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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. I understand what you’re saying. It’s certainly true that their identity has been a lever to separate you from your rights, and even though they haven’t gained anything from your loss, your loss is real and more existential than theirs. But (and I’m not defending anybody here) it’s important to keep in mind that the vast majority of straight young white men have worse prospects and a more impoverished existence on almost every level than you do. And unless people like you can find the empathy to separate the pimps from the tricks, you’re going to wind up contributing to your own marginalization, or at best not making it better.
  2. That’s not the issue. Everybody is shaky sometimes, and Ewers is no exception. The issue is that Ewers is usually good, and sometimes shaky, but never great; and almost never good for four full quarters, or even consistently good for whole possessions.
  3. This is a really good post and you are absolutely right, but “if he doesn’t waver” is doing some very heavy lifting at the end. Austin’s biggest issues in no particular order are 1) Texas <25 brain drain 2) Water scarcity 3) affordability and its impact on public sector employees and young families 4) loss of young families in urban core, and negative feedback loop w/r/t public school funding
  4. Has Ewers ever played a full game as sharply against a good defense as Klubnik is playing us? Serious question.
  5. This. Just make them stop the run.
  6. Need to watch it after this series but looks like Blue’s timing was off
  7. Love how Helm fights for the extra couple yards
  8. I can hear the trickling already
  9. Not for nothing, none of those things matter to the deficit. The only things that do are social security, Medicare, Medicaid and the military, along with the interest payments on the debt itself. And the REALLY fun part is that if you just make wholesale, indiscriminate cuts to those things the deficit probably increases a bit because tax revenues decrease. So what we need is a strategic unwinding of the budget deficit and a reallocation of spending that reduces cost but not necessarily spending in a transformative way. and now step back to the real world, look at that task, and realize that your pay scale means that your absolute best-case candidates are John Cornyn and Colin Allred. Or Roger Williams and Julie Oliver. Or Steve Daines and whatever his name was. And your worst case is Lauren Boebert and Tommy Tuberville and Ted Cruz. So far.
  10. They already do. They just finagle their way to it. One of my favorite lessons of history is that officers of the British East India Company were paid very little and expected to come home rich, both by themselves and the company. To fail to get rich was seen as a sign of laziness, stupidity, or worse, naive sympathy towards the natives. Thus the Hindustani word “loot” entered our language. You pay for the employees want.
  11. If anything, we need to elevate their station so we can dump the fucking toadies we allow the powerful to install today without any talented opposition.
  12. We should pay them $1-2M/year and senators should make $3-5mm.
  13. But it’s a bad gig for a 35 year old CPA or 50 year old entrepreneur or family farmer. Successful ones, anyway. Not for nothing, we’d have much better people in congress if we raised their salary to $1mm/year. We get what we pay for.
  14. Me too, but on the other hand watching Trump repeatedly swoop in at the last minute to fuck up Vought’s plans because of something Trump saw on Twitter or someone who came into his office, and seeing their relationship degrade in public until the inevitable firing/disgrace/shunning will be fun.
  15. Pay attention to that name - Vought. That’s Russ Vought, the incoming head of OMB. He’s very smart, competent, and practical. He knows how the government works and what strings to pull. He’s the policy brain of Project 2025 at Heritage and a true-believer, a self identified Christian Nationalist, and the guy I am most worried about. When the GOP manages to pull themselves together well enough to do real damage over the next four years, he will usually be at the center of it.
  16. You misspelled 30 years.
  17. It’s irrelevant because they have nobody to negotiate with at the moment. Their best friend right now is Chip Roy.
  18. You sound like you don’t pull. Drakkar Noir is catnip, my dude.
  19. Not to quote myself but: I’ve got good taste. Bill has good taste. We don’t always like the same things or agree about what’s important. Both perspectives are valid and there’s no “right” answer about age or distillery or distilling method or anything else. The five things above are the full sum total of what I know to be true about bourbon, but beyond that it’s all preference. So- drink what you like, and try to build a vocabulary to describe it, and an understanding of what contributes to those things. That will take you where you need to go. Don’t chase bottles simply because they are in high demand unless that’s fun for you, and don’t overpay unless you enjoy the flex. There’s never been more good bourbon than there is today. Enjoy.
  20. Yes
  21. Agree with this one 100%. The debt is unconscionably high, but the debt ceiling is the worst possible way to manage it. It served no function but to present catastrophic risk to the dollar, and by extension to the global economy.
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