Bannon: 'The Trump Presidency That We Fought For, and Won, Is Over.'

[driftdiver]

I'd love to see some work on base runs.  All we have right now is a schmuck who seems to think that if he vilifies the pitcher and the ump, and spins around fast enough on home plate, we'll all believe he's hitting home runs when truth is he hasn't even gotten to first base yet.

And a negative person like you wouldn't even make the team.  He's far from  perfect but did you see what he did with the I-mate change board?  Damn fine move

[Oceander]

And a negative person like you wouldn't even make the team.  He's far from  perfect but did you see what he did with the I-mate change board?  Damn fine move

Since it took copious lies and getting into bed with the less disease-ridden parts of the alt-right for Trump to get on the team, that's not saying much and it's not a team I'm interested in joining.

It's perfectly fine as far as it goes, but it's more theatre than anything else.  It doesn't represent a fundamental change in implemented policy, as done through issued regulations, for example.

It's not a base hit.  And this is where the baseball metaphor falls flat because there aren't increments smaller than a base hit, and that would be necessary for the metaphor to have proper application. 

[INVAR]

I believe we have to work with what we have and push the bar back.  Stop dreaming of the grand slam home run and work on getting base runs.

As if sitting in the stands doing nothing but cheering politicians on the field is actually working on getting 'base runs'.

How pathetic.  No wonder we're screwed.

[driftdiver]

Since it took copious lies and getting into bed with the less disease-ridden parts of the alt-right for Trump to get on the team, that's not saying much and it's not a team I'm interested in joining.

It's perfectly fine as far as it goes, but it's more theatre than anything else.  It doesn't represent a fundamental change in implemented policy, as done through issued regulations, for example.

It's not a base hit.  And this is where the baseball metaphor falls flat because there aren't increments smaller than a base hit, and that would be necessary for the metaphor to have proper application.

There are strikes. Balls and all kinds of other things that can be done to make incremental progress.

[EasyAce]

I had thought that one of the reasons behind the support for Donaldus Minimus was that he
promised grand slams instead of building runs. You know, time to swing big. Even if he didn't
phrase it in quite those words.

We've been working with what we've had for a very long time now. And all we have to show for it
is big government metastasising deeper. The grand slam talker himself said little enough, if anything,
about arresting the metastasis, never mind driving it into any kind of noticeable remission. Knock
off a few regulations, sure, bunts are important. But they only bump the metastasis a little bit. It made
more sense to re-arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

[Oceander]

There are strikes. Balls and all kinds of other things that can be done to make incremental progress.

Ok.  So it's a ball.  Not a strike out, but not a base run, either.

Still pretty lame.

[corbe]