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https://sports.yahoo.com/padres-introduce-controversial-ticket-plan-encourages-fans-root-losses-184500254.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/07/24/ron-desantis-wants-to-be-governor-of-florida-a-particularly-odd-place-to-dismiss-a-young-hispanic-woman/?utm_term=.91d395f704f2 De Santis elevating national profile of Ocasio-Cortez, at least he could attempt to learn how to pronounce a Spanish name in Florida. Jackass!

Trump is likely to reinforce his support for farmers when he travels to Iowa on Thursday because the state offers a test case for the sentiment of grassroots voters in the fall. In a sign that the administration is worried about trade blowback in the Hawkeye State especially, Vice President Mike Pence is just back from a visit and offering a promise: "Under President's Trump's leadership we are always going to stand with American farmers." Iowa's political significance to Trump's political future cannot be doubted. If Democrats flip the state in 2020 and add its neighbor, Wisconsin, and Florida, they have a path to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House. Before then, Democrats are targeting several races that they believe could help them recapture the House this year. Republicans do have advantages in Iowa. The unemployment rate, at 2.7 % in June, is below the national average. Trump won the state by nearly 10 percentage pointstwo years ago, though his approval rating has since dipped. Social and religious conservatives in Iowa and elsewhere were vital for the President in 2016, and he has repaid their loyalty with two Supreme Court picks and by moving the US Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. "The biggest fan may very well be the evangelicals. They wanted that built," Trump noted Monday, in another sign that he is watching his electoral coalition like a hawk. But Iowa's mostly Republican officeholders have also sounded the alarm, warning the President in a letter last month that his tariffs have "real consequences." And while there was a cautious welcome for the farm aid package on Tuesday, many Republicans warned that it was just a short-term solution. "Many US products face market barriers abroad. I don't fault the President for trying to get a better deal for Americans, but it's not fair to expect farmers to bear the brunt of retaliation for the entire country in the meantime," said Iowa's Sen. Chuck Grassley. "What farmers in Iowa and throughout rural America need in the long term are markets and opportunity, not government handouts," Grassley said. There was also evidence of an ideological divide between Republicans and their President. Bailing out farmers to mitigate the consequences of a tariff-raising strategy runs directly counter to generations of GOP economic orthodoxy. House Speaker Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican who is often loath to criticize Trump, said: "I just don't think the tariff route is the smart way to go." There were grumbles about the farm aid package from inside the weekly caucus meeting of Republican senators. One GOP senator wouldn't name names, but said on condition of anonymity that members from agricultural states reported general frustration with the President. "It was people from farm country saying, 'Things have changed,' (a) lot fewer MAGA hats around," the senator said. cnn.com

Surely the $12 billion in farmers’ welfare payoffs will trick them, lol... https://finance.yahoo.com/news/socialists-coming-democratic-party-190305177.html Article that could have been written by Reddy attacking the charismatic Ms. Ocasio-Cortez...

Lock him up!!!

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/23/opinions/trump-is-taking-us-down-the-path-to-tyranny-sachs/index.html US on the path to tyranny...has fallen from 7th to 31st on world democracy index

Probably a good idea with all this focus on past social media posts getting people in hot water...I’m sure this current age of political vitriol is going to eventually bring about a string of lawsuits about job discrimination/bias based on one’s political beliefs and social media postings. I’m older, and could care less...but someone in their 20’s or 30’s has to be more vigilant.

Seems it is more aimed at John Brennan, reading between the lines...

I think most would prefer Encounters Unlimited, lol...

Trump is going after Reddy....campaign stop/rally in Dubuque this week .

Season high in K’s, because...of course!

Twice...this is becoming like a baseball-wide conspiracy against Moncada.

Poor Moncada...

Heard Rush’s fill-in today making fun of that list and Ocasio-Cortez’s knowledge of Middle East economics. Right now, there’s certainly nobody that scares you if you’re Trump. That’s probably a good thing, if he underestimates his opponents, as opposed to taking them quite seriously.

Trump has to be a complete idiot if he thinks the Chinese are trying to devalue their currency intentionally... If it wasn’t for tariffs/threat of tariffs and the US raising interest rates, so much money wouldn’t be flowing into the dollar and yen and away from emerging markets. You can’t complain about trying to prevent inflation (slowing down “Trump’s economy”) and simultaneously whine about all the predictable market reactions around the world. If Trump wouldn’t have gotten into this trade war in the first place, they might have successfully been able to sustain a 4-5% GDP growth rate into 2019 or even 2020 (still, that hot an economy would force rate hikes eventually.) No way they can pull that off with the current uncertainty. As it stands now, the economy’s going to slow down to a standstill in his election year.

Does it work on politicians, too? I’ve managed to injure Tatis, Puig, bring back Ohtani from the dead...so far Madrigal hasn’t been affected, lol.

5/8 so far for Madrigal...seems to be getting out of his late collegiate and AZL “slump” quite nicely.

Fast, you mean? Or you think he should be at 100-102?

Trump is the master of “woe is me-ism/everyone’s out to get me.” But he loves to attack nearly everyone else...just doesn’t react particularly well when it’s turned back on him. It’s the classic mixture of hubris and complete lack of empathy, served up every day.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/19/politics/2020-democrats-rankings/index.html Chris Cilizza put out a list of Top 10 Dem candidates for president and will update every month...a bit surprised Holder and Bullock are so high. Seems to be favoring Warren over Sanders mostly on gender (see Harris and Gilibrand). Still Biden’s pole position to lose at this point. Trump’s already leading with his Crazy Joe attacks.

https://sports.yahoo.com/rep-devin-nunes-spent-15000-campaign-finances-three-celtics-games-174009415.html Nunes spends $15000 of campaign/re-election funds on the Celtics...because, well, the GOP can do whatever the hell it wants. This is why we needed Citizens United so badly.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/maxine-waters-warns-supporters-possible-armed-protests-against-090504635--abc-news-topstories.html The greatest gift in the world for Trump right now would be for these so-called Oath Keepers (militia group protesting Maxine Waters) to be attacked by BLM or Antifa...except I’m not sure how many on the left are willing to lay down their lives for her in this case.

Don’t see the title “journalist” anywhere near his Wikipedia entry...maybe Rabbit can amend it and see what happens, haha. Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (born 27 November 1982[3]), known by the pseudonym Tommy Robinson, and previously as Andrew McMaster and Paul Harris,[4]is an English far-right activist[5] who co-founded and served as spokesman and leader of the English Defence League (EDL),[6] from which he resigned in 2013. For a short time in 2012, he was joint party vice-chairman of the British Freedom Party. He led the EDL from 2009 until 8 October 2013. He continued as an activist, and in 2015 became involved with the development of Pegida UK, a British chapter of the German-based Pegida organisation (Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West).[7] In May 2018, Robinson was sentenced to 13 months imprisonment for contempt of court after publishing a Facebook Live video of defendants entering a law court, contrary to a court order to prevent reporting those specific trials while proceedings are ongoing.[8]That sentence included activation of an earlier 3 month suspended sentence for a similar earlier contempt of court. He wrote for The Rebel Media and wrote an autobiography, Enemy of the State, and Mohammed's Koran: Why Muslims Kill for Islam, together with Peter McLoughlin.

Well, yeah...no REAL consequences, unless they somehow lose control of the Senate as well. The Founding Fathers seriously underestimated the ability of politicians to care more for themselves than their country. https://www.yahoo.com/news/ronald-reagan-patriot-call-trump-090044618.html “This was right there for everyone to watch for themselves, live on all the channels. And unless you’re one of those 25 percent of Americans who would continue to support Trump even if he ripped off his face to reveal a lizard alien sent from some distant galaxy to subjugate humanity because, you know, even an insatiable carnivorous alien lizard is better than Obama, then what you saw had to leave you a little nauseated. This was Trump presenting a united front with one of the world’s most repressive and deceitful leaders, throwing the men and women who quietly and bravely defend our country under the grinding wheels of a Russian limousine. This was Trump, a disastrous 24 hours later, trying to undo the damage by claiming that when he had said he had no reason to think it would be Russia hacking our computers, what he meant was that he had no reason to think it wouldn’t be Russia.

What are they going to do with Seager and Turner?