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@Legally_Italian @SarcasticCupcak @DrunkRepub At best, they are running the same type of info op they accuse Kent of running(its a credible claim). Its ironic and unfortunate that they discount one and run hogwild with the other.

That’s why I elsewhere called the “leak investigation” boob bait (with apologies to my many smart friends who believe it). Partisans will soak it up in the short term and chalk up the absence of an indictment six months from now to Bondi’s incompetence or something. But the truth is, it’s an ethical violation for DOJ lawyers to leak such information. That’s why we usually learn about investigations from the targets (like say Brennan and Clapper who tipped us off to the grand jury in Florida). So if some anons are telling the press there is a leak investigation, color me skeptical.

Looks like the people who warned us about the Deep State (Tucker, Candace, et al) are the actual Deep State. This is all a soft coup, and anyone who can’t see it is part of it.

@SarcasticCupcak @Legally_Italian @DrunkRepub

@Attackwatch1 @Legally_Italian @DrunkRepub The irony of leakers in the administration leaking about an investigation about leaks is definitely not lost on me.

@SarcasticCupcak @Legally_Italian @DrunkRepub A leak of an alleged "leak investigation". Someone is either talking out of thier ass or out of school.

@Legally_Italian @DrunkRepub The "leak investigation" is bullshit. Just like the one against Dan Caldwell (who was cleared) when he left and Hegseth was shooting his mouth off.

@plzbepatient Will the leaker of the leak investigation be prosecuted? Just want to make sure about the ops and games we are playing here.

I am not saying I believe it, but if Joe Kent was leaking classified info, and they can actually back it up, should he not be prosecuted because of politics? Just want to make sure I understand if we are actually playing the real game or the fake game.

@plewisbaseball I dont think it had anything to do with starting pitcher losing quality/validity late in a game but rather with psychology, attempting to frame future at bats to ensure he would get pitches he could drive

Difference was back then they would see the same arm for 9 innings. Today you see specialist after specialist with different arm angles and absolutely ELECTRIC stuff. Negro Leagues had some of the best arms of all time IMO, but seeing a guy 4-5 times is much different from today's game. Love the input! Definitely not a hard-line way to approach hitting. I just hated giving a strike away by being passive. Would much rather swing and miss than take one.

If you have a hitting coach who tells you to “take a strike” RUN (unless it’s late and down several runs…..even then I hate it). As a pitcher, the goal is to get one of the first two over for a strike. Why be passive early? It’s a terrible approach IMO. 0-1 is not an advantage as a hitter. Hitting is hard enough with 3 strikes. Why give one away?

@FGallagher21030 @plewisbaseball Why, its almost as if pro and college ball is played in small series and it may be necessary to use up the opponents pitching staff to face meat later in the series. Sorry that messes with your individual batting accolades

@plewisbaseball Never understood this when playing Especially whenever the justification is running up the pitch count Our job as an offense is to score runs. You can do that pretty quickly and abundant by smashing the first pitch fat over the plate.

@bonchieredstate Who leaked the leak investigation?

See how this works? It doesn’t matter whether they actually did anything criminal (maybe they did, maybe they didn’t). All that matters is that they espouse the narrative, and thus, they become untouchable. None of this is a coincidence.

@2ndMississippi Jubilee Early was the chief force behind the immediate postwar literary theme making.... he voted against Virginia's seccession. Thats one reason it stuck- he had a legitimate point of view that wasnt just about justifying the most radical elements at the South

The Allure and Burden of the "Lost Cause" [A note before we begin: I come from deep Confederate Southern roots, and I know the phrase "Lost Cause" carries freight it was never meant to bear. I don't mean here the postwar mythology that whitewashed history or excused what cannot be excused. I mean something older and larger — the thing that Margaret Mitchell and Robert Heinlein and C. Vann Woodward and Shelby Foote and William Faulkner all circled around in their different ways: the strange enduring human pull of causes carried forward even in defeat. I don't normally stray far outside strictly military history, but while I study and write about Atlanta's fall and recall how 'Gone with the Wind' fixed it in memory.... all this makes me occasionally take time and pause to think through what the South's memory of loss did to its literature, its music, its voice.] There is a curious power in a lost cause. Not the kind of power that wins battles or changes governments — the other kind, the kind that outlasts victory, that gets under the skin of a people and won't let go. History knows this. Literature knows it. Even science fiction has grappled with it. Defeat leaves a mark that triumph somehow doesn't. Victories get celebrated, then filed away and half-forgotten. Losses endure. They become identities. Margaret Mitchell understood. When she put words in Rhett Butler's mouth — her roguish, half-cynical hero who had seen through the Confederacy from the start — she gave him the line that would echo longer than anything else in 'Gone with the Wind': "I'm going to join the army. … I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost." Clark Gable delivered it in the 1939 film almost word for word, and it landed just the way Mitchell meant it: half-romantic, half-rueful, a recognition that there's something noble, even seductive, about throwing your lot in with a cause that cannot win. Not nobility in the cause itself, mind you. Nobility in the gesture — in the going forward when the end is already written. Three decades later, Robert A. Heinlein circled the same truth from a different angle. In 'The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress,' his philosopher-revolutionary Bernardo de la Paz — guiding a Lunar rebellion against Earth that had no business succeeding — put it this way: "Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory." Where Rhett saw romance, the Professor saw dignity. Principle mattered even when it lost. Maybe especially when it lost. In both cases, defeat became not just an end but a kind of transcendence. These are fictional voices, but they resonate because they're rooted in something real. The South knew it before Mitchell or Heinlein ever set pen to paper. William Faulkner, who carried the South's ghosts in his bones, wrote it plainest in 'Requiem for a Nun': "The past is never dead. It's not even past." For Faulkner, defeat wasn't abstract. It was woven into the fabric of the present — individuals and families and whole communities laboring in webs spun long before their time, bound by consequence and memory they didn't choose but couldn't escape. The Confederacy's loss wasn't a closed chapter. It was a living ghost. C. Vann Woodward gave this sensibility its scholarly form in 'The Irony of Southern History.' He argued that the South bore a burden the rest of the United States did not — couldn't, really, because the rest of the country had never known total defeat. While the nation at large celebrated triumphs and expansion and exceptionalism, the South carried humiliation, poverty, racial crisis, and the plain fact of having been conquered. Woodward put it this way: "Southern history, unlike American, includes large components of frustration, failure and defeat. It includes not only an overwhelming military defeat but long decades of defeat in the provinces of economic, social, and political life." That's not sentiment. That's fact. The South lost the war, then lost the peace, then spent generations losing arguments about what it all meant. Defeat piled on defeat until defeat itself became the defining experience. Shelby Foote — novelist turned historian, Southerner to the marrow — said it even simpler in Ken Burns' 'The Civil War': "As a Southerner I would have to say that one of the main importances of the War is that Southerners have a sense of defeat which none of the rest of the country has." Where Woodward dissected irony, Foote described feeling. That sense of defeat became a cultural inheritance, passed down not in history books alone but in songs, in humor, in manners, in the way people talked about time itself. Taken together — Rhett Butler's gallantry, Heinlein's philosophy, Faulkner's haunted prose, Woodward's historical irony, Foote's cultural lament — these voices converge on a single truth: defeat carries its own kind of permanence. Victories can be celebrated and then forgotten. Losses endure. They become identities. They inspire literature and music, color politics and culture, shape how people see themselves in the stream of history. For the American South, that defeat was the Civil War. The Midwest remembers sacrifice and Union preserved. The West folded the war into its larger frontier myth. The North celebrated vindication. But the South? The South lives with memory of catastrophe. Its cause wasn't merely lost — it was woven into identity itself, inseparable from the question of what it meant to be Southern at all. That's why the South produced so much of the nation's most powerful literature, music, cultural expression. Because it carried the burden of memory. The blues, with its mournful beauty. Country ballads of loss. Faulkner's haunted Yoknapatawpha County, where every field held a ghost and every family carried a curse. All threads in that web. The past is not past. And in the South, defeat proved as enduring — perhaps even more spiritually satisfying — than victory. Shelby Foote and William Faulkner

@JohnnyVanBee @DevineGospel In my area, travel/tournaments touring has warped little league- we still have it but its all condensed in April so theres no time to develop the average player with practices

Nah. LL killed itself. A serviceable LL is only successful in small towns and it’s understood that that’s what the entire town does. Any sort of suburban area with some population….yeah no chance. Travel is the way to go if you want to play good completion, get coached well and develop. LL is not for developing, it’s for sport participation. If that’s what you want out of it, go ahead but for the serious player, LL is not an option anymore and that’s their fault.

Travel Ball is one of the biggest scams ever It Killed Little League

@AdamsCoSheriff Thats ok, just make your deputies stay locked on obtaining tight warrants so they dont end up in thier own rap song... and tell em not to cry?

The Adams County Sheriff's Office has received a flood of social media comments, DMs, and phone calls about the #Afroman defamation trial. It’s clear this is important to a lot of people. There's just one small issue: that's the ACSO in Ohio. We are the ACSO in #Colorado. Different states, same name. #AfromanTrial #WrongAdamsCounty

@StarowNiklas Had the one deputy on stand admitting he csnt prove @ogafroman didnt sleep with his wife!

Just got to the #Afroman testimony. The plaintiff who is asking for 1 million for being called a pdf. Of which he will get max 700 000. And his attorney entered into evidence that the rumors around town is that the plaintiff is sleeping with minors and has done this for decades. Would you do that for 700 000? Let those local rumors be world wide rumors?

@Wash_Commander @joekent16jan19 @marklevinshow Must be 4D chess from the critics then! Carry on...

@Attackwatch1 @joekent16jan19 @marklevinshow going on Tucker, Candace and Levin after a public humiliating resignation? thats called GRIFTING

Joe Kent, I would like to interview you on my radio show either tomorrow or Friday or one day next week.  For a full hour.  I don't know how to reach you.  Have your people call my people.

@Wash_Commander @joekent16jan19 @marklevinshow So a critic requests an interview, he accepts and somehow thats proof of a grift?

@joekent16jan19 @marklevinshow This guy quit and is instantly going on a press tour..... You watch he will have a "tell all book" within 6 months...

@ItsBroMigo The only thing I would change/splurge on would have been a futsal ball, purely to keep ball from bouncing off hardwood floor but I wouldnt change a thing about using the couch as the constant rebounder

@Attackwatch1 It’s the best (and most underrated) way to ensure your child has a strong technical foundation. I have a basket of size 3 balls in a few different rooms of my house where my nearly 3 yr old and I can just grab one and start playing around immediately. It’s the best.

It’s wild how many coaches and parents in American youth soccer still don’t understand this.

@WVmotoguy @manhattanmaker Ive given thought to taking the last 5-10 years of my career in a local govt job.

@manhattanmaker Worked with a guy for 10 years. All over the country. He got tired of traveling and went to work for a city government. Said he's never had it so easy, and he feels like a supergenius because he's surrounded by idiots.

Successful people in the private sector walk away from their job with dignity and respect, even if they feel slighted. They move to the next job and continue their career, maybe at a competitor working to “get back” at their last employer. Public sector employees prove to me daily why they are not in the private sector. They’d get eaten alive.

@jimgeraghty I want to make sure I understand- Levin can needle & insult Kelly for months on end in personal ways but its a problem for her to insult him? Its ok if you were to say, " yeah im applying a political double standard to win the argument du jour", just want to understand terms.

The war against Iran is not popular among the American people, and the Trump administration could really use a unified, focused, well-informed, clear, and coherent right-of-center media world making the case for the president’s actions to the public. Instead, they’ve got Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson ranting about conspiracy theories, Laura Loomer saying Tulsi Gabbard’s office is leaking because it’s full of Never-Trumpers, and for some reason Megyn Kelly really wants to talk to you about Mark Levin’s anatomy.

@RobProvince Sears couldnt sell ice to an Eskimo and Virginia elections are counter sensitive to the election cycle that just proceeded. Rural Virginians are keenly aware of the implications of this referendum, its not dependent on the personality of a candidate to whip turnout

Can someone who’s much smarter than me help me understand how republicans all stayed home on Election Day but showed up in massive numbers now?

In this house @ogafroman is a hero, end of story!