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  1. So this came up before the Planning Commission in May and there's a 13 story, 168 room hotel planned for that parcel. As you might expect, the residents of either Greenwood Towers or Cambridge Towers were the main opposition and attempted to make the case that a hotel there would be the straw breaking the camels back in turning MLK and/or Guadalupe into a congestion nightmare.
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    Perhaps Reed could trust a good friend with it.....
  3. I'm a mortgage lender in Austin--I tell people to go find out those answers by talking to an insurance agent, not the other way around 😉
  4. You can still obtain private flood insurance contingent on availability. The NFIP option is currently tied up in the shut-down.
  5. Yeah, McCormick isn't making that next season. In fact, I bet he spends more time in AAA in 2026 than making the MLB minimum.
  6. I saw that, I don’t know, let them? I didn’t know who Jay Jones was before yesterday and now I do. “I want to make absolutely clear that I don’t condone any kind of violence and a private text message between two colleagues shouldn’t be construed as a threat. That said, I hate that son of a bitch Todd Gilbert and I hope his BBQ is always over done.”
  7. There's been ample scholarship connecting abortion rights to white supremacist rhetoric when the latter became verboten in church, specifically in Southern Baptist congregations. I'm drawing a blank on the supposed architect, but after or during Carter's presidency it became the preferred way to target the white supremacist sympathizers and really got fired into orbit under Reagan. Maybe it was generated by politics but the it's very much platformed by conservative churches and I don't know it matters anymore where it came from. Regardless, we're not going to win by getting back voters who hate Democrats, that's just bad business. We need purchase with the ones who are politically ambivalent but want cheap eggs and economic security and if removing abortion or any other issues opens them up to considering issues on which Democrats have more advantage then it'd folly not to do it.
  8. You should listen to the podcast because Ta-Nahesi makes this same point. I think you're underestimating the fervor of some pro-life voters that more of less consider themselves single-issue voters. Anyway, Klein's point wasn't about abortion, per se, it was about running heterodox candidates in places in which a true blue Democrat isn't electable. No, I'm not listening to three hours of anyone except Dan Carlin. I wasn't trying to put him forward as a good messenger for us, just that he gets mentioned around these parts with the same wistful longing as "once the Tex-Mex population gets high enough the GOP is doomed 4eva!!!!" Obviously both are fantasies. Anyway, sounds like it was one of those "I'm just asking questions" interviews that serve as a good reminder that most celebrities are shallow and vapid. I haven't heard about this! Tell us more....
  9. I actually deleted a call-out to you and wrote that you'd say something similar (I think what I wrote was that your position is the party would re-orient itself around the candidate and not the other way around). Unfortunately, quoting my own post... This is the part I wanted to write more because it seems overlooked from the left-leaning media and it's something I'd raise with Kendall Scudder if ever got face time with him. Pundits keep complaining about the relative lack of a lefty media ecosystem comparable to what's been touted on the right (e.g., Klein wondering why there isn't a lefty Charlie Kirk going to Liberty University and debating students on secular versus religious government efficacy at delivering happiness to citizens). I also don't see anyone talking about a strategy to crack the information bubble that a lot of Trump voters put themselves in. The relatively low hanging fruit tactic is having Dem communicators that are able to talk about more than politics in an interesting way and have them guest on podcasts that aren't already full of other Dems (i.e., if it's had Chris Murphy on in the last three months then it needs to be speaking to a broader audience). I'll use two terrible examples because neither are Americans--Melissa Barrera and Dua Lipa are pretty smart, media savvy, and unlike Michael Jordan, willing to make political statements on issues that aren't obviously popular. I'm sure someone who knows celebrities better can suggest someone besides McConaughey or one of the boomers. Most of these younger voters that Harris lost are the kind that listen to Rogan and "came for the jokes, stayed for the anti-vax talk". The thing that Klein points out repeatedly (and we've debated here) is that these voters aren't "deplorables" who are "irredeemable" (quoting HRC) unless you want them to be, and the party is losing elections because it's made too many voters feel unwelcome.
  10. I might develop this more later as I think it speaks to a template candidate that we (I mean the board in general) debate as the preferred option, but quick reaction to this is that Pete doesn't, to me, do a good job of resembling the Klein preferred strategy. I think he'd probably point to Andy Beshear* as someone who won in a red state and ask "what was his appeal?" Tim Miller, who's debated this same thing, mentioned John Bel Edwards as a pro-life candidate from a red state and he might be a better example. There's a communication element that can't be overlooked, either. Democrat leaders have been trapped in this doom loop of trying to sound like Clinton or Obama and it's ringing false with younger voters accustomed to something looser. *Beshear's pretty liberal, so it's not necessarily abandoning your traditional support in search of swing voters.
  11. I don’t know why he’s having around as a 5th year senior with NFL aspirations to not play when our LG play is obviously terrible.
  12. I’m glad you posted that because I caught up to it on my Saturday run and wanted to discuss it. Regardless of whether @wildcat09 thinks him a dipshit, their back and forth mirrored the conversation going on in the shutdown thread and it’s essentially between the activist side and the pragmatic side. The activist side says “we have to stick to our principles in order to convince voters that we’ll standby them”, while the pragmatic side is “swing voters don’t like us, so let’s try to look more appealing to them.” Ta-Nehisi’s best point, in my opinion (and even though I disagree with it) is that the things the Democrats need to do to appeal Trump voters requires they abandon groups they have tried to protect (this is in response to Ezra’s suggestion that the Dems need to run pro-life candidates in red states). I’ve always struggled with Ta-Nahesi’s viewpoints because he seems overly concerned with black rights and the black experience at the expense of any other minority groups, and that’s how the first hour of the interview went, but the last 20 minutes or so he departed from that a bit and it was a better look at challenging Klein’s attempts to find a moderate position with Kirk’s support. My second favorite part was Ezra’s struggle to articulate what he thinks his role is-is he a provocateur pushing the party, a public intellectual, an ideas guy, etc., largely because I’m asking those same questions as Joe Citizen about what I and the rest of us should be doing. And that was my favorite part 👌
  13. I don’t think there are any problems on this team with competent O-line play.
  14. My read on it was that the true revolutionary was that Regina Hall’s character was the one truly committed to the cause and was included as a counterpoint to Perdidia’s actions.
  15. It was a big swing, but I sort of dig that they were willing to make something not safe.
  16. Great list, although I appreciated 28 years later far more than you. It’s probably upthread but have you seen Strange Darling and/or remember its score?
  17. I'm sure this is rhetorical but let me respond anyway in case it advances the discussion--people aren't born Democrats and Republicans. It's a social construct, it's tribal, and in the wake of diminishing religiosity one might even say it's a spiritual doctrine. I'm guilty of this, too, Republicans have basically had a policy platform consisting of "let's be selfish assholes" my entire adulthood. I'm not interested in entirely abandoning virtue in the interest of winning elections, but if this board is at all representative, there continues to be this faith or belief that the best candidates show fidelity to Democratic core values and there's a lot of electoral evidence to the contrary. You've got people (sorry, picking on you) like @BrickHorn who make light of Republican voter ignorance and think the solution is that they need more information or better shaming, and perhaps that's correct on the margins, but it's been the default strategy for Democrats over the past 50 years and then Democrats are surprised when they lose elections. I feel like Jon Lovett on PSA brings this up a lot and uses trans rights as a good example--are they better protected now than they were four years ago? Whatever the intention was, it didn't work. You can use that same methodology for crypto, women's health, hell, now it's the very foundation of what is true and what is not. TL:DR, nothing matters if you don't win elections. Getting this back on target, nothing about the shutdown matters if it doesn't lead to an electoral victory (i.e., protecting a relatively small number of people from unaffordable insurance can't be the endgame).
  18. Look, I dig that shit, too, but I'm also a subscriber to The Atlantic and even read the articles in Playboy when I was still in the throes of adolescence. My point is that the Democrats have gotten tricked into thinking they can policy their way into an electoral majority. "If we pass the programs that people say they want, they will vote for more of it." Either that shit doesn't work or it requires a superior communication strategy to sell it and putting that together is more challenging than getting the program passed. Forget the ethics of it, the cold reality is that it's popular amongst a certain group of voters, some of whom poured money into the Trump campaign in a quid pro quo appeal for light (or no) regulation with the most transactional and corrupt President in our life time. A smart politician shouldn't be picking fights unless it's VERY intentional. You can't forever stand on principle on this if that loses elections. At least for me, I'm not interested in being the most noble person in an authoritarian state. Here's the transcript of an Ezra Klein interview that narrates how the crypto industry went from being unaffiliated to activated in favor of Trump. Joe Biden is president. Gary Gensler is his S.E.C. chair. Gensler is a huge crypto skeptic. He wants crypto regulated as securities, for the most part, which crypto people hate.
  19. The crypto industry support was crucial for funding the Trump campaign, along with aligning Musk into Trump’s orbit. I don’t know that Warren was entirely to blame here (I think @Bozo_Casanova is overlooking how unfriendly the Biden admin was coming off to the crypto industry, although that might also be attributed to Warren’s influence), but that’s the story.
  20. I'm still stewing on my thoughts, but what a rich experience. It's just so welcome to have a film chock full of ideas. I was trying to place PTA in the pantheon of filmmakers, and one thing I think he does better than anyone else consistently is endings. A lot of that is the ride leading up to it, but his super-power is wrapping it up.
  21. And I think that's @Bozo_Casanova's point--you can disregard the grouchy toddlers all you want, but that's not how you win elections outside of the friendly Massachusetts electorate. You think Newsom's twitter team is trying to reach college grads? That's pure trolling for the terminally online internet Gen Z boys. I appreciate Warren really trying to bring banks to heel, but the Democrats reliance on policy solutions to all problems is partially what led us here..
  22. Small correction in case someone read my post and immediately signed me up again for the Travis County Don Huffines Appreciation Society.
  23. Same, I’m certainly eager to hand the GOP more power but it’s preferable to this canard that it somehow protects minority rights from getting trampled. And it’s going to be worse going forward with successive administrations realizing how best to abuse the powers of the office.
  24. Jeter also takes the award for most number of herpes spread.
  25. Personally, didn’t particularly like that signing because we’re a bit overloaded with bigs.
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