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Nice Guy Eddie

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  1. Yep. The perfect candidate is one who can appeal to someone's heart and mind. But you probably can get by with heart alone. Mind alone should be someone who works within an administration or on a team.
  2. Trump hasn't changed his writing style at all in 25 years. lol. Like I wrote earlier, what are the chances that Trump even got past the forward when he was handed the book he "wrote"?
  3. Did you hear McConaughey on Rogan? Zero chance that I would listen to the full episode but he was very close to espousing far right ideals. But instead of discussing the problem and solution that you would hear from the right, he stuck to the problem only, following it up with "but I don't know how to solve it." As an example, McConaughey mentioned that he was worried about the destruction of marriage and it's too easy to get out of a marriage but he just doesn't know how to solve it. Don't worry Matt, the far right has solved it for you: don't let women leave marriage except in cases of extreme and provable abuse perhaps by a criminal court. He also was in favor of posted 10 commandments in Texas schools. Like I said, I didn't listen to the full episode but McConaughey came across as leaning into red pill territory.
  4. Why should he? He's a democrat candidate, without much political experience, in a crowded primary. I would think that staying away from partisan politics might be a decent strategy. Attack the policy or strategy, not the person.
  5. Culberson doesn’t matter anymore unless he has a role that I’m unaware. I’m not even saying to build out or even seek funding for a full light rail map in central Houston but to create a vision. Show downtown workers being able to shop at the galleria over lunch, or have a fall picnic at memorial park. Or someone flying into IAH and having a quick (relatively) rail ride to the med center. will a vision piss off some politicians or industries? Maybe but they can be told it’s decades away.
  6. TDP needs to negotiate some small victory for the upcoming ACA subsidy decreases and then let the remainder go. Will people lose the healthcare ins, suffer and die? Yep but that is what America voted for. Then start educating Americans in purple and red states why they’re in such trouble now. Remember many Americans state their hatred of Obamacare but that they love their ACA plan and subsidy. They’re ignorant of the truth. The plan shouldn’t be to hope that Americans see the light on their own. The plan should be to scare Americans of maga. Get trumps approvals number down to 20 so that even gop senators up for re-election have to abandon him or maybe just intentionally slow him down. americans need a painful lesson to end their infatuation with maga and project 2025. TDP may just need to step out of the way and let maga take care of that especially over the next 13 months.
  7. Yeah $140k seems possible by the end of the end of the year.
  8. I’m reminded how the postal service started downgrading its services in 2017 to align with financial realities. Now the service is much slower and more unreliable, and gives the public the belief that we don’t need the postal service. You can always destroy something by intentionally making it worse so that no one complains when you propose to end it. If I were metro rail, I would publish 25 or 50 year visions to show what the system could become, even if the odds of completing the plans are low. Afton Oaks doesnt want a line down Richmond, publish a plan that says it will go underground there. Create a plan for a line to go down Memorial drive from uptown park to downtown. Etc.
  9. Surprisingly Trump did actually mention OBL and predicted a future terrorist attack in that 2000 book. In separate chapters. Pre 9/11, most Americans couldn’t have named OBL but his name and terrorist background was known to people who cared to know and not a secret. as for Trump mentioning Hegseth in this speech segment, he must have tripped over his words or memory combining his old book with talking to Hegseth in the last few days. When my dad went thru dementia he often exhibited similar confusion. also important to remember that Trump never wrote his own books. It’s probably a 99.999% chance that the ghost author inserted that info and Trump never even read it.
  10. I can get behind an idea related to refunds for freshmen dropouts. They shouldn’t get credits and a refund but if UT didn’t convince them it was worth to return, why not offer a one time satisfaction guarantee.
  11. Probably not too expensive for road construction companies to buy influence via donations to a mayoral campaign. And metro hasn’t had good ideas or the ability to sell them in a while. They can’t get much support from commuters/drivers because it’s rarely better to take metrorail over driving. Perhaps it’s cheaper to take the rail but only if your time isn’t of value to you or money is a concern.
  12. Glad that they’re actually making a sequel as opposed to unoriginal or lazy idea to go with a remake. It will be interesting to see how they make it work especially given that Star Wars isn’t as much in the fore front as it was even in ‘87. IMO or at least from my perspective at the time. They can’t really spend much time making fun of Star Wars elements today. I’m sure they can go with a baby yoda/mandalorian reference or joke but a joke with the original, prequel or even sequel would be dated. (Yes, I know the last sequel was only released 6 years ago. I looked it up. does anyone really care about the sequels?)
  13. Caught a social media video of a city council member or a candidate took to the streets to show that walking was faster than the Red Line MetroRail while in the downtown district. Metro ended up being faster but not by much. The light rail system disappointed me that it's at street level for 99% of its layout so it's too slow. Every time I've researched using light rail for my commute, it would add up to an hour for my daily commute. (30 minutes in each way.)
  14. I hope for her sake that is photoshopped or AI generated.
  15. I assume that we’re not far from the Right’s 17th boycott of the NFL in the last 10 years. The Right only believes in zero games. Talk about helping out a non-white person, then you’re taking something away from the Right.
  16. You have to guess that 2026 will bring on a few crypto options for a limited number of 401k employer programs.
  17. I didn't know much of Kendrick Lamar until the halftime show and enjoyed it. The guarantee of having a negative experience is going in with a negative attitude. I assume that the anti Bad Bunny bias will get louder and louder. I have to assume Trump will butt into it soon when he needs a distraction. Hispanic events make too many MAGA think of illegal Mexicans, Spanish being spoken and the eventual move to white, non-Hispanics losing their majority status.
  18. The Flag Code is open to interpretation. I don't see how the American Legion has a say in it. And on that note, it's also odd when veterans or their organizations somehow decided that they're the keeper of patriotism and flag rules.
  19. A few shrubs at ground level is not hindering Centerpoint. They wind the power lines around trees, literally bending the lines to go around tree trunks, on my property so a couple of shrubs is nothing. If they need to tear out a shrub, who cares. If they need to come around every 15 years to perform work, then I would replant every 15 years.
  20. fair point and I wasn't even considered athletic dept mistakes.
  21. It would be interesting to see what would occur if/when Trump is leaving office and how he would effectively transition the business power he currently wields. With no doubt, he will have already lined his own pockets but would he hand over his veto authority of these companies to another GOP or a Dem president? My guess is that he would spend his final days unwinding all of these deals to return control (financial and golden share) to the companies most likely in exchange for something for himself and the Trump org.
  22. Can you post a pic of the setup that you're describing? (I realize you run a chance of doxxing yourself if as nearby neighbor is on surly.) Another option for you is to hide the utility pole setup by building a fence around it, or planting shrubs. You run a risk of Centerpoint tearing it up one day but it doesn't have to be the best and most expensive fence in the world. I have a neighbor who has a utility pole in the corner of their backyard, so they built a fence that effectively removed a few square feet of their backyard. They obviously see the utility pole above their fence.
  23. When reading the story, I immediately wondered what the mom looked like, and this would seem to be someone in Sid's wheelhouse.
  24. Hegseth is an odd combination of a manufactured politician plus someone who keeps screwing up. From a shallow perspective, he's an educated, military guy with extensive media background. That's custom built for a top leadership position. And getting to SecDef is pretty damn high up in terms of an appointment. Maybe SecState is the only higher appointed position. But he also ranks fairly high in the character flaws that he can't seem to control. Most likely stemming from his alcohol problem. What's scary is that he could very well succeed in getting elected from a populist party like MAGA.
  25. Imagine that you're the GOP treasury secretary and a conservative CNBC anchor tells you to your face that you made up that story.
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