It is true - I don't have many talents, but I was able to throw over 90 mph past 40. I cannot anymore - but I was pitching fairly regularly through about age 40.
No Harley. No split finger - just a 2 and 4 seamer. Throwing a split finger at 90 mph would be a lot harder.
I made a rare exception to my rule against listening to opinion-makers on youtube to watch this one. And as I had anticipated, I think this dude is wrong. I think the blame-whitey phenomenon he talks about is real, but I don't think it was in it's full flower during the Obama era. Some were talking like that then just like they were in the 1970s. But blame-whitey got a lot more popular after Trump came to office. Also, I don't think Obama conducted himself in a way to encourage this mindset. I think he was very conscious of the special scrutiny he would get as the first black president and tried his utmost to not make race the first place he went. Sometimes circumstances made racism the topic of the day, so he would talk about it. But more often I was frustrated to watch him pass on opportunities to talk about race. But the thing that left the deepest impression from the Obama years was how Republicans went crazy after his election with the tea party movement, the antecedent to MAGA. To the extent that Obama made race relations worse, it was in waking the sleeping giant of ethno-nationalism by getting elected while black. And that defined an electorate for Trump to appeal to and a message that America is for the cis heterosexual white able-bodied English-speaking males and everyone else is either a resource, a tool, or a parasite.
Yeah she is completely wrong. She could have said: "I think Kamala is an idiot, but I hate Trump more, so I don't even care what Kamala's program is." That would have been more honest. And a lot of people might think that way, and that's their right. Conversely, I believe there are a lot of people who think: "Trump is a buffoon and a malignant narcissist, but Kamala/Walz is a far-left, authoritarian, anti free speech, anti Israel, high tax, pro Iran, transgendering kids, uncontrolled illegal immigration, high crime ticket, so despite my reservations about Trump as a person and his character, I prefer a second Trump term - because his first term has led to a stronger economy, more peace, and it has shown that he is not Hitler, despite all of the leftists' attempts to convince us otherwise." Basically, the decision between the two is what it comes down to for a lot of people.
Yep, these are little bargains these people must make with themselves to justify voting for Trump. - Having “reservations about Trump as a person and his character” certainly feels a lot better than owning up to the fact that Trump is far and away the most morally bankrupt human being to run for President in any of our lifetimes. - “Trump is a buffoon and malignant narcissist” sure sounds like a strong accounting for Trump’s faults. Actually, it’s just another bargain and ruse because that is certainly easier than admitting to voting for someone who is: (1) the most willfully ignorant (e.g. inject Clorox or UV light) person ever to run for president, and (2) the biggest pathological liar (e.g., compulsively lies every day, and see no greater example than the 2020 election) and quite literally nobody comes close. Maybe if one make Kamala horrible enough, left enough, crazy laugh enough, black enough, blah blah blah (and hell I’m not even a fan), maybe just maybe one can look in the mirror and justify voting for the human feces that is Donald Trump. Yeah, yeah, I’m not a bad guy for voting for Trump. It’s not my fault the Dems gave me such a horrible alternative. It’s really their fault. Yeah.
People can think what they want but crime is dropping, the economy is still strong, border crossings are down, inflation is reduced, gas prices are down, US energy production is high, and the Biden administration just helped stop a major strike.
