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LCHorn

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  1. That shit doesn’t matter anymore unless the goal is to have an empire of ashes in a military escalation with China. Everyone else is better persuaded with diplomacy or isolated as a pariah state. There’s a very good article in The Atlantic today about Ukrainian advances in drone tech and how that underscores the vast new frontier in war fighting. I’m sure there’s still a place for carrier groups but it’s not going to look like it did even a couple of years ago. They are just way too expensive and vulnerable to act as a command asset in contested battle spaces. That said, aren’t you MAGA? It would be typical for one of the ‘Merica first myopics to overestimate our own martial capacity because you’ve been told falsely that we’re the biggest swinging dick on the planet and that China somehow ignored over 20 years of futility in trying to subdue a bunch of unemployed sheep herders.
  2. FWIW, we are exploring Czech (easier) and German (far more of a challenge) citizenship so we have an exit strategy to any EU country. I’m not eager to leave, by any means, and still love Texas. That said, we are clearly going backwards from a good governance perspective and I’m not really seeing elites from either side show any willingness to address core cultural and little d democratic issues that might help steer us out of the nose dive.
  3. I was thinking more that professed Christian Tim Dunn would be a good candidate to offer the kind of compassionate support to the most needy that Jesus Christ himself commanded in John 15:12.
  4. Buy them a bus ticket to Midland.
  5. I agree with you in regards to the experience, but I’m in the underwhelmed camp by the food and I’ve been four times (it’s a good day trip for when we’re hosting out of towners). For me, the brisket doesn’t stand out and that’s my main protein. Pork ribs were also just kind of okay. I think their chicken is their best meat and it always sells out too fast. On another note, I did have Mum for the first time this weekend at the Mueller Farmer‘s market and their brisket was on point (their pastrami was also a highlight).
  6. Huh? She looks terrific for 43. Not everyone ages like frozen in time Beckinsale.
  7. I have a hard time imaging her with the kind of crossover appeal needed to win a plurality of voters in Texas. She’s better as a bomb throwing house rep or going for something less ambitious like Texas AG. One of the unfortunate consequences of having such a terrible state party is that good candidates are running for higher office before they are ready.
  8. Haha! American/Iberia lost our bags last summer going to Madrid. It took four days to get them back and included squatting at the airport for five hours waiting for them to locate the physical bags after giving us text notifications that they had made it to MAD.
  9. Power out in 78759.
  10. Except he‘s not out exploring, his whole day is siting in the airport.
  11. Yeah, I liked that one, too, especially as it’s a different look at the burgeoning rebellion. Mon and Luther are so careful, so deliberate; and obviously from a storytelling perspective that’s useful because the audience gets a thrill when they are able to drop the mask. Saw’s speech also helps demonstrate the kind of wild urges suppressed under the empire-he’s an outlaw and rebels against everything, but that urge for freedom is at the root of most of the sympathizers.
  12. Blanco getting a second opinion on the elbow, hmmmmm…..
  13. Just curious, but what are you basing this on? According to the May Harris poll, Israel (over Hamas) has a 54%-46% advantage in support amongst poll respondents 18-24. This grows to 65%-35% for 25-34. I'll add that only 5% of those polled considered this their top issue, against 65% that said the economy. I think you have a misread on the importance of that one.
  14. To be fair, Carrie Isaac could indeed be terrible and she’d still be miles better than her predecessor and Donna Campbell.
  15. It’s probably a steep hill for someone with that last name to win statewide in Florida and start garnering more attention. I’m not sure why ya’ll are looking for house reps and, to a lesser extent, senators, to be standard bearers of party evolution (although Ruben Gallego would likely take issue with this claim). It seems more likely that they’ll need to come from the states.
  16. Counterpoint-you ascribe what I consider co-option as deliberately undertaken by the GOP. I think they got dragged there by Trump and don’t really control anything. I don’t know that the Dems need a propaganda machine (you could argue there’s one already that’s mostly refugees from the mainstream media that have moved to podcasting and sub newsletters). The problem (or challenge) is that it doesn’t have appeal beyond the educated. Jon Stewart has a podcast-if his appeal was broader he’d be doing Joe Rogan numbers. Ultimately, I think the whole “we have a problem with the medium” isn’t as complicated as the Dems message is oppositional to Trump and that plays poorly in any area on which he’s perceived to offer a better solution. In other words, swing voters aren’t listening to Dems defending civil rights because they are more concerned about their job, their house payment, what to do with their kids after school, etc. Trump continues to control that message there because he played one on TV. Maybe this is overly hopeful on my part, but I would think the answer is to just try a lot of things and see which starts gaining appeal. I also don’t want to oversimplify it, but a lot of hemming and hawing could just boil down to “run younger candidates than what the GOP has to offer” if you want to go after the younger swing voters.
  17. Sorry, I was asking @chainsaw to tell me where in YouTube I’d need to go to see Klein provide cover to Dem elites and shifts housing policy blame elsewhere. Otherwise, “here’s a video of a guy I think sucks; it’s an hour and I want you to watch the whole thing to get my point.” Is a bit of a trap.
  18. Can you tell me where to go? I like Ezra (and really like his wife) and whether you and others agree or disagree with his positions, I far prefer the debates on policy to personalities.
  19. Let’s be clear, that’s all it really takes on the message. The problem the Dems have is a reluctance to direct that fire on economic and social elites if they don’t believe it. That’s partially why people like Tim Walz and Scott Galloway give so much attention to reframing masculinity away from antisocial habits. You have to reframe what it means to be a man in 2025 to create the space to sell progressive values in a Democratic Party that’s decided they can treat that group with benign neglect.
  20. Ugh, west Austin.
  21. Looks like Vikki Goodwin is first out of the gate on the Dem side to run against Patrick for Lt Gov. First impression is she’ll lose badly and put district 47 in play as the conservative-moderate alliance in west audience unites over not wanting to be represented by someone named Pooja.
  22. Maybe they are just trying to provide consistency with Q2 stadium prices.
  23. I use rokus on our two older tvs. I like it more than Samsung’s ui
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