Jump to content

pyrohornIII

Burnt Ends
  • Posts

    4148
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by pyrohornIII

  1. Marco Polo does a pretty good job on Kahn. But that would just be a start, I grant you. still Kahn would be a natural spin off from that series.
  2. The problem we run into here is that those you have listed, including Beto, are all white men. And there are a lot of voters in the Democratic bloc that do not trust white men and will vote for anyone else first. We have a lot of voters who don't do any research on candidates and when they go to vote they will choose by name. Are they a woman? What race are they? That's how they decide. We need to somehow change that and get people to vote for the most electable candidate in November regardless of age, race, gender, etc. It doesn't even have to be the most qualified candidate, but the one who stands the most chance of winning against the R. I mean that's how Trump won. He's not the most qualified, he was the most electable. It's not the ideal way, obviously. The risk you run when you take that path is you end up with someone like Trump whose incompetence keeps getting exposed. Will it harm the Republican party? Probably not. Will it harm the country? Absolutely. So the trick is finding someone both electable and capable. I tell people who start to spit on older white politicians that that is the demo for the people who built and use the system to their advantage. It's easire to break a good ol boys club up from inside if you infiltrate it as a good ol boy. Our opposition by their very nature do not see anyone else as their equals, other than other white males (and somehow Cruz has worked around this). So with that in mind, all the other electeds are fighting just to gain respect, much less get their voices heard on specific issues. And that good ol' boy persona rates pretty high in Texas.
  3. So would the Galveston storm of 1900.
  4. Texans really don't get to vote on those things though. Other states put vouchers on the ballot, same for abortion and other hot topics. But for the most part Texans never get to vote on the actual issues, just the legislature does. There are polls out there that show that the majority of texas voters object to at least one of the issues you listed, but they seem to be willing to compromise on that single issue "for the overall good of the people" bullshit. So they keep pulling the R lever because they have been convinced overall that their futures are in better hands with republicans.
  5. I appreciate all y'all's input and comments. The Democratic tent covers a lot of divergent groups, and like you can see in the comments on this board, has a lot of different advise coming from a wide variety of factions. Not the least of those are the 'high-roaders' vs the 'punch them in the face' groups. We definitely have our work cut out for us but I do like the "regular people" concept. Somewhere along the line the Dems got complacent and took for granted the working class and started trying to appease the smaller special interest sectors. I'm not so sure it's as much a case of people switching sides, but that a whole lot of folks started feeling unrepresented, and just quit voting. That's what Trump exploited. We need to remind people what we had 40-50 years ago, the good progress this country was making, and convince them to come back and vote to begin the process of getting this out of the hands of the oligarchs and back to being a machine for the people. It's a hard task, and maybe even impossible, but I'm going to keep trying. And coming here and getting your input is valuable to keep me from isolating myself in a blue silo. All surly tongue in cheek self degradation aside, there's a pretty decent source of input here from a group of critical thinkers. But it all comes back to oligarch vs common battle. Wash, rinse and repeat.
  6. We've finally got a new State Chair. Let me know what you folks think. He's down in on the ground with us, not locked away in some blue bubble tower somewhere. I'm proud to call him a good friend. This was shot immediately after he won handily this past Saturday in Austin. Kendall Scudder interview And here's another interview:
  7. I wonder how many of those old manufacturing sites have residual enviromental concerns that would make it unwise to rebuild pretty much anything on those sites without adequate cleanup or containment. Trump killing off the EPA also kills off any Superfund monies going to those projects, and likewise probably kills any regulations about land use without said reclamation measures. Just more food for thought when it comes to re-establishing manufacturing here in the US.
  8. A sun with no sunshine.
  9. I really appreciate you posting this. I enjoyed Endeavor a great deal and wanted to go back and watch some of the Morse series, but at that time no one was carrying them. I guess there's just so much content it's hard for them to effectively let people know what's in their current libraries. And I noticed the past few years that quite a few movies and series move from platform to platform. Black Sails comes to mind, having started on Prime and Starz, now it's making its run on Netflix. But again, thanks for the heads up!
  10. If you have the PBS add on, Vienna Blood is solid. Very good period piece.
  11. What's next? Ukraine? Drop a few stray bombs on Greenland and consider it "war-torn" and just go in and take it? Panama? Canada? I tell ya, this guy sees everything through the eyes of what he can put his name on. Property, buildings, countries. That's the legacy he's shooting for, he's just placating all his minions by feeding their own little P2025 appetites, but in the end it's all about what he can conquer and give to America's oligarchs.
  12. Al Green of Houston has already filed impeachment proceedings for the Gaza plans. I know it won't come to fruition, but I expect several other filings, and it won't take but a few non MAGA red people to depose him given the right articles of impeachment.
  13. I talked to a good friend from Ft Bend county who is muslim and pretty much plugged into the muslim community there. Pre election day, he was talking about how dumb so many muslims were for switching to Trump. All along I had been thinking they were doing it in a move of solidarity behind Palestine. So I was surprised when I asked him about it and he said they were generally happy about it. What they wanted was to see the conflict come to an end, it really didn't matter who won or lost, just get it over and Trump did that. However he did say that Muslim Ban 2.0 hasn't sunk in much yet, so that's what will get them stirred up.
  14. But I'm going to wade right in and make it a resort like the world has never seen! I'm lucky that way. At least 4 casinos!
  15. This is a pretty good theory about Trump and his negotiating methodology. Or it seems reasonable to me, so I present it to hear some more knowledgable takes. Trump's book should have been the Shart of the Deal.
  16. From the article, pretty much yeah, or at least make it a dicey thing to do legally.
  17. For those of you who like Roland Gutierrez, here is a good interview he gave Nancy Thompson about the state of things in Austin and DC. Gutierrez Interview at start of 2025 session
  18. Ann Richards had more cajones than these 3 combined when it came to standing up for Texans. Who remembers the John Sharp Audits of the 80s? Yeah, that's about as dumb as returning to hand counting ballots. And it's not just the money for extra machines. With the current climate it's hard enough to find election workers for 20-30 polling places. Try doing that for triple the poll sites. Good place for the Texas DOGE to start. See how they justify their fellow Republicans being so grossly inefficient.
  19. While cruelty plays a role, I think it's less a player for Trump than say Bannon or Stephen Miller. I think Trump sees this as a way to begin building his stature in the world as a great leader. Great leaders end up with more territory than they started with and weak leaders lose territory. I think Trump sees a future where he rules the western hemisphere, China rules Orient and Putin rules everything in between. And instead of taking land by force, he is first trying to get enough voters in Canada and Mexico to ask "why do we wallow around with such poorly run governments when we could be part of the once again great US that Trump is building?" Honestly think the guy is that delusional and those around him encourage it, profiting off the chaos. Above all else he wants the world to think he is the brightest visionary ever. Everything he does, how he says everything is directed to get him up on Mt Rushmore. The bulk of our best lumber already goes overseas. They figure they are paying already for transport, might as well go the extra bit and get clear or select grade and leave us locals with #2 common crap.
  20. These threads always bring up some "what could have been" thoughts for me. Akins gets shortchanged in these conversations I think because he played through a lot of injury and illness, but also he inherited the wishbone about the time other teams were beginning to figure out ways to combat it defensively. Made his sledding a bit more difficult. I was at that game where Pat Thomas of A&M targeted his knee on the first play of the game and took him out. But when he was healthy, he was knocking out the yards and wins. That was quite a run for UT qbs starting with Street and running until about James Brown. How many times did understudies like Randy McEachern step up to save the day when all the qbs in front went down for one reason or another?
  21. My MAGA brother and his friends are all convinced that all that Armageddon Mad Max timeline will be only be suffered by the unbelievers. All the righteous white evangelicals will be swept up by the rapture balloons in the nick of time. Let's don't think critically and vote for people to improve life on earth for all, let's just burn it all down while we line our pockets (to make the last few days as comfortable as possible) then tell everyone to pray for our nation(fuck the rest of the world). God will send the rapture like he did the ark. But to be doubly sure you get passage, bring along your Trump Bible.
  22. Wonder what all the O&G guys will think about having to change all their leases and other paperwork to reflect that simple change. To Trump these issues you talk about are like holidays. While he might only talk about Christmas or Easter a little time each year, there is always a Trump grift for the holiday. So, the grift will always be hot topic, because no matter what he is talking about, there's a grift tied to it. Either in some sort of kickback like he's getting from O&G for advocating for gas heat or asking for more campaign donations to fight the evil things like trans kids and such. Interesting thought that if Trump were to try to raise fund with another election campaign fundraising event, could that be shut down because of term limits? I guess even if that dream could come true, he'd just start funnelling it through something like a Rushmore monument, or Presidential Library, wherein he'd get his normal cut of 90%.
  23. I wish Sark would find a young offensive minded guy to teach his ways to, working that person up to be the play caller. Sark helps prepare the game plan, and possibly some adjustments in game, but by and large is left to game and time management. Then if and when Sark moves on, this person could step up. I know there's a term for it, but not going to use it.
×
×
  • Create New...