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  1. 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.
  2. I like that a lot more than the fucking Midwest that Jim Bowden proposed. I have zero enthusiasm playing the Royals and Cardinals on the reg.
  3. The faces being made by the ASL interpreter are far more fun than any of the rhetoric.
  4. What a weird season-the first half had some of that 2017 magic in which it seemed they would luck into wins. Second half has that 2021 energy where it’s hard to understand how they can be so shitty.
  5. They brought national attention to the fact that Texas Democrats have less fight in them than quisling statewide GOP leaders wholly obsequious to DC and two west Texas oil men, so there is that…
  6. LCHorn

    Pizza

    Then there are better, cheaper options than a $28 pepperoni pizza from All Day. I don’t like their pizza because it’s sloppy to eat, but I used to live down the street from the original East Side Pies and they were always rolling out with something unusual.
  7. He actually looks like Correa in a cheap disguise.
  8. Also, Texas (or and the rest of the marketplace) can certainly go in another direction if they feel like the value isn't there anymore. Probably unlikely for someone of Atkinson's caliber, but I'm sure we can all recall highly touted prospects that had underwhelming senior years and it was evident they were overrated.
  9. I'm being flippant, but it's because no one truly gives a shit. Those that did represented a small, financial minded portion of yesterday's GOP and the rank and file repeated it because they were told to. Dropping the sarcasm, you ask a sincere question, and I think it's at least partially because the rhetorical pivot needed to call out the hypocrites doesn't work. Probably the most obvious example is the Christian support for Trump, whose sins are too numerable to list. Rather than reconsider their support, they just double-down that the illogical must be because of God's plan. There was a Vox piece years ago in which an academic reported on a study that showed people don't really want the truth, in fact they resent it when it doesn't confirm pre-existing beliefs. I think we need to keep it simple. The #1 issue for Gen Z is economics, and I've read that housing affordability is the principal driver (although that could tie into jobs or inflation in general). It's also an issue that's got some gender specificity (it ranks particularly high amongst the male voters that the Dems have been shedding). It's a mid-term election--you don't have to fix it, you just need to be clear that the other team failed. I also think the party need to re-orient around the family as the center of public life. If you can't squeeze "this helps your family" into every single benefit message then it needs to be de-platformed. I think they've been afraid of this because the evangelicals have made "family values" antithetical to the Dems sense of inclusiveness, but they need to take it back and it's a good segue for a broader economic policy that's consistent with long-held Dem efforts. It's also helps defend some of those marginalized without making them poster children or exploiting their misery. If I'm forced to talk about trans rights I'm going to do it in the framework of parents like @troph that love their children and children that love their parents.
  10. Bear in mind this is one of @Brian Fantana’s main issues and he tends to overstate it’s importance. I’d wager that this cohort feels differently now… Anyway, back to economics, Ezra Klein interviewed Natasha Sarin last week, founder of The Budget Lab at Yale. This isn’t going to be surprising to anyone here, but her position is that the tariffs are really only starting to be seen in the inflation data and it’s only going to worse from here. The US is already in a recession if you omit the AI investment, and the anti-immigration efforts are making basic things like fresh vegetables and meat more expensive. She, and I think I’ve heard this on a separate podcast, notes that tariffs are, in effect, a $2k tax on every family in America. Rich, poor, Trump voter or otherwise, this is the math. This is what you make your main message.
  11. The political leanings of Inside Texas has always been weird, even before Alex P Keaton wannabe Nahlin took over. It wouldn’t be at all surprising for Cain to be on there.
  12. Ah, the Dodgers broke the Dodgers. They've double-down on fragile, high beta pitchers and they are likely tougher in a series than over a season (if they can keep three starters healthy).
  13. I'm a little disinclined to criticize GM's for relatively low dollar contracts that don't work out, but the inability of the Orioles to get a real stud out of all those high draft picks is surprisingly bad. They've been a Baseball America darling for years and haven't done anything to build on 2023. Luhnow would have consolidated some of those prospects into major league pitchers.
  14. I think their vaunted Astros-trained scouting and development program is overrated.
  15. If you want to make punching bags out of a few bad apples here, be my guest. We aren’t fucking TexAgs, after all. That’s not the same as repeating a critique that Newsom or Buttigieg or whoever is an unfit candidate because they don’t have the preferred response to issues that aren’t primary for most voters.
  16. This is a message board and we can talk (or not) about whatever we want. But as it pertains to the greater online discourse and how that shapes public opinion, every minute fraction of oxygen you give to the inciting trolls is EXACTLY what they want from you.
  17. I don't find him particularly charismatic so I think Colorado governor is his ceiling, but I've listened to Jared Polis talk about this and he advocates steering everything back to household economics. They ask you about bathrooms and trans rights, you respond about filling potholes and making sure people can work all day and have enough money to pay their rent and be able to relax when the work day is over. That's not throwing the trans community under the bus, it's refocusing attention away from the vulnerable and to the area that survey respondents say is the most neglected. This is me, not Polis, but I'd say "Gaza is a long way from here, it's a terrible situation and I can't fix it. What I can do is work towards making sure you have enough money in your paycheck to take care of your family, protect access to the medical care you need and make sure we're keeping your family safe."
  18. Several posters on this board are quick to jump on anyone with unsatisfying answers on Gaza and protection of trans rights. If this is representative at all for the left-wing of the party then it’s prioritizing two issues that are subordinate to economic issues for the fat part of the middle that has felt forced to look at Republicans for solutions.
  19. This was the key failure of Biden-Harris. Also, Harris (and Biden to a lesser extent) code as people who aspired to leave their working class roots. Trump has managed to portray himself as someone born to the manner but really has more in common with the working class. I think they are generally stupid and worthy of their ridicule in The Onion, but when The NY Times does these “you voted for Biden, then you voted for Trump, how do you feel now?” pieces the respondents hit all the same notes. “The Dems are are snobs” and “they don’t care about me.” David Brooks wrote yesterday that university graduates have silo’d themselves more effectively than segregation could from needing to mix with the working class, particularly in how we educate our own children (usually by keeping to communities of the like minded). You can see how that, at a broader level, supports the kind of presumptions that turns working class voters off.
  20. I’m sure that’s open to critique as making a complex problem seem simple, but I really think it’s this basic. And it’s math-you make your surveys and broadcast you’re about what’s popular.
  21. And the dog's name....Harry Potter.
  22. I think he hated Westbrook's game, which I think we can all relate to.
  23. That’s a cool property but we should move that conversation where it belongs, on the 2026 recruiting thread.
  24. That house is gorgeous, we need to start a house porn thread.
  25. I did the math for our family living in Colorado versus Texas, and we'd save about $7k a year. We're pretty fortunate income and asset wise, so I re-did the math using a hypothetical $100K household income and the median value house in Denver and it's a savings of $6K living in Colorado. That's $500 a month, or a car you wouldn't have otherwise, or the prorated deductible on a high deductible insurance plan for a family. It's a really nice vacation, maybe two, or after school care for kids so a family can manage their household. It's a quality of life upgrade for most and all the good people of Colorado had to do is get it is not vote for incompetence and corruption.
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