Tom Bastien

@evanwoodbery All it ever does in Detroit is rain.

I'm not a meteorologist, but looks like there's about 20 minutes until the rain arrives at Comerica Park.

For the second straight game, the Tigers have gone 12 up, 12 down through the first four innings. Red Sox starter Payton Tolle has a perfect game through 4.

@KenGardner11 Is there a shred of evidence that anything short of an utter ass-kicking (i.e. regime change) has ever brought fundamental change in Iran?

As badly as I want us to resume the aforementioned asskicking, I do understand why any POTUS would want to try lesser measures first and try to reach a deal. This should never happen, though; there is no reasonable intermediate between Iran having a nuclear weapons program and Iran not having a nuclear weapons program. Or if it does happen, it will be one or the other side giving in -- and it better be either the Iranians or no one.

Trump is really taking every option he has between doing nothing beyond the blockade and resuming the all out ass-kicking that we inflicted on Iran in March. He really does seem to want Iran to take the next hostile step. Which they will do sooner or later.

@DatabaseHit Which one is not like the others…..

Tigers SPs by ERA (min. 20 IP): Skubal 2.70 Mize 2.90 Valdez 3.35 Montero 3.48 Flaherty 5.90 Montero has earned to keep his spot in the rotation over Flaherty. #DNMW

@Pontifex So NOW you’re quoting Scripture.

Practical assistance offered to the disadvantaged allows them to experience God’s love, and opens a path for them to enter into a lasting relationship with God. At the same time, it enables us to come into contact with the flesh of Christ by seeking to see and serve Him in our brothers and sisters (cf. Mt 25:31-46). In this way, our works of charity become a mutual encounter with the Lord who is present among us.

@KenGardner11 Anti-Christianity. Crackpot racial theories. Eugenics. Plenty of leftists have emblematically embraced those, too.

I'm not an "own the libs" guy -- in fact, I am the polar opposite of such people and I especially hate that genre of social media -- but very few things make left wingers madder than pointing out, correctly, that Nazism was a virulently anti-capitalist, pro-socialist movement.

@EFinnie4 @TheAtlantic @AnnieLowrey Have the poor pay nothing. Start income taxation at 40 or 50k of annual earnings.

@Tom__Bastien @TheAtlantic @AnnieLowrey Flat taxes hurt the poor and benefit the rich. The fact that you don’t see that shows you have no concept of fair taxation. What we SHOULD do and don’t is tax wealth.

Members of both parties are egging on a nationwide tax revolt—and if the economy were to tank, the country could end up with a toxic combination of widespread joblessness and rampant inflation, @AnnieLowrey argues. theatln.tc/VsVxElnp 🎨: The Atlantic. Source: Getty.

@FLDadReborn @bonchieredstate Alternatively, actual conservatism really isn’t what most people want.

DeSantis’ fatal flaw was accomplishing in Florida what Republicans have wanted accomplished nationwide for 50 years. The dirty secret is that most politicians on the Right would rather blame the Left for not getting anything done than actually pushing through wins.

@Write4Republic 💯

Smoking weed makes you dumber.

@Write4Republic Not intelligent ones.

Do you believe in aliens?

@Write4Republic This is not even a question.

Ben Shapiro > Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson combined

@b19hoffman @Castellani2014 A few players were sick during some of those series losses. And not all teams were playing in cold weather initially. Also, this team has popped out a lot. Some of those are hits and home runs in warmer weather.

@Tom__Bastien @Castellani2014 Both teams play in the same weather. How is it a disadvantage for Detroit but not the opponent?

Just gonna say it: Great to see the Tigers on a national stage, but there shouldn’t be Sunday Night Games at Comerica until at least Memorial Day. You’re playing in a freezer.

@RjShores @AustinDevaney @TheAtlantic @AnnieLowrey Yep

@Tom__Bastien @AustinDevaney @TheAtlantic @AnnieLowrey Are you a tax policy expert?

Ben Shapiro > Candace Owens

Conservatism is not what’s popular these days. Gutless libertarianism is. Many of his former listeners are isolationists while he’s pro-Israel. They’re also hedonistic atheists and agnostics while he’s pro-faith.

@DanielleKaatz Signing geriatrics to multimillion deals doesn’t seem like a great strategy.

It just sucks knowing every 5th day it’s probably going to be an auto loss

@AustinDevaney @TheAtlantic @AnnieLowrey An actually, the rich have a lot of loopholes as it is. They don’t make most of their money in wages. Flatten everything and the government gets a whole lot more tax revenue coming in.

@AustinDevaney @TheAtlantic @AnnieLowrey It doesn’t “benefit” anyone. Everyone paying the same rate is fair. The Rich’s 10% is much more money than my 10%.

@Slate No. You need a healthy dose of self-denial. Become a nun. It will do you good.

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