'Federal agents kills a man in broad daylight on camera while Trump threatens to escalate a trade war after he feels personally slighted.'
This is America, lather, rinse, repeat.
86% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s threats to occupy Greenland.
But 30% of Republicans agree.
That 30% are the core MAGA base who reflexively agree with Trump on everything.
When he said in 2016 that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters,” that’s who he was talking about.
That cohort controls the Republican Party. Senators, Congressmen, and candidates are terrified of losing their primaries by going offside the core MAGA base.
It’s a perfect example of how a highly motivated minority faction can capture a party, and in turn a country.
With Trump now tearing apart NATO and launching economic war to seize allied territory, it is past time for normal Republicans to find a spine and stand up to the craziness.
Canada saying that Bedard’s injury wasn’t a factor is MIND boggling.
Tell me it was the injury and I can accept that. If it’s not the injury then you left a top 5 player in scoring at home for no reason.
@racheljludwig Thank you for sharing. She and my dad were diagnosed around the same time and just recently I wondered how she was doing. I only knew her through twitter but she was a giving and warm spirit even though the filter of technology. My condolences to her family and friends.
2025 Blue Jays may not be immortalized with a trophy, but they will be legends forever. An incredible team that met the moment over and over again, taking a country along with them. Can only say thanks, for all of it.
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, November 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone.”
- A. Bartlett Giamatti (with a small change from October to November)
The way Canada rallies around the Blue Jays and the Raptors so thoroughly and so beautifully makes it that much funnier how much most of this country despises the Maple Leafs.
My mom died of ALS in 2018... my died died of ALS in 2021 after years of being her caregiver. When he was chairbound his final year, his only true joy was Blue Jays games. I'm not asking for anything, just saying if you have extra tickets, please give them to someone like my dad