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I don't see a package with Heuer as the centerpiece netting a stud rotation guy, but if other teams value him that much, then yeah, do it. I guess in that case it bumps Kopech or Crochet to the bullpen anyway.

LaStella in does not have to mean Madrigal out. He's still pre-arb so keep him for depth. Is he good enough at SS to play there for a while if Anderson gets hurt?

Wow, that's a lot of money for a reliever. I'm glad to have him, but I wouldn't have been upset if the Sox weren't willing to pay that much to get him. I'm not in favor of trading Heuer unless the Sox are set on moving Kopech or Crochet to reliver permanently. Hendriks-Bummer-Marshall-Heuer-Fry-Foster-Cordero-Burdi/Lopez is a nice bullpen and I wouldn't want to lose Heuer unless Kopech or Crochet are replacing him. If the Sox are still in on Bauer, give him another week or so and if you can't land him, sign Quintana or one of the other comparable available options.

https://twitter.com/ChristopherJM/status/1348725601335717889?s=20

Assuming that's Eastern time that's just under 5 hours from now.

Before looking it up, I was able to correctly guess that Rep. Peter Meijer is indeed from Grand Rapids, MI.

Sources indicate they settled on Lou Malnati's after seriously considering Giordano's.

I can grant you that a lot of good people voted for Trump, but any Trump voter who is saying that they will never vote for Pence, Sasse, etc., for defying Trump are part of the problem. That's loyalty to a person over a political platform and those people deserve no sympathy.

This is probably blending over to the COVID thread but you couldn't pay me to fly right now anyway.

The Senate will avoid taking it up until after inauguration, which will give cover to Republicans who can vote to acquit, thus not angering the Trump base, and then rationalize it by saying he's out of office anyway so it doesn't matter. Romney, Murkowski, and maybe a couple others will vote to convict, but not 17.

Are Kennedy and Thomas actually buying into those conspiracy theories, or are they just spreading them because getting others to believe them is profitable?

I think the point people are trying to make is that the fascists have set themselves aside by committing treason/sedition, which sets them apart from the acts of violence and terrorism that have been committed by other groups, and that in addition to dealing with the specific crimes committed Wednesday we need to deal with the larger issue that fascists thought it was OK to storm the Capitol in a way that no other group has dared even consider.

If you want to feel less bad about the Bears, turn on NBC to see what's happening in Pittsburgh.

Can Foles be cut? I don't know how contracts work and all that.

A good QB still isn't winning anything with this roster, and acquiring a good QB limits improving other areas. I want to get the other pieces in place first before addressing QB.

First of all, he doesn't cost picks to acquire and he won't cost a lot of money to sign. Secondly, if you're going to rebuild you're going to have a bad team for a couple years and his mobility and relatively low turnover rate is good to have on a rebuilding type team.

As far as the punishment for the specific act, no, it doesn't matter why those people broke into the Capitol, but if we're going to deal with the cause and not just the action, then yes, it matters why it happened and that people of other types of extremist views didn't. Otherwise, we're just sitting around hoping it doesn't happen again.

Is Trubisky the long term answer? Absolutely not, but this team is so poorly constructed that there is no way possible to both acquire a significantly better QB and surround him with enough talent to win over the next 2 years, so give Trubisky a 2 year deal and blow everything else up around him.

That's not a touchdown.

You keep saying that, but you don't seem to have a problem with everything that led up to this point. These idiots who stormed the capitol and weren't smart enough to disguise their identities while posting their actions on social media didn't think up this grand plan. They were incited to do so, and there were serious flaws in the system that led to that point. The President egged them on, then prevented the military from stopping them, and he was still in power to do that because his entire party refused to do anything about him before that point. When he can call Ukraine, ask them to dig up dirt on his election opponent, and only one member of his party stood up to him during impeachment, the entire party bears some level of responsibility for everything he did after that.

A couple things that we thought would never be an issue need to be fixed: 1) Congress needs direct control of something bigger/better than the Capitol Police so that the President doesn't control their ability to defend themselved. 2) The procedure by which a long congressman and Senator can object to the electoral from being counted and force a vote needs to go away. The courts are there to adjudicate disputes over election results. 3) We need fewer than 14 days between the electoral vote count and the beginning of the new term.

If the few thousand people have the President running interference for them in terms of preventing the military or law enforcement from stopping it, it's 100% possible, as we just witnessed. It took the VP, quite possibly illegally, ordering the National Guard in, in order to stop it.

If they killed more than half of the Senators, they could not have certified the Electoral vote, so Pelosi would have become President on the 20th, unless she was also dead and there wasn't a quorum of House members to elect a new speaker, in which case the Constitution doesn't say what happens, so yeah, that would have been just fine. I cant' tell if you're just obfuscating to avoid admitting the obvious or if you really don't get it.

If we wait until something succeeds to judge how bad it is, then it's too late.

What happened Wednesday wasn't just a violent mob--it was a violent mob attempting to subvert election results. Find another example of that and then come back.