Considering that a salary cap without a floor is a blatant attempt to cap player salaries and the current situation of depressed salaries stems from teams treating the luxury tax as a cap, your point that it’s “biting them in the ass” makes zero sense.

Aside from the fact you’re picking revenue and not payroll as a metric and that you’re using the completely arbitrary nature of selecting top 12, which would include teams that are just slightly above average, MLB has over the last 20 years (since the luxury tax took effect) had more playoff teams and World Series…

I don’t have the time to sort through your past posts to see if you’ve hectored people on voting blue no matter what, so if you haven’t done that, then I apologize for throwing you in that bucket.

Despite what a lot of angry left-punchers believe, most leftists will, too.

There’s a persistent idea that voting is both the biggest and only political action one can take. This isn’t true and I’d argue direct action (strikes in particular) are more effective in effecting change, but that doesn’t register with most Americans.

Bernie is and always has been the compromise candidate between the center and right of the party, so he’s it.

America: The Series Finale is really delivering on its promise.

The fact this is your answer pretty much proves you care about those people just as much as the GOP does.

lol

“Shut up and fall in line” has been the Democrats’ message to voters for a long time.

Your dishonesty about the substance of Big Pharma objections aside, Booker is a probably a better candidate than is recognized now and I can see him breaking out.

despite him having done nothing to build any substantial following among Democrats around the country since losing the last time

I don’t know if it’s projection, the product of an extremely limited imagination, or just plain spite, but it seems a segment of Democrats/liberals just can’t grasp that someone can object to someone on actual policy grounds. It has to be vague irelevalent shit like “he’s too happy.”

We know. It’s one of his virtues.

They’ll probably point out a Biden presidency will not advocate for the policies that will serve as a meaningful opposition to the nation’s emergent fascism (Biden’ has talked about means-testing social security, a policy that has no traction among the electorate; he’s repeatedly said Millennials have nothing…

But please don’t tell me this website is going to spend the next 20 months dragging Democrats for actually knowing how to play the absurdist political games that get people elected.

I’ve gotta admit, of all the disgusting little con-artists Trump has nominated, Pruitt is the most entertaining in that he continually acts like the conservative caricature of a corrupt government official leeching off the taxpayer.

I’d have more confidence in her if she wasn’t constantly squashing talk of impeachment.

The fact you can imagine believing in only repackaged nationalism or nihilism does not mean there are other better options.

One, your conception of the non-voter as a petulant privileged moralizer is mostly divorced from reality. The typical non-voter has been ground down by the combination of stagnant or dropping wages and growing living expenses. They’re usually poor and disproportionately non-white and they’re neither stupider nor…