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tokamak

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  1. I went same as @chainsaw, except #4 and #13. Regarding #4, this is the property tax package that the lege spent basically its entire session this year working on (Patrick's plan vs Abbott's). It just needs a rubber stamp from voters. I expect it will pass with a huge margin because tax relief = good. The major point is a cut in property taxes and money from the general fund to make school districts whole. Even though it would have direct financial benefits for me (I'm a homeowner), I voted no for a variety of reasons. Number 1, there's no plan whatsoever about what to do when the state's surplus runs out and school districts are still missing a bunch of tax dollars. There's also a bunch of other random stuff in it that's questionable (elected appraisal boards, cut in franchise tax). Also, fuck the lege (and Abbott). On #13, I get the arguments in favor, but I'm kinda over super olds in elected office at this point. No more Feinsteins.
  2. Garcia seems like he’s trying to be all things to all people. I checked out his website to see what his positions are, and it’s nothing but empty rhetoric. He’s spent a ton of (his own?) money and I still don’t have a clue about him. Weird campaign. Who do you like in the first round? Today is research day for me. This is the big concern. The state is going to continue to try to push around Houston and Harris County. Whitmire’s response is that he’s buddies with all those guys, so they’ll take it easy on him/us. That strains credibility. I’m sure SJL will be more than happy to fight them tooth and nail. On the other hand, does SJL as mayor make them even more motivated to shit on us?
  3. Gilbert Garcia is spending a fuckton of money. I've gotten more mail from him than all other candidates combined. I was planning to vote SJL because a bunch of people that suck seem to really, really hate her (Mattress Mack). Then I realized that's literally why people vote for Donald Trump, so I'm back to the drawing board. Planning to early vote this week and still have no idea what I'm gonna do.
  4. I expect him to be 110% committed. Maybe even 1000%
  5. This guy has all the same policy positions as Jordan, but the "moderates" will actually go along with him because he's fucking smiley or something. At least with Jordan there was pushback.
  6. Reading about this dude, they literally could have just let Matt Gaetz pick someone 5 minutes after ousting McCarthy and ended up in the same spot. Obviously Gaetz is high on the list of worst people in America, but it's hard to say he's not the most effective individual in the entire House. He got exactly what he wanted out of this deal.
  7. The schadenfreude was fun while it lasted, but tbh I was hoping we'd end up with someone better than the top insurrectionist in the entire congress.
  8. Let me get this straight: Emmer beat this guy fair and square in the conference vote Far right immediately says no way to Emmer Everyone who voted for Emmer over Johnson ("moderates" lol): "ok, that's fine" Wow, what backbone. What principles. I'm in awe of their steely resolve.
  9. C'mon dude. You know exactly how that would play out.
  10. Carroll just casually manufacturing a couple runs like a boss
  11. Their last best chance was after January 6. They could have convicted Trump, thus disqualifying him from office forever and excising the cancer. They would have been completely justified in doing so and I think many of them wanted to at the time. But it would have been a little messy, a little painful in the short term, and required a tiny bit of courage. So they said fuck it and immediately jumped right back in line.
  12. The Republicans have gotten trained over the last few years that they can act like deranged spoiled children and the Democrats will eventually choose to act like the adult in the room and bail them out. Time to start saying no.
  13. what a fucking clown show
  14. I figured it would be Monty -> Nate -> Scherzer again. Monty threw 32 pitches and was scheduled for a 40-pitch bullpen session yesterday anyway. He'd be on full rest for Friday if they want to do it that way.
  15. Good observation. According to Baseball-Reference, on that play our win probability went from hovering around 75% to 91% and never dropped below 91% again.
  16. So the Dems are gonna pussy out and help elect Emmer without getting a damn thing in return, just because he's not a total piece of shit? What a shocking turn of events.
  17. Don’t worry guys, MLB gonna suspend him for 2 games in the 2028 season.
  18. Really seems like we should be able to get Alvarez out at least occasionally. Just a law of averages thing.
  19. It's a great idea, but holy fuck, 127+ pages?
  20. I think I've got everything now. I'll look at it this afternoon and send it to your Venmo
  21. In other news from around college football yesterday… OU struggled all day at home against a 17.5 point underdog and won by 2 after stopping a late 2-point conversion attempt. UNC lost to a 23.5 point underdog at home. Everyone’s darling Washington needed a late 89-yard pick 6 to beat a 27.5 point underdog at home. Good teams have shitty games sometimes. Can we learn from it and improve? That’s what really matters.
  22. He wanted so fucking badly to run that out to the 7 yard line lol
  23. It’s pretty surprising that Xavier Worthy, Adonai Mitchell, and Jordan Whittington apparently cannot get open against Houston’s secondary. Hard to believe, in fact.
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