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Curt Schilling fucking sucked as a human when he played baseball. The world is just now catching up on it.

 

starting to think this guy might be kinda bad

 

I will go to the grave hating

 

For real tho, 2004 didn’t sting as bad for me as 2013 did. So bad things went down in my life that year and watching the Cards go down in flames after an awesome season was the kick in the dick.

 

At least you got to enjoy Jim Edmonds? God I loved that guy lol

 

i wouldve been so mad if we had lost that series after that interference call

 

I bet you're still sad Trump fanboy Tom Brady lost the Super Bowl to the Eagles.

 

JOHN KELLY IS 'FURIOUS' AT IVANKA TRUMP AND JARED KUSHNER FOR HIS FIRING: REPORT

A few hours later....

Kelly to remain as White House chief of staff through Jan. 2 or longer, official says

 

i'm a giants fan thank you

 

Sorry to hear that.

 

He’s still around, he does the Cards broadcasts for Fox Sports Midwest

 

look,

 

can't wait to watch rich people cry

 

Ted Lieu dragging Steve King in the hearing today was the absolute best.

 

The Death of Global Order Was Caused by Clinton, Bush, and Obama

Think back a quarter century, to the beginning of the “unipolar moment.” Having triumphed over the Soviet Union, the United States could have given itself a high-five, taken a victory lap, and adopted a grand strategy better suited to a world without a superpower rival. Rejecting isolationism, Washington could nonetheless have gradually disengaged from those areas that no longer needed significant American protection and reduced its global military footprint, while remaining ready to act in a few key areas should it become absolutely necessary. These moves would have forced our wealthiest allies to take on greater responsibility for local problems while the United States addressed pressing domestic needs. Making the “American dream” more real here at home would also have shown other nations why the values of liberty, democracy, open markets, and the rule of law were worth emulating.

This sensible alternative was barely discussed in official circles, however. Instead, both Democrats and Republicans quickly united behind an ambitious strategy of “liberal hegemony,” which sought to spread liberal values far and wide. Convinced that the winds of progress were at their back and enamored of an image of America as the world’s “indispensable nation,” they set about using American power to topple dictators, spread democracy, sanction so-called rogue states, and bring as many countries as possible into security institutions led by the United States. By 2016, in fact, America was formally committed to defending more foreign countries than at any time in the nation’s history.

America’s leaders may have had the best of intentions, but the strategy they pursued was mostly a failure. Relations with Russia and China today are worse than at any time since the Cold War, and the two Asian giants are once again colluding against us. Hopes for a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians have been dashed, and the rest of the Middle East is as divided as it has ever been. North Korea, India, and Pakistan have all tested nuclear weapons and expanded their nuclear stockpiles, while Iran has gone from zero enrichment capacity in 1993 to being nearly a nuclear weapons state today. Democracy is in retreat worldwide, violent extremists are active in more places, the European Union is wobbling, and the uneven benefits of globalization have produced a powerful backlash against the liberal economic order that the United States had actively promoted.

 

Someone Else 2020

 

Mmm, airplane shrimp

 

keep capers off of everything I says


(i've never had them)