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pyrohornIII

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  1. I'd put this guy up against any of them! Also probably should do one for sportscasters and journalists
  2. Reminds me of how Baylor was allowed into the Big 12. Different political players, different bagmen.
  3. I think he was comparing her to Sinema and Manchin, not the new DNC Chair Martin.
  4. Maybe he lost the 6th one in action?
  5. So I was talking the Kendall Scudder, the new state chair for Texas Dems. You might have seen some vids of him sprinkled about the CR. I asked him if he would be willing to sit for a Zoom type meeting for the Surlyites who would be interested in attending. He's on board. I figure this is your chance to hear what the state party is trying to do to rebuild and win, as well as put your own two cents in, directly to the man himself. While Texas is not a huge player on the national scene, we are going to be. He explains all that much better than I can. And I am glad he is looking to engage with people outside our regular blue bubbles of activists and wonks. I can host the Zoom and you folks can attend anonymously, but I think in all fairness we should use our screennames here as our identifiers there, so I can monitor for trolls and boot them. If there's enough interest, we'll drop a poll as to best time and make it happen. It won't be until mid July though, I imagine, due to his schedule is really packed, and he and his wife are expecting their first child in early July. So for the months of July and August he'll be doing a lot of virtual meetings.
  6. Don't forget John Kelso on all things Austin.
  7. How long before they start using DNA to test a person's Aryan ties? How many marriages would that fuck up with paternity tests? this guy's need to take even correct words like right and blow them up into superwords or invent new definitions for words he has co-opted. Bigly and rightful are just two examples. There's no need to debug it. Trump or someone is going to tell them what they want to hear anyway. tree-fiddy, and not a dime less!
  8. Maybe needs a thread of it's own, but Trump starting a collegiate athletics committee using Saban as leader seems pretty bad. I can't understand Saban working with Trump after he supported the BLM movement, and he seems like a pretty good judge of character, take Sark for example. The billionaire oil guy from Tech I get, he and Tuberville seem to be great examples of Trump lackeys, but Saban just doesn't fit. Maybe he's so worried about his legacy he will do anything to kill off NIL and the portal to make sure all the schools in the future play can't eclipse his records? https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/sources-president-trump-creating-commission-on-college-sports-to-address-issues-ailing-industry-led-by-nick-saban-180732653.html Be interesting to see how Abbott accomodates this, or if he just starts working to overturn NIL
  9. Quite the transition from "speak softly and carry a big stick."
  10. Probably less suckage of the DNC, but a switch on her part as Russian asset to the new power in the white house. Good chance she might have done some sabotage work while at DNC too.
  11. But isn't part of the LNG issues here the development of terminals that are economically sound, environmentally neutral and community safe? Aren't there two scheduled for near Boca Chica where Elmo keeps dropping rockets out of the sky? There's a pretty good podcast on how that's a monumental catastrophe in the making down there. Progress Texas podcast on SpaceX and the RGV
  12. Happened in Corpus about a month ago, too. Mother was asked status, she was afraid she would get turned away if she didn't answer. She had the baby in the morning, by afternoon she was gone. Baby was left behind.
  13. There are a lot of people waiting for someone else to rescue America. By the time they realize they need to actually do something, contribute, run, vote, it will be too late. Surprised you haven't been invited to join one of your local Mega Churches. They think Trump was sent by God, so they wave that shit because who can argue with God? They are trying to save their platforms?
  14. I see it like they don't want brown people to come here to vote. They don't mind educating them as long as they don't try for citizenship. They don't necessarily want white people getting educated to the point where they start critically thinking. They want the people who can vote be part of their hive mind cult, easier to maintain. Educated brown people can do all the high tech stuff, and they don't have to pay them much when they can threaten them with deportation. The best of both worlds for the corporations that mean to rule the world.
  15. I really like Kendall. If you see he is nearby, go meet him. He's the new direction our group needed. Must watch for every Texan, IMO.
  16. I've thought about that a lot too. The thing I keep coming back to is the US was always the bastion of democracy, the leader of the free world. How long will it take for the other democracies to fall and the whole world turn into regions split up amongst the oligarchs, like mob gangs and turf wars? As uphill as it seems, staying and trying to right the ship, reinforce it with better protection from internal threats is probably quicker back to democracy than letting the whole world fall into fascism. It could take us 2 to 3 generations to recover, but the other way, I just don't see any recovery, considering how the morons want to burn through our resources at breakneck speed which just drives us faster to climate change disaster.
  17. If (When) they pass something like HB3938 that will be the death knell to so many rural schools. Especially if they accept home schooling as a viable alternative to public ed. That's the bill that gives the kids a "scholarship" for alternative education sources besides public schools. And when presented that a child is enrolled in an accepted alternative, then their parents get a property tax refund not to exceed the allotment. So not only would the ISD lose the allotment from the state, they lose the local tax stream for that child as well. It's a whole movement, and I assume it's the next step down the destruction path for our public schools. They won't be happy until all the poors are in homeschooling pods that harken back to Little House on the Prairie days. https://www.texaspolicy.com/property-taxes-in-texas-must-go/
  18. you get extra for also teaching them a trade!
  19. Could we have another housing bubble blow up and end up with the schools holding a lot of properties? And even then, in that depressed market i would assume those with huge money would swoop in and buy those properties dirt cheap on the courthouse steps? Just seems tailor made to push more wealth into the oilgarch's accounts.
  20. Now they are pushing hard on property tax rebates for those who choose to pull out of public ed and send their kids to private. This could be even more devastating to the small rural schools due to how many they stand to lose to home schooling. Especially in the elementary years. Then after jr high, they want to send them back to the public system for a variety of reasons. A public ISD that will be damaged by the loss of those tax rebates in the lower grades.
  21. Pride goeth before a fall. Too proud to admit they made a mistake in backing this guy. She bought them that way figuring like most Karens, she'll grow into them. They'll be a fat girl's skinny jeans. CNN had to tell him to turn off the TV, since it's been stuck on FOX since about 2014, and they lost the control. Actually pretty good analogy of most of their brains too.
  22. 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.
  23. 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.
  24. So would the Galveston storm of 1900.
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