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The only thing I have to add is that it is extremely weird to me that some of you are taking the same stance as Texags and not immediately gut checking.

The protesters are a bunch of 18-22 year olds and many of them were not even eligible to vote when Abbott was on the ballot for his third term in 2022. None of them wer eligible to vote for Trump in 2016 or 2020 or Abbott in 2014 or 2018. Putting this on their & their cohort's voting record is a very weak argument.

Crazy, I guess I have to vote for Trump now. Things are worse for MAGA than I realized if this is the best they can do.

Maybe read your link before you post it next time.

For Charles, sure. For Carlos, not so much.

This state is full of and run by such soft fucking wannabee authoritarian snowflakes. Yeah, let's dispatch UTPD and fucking DPS riot cops for some students conducting an antiwar protest on campus. That's the kind of society we should strive to be. Jesus. I'm ashamed to be a UT alumni today. Really disappointed in Hartzell and university leadership. They're either spineless or on the wrong side and I'm not even sure which is worse.

Huh. The more you know. For whatever reason Woodinville was farther east in my mind. Thanks for the correction,

Edmonds would be sweet I just haven't seen anything in our sweet spot on the affordability/desirability spectrum. Seems like good quality rentals up there are expensive even by local standards and what's affordable is very old. Don't think we want to be so far out of the city as to be in Snohomish or Woodinville. Bothell and MLT on the radar though; SIL lives in Kirkland so being convenient to them is a plus. Cool with them in that they're irrelevant to a rental search lol. We're definitely going to rent for 9-12 months and go from there. Categorically cannot afford a SFH in Seattle or Edmonds. If we bought in Seattle it would definitely be the condo or townhouse route.

Toia and Williams would be so fucking sick

Bruh put a trigger warning on this shit. Many memories.

Well the position in Tacoma I mentioned before ultimately fell through but my wife has verbally accepted an offer that'll be officially based in Everett, but out in the field in Snohomish County regularly (hybrid so that would be 2-3x a week, at home for the rest). They're going through the whole reference/background check song and dance before producing the full written offer, so not quite official yet but it does look like we'll be moving up there in the next 4-6 weeks. Very excited but there's a lot to get done in the interim. Our initial inclination is to look for a place in north Seattle convenient to I-5 and rail. Greenwood, Maple Leaf, Northgate, Green Lake, Roosevelt, something like that. Any thoughts on whether that counter-commute is doable? Evidently there are some staff that live in north Seattle and say it's not bad. I definitely prefer an urban location like that but I work remotely, I'm not the one commuting. Honestly I could compromise on an inner ring suburban location like Shoreline or Mountlake Terrace as long as it's convenient to I-5 + the coming rail extension. I worry that commuting from North Seattle will suck for her despite it being a counter commute but my wife is pretty set on living in Seattle proper as a base to get to know the region better.

lol y'all are engaging with aggy

lmao of course

Well damn, I guess the "bench Majors" crowd has been right all along. Would be nice to see Bryant emerge as a plus this year though. He often seems to get lost in the DL discussion despite being a third year early enrollee.

Collin Simmons was just a DEI recruit taking a spot from a qualified Jett Bush type.

This is ignoring the amount of people (and money) on the sidelines in the housing market because they don't like the interest rate environment. A decrease in interest rates without an economic slowdown is going to lead to an increase in home prices - and a significant one at that - because we are still structurally undersupplied.

This. Post-Trump MAGA will splinter due to a power vacuum. Whether or not they win elections will depend entirely on whether Trump is put back in the WH in 2024 or 2028 and the US becomes Hungary 2.0. An up or down vote on enshrining abortion rights in the Texas constitution would pass too.

Bruh imagine betting on Ron DeSantis as the favorite to the the next President of the United States at literally any point in time. Trumpism doesn't work when you try to package it in a conventional, consultant-approved political box because that is antithetical to its very nature. It can only work with a circus conductor like Trump. This. Idiocracy was a documentary.

Would be fascinating if not for the stakes.

We had lunch in Los Olivos (Nella, Italian, very good). Little more to it now - the road is paved lol - and there are several tasting rooms, distilleries, restaurants, etc. At least one small, upscale hotel. Not overcrowded by any means though. Solvang was a lot and had tourist trap energy on a Sunday afternoon. Bar Le Cote in LO is supposed to be a phenomenal seafood place.

This is the case in most major polls. He takes from both candidates and it's common for Biden to be on the losing end of that. Everyone's focused on the antivax, conspricary theory bits that draws some former Trumpers, but there are plenty of relatively apathetic voters that went for Biden last time, don't care for either candidate now, and are liable to case a vote for him. RFK isn't going to get 10%, I'm not super worried about low info Democrats voting RFK; they will come home as they check in. It's the independents for whom RFK will serve as a protest vote that is concerning given his instant name recognition.

We were just in Santa Barbara in February and had a great time. Summerland Beach Cafe is a nice, quaint spot right off the highway and there is a beautiful county park overlooking the ocean right across the road. Cold Springs Tavern up in the Santa Ynez Mountains above SB is iconic and worth checking out, good tri tip sandwich. Lots of other good restaurants in Santa Barbara. Depending on how slow you're taking it, you may be interested in a day trip to Channel Islands NP, ferries run out of Ventura. They depart at 9/10am and have you back about 4/5pm.

First year in a while they didn't raise the cost of OU tickets, so there's that.

That's a fucking stupid plan but they could certainly effectively tilt swing states to Trump without getting much of the vote.