Link to this one? I can’t find it.
plainclothes secret service dude, looks like. he’s nonplussed about sitting 3 feet from the president because he’s doing his job looking out for baseball wackos running across the field to get in range of potus
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i like to think she’s sternly critiquing his form because she’s been training him late at night for weeks
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the cop appears to be carrying a sword during a time when guns were widely available. he’s also watching the baseball, which is good if you’re playing baseball but bad if you’re protecting the president
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Tough to simulate the pressure and adrenaline, though.
I’m confident that with a couple hours of practice, I’d be throwing respectable pitches. But throw me on the mound cold on national television wearing a bullet proof vest, and I only get one chance? That’s a whole new proposition.
I’d be the asshole warming up in the tunnel making some secret service guy play catch with me.
Dubya didn’t waste any time on the mound building up his nerves. He used a bit of a wind-up to get into a good fundamental position, and didn’t try to show off with a 70mph strike. He just made sure it got there in the air, no more, no less.
Shit, 30 seconds in Trump’s ear in the tunnel and any one of us could talk him into bringing the heat to show everyone who their favorite president is. Could probably get him so wound up he’d fire it right into the ground and hurt himself in the process.
“Sir they say Obama had the fastest ceremonial first pitch of all time, sir. I knew you’d kick his ass so I told ESPN to run the highlights side by side tonight. Show that liberal commie who the manliest president ever is, sir!”
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This whole photo is just incredible if you take your time and study it; there’s just so much going on. Taft was an underrated president and he could have been a great sumo wrestler as well. Everyone had so much style back in the old-timey days. Imagine a modern-day POTUS looking this badass on opening day. Imagine going to a baseball game in DC in the summer and wearing a suit and tie and hat, holy fuck that’s not comfortable. People just committed themselves to looking fierce back in the old-timey days.
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Not sure why you’re surprised by that.
Also it wasn’t long before that McKinley was assassinated. And TR was shot during Taft’s presidency. And Taft himself was almost shot when he was down in Mexico trying to prevent political freedom.
And America reportedly tops the list in school shootings with a whopping 288 incidents from 2009 to 2018, with Mexico placing second at eight and all other countries recording zero, per the study.
"I have come to the heartbreaking conclusion that America is a deeply challenged and troubled country,” Benson-Fergusson lamented. “It doesn’t, and maybe never did, line up with its own ideology.”
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McKinley used to complain about the lax standards of the security detail.
Headline is deplorable. Needs an “Among OECD Countries” imo. While that doesn’t detract from the depressingly believable content it leads one to distrust the news source.
It’s good if they distrust the NY Post.
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This is from an Australian news site.
Really struggling with that subheading. What the fuck does that mean?
Seems to be something weird Biden said a few days back.
But if you’re a millionaire you have the freedom to give that money to your kids when you die. And if you’re poor you have the freedom to decide for yourself which days of the week your child will go hungry.
Right, but what does “people questioning whether he’s not as bad as he says Biden is” mean. I can’t parse that at all.
It’s a poorly worded sentence saying people are now wondering if Trump is as demented as he claims that Biden is. The “not as bad” section is confusing. They are use using “not” in the sense of “are you not entertained?”.
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The rage I would have should I ever meet this guy. Could I control it?
I have this reoccurring graphic novel/novel/podcast idea where an alien like superman, like insane powers/unstoppable, see’s whats happening in America and comes down and pretends to be jesus reborn and just kicks the absolute shit out of these assholes. Kinda a double whammy of justice and making the true believers feel they’re being judged by god as being evil. Tells them he’s taking them all to hell. He would of course do this to every fucked up dictatorship around the world but it would have to be tweaked to fit those other cultures.
I never liked these superhero movies/comic books but now I understand them. When you see so much evil and awfulness going on around you and you feel completely helpless to stop it you just start fantasizing about some kinda savior because what the fuck else can you do :(.
I mean the evil has always been there throughout history, I know. I was an ignorant dipshit most of my life when I was younger. Like I thought man the other shit that is happening around the world sucks and we should really stop that but I didn’t really personalize it till it was at my door.
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