LCHorn
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Viewing Topic: Transfer Cycle 2025-2026 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday
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Texas vs UTEP - 3:15pm on SECN
I’ve been focusing on him all game and that’s the fourth play I’ve tracked on which he blocked air.
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The Democratic Party
Eh, I don’t think the Texas Senate primary is going to better reward a “clear the field” candidate. More the merrier. Plus Talarico has zero sex appeal. Maybe a little of Beto’s energy will rub off on him.
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2024-2025 Houston Rockets thread - Prepare for Liftoff 🚀 [Now Featuring Kevin Durant]
If Durant would take more three’s that would be a big help. He shouldn’t be taking half as many as Curry.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
I thought that was a deliberate reference to white nationalist iconography, no? Who is this admin will fire him for that?
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
He hit fine in the first half, particularly in July; I think some of it is fatigue. I feel like Fangraphs or someone on the Crawfish boxes wrote an article a few years back about Altuve adjustments (basically pulls everything, trading BA for power but that it worked for him despite diminishing bat speed). I think it's clear that he needs to go back to the laboratory over the offseason because he's an out machine right now.
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The Democratic Party
I'm sure this isn't a novel thought, particularly here, but the filibuster should have been abandoned in 2022. At this point, there's no reckoning to come for the party that abandons it first.
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The Democratic Party
I posted the text version and summary earlier in the thread. He thinks the Dems should use a shutdown as leverage to restore cuts to Medicaid or to enforce corruption hearings. I’m on team shut-down and don’t really see that the Dems have anything to lose. The right will blame them for the shut down, they will blame them for funding cuts they fought against, they will blame them for Trump’s miscellaneous failures of character, etc. We can’t keep pretending there’s a way to reason with today’s GOP that results in a compromise. I’m going to start sounding like @Brisketexan, but it’s win the public or go ahead and be a collaborator like Vichy France. Step one is proving to Dem voters that their representatives are willing to do more than make public statements and enjoy the big shot treatment from Congressional staff.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
I think he's more lead by example. The dawning reality is that the team lacks the horses and was very lucky in the first half. They also don't appear to have any of that 2020 magic in which you could keep faith they might get hot and turn it around. If you start digging into the team stats it's more surprising they aren't in third. Arizona actually has a better run differential and they are a game below .500. I'll leave it to @Wulaw Horn or @Snake Diggity to research the best targets, but they need to an outfield version of Isaac Paredes who will grind out at bats and get on base.
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Alien TV series. Hawley. FX.
This was probably the weakest episode for me and relies on too many of the characters acting in inexplicably dumb ways to table set the xenomorphs going bananas.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
I'm a little impressed that someone has the fine motor skills to write all that on a bullet casing.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
I’ve long held the hope that the typical summer buying cycle might be disrupted if rates fall into attractive territory, but I will share something with the board that’s the benefit of having 40 years of experience either in the industry or growing up under someone in it. Forget about interest rates, affordability, what the Fed might do, etc. Nothing compares to employment uncertainty when it comes pulling buyers off the market.
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Houston Astros 2025 Season Thread
You think Crane gives a shit about who says mean things about him in the Chronicle and sports radio to their hundreds of listeners?
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
That's the TexAgs I'm talking about! Now do SEC Rant!
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
I’ve been going back and forth on this-I think the fact he appears to have only taken the single shot might argue against military training. Most Marines (non-sniper variety) would have had drilled in to put two in the chest before trying for a head shot.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
USMC used to rifle qual at 500 with iron sights. If the shooter has a good scope that's zero'd in it shouldn't be too hard a shot for someone with experience.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
You need only visit TexAgs, Tiger Droppings or SEC Rant to see ample evidence that any just rewards haltingly celebrated here is far, far less common than the gleeful rejoicing at every "Libtard" tear, every indignity complained of by a person of color, or sexual/gender orientation, every boiled over frustration at the hypocrisy of the right. And those, presumably, are the educated ones. I'm not sure why we should hate getting burned but the arsonist is off limits.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
She wouldn’t be running against Trump. Paxton, for example, ain’t got that kind of rizz.. That’s old school thinking and not learning the lessons from the victors. You don’t make friends with Rogan, you antagonize him relentlessly. You can be friendly with Theo Vonn and others in that same demographic group, but if you want clout you need a villain.
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
I don’t see how that’s good for mortgage rates.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
Devil’s Advocate-Talarico (or candidate X) may need the experience and network building opportunity of running in a higher profile race in order to have a better chance of winning something less high profile (Texas AG or comptroller or Ag Commissioner). I do think the future of the party in the state is running younger candidates without the imprimatur of Ivy League education that veil themselves in being business friendly.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
I actually think Eva Longoria is the more likely, and more electable, candidate. I’m not sure what kind of 4D chess could be played, but if I’m the Texas Trial Lawyer’s Association I would entertain supporting a spoiler like Allen West running as an independent.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
I've been on record here as bearish on Talarico and I think this is a little hyperbolic. He scratches the itch of mostly secular and loosely Christian liberals and has a lot of the same "why doesn't the working man see it?" energy as Elizabeth Warren. A better candidate is going to emerge at some point (not necessarily this election cycle) and it'll be because he/she is fun and has an intuitive skill at grabbing attention. On the bright side, if he is the nominee I bet he outperforms David Alameel.
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The Democratic Party
Cutting and pasting the 9/7 Ezra Klein piece on the Democrats general failure because he brings up several really good points. TL:DR, the Democrat leadership has no balls and should use the debt ceiling negotiation as leverage toward something that energizes their base (he suggests protecting Medicare, which I think is a mistake, or corruption, which I prefer). Also, he basically says if the government burns down playing a game of chicken with the GOP then you have to accept that as a possible outcome if you want to play politics with them.
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Texas -- a failed state
My circle isn't, but that's all because we have little kids and extended family that's part of the care givers. That said, my wife works in tech and I've already made clear that if her career prospects are better in the South Bay then I'll be happy living in a shack and away from Gilead.
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
I’d at least like we know what kind of upgrade we could get at $1.2m…
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Colin Allred, doing what nobody asked
Also, not to go full Lobo but George P was there, too, as long as we’re talking about shit political instincts.