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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Do you think that the elected leadership at the statewide and Federal level in the aftermath of this tragedy has been adequate and appropriate? Serious question.
  2. Indeed, but my problem with Mamdani is that despite the fact that he is the best bad option, his approach to affordability won’t produce affordability.
  3. The problem with the whole package (and we experienced this exact thing in Austin with the very similar Kathie Tovo-Ora Houston affordability approach) is that it: 1) treats affordability as a bottoms up problem rather than a middle out problem, and 2) doesn’t produce affordability It’s kind of the problem with ideology politics in general- voting for for how candidates talk about things rather than the probability that they will achieve things.
  4. Really impressed with you boys getting this one in 3. Wordle 1,478 4/6 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  5. That’s news.
  6. To be clear I’m kidding, @utee94 seems like a pretty good guy. But the leadership failure happening in this crisis situation is both appalling and newsworthy in the context of this tragedy. It really doesn’t seem political in the normal red/blue sense of the word. and, to be clear, I haven’t considered myself a Democrat since November of 2016.
  7. @utee94 this you?
  8. I’m with him
  9. I honestly don’t think that’s true. I’m not going to praise Rick Perry but he’s a real person with core values and cares about outcomes. Greg Abbott has a hole inside he has tried to fill by getting to the next thing. They are different.
  10. I mean, if you look on Twitter there are a a few fundagelical influencers claiming that this storm, like recent hurricanes across the south, was caused by weather modification. As we all know, the only thing that can modify the weather is Jewish space lasers. In other words:
  11. A radical position? You mean the stuff that doesn’t get done because that’s not how stuff works or the stuff that does get done and doesn’t make a difference? @Captainant what you and the fanbois don’t seem to understand is that most of what Mamdani’s has proposed with housing policy is just repackaged baby boomer progressive orthodoxy, a mix of obstruction through stakeholder input, wishful thinking, and symbolic action. Explain please, how is more of the same radical? Other than how he talks and presents himself?
  12. That is some bullshit Wordle 1,477 6/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  13. I wouldn't vote for Cuomo, but he is a nepo grownup.
  14. That's fair - maybe more accurate to say "raised working class" or "identify with the working class, or "still lives in terror of the other shoe dropping, can't relate to other rich people, is appalled by their kids, and resents how rich people break the rules with impunity." Your professional equity as a doctor may mitigate some of the terror, but does the rest resonate with you? If so, you're still pretty working class. You're just a working class person with money.
  15. Tomasco was talking about this risk couple of days ago. Some of the models were predicting this, but they were outliers, as were those that predicted totals not exceeding an inch. Forecasts are about what's probable. It's a good reminder that a 5-10% chance is still a chance. Also our once in a decade reminder that the Hill Country is very hard land and one of the most flash flood prone places on the planet. Anyway, I can't even imagine the pain those parents and families are going through. Horrible
  16. The GOP has been trying to starve rural Texas to death for 30 years. As far as I can tell the people there want it to die.
  17. I can't celebrate people like Irma suffering. These are the same sad, hopeless people that preachers take advantage of. But this advisor to Kevin Stitt? That's the good stuff.
  18. I do. Our power got turned off a lot and sometimes taxes didn't get paid either. Mostly self-inflicted bad decisions, though. That said, I was also a member of the economic working class and then lower middle and middle class as an adult, with kids. I've just caught a huge number of undeserved lucky breaks, starting from the moment of birth, for which I am endlessly grateful. I'm very concerned and have posted about it. But that doesn't mean this isn't a real story that progressives can just handwave away because he is theirs. I think what I said was that he had good national Democratic messaging and that he was a bad vehicle for it. FIFY. Look man, I pay part of the rent for an 4th floor, 2BR 500sf walkup with no AC in a precinct Mamdani won handily. It's as much as my mortgage in Austin. I care a LOT about the cost of rental housing in New York City. There is no substance based on what I've seen. Based on the choices as they are, if I was eligible to vote in NYC I would likely hold my nose and vote for him, since the others have disqualified themselves one way or the other. That's the best thing I can say.
  19. Yes, that’s how entitlement works. Maybe they should have hired someone to photoshop his head onto a rower! Sure. The REAL scandal is how the voting public got this true and possibly salient information. He should start calling it “the Columbia Columbia Columbia hoax.” There was no admission!
  20. Man I would get high as fuck with 10mg, especially on top of the whiskey and Mexican quaaludes.
  21. Are you not entertained?
  22. Oh yeah, I get it.
  23. He’s bad in all the ways normal politicians are bad, plus he’s super green, and plans to spend a great deal of political capital on things that won’t move the needle much. I like that he’s young and willing to try new things or at least moot new ideas. I don’t see any reason to expect he can navigate all the competing interests and bureaucratic antibodies though. Brad Landers was a better option in every way.
  24. My high school days? You mean the year I got called white trash by kids at St Marks and a kid’s mom told me she was “embarrassed” for my grandmother based on my family and my other grandparents? I had my nose pressed against some nice windows for a while. That’s about it. But, it’s not a contest- we were never poor. Working class people aren’t poor.
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