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LCHorn

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  1. Look, anyone that is subscribing to Ken Paxton’s Twitter feed is sufficiently divorced from reality that they will never, ever blame a Republican.
  2. He actually looks like he’s turning into Bobby.
  3. When I see people put Joe Manchin on blast it always makes me think of this quote, which I think describes him better.
  4. I saw Bobby’s shout-out to Bingham Bourbon-has anyone tried it and is it any better than as a novelty?
  5. If this was Shawn Dubin’s last time out as an Astro I’d like to pour one out for him. Small school, high strikeout artist, coming off 2021 he looked like he’d be a key piece in a good bullpen. They probably looked at him and thought, “he could be our new Brad Peacock”, and despite innings in which it clicked and he could be absolutely unhittable, more often he couldn’t command his pitches and grooved fastballs for home runs. I’d probably have tried to keep him over Ort but I’m guessing at 29 and as a righty, he is what is and that’s pretty fungible. He’s a good example of mixed results in a pitching laboratory that also produced Brown and Valdez and who also took a few seasons to shine.
  6. This might be true, but I’m not ready to pillory him for seeing three starters and Dubin coming off the DL and knowing that they need to be worked in. I think there’s clearly some other issues, though, like if a recovering starter can’t give you three innings, why are they on the ML roster.
  7. So Eric Longenhagen is the main prospect writer for Fangraphs ever since Kiley McDaniel got promoted to espn and Kevin Goldstein was hired by the Twins, and he fashions himself a swing scout above everything else. He really likes Melton for some reason unsupported by statistics, not enough for him to be a star but to be outstanding if you can figure out a platoon role for him. Personally, I tend to hate baseball players with a shit hit tool unless they draw lots of walks, regardless if they are awesome at everything else.
  8. He’s getting DFA’d when he comes off the DL.
  9. I’m really interested in what Hawley plans to do with him, because you don’t cast Olyphant to play 2nd lead and then make a heel turn when that’s already been done twice in previous Alien films.
  10. What is handling with veracity?
  11. I get this guy is a painter, but it's quite a thing to be so taken with a social media app devoted to the written word and yet be illiterate.
  12. Just wanted to highlight this part because I 100% agree. I also think it points to a long term problem because Trump won’t live forever and we’ll put the pandemic malaise further into memory. Unregulated social media, however, is a rot that seems immune from regulation.
  13. Nope, we don’t know yet. Clearly they have held it back for a big reveal. I chortled 🤭
  14. Sorry to pick on you, but stellar is a high bar and I think digging into this is a good way to interrogate how we got here. What legislative success made your life better? Which of Biden’s foreign policy successes improved your life? Not to Beetlejuice @Brian Fantana, but do you think his handling of Israel was stellar? Ukraine? Bear in mind, I’m not trying to be silly about this, there’s ample reason to appreciate basic competency and decency and Biden possessed both. I do feel like some have been a little quick to exaggerate Biden’s virtues, not terribly unlike we did in the 2004 election when everyone was exhausted with Bush, felt mezzo-mezzo on Kerry, and put the Clinton years on a pedestal.
  15. I’m continually befuddled that these dudes are broadcasting videos using laptop cameras. You can get a Logitech pro webcam for $60, mount it at eye level, and it actually looks like you’re not living in your mom’s basement anymore.
  16. I think history is going to judge Biden pretty unkindly, and I think that would have been true even if Harris won. In hindsight, trying to tie together infrastructure investment, climate, jobs, social welfare, reinvestment in rural communities, etc., didn't work either to improve the general welfare, is getting rolled back under Trump, and earned very little kudos by voters. There's also one single thing he could have accomplished, almost fully under his control, that would have stemmed the tide of authoritarianism and that's to make sure Trump was put on trial for inciting an insurrection (and I'm presuming he'd have been found guilty).
  17. David French has an interesting piece today in the NY Times Gift Link TL:DR, he says Article II is to blame for a rapacious executive. Anyway, quick reaction to this is I think the Dems should promote the idea of a constitutional convention. "We have to fix the Constitution" is at least an ethos, and it's vague enough that it could mean almost anything while appealing to anyone unhappy with the status quo. It's also a complex problem that can be sold in a single sentence, it's not asking neighbors to blame each other, and it's the kind of big, aspirant thing that tends to get Democrats united.
  18. Dubin got three outs!
  19. I think we’re going to find out that the xenomorphs have some auditory way of communicating that she’s able to hear. Just don’t ask me why her and not the other synths.
  20. Your whole posts deserves a more lengthy and thoughtful response, but I wanted to single out one part that I can write on quickly. I actually think it’s simple, at least for 2026 and 2028 (and for the record, I’m stealing this idea but can’t recall the source). You just have to run against the party.
  21. @Bozo_Casanova is going to say that voters don’t vote for policies, they vote for candidates. That said, I agree with you in that the polls show that. I do question the conventional wisdom that tends to follow (the Democrats just need to message better). I think it’s hiding some weakness that those policies are actually less popular than they appear to be.
  22. @Bozo_Casanova can speak for himself, but this is an area in which I disagree that your caricature is incorrect (that’s a little awkward so to put it more simply, “The Groups,” are, in fact, the problem or a big contributor). Let’s just get real basic on this-the Democratic Party has failed to provide sufficient benefit to enough voters to rebut GOP criticism (regardless of the validity of that criticism). The why is at least partially because the party isn’t reorienting around popular positions because specific portions within “The Groups” disagree with them.
  23. Let’s not exaggerate a voting group’s interest as all about any one particular issue. I’m not sure why you’re so defensive over Latinx but you’re welcome to google pew research. You can even have Gemini summarize the findings. I mean, that’s basically how we figured out everything that we think we know about how the universe and science works. What’s your preferred method? I tend to wildly overuse this in conversation, but I think there’s an element of Billy Beane’s “my shit doesn’t work in the playoffs” applicable here. It worked fine for the Dems until it didn’t.
  24. I like you, but I’m going to have to jump all over this one. If we’re going to try to make data based decisions then there’s non-partisan polling and survey data, both before the 2024 election and since, that Hispanics REALLY dislike LatinX as a descriptor. It’s a little less of a problem for younger voters, but it’s a self-own by the left and is easily swept up in the whole “it’s a party of woke white elites who don’t even know you” that’s alienating the working class.
  25. Andiamo has gone way downhill. Skip it. Reale’s is the kind of place that used to stand out a lot more before Austin’s culinary upgrade over the last 20 years. It’s a good value but you’ll go into a carb coma after. I like their Greek pizza as something you wouldn’t expect to be quite so good coming from there. You can also see fitlump there if you time it right.
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