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  1. 1 hour ago, hayden_horn said:

    i know i know if course your are right but fuck. 

    i don't even want him to go free Palestine but you know some part of him enjoys watching protesting kids get their heads cracked by state police riot goons 

    Where in the fuck are you pulling this completely fabricated bullshit from? Why don't you just come out next and tell everyone that he's brain damaged and his handlers are injecting him with drugs to do speeches. Just completely made up bullshit, straight out of Newsmax. Get the fuck out of here with this stupid unhinged garbage.

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  2. 16 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    What’s happening on campus is reflective of a growing sentiment among Texans who are tired of feeling like we live in an apartheid state. The right wingers have gotten so aggressive in their quest to make us 1950s Texas, that people are finally beginning to pay attention.

    And the young people still won't vote. 

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  3. 3 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

    I'd be curious to see when people think conservatism veered away from small government, state's rights, individual freedoms, etc.

    If you ask all the big government, authoritarian loving republicans who want to legilslate a woman's body, they'd tell you that conervatism is still all about those. 

    So I will assume you meant "curious what the people on this forum think." AKA voting democrats. 

    In action I think the actual veer happened in 2021...right around inaugeration day. 

  4. 2 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Wisconsin and Georgia make me the most nervous.

    Like others, I feel good about Wisconsin becuase of the people in control of the state government and the new maps should galvanize voters, mostly D. But maybe I'm overly optimistic.  

  5. I hope I'm wrong. But we'll see. 

    Few people feel good about what's on the line this fall, and at the end of the day, if Trump were to win he's going to have to win states he lost in 2020. What states are the most likely?

  6. 20 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Better human being? 1000X yes. He is by all accounts and kind and decent man. But the Bush body count is incredibly high and I can’t look past it. 
    Donald Trump may very well have finished off the American experiment, but no president ever left such an extreme  a legacy of human suffering with less to show for it than George W. Bush. 

    Over a million dead from Covid is a hell of a body count. 

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  7. 1 hour ago, bolverk said:

    I haven't checked historical voting patterns yet, but I can't see GA and NC going opposite directions. I'd bet they have similar tendencies, except NC moved farther left than GA in 2008, while GA moved farther left in 2020.

    I think there were a lot of GA voters who didn't bother in 2020 becuase they thought they were solidly red. Plus bad Senate candidates. I think they'll find some more voters in 2024 than they did in 2020, enought to eek it back red. 

    1 hour ago, immamac said:

    If Georgia goes R then Trump will win. If any state is getting redder that isn’t already solid red that’s a bad sign for everything. I can’t fathom Atlanta becoming more willing to vote for trump than in 2020. 

    Biden could lose GA and still win if he keeps AZ. Hell, Biden could lose NV and GA and still win. So for your prediction to happen, it means that other states flipped from Red to Blue. Which ones are you proposing?

  8. 3 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    Pick your states to differ from 2020. Can also be the odd votes flipping from NE and ME.  Nebraska went state (R), 1st Dist. (R), 2nd Dist. (D), 3rd Dist. (R). Maine went state (D), 1st Dist. (D), 2nd Dist. (R).  

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    Honor and prestige to those that (1) get the most right with the fewest wrong; (2) do so further from the election.

     

     

    Nevada goes Red (I know, I know)
    GA goes Red. 

  9. 22 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

    Just read that Whitmire slammed the brakes on the southern half of the Shepherd/Durham project. From what I gather, they're going to finish re-doing the portions from 15th to 610, but are no longer doing anything from 14th to I-10.

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  10. 2 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

    I feel the same. If I could only pick one to lose their next election I'd pick Abbott.

    Thats insanity. You may hate Abbott, but him getting re-elected didn’t immediately dismantle democracy.

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  11. 55 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    You don’t have to guess. Just read his letter and texts. 

     

    36 minutes ago, Pancho said:

     

    not a good look 

    Yeah. If true there went any semblance of me being remotely willing to consider Hartzell as anything other than at fault. 

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  12. 34 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    How many of us have been ordered to have riot police arrest protesting students?

    While a fair point, my guess would be Hartzell was told there would be DPS guys on campus and that was it. What the cops were told to do likely didn’t come from Hartzell in the chain of command. 

  13. 44 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

     

    And if he didn't have any other options, then he should have resigned. And held a press conference explaining why. Go out a hero, not become a fascist enabler. 

     

    Everyone says this, until it’s everything they’ve worked for in their lives at stake. It’s very easy to do the right thing from our recliners, much harder when it’s your life and career on the line. Again, this is how fascism works. For fucks sake, what did the milgram studies teach us?

     

    and I say this completely thinking I’d do the right thing too in that situation. And yet, here I sit in Houston, not leaving Texas, because my kid has a good thing going and because my career isn’t portable, or even replicable, anywhere else. Just hoping things hold together till the kiddo goes to college and we can get out. While risking his future and ours by staying. 
     

    For everyone who has talked of leaving and hasn’t yet, why haven’t you? Doing the right thing is always easy, right?

     

    42 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    I understand. Don't let perfect become the enemy of good. the problem is that I just don't see any good here. And I'm not going to let fear of what may be prevent me from standing up to what it is. And this was wrong. 

    Everyone says that until they see what the next thing is…but on the upside, something even more obviously monstrous that follows will make it easier to cut ties and wash hands entirely. 

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  14. 1 minute ago, NoName said:

    fortunately, i live nowhere near houston

    unfortunately, they don't distribute anywhere near me and i'm not paying $14 a jar, but those look fantastic. in laws are going to be going to Houston in a few weeks and may ask them to grab some for me. where are you seeing it in stores?

    I've seen it (often sold out) at Central Market. And there's a small place off Washington called Henderson & Kane that has it. Also he, at least used to be, at a Farmer's Market saturday mornings in front of Cavatore's Italian restauarnt off Ella near 610 North. Has some more details on their instagram.

    https://www.instagram.com/chilesquiles/?hl=en

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  15. 1 minute ago, Captainant said:

    Sorry I didn't quite make it clear, Hartzell had told the soon-to-be-fired DEI staff that they would find a place for them in UT so they would not lose their jobs and livelihood. The DEI program was going away no matter what, but he welched on his commitment to keep them in jobs somewhere at UT.

    Either way, that sounds fucking shitty. I'm not defending the guy's behavior by any stretch. I simply think if we was left to his own devices, things would have gone differently in almost all these situations. He didn't want the fucking Liberty Institute anywhere near UT. He didn't want to dismantle DEI. And I'm completely speculating, but I wouldn't be surprised if our BOR wasn't interested in retaining ANY DEI employees the way aTm didn't want some "liberal black woman" running their journalism department. The sad truth is the Dismal Tide is coming for all of us. 

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  16. 4 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    Hasn't he basically been a shut in for over a decade, amplified to 11 in 2020? But I'm only passing along what I've casually overheard/read, so I know jack shit about what I'm talking about and will shut up now. Delete user.

    No fucking clue dude. That's why I asked. 

  17. 5 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    The DEI stuff was compounded because (according to my mom who's an AD for UT student services) hartzell made a big show of telling the staff and faculty that nobody would be losing their job and livelihood over the DEI programs getting shuttered - and then he fired all sixty of em. The staff and faculty have already been mad at hartzell because he went back on his word about protecting the Texas family from State interference

    That's what the Tower protest yesterday was originally supposed to be about, but they ceded the site to the second day of the peaceful pro-Palestine protests

    The reality is that Hartzell doesn't call the shots. The BOR calls the shots. I can't speak for how he handled firing a bunch of folks, becuase I have no personal knowledge of that, but your story sure sounds like it was fucking shitty. But he was told to shutter DEI, or lose his job. I know Hartzell loves UT and wanted it to be his last job. But I have to wonder if we'll be seeing that guy take a job as Presdient in...some other state. At the end of the day, this is a microcosm of everything else that is happening in Texas, right down to the people who are making active plans to GTFO of this place at some point in the future. It's what Fascism does. It squeezes downward and forces compliance or fleeing, right up until the point where they have enough power that they won't let you flee. Then they force compliance in totality. And every step of the way, people have to ask if this is the day they're willing to give up everything they've fought their life to achieve to escape, or stand up and do the right thing when it's all on the line for them personally. It's a hard question to answer sometimes. But all of us will, at some point soon, most likely. 

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  18. 14 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

    By getting interviewed by one of the most removed and protected individuals on the planet?

    I'm not really a Stern guy, but what makes him one of the most removed and protected individuals on the planet? Any moreso than any great interviewer was, like Larry King, etc?

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