So apparently the whole point of a mock draft is to prep for “real” fantasy drafts. If you make a pick in a mock draft that no one would make in a “real” fantasy draft, you defeat the whole purpose.

Sometimes, though, by sticking with it long after it stopped being funny, it can wrap all the way around to funny again.

I just use standard negotiating and conflict resolution tactics, and I find it to be quite effective. So when a relative says something like “All liberals are sick in the head and depraved!”, I say something like, “Wouldn’t you agree that most Americans, regardless of their politics, are poorly represented by their…

ThoseAreDigimon is pretty excellent, too!

It’s a tribalist, sports fannish thing. People get excited by the prospect of being on the winning team and they ‘re prepared to justify anything their side does and vilify anything the opposition does. Our side can be guilty of it, too, but then we actually tried to work with Dubya on immigration reform and we based…

I mean, Bush’s Top Men (Top Men!) were relics of the Nixon administration, and no one batted an eyelash at that. As if Cheney and Rumsfeld weren’t proteges of the most corrupt president of the 20th century. We just collectively pretended that the Nixon years never happened.

I don’t want to eviscerate you, but I do disagree with your premise because the people you describe are just one contingent of the GOP base. For many of them, hating liberals and liberalism is so integral to their self-identity, they wouldn’t give it up for anything.

I want someone to write a software simulator where you can plug in different people as U.S. President-For-Life, and then it spits out the results.

Re: The responses you’re getting - it seems to me that you were just riffing on the headline and perhaps not making a deeply convicted statement, but what do I know, I’m in the minor leagues.

I vouch for ninjagin. A good egg!

This kind of thing is why I think there’s a chance all of Mueller’s efforts might be futile. As in, there’s a chance that he might unearth a photo of Donald fellating Putin while also stabbing a freshly aborted fetus, and Trump’s base will still find a way to reconcile that with their adoration of the man. They are…

Probably none?

That’s the fundamental difference between them and us, right? We don’t love the idea of the GOP getting a turn to run the show, but as long as they don’t try to be too evil, we’re willing to tolerate it - provided they let us have our turn when the pendulum swings back in our direction.

I doubt we’ll see this spread. With teachers’ futures tied to their students’ test scores, there’s every incentive to cram information (as opposed to knowledge) into kids’ brains. Standardized testing is the tail that wags the dog nowadays.

My mother would behave exactly as Korie Harris did ... and my mother is just awful. So your logic is sound.

Any truth to the rumor that Gorka is a Necromancer and that Trump, Bannon, Miller and Conway all actually died years ago? I’m not saying it’s true, but I’ve heard many people saying that it’s true. I’m just asking questions.

This is what happens when we try to compromise with the right, they move the goal posts.

I’ll give you a Carney Lansford rookie card and a Darryl Strawberry 1989 Donruss.

At this rate it’ll soon be a metaphorical fence. “If we believe in the wall, that makes it real whether we build it or not!”

“My second order as President was to cure polio. You’re welcome, cripples!”