I talk baseball on Launch Angle podcast - the world’s 2nd best fantasy baseball podcast. 2016 NFBC Main Event overall winner. Sometimes I talk Canadian politics

Toronto/Ottawa
Joined March 2008
Rob Silver retweeted
Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦@bdquinn19h
I asked ChatGPT to depict what a Cheesecake Factory would look like if Saddam Hussein applied his tastes to it and... yeah. This is very Trumpy.
This line is getting praise on X, but it’s actually elitist garbage written by a speechwriter who clearly hasn’t spent much time in a Cheesecake Factory, which has none of the gaudy Trump aesthetic, and just feels good to say because it represents flyover MAGA “night out.”
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Rob Silver retweeted
Steve Schale
@steveschaleOct 24
Having been in these moments, I can visualize the focus group when someone turned the whole room against him over his playing tennis, leading to this ad 🤣 I watched a woman turn an entire focus group once over one candidate’s choice of food at a BBQ (sadly never made that ad)
Vivek Ramaswamy is a terrible candidate for many good reasons, including his recent decisions but it is very funny that “loves tennis” is so foregrounded as an insult in this attack ad against him.
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Rob Silver retweeted
Acyn
@Acyn18h
OBAMA: Some people say Abdul didn’t like some of the things you did as president. So Abdul didn't agree with some things. You know who else doesn't agree with everything I do. Michelle Obama.
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Rob Silver retweeted
I don't know how teams can Defend Barnes and Kawhi at the same time. They both need Big, athletic and Starting level defenders. Most NBA teams only have 1 People talk 'Double Bigs'...but this Raptor Monster is fast, powerful, athletic and put up a lot of shots. They drive hard
Scottie Barnes SHINED in the @Raptors’ win! 🦖 28 PTS 🦖 14 REB 🦖 5 AST 🦖 2 STL 🦖 2 BLK
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I have the same as Pollara as of today (10-point lead for Chow). Now, if only people over 55 years of age vote, then Chow and Bradford are statistically tied. Also, Etobicoke York and North York always have better turnout compared to Scarborough, so that also makes it a bit better for Bradford. Regardless, I think Chow wins by more than 5-points. 🤷
New Toronto mayoral poll (Pollara): Olivia Chow 55% Brad Bradford 44% 48% of respondents have positive feelings about Olivia Chow, 36% have positive feelings about Brad Bradford. Chow leads Bradford on working with other levels of government, affordability, safety and taxes.
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Vivek Ramaswamy's October surprise
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Rob Silver retweeted
matt bernstein@mattxivOct 22
with 12 days until the midterm elections, the entire republican party has coalesced around attacking a woman for having been raped by her stepfather when she was twelve
Aaron Rupar
@atruparOct 22
Trump: "Vivek Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Amy Acton, who is running for Governor of Ohio, is a liar, and much worse. The Press, in a concerted and well coordinated attack, is trying to get Vivek Ramaswamy to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about a daughter in that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving in Office"
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40% of patients suffering from dementia have “VBD” (vocally disruptive behavior) They are sudden, disruptive and surprising to the patient. Which is why he seems stunned for a moment. The reason they keep giving him the MoCA test, is they know he is in severe cognitive decline. He is a national security risk.
Trump makes an indescribable sound effect: "I'd say 90% of the reason I took the governor-- EUHHH"
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BREAKING: US military aircraft are being evacuated from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, per initial reports. This is a major imminent strikes indicator.
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Rob Silver retweeted
impressive from $TSLA - miss on revenue - 2.6% operating margins - energy, their big growth driver is -16% - automotive revenue -3% This is a car company who gaslights people into thinking it's an energy company and here we are with car sales down and energy sales down too.
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticusOct 21
JD is saying Amy Acton was not raped as a little girl. Even though there are court documents reviewed by *National Review* that confirm details of her story. Even though Acton’s brother backs her story. Vance has a daughter. But like Bernie Moreno, Vance is such a sycophant that he can’t even be a father first for two minutes. It’s always politics and always the most vile politics. Just an abject failure of a man and a father.
Vance defends Vivek Ramaswamy's ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother: "The media and Democrats are obsessed because Vivek Ramaswamy had the audacity to run a TV commercial that calls it like it is"
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Rob Silver retweeted
James Fishback
@jamesfishbackOct 21
The same people who tell us to "get over" the Epstein files are now telling you to "stop whining" over an ad that attacks a woman by recruiting her estranged mom, who is complicit in years of childhood sexual abuse. I’m a Republican, but our party has a serious problem.
Politics & Poll Tracker 📡
@PollTracker2024Oct 21
#OhioGovernor CNN: JD Vance tells Republicans to “stop whining” over Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad “Politics is a tough business, and my message to my fellow elected Republicans is: if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race in 13 days.”
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Pedro L. Gonzalez
@emeriticusOct 21
JD Vance, author of “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” has a closing midterm message for Republicans: stop whining about child rape
Acyn
@AcynOct 21
Vance on Ramaswamy ad: My message to my fellow elected Republicans: stop whining about an ad
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Talarico never begged to party with Epstein on his island. Elon did.
Elon Musk
@elonmuskOct 21
There is something deeply wrong with Talarico
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Rob Silver retweeted
Joe
@electionsjoeOct 21
Jesus fucking Christ. This is the most vile and disgusting thing I have ever heard in politics. Vivek is mocking a Amy Acton for being a victim of childhood abuse and sexual assault.
Unearthed footage of Vivek Ramaswamy mocking Amy Acton for being a survivor of childhood abuse: "She has no vision other than to complain about what someone else did to her"
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In a functioning society he would have gone to jail after funding secured and this nonsense wouldn’t have gotten to this point of cartoonish fraud
At some point, this level of hubris (confidently predicting 2027 $SPCX revenue at $500 Billion to $1 Trillion), becomes indistinguishable from a scam. Because where will that revenue come from? Elon is assuming there is infinite demand for data center rentals at $50 per watt per year, even though it costs less than $50 per watt to build a data center. His assumption is that if SpaceX can put up 10-20GW of DCs x $50 per watt, that = $500-$1,000 Billion of revenue. I think at best, it's irresponsible to set such expectations with your shareholders, and at worst, it's very hard to tell it apart from what a scammer might say.
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Fun fact: California and Alaska are closer to having a majority for secession than Alberta. Alaska would be a great addition to Canada, so Carney and the Canadian government should encourage them to go ahead.
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.@elonmusk you don’t have to wait for a subpoena, you can just come in on your own.
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utterly insane and yet entirely unsurprising
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If this was a scene in an Aaron Sorkin show I’d be sitting there rolling my eyes thinking it is too perfect and undernuanced to represent any form of realistic exchange… it’s compelling stuff.
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayedOct 18
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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