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  1. It's great for high school type events like playoff football and band competitions, but it shows its age in other events like large concerts. If they can truly modernize it without tearing it down, awesome. They got their work cut out for them.
  2. Brandon was too weak to go scorched earth on those motherfuckers. A strong president would've made their lives a living hell until the bill passed.
  3. I've been a few dozen times, although it's trailed off in recent years. Wasn't able to make the last Alamo Bowl the Longhorns played in. It just has the feel of a stadium that's past it's prime. To me.
  4. And you stay in power, and shed the reputation of being do-nothing jagoffs, by actually delivering on that stuff. Rain hell on anyone who stands in your way. Don't just tweet mean things at them.
  5. Yeah I think they're just trying to pad the list of victims, which I understand, but at the same time there's diminishing returns after you realize he shot a four year old girl at point blank range and fled the scene like a fucking coward.
  6. why do we care about that van? why did the black car spin out? why was its windshield wiper on? EDIT: Triple murderer clipped him with the stolen 4Runner
  7. I was referencing that the whole party has adopted "all sizzle no steak" as a strategy and implying that Gavin is part of that faction of the party. One way of looking at modern politics is this: Both Parties have access to cheat codes that are extremely popular with all voters, but assure the destruction of an entrenched, powerful interests that are embedded with the parties. Both Parties campaign heavily about using one (or more) cheat code, but when they are in a position to use one, they don't ever do it. For Republicans, a full disclosure of the Details of the Epstein Case has broad bipartisan support, but now that Republicans are in power, they refuse to do it. For Democrats, an economic policy of Taxing Billionaires has broad bipartisan support, but when Democrats are in power, they refuse to do it. That's because both parties are compromised by powerful interests. Even if some (or most) of the working class doesn't "know" that, or have any information to support a belief that it's true, they "feel" like the system is rigged against them. Government is rigged against them. The Job Market is rigged against them. The Housing Market is rigged against them. Healthcare is rigged against them. That's a common value held by people in the working class, regardless of their political leanings. Trump was the only candidate who acknowledged their grievances, and was rewarded for that. Any Democrat who runs interference for billionaires, or consultants, or the status quo, they are part of the problem. Everyone needs to get with the program. Zohran Mamdani is shouting the blueprint at you.
  8. Will any of the proposed renovations put the city in a position to get an NFL team? I really feel like the shortcomings are structural.
  9. Don't let him out until he agrees Quinn Ewers is the worst QB to ever take a snap at DKR
  10. At a certain point why not just demolish and rebuild on the site?
  11. Cope. I said he overperformed, not just that he won. We're talking about the working class, here.
  12. The working class isn't a buzzword, though. It's a well defined group of voters. People who need to work for a living. It's true that they're not a monolith, but it's also true that they have common experiences and values. They don't listen to people with soft ideas. The way to reach them is by being bold, and saying you will change things. The reason they want change is because they are struggling. So in an election between "nothing will fundamentally change" and "I am your retribution" who do you think is going to do better? And why do you think Mamdani overperformed so much?
  13. They finally elected a guy who was willing to just do it.
  14. I'm talking about the Alamodome, not the overall project. What specific Alamodome renovations are being promised?
  15. I'm talking about the party. Build Back Better did not happen (fucking losers couldn't corral Manchin and Sinema). Immigration reform did not happen (fucking losers got outmanuevered by Trumpists and the courts that Dems allowed them to stack). In California, Gavin has governed as a centrist. This is his first foray into making promises and pretending to be bold. Until I see those congressional districts come into existence, it's sizzle.
  16. It took a long time for the gentrification bug to bite around there. For a long time it was not somewhere you'd want to be at night. We can debate how much the dilapidated arena contributed to that. Before UTSA football, it really seemed to serve no purpose once the Spurs left. Even back then it wasn't ready for the NFL. Might need more than a facelift, but to be honest I haven't looked too deeply into what Project Marvel would do for it. The most common thing to happen is the prettier, shinier, bigger, better stadium gets built nextdoor and the old one gets demolished.
  17. Sizzle is funny tweets, press conferences, and long-ass filibusters. Steak is results. Confirming corrupt judges, carrying out mass deportations, destroying the environment. Right now, only one party is getting results for its base, and it sure as fuck isn't the Dems. And it hasn't been for a long time.
  18. You're 100% correct here. This would be political suicide, and she is not doing herself any favors. Which is exactly why I'm not going to dismiss her concerns as out of hand. She's probably smart enough that this deal's already gonna be done, and she wants to be able to say I Told You So when shit hits the fan, which she's expecting will happen. The Alamodome gets events and has a bowl game, but you can't tell me the area around it has developed well.
  19. The ROI on that 50k is pretty high if it stops the city from making a multi-billion dollar mistake.
  20. I don't want the Spurs to leave, but we should know what we're getting into before we get into it. That's the only objection I have, and from what I've read, that's GOJ's position too. It's reasonable. She's going to lose a lot of political capital and city council is probably going to disregard her, but she's not out of line for asking for an independent analysis that isn't a total clown show.
  21. The working class hates Dems because of the centrism. If they don't understand this, they're fucked. If they do understand this and disregard it for ideological reasons, they're not just fucked, they're in league with the fascists. No matter how you approach it, the centrists are the ones who need to fuck off.
  22. I'm skeptical. The Frost Bank Center fka SBC Center project was an abject failure that didn't do shit for the area when it was built. Anyone can say anything in a powerpoint because there's no accountability when their projections fail. I would love an arena downtown, but if you fuck it up it will have generational consequences, like the Albatrossdome. Most concerning to me is that we don't even know the full price tag of the project. An arena is one thing, but this has turned into, in your words: I don't trust billionaires at all. If they are willing to offer up this much money to entice the city to do something, they have something cooked up and I've never seen this movie end with the taxpayers not getting fucked.
  23. He's all sizzle, no steak.
  24. This is kind of my point. Nobody actually understands the deal, except the people who stand to benefit from it. The case needs to be made to the taxpayers, and it can't just be a team relocation threat.
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