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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. Maybe we are splitting hairs here, but I don’t think it’s possible to shame anything by valiantly running away like Brave Sur Robin. Democrat politicians and the party need to relearn aggressive confrontation and stop relying on outdoor protests and dirty hippies chanting hey-ho.
  2. The last line is nonsense. He’s a goofy weirdo, and compares Donald Trump with Robert Mugabe. The left needs to learn how to cultivate attention and not being so goddamn precious about things. Certainly there’s a wrong way to do it, but it’s pure fantasy to think that Hanania and co are influential because the left legitimized them. He doesn’t need your help, and if you avoid him you’re just conceding the argument. Did James Baldwin “platform” William Buckley?
  3. What about pickin’ and grinning’?
  4. this was harder than it should have been Wordle 1,418 5/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  5. What would be great here is for this to stop right now. Really fucking dicey. No no no no no we do not want that
  6. My daughter and I were talking last night about places where you can and can’t carry a holstered firearm and we started talking about the woman who shot herself in the parking lot of McBride’s the other day. It’s hard to know what people’s intentions are. So then we had a great idea. The idea is a gun hat- basically a large cowboy hat, but with one or more holsters on the crown of the hat so you can assert/promote your 2A rights in a highly visible but less operational way with less risk of triggering or scaring nervous people and anti-gun wackos. Imagine how proud you would feel to be an American when you wear this around:
  7. And the company laying people off is named “Canary”? This is all getting very on-the-nose.
  8. Forget about the merits of the policy for a second, how the fuck do you not have a canned answer for that question at this point? @realgreggym, who mans is this?
  9. Is that a bible hat? It seems to be a bible hat
  10. I’m a JFK Truther- with the LIRR from Jamaica going to Grand Central it’s <1 hour gate to midtown no matter the traffic and weather.
  11. On the other hand 90% of the owners can’t play for shit so the damage is contained to friends and family. Thoughts and Prayers. 🙏
  12. This is a little less of a problem than it was before, but from 2014-2022 especially, Austin had a massive leadership vacuum on the council, and they generally expected their appointees on the sovereign commissions like PC to act as surrogates. That’s not how it’s supposed to work and not how good commissions run. A Sovereign commission should make defacto final decisions on about 80-90% of what they see the first time it comes up with the expectation of council approval on consent. And council should use commissions to soak up political heat on controversial issues. Instead what was happening was that staff would present a sound recommendation, and if the issue was politically hot the commissions would delay as long as they could, indulge anyone with connections, blame staff for not taking enough input, and then send it to council much watered down. Then council would repeat the delay/indulge/blame dynamic until they ran out of process to conduct, and if the issue hadn’t died on its own (or if it had died of misinformation like the Zilker plan or sabotage like Code Next), they would blame staff for not taking enough community feedback, and either restart the process over again or do something halfass (Northcross) and blame staff for not taking enough community feedback. What staff learned from all this was that they could not trust council or PC to take the heat for their own policy decisions and adopted a practice of slow rolling projects until either the applicants or opposition collapsed. It’s slightly better for the land use plans than it was, but the teens were a lost decade in terms of land use and public safety still very much appears to be operating in that dynamic
  13. At this point the conspiracy theory and the incompetence theory converge into a single outcome. So why would a new buyer pay the premium when a change of ownership is the thing that creates the additional equity? If the Adelsons can’t get a stadium deal done in Dallas or Irving with a casino/resort attached or heavy taxpayer subsidies the franchise would be worth more to the Adelsons in a new arena in Las Vegas. The number of times the league has stopped a team from moving when they can’t get a new arena built is zero.
  14. Really hoping the telegram bot don’t get creative here
  15. off the top rope! Wordle 1,416 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wordle 1,417 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  16. This is a very fair criticism. They also get a lot of local details about Texas wrong by not drawing more of a distinction between the successful but unaffordable cities like Austin and their affordable but bleak suburbs in the context housing supply, which is crucial because of how it impacts school funding at the district level and regional transportation and transit problems. As a result they wind up conflating the aggregate impact of suburban development with the impact of very recent zoning reforms. I don’t think it’s really necessary to read the book, honestly. The broad strokes are the important thing, and it fits on an index card with plenty room to doodle left over.
  17. All Dak Prescott has ever done in his life is squeeze a dollar of success out of two nickel‘s worth of talent and luck. He’s a pretty good QB on the field and unless there’s some major scandal in we don’t know about yet he’s everything you could ask for off.
  18. Good luck finding a substitute. Sure, there are other motorcycles, but ONLY Harley Davidson can turn fuel into noise without the creation of commensurate power or speed.
  19. I heard that. It’s a very silly counter. People need housing and working drawbridges and the walk-up service at the DMV. This isn’t complicated. Harvey Milk once said that if you could figure out how to clean up all the dog shit in San Francisco you could be elected mayor. He was right then and he’s right now. The baddest of bad faith arguments: we can’t have more housing in cities because billionaires.
  20. I understand you are asking this in good faith, but a lot of people are not. I spent about two decades deeply in the weeds on zoning, for example- if I showed you the process in a place that moves very quickly and a place that moves very slowly, you (as a normal person) would be very hard pressed to tell them apart. But what I can tell you from watching thousands of things go through the public approval process is that it’s built to facilitate wars of attrition between highly organized interests and making good “planning decisions” is the first sacrifice that gets made. And approval is only the first stage. That’s when the engines start to crank inside the real killing machine
  21. Perhaps that’s true, but I would argue that the Democrats have been hollowed out and cannot win in 2028 without a core message beyond simple rejection of Trumpism. Furthermore, I don’t think it’s possible to understand the election(s) of Donald Trump without understanding the nihilism that has been created by the widespread loss of housing affordability and the widespread frustration with elected leaders to accomplish literally anything. in other words, it’s impossible to really reject Trumpism without demonstrating an alternative, and the only alternative that is coherent is an alternative where meaningful progress can be made in on a reasonable timeline and everything isn’t just getting worse.
  22. Yes, and the critique in a nutshell is that we do need more housing and infrastructure but evil corporations or whatever and why don’t you also address all the other things that are bad and blah blah blah
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