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LCHorn

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  1. 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.
  2. 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."
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. And the dog's name....Harry Potter.
  7. I think he hated Westbrook's game, which I think we can all relate to.
  8. That’s a cool property but we should move that conversation where it belongs, on the 2026 recruiting thread.
  9. That house is gorgeous, we need to start a house porn thread.
  10. 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.
  11. I don't know how you justify this criticism in the face of Biden's terrible campaign. I had the same thought, but I'm also far less fond of both of them than you are and wouldn't mind seeing them bloody each other in the primary.
  12. This is more for @Ag with kids, but one reason Bozo keeps picking on you is that you're a good representative of the kind of thinking that's confused the present, dysfunctional system as working for you. Millions of Texas Republican voters would be, for example, shocked to find out that their business friendly, low tax, low service state is taxing their household more than they would pay in blue or purple states.
  13. I haven't used DoorDash since the Covid lockdown because it results in an additional $10 expense for cold food. Am I missing out?
  14. Not to pile on, but there's a good argument that gerrymandering results in weaker, less competitive candidates whether the district is drawn for team blue or team red. And that's not including the general presumption that we SHOULD be trying to steer this democratic experiment back towards majority rule, and the most simple method of doing so would be to have districts drawn in a manner that invites the most general election competition.
  15. I've already hit on Mackie's weakness as a lead, but also the character in the MCU is pretty far down the list of notables about which I want to see more, and that's after sitting through all of the Falcon and Winter Soldier episodes.
  16. I will say this--I think there's some bloom off the Feige rose. I'm loath to criticize a studio giving chances to up and coming talent with light CV's or confined to TV, or even to prioritize African American screenwriters over more decorated options when the story directly revolves around matters or history experienced in that community. That said, it's Feige's job to greenlight a production or not and that film was just BORING.
  17. I have mixed feeling on this as prima facie evidence of bad production management. There's just plenty of evidence of films with that start with a final draft, end up crap, and films that basically get re-written on the fly and end up terrific. Marvel has basically been breaking up productions into a big shoot and a supplementary shoot, anyway. Also, Beau DeMayo is basically making the same complaint every creative has ever had about production executives.
  18. I'm going to be downgrading while my wife keeps her card, and one of the reasons for both is that booking anything through Chase is an enormous inconvenience if there's any kind of flight changes or delays. Also, I do not get the benefit of "The Edit", at all, but then again I'm not spending $1500 a night to stay at the Four Seasons if I can get something 3 star for $200. I love being able to go downstairs and have a cool bar in the same building, but it's not worth $1k, and I loath the whole "$100 for breakfast for two" or " "$200 credit for hotel amenities, not including room rate" bull shit that I'm disinclined to use. I'm not going all the way to Paris so I can have a hotel breakfast. I bet if you have an annual spend of $75K you can find better card options...
  19. So on the Kingcast they will ask of their guests their Stephen King origin story...mine was seeing this at the floor of an older neighbor that I looked up to--I was most likely nine or ten: To be followed by Night Shift. I was a little scared of trying the novels because I had seen Cujo on TV, and my Mom had shared that the book does not have a happy ending. It would be a few years but I think my real affinity began with the 1990 update of The Stand, after which I tore through most of what King had published in the 80's besides the Dark Tower books, which I didn't get going on until I was an adult (and I still haven't read Tommyknockers or the Dark Half).
  20. FWIW, Wayne was there Saturday, so if it was bad then there’s no one else to blame. I’ve had somewhat inconsistent BBQ pretty much everywhere beside Franklin.
  21. I feel like someone upthread had Louie Mueller recently and said it was bad-we went yesterday for the first time in a few years and it was A++, particularly the lean brisket. Also, only two people in front of us in line.
  22. It’s probably the same 10 assholes, but I’m shocked at how many Athletic articles on the Astros are just overwhelmed with comments referencing trash cans and cheating. Fangraphs, too.
  23. Appraisal Districts asses a value as of 1/1 in the current calendar year. There’s informal deference, at times, to purchases made in the previous year (they may ask for the settlement statement and use the purchase amount as the current value), or, like in 2021, they may make time adjustments. At least in Austin, they ARB hearing volunteers are mainly older females. They tend to be unfairly deferential to the county but that’s kind of the nature of it.
  24. They’ve already started; Thunderbolts, Captain America NWK and FF had estimated production budgets of $200m or less. Quantumania was at $330m, by comparison. Marvels at $303m per Wikipedia.
  25. yeah, but that’s same as it ever was-I remember going with my Dad, who was doing some appraisal work to make ends meet after the S&L’s went to shit in the early 80’s, in Crosby and Mont Belvieu and seeing clean Corvette’s parked in front of small houses that looked like goats lived there. There’s another, more urban contingent who can’t make a $3k house payment but they can do $1k on a SUV, and delayed gratification is for pussies.
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