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Horn Under a Bad Sign

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  1. Dan Patrick seems like a piece of shit.  He is letting the state's non-partisan budget agency fall apart:
     

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    The LBB provided invaluable, unbiased information, which is critical to the development of the state budget,” former state Rep. John Zerwas, a Richmond Republican who chaired the House Appropriations Committee, said in a statement.

    The quality of that information may be in jeopardy; the agency is moldering as a quiet war erupts between its two masters.

    State law names the lieutenant governor and House speaker as co-chairs of the 10-member board, which is supposed to jointly appoint an executive director to lead the agency. Last year, for the first time in nearly 70 years, that failed to happen; by Halloween, the agency will have been headless for a year.

    Veteran employees have departed in droves with no one to replace them, leaving behind a trail of vacant offices and a dearth of institutional knowledge. Staff size has fallen 26% since 2015 — from 146 to 108 employees — and four of the agency’s five executive leadership positions will soon be unfilled. The agency’s lone remaining executive told a tearful staff last week that he, too, intends to resign.

    Now, with House Speaker Dennis Bonnen announcing he will not run for reelection next year amid a scandal that has shaken the entire lower chamber, the board finds itself in its most precarious position yet.

    Interviews with more than a dozen budget agency staff, Capitol staff and state lawmakers — who requested anonymity to discuss private board deliberations — indicate that the Senate’s presiding officer, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, has wielded a kind of veto power over the board to keep the agency undermanned and under fire.

    They contend that his motive is to remake the agency to give the Senate more direct control over the number-crunchers; the current group of nonpartisan bureaucrats has produced analyses that at times conflicted with the lieutenant governor’s political messaging.




    https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/29/texas-lt-gov-dan-patrick-wages-war-texas-legislative-budget-board/?utm_campaign=trib-social-buttons&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social




     

  2. 55 minutes ago, bad_teammate said:

    Trump peels back the facade in an interesting way.

    When we killed ObL we stage-managed the rollout and had the classic photo in the situation room and a nice speech from a president who can sound dignified and noble. We had tones about the overwhelming importance of the event.

    And it was all nonsense. We had probably known for a long time where he was holed up, watching porn and looking wistfully out the window. He probably wasn't doing anything or coordinating new schemes. But we presented the image and put up the front.

    Trump can't do that. The killing of Baghdadi doesn't mean anything. It's a gross little exercise of power. It probably cost $50M to kill one gross idiot worth $20. But Trump can't sell it as something noble, with his clownshow rollout he is, in a way, more honest than Obama. It's an accident, of course, but there is far more emotional and metaphorical truth to Trump talking about Baghdadi running and crying like a dog than there is to Obama being admirable and presidential.



    Holy fuck.  Here's an idea: power down your computer and read some books about what actually happened on the OBL raid.   Jeezus.

    Edit: I see others got to your comment with the same basic idea before I did. Nevertheless, my comment stands.

  3. 4 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

     

    Women need to run shit for like the next 100 years and I’m dead serious.  White guy leadership has repeatedly fucked Western Civilization up and we’re not capable of learning from our mistakes.  Bring on the matriarchy. 

     

    White guy leadership has also brought you Western Civilization and unprecedented prosperity for an unprecedented number of people. 

     

    Also, football. 

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  4. Fooler initiative is a good writer and this is a great thread that he's put together:
     




    I loved this bit of tweets from that thread:

     

     

     

     




    I mean "Taylor went to Mike Pompeo and was like "promise me there ain't gonna be no fuck shit. Cause I heard there was fuck shit afoot."   Pompeo was like "cross my heart, fam, this is a fuck shit free operation. We're in this bitch trying to protect the sanctity of the sovereign Ukrainian state. We're gonna help this new government legitimize the shit out of itself, and keep the russians at bay like the goddamn americans that we are. Promise"    is gold, Jerry.  Absolute gold!





     

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