jerryskids

Well sure, some people went before working their shift at the hospital, and a handful brought their kids. But certainly more people took their kids to kid event than to a protest. And there are countless other exclusions. People who are sick, traveling, don't have transportation, etc.

OK, let's try this again. 7M is 2% of 350M 1/2 of country is Trump supporter: 350M * 0.5 = 175M 30% of country works on Saturdays: 175M * 0.7 = 123M 13% are 10 and under, yeah a few went, but presume 0: 123M * .87 = 107M So far we're at 6.5% of the available and potentially interested population, not accounting for all of the adults taking care of young children, taking them to sports/events, etc. Still unrealistically high IMO.

My bad, 7M is 2%, not 5%. But more people than I thought work on Saturdays -- 30% according to ChatGPT. I need to think on that math before I goof up again.

Yeah, that seems like Hamas Information Minister numbers. 7M is 5% of the total population. Take out the 1/2 of the country that supports Trump, the very young and old, the people working or watching the very young or old, that would be what, 20-25% of the available population? Lots of fish eye lenses in squissy's X posts making crowds look bigger than they were.

I thought about REM -- they were huge in my college scene, but I graduated in 1989. Probably should have grabbed a song. Shiny Happy People would have gone with my list. Also thought about AIC, specifically Would. I'll say that I wasn't that into AIC during the 90s (got into them more later), plus I was generally looking for a more up-tempo list.

Oh yeah? Well your list is so bad that @BiffTannendidn't even include it.

@MikeMatt

I'm going with a band that @BiffTannenmentioned for the future 2000s draft... but this album actually came out in 1999. My wife and I played he crap out of this CD, and.0 since I can't have it in the 2000s, I'll take it now. 20.09 Creed - Higher

Great value at this point! Aenima was the Tool song I thought you'd take. Interesting that @iam90sbabylikes both of our playlists. This was on my short list for the last pick. I also was looing at Barenaked Ladies One Week, then realized that you picked that already in round 11.

$25/hour? And when you disagree, please tell us what tangible objective is the goal of these protests?

That's all that happened!

I said anti-ICE riots. Let me know when the right sets up 2000+ anti-trans protests around the country.

There are anti-trans riots from the right? Great analogy, gutter.

Yesterday I was on a Zoom call; we were discussing politics in general and somebody commented how polarized they had become. A woman chimed in, "yeah, ever since Trump!" I thought but didn't say: politics aren't polarized because of Trump, politics are polarized because of YOUR REACTION TO Trump. It's a same with the ICE riots. It's not the rioters' fault -- ICE instigated them by being there$#@!

The protests are organic! @EternalShinyAndChrome, beware the word "protestors." I think Tim used that specifically so he can differentiate later between protestors and rioters. He's already laying the groundwork.

Maybe not next because it's too similar, but in my research for our current draft I hit on a ton of great songs from the 2000s. I'd be up for a draft of that decade at some point.

Dang, that stuff looks awesome! For lunch: My wife just got back home after being at a conference all week. The kitchen was sorta bare at lunch, so I just munched on some charcuterie meat and cheese on crackers. Usually on Friday for dinner we get oysters on the half shell and mussels at Whole Foods. The oysters are $1 each if you buy at least 10 and have an Amazon account (maybe need to be Prime as well; dunno but we are Prime). Wife cooks the mussels in a butter and wine sauce. That's usually... today, as often happens when she comes back from being out of town, she feels like she ate like crap so she just ran to the store to get some veggies to go with scallops which are defrosting.

19.02 Days of the New - Touch, Peel and Stand @BunnysBastatrds

The issue wasn't whether or not the Trump team technically committed a campaign misdemeanor long ago. The issue is exactly how I stated it; I'm not going to go back and copy and paste it. Go and reread it. If you say you'd be fine with, say, Arkansas dredging up a decades' old misdemeanor on Hillary, and spinning it into a novel felony for the sole purpose of trying to derail her run for POTUS, I'd say you are full of crap.

Great post. I've been meaning to post that I expect large turnout for these events in part because Trump is solving the Gaza problem. With that box checked, the Lefties have one less issue to protest about. Well, they still complain about Gaza (real estate$#@!) but it's not the same. Anyway, they will channel their "revolution" energy into this issue, for the weekend at least.

We were specifically discussing SaintsInDome's calling Trump a "felon" and that in his opinion, his felony convictions should prohibit him from becoming POTUS. To my knowledge, that only applies to the case I mentioned. And you seem to agree with me that the felony convictions were a traveshamockery. But Saints is quite the opposite. I don't even know how to have that conversation; TDS is the only reason I could think that somebody twists that case in their mind into an acceptable case of jurisprudence. On the general topic of the felony prohibition, prior to the Stormy case I'd have been willing to discuss it. But after that lawfare, I don't see how I could support it.

That would bring real estate prices down. Mamdani FTW$#@!

18.09 Blink 182 - All the Small Things @MikeMatt

I'm glad that I drafted Jamarr Chase in my two redraft leagues.

Heard that! Earlier today I was in an Ace Hardware and heard Everlast - What It's Like (which I drafted). I'm sure the old guys working there were wondering why I was head bobbing through the store.