seat and serve a person who walks around chanting "Jews will not replace us"?

It's going to cost $16 million to keep him for next year. That's a pretty high price to pay to maybe get a supplemental draft pick if we're willing to offer him $20 million.

So the person disagrees with you on taking kids from their families and losing them in the system as punishment for requesting asylum in the US. You're ok with that and consider their sincere belief that we need tender age shelters to hold kids pulled from their parents to be just another political disagreement? Is there a line where you say "no, this isn't ok as a political disagreement anymore"? Or if I pull out the most extreme examples I can from the last year, you're ok with all of them?

So, since you are arguing that a strong system is not that important to developing a contender, what is it in your eyes the White Sox did wrong over the 8 year period from 2009-2016 that led to them being far out of the race 6 out of 8 years? Poor managing? Poor big league scouting?