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Republicans very concerned on January 21st

This is why I don't see MAGA fading away - at least not by 2022. McCain - Palin lost got their asses handed to them, then the Tea Party came roaring in in 2010. Then Romney loses and they have the infamous autopsy that says "hey, let's become more moderate, reach out to minorities." Then there's Trump and MAGA. 2018 happens and Trump doubles down on MAGA and gets 74 million votes. The sensible Republicans will try to hold on, but still vote along party lines most of the time - i.e. Romney, Murkowski, Collins, Sasse - but I can't see Cruz, Hawley, Cotton, Blackburn, Johnson, Braun, Paul, etc. and the new House darlings like Boebert, Greene, and Cawthorn vanishing into the night.

But does anyone expect the MAGA base to vanish overnight? He's either going to drive a wedge between the party or they're going to triple down on MAGA.

Bold prediction: Dems gain seats. I'm basing it on Trump taking a hold of the party. Unless they purge him from the party, he'll motivate Democratic voters, but without him on the ballot, the turnout isn't there for the GOP. Lara Trump running in North Carolina is a disaster waiting to happen. If other GOP candidates try to court Trump's favor, it's only going to motivate the left.

True, true. ATL delivered.

Official Song of the Biden Presidency:

Ossoff down 456.

Ossoff only trails by 3,000 votes now. Warnock leading. Most votes coming from Atlanta. NYT has Warnock at 95+%. Ossoff at 94%.

And also trying to bully Georgia's SOS into overturning their previous election days before the runoff. Regardless of outcome, that will be forever regarded as 4D, intergalactic chess strategy.

While I don't think this hasn't anything to do with where Hendriks will land, that is fascinating all the same.

Wasserman called it for Warnock. Man must feel real confident in those remaining votes.

No no no, as we know, all professional athletes sign with Florida or Texas sports teams. They avoid New York and Los Angeles.

@bmags, don't you see, we can enter week 11 of discussing whether or not the NL will have the DH this season despite both sides wanting it, and its ramifications on the free agent market.

NBA offseason >>> MLB A typical NBA offseason: Draft --> Free Agency (with high initial activity) --> Summer League --> Training Camp Throw in the Olympics/FIBA, and there's actual basketball content going on all summer. Baseball can't compare. Instead our premiere offseason events are the Arizona Fall League, which sucks to watch compared to the Summer League, and bunch of team executives and agents meeting at a hotel for a week, where stuff may or may not happen.

Finally, we find out why Bob is incarcerated.

Throw in Elijah Tatis and the reds might not get short changed.

^^^ This The AL-to-NL thing might have carried more weight in yesteryear when interleague was more limited, but now we need to stop looking at it like every NL player is coming to the AL as if they were damaged goods.

If anyone wants to make a case for Buehrle, it's that he has a case for being the best defensive pitcher whoever lived. That's the argument.

So I took a holiday break from this thread. You're looking at one year at that rate to establish residency, for context. That's still no small amount, but the difference ends up being $18k (23k - $5k) instead of $41k. I also took AP courses to cut down on my pre-reqs and would have been able to graduate early. Instead, I worked a majority of my senior year as a part-time student with reduced tuition and prepped for grad school — had I graduated early, I wouldn't have done grad school, as my program didn't exist until my final semester). I know I speak from a place of privilege where I had a lot of money knocked off from scholarships and then had the rest covered by my parents.

Sir, you really need to stay in your lane.

Annie Karni didn't write the article. While she is a contributor to MSNBC, she's a White House reporter for The New York Times. The quote marks are pointless. She's busted her ass for years to get to where she is as a legitimate journalist. The point of the article is that Operation Warp Speed is an unmitigated disaster. Key portions of the article: 74 million Americans just voted for the party that has been promising those 20 million doses and has been at the front of the line receiving them. They are also a party that has been consistently gaslighting them about every single issue. This isn't something like Eloy's home run rate, where he can go on a tear in one week due to randomness, but where government needs to be held accountable for their laughably depressing rollout that they've had months to prepare for (remember how they passed on the chance to secure more doses?). So how do Americans understand that? With simple, frank numbers.

Bauer's a dick and doesn't like the fact that there's just, you know, reporting from places that aren't his shit YouTube channel. If he can't control the narrative he shits himself. It'd be great to have him. But God is he insufferable.

Haven't listened to James' part yet, but man, Chuck sounded so deflated when Badler says Colas won't likely pitch.