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Snake Diggity

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  1. One surprise recently is that Trump has chosen the straight up denial of reality over the more seemingly reliable blaming Biden. Interesting move.
  2. This. What the fuck. If there really is evidence that would be severely damaging to Trump, why the fuck wasn’t it released years ago and why the fuck aren’t people oppposed to Trump who know about it not talking about what it is? If there’s not evidence against Trump, why isn’t Trump just releasing the files? None of this makes any sense.
  3. 10 Hallmarks of the Trump Economy: 1. More adult children living with their parents since the great depression 2. The most October layoffs in over 2 decades 3. $18.4T in household debt, the most ever 4. $31.5T in federal debt, the most ever 5. Highest debt as % of GDP in US history 6. Lowest consumer sentiment in over a decade 7. Highest YoY DJT personal net worth increase in his lifetime 8. Highest concentration of total market cap in US history 9. Lowest inflation adjusted minimum wage in over 70 years 10. Highest Shiller PE Ratio in history
  4. Democrats better not fucking cave. In fact they should up their demands. “No deal until we get Medicare for fucking all and you’re lucky we’re not demanding King Asshole remove the tariffs (but only because SCOTUS looks like it might take care of that for us. Go ahead and abolish the filibuster, UBI will be priority #1 when we get back in power, bitch.”
  5. Texas did allow write ins for president in 2016. I wrote in (but I should have voted Clinton).
  6. I just hope people making decisions about the path forward see yesterday for what it was: an indication that people will come out to vote against Trump, if the situation is dire enough. That means: DONT STOP TRUMP FROM FUCKING UP THE COUNTRY. Voice opposition, use the courts where you can, but otherwise get out of the dumb motherfucker’s way. Do NOT help them reopen the government. Let Trump keep fucking up the economy and exacerbating inflation with his kneejerk negotiated tariffs. Let Trump turn Latinos against him by having ICE continually disappear people and arrest with no cause. The worst thing that can happen over the next 12 months is for Trump to change course and we go into the mid terms with lower prices (if Trump abandons the tariffs), a functioning government (if Dems help them reopen and pass future spending bills), and ICE not a problem (with immigration “solved”). The Dems need to do everything they can to ensure the next year is a case study on failure of authoritarian governance.
  7. What’s cool is that the small positives coming out of today’s results will cause 2 things: 1. Trump to claim election fraud and use it as an excuse to suppress the vote in blue counties next November. 2. Dems will claim the tide has turned and take their foot off the gas and fuck up in 2026. The flickering ember inside of me is thinking that these No Kings rallies 2 weeks ago juiced turnout and there’s now some small momentum that just needs to be sustained for 12 months, and from there we can finally start to heal. One thing is for sure, Democrats in congress should not cooperate with the Trump administration in ANY way. The more pain his base and the unengaged feel, the swifter the tide will turn.
  8. Cheney is like the Oscar Robertson of pieces of shit. At one point he was easily in the conversation for top 5 pieces of shit of all time, and nobody would scoff if somebody brought forth that he was the biggest POS in history. But then a group of guys came along that completely revolutionized the piece of shit game, and now he’s so far down the list of pieces of shit that nobody even brings him up, even though he was an enormous piece of shit in his time. That’s more a testament to just how shitty these current pieces of shit really are. If you can make Dick Cheney a forgotten (or even redeemable) figure in the piece of shit game, you’re truly a transcendent piece of shit. (ETA: Oscar Robertson AVERAGED a triple double in the 61-62 season.)
  9. I will be very surprised if the Astros don’t trade at least one of Blubaugh, Pecko, or Ullola this offseason. Same for them trading at least one of Matthews, Melton, Cole, or Dezenzo. They’ve currently only got about $15M to work with and they have 3 glaring holes (2 SP and a backup C).
  10. Where are you seeing that? Rule 5 rosters don’t get set until 11/18.
  11. I suspect Houston is going to trade some of their near-ready young arms in exchange for a ToR SP, so executing signings like this will be important.
  12. I’m mostly ignorant on the topic overall, but my guess is that the changes they made to the map in SW Austin probably kept a few dozen kids in wealthy families from going private vs what would have happened if they’d gone with the draft map.
  13. They need to mine Cleveland, Brewers, Dodgers, Jays, and Twins orgs.
  14. The new draft “fixed” the issue where they had split up our neighborhood and rezoned us to a different middle school.
  15. How wrong am I to assume a TEA takeover wouldn’t really be a doomsday scenario (even though it also would certainly not mean an improvement)? TEA taking over the district just means a change in leadership not any change in available resources. Have Houston public schools gotten worse since they got taken over?
  16. “The president is trying to make this as unpainless as possible.” lolz
  17. There’s a 100% chance that Mr Beast dude has committed some kind of heinous crime. Not sure if it’s pedo face or rapey face or what but he’s got “heinous crime face”.
  18. Every time I look in a mirror.
  19. Yep they are in a tough spot. You could bring in the smartest people on earth and I really don’t think they could come up with a perfect solution under the constraints the district is under. There just isn’t enough money to satisfy everybody (and by that I mean there isn’t enough money to provide quality education for all the kids in the district while letting all the kids go to the school they want).
  20. Zero people would have a problem with their kid going to HEB Elementary if it meant well funded, high quality schools. Unfortunately I doubt there’s meaningful money in it.
  21. Dems better not cave here. This is potentially their one shot to get some sustainable momentum. If they continue to be the cowards they’ve been for going on a decade then we are all just more fucked than before.
  22. Glorious
  23. Nah. These motherfuckers will just hire most of them back at a 10% paycut once rates come down.
  24. My thoughts: Sark’s on-field results do not warrant firing him or wanting him gone. Texas is 6-2 with a new QB and a rebuilding OL, coming off b2b playoff appearances. He’s more than meeting the standard. No way Sark is angling for a raise. He just got one and isn’t having the kind of season that justifies another bump so soon. No way Sark is being heavily courted by the NFL right now. His rep/results aren’t that good. So either…he’s just unhappy for whatever reason (it could be that one of his players fucked his wife, it could be the pressure of the job, he’s feeling heat for some reason, whatever), and he’s looking to get out, or…it’s all bullshit. It doesn’t seem like bullshit. Texas having to find a new HC amidst a disappointing season because Matthew Golden fucked L’Oréal Sarkisian while Texas is a non-contender and fucking Aggy goes undefeated and wins the national title would be something. Fuck my life.
  25. My 2 are very different too. Oldest is a superstar achiever. 99th percentile on any standardized test, straight A’s, and every teacher she has ever had gushes about what a kind, bright, lovable kid she is. Her Achilles heel is meltdowns when she gets overly tired, and I have not been able to get her interested in sports, but otherwise she’s pretty much the perfect kid. As a parent I feel a lot of pressure not to fuck her up or do anything that might prevent her from reaching her potential, but mostly I’m just always proud. #2 is a low achiever. For my part I feel like she’s very intelligent, but just a little quirky. She’s very articulate for her age, and she often picks up on things that only a kid with a high intellect would notice or understand. But she has zero motivation to perform, and she has a LOT of trouble staying on task. Carrot, stick, doesn’t matter, she doesn’t give a fuck. She recently scored in the 33rd percentile on reading and her teacher said she is regressing (teacher is a sweet kid but a dumbass so I take her opinion with a grain of salt). But then the next day we get an email that she performed well on the gifted and talented assessment. It feels like I fucked something up somewhere. I don’t have a career or any significant hobbies. I have poured everything I have into these kids and to see one not doing well is making feel like a failure or feel nihilistic. I anchor back to the fact that despite her quirks/struggles, she is an extremely thoughtful, kind, empathetic child, and is as adorable and lovable as Shirley temple, so it could be a LOT worse. But from time to time I’m tempted to just kind of give up and let her do what she’s going to do. Parenting is hard.
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