jerryskids

Fair enough. I think I'm a little older than you (57), and at the age of 8-ish, my two best friends and I started playing wiffleball in the street for thousands of hours over the next few summers. I was 8 in 1975, the pinnacle of the Big Red Machine. We memorized starting lineups and pretended to be those batters for each at bat. Rose, Morgan, Bench, Perez, Concepcion... a murderers row of awesomeness. Basically I wax poetic back to those days. IMO, that's kinda what the HOF is about.

Fair. But I don't think that relatively small overlap disqualifies him as a player. Even in the dual role, his personnel decisions (including regarding himself) were as Rose the Manager.

I just explained this to my wife, who is a huge sports fan. Wife: "But if he bet on his team, is it that bad of a thing?" Me: "Yeah, because as a manager, the nature of his bets could have influenced how he managed lineups, relievers, replacement players, etc." That being said, it's sad that the HOF can't induct him as a player-only, and have some statement about him being a POS as a manager. There are many arguments about who belongs in a HOF: one I like the most is: can you tell the story of the sport without him? Undeniably, the answer is "no" for Rose, on both fronts.

Zing$#@!

Pete's biggest qualification was being the failed mayor of one of the worst cities in the country. Also ghey.

You don't think the Transportation Secretary would be deeply involved in this? I would think he'd be neck deep into trying to get both parties together, working on contingency plans in the event of a strike, etc.

Sure, there are always exceptions. Perhaps where we disagree is in the ratio of actual kids with severe gender dysphoria which may warrant medical intervention, vs. the less severe to social contagion cases. I happen to think the latter is much more prevalent. Even if not, or even if not a majority, I think the default should be "physician, do no harm" in general. BTW, your 0.01% estimate earlier significantly underestimates the number of people, and particularly kids, who identify as trans. This data is several years old, I'm sure it's much larger now. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/transgender-estimate-press-release/

Is your straw man now that bringing attention to the issue is bad? I thought we were discussing Trump being a horrible public speaker as per Sean. Seems you are saying he is too effective of a public speaker.

Again- the issue of a small town being swarmed by migrants would have been ignored if Trump said some politician-speak like "the number of migrants in Springfield is concerning."

If you agree with my last sentence, I don't see how you come to this position. Also, by your argument, I presume you also disagree with states taking away parental rights and/or giving sanctuary to "trans" kids against their parents' wishes?

I never said "forced." I said influenced. The huge surge in girls identifying as trans is indisputed; what IS in dispute is the cause. Trans activists like @The Real timschochet will tell you they are all real, they just feel comfortable coming out not. I am on the side that this is disconnected from reality. Here is an article from Reuters that discusses it. https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-topsurgery/#:~:text=Adolescents assigned female at birth,beach there with other children. The explosion in the number of gender clinics in the US is also documented. This entire article, also from Reuters, is worth reading: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-care/ These clinics are not in the business of determining that a person doesn't need their care. Something is terribly wrong here, and mutilating kids while we figure it out is unacceptable.

No, if you read my post, I said the opposite. If you meant to say he is horrible at speaking politician pablum, then I agree.

And now, what I actually came in here to post. MSNBC wants to recreate Mao's Red Guards, young children snitching on their parents to the Party leaders. His father was watching scary right wing media!

Point #2: On your second paragraph, what concerns me more is that for every kid you describe in the bolded, there are potentially orders of magnitude more who are being fast-tracked through the (now for profit with gender clinics) gender transition machine, kids who are depressed, confused by hormone changes and societal praising of trans, not actually gender dysphoric. I've said before, I too believe that the government should not get in the middle of such medical decisions. But we have a problem in both our society and our medical industry which is harming far too many children.

If I may, I'm going to chime in with two separate responses. First, IMO "hyperbole" is the key to understanding Trump-speak. For instance, "Their eating the dogs and cats" translates to "we need to address this migrant problem." But the latter doesn't get publicity. The former does, and we all talked about it for weeks. Similarly, "20% tariff on all imports" means "we need to fix this trade imbalance," "we're going to deport all of the illegals" means "we have an immigration issue," etc. His brain works like his "art of the deal," starting from an extreme position and "negotiating" back. As evidence, I present to you his 4 years as POTUS in which he did nothing remotely so whacky. I know, I know, this time will be different$#@! but... all I can do is show evidence. Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

You are the worst poster here and it isn't close. Please delete your account. I expect you to copy and paste this into your response to me, as your <78 IQ is wont to do.

FWIW, I think @supermike80was wrong in calling you out for your post. I didn't think it was intrusive at all.

Great post.

Ts and Ps for @edjrbeing a cold-hearted pr1ck.

Also, I've never said anything pro Putin, unless it was in the context of his respect for Trump vs. Biden or Harris (which isn't really a compliment). In fact, I've barely commented on this conflict at all. I certainly support Ukraine's efforts to defend itself, but I'm less clear on us expending resources to help a non-NATO country, unless it is primarily for strategic reasons. And in that case, I'm not clear on why our strategy (it seems everywhere) is to provide just enough support to keep the conflict going on indefinitely. History has shown that the best way to end a war is to win the war. Decisively. WWI was wishy washy and led to WWII. WWII ended more decisively, and we had peace in Europe until recently.

80% of his posts are pastes of tweets from some MSNBC far Leftist wonk. And he doesn't know how to embed them. Otherwise, they are awesome. Are you Closer to Fine?

I was thinking about bi-polar. A cousin of our in-laws had it, and wouldn't take medication. Worth having that analyzed if he hasn't. @cmh6476, good luck with this.

Thoughtful, intelligent people can believe in God. People who believe in God can also be in cults. Similarly, using climate change as an example. There are people, myself included, who think we should continue to research improvements in green energy, invest heavily in nuclear, etc. Then there are people like my neighbor (one with a Harris/Walz sign) who once told a group of us that she is disappointed that her son had a child because of climate change. That's Branch Davidian level cultism, although this woman would cry if you asked her to pick up a gun. HTH

Funny, I see more Harris/Walz (and before that Biden) signs. And "in this house" signs. And my neighborhood is probably 50/50, maybe more Trumpy. As I said in the thread about Lefties teaching their kids intolerance, Lefties will ostracize you if you support Trump. When I see those Harris/Walz signs, I just think, "bless your heart." Oh, and Lefties are in plenty of cults. Climate change, woke ideology, Hamas/terrorist lovers, transing kids, TDS, killing unborn children, Antifa, all have maniacal support for their constituents, and like cults, they accept no dissent. It has been shown that humans need some sort of beliefs (some might call a "religion,"), and in the absence of belief in God, they find other things.