Jump to content

Snake Diggity

Legacy Members
  • Posts

    3088
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Snake Diggity

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.)
  4. 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).
  5. Where are you seeing that? Rule 5 rosters don’t get set until 11/18.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. They need to mine Cleveland, Brewers, Dodgers, Jays, and Twins orgs.
  9. The new draft “fixed” the issue where they had split up our neighborhood and rezoned us to a different middle school.
  10. 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?
  11. “The president is trying to make this as unpainless as possible.” lolz
  12. 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”.
  13. Every time I look in a mirror.
  14. 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).
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. Glorious
  18. Nah. These motherfuckers will just hire most of them back at a 10% paycut once rates come down.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. That sucks. Here in Austin elementary starts at 7:40 an middle school and HS are staggered later. I know it’s controversial but if/when my kids get run down I will give them a day where they can sleep in and just be tardy. As long as they’re tired from being productive (and not from screen time or throwing fits at bed time) I feel like it’s justified. And I’ve had their teachers agree with me.
  22. So now he’s expanding it to early voting, not just mail-in. That’s new.
  23. Sports as entertainment is a distraction; to your point, much like drugs. Video games, TV, social media, hobbies, etc. etc. etc., the main purpose of all that is to distract us from the horror of how meaningless our existence is. And as more and more people realize that organized religion is mostly a bullshit scam, they turn to those other distractions. It can be healthy. But it can also turn into a net negative. Navigating the nuance is the key to keeping it positive. People who can get a thrill when their team wins without getting down when their team loses are doing it right. For maybe the first time ever, last night I did it right. When Texas was sucking (most of the game), I wasn’t upset, I was just watching the game, but then I got a big thrill when “we” came back and won. Overall, I care very little about sports now. NIL has dramatically reduced how much I enjoy college football; it’s just minor league NFL, and I hate watching dudes prostituting themselves to bash each other’s brains in. Society has really lost its way with people taking their distractions too seriously. It’s evidenced in how “us vs them” and “my team” the narratives in politics have gotten. It’s fucked up and I don’t know how it gets fixed. Anyway, I encourage anybody who is seeing their distractions become a negative to take a break from them. It’s not worth it for something so meaningless to be a bad thing in your life.
  24. I think the populace has been this stupid for a long time (possibly since the beginning), but technology (social media) made it incredibly easy for ill-intended authoritarian super-wealthy shitbags to take advantage.
  25. When I read this post it’s actually amazing me. He’s literally taking money directly from the Treasury and putting it into his bank account and nobody is making any meaningful effort to stop him. Im off the ledge. Its over. We are all just living in the epilogue.
×
×
  • Create New...