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  1. This being Milt
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  3. 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 .
  4. 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.
  5. ??? Gosh that breaks my heart
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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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  12. Oh. Well then by all means you should lean into such stupidity.
  13. Y’all realize Mamdani isn’t running for Mayor of America, right? Local issues are local. Jesus.
  14. He’s going to win. He’s the best option. That doesn’t mean I have to be happy about it, and since I currently pay more for my daughter’s half of a 600sf 4th floor walk up on the Lower East Side than I do for my mortgage in Austin, I have skin in this game. What you don’t understand, apparently, is that the entire Mamdani phenomenon IS the status quo of Housing in NYC, repackaged for TikTok. Promise to defend it either way, please. I know you guys are watching the details super closely. I mean look at this: Bravo- this is a super relevant point of comparison. So Mamdani is the opposite of Trumpism? So the tide turns here? Do I have that right? Does that mean NYC is a microcosm of America? Great stuff. You should be on Joy Reid’s podcast or something. Time. We lose time to deal with the housing shortage in New York. I’m not sure what you lose. Probably nothing. But that’s the American Progressive in a nutshell: the privilege to fail without consequence.
  15. The Mamdani Housing plan:
  16. Very sensible
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  18. This is what I’m here for. btw- I’m on day 14, and after 11 straight days of practice and improvement, my swing completely fell apart yesterday. so, taking two days off and starting over Sunday.
  19. He underperformed his whole ticket in a midterm that was essentially a referendum on a Covid and inflation.
  20. No. They don’t. That’s what separates them from Democrats. Texas GOP voters care more about winning races than anything else. That’s why they were able to break the Democrats hold on the state. GOP voters in Texas haven’t gotten lazy yet. They know Paxton is the favorite and can win. They aren’t sure he will and they know if will be expensive to get him there. Hunt, on the other hand, assures them of taking the natural statewide 56-44 break, making the race much cheaper to win, and presents an opportunity to take some black voters from Democrats as well, which then means the GOP could be competitive in local races in urban districts where they otherwise would not be.
  21. No, they aren’t turned off by it. But Hunt gives them everything they want without the baggage and a slam dunk. Plus, the normies will come back for Hunt. GOP primary voters in Texas are very focused on winning and are realistic about liabilities.
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