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Good point, and the last part is true for Pelosi as well. She’s the greatest legislative tactician of all time or at least the closest thing the House has ever had to LBJ.. She is not and does not want to be the face of anything. He was right though.
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Of course it does- that’s the Iron Law of Single Party Districts: in a district or state where one party has a dominant advantage, the nominating process of the dominant party will produce the least acceptable candidate the majority is willing to vote for. In competitive districts and states, parties will typically nominate two relatively strong, well qualified candidates.
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So you want Texas, which votes about 56% Republican, and is currently gerrymandered to predetermine a 66% Republican outcome, to increase the number of safe seats to 79%? That does not square with your repeated insistence that you think it should reflect how the state votes. The fact is that if we just had 38 competitive districts drawn without regard to partisan lean and reflected actual communities it would play out closer to the natural break than anything else. Designing districts around actual places on the map where people have important things in common is called “representation,” not “gerrymandering.” So you support efforts to hugely overepresent Republicans? I don’t have a side, I have a community. You do have a side, and your side is doing this in Texas. I don’t care about states where I don’t live. I care about Representative from Austin who have a reason to pick up the phone when someone from Austin calls.
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No. That was the Clinton faction.
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Welp, it looks like I was wrong and Doggett and Casar are likely to wind up facing each other in a primary for D10. That’s a shame. Doggett is still extremely effective, but he really should pass the torch to Sarah Eckhart, and Casar should sack up and break the gerrymander in the new District 35.
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I mostly agree. I’m not worried about Mamdani, I just think he’ll wind up making no meaningful progress on the housing shortage in NY. That said, I’m glad I don’t live in a city with a strong mayor system. The bigger the city is, the less sense it makes. I also don’t like the “strong president” system.
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Yeah. I like to think I’d stay and fight and I’m probably too old to do anything else. But the fact is that the Texas that I grew up with - the fearless Texas that was defined by generosity and optimism and largeness of spirit and attracted my ancestors here in the 1830s and kept us rooted there for the next 6 generations even as everything else changed, the essential Texas- is gone, or at least it’s dormant. And if that is gone, what’s left to fight for? Dirt? Either way my daughters are likely gone for good. They will take Texas wherever they go. Not sure what I’ll do. It’s either stay here or head out for New Mexico, I guess.
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Quinn "La Joya" Ewers - The Man The Myth The Mullet
Bozo_Casanova replied to Coach pop a bitch's topic in Football
I’m with Derka on this. Dude knows ball, and he’s been on this one from the beginning. I am hoping Quinn Ewers makes it as a career 3rd option/scout team QB for a few years and I think he might, but he’s certainly not a starter and I don’t think he’s a backup either, because based on his entire body of work I don’t see any reason to believe he can start multiple games in a season for an NFL team. -
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Bozo_Casanova replied to Prepuce of Doom's topic in Lulz
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Oh wow. Wow.
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This being Milt
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Bozo_Casanova replied to Prepuce of Doom's topic in Lulz
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This is one of my favorite techniques recently- a great example of something that seems labor intensive but is actually super easy and has a very large margin of error. The braid adds texture while helping to retain moisture and prevent overcooking while allowing for a very good crust to form. I used flat irons for this, but flank and Sierra cuts work really well too. You just need a relatively thin steak that is the right shape. Step one: Get a couple of flatirons Gather your audience, and cut the steaks into three long strips: using toothpicks to secure the ends, braid the steak strips, and dry them for a couple hours in the refrigerator if you have time. Reward helpers dry rub 10-12 mins on each side, direct contact. I did cast iron on the gas grill here, you can also just bury it, unwrapped, in hot coals for 15 mins or so. Remove from heat, and then it is extremely important to let it rest for 10 mins so it doesn’t dry out when you cut it. THEN after the rest, Chop it up to your desired consistency serve- that’s watermelon mint salad with feta lemon juice and salt on the side .
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His mother is Mira Nair- a world famous, Academy award winning movie director. His father is Mahmoud Mamdani, a Columbia professor and one of the most important public intellectuals in the world. AND, there’s nothing wrong with that, but it’s not as though he’s risen from obscurity.
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??? Gosh that breaks my heart
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But he is so deeply unserious. I’m aware that people are excited about this guy, and I think that may be because he makes Republicans so angry, I don’t know. But I’ve been paying attention to the whole campaign and this guy has given me zero reason to believe he’s going to accomplish anything other the win an election. Putting him in the same sentence as AOC and Bernie Sanders (as someone did above)illustrates just how ridiculous this is. He has offered no reason to think he’s in their class. He’s less substantial than Greg Cesar, for example.
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Cuomo is a serious, heavyweight nepobaby. Seriously flawed and problematic, but he’s got a track record of bureaucratic management. Why are you guys so protective of Mamdani? It’s super weird.
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Totally- I meant to respond to this earlier. You are absolutely right, but there are two issues conflated here: 1) proceedural friction related to all housing and 2) procedural friction for capital A Affordable housing, which is typically higher than market rate housing. in most cities, the housing shortage is universal and the greatest pain is in middle income bands. That is a shortage of market rate housing, which therefore means the top of the market MUST be met before housing is available to middle incomes. In other words, NYC needs a lot more “luxury housing” because of “Elite Overproduction.” Mamdani is trying to address housing as a bottoms up problem of poverty. Not only is that the most time and cost intensive approach, it also doesn’t meet the general shortage annd therefore the bulk of the local workforce unless a general recession wipes out the middle of the market. In which case your affordability problem gets worse since prices fall, but more slowly than income.
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Bozo_Casanova replied to Prepuce of Doom's topic in Lulz
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Well, again, since I pay for housing in NYC, and housing costs are the engine that drives his candidacy, his positioning of housing seems pretty salient. That said, the Dems freaking out about what could happen are just as silly as the Mamdani defenders who frame him as some kind of counterpoint to Trump in a country that’s burning: the ascendancy of Mamdani is mostly irrelevant to the Federal situation. And at the local level Mamdani is just more of the same old shit NY and other high priced big cities have been doing since the GFC, warmed over. It’s just a CTRL+C, CTRL+P of DeBlasio. Because at this point it looks like there’s nothing coming from him that will really move the needle on housing costs. Maybe that doesn’t seem bad to you, but the one thing everyone with skin in the game agrees about is that the rent is too damn high in NYC. I can’t imagine a less comparable thing than a Federal election in Canada and a Municipal election in NY. Well, I do, and I’ve seen this movie before, except with better, more serious people than him and his staff. I wish him well, but my expectations are low. People predicting disaster right now are approximately as silly as those who did the same thing when DeBlasio was elected. But the people who expect good things from Mamdani have even less reason to expect them than those who thought DeBlasio would transform the city for the better. Yep, all true. That’s why Mamdani will win, and you don’t get to do anything unless you win. But that’s not in conflict with anything I said. And we can be honest about what’s happening here: a deeply unserious, lightweight nepobaby is about to take charge of the biggest and most complicated municipal enterprise in America. This guy makes Steve Adler look like a mindmeld of Robert Moses and Fiorello LaGuardia. He ran a great campaign, and I hope he does great things, but my expectations are under the floor.
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I thought that the distinction between municipal government and the Republic was self-evident, my apologies. Let me help you with that: 1) Mamdani will win, and he’s by far the best of three bad options. 2) What he proposes for housing in NYC is not bold change, but more of the same 3) Framing this race and the issues involved in terms of Trumpism and the country is a category error. 4) Most of the people defending Mamdani on this thread don’t seem to know much about what he proposes or the issues involved, which makes sense because this is a University of Texas sports forum and Mamdani is running for mayor of New York City.
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