Yeah, I'd totally make the trade of giving Trump the presidency in exchange for a Cubs banner. It's not like things would be that much better with Clinton in office. This way, at least, I can cheer myself up remembering Bryant's enormous grin as he almost airmailed the ball across the field to Rizzo.

Also, QUINTANA, motherfuckers! Yes, I would like one of the top 6 or 7 or so pitchers of the last half decade, on an absurdly team-friendly contract for the next 3 and a half years, in exchange for a couple of guys in A ball and a couple of guys who are minors filler.

Eric Show: Still a fucker, even if he's dead.

Oh, bull shit. Yes, Hornsby's a Cardinal, but he won an MVP with the Cubs. It's not as if he was a half season rental, like Sabathia for the Brewers.

It can be two things.

I think you mean "Tomorrow belongs to me!"

Hinzelmann, from American Gods.

It's a four year program at Iowa.

Maybe it was a different David Brooks? It doesn't seem an uncommon name, like Zelmo Beatty.

One of the lamer gargoyles in Goliath's posse.

Did you not see the words "LAW DEGREE", supra?

The customers there aren't rich people, really. They're more exurban petit-bourgeousie than actual lords of the economy.

Wait, you mean pre-election never Trumper David Brooks folded on his principles like a meth-addicted Superman on laundry day when Trump actually won? No way.

I have you beat. I have

We really do need a Committee for Public Safety.

This is the same guy who said, "For every blue collar worker we lose in western Pennsylvania, we'll gain two or three moderate Republicans in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and you can replicate that in Ohio and Wisconsin and Illinois." This is also the Senate Minority Leader. The Democrats, everyone!

Obama, Bush the Lesser, Clinton, Reagan, Nixon. This country's been irrevocably fucked for a while.Name a policy Trump supports that Reagan wouldn't have that has a legislative chance in hell of passing.

OTHER EXPLANATION II: Turns out if the alleged party of the working class manifestly ignores the working class long enough, the working class is going to cease giving a shit about their party and not turn out to vote. Meanwhile, the racist crazed petit bourgeois exurban types will turn out for someone who shares their…

President Pence strikes you as an improvement?

Yes. No shit. And what's next?