James T. Riley
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James T. Riley
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Scrantonian. Failed Poet. Accredited Introvert. Despairing Democrat. Ambivalent Sports Fan. Agnostic, Thank God ( Perhaps ).Pessimist On My Better Days.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 13h
Now that Dick Cheney has set foot on celestial terrain, does St. Peter have to defer to him in matters of heavenly security?
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 13h
Is there even a remote chance the Court might rule against Trump? Hmm. Such an event could signal the possibility that there is a God after all.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 13h
Just another vignette showing Trump's Amerika.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 13h
If you ever visit Trump, be sure to have have a copy of Das Kapital under your arm, just for effect.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 13h
Could mean? Could mean? Duh?
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 13h
Phillies needs are contingent on what impact free agency has on them. Could need pitching if Suarez defects; catcher, if Realmuto strays; and slugger if Schwarber goes elsewhere. This off-season could be life or death to the near-dynasty of the past several years. Crossroads, big time!
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 14h
I think he faded away because he never got himself out of southern California and the Angels. It gave the appearance, the strong appearance, that he was content with the perennial mediocrity of that franchise and his status as a big fish in a small pond. Add to that his never-ending injuries.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 14h
There is a kind of sadness dawning on the American consciousness and it is this: Maybe we're not the humane and compassionate people we have always prided ourselves on being. Maybe, in the final analysis, we're no better than anybody else when it comes to knuckling under to a dictatorial regime.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 15h
I second the motion.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 15h
I don't think there is one member of the news media worthy of being numbered among the elite reporters of even the most recent past. Today's generation are passive, meek, hesitant and, most of all, afraid of Trump's putdowns. Where have you gone, Sam Donaldson...Dan Rather...Tom Brokaw...
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 15h
Every day a new strain of stupidity enters the cultural bloodstream. This man is so utterly asinine that it's amazing anybody listens to him. I.D. at the grocery store! What rot! What a consummate idiot!
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · 13d
A new version of FDR not on the horizon, although some good potential candidates exist on Dem bench. So far nobody has knocked anybody's socks off. But 2028 is still a long way off (and besides, Trump will conjure up a claim to perpetual presidency, so there may be no election.)
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Oct 3
It won't be just Cubs versus Brewers, it'll be former against current managers. Every move will be scrutinized. No subtlety of strategy or tactics will be overlooked by the media. I hope we get five games of contentious second-guessing.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Oct 3
Shutting down the US government is nothing new for Trump. He shut down out democracy way back in January.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Oct 3
What could be a better way for the millions of viewers and fans in attendance to witness America's Gestapo in action knocking down rich people who get in the way of their mission to knock down poor people? Who needs well-paid half-time entertainers when TV can show the ICE goons rioting?
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Oct 3
Not a good post-season for the state of Ohio. as Reds and Guardians are defeated. Probably didn't really belong anyhow, but just participating pumped up the local fans for a few days.
As the saying goes, "When the half-gods leave, the gods arrive."
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Oct 3
Trump loves this brutality. It is so horrific it scares the daylights out of everybody - which is exactly the response he wants. Intimidation psychology. Terrify the whole country. Rule through fear.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Oct 3
The lies get more and more gargantuan.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Oct 3
Some umpire calls are so atrocious you have to have a mechanism in play that allows for league intervention in real time to correct them, especially in post-season games.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Oct 3
Is it reasonable to assume that at least a handful of those captive generals, admirals and other top brass absorbing the President's rambling and incoherent speech at that military convocation the other day may be genuinely worried that their Commander-In-Chief is cognitively impaired?
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Sep 30
I think I'll send Steve Cohen a Hallmark sympathy card.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Sep 30
Injuries kill sports.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Sep 30
I think he's absolutely right.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Sep 30
Why do people continue to act as if Donald Trump was a person given to rational thought. He is no such thing. Sadists don't consult their reason, they commune only with the dark side of their nature. Trump lives to hurt people.
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James T. Riley @jtwryly1.bsky.social · Sep 30
Look on the bright side: the Pete Alonso salary will be off the books.