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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Do you not understand that the existence of a high speed rail line would not prevent you from driving?
  2. Yeah, you have the order backwards. Also, you seem unaware of the history of both urban and intercity passenger rail in Texas. The cars followed the zoning. But again, that’s fine. The rail didn’t stop because of auto competition. It was taken out of service and new lines were prevented. But, sure we can always just build more roads, because right of way is free, highway construction is cheap and fast, and and once we build them
  3. You roll back regulatory barriers and bureaucratic bloat, and let the market due its thing. Yes. That’s because rail obstruction is designed into the law. Good grief. You realize that the additional option of rail won’t take away your car, right? I’ve been to Europe. They have cars! Asia has cars. Not if you have anything to say about it, right? We aren’t going to make rail easier and cheaper to build because rail is too hard and expensive to build. Come on man. What you don’t seem to understand is that when we used to have trains running regularly between the major Texas cities, they didn’t fail. It’s similar to our public school system right now. They were slowly squeezed to death by economic interests that benefited from their demise. Now look, I have no confidence in the political system to make things better in Texas. But there’s no reason why you should just accept a broken status quo. We don’t have to be dead last at everything.
  4. Guys I’m not a repeat offender here and I wish he didn’t, but the fact is that this president happens to have a pretty enormous real time impact on the Fed and the markets, moreso than any president since 1974. That’s not a deranged statement. Sorry if that makes your nethers feel sandy.
  5. I’m not going to type a short history of the American transit and transportation infrastructure here, but the statement that “our entire national infrastructure was originally designed on roads and air travel” is false. Like that’s just not true. It became more reliant on roads and air from the 1950s-1990s as rail lines were decommissioned and policy barriers to new rail were put in place, even as land use policy changes were made at the federal level to explicitly promote automobile infrastructure and suburbanization. Along with the occasional light criminal conspiracy. As for the California example, it’s a an example of regulatory capture by economic interests opposed to high speed rail supported by unwitting accomplices in the environmentalist movement and the NIMBY-industrial complex.
  6. You should tell the people at Bloomberg, FBN, CNBC, Yahoo Finance, Marketwatch, etc.
  7. I’m sorry, but that’s a very silly way to think about infrastructure. What percentage of American road and freeway construction “covers costs”? That’s false. About the strongest thing you could say is that our logistics system is reliant on roads and air travel, but that’s not really a problem because it scales fairly well and rail sits underneath roads and air in most of the stack anyway. Holy strawman!!! Most of which is unnecessary bureaucratic friction supported by incumbent interests.
  8. Come on man. It’s one thing to maintain an indefensible position. It’s another to believe in things that are demonstrably untrue. Do better.
  9. Currently considering: Talarico- it’s not clear he wants it. Joaquin Castro- the political equivalent of “Free Beer Tomorrow” Beto- is Beto Possible Dark Horse- Bill McRaven
  10. It’s absolutely ridiculous that in 2025 we’re still using a real time gross settlement system from 1915 that relies on data entry and manual human verification, and yet somehow that’s not even the worst and least efficient part of the global payment network.
  11. Which would frankly be hilarious and I’m here for it
  12. Wesley Hunt isn’t better, he’s merely less criminal. Besides you’re underestimating that Texas Republican voters are trained to vote with maximum cynicism, and Wesley Hunt is the clear choice there. He’s just as bad as Paxton but skates to a win and you get moral license to perpetuate racism when you for him.
  13. I’ve long enjoyed using the mid-century expression “rich as Hitler,” but I’m told it’s problematic. Nevertheless, I will persist in attempting to lead a comeback.
  14. Wordle 1,529 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  15. Watch this space:
  16. A Big Beto donor I know who listens to Smerconish is shocked I think Paxton will win the primary. He predicts Cornyn wins 60-40. Im playing possum and trying to get him to give me odds.
  17. “The problem is greedy developers and corporate landlords ” meanwhile:
  18. Yep, understood - they do it in Austin too, but since we aren’t on a strong Mayor system and we don’t have registration in Texas they don’t make much impact. Things get very different when the Mayor becomes the CEO of city departments.
  19. No, but it’s close. To zero What’s more likely? 1) a nationwide data tampering so vast and sophisticated that it flawlessly produces convergent results across literally hundreds of diverse vote collection and counting regimes and timelines while also correlating to directional metrics before the election, like registration data and prior polling error, yet manages to leave no human footprint, or 2) a party in the climactic stages of a decades long shift away from primarily representing working class and middle class economic interests to primarily representing affluent, professional class social interests lost a convergent fraction of working class support across geographies? Democrats lost in 2024 because the party is dominated by people who don’t get it, and people who don’t get it don’t get that they don’t get it. Its like the Kirk Watson team when he almost lost to Celia Israel- until he came up short in the general he still thought housing affordability was a poor people’s problem or a property tax problem for old folks. It was only when she nearly beat him that the team realized it was the central issue of the campaign for 60-70% of the voters.
  20. Partisan municipal elections are so stupid, but all this shit gets 10X as stupid when a city transitions to a strong mayor system as Minny did in 2021.
  21. Love that guy
  22. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a great book and that’s a great quote. Amazing he had such extraordinary prescience in 1985. I don’t have a problem with it, it’s just not something I can personally relate to.
  23. I guess I don't understand how a person can say "I am a Democrat" or "I am a Republican" and really identify with a party unless they are deeply involved in the party itself or the daily business of winning and losing elections. It's one thing to consistently vote for members of a party, and I do, but the tribal element is very strange. Corporations don't identify with a party, why should a person? This is a transaction for me - my vote in exchange for X, where X is whatever I expect to get or happen as a result of voting a certain way.
  24. I’m all about accountability, but I don’t take the political opinions of males under 25 seriously for the same reason I don’t look to them for advice. They’re just trying on costumes at this point in life.
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