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UpperWestside

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  1. I like their coffee and their main location is right down the way from me. I’ll be buying that for sure.
  2. Your understanding of fascism is something. I don’t care one iota whether you agree or not. He asked the same question repeatedly. I answered it the first time and he kept asking the question even though I answered. That’s it. Your state is a clown show and your state is getting exactly the representation that it desires. She has an 0.0 percent chance of winning a senate seat in a state run by fascists and is wasting the time of a candidate that has a greater than zero chance (Not much, but greater than 0) of winning so yes this is a waste of 3 or 4 months of time doing this.
  3. He drained the swamp the same way Houston does. Clean it up and then deluge it with the next big hurricane. He’s Hurricane TFG. He drained the swamp and installed a bigger and better swamp that you’re not gonna believe!
  4. Well you said what you thought about this, but you kept asking me a question I already answered. What you are wanting to see would be ideal when fascists are not in charge in Texas as well as DC. You have contested primaries when an exchange of ideas matters. None of that matters right now. When the fever grip of fascism is broke and the nation decides to do a reset politically then what you want to see would be cool. You cannot do anything like that right now and hope that it’ll be a good thing. It will not. Ms. Crockett made a poor choice in doing this. She didn’t read the room. To be honest doing this is more ego-driven. That doesn’t change how I view her as a politician because they all have to have a certain amount of overconfidence to make politics a career. She is not going to get rural voters to support her though and people like my uncle will vote for Ken Paxton or Cornyn again even though he has nothing in common with either of them. Maga folks would rather die poor and in bad health than elect her in Texas thanks to fascism.
  5. I worked with a guy who wound up marrying a server he was the manager of. He was 17 years older than her. The age difference doesn’t matter, but man when you are someone’s direct manager you probably should use better judgment.
  6. You don't want the bigger prayer. It's a doozy when it shows up.
  7. I still use this line sometimes.
  8. If I had to put co one that I would want to see win it would be her, but for the reasons you stated it won’t happen and I also find that extremely disappointing. So incredibly ignorant to judge her because she is a black woman and one that has no qualms about voicing her thoughts. I love that about her. I have only been in relationships or dated black women since my 2nd year of college. They’ve all been women who work twice as hard as their white counterparts and I can say that they were all exceptionally intelligent as well. All beautiful too, but that’s another story. I say that to say that I feel strongly about seeing black women in the halls of power. The more the merrier.
  9. What a time to be alive.
  10. This is more/less my view. Talarico is obviously an underdog in Texas. That whole being kind to others and treating all people with dignity and love doesn’t play well with the die-hard in the cult. Out of the two he still has the better shot to win, even if it’s a long one.
  11. I do not know how else I can say why this is not in the best interests of Texas Democrats. Fascists run Texas right now. Ms. Crockett is not going to win a statewide race under those circumstances. I have a better chance of the Lakers signing me to play shooting guard than she would have flipping that state right now. No amount of spectacle is going to change that. Talarico, once again, should be out canvassingTexas trying to break the fever grip of fascism that has engulfed the state. He’s the one for this cycle. Whether he wins or not I do not know. I do know Ms. Crockett should’ve ran for Congress again. That is where she can affect change.
  12. Also that’s a what’s in it for me if I don’t try to pass legislation making it even harder to run an athletic program from that congressman. Just an attempt to grift.
  13. I feel like I already answered this, but I’ll try and restate it with more words. I do not, in theory, think it is ever a bad idea to have this in a time of normalcy where you have a modicum of decorum etc. These are not normal times. Every single day he is not out canvassing the state presenting to voters in Texas his ideas for how to attempt to right a ship that’s leaning heavily towards sinking is a day wasted. You want to hold this contested primary in a time where contrasting two candidates and their ideas matter is different than the current landscape of combatting fascism that now has a fairly firm grip on Texas. Time is of the essence in attempting to fight back. Talarico is, and I think this will hold true, the right sex and color for that state. I find that abhorrent because I’d personally rather vote for women of color almost all of the time. I was able to vote for AOC once when I lived in her district. Talarico will be able to talk to people who normally do not want to hear one of those evil libtards because of how he looks and that he’s a man. It’s not right, but it is what it is. I also happen to like Congresswoman Crockett quite a bit. Her and AOC are two that I enjoy listening to. She just is not going to win a statewide race in fascist Texas. I want ideas to matter and I want to hear a diverse array of them. I won’t agree with every single thing a Democratic candidate thinks or says, but I want to hear their ideas in a normal time. This just is not it.
  14. I am looking at a country destroying public school education right now and that has no political stripe because New York is gutting their public schools in favor of charter schools the same as Texas is and those two states are polar opposites on most everything else. The results of this will not be seen until 15-20 years down the road. The United States has world class universities because the world has been coming to the United Staes to get educated because we used to believe that’s a good thing. Invite the world to come here to get educated and if you have something valuable to add to America we wanted these people to stay and work here. The last decade has shown that is no longer the case. When you actively scare off great professors and foreign students it has an effect and it’s one that will show up down the road. I use history as a guide on almost everything and history says what’s happening now will not end well for higher education.
  15. I just clearly stated my position on this.
  16. I feel primary challengers are good in normal times and in states that are not like Texas. Talarico gains nothing by having to make his case against Congresswoman Crockett.
  17. Yep. It sucks. A fairly decent portion of American society would rather field a great football or basketball team rather than invest money into students who are struggling to make it through school. It’s embarrassing how little we care about academics in the US as a whole.
  18. I don’t know what you want me to say about ASU being in the negative as well. There’s only a select few schools turning a profit. I don’t think that’s news to anyone here. I think I already said more schools are going to do this. If ASU folded up the entire athletic program it wouldn’t have any tangible effect on me. It’s just entertainment. I don’t base my life around the football team or athletic program. And it’s pretty easy there “champ” to talk about Utah doing this when they should just drop football if they are taking PE money to field a team.
  19. Wulaw also thought that Dodgers getting Ohtani for the price they paid was a bad decision. He's like an older Helo.
  20. I have an uncle that'd have a coronary if she won the seat. He's not particularly religious nor does he seem to care about Maga from what I can gather, but Crockett is a no go for him.
  21. Getting alcohol sold at all of their sporting events. Should be fun watching Mormons drink during the game and not before it anymore. No way that alcohol ban stays in place with this deal. BYU will probably follow with that as well. Should make for some good Mormon on Mormon violence, especially during football and basketball games. I know it’s not that simple, but seeing this transpire will be something.
  22. Yes and apparently it’s a real dumpster fire.
  23. Not her best idea doing this. She won’t win the primary and she’ll just be wasting Talarico’s time having to focus on her in this primary. Democrats seem to have terminal bad decision disease.
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