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Can you imagine the public reaction if Barack Obama had snapped at a female reporter “quiet, piggy”? He would literally have been killed.
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Lotta people reenacting that SNL skit from after the 2016 election. Like there’s a limit to how immune Trump is to consequences and a floor to how fucked up our country is going to get.
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Bottom line is this team has a lot of value and overall depth but has definitely fallen into the 2nd tier, well beyond the Dodgers and Yankees and Mariners but still firmly in the playoff mix. They have an aging roster, a nearly maxed out payroll, and lack elite prospects in their farm system, BUT they have an MVP level hitter complemented by a few star level hitters, an extremely good bullpen, and one of the 10 best starting pitchers in the league. Their roster doesn’t justify a full rebuild, but it also won’t be good enough with minor improvements on the margins. The next 9 months will define Dana Brown’s career as a GM. He has enough flexibility to make the Astros a true contender but it’s going to require him to be lucky and smart enough to win the deals he makes. Giving out meaningful free agent contracts to players who fall apart or trading away good players for prospects who bust will accelerate the downfall, but finding unpolished pitching gems and hitters who complement their lineup will revive this team. Houston is on track to have 5 of the top 100 picks in the next draft so that’s another huge task where Dana Brown needs to have success if Houston is going to avoid falling into a perennial also-ran that needs a full rebuild. My guess is there won’t be much demand for Alvarez, Walker, or Paredes relative to their value to the Astros, and that there will be significant demand for Diaz, Pena, and Meyers. But I could be totally wrong. I think Houston is going to have a hard time finding the right bat to complement their lineup and might end up having their offense rely on a young strikeout prone lefty power bat in order to take the next step. Houston has a great track record of evaluating pitchers so I will be optimistic about whatever they end up doing there.
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He’s done the opposite of every campaign promise he made except in 3 areas: Be cruel to minorities Cut Taxes for the wealthy Cut access to abortions And those 3 platforms are enough to maintain support from at least 35% of the electorate regardless of what else he does. Even with indisputable proof that he is a child-rapist, his support wouldn’t dip below 25%. Because the xenophobic -greedy-“pro-life” coalition is a powerful one.
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I wasn’t posting what I would do, just noting that even without making moves there is reason to be hopeful about the lineup being better than last season. I’ve said it a bunch before but if I were GM I would be looking to use the position player depth/versatility to follow where the market leads. I would be gauging value for Diaz, Walker, Pena, Paredes, Smith, Meyers, Sanchez, Urias, and Dubon (along with the near-ready prospects like Dezenzo, Cole, Matthews, and Melton) to see where I think the best value was. The Astros have 4 primary needs: ToR SP durable MoR SP backup C lefty bat to balance the lineup (preferably able to play the OF and hit leadoff) A pipe dream wish list would also include improving the farm system. If you’re asking for a prediction, I think the Astros are going to trade Jake Meyers, Jesus Sanchez, and one or two of Walker, Paredes, Pena, Dubon, or Urias. It will also not shock me if they trade Diaz although I would not bet on it.
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There’s a lot of room for optimism when analyzing Houston’s roster: Altuve was hurt most of the 2nd half (or even before that), if this gets him healthy he could have a moderate rebound. He won’t ever be an MVP level player again but he could have another season or two where he’s an extremely good hitter. Correa is entering only his age 31 season and is only a year removed from a monster partial season; an extremely good year is totally on the table and even a monster 6+ war season is possible if everything goes his way. Paredes could have a monster season if he’s healthy. Alvarez just needs to be healthy and he will be an MVP level hitter. Pena is coming off of a star season and there’s not much in his underlying numbers that indicates it’s not repeatable. Walker was a good hitter after July 1 and an ~830 ops is a reasonable good outcome for him in 2026. Theres nothing that indicates Yainer Diaz can’t rebound to be the well above average hitter he was in 2023-2024. Jake Meyers is coming off of a career year and if he stays healthy is a 2.5-3 win player. Cam Smith and Zach Cole both have monster upside and have shown flashes in the majors. Jesus Sanchez provides some good insurance if they flop as a guy with a long record of being above average against RHP.
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The latest get your ass back in the office story: AT&T
Snake Diggity replied to Buzzrock's topic in Daily Texan
Surely the company is just doing a soft layoff of those long range workers. No other logic makes sense. -
The latest get your ass back in the office story: AT&T
Snake Diggity replied to Buzzrock's topic in Daily Texan
I’ll munch some crow in this thread. 2.5 years ago I predicted companies’ calling employees back into the office would suffer and that the backlash against wfh would be temporary. I still think companies doing away with wfh will perform poorly over the long term, but I overestimated workers’ leverage. I underestimated the odds of worsening economic conditions contributing to companies’ motivation to use forcing folks back into the office as a way to reduce headcount without doing layoffs. I also underestimated how quickly companies would lean on AI as a way to reduce headcount (doing away with wfh employees first). I still think that long term, wfh will be common and companies that embrace it will be better off. But in the short term, remote employees seem to be proper fucked. -
That’s a shitload of draft risk. Yikes.
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I’ve updated my odds for if the Epstein files will result in Trumps demise to 0%.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
Snake Diggity replied to tchookem's topic in Cloak Room
Fuck off with this disingenuous bullshit. She donated to every politician who she knew would be in favor or legalized casinos. She gave Talarico’s campaign……wait for it….$59,000. The horror. -
Trump’s plan is to issue tariff checks to voters just before mid terms next year. It’s probably going to work.
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Offensively, there is no realistically available better fit for the Astros lineup than Donovan. Trade Sanchez and Urias for Bart and PTBNL Sign Verlander and McCann Trade Meyers, Brito, and Diaz for Rasmussen and Jax Trade Matthews, Sullivan, and Hicks for Donovan RF Donovan* DH Paredes LF Alvarez 3B Correa 2B Altuve SS Pena 1B Walker CF Cole C Bart* Bench: Dubon, McCann*, Dezenzo, Trammell SP: Brown, Rasmussen*, JV*, Javier, Pearson, Alexander RP: Hader, Abreu, Jax*, King, Sousa, Okert, McCullers Optioned: Arrighetti, Gordon, Murray, VanWey, Salazar, Whitcomb, Smith, Melton, Ullola*, Santa*, Fleury* IL: Wesneski, Walter, Blanco DFA: De Los Santos, France, Ort Traded: Sanchez, Urias, Meyers, Diaz, Matthew
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Waymo is going to win the driverless car race. They may not win the driverless semi race, but the race to be the company that owns/sells the most autonomous passenger vehicles is over, Waymo won. Invest accordingly.
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I can’t imagine a scenario where Trumps approval rating dips below 35% while he is still in office. The severity and volume of shit that has happened in the last year but especially the last month has had to have eroded any potential approval he was getting from movable people. The 39% who currently approve of him are doing so in spite of a shitty economy, heavy evidence that the president is a pedophile who had sex with underage girls, severe domestic political unrest, and a fragile geopolitical environment. We know they are approving of him because of his efforts to disparage and punish minorities and the poor and because of his polices that exacerbate environmental and societal problems, not in spite of them. A severe economic depression or a war in which the US gets attacked by a foreign country and is losing are the only 2 things I can imagine serving to reduce Trump’s approval rating from where it is, and even then I can’t imagine it getting below 25%. The Democrats had effective messaging/leasership anytime before 2024, he wouldn’t be president. One thing I’m not sure of is if they had gotten effective messaging/leadership at any point this year, how low would Trump’s approval currently be?
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McConaughey for Governor? Alright Alright Alright
Snake Diggity replied to Dbeasy's topic in Cloak Room
McConaughey would fail as a politician, especially in Texas. Trying to think of any celebrity that would actually make a good statewide or national politician. A high Q score is not a good reason to think someone would make a good politician. Taylor Swift seems to have the faculties to make the transition, but she would have to navigate a very fraught path over the next decade in order to be successful, and I don’t see her wanting to do that or being able to do it; but she is an extremely high quality individual. I suspect Stephen Colbert could do it. But he’s already 61 years old. -
Shit is so fucked up and crazy that I am starting to actually believe that there is some known pending apocalyptic event that only extremely powerful people know about and Donald Trump was chosen to distract us until it happens.
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The more cursewords Pete Buttigieg is quoted as saying, the higher his chances are of being president one day. If he had started his tweet with “This dumb motherfucker right here…” it would have been even more effective.
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Snake Diggity replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
Dumb, weak motherfuckers. The only way this makes any sense is if the Dems know the Epstein shit is gonna actually fuck shit up so opening back up to get Grijalva in office will be worth it. I don’t buy that for a minute, far more likely is the establishment democrats completely validating all criticism against them and further empowering Trumpism. The stupid, weak, corrupt mothfuckers. -
So wait, is the whole redistricting move delayed, or just the redistricting involving those 3 schools? How can they pause it for just those 3 schools???
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Please let you be right. But I don’t think I have that kind of luck. Based on the last decade that motherfucker is going to live at least another dozen years and be in office for 8 of them.
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One surprise recently is that Trump has chosen the straight up denial of reality over the more seemingly reliable blaming Biden. Interesting move.
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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.
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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
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Government Shutdown 2025: This Time It’s Personal
Snake Diggity replied to Bozo_Casanova's topic in Cloak Room
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.”- 2558 replies
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