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Snake Diggity

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  1. Waymo is going to win the driverless car race. They may not win the driverless semi race, but the race to be the company that owns/sells the most autonomous passenger vehicles is over, Waymo won. Invest accordingly.
  2. I can’t imagine a scenario where Trumps approval rating dips below 35% while he is still in office. The severity and volume of shit that has happened in the last year but especially the last month has had to have eroded any potential approval he was getting from movable people. The 39% who currently approve of him are doing so in spite of a shitty economy, heavy evidence that the president is a pedophile who had sex with underage girls, severe domestic political unrest, and a fragile geopolitical environment. We know they are approving of him because of his efforts to disparage and punish minorities and the poor and because of his polices that exacerbate environmental and societal problems, not in spite of them. A severe economic depression or a war in which the US gets attacked by a foreign country and is losing are the only 2 things I can imagine serving to reduce Trump’s approval rating from where it is, and even then I can’t imagine it getting below 25%. The Democrats had effective messaging/leasership anytime before 2024, he wouldn’t be president. One thing I’m not sure of is if they had gotten effective messaging/leadership at any point this year, how low would Trump’s approval currently be?
  3. McConaughey would fail as a politician, especially in Texas. Trying to think of any celebrity that would actually make a good statewide or national politician. A high Q score is not a good reason to think someone would make a good politician. Taylor Swift seems to have the faculties to make the transition, but she would have to navigate a very fraught path over the next decade in order to be successful, and I don’t see her wanting to do that or being able to do it; but she is an extremely high quality individual. I suspect Stephen Colbert could do it. But he’s already 61 years old.
  4. Shit is so fucked up and crazy that I am starting to actually believe that there is some known pending apocalyptic event that only extremely powerful people know about and Donald Trump was chosen to distract us until it happens.
  5. The more cursewords Pete Buttigieg is quoted as saying, the higher his chances are of being president one day. If he had started his tweet with ā€œThis dumb motherfucker right hereā€¦ā€ it would have been even more effective.
  6. Dumb, weak motherfuckers. The only way this makes any sense is if the Dems know the Epstein shit is gonna actually fuck shit up so opening back up to get Grijalva in office will be worth it. I don’t buy that for a minute, far more likely is the establishment democrats completely validating all criticism against them and further empowering Trumpism. The stupid, weak, corrupt mothfuckers.
  7. So wait, is the whole redistricting move delayed, or just the redistricting involving those 3 schools? How can they pause it for just those 3 schools???
  8. Please let you be right. But I don’t think I have that kind of luck. Based on the last decade that motherfucker is going to live at least another dozen years and be in office for 8 of them.
  9. One surprise recently is that Trump has chosen the straight up denial of reality over the more seemingly reliable blaming Biden. Interesting move.
  10. This. What the fuck. If there really is evidence that would be severely damaging to Trump, why the fuck wasn’t it released years ago and why the fuck aren’t people oppposed to Trump who know about it not talking about what it is? If there’s not evidence against Trump, why isn’t Trump just releasing the files? None of this makes any sense.
  11. 10 Hallmarks of the Trump Economy: 1. More adult children living with their parents since the great depression 2. The most October layoffs in over 2 decades 3. $18.4T in household debt, the most ever 4. $31.5T in federal debt, the most ever 5. Highest debt as % of GDP in US history 6. Lowest consumer sentiment in over a decade 7. Highest YoY DJT personal net worth increase in his lifetime 8. Highest concentration of total market cap in US history 9. Lowest inflation adjusted minimum wage in over 70 years 10. Highest Shiller PE Ratio in history
  12. Democrats better not fucking cave. In fact they should up their demands. ā€œNo deal until we get Medicare for fucking all and you’re lucky we’re not demanding King Asshole remove the tariffs (but only because SCOTUS looks like it might take care of that for us. Go ahead and abolish the filibuster, UBI will be priority #1 when we get back in power, bitch.ā€
  13. Texas did allow write ins for president in 2016. I wrote in (but I should have voted Clinton).
  14. I just hope people making decisions about the path forward see yesterday for what it was: an indication that people will come out to vote against Trump, if the situation is dire enough. That means: DONT STOP TRUMP FROM FUCKING UP THE COUNTRY. Voice opposition, use the courts where you can, but otherwise get out of the dumb motherfucker’s way. Do NOT help them reopen the government. Let Trump keep fucking up the economy and exacerbating inflation with his kneejerk negotiated tariffs. Let Trump turn Latinos against him by having ICE continually disappear people and arrest with no cause. The worst thing that can happen over the next 12 months is for Trump to change course and we go into the mid terms with lower prices (if Trump abandons the tariffs), a functioning government (if Dems help them reopen and pass future spending bills), and ICE not a problem (with immigration ā€œsolvedā€). The Dems need to do everything they can to ensure the next year is a case study on failure of authoritarian governance.
  15. What’s cool is that the small positives coming out of today’s results will cause 2 things: 1. Trump to claim election fraud and use it as an excuse to suppress the vote in blue counties next November. 2. Dems will claim the tide has turned and take their foot off the gas and fuck up in 2026. The flickering ember inside of me is thinking that these No Kings rallies 2 weeks ago juiced turnout and there’s now some small momentum that just needs to be sustained for 12 months, and from there we can finally start to heal. One thing is for sure, Democrats in congress should not cooperate with the Trump administration in ANY way. The more pain his base and the unengaged feel, the swifter the tide will turn.
  16. Cheney is like the Oscar Robertson of pieces of shit. At one point he was easily in the conversation for top 5 pieces of shit of all time, and nobody would scoff if somebody brought forth that he was the biggest POS in history. But then a group of guys came along that completely revolutionized the piece of shit game, and now he’s so far down the list of pieces of shit that nobody even brings him up, even though he was an enormous piece of shit in his time. That’s more a testament to just how shitty these current pieces of shit really are. If you can make Dick Cheney a forgotten (or even redeemable) figure in the piece of shit game, you’re truly a transcendent piece of shit. (ETA: Oscar Robertson AVERAGED a triple double in the 61-62 season.)
  17. I will be very surprised if the Astros don’t trade at least one of Blubaugh, Pecko, or Ullola this offseason. Same for them trading at least one of Matthews, Melton, Cole, or Dezenzo. They’ve currently only got about $15M to work with and they have 3 glaring holes (2 SP and a backup C).
  18. Where are you seeing that? Rule 5 rosters don’t get set until 11/18.
  19. I suspect Houston is going to trade some of their near-ready young arms in exchange for a ToR SP, so executing signings like this will be important.
  20. I’m mostly ignorant on the topic overall, but my guess is that the changes they made to the map in SW Austin probably kept a few dozen kids in wealthy families from going private vs what would have happened if they’d gone with the draft map.
  21. They need to mine Cleveland, Brewers, Dodgers, Jays, and Twins orgs.
  22. The new draft ā€œfixedā€ the issue where they had split up our neighborhood and rezoned us to a different middle school.
  23. How wrong am I to assume a TEA takeover wouldn’t really be a doomsday scenario (even though it also would certainly not mean an improvement)? TEA taking over the district just means a change in leadership not any change in available resources. Have Houston public schools gotten worse since they got taken over?
  24. ā€œThe president is trying to make this as unpainless as possible.ā€ lolz
  25. There’s a 100% chance that Mr Beast dude has committed some kind of heinous crime. Not sure if it’s pedo face or rapey face or what but he’s got ā€œheinous crime faceā€.
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