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Bozo_Casanova

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  1. It’s good to be in the center during an election. It’s bad to be moderate. Those things are not the same. That’s what the consultant class doesn’t understand. I have this conversation with a democratic operative friend of mine who still thinks Democrats need to “moderate,” and that’s wrong. Democrats need to occupy the center. Right now the center is angry.
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  3. Sure. But only with fallacious arguments that don’t make sense.
  4. Back on track! Got my shit back together and along the way learned a very important lesson: Swing practice immediately after a heavy lifting session followed by 35 minutes of intervals is really dumb. Because exhaustion was preventing muscles from firing in the right order or at the right time, I should have just rested. Instead I made some new bad habits, broke my swing, and it took 2-3 sessions to get back on track. I did nothing but drills for 3 days, which was tedious but when I got back over the ball yesterday I was back where I was before and even making decent contact off the tee for the first time. Today was my best range session ever - 60 balls, 20 each of PW, 9i, 7i. Only completely fucked 5. My slice is getting better, mainly because I'm doing a better job of setting up, and straightening my swing. I'm not taking anything like hard swings, I'm just focused on rhythm and fluidity. Progress! Not sure I want to add in a 5i yet, I may just work a 6 iron into practice and then add woods and tee shots. Question for the real golfers: do I even need to play with 3-5irons anytime soon? I've also been practicing chipping and putting a couple times a week, and for reasons I can't explain it seems pretty natural. I'm putting the ball where I want it inside of 100 yards pretty consistently and my putting seems ... decent? I need to dedicate practice time to getting out of sand. Funny about this - I bought my clubs during the COViD period when everybody was running around taking up new hobbies and frantically buying sporting goods, so there were no left handed sets for sale anywhere. I found a guy in Cedar Park to make me some. Nice guy, but he sort of cobbled them together based on components he had and it didn't matter anyway since I didn't actually take it up until 3 weeks ago This morning at the range I was talking to a much more experienced lefty who asked me if I got my clubs at a garage sale, not because they were terrible, but because he didn't understand why a beginner would be using low profile irons with extra stiff shafts. I was intrigued by this, and borrowed a Calloway Edge 8iron they had inside. Suffice it to say that was a completely different experience. So, I went home and watched a couple of video reviews and my new Calloway Edge Set from Costco will be delivered tomorrow. I'm sure if I improve I'll have to upgrade at some point, but this seems like a better starting point than were I'm at with what I've been using.
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  6. He’s a dipshit from Sherman who played water polo at Pepperdine before running a magazine about quinceañera planning. No, really.
  7. How the fuck the consultant class forces Colin Allred down our throats instead of Roland Fucking Gutierrez is beyond me.
  8. This is not how you humblebrag
  9. My daughters and I talk about this. I’ve always been puzzled about where the idea of on-campus indoctrination comes from. I don’t think humanities and liberal arts faculty are any more or less tolerant of dissent than they ever have been, and so also frankly don’t think curricula and professors usually have the ability to dictate a point of view to their students. My daughters have said they think it’s just a matter of exposure to other students and new places, because the only kids they have seen do 180 ideological turns in college are kids from sheltered, homogeneous environments who see the world outside for the first time and realize that things are not as they were told. There’s a prog-left version of this too, but the Republican small city kids learn that cities aren’t dangerous, liberals don’t hate the free market, people don’t get third term abortions other than in medical emergencies and white Christian political conservatives are the discriminators more often than they are the object of discrimination. And it is not extremely important also that college is where the gay kids from those environments finally have the space to accept themselves for the first time. And then they come home from college, and the parents blame woke indoctrination, when it was really just seeing the world outside the cloister for the first time.
  10. Amarillo doesn’t get enough run for having great weather. It’s windy, but it has four seasons and since Covid had the happy impact of reducing my ability to smell shit while leaving my ability to smell food untouched, I feel like it would be a good option (if my wife didn’t hate Amarillo).
  11. Fond is the right word. I’ve got a soft spot for both of those guys (for different reasons) and it makes me less of objective.
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  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. No. That was the Clinton faction.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. 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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  22. Oh wow. Wow.
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