Rather than engaging in pointless debate, I will conclude that you are a Trump apologist, while I (irrespective of my views — I actually work with natural resource industries, for example), am not.

Yeah, Trump and Co. attempting to dismantle the ACA, issuing executive order withdrawing protections for women, affirmatively working to dismantle the State Dept., the EPA, and other necessary institutions, doing his damnedest to get us in a shooting match with North Korea, etc. Those don’t have any impact at all. …

NO. This is a false equivalency, and no one is claiming Trump is a Manchurian “plant.” There is ACTUALLY a multi-party investigation (FBI and other IC, congressional committees) into whether Trump colluded with Russia during the campaigns. You think those would be occurring absent probable cause? There is ACTUAL…

Yes. They hacked the voter registration information of about 20 states, along with the already well-known hacking of the DNC and RNC.http://abcnews.go.com/US/russian-hackers-targeted-half-states-voter-registration-systems/story?id=42435822

Who says those things are mutually exclusive? There is no rule against BOTH reporting the concrete steps Trump is doing to destroy actually useful and productive government programs, fill his cabinet with billionaires for fun and profit, and play golf while the world burns, AND reporting the facts that continue to…

Whoa whoa whoa.....don’t be dragging tennis into this. In my 50s, and with USTA leagues I can combine great exercise AND drinking. It’s the best.

This is word salad. OF COURSE Putin regards Trump as a useful idiot. Whether others have their own agendas (and the remarkable willingness of the GOP element in Congress to go along with Trump regarding an adversary that has thousands of nuclear weapons pointed at us shows they care solely about holding their own…

I agree.

I am not saying that Trump and his team are remotely competent. I think much of this they make up as they go along — witness Cohen now on his fourth version of events regarding the Great Ukrainian Peace Plan. However, that’s a different question from the issue of whether they’re deflecting intentionally, and what…

My deep concern is that Trump (or at least his team) knows this recursive tendency and exploits it to distract his supporters and casual observers from the real issue — his Russian entanglements. I think his press conference last week, the declaration of War Against the Media, the fights over “voter fraud” and crowd…

Yep, that’s her technique (see the breakdown of it on Vox). My point is, it only succeeds so long as the questioner capitulates to it and moves on. Lauer succeeded in other areas (in that he made her look foolish even though she refused to answer) because he declined to move on. Her walking out on the interview…

He let her go on the most important question, though: Was Flynn instructed? As foolish as he made her look, he ultimately failed there.

Lots of speculation that RPS is a false-flag account run by someone inside (Chuck Johnson?). At any rate, at the same time Trump claims this, he has never disavowed his opposition to gay marriage and has made clear he will appoint to SCOTUS someone who will be ready and willing to dismantle LGBTQ rights. He can’t…

Counterpoint: Jozy is butt.

Careful, there are some around these parts who are very sensitive to the suggestion that Djokovic is not the GOAT.

I think it does apply to Murray. They both play great defense.

This disagreement about competition is where you part ways with others here. And personally I would take peak Fed over peak Djokovic. But that’s a completely subjective argument.

Ehhhh. I don’t think you can discount Fed just because he was so ridiculously unbeatable in the early 2000s. And look at his record in Masters finals over a long period. Pretty amazing how many he won, against essentially everyone, from 2002-2012. Look at ATP finals overall in the same period. His career record…

Eh, Holloway’s schtick annoys me so maybe I’m biased, but I’ve never considered him to be “elite.” Last fight I saw with him was much like this one, where his opponent was seriously deficient for some reason. Lamas was just as overmatched in 199. Holloway isn’t super polished or technical, just very energetic. …

I wouldn’t wish that upon my worst enemy.