D. Hocking
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I have a hard time taking the medical report seriously when it starts out with him weighing 239 pounds... (coincidentally one pound short of being considered obese for his height). I suppose if he is filled with gaseous sulfur from the pits of hell, he is lighter than he looks.
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He talks like a petty child -- often making up facts, belittling people who don't agree to him or bow down to him, playing on people's fears or prejudices, constantly bragging about things he often had nothing to do with, repeating the same things over and over again. He does not say things everyone agrees with and certainly things we do not want the President of the United States saying. He should be trying to elevate conversation not bring things down because that is what his base wants to hear and he has a desperate need for applause.
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I don't think I would agree with that -- I think you could say his cabinet, family, Ryan, McConnell,much of the Congress and Senate etc. also fit the description.
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I think he is now about one step away from saying N***** at a public speaking event. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-asks-why-u-s-welcomes-people-from-shole-countries-report/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8f&linkId=46865791
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I am hoping the 2018 World Series ring is what helps push him over the edge.
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The Return of Seth Speaks (The Podcast)
D. Hocking replied to Seth Stohs's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Chief or RiverBrian, but I suspect they might be too expensive and too heavily booked.- 21 replies
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I know he still spends time there, esp. right before spring training, but didn't that change when he got married? I remember an interview of Perkins a couple of years ago where he said Joe no longer did the complete FL move in the off-season and they had spent the winter building an ice rink. Even when he did the move, it seemed like he was in town a fair amount through the holidays. I think there were signs of the 2017 resurgence in 2016, but it got derailed by the hamstring injury. August and Sept. really sunk his numbers for the season and Molitor said it was a mistake that they did not DL him. I am guessing there will be a one or probably two year deal after this year. I see him retiring before playing elsewhere.
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The network media is still trying to normalize him to some extent (I don't have cable, I suspect this is not true for MSNBC). GMA had Scarmucci on yesterday and Spicer on today to discuss Wolf's book. Now, I admit cannot just take the book at face value and need to investigate its claims, but to have two of the bigger liars for Trump out there to refute the book and defend Trump as not being insane seems like sloppy journalism. These two men should not be taken seriously by anyone, much less by people who are supposed to be journalists. [Full disclosure - I changed the channel before the Spicer interview, so maybe George grilled him and called out any lies or suspect statements.)
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They both consider themselves on the level of the founding fathers. Maybe they will take a page from two of them, and settle their differences like Hamilton and Burr did.
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It seems golfing 7 or so days in a row while probably breaking the emoluments clause (or at least having some undisclosed conflicts of interest) to get money for your resort the entire time does not make one more sane or more human.
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Do the Twins blow-up the Yankee Death Star to advance in the play-offs?
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If the Twins moderators had been around - they would have resolved middle earth tensions before things got out of hand and there would not have had to do the whole big final battle. Many lives would have been saved and there would still be elves around. Thanks for all of your hard work.and most of your wit and jokes. You have created an environment with a lot of interesting and diverse discussions.
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This is very important to his evangelical base for some reason ( I think partially so they will be ready for the rapture and partially because it sticks it to the Arab population). I think part of the timing is that he is throwing them red meat to them to get them motivated to vote in the AL election next week. He really only thinks of his needs -- does not think of any long-term consequences or how other people might be affected. If you want to get cynical it also creates a diversion from certain investigations. I have noticed Fox and other right wing sources are doing their best to make the Mueller investigation seem like a vindictive partisan witch hunt who have said a sacred vow to Hilary. I cannot even comprehend how much damage Fox News has inflicted over the country over the years. I also found it a little odd he made this announcement about the Jewish state in front of a Christmas tree. Although I just read he hosted the White House Hanukkah party with no Hanukkah decorations but in a room with four large Christmas tree, so I guess it should not be a surprise.
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If ever there was a thread that needed an "agree" button rather than a "like" button - this would be it.
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I don't think it will be a group of people that history will treat kindly. At least he is giving millions of acres of artifact rich land with great significance to the Native Americans back to the mines people. It is almost surprising he did not somehow manage to work Pocahontas into his signing statement. I could possibly do a better job than Trump's attorneys (although to be fair to them, he is not exactly an easy client) and I have not written a brief in over 15 years.
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You are starting to hear more whispers that he is getting more unstable. I think that is evident by his tweets yesterday, and how he seems even more detached from reality when he spouts of his lies. I think the GOP leadership knows this, but they are pretending not to see, because they want to pass their tax bill. The bill that heavily favors the rich and corporations, that studies have shown will not further stimulate the economy, has trigger points that will increase the tax burdens on the middle class to help combat the deficit, and they are laying the ground work to gut social security and medicare when this tax cut ends up being a burden. Trump is creating a bunch of damage that may take decades to overcome, if that will even be possible, but he would not be able to do it if you did not have a Congress and Senate who don't care about the damage as long as their donors are happy and/or they feel they moral viewpoint is restored in their twisted vision of a Norman Rockwell world. Also, depressing is Moore will probably get elected and ultimately sworn in without much real protest.
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He thinks he is responding to the British PM's twitter account - it is another woman named Theresa May. I have made mistakes e-mailing the wrong person etc., but I think this is one instance I would triple check I was tagging the right person, unless maybe he really thought the British PM only had 6 followers. Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 10m10 minutes ago Theresa @theresamay, don’t focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine! He does seem like he is getting more and more unraveled.
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It would be nice if the government in Britain officially condemned him on the floor of Parliament for those retweets. I have seen the tweets from some officials criticizing him, but I would love to see something official. I would like to see some of our allies stop trying to maintain a good standing with him and just straight out call him out for what he is.
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Right after his tweets where he acknowledges some people might have been offended by his Pocahontas remarks and he apologizes for being insensitive to how other people might feel. Regardless of what his feelings were of Warren, he should not have put his own personal issues above the event at hand and he is sorry and after some serious thought and reflection he can see how the name would be considered a slur and he was wrong to use it. The Joe Scarborough tweet where he implies he might have been involved with the death of an intern who actually died of a heart condition is also something I have a hard time seeing FDR or Lincoln do. Eric's tweet about Pocahontas being a Disney movie, so how could it be a slur made me again question which of the older Trump sons is a bigger blight on humanity. I finally make up my mind and then the other one will do something that makes me re-evaluate.
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MHGA!
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Trump referred to Warren as Pocahontas as he was honoring some Native American vets (but adding "But you know what, I like you.") Oh - and he did this in front of the portrait of Andrew Jackson.
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Byung-Ho Park Signs With KBO’s Nexen Heroes
D. Hocking replied to Cody Christie's topic in Twins Daily Front Page News
Funny how the defensive parts of the mind works - I had completely blocked out and forgotten about Nishi. -
If I did not know any better - this is something that you would have heard almost verbatim on one of FDR's fireside chats. Donald J. TrumpVerified account @realDonaldTrump 31m31 minutes ago Now that the three basketball players are out of China and saved from years in jail, LaVar Ball, the father of LiAngelo, is unaccepting of what I did for his son and that shoplifting is no big deal. I should have left them in jail!
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Yes - I think it has stayed on KDAL during all of the station changes.. This made me check my childhood Twins staion, WELY. I was shocked to see they have a play list of artists like Nirvana and Bruce Springsteen and a FM frequency. Back in the day, it was like a mixture of a radio version of Red Green and a cable access show with a fair amount of polka. I also saw no reference to polka anywhere on their webpage (or fishing). It was rather unsettling - some things you think will always be there and never change.
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The lifting of the ban on imports of elephant trophies bothers me. There is no reason for it other than to negate something Obama did or do it as a favor of his sons so they can bring home more exotic trophies. He really could be a cartoon villain from the old school Saturday morning TV. On a different topic, I am glad the House is passing a tax bill that won't hurt their constituents at all...
