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Larry T. Spider

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  1. I completely agree, but I don’t think that’s what we are going to get. Trump is going to stoke the flames with the military followed by pictures of cars/building burned by brown people. Trump thinks he can prove himself right on illegals being lawless thugs and some are going to play right into it. Wouldn’t surprise me if there are some right wing provocateurs mixed in to kick off the action. People with half a brain will know that these were mostly peaceful protests needlessly escalated by a power hungry orange menace. But the other 75% of our idiocracy will just see dirty minorities burning stuff and fighting cops. The African Americans of the civil rights movement gave us a blueprint but we rarely follow it. Amazing how they were able to organize and stick to a plan even without the ability to communicate online.
  2. I’m all for people waving the Mexican flag if that is their home country or their heritage. Hell, maybe it’s not and you just want to show support for people that are being caught up in all this BS. But realize the optics are going to be bad. The American idiocy needs simple messaging with as little nuance as possible. It’s confusing when people that don’t want to be departed to Mexico are waving Mexican flags in the face of cops. You become a much more sympathetic figure if you’re waving an American flag signaling that you are hoping for a better life here. We all know that the tatted up guy waving a Mexican flag in the face of a cop is going to play right into the disinformation playbook of the right. On a completely separate note, where was this energy during the election? The left love to squabble over minor policy differences while a wannabe dictator gets elected. Then they fill the streets all pissed off. Win. Elections.
  3. Is it just from the initial fill up or ongoing refills? Never owned a pool.
  4. So they’re smart enough to get chemicals on all these different types of aircraft and keep it a secret……but not smart enough to use something colorless? Checks out.
  5. Update on this. Have the wife’s IRA fully funded, my roth backdoored, and the 401k set to max out before the end of the year. Mostly going with the brokerage account for now and dropping in 2-3k a month. Still paying a little extra on the rental mortgage and setting a small amount aside for the next rental. But getting more dollar cost averaged into the market seems more important than anything else right now. Feel like I’m playing catch up from not making a lot for so many years. Commission season starts in 2 months. That should let me up the DCA amount to 5k a month for the foreseeable future. I still think it will take a few years of maxing IRAs, the 401k and dumping money into the brokerage to feel caught up.
  6. Buchanan went up about a foot. Thought it might get more based on where the rain was falling. It is doing better than Travis at 57% full. Canyon lake didn’t go up at all. Sitting at 45% full. We are still in desperate need of rain in the right places. It’s June now, so maybe next year.
  7. Looks like Travis is leveling off about 2 feet higher than before this latest round of rains.
  8. I do think this is a legit concern, especially if more left leaning people retire outside of the US. Whatever iteration of MAGAs are in charge at the time could make SS more solvent and claim the money should go to people who will spend it in the US to boost the economy. Two birds, one stone. Of course, liberal tears is the real goal but they have to dog whistle that part.
  9. I wanted to make a separate post to ask a question about the perceptions of different posters. I’m in Texas where we get the double whammy of MAGA at the federal level and the likes of Abbot, Paxton, and Patrick at the state level. Do the left leaning posters currently living in blue states feel the same sense of demoralization about the future of the US?
  10. Look at countries that have had shit hit the fan in the last 100 years. What commonalities exist between the people that were able to get out before it got bad. 1. Money. Probably the most important aspect as it makes picking up, moving, and having funds to live off of possible. 2. Foresight. If things get bad we will have a lot of people looking to leave at the same time. Also, we have a lot of people with money. Restrictions will certainly get tighter and we have already seen that in some popular destinations. Jumping before the masses would help greatly. 3. Political connections. Always helps to have somebody greasing the wheels in your favor. I don’t think it’s particularly necessary if you have a lot of 1 and 2.
  11. Outfield fences down at the disch
  12. A lot of rain in western RR but no hail.
  13. I though it was a safety feature similar to orange cones on the side of a highway.
  14. I used to work for Pflugerville ISD. Baris slams and goes hard. Ate there before every board meeting.
  15. So if we get the 11 billion back, it’s going to education? Sweet.
  16. I have to travel to a lot of random places for work which makes it impossible for me to accumulate status on one airline. I fly AA, SWA, United, and Delta. Over the last two years, delta has been the winner. Toss up between the rest. Avoiding AA out of Charlotte has probably helped my opinion of them.
  17. Where the hell are your numbers coming from? It’s pure absurdity. Do you really think assistant principals are making 150k or more a year? After 10 years of teaching in AISD I made 55k. After 4 years of being an AP I made 67k. As a principal I made 104k.
  18. Got a decent shower in western round rock about an hour ago.
  19. We’re trying to burn more fossil fuels bro.
  20. I’m seeing a ton of solar on houses in new middle class to upper middle class neighborhoods. Are those numbers being factored into the statewide data coming out? My in-laws live on the west side of San Antonio and it seems like every other house out there in the newer hoods.
  21. I sent an email to Ted Cruz once. I was immediately added to so many far right email lists that the block button wouldn’t really work. Various mutations of email addresses sending propaganda 10x per day. Eventually abandoned the email account. So, have fun with that.
  22. Colorado is making about 20 million a month in weed taxes. Texas has about 5x the population. Could help with reducing property taxes or funding schools…..but nah. We will just keep funding Colorado’s schools with our weed tourism. They have a fund that uses the excise tax money to renovate old schools or build new ones.
  23. Developers and large corporations landlords hold a lot of power with Texas republicans. But the top of their conservatard hierarchy will always be feigned religious outrage. Helping the poor need not apply.
  24. The most widely used data to compare between states is the NAEP test that is given to 4th graders and 8th graders. Overall, our scores are meh, but so are a lot of other states. I would argue that school funding is more about everything other than math and reading. Those are the last things to get cut. It’s band, art, music, bus routes, GT, special ed services, more elective options, teacher retention, higher level courses in HS, and any other extras that get cut. These are often where good public schools excel, and often on the backs of people getting a 3k/year stipend for countless hours of work. Quite a few private school families come back for HS because of these things and AP courses that will be challenging enough for their college bound kids. Insert the Texas legislature to intentionally sabotage all of that with a 10k voucher and funding that will necessitate cuts to all of the above. Parents are about to get asked for way more money for supplies and various programs
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