SydneyCarton

I'm fully aware man, I've lived in Houston for 40 of my almost 45 years on this earth, and through all of that. When I say Rita would have fucked up Houston, I meant the wind and infrastructure.. Hence my reference to Beryl. A derecho in may and a cat 1 in july had me without power for 20 days total this summer.

I feel like engaging in "diplomacy" when you are not, in fact, an elected or appointed official of the United States and acting in that capacity, is in fact, quite illegal. I'm pretty sure it's called the fucking Logan Act.

Don't keep going down the rabbit hole. It will just lead to uncontrollable sorrow as to where we are as a country and what we've become. What you just read was child's play compared to some of the poison he's spouted recently.

Even if some abuse it, some won't. That alone likely a net benefit. And if the elder in question chooses to go into a home, well, that will still be an option too. We can't legislate to account for every shitty human out there. Tell me you haven't been paying attention to these threads and Trump's truth social statements without telling me. This is compelling, but at the end of the day I can't agree with it. Becuase it would ipmly that as an asset, he's actually excelled at being a Russian asset, and I just can't square that this motherfucker has done anything competent in his life.

Yeah, would it have been as bad as Katrina? Propably not. That being said what Cat 1 Beryl did to our infrastructure makes me skeptical AF it would have been fine. Perhaps it really was the last 12+ years since Ike that Centerpoint has really let things go to shit. But people also forget just how badly Rita fucked up the sabine pass.

This subtle shift, if it holds, likely saves billions of dollars in damages to Tampa. Fingers crossed. Everyone has a hard time accepting their responsibility in various ills in this world, both large and small. You want an example? Look at kids and their relationships with their parents. Your/Our parents may have thought belting kids who misbehaved or talked back was normal, and instilled discipline, and was in the long run good for the kid's future. Check back in a couple decades...and that's a pretty traumitizing thing for a number of kids. Or other children who had parents dismiss their emotions and say "suck it up, kid" have left vast swaths of kids emotionally distant with their parents and dont feel like they can even interact with their parents. And how many of those boomers can look back and say "Man, my actions may have had unintended consequences I didn't see at the time" on one hand while still saying "Man, I thought I was doing the best I could at the time." It's a pretty difficult balance between "I am not going to feel bad for providing for my family as best as possible and won't view how I did it as bad" and "Man, I did the best I could and didn't know a better way." Arguably that mental block humans all suffer from is a instinctive reflex that has allowed this species to survive and thrive. Because we can't/don't accept accountability for shit.

Yeah, but he actually has to have the point made to inch towards the light. He just nodded to your post, Principal Skinner style. You talk a big game, sir, but I think you didn't even want to upset someone on FB.

Texas League of Women Voters is where I start.

I wouldn't consider this a nut dragging. You'd have had to have thrown in something like: "You must be completely at a loss for how to handle this kind of willful ignorance so people make up whatever reality they need to fit their current worldview and assuage their cognitive dissonance. I wonder if you'll now take a bit of a grain of salt with other people completely at a loss when you talk about "them," and voter fraud, and the "plandemic" and covid, and eating the dogs and cats. I hope you can reconcile that."

Now's the time for you to parachute in and drag your nuts all over his face.

She things fog machines are weather control.

Rita was a few weeks after Katrina, and it was the only time I remember being scared of a hurricane when I was younger (25ish). We saw the chaos of the evacuation and opted to stay put. Ironically, the morning before it was supposd to hit, and it looked like it turned, the freeways were wide fucking open and contra flow, so I opeted at the last minute to evacuate Houston for Austin and made it there in like 2 hours. Because why take a chance? Of course, I probably passed a hundred cars stalled out and abandoned on the side of the freeways. After the Rita fiasco, by Ike, I'd resorted to typical youthful invulnerability. At this point, in my neighborhood and my experience, I don't see much of a need to evacuate Houston, but I absolutely would for a category 4 or 5 becuase, as you said, why the fuck not? Even with a generator. Needs Immamac in a bathing suit tossing his hair back in the middle of the street, imo.

Here come the lobbies for nursing homes to decry this evil poposal...

The correct answer is your bourbon. If the looter was smart and enterprising. That being said, all joking aside, I think there's something just wired into younger guys brains in thei 20's (and some dumb old fucks too) that combines the feeling of invincibiilty with stupid youthful stubborness. And you're usually surrounded by other young idiots. I remember when Ike hit, my buddy and I went to the bar, met a few girls, and spent the week after at my pool apartment complex swimming and partying after the power went out. None of the danger ever felt real becuase we didn't have any reasoanble perspective of the tenuous nature of life. And when we're young, all we want to do is clench our fists and shout into the storm, so to speak.

Isn’t this basically the worst case scenario for Tampa, with the eye tracking to the north of the bay? Fuck.

Miles wants it is reason enough to oppose it. It’s just more money to grift into his own charter school pockets in CO. Both parties oppose the bond.

Everyone serving in congress should be forced to put their assets in a blind trust. Period. That should separate grift from people who actually want to serve

That’s ok, we’ll let you slide

You should have to pass the same civics tests immigrants must pass every 4 years to get a voting card.

I’d be really curious about which policies you believe are fascist. Care to actually stretch your brain and elaborate?

Red Cross isn’t all that legitimate…but your point stands.

The same way I gave myself my “world’s greatest lover” merit badge.

I realize you’re a moron, but let try to spell it out for you. Tagging you would have defeated the purpose of seeing when you’d come back to the thread on your own. Or, and allow be to paraphrase you here, you could just fucking tell us. Since you apparently are dying for us to know. And you somehow assume there’s some magical “college roommate database” we can all log into so we can complete your six degrees of retardation personal ID puzzle.

What does he say when you point out he only makes that kind of money because he’s in CA?