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  1. 9 hours ago, runthebone said:

    Offensively, there is no realistically available better fit for the Astros lineup than Donovan.

    1. Trade Sanchez and Urias for Bart and PTBNL
    2. Sign Verlander and McCann
    3. Trade Meyers, Brito, and Diaz for Rasmussen and Jax
    4. Trade Matthews, Sullivan, and Hicks for Donovan

    RF Donovan*

    DH Paredes

    LF Alvarez

    3B Correa

    2B Altuve

    SS Pena

    1B Walker 

    CF Cole

    C Bart*

    Bench: Dubon, McCann*, Dezenzo, Trammell

    SP: Brown, Rasmussen*, JV*, Javier, Pearson, Alexander

    RP: Hader, Abreu, Jax*, King, Sousa, Okert, McCullers

    Optioned: Arrighetti, Gordon, Murray, VanWey, Salazar, Whitcomb, Smith, Melton, Ullola*, Santa*, Fleury*

    IL: Wesneski, Walter, Blanco

    DFA: De Los Santos, France, Ort

    Traded: Sanchez, Urias, Meyers, Diaz, Matthew

  2. 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.

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  3. 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?

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  4. 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.

  5. 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.

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  6. 20 hours ago, InkaUtexas said:

     

    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 “This dumb motherfucker right here…” it would have been even more effective.

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  7. 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.

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  8. 52 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    Yep, father time is doing work.   Not fast enough, but we'll take what we can get.  I'd put over under at 5 years and put a nice chunk on the under. 

    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.

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  9. 15 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

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    One surprise recently is that Trump has chosen the straight up denial of reality over the more seemingly reliable blaming Biden.  Interesting move.

  10. 13 hours ago, immamac said:

    I don't really understand what the fuck is going on here and how there are no leaks, but also how they can just not redact or conveniently lose files. 

    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.

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  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

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  12. 3 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    I wanted to write in one of our cats in 2016.  Texas doesn't allow write ins though.  At least not in presidential elections.

    Texas did allow write ins for president in 2016.  I wrote in (but I should have voted Clinton).

  13. 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.

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  14. 12 minutes ago, kevwun said:

    Gonna need a wellness check on Wulaw if he's not.

    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).

  15. 58 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    Notable names unprotected for the Rule 5 Draft:

    - Jadher Areinamo
    - Kahlil Watson
    - Hendry Mendez
    - Miguel Ullola
    - Nick Morabito
    - Andry Lara
    - James Triantos
    - Edwin Arroyo
    - Esmerlyn Valdez
    - Joshua Baez
    - Marco Luciano
     

    Where are you seeing that?  Rule 5 rosters don’t get set until 11/18.

  16. 23 hours ago, swraith said:

    So AISD listened to feedback and made a change that was an improvement?

    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.  
     

     

  17. 18 hours ago, LCHorn said:

    Maybe, but a healthy org should be seeing junior management hired by other orgs in roles that represent promotions.  
     

    I know they are only starting the process of bringing in candidates for these bench and GM/scouting openings, but it’ll be interesting to see if they promote from within and/or which orgs do they hire from (in other words, a lot of comfort hire Atlanta guys might be nothing, might be a red flag).  
     

    I think there’s been some atrophy in scouting and coaching so new blood (outside hire) here would be preferable, imo.  

    They need to mine Cleveland, Brewers, Dodgers, Jays, and Twins orgs.

  18. 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?

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