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If given the chance...the hard right GOP (not the business wing) would happily install Dan Patrick’s clone as Speaker of the House.

Sullivan wants a different Speaker...somebody farther to the right? Does anyone think the Texas Democratic Party can actually use this to their advantage to pick up seats? The moderate Republicans that were listed for targeting aren’t going to abandon the GOP and they can’t be expected to support Bonnen after this. If Bonnen loses the Speaker position, does the Speakership ultimately go to someone more aligned with Sullivan?

To early for a 2020 Rain Thread...but I will drop this here. Weather vendor we use at work for long term (3 month) forecasts saying that TX has increased probability for a drier than normal winter. I really hope they are wrong.

Burn it down

Terrible offense

He will never resign.

Increased use of the death penalty?

How sensitive of a snowflake are you?

I know nothing about this Ross Levinson person. However the article says he is former head of LA Times. That newspaper has completely failed at its digital online strategy. If he was responsible for that failure...then I would image SI is in for some dark times.

Yet somehow the US can’t figure out how to emulate this.

That jury may have just restored a tiny bit of my faith in humanity. Well done.

An outdoor grill?

Corbyn isn’t any better to listen too than Boris. Boris hasn’t found any traction but Corbyn has no path forward either. I still don’t see how UK ultimately avoids Brexit and its consequences.

We could see the stars at Lake Bastrop last night. Nobody brought a telescope. It was a disgusting 95% humidity. Made for great sleeping.

Yes I have long thought that a good infrastructure project for Texas would be water piped from the coast line.

Same but for cub scouts. We are camping at Cub World off lake Bastrop Saturday night.

This would be the best entertainment ever.

Nothingburger??

Democrats still don’t know how to make hay if they find a fire. Trump is talking about war with Iran. This gets lost as background noise. The GOP is not going to turn on Trump and Trump is never going to stop fighting. The normal conventions of embarrassing Trump with a news cycle do not apply.

I am conflicted. Strategically, I am fine with the concept. The federal debt will never actually be paid off. Deficit does I g is going to continue for a long time. If we have incremental infrastructure spending that is debt financed that leads to increased productivity that has a fixed ultra low interest rate...that is a win all around. Nothing to complain about. However. Timing matters. I don’t believe any infrastructure spending in going to be passed in the next 12 months. Trump is calling for the FED to lower interest rates. ECB just cut rates. So more than likely rates are headed lower...not higher. If a recession hits...lower rates may be here for a really long time....years and years. So tactically...if there is no belief that rates will rise significantly in the next 5 years....keep your debt variabilized on the short end of the curve to keep your cost of interest as low as possible. These 50 year bonds don’t change the overall level of borrowing, just the interest payment cost and duration. The above tactic could blow up in your face if rates spike. But that doesn’t appear to be the case today.

Is this Tahoe poster just a copycat of the original? I am suspecting it’s just a troll, posting to rile up the natives, not the original one. In answer to the OP, not that it matters because I don’t expect to see a follow up post, if Biden is elected it’s just continual Cold War. If it is Bernie, it’s a hot war. Bernie’s wing should be expected to pack the Supreme Court and fully escalate everything in order to advance his movement. If it is Warren, I don’t know. The only thing that is certain is that there will be no peace.

So Parliament now suspended until October 14th.

So bizarre. These guys are sitting behind me. WTF?

Thread was promptly abandoned by Tahoe after its initial creation

So yeah...this arrived in the mail today. I need to find the proper occasion to break it out.