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Snake Diggity

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  1. Goddamit why did he have to have a fucking stroke. One of the brightest political stars of the bunch. So lucky Oz is such a worthless turd. But they’d prolly be smart to keep Fetterman on Twitter and not behind a podium until the election is over.
  2. I do wonder if the turning point has reached at which more MAGA turds have beaten off to Hunters giant wang than Libtards have wanked to vintage Melania. Gotta be close.
  3. Abreu is a beast. Gonna be a quality setup man for Houston for the next 5 years.
  4. I think .75 is just about guaranteed. I did think inflation would come down more by now. I do expect the next CPI to be under 8% YoY but 4 months ago I would’ve predicted it to be under 5%. We might not see YoY under 5% now until November.
  5. I am trying to understand the logic behind Biden’s speech last night. Of course everything he said was true, but it seems to me the speech will do more to rally Trumpists than unite the rest of the country. Unless he has intel that Trumpists are planning to even more aggressively subvert the November elections or engage in open civil war, it doesn’t make sense. The Dems have all them momentum, so it’s really unlikely to be politically expedient. And if he does have information that we are heading toward civil war, those details should have been released prior to or during the speech.
  6. Rob Schneider comparing himself to WW2 pilots because he believes Trumpism stands alone as a step toward enlightenment for humanity…hmm.
  7. Aren’t we already in a recession? I for one will be totally completely shocked if unemployment gets above 10% anytime in the next 18 months.
  8. Gerrymandering is the real reason for Republican optimism. The GOP WILL control the House. It’ll be way less than expected 6 months ago but >220 House seats will be red.
  9. Fetterman needs to stay away from personal appearances where he has to speak. There’s only downside there imho. He has a significant lead with <80 days to go; hunker down and get it across the finish line.
  10. There is almost no chance of the Dems keeping the house. Temper expectations. 52 Dem senators and 210 Dem reps would be a phenomenal outcome considering how things looked 100 days ago.
  11. This is really hard for me to believe. Then again, so was Donald Fucking Trump becoming President of the United States.
  12. People overuse the word “crisis” but that’s exactly what our public education system is experiencing. Teachers have been underpaid for decades, but they dealt with it because of the fulfilling work, short days, solid pensions, and summer breaks. Then they started having administrative tasks piled onto them such that the days were no longer short, but teaching positions were still filled thru a combination of a bad economy and people who held a real passion for the work. Well, now the economy is good and teachers are having their passion for the work overwritten by unsupportive parents. The fact that getting shot in the face at work is a totally reasonable fear is only a straw on the camels back. My biggest fear is that the breaking point is going to come, and the solution is going to be similar to what healthcare has done with replacing docs with nurse practitioners. We are going to lower the credential requirements for teachers and lower the standards their performances are measured by. Because sadly most people really don’t care if all kids are receiving a quality education. All they really want is some place kids can go for free while their parents are at work. It’s a fucked up situation.
  13. Snake Diggity

    The Border

    We should be letting in anyone who is under 40 years old and is willing to get documented. We need the workers. It’s not desperate yet, but it will be. From Brownsville to San Diego, there should be well staffed, well funded immigration offices processing people to quickly safely get them documented and set up with work and housing. But also, and this will be less popular in this forum, the border patrol should be fully empowered to enforce the law. Anyone caught trying to cross the border illegally should be punished harshly. But of course that would only be justified if we made it much much easier to come over legally. I also think we need to try to work a deal to get Mexico to enforce their own southern border.
  14. Hensley can for sure play LF and would probably even be adequate in RF but he hasn’t played much OF in the minors. Abreu is badass.
  15. Preparing reactions based on senate race outcomes: GOP wins 53 or more (meaning they likely take GA, NV, PA, and AZ) : “It’s the end of the world. Literally.” GOP wins 51-52: “We. Are. Fucked. For at least 6 years but probably longer.” GOP wins 50: “They elected Herschel Fucking Walker. We aren’t fucked forever but obviously Trumpism/stupidity isn’t going anywhere.” Dems win 51: “ok.” Dems win 52: “This is a pretty good indication that America is waking up.” Dems win 53: “America is waking up.” Dems win 54 or more (including McMillan): “America is awake.” (This would likely mean Dems win the House as well.) To me, Walker or Oz winning means big trouble. Flipping one of the WI, NC, or OH seats would be good signs that Trumpism is in real decline. Flipping UT or FL means a new day is dawning and we are leaving that horrible shit behind.
  16. Sure, lots of people said Trump didn’t have a chance in 2015-2016; I was one of them. But no one at all ever said Trump worked super hard to be nominated. He didn’t work hard at all. He just stepped into a gaping void no one else with fame was willing to step into. He was uniquely suited to be crowned by the people freaked out about a black dude becoming president.
  17. Absent Abbott. Beto has zero chance of winning. But he at least deserves acknowledgement that he is campaigning hard as fuck. He will lose, but not because he didn’t work hard to get votes.
  18. He got renewed interest because he was one of the first famous people to predict Trump would be president. He also had some interesting/sane political thoughts he shared in blogs and Twitter prior to going insane. So people still think of him as relevant even though at this point he’s just another insane celebrity spouting nonsense.
  19. At this point 52 Democrat senators is more likely than 49, imho.
  20. Either Trump is convicted of a crime or DOJ/FBI forever lose the public trust. Those are the only possible outcomes. Pretty fucking high stakes. But surely they knew that before they moved in.
  21. I suppose one could look at that and assume recession is imminent pretty much anytime unemployment goes below 3.5%. I don’t believe that but I could see someone taking that away from that chart.
  22. Yep, if Demings wins that likely means 53+ democratic Senators plus McMullin in UT. Not happening. Certainly things are trending better for the Democrats, and at this point it’s reasonable to expect them to keep control of the Senate. But hoping for more than that is probably foolish based on how misleading polls have been over the last 7 years.
  23. I have not researched the details of the IRA enough to know for sure, but is the bill a test of the MMT theory that inflation can be tamed by removing money supply via taxation? If so it’ll be interesting to see the impact. I am not a believer in MMT because I don’t have faith in politicians to be disciplined enough to levy additional taxes at the right times. My understanding of the basics of this bill is that it is intended to tax more than it spends, but I could be wrong about that.
  24. Down on the coast for a week. It’s amazing the difference between a high of 89 (plus a steady breeze) down here now and high of 103 (with the air as still as a corpse) up in Austin last week.
  25. Good job. We bought one of the plastic ones about that size that came in 3 pieces. So assembly was cake but I was still pissed about how much sq footage of our living room it took up. But I have been shocked by how much mileage my 2 girls have gotten out of that damn thing. They play with it everyday going on 5 years and probably have another 3-4 years left. I’ve eaten an absolute fuckton of imaginary food in the last half decade.
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