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That’s the main “liberal” position you have, getting lots of free stuff. Except that’s the exact terminology Republicans will throw at Dems as an insult. Right out of Rush Limbaugh’s mouth. If you were forced to choose liberal or conservative, you would choose conservative every time, but then turn around and write “centrist/moderate” wasn’t available as an option, right?

LUIS Robert having his worst game in the US...

Here is the answer to StrangeSox, being bold! Whether Our Revolution or mother’s Democratic Socialists Of America (DSA), pulling off one of the biggest election upsets in modern history! Donald Trump has made it easy for politicians to be part of the "resistance" without really doing much... One of the biggest dangers of this administration is the erosion of norms, which is pretty typical for authoritarian regimes. This is one of the problems when it comes to immigration. My opponent has literally called ICE fascist, yet he refuses to take the stance of abolishing it, which to me is morally incomprehensible. Words mean something, and the moment you have identified something as fascist, that with it carries a moral responsibility to abolish it. That's what I'm talking about when we say that norms have been eroded: that we literally have elected officials arguing to basically retain fascist agencies. And that's on the left. When I talk about the abolishment of ICE, it is not a fringe position. [ICE] was established in 2003 in a suite of legislation that almost everybody recognizes as a mistake. People recognize the Patriot Act as a mistake. They regret voting for the AUMF, they regret the Iraq War, and DHS [the Department of Homeland Security] and ICE were right in there with all of that legislation. Our campaign has been really effective in refining and providing a very clear moral and economic voice for what must and should be done. And it's very unapologetic. How do we get bolder candidates actually elected? The biggest thing is that right now voters need to start taking an elevated level of responsibility over our elections. Because if you look at my district, for example, we have about three percent primary turnout. I spent the first nine months of my campaign operating out of a paper grocery bag while I worked in restaurants. That's how I spent May of 2017 until February of this year. And there was this kind of self-fulfilling or self-defeating cycle for nine whole months where people were saying, "I'd really love to support you," but people were waiting until somebody else donated to my campaign. What we need to realize, especially we're talking about women of color, people of color, working class, poor candidates, you make them viable by choosing to support someone that you agree with. I got lucky. There are a lot of other candidates like me out there: 2016 was disheartening for a lot of people, but the problem, again, is early cynicism. Our first reaction should be: how can I help you? And the only reason I am here today is because of very small critical mass of people were willing to take a risk. There's a lot of talk of "civility" right now. I do know that because of who I am, there are characteristics that people would be predisposed to think about me. It's easier to label someone like me as emotional, or explosive, or whatever. But what I think is powerful is the fact that [my campaign uses] such unapologetic language while remaining composed. People in my opponent's camp have accused me of running a negative campaign. I find it very interesting that we have now interpreted holding people accountable as negative. I never called him a name, I have never insulted him. But because I talk about the fact that he takes money from immigrant detention center profiteers, because I talk about the fact that he has been under multiple ethics investigations within his role, both in Congress and as the chairman of the Democratic Party, because I'm holding him accountable for what he's done, that accountability is being interpreted as negative. Because he's a Democrat, and also because he is powerful, and we're somehow not allowed or not supposed to talk about the misguided actions of people who are in power. Our democracy is designed for that to happen. Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power. Our democracy is designed for elections to be these kinds of conversations and referendums on our leadership. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/28-old-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-165108161.html

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already made history with her campaign to challenge Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley for his seat in congress: the 28-year-old Bronx-born woman is the first person to face off against Crowley in a primary election throughout his entire 14 year tenure in office. She has shocked skeptics by even getting on the ballot for the June 26 primary election, which will determine the Democratic nominee for New York's 14th Congressional District. The contest heated up last week when the New York Times editorial board called out Crowley for skipping two debates with Ocasio-Cortez. Crowley's seat, representing part of Queens and the Bronx, the board wrote, "is not his entitlement. He’d better hope that voters don’t react to his snubs by sending someone else to do the job." Which is exactly what might happen tomorrow, if Ocasio-Cortez—who just nine months ago was running her campaign while still working as a server in a restaurant— wins the nomination. Ocasio-Cortez is part of a number of young women of color who are challenging establishment incumbents in the Democratic party. A third-generation New Yorker whose family is originally from Puerto Rico, Ocasio-Cortez looks a lot more like the constituents in the very diverse 14th district than Crowley, a 56-year-old white man. The optics of the race, then, also reflect a battle for the future of party leadership: Who is better equipped to represent the largely working class and non-white Americans in the 14th, and in places like it all over the country? But Ocasio-Cortez's challenge goes far beyond surface level; Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, a leftist organization that has helped buoy the campaigns of dozens of outsider candidates running on very progressive platforms in places where Democrats like Crowley are used to winning—handily. Some of Ocasio-Cortez's positions include fighting for Medicare for All and a Federal Jobs Guarantee, abolishing ICE, and insisting on much more severe policing of luxury real estate development (part of the reason she has refused corporate donations). Her push on economic justice has exposed ways that Crowley, as a powerful Democrat who sits on the Committee on Ways and Means, pays lip service to the post-Trump resistance while maintaining largely centrist politics. Newcomers like Ocasio-Cortez and Cynthia Nixon, who is hoping to unseat Governor Andrew Cuomo (Nixon and Ocasio-Cortez have endorsed each other), have already helped spur a leftward shift in some of the stances of their opponents. Ocasio-Cortez spoke to Vogue on the phone last week before heading to a child detention center in Tornillo, Texas. Trump's family separation policy has been a flashpoint not just along partisan lines, but also between Democrats: those who denounce ICE's action but refuse to call for its dismantling, like Crowley, and those who believe it should not exist. It's an issue that has also created a debate around "civility," as pundits squabble over whether or not Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, for example, should have been heckled out of a Mexican restaurant last week. As the people's millennial challenger, Ocasio-Cortez weighed in on what needs to change in New York, in elections, and in how we talk about holding those in power accountable:

Activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is challenging Joe Crowley, who's in House Democratic leadership, in this New York City district. (It would be crazy if she holds this lead....just 28 years old, outraised 10-1 by her opponent, Crowley hasn’t been challenged once in 14 years by his own party, #4 in Dem House leadership and big-time fundraiser) Over 68% of vote is in...still up by 2300 votes. Candidate Votes Pct. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 6,487 58.1% Joe Crowley* 4,679 41.9%

Looks more like the dreaded 845-915 p.m. start by weather channel radar...

#8 Conspiracy theorists would argue the Sox were protecting Rutherford’s stats in order to increase his value...or they would be watching Westworld/The Handmaid’s Tale, lol.

https://therealnews.com/stories/the-billionaire-class-is-not-fit-to-rule-paul-jay The Billionaire Class Is Simply Not Fit To Rule http://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2018/06/24/round-rock-dem-candidate-s--doors--campaign-ad-goes-viral StrangeSox, here is the political ad that wins 23+ Congressional seats for the Dems, it’s a similar strategy to Connor Lamb in western Pennsylvania...the one things that progressives can ventually agree on (Bernie Sanders said it about the abortion or 2nd Amendment litmus tests) is that you have to use the best possible strategy in each race. Centrists aren’t wanted in CA (except Orange and SD), liberals will fail in the South, etc. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/steve-king-retweet-nazi-sympathizer/index.html “It’s the message, not the messenger”...said all Congressman caught accidentally reweeting neo-Nazis, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Franco, etc.

Then wouldn’t you consider Papa John initially siding with the NFL owner’s, then flip flopping....and alienating all the “progressive/liberal” customers of his pizza chain an even more egregious offense? When it cost his company hundreds of millions of dollars and eventually his job? I think not. Because it’s a conservative/traditional value. You’re okay with it, right? This is the problem you and Rabbit have...you can’t be essentially conservative in the era of Trump and not get lumped together with him and all the bitter accusations (racism, anti-immigrant, anti-gay, intolerant, bullying) that are flying his way. You also feel that the Left and mainstream media is not being fair to Trump, exactly like we felt the last six years of the Obama administration. The main difference is Obama was soft and backed down, but Trump is a bully by nature and won’t ever apologize, and always has to protect strength and absolute conviction in his ideas until he changes them and pretends the past never happened (because there is always someone to blame for his mistakes.) Even voting for Ventura or Obama doesn’t change your core political belief system. But you keep bringing up Bernie Sanders because you know deep down he really doesn’t have a chance to win in order to seem more reasonable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2018/06/26/chasing-white-house-officials-out-of-restaurants-is-the-right-thing-to-do/?utm_term=.b4c3fac8e72c Chasing WH officials out of restaurants is the right thing to do

What have Dems gotten for being more civil over the last 25 years? Impeachment and the Tea Party/obstructionist movement. I just don’t understand how hectoring and shouting at women (lots of whom actually have unintentional miscarriages) in their most vulnerable and emotional moments is somehow justified (especially because it’s based on the imposition of the dominant Christian majority will on the rest of the population, and there’s that little thing called separation of church and state)...based on what? Freedom of speech? Our president can bully everyone and say hateful things without a single consequence? Seems like we are opening up a lot of cans of worms, and Soxbadger is sounding like the Charles Schumer wing of the Democratic Party against Balta’s progressive side. For example...Does that also give women the right to protest churches/individuals who don’t take in all the unwanted children in the US? Or to protest superchurches (remember the Osteen one in Houston during the flooding) who refuse to help poor or homeless people despite having protected, charitable/tax-deductible status? Because abortion is more “emotional” or charged than how we treat people who are already living? Seems dubious to make such distinctions.

Nigeria with a LeBron acting job to sell that penalty kick. Time ticking down on Messi’s World Cup career.

If they named Omar (who coached in another organization last year), Rowand or even AJ, most Sox fans would be okay with it. Thome, maybe? Konerko would be more like the Ventura move. McDowell probably would never happen. Frank Thomas would seem to have more thecpersonality of a hitting coach/mentor, similar to Thome.

1) Perfect combination of FA moves getting AJ after SF soured on him, Dye coming off a major injury, Iguchi off KW parsing JPL videos, Hermanson for 2/3rd’s of that year, Politte the previous year, El Duque for leadership...Jenks as a waiver claim. The Contreras will be fine away from the pressure cooker of NY/Loiaza’s cutter is fading trade as well as creating a baserunning threat with the Pods/Lee trade. 2) The farm system produced Garland (through Karchner), Buehrle, Crede, Rowand and the pieces to trade for Garcia and Everett. Important, but the secondary factor to a run of blind luck with #1.

The trade for Contreras was the most important of all to winning that year, and merely cost a waiver claim guy. Jenks was another waiver claim. No title without both of those guys.

Did you take the time to read the full article, though? Part of it?

Well something is definitely. being broken, speaking of breakin’.

And Contreras/Loiaza with McCarthy coming on strong...Uribe for Miles, etc.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/25/pat-toomey-challenge-donald-trump-tariffs-665265 Here’s ONE Republican senator actually staying in office directly confronting Trump on trades/treaties/tariffs...and who has the power to enact, Congress or the executive branch.

Just a saying....held together by duct tape and baling wire.

The immigration crackdown even has some Trump supporters in deeply red states worried. Pete Wiersma, a dairy farmer from Buhl, Idaho, worries about an upcoming labor shortage. “Most dairies have more cows than what the family can take care of themselves," he said in an interview for this week’s edition of the POLITICO Money podcast. "Most of our dairies in Idaho, we are very dependent on foreign-born workers. It's the engine that makes the machine run. We've really noticed a drop-off in applicants.” ..... Other surveys suggest that while Trump’s base may be strongly with him on both issues, the broader electorate is not, leading to GOP concerns about voters in swing states and swing districts. A recent Gallup poll found that 75 percent of voters across both parties view more immigration as a good thing. And a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll last month found that 70 percent of Americans want the president to focus on making trade deals while just 14 percent prefer imposing tariffs. That’s left many Republicans wishing Trump would ditch the harsh immigration and trade policies and focus on the economy and tax cuts. ..... POLITICO recently reported that top White House advisers led by Stephen Miller are devising new immigration crackdowns before the election including tightening rules on student visas and exchange programs; limiting visas for temporary agricultural workers; and making it harder for legal immigrants who have applied for welfare programs to obtain residency. Many economists argue that any efforts to reduce legal immigration will slow the U.S. economy’s growth potential given current demographics showing lower birth rates among the native born and an aging workforce as members of the baby boom generation retire. The U.S. is currently at 3.8 percent unemployment and government data recently showed more job openings than prospective employees, the first time that’s happened since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting the data two decades ago. “I always thought the core of Making America Great Again was making the economy great,” said analyst James Pethokoukis of the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “One of the reasons the growth outlook for the future is so low is because of the slowing in labor force growth. That is just a huge headwind.” “One way to offset that is to make workers more productive and we haven’t figured out how to do that,” he said. “The other is to bring in more people and that is something we know how to do. If they have skills and are entrepreneurial, all the better.” https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/26/trump-trade-war-recession-fears-650899

Still only going to get a Top 75-100 MILB prospect...Otoh, a 900ish OPS would get you that and wouldn’t have to even consider sending any money the other way. I highly doubt that money goes the other direction unless it’s to move a Shields or Soria for a better prospect.

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/27/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/ Five facts about illegal immigration to the US The number of unauthorized immigrants living in the United States in 2015 fell below the total at the end of the Great Recession for the first time, with Mexicans continuing to represent a declining share of this population, according to new Pew Research Center estimates based on government data. There were 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. in 2015, a small but statistically significant decline from the Center’s estimate of 11.3 million for 2009, the last year of the Great Recession. The Center’s preliminary estimate of the unauthorized immigrant population in 2016 is 11.3 million, which is statistically no different from the 2009 or 2015 estimates and comes from a different data source with a smaller sample size and a larger margin of error. This more recent preliminary data for 2016 are inconclusive as to whether the total unauthorized immigrant population continued to decrease...

The slider and forkball, by far. #3 would be a harder breaking curveball, what would becreferred to as a slurve. Sandy Koufax was one of those guys who you read about and marvel how he persevered with duct tape and icy hot when modern medical technology would have prolonged his career another decade.

He just dusted off Pocahontas yet again this week to attack Warren, fwiw.