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LCHorn

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  1. I think they found it, it’s why they are winning.
  2. I'm looking at Colin Allred's platform (link here) and it's all pretty standard stuff that most voters would identify as leftist. I would agree that there's pretty fertile soil for economic populism, particularly five months after the election. It's because I'm skeptical and I want to see a more developed response (which you gave a couple of days ago, but I also want to know what other people are thinking). At least locally, I don't believe in a big D silent majority just waiting for their hearts to be stirred by Beto, Lina Hidalgo in 10 years or the or someone channeling the ghost of Ann Richards. I just don't think there's enough of us, despite the more progressive members of Surly trying to shout down anyone espousing that the middle should be targeted. If that's correct, then it means the party has to change. People like @Bozo_Casanova think it's largely self-inflicted, and maybe he's right, but if the remedy is "Texans really are more amenable to classical leftist programs than their own votes are telling us" then I'd like to know which programs. Texans are voting for abortion restrictions, transgender health restrictions, school vouchers for religious schools, etc., maybe not directly but in their choice of representation. Maybe you might counter that it's not the policy, it's the politician, but I'm skeptical about that, too, when their standard bearers are Patrick, Abbot, crazy eyes and Ted Cruz. Is there a single person in that group you'd want to have a beer with?
  3. I'm not real fond of performative stuff but the Dems have to quit playing to the traditional media for approval, and alt media and social media will rewards anything that grabs attention. You think they'll do better appealing to the left?
  4. This is the Surly real estate thread equivalent of "ugly knees, would not bang".
  5. I'm working on a loan for a tech employee and need RSU income to qualify. Stock is down 15% from close yesterday and getting worse. I don't know if that's representative of a massive sell-off but I'm guessing that's happening, at least early.
  6. 5 for 7, all from 3 in 9 min is nuts.
  7. You forgot that Whitley is thus far unhittable in 2025.
  8. Btw, you’ve not really lived if you haven’t had your asshole puckered driving down the twisty and steep cobblestone streets of Porto in a borrowed Audi.
  9. We took an uber. The town hates tourist cars making it hard for residents to get in and out.
  10. Ezra Klein and Jonathan Haidt (Anxious Generation author) touched on this on Ezra's most recent podcast episode--in Haidt's opinion, we've lost a shared moral philosophy that was centered around Judeo-Christian values (as citizens have moved away from organized religion), and what's replaced it (or left behind) is a philosophy centered on the market as the moral arbiter of what is right. In other words, if the market rewards certain behaviors, then those are okay, and if it punishes other then those are wrong. Tying this back to dogs and HEB, I agree with @Brisketexan and think we all should shit in their carts. I feel deeply it's what Jesus would want.
  11. I pass by that house on my way to Counter Cafe and it's amazing. I think I could live with the driveway.
  12. Same-probably my first exposure to the idea that you could be smart and fun and that not everything social had to revolve around small town sports, drinking beer at the bank parking lot and making out in the bed of a pick-up trucks in some pasture.
  13. Another LO. My partner did $43m the year before we teamed up and he was hitting a similar wall getting past that. Mine was 2019 and I think we did $78m that year (my name was on about $45m of it) and I was pretty much on-call or actively working that entire year except for maybe one weekend in February. We started interviewing that fall but I don’t think we onboarded anyone until December. All that said, I didn’t hit nearly that last year so maybe I should hope to be you when I grow up 😉
  14. Good luck with that. I couldn’t get past $50m without hiring someone.
  15. Not shocking, but Ogden is basically being groomed to be the permanent steward for basketball and possibly CDC replacement down the road.
  16. Obviously, super small sample size but how should this be interpreted? That we have a lot of hitters that are poor at making contact or that or poor at making GOOD contact?
  17. I probably should have read this before my last post because you got to the same point with better reasoning.
  18. I’ll add one more thing-I tend to think of Democrats donors and voters as mostly interchangeable, at least should be the goal. That said, the Democratic Party method of arriving at solutions, party platform, etc., appears to floated into “let’s try to give or respect each of our disparate constituent group” rather than have a bedrock value base and ask constituent groups to get behind it. They are leaking voters because they’ve become the party most associated with inaction (even if that’s unfair, as they would rebut).
  19. I can’t recall which of the 100 podcasts I’ve been listening to had an interview with Colorado governor Jared Polis on, but his solution is a version of “constantly look for ways to make government better and make it cheaper.” Obviously every race and region has its own specifics, but that speaks far more to the kitchen table concerns of most families than protecting the rights of transgender athletes or any other (let me clear, valid and worthwhile) civil right under threat (including abortion rights, of which the fight to protect appears to have lost steam).
  20. So your solution is to tack left? I reluctantly read that same Brett Stephens op-Ed I the Times, even though I know better, because it had a sexy headline, and he did his usually great job of assuming his opinion is representative of larger group than an elite east coast/mexican Jew boarding school kid. All that said, he’s mostly right in the diagnosis if always wrong about the solution (his solution is always that the Dems should be more like, well, Brett himself). But I don’t disagree that the Dems need to re-organize around a center that has abandoned them.
  21. I would have to think either offer starts with Chet and Sengun. I don’t know why Milwaukee would want FVV, or why we’d want to hunt for a new pg if we’re going all in with the trade (I get it’s more of an obvious case based on making the salaries work).
  22. Is anyone else getting hit up by Jose Garza for fundraising emails and texts? I don’t know what fundraising entity sold him my contact information but it was wildly misspent.
  23. Defense has to be really bad at second for me to think that’s where we should be willing to sacrifice offense, particularly playing between Pena and Walker. And he’s an out machine. That said, I can live with him there. It’s letting Dubon take away at bats from any of the rostered outfielders that I really object to (even fucking Chas).
  24. I don’t know what we have to offer that’s superior to whatever OKC can put together.
  25. I’m really hopefully the plan this year isn’t to give Dubon another 400 at bats.
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