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  1. My thoughts on leaving Texas because of guys like Cruz, Patrick, Abbott, etc...
    39 points
  2. Shocked they spelled it correctly.
    23 points
  3. You’re struggling with leaving Oklahoma?
    22 points
  4. 3rd leg of my move from Houston to the Bay Area, and I made it to LA. I’m just now catching up on the news in my hotel. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again—I don’t have kids, but this entire situation in Uvalde makes me cry and has made me FUCKING ANGRY. Those kids. Those teachers. I’ve seriously thought about saying fuck this job in California, packing up my shit (again), moving back to Texas just to run for some office—any office—to have this never, ever happens again. The thing that makes me the MOST ANGRY is knowing fucking ELECTED OFFICIALS are HELPING with the fucking COVER UP!. And then this: I know a few of y’all on this website, and I know several from the old Shaggy/Hornfans boards. If I don’t know you, just know that your child has an Uncle Pancho who cares deeply about them and their safety. This is fucking infuriating, and I’m just at a loss of how to prepare as we enter Gilead territory. I don’t know what else to say to y’all with kids except even though I’ve moved from Texas, I’m still going to work hard for their safety. (And for the safety of my little baby cousins in DFW)
    21 points
  5. watching coverage today, mostly interviews, reactions, etc to yesterday's hearings. the overwhelming sentiment is "well thanks to some republican local officials having a backbone, the attempt to subvert the democratic process didn't work." which while on the surface is ~accurate, i'll offer this as a "however": the election workers got threatened. the sec of states and all other local election board members got threatened. the intimidation across the board at the behest of trump and his thugs was consistent and relentless. but now people are saying "thank god it did not work". yeah, ok. that's not how threats and intimidation tactics work. how many of these poll workers are going to be there in 22 and 24? not many. how many centrist, moderate, or democratic leaning people who were thinking about working the polls in 22 or 24 are going to volunteer? not many. how many gqp, trumpers, redhats, white supremacists (the people who've been making the threats) will try to take these positions? i would guess a lot. that's not a pattern, that's a plan. that's how intimidation works. if i scare you today, i don't need to scare you tomorrow, because you're already the fuck outta there, because why deal with it. it's not worth it to most of these volunteers, civil servants, poll workers, local govt types. it just isn't. so to anyone who says "thank god it did not work", they should revise it to say, "thank god it did not work in 2020." as for 2022 and 2024, it is already working. yesterday's testimony from the poll worker was damning and scary. hearing the threats from the ariz gop guy was scary. it needs to be heard, but at the same time, it's hurting the cause. same as cheney, kinzinger, the lot of them. they're not switching sides and becoming democrats, they're getting the fuck out of dodge. the guard rails are being dismantled as we sit here and hope something changes. something already is.
    18 points
  6. Were I female or had a daughter I'd be getting the fuck out of this handmaid's tale nightmare of a state post haste. Since I'm a middle aged white dude I'll stick around to see if the wife I'm assigned is hot or not.
    17 points
  7. I’m sorry but I have to jump on this. This seems to be a growing sentiment and I’m not questioning it; I’m denying it entirely. Richard Nixon had been told repeatedly by Senate Republicans in the wake of all the Watergate exposures and when impeachment proceedings were about to commence that they had enough votes to convict and convict they would. He had no chance to survive. Now, if you want to credit those Senate Republicans for actually taking a half assed principle (more on that in a minute), ok fine. And yeah even a half assed principle is considerable compared to what these current degenerates have. In any event, Nixon resigned precisely because he was going to be removed and he was told so. Giving him credit for making that decision is like giving credit to Bob Livingston for “falling on his sword.” No, that man resigned because Larry Flynt had told him he would release all the lurid details of his marital infidelity if he didn’t. Sure it gives to the general public a facade of integrity and it lets the perpetrator step down with some “dignity,” but in the end it’s all for show. Nixon was a monster. Period. If his party was littered with the kind of degenerates the republicans are known to be today, he serves out his entire second term. Getting back to the half assed thing, the Watergate indiscretions weren’t even the worst things Nixon did as POTUS. He, like a few of his predecessors, participated in a long-running program by the FBI known as COINTELPRO. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO. When Watergate was becoming public knowledge, so was COINTELPRO. But watergate was all anyone ever heard about. Why? Because when Nixon was involved in COINTELPRO, he was spying on minorities and minority rights leaders. When he was involved in Watergate, he was spying on half of the arm of power in the United States government. The lesson that should be taken is the following: Spying on the black panther party: Good Spying on the Democratic Party: Bad
    15 points
  8. Reminder that Thune said he still believed OU led for Devon Campbell in January. Campbell had signed with Texas in December.
    14 points
  9. Do any of y’all have patience? I’m coming to Texas, any thing else you hear is bullshit. It’s Texas and it has always been Texas. Why would I go to Bama when Nick is about to retire and what quarterback even wants to go to Georgia now. Everyone calm down and stop your complaining/worrying, I’ll announce sometime soon.
    14 points
  10. You are undeniably consistent in your bothsideserism.
    13 points
  11. Yep, family sure is an anchor. I resent them all very much.
    13 points
  12. Some stats and notes I compiled for the HS guys set to join the program:
    13 points
  13. The thread for Texans unhappy with the governance of the state who have moved on to greener (bluer?) pastures elsewhere, or those who are considering it. Feel free to post when, why, how its worked out, surprises, things you miss, questions of those who have left, etc... I'll start. We moved from Cedar Park to the mountains of Colorado in 2017. We did so after an unsuccessful 2 year fight with Leander ISD to get two of our kids special ed services. We thought we were just dealing with an obstinate school district, but came to find out it was a state-wide problem due to the TEA effectively imposing a cap on the ratio of students in a school that could receive special ed services at half the national average. When we became aware of that, we decided Texas was not where we wanted to raise our family. I talked to my job about being able to work remote, they said yes. So we started looking, but settled on Colorado because A) we had vacationed here often and loved it, B) it was more progressive in general and C) the school district we would be in agreed to exactly what our doctors said our kids needed as far as services without any argument whatsoever. It has been a great move, and our kids are doing well with their education vs struggling. I generally agree with how the state is being run. Laws are already in place to protect abortion rights, etc... I miss friends, family, greasy tex-mex, bar-b-q and fishing the flats near Port Aransas. You can get good Mexican food here, but its more of a Santa Fe style. There is a Rudy's in Colorado Springs to scratch the BBQ itch. Even though I miss the ocean fishing, there is plenty of fishing and other recreational opportunities up here in the high country. I still work for an Austin-based company, so I get to travel back once a quarter or so and hit up all my old haunts at that time. Friends and family aren't really replaceable, but when you live in the mountains of CO, you will get plenty of visitors from "back home." Recreational marijuana is awesome. A surprising thing about Colorado -- it is a blue state, but the poor (non-resort) rural areas are just as red as they would be in Texas. The people there feel like they are living under the tyranny of politicians in Denver that just care about the I25 corridor. They may be more pissed off than Texans about liberals and democrats, because the state is generally under their influence. I know a few who have left for Texas and South Dakota in a migration not unlike my own but for obviously different reasons. @mchookem, @PenelopeWitherspoon, @Neonmoon, others?
    11 points
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  16. That is Bill Dauterive. Literally how dare you
    10 points
  17. Great! I'm looking for something on the beach with at least 4BR and my budget is $250k.
    10 points
  18. From Boondoggle Studios comes the latest in the line of the sexiest films created sorta kinda not really in Austin but pretty close but the traffic sucks kinda unless you drive at odd hours: Salacious San Marcos Sluts 3: The Wettening
    10 points
  19. How much of that space will be dedicated to individual studio space for local San Marcos students' Onlyfans shoots? I suspect.....a lot of it.
    10 points
  20. Goose? That sucks. Everybody liked him.
    9 points
  21. True story, and I think I have mentioned it before. Bro in law (wife's brother) and sis in law were over visiting from FTW 10ish years ago. My niece was in our bedroom watching TV. She came in to the living room with a pair of handcuffs and said "I didnt know you were a police officer once!". Wife turn 20 shades of red and my BIL and SIL were laughing hysterically.
    9 points
  22. Man, it would be completely unlike Helobious to post things that he doesn't actually have a clue about.
    8 points
  23. 8 points
  24. I was in school with Goose. Some of our teams were so damned talented but, we never put it together. It was a strange time at Pitt. Too many of the guys from those teams have died; Ironhead, Goose, Fralic, Tony Brown, Lorenzo Freeman, and others. I didn’t know him well but, did have occasion over the years to have contact with him. The funniest was when he was with the Colts and I wrote a story on him and their PR people had him call me back via the operator and it was a machine operator and Goose didn’t realize it and he started swearing at the operator to get off the phone. He was a character, and a half. Rest in peace, Big Man.
    8 points
  25. Damn. 55. Too young. RIP. He always seemed the picture of good health, too.
    8 points
  26. His one-note "we're doomed because we all suck and society sucks and therefore there's no point and the universe is a hopeless exercise in futility and everything is horrible and always will be because this is who we are and my feet hurt and my balls stink and I don't love Jesus " takes just wear me out. What happened in Uvalde is no more an indicator of a doomed society than Beethoven's 5th was a indicator of a society that would be eternally beautiful. Seeing the world in stark, black and white terms is to not see it as it is, and his relentless, hyperbolic description of it as such is not only folly, but pointless. Jeez ...
    8 points
  27. We’re heavily considering a move to Virginia, Maryland (DMV area, Richmond or CVA), or possibly Chicago. Would love Colorado or Washington, but with the fires and water issues, we’re thinking east coast instead. We’re multi-generation Texans and I love it dearly, but with a kiddo now on the way, we’re not going to stand by if our marriage gets dissolved. Also quite worried about the thought of carrying even a wanted pregnancy in this state. * I can easily deal with bad governance and diversity of beliefs in my day to day life, but I refuse to stay here as our rights get stripped away. I posted something to the contrary a month or so ago (same story, but the ending went a bit differently) in hopes of de-doxxing myself, but oh well, sometimes it’s more important to illustrate how terrible policies and rhetoric actual affect other people.
    8 points
  28. Did some shrimp tacos as well Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
    8 points
  29. Footage from when the Ukrainians hit that ammo dump. ~11 minutes of secondaries going off and Russians running for their lives as the ordinance blows up around them.
    8 points
  30. If a crappy salesman with a non-compete agreement leaves a company and goes to a competitor, no one cares. If the top salesman with a non-compete agreement leaves a company and goes to a competitor, the lawyers go berserk. I should know, I water the plants and vacuum the offices at these companies.
    8 points
  31. This is where the benefit of true NIL can start to rear it's head. They'll promise the money. And we can show him the guaranteed money for NIL, as well as Bijan driving a fucking lambo at his position. Does College Station have a lambo dealership? Let me help you, the answer is no. In fact, the college station (and Tuscaloosa for that matter) MSA's have about...10 car dealerships. Austin has 50. When people have tried to explain the NIL power of Austin, well, that's a huge chunk of it: businesses and wealthy people who live around those businesses. They'll offer seven figures. And we'll make our pitch. It will be an interesting litmus test of where things are at this moment, not that it matters because it's obvious where it's all going.
    8 points
  32. I've said it plenty of times before, but man, he keeps earning it: never in my lifetime would the prospects for humanity as a whole be improved so much by the quick death (choking on a Big Mac, whatever) of a single person. He is a cancer, a pestilence, a disease, a festering boil. The sooner he is not on this planet, the better for the rest of us.
    7 points
  33. How we respond to what happened in Uvalde is what defines our society and our response is literally do nothing.
    7 points
  34. Fuck the pension - anyone who was in that hallway doing nothing or outside the school stopping the parents should have theirs revoked and given to the families. It's your god damn mother fucking job you signed up for. No one forced you to become a cop. You weren't drafted into the PD. You willingly chose to put on the uniform, take an oath and serve the public. To PROTECT and serve. Law ENFORCEMENT. Texas Department of Public SAFETY. All meaningless phrases now. FUCK ALL COPS
    7 points
  35. Gonna bold this, because this dynamic exists in more states than it doesn't. California having the most Trump Voters in the entire US, as one example. People need to understand that this is just the dynamic that exists everywhere now, because that's what Fox News has made them believe. The Colorado Water rights disaster currently waiting to explode in slow motion is only going to exacerbate this shit in multiple states that are very purple as well. I'm extremely unhappy with what I'm seeing everywhere, not just Texas, although Texas is laughably horrible. But few places are safe, regardless of which side of the political coin you prefer. Personally, our son is at a school in Houston it will be difficult to move on from, so we're probably here through High School. It would take more seismic changes to prompt a change. So...great.
    7 points
  36. And here are notes and stats from the 4 junior college players we have set to come in currently:
    7 points
  37. We just have to wait for the olds to die off so racism/hate/homophobia/etc die off This is said by every generation and it's a lie people tell themselves. That shit is taught from olds to young. Nothing will change unless you change it now.
    7 points
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