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Not really the best place to find them-there’s a lot more Colton Gordons than Bryan Woos sent to Arizona and most teams are protecting their top prospects arms after a long season.
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I'm not convinced that there's any real merit for UT to enthusiastically reject it. If it were up to me (particularly since Abbot isn't going to stand up to Trump), probably the right play is to make public a somewhat tepid statement of support and then proceed with business as usual. Protecting Higher Ed intellectual diversity or independence is like #75 on my list of priorities in the face of an increasingly authoritarian executive. Also, reading Marc Rowan's op-ed in the NY Times today was a good reminder that the problem truly is as simple as "billionaires are bad".
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For the record, this feeling is valid and I’m in support of continuing scrutiny here. That said, the actual amount spent on homeless support (and excluding bond money devoted to affordable housing that might also help provide housing for the homeless) is such a SMALL part of the budget. We’re talking 1500 beds, and that’s 1500 people NOT sleeping on sidewalks or living in tent encampments and making garbage mountains along shoal creek. It’s food for people that would be panhandling more aggressively otherwise, and pretty much every dollar being spent in this regard is supplemented by 3 or 4 dollars in private money to expand the support. I think there’s been this really bad sales job done on the left that makes tax payers feel they are getting a raw deal. Unless the state is going to involuntarily commit them (and cover the expense), homeless people are a byproduct of a society with very few social safety nets, and in which mental health treatment is mostly left to the individual, and along with a level of access to drugs that appears to be almost impossible to curb. It’s a negative externality of the economic system we’ve chosen and they won’t magically disappear if we decide to vote against prop Q. TL:DR What we spend on the homeless is some of the best dollar for dollar value we get as tax payers AND comprises such a small part of the budget that canceling it entirely won’t result in the savings needed to forgo a tax increase.
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I'm a little torn and leaning to voting against. On the one hand, I have to hold my nose a little less supporting city expenditures* as they support the services our family utilizes the most, they are mostly well-managed, and there's a lot less fat on the bone than critics in the city of Austin Daily Texan thread would presume. *this is in comparison to AISD and Travis County expenditures That said, I think when only Marc Duchen is voting against the tax increase it's strongly indicative of a path of least resistance undertaken by the rest of the city council/mayor, and I think it's time for Austinites to push back on tax increases overall. It would perhaps push the city into thinking more thoughtfully about development as a mechanism for increasing tax revenue and not default into "let's just put up a tax increase".
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I understand you're being a little somewhat tongue in cheek, but I think the "he's an asshole but he's our asshole" voter is an exaggerated faction. Even amongst MAGA voters, I think it was the "he gets us" that resonated more than the wrestling like heel promo language Trump employs. Just don't ask me how Greg Abbott or Dan Patrick earns support; those two confound me. It reminded me of the Christian Bale Terminator Salvation rant, which was quite a bit longer and more fun: Christian Bale loses his shit
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Too old. That’s not as bad as the push for a 77 year old Janet Mills to run against Collins in Maine but there needs to be an implied, “we’re not running someone older than 60 unless they’re an incumbent” rule.
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Sorry, I’ve quoted you twice now on the subject, but it’s partially because your comment was so asinine. We generally understand that Trump’s bloviating is because he’s a moron with a persecution complex and has to walk around threatening people or he’ll be revealed as the insecure, small and petty person he truly is. I don’t think it’s unfair to apply that same scrutiny to Team D, in fact the presumed clear-eyed values of the party demand it.
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Just for the record, I feel like the histrionics that surround losing (“fire everyone!!!!!!”) aren’t particularly productive or rational (not that they need to be, we’re fans). That said, I think it should be pretty standard to look to upgrade over your worst performing unit every year with new management. In this regard, Flood looks a whole lot more like McWhorter than someone we need to making excuses for. Also, if Banks can’t coach better discipline from the punt team and the punt returner (and it’s not like TE play is exemplary) then it’s time to upgrade there, too.
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Would you say you’ve never seen a sole soul there?
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I’ve had a number of people work for me and I have never, ever given an instruction as condescending as “Get out of my fucking shot.”
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I realize this is oversimplifying it, but if I hire someone and four years into his career I’ve been unable to improve his performance sufficient that he’s capable of filling the role, I’m going to put some of that blame on myself. Either I fucked up the hire or I did a bad job of training.
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Who do you think is leaking the bad press? That shit’s internal and it’s revenge for poor leadership and petty behavior. She’s the white Sheila Jackson Lee in that respect.
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2025-26 Houston Rockets Thread - Back to Contention?
LCHorn replied to BigOrange1's topic in Basketball
Sorry if already posted-I had such high hopes for this squad and it’s nice that they get any attention at all. The Ringer 2018 Rockets-best team to not win a championship -
I saw that on Politico, ugh if you’re on her campaign staff trying to damage control.
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I’m presuming WB only has to pay once for the rights.
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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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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
LCHorn replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
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 😉 -
All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
LCHorn replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
You can still obtain private flood insurance contingent on availability. The NFIP option is currently tied up in the shut-down. -
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.
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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.”
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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.
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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....
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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.
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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.
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