Time is a flat circle

Dude, the stupid text messages are the difference between him losing by the same margin as the Lt. Governor’s race and losing by half that margin like he is right now. I get you’ve spent all year regurgitating whatever Virginia GOP consultants blabbed to you about, but turns out they’re bad at this

It’s deeply funny how we’re throwing in “Democratic nominee got 50% of the vote in place Harris got 68%” in here with two Governor-elects crushing their states’ 2024 margins. Like, dude, I get he’s a green room regular for you, but one of these things is not like the other!

*cough*

But the Internet assured me young men hate CIA agents and cops’ daughters

Among the many terrible methodology choices in it is attributing all the deaths from the post-Arab Spring revolutions and Civil Wars in Libya and Syria to the War on Terror, an absurd causality leap that practically infantilizes the very people it’s ostensibly trying to humanize

This War on Terror death study is awful, attributing violent and nonviolent deaths in 7 countries to the US. Afghanistan and Iraq, already stretching. Pakistan, Somalia? The US caused every death from disease? You don't need to juke the stats to criticize Dick Cheney. The real evidence is enough.

Election Twitter Obsessives Talk To Like One Dad Or Guy At a Sports Bar Or Really Anyone Offline, Like A Single Real Male Human In Person At the Kids Soccer Game or Tailgate Challenge

Oh, look.

she is also talking about someone who *did not vote for the Democratic Nominee in 2024*! Like, again, this is just not the hill to die on over the particular issue of impact on the party brand specifically

Ngl it’s quite something how her campaign has very deliberately had a bunch of ads that specifically target male voters by having her dad/random law enforcement basically tout her as the kind of person who’d be your favorite daughter, they clearly work, and Online just totally ignores all that

It’s funny to see how many people here are insisting that Dems never even try to make this case when I think of it as “Bill Clinton’s favourite stat” which he brings up variations of literally every time he has a chance lol

Right up there with A. Bartlett Giamatti's essay "The Green Fields of the Mind" (Yale Alumni Magazine. Nov 1977) that includes this: "It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart." ⚾️

Tariffs are consistently both one of Trump’s worst issues and the most highly salient issues for voters and I still think we don’t talk about them enough

The opening words of Giamatti’s amazing essay on the end of baseball season - “It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.” - have never been truer.

James Earl Jones agrees.

This game has been so exciting that even Rob Manfred might be watching it.

It’s quite astounding the Dodgers have more money than god and yet the bullpen is so ass they’re literally throwing their entire starting rotation into one game and it doesn’t even seem like a gamble

for hopefully one last time - ROBERTS BRING IN KERSHAW YOU COWARD!!!

Again, whatever happens, sports at this level is about living in the moment and feeling the emotions, which you do not get to choose

Closest I can think of is Schilling (who’d be in the Hall if he wasn’t such a jerk) going 5 and 1/3 in a 2-1 win in Game 2 of the 2007 Series in what turned out to be his last start but he didn’t retire until 2009; he just was too hurt to pitch for all of 2008 But Game 2 isn’t Game 7.

Once in my life I want to see someone run from the bullpen and two foot the pitcher when the benches clear.

Wroblewski getting warned for not also hurling profanities at Gimenez in French as required by local law

“You hit our batter, our next batter will hit your pitcher” is just amazing revenge, ngl

Went to the ball game last night & a hockey game broke out

One of my favorite things in sports is the guys jogging in from the bullpen, hoping it’s all over before they get there

I HIT BALL FAR I TAKE MY TIME

BO BICHETTE SAID I DO NOT NEED TO RUN

Good for the Fox broadcast calling out this bullshit this ump is saying about Ohtani being given the “discretion of the umpire” ie breaking the fucking rules for him

We’ve now reached previously unpondered levels of “I have no idea what actual men offline look like and what they believe” punditry. The idea Collins hitting Platner for dismissing rape in the military or having a Nazi tattoo would lose the “man” vote is as patronizing as it is idiotic.

Dead ball rule is ass; grown man could’ve picked that ball up and you shouldn’t make a judgment call dependent on the judgement of a team that benefits if the call goes their way

It’s really something how this campaign perpetually emits “There’s something here real investigatory journalism could blow wide open” gasses and yet we’ve seemingly gotten a half dozen “My MSNBC Green Room Buddy Who Gets Paid By The Campaign Swears He’s Good So I’m Convinced” articles instead.

Honestly the thing that most annoyed me about “popularism” discourse when it first started in 2021 was it was a bunch of people who didn’t understand what the Third Way types had two decades prior, namely that you can’t pick and choose what voters care about and just avoid stuff you poll badly on

Yeah, it’s also just pure Yglesias circa 2016-2020 that he tosses in “Bernie Thing That Polls Well When You Don’t Have To Explain Paying For It, Something I Also Will Not Do But That’s Fine”

It‘s a fascinating bit of convergent evolution that all these attempts to provide something “electable, but to the immediate economic left of the Third Way” have this very similar failure mode of “we have a policy that polls +50 on paperclips. Our economic policy goes to another school”.

And there it is. Platner mainly is this pet project for this consultant group, finally their own candidate to test their theory and they were so eager to test it (and so arrogant in believing nothing will stop them) that they overlooked all the downsides.

It can’t be said enough that the current Politics Media class thinks “someone is lying to my face” is infinitely less important than “this person seems entertaining to me in my imaginary novel.” These guys would try and make Stephen Glass President before they’d fire him.

But 27yo kids of publishers and TV writers from Tribeca who also are in DC can decide what voters want.

It’s really one of those things that says so much about the insecurities and posturing of the people who can still afford to work in media these days with so little

“I went to a politician’s rally and everyone at the rally still liked him so he hasn’t lost any voters” is perhaps one of the dumbest fallacies you’ll ever see

The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.

A show that was first utterly incoherent because it was written by one guy high as a kite while trying to make a more serious Sports Night, and then became even more incoherent when he left and a bunch of random writers were trying to do Lawand Order “Ripped from the Headlines” But Politics stories!

Everywhere I go, people are wearing Jays gear. People I know who have never watched baseball (me included) are staying up past midnight to for an 18th inning. The coffee shop has baseball donuts. And, I cannot emphasize this enough, I am in a city *3000 km from Toronto* Canada is behind this team

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

I miss the era before Fox sold out to Disney and had actual prime time fiction shows they could promo instead of the mix of random cable shit they’ve been deluging us with since

It’s also really something how his handlers have sold him as some kind of introspective person who’s learned and grown from who he was during his time in the armed forces and there’s absolutely zero evidence of that kind of person at all any time he opens his mouth off script.

a remarkable thing here is that Platner's defenders are 'can't a man change?' and ... he's shown basically zero repentance! his whole attitude toward this has been a mixture of lying that he didn't know what the tattoo was and entitlement and anger about being called out on it.

It’s okay, Jays. You’ll get ‘em in game four, which starts ten minutes from now.

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