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One of his MANY Hitler moments.

 

Mediaite = the dumbest name for a news site out there

 

A lot of schools out this way are getting cuts - due to lower enrollment. Shoot, when I was a kid, schools would be closed, consolidated. Enrollments fluctuate. Deal with it. I totally understand that kids are facing more dire emotional problems than we did back in the day - or at least more are diagnosed. It is pretty stunning to find out how many kids fit into some type of special needs category.

 

What was the fuller context of the “bloodbath” line? Economy? I can’t stand to hear his voice and thus have not seen the context.

 

Nice

"The big news this week is two candidates clinched their parties' nomination for president," Biden said in remarks. "One candidate is too old, mentally unfit to be president. The other's me."

Biden jabs at Trump at Gridiron Dinner before closing on serious note

 

it costs nothing to just ask questions

 

We won’t have to imagine it much longer if MAGA gets its way.

 

https://x.com/silverandcoldx/status/1769230291720417661?s=46&t=f1bCJ9Ncf7mPQzqE8-YWxQ

 

Wait, you know Don DeLillo? Ask him how the hell he wrote “The Names.”

 

Classic dead girl/live boy situation. For example, a year or two ago, we had a viral story about an assistant hockey coach for a junior hockey team who was caught on camera by a small-time vigilante and his friends (a la "To Catch a Predator") driving five hours for a rendezvous with a "17-year-old" boy. The person in question resigned by the end of the weekend and was never heard from again. Problem is the age of consent in Minnesota is 16. So, did he commit a crime? No, but the act in question combined with a stereotype of the LGBT community as deceptive and predatory made it impossible for him to show his face in town again.

I mean, you could make the same sorts of arguments about college athletics, which is farther down that road. The problem is that, for the vast majority of the country, the school, the team and the community are inexorably intertwined, whether that community is the thousands of alumni of, say, the University of Michigan and the millions who live there or are interested in them. And even at the prep scale, one of the reasons co-op arrangements rarely get turnout commensurate with the some of their constituent parts is that there's no appeal to an East Bumblefuck kid who is a marginal (or non-) talent, to representing Anytown. Obviously, you'll get AAU kids coming from five hours in opposite directions to play for a club program but the 70-year-olds having coffee at the Hardee's every morning don't know or care how U16 Northern Super Elite is doing. I guess my point is that the way we do athletics in this country, particularly at the high school level, is a cake one can't unbake.

 

So did the media take the “bloodbath “ line out of context? He did say if he lost there would be a bloodbath. How is using that quote dishonest?

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/17/trump-bloodbath-turner-cassidy-rounds-00147465

 

Playing devil’s advocate here, but maybe the NYT already figures he’s going to flip-flop this fall and not want to bother wasting the resources on a story that’s going to change in 6 months.