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Spring Branch, TX
Damn, I was sitting on my back porch a little while ago enjoying the peace and quiet while I worked when the temperature suddenly dropped and this thunderstorm blew in and tore shit up.
My cat looked like this while trying to run inside.

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2 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:
Trumpkins are like the unathletic dork on the playground. No one wants them on the team but without them you don't have enough players, so you end up not just asking them to play, but also to have more input than they should on the rules of the game. Because if they decide to take the ball and go home, R's will be out of power for a generation.
You must have had a friendly playground growing up. Those kids weren't given options other than run away while being ridiculed or just going along with the game and being ridiculed for being terrible at it when I was growing up.
Looking back on it, I can see how that kind of treatment as a kid would produce a Ted Cruz.
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14 hours ago, UpperWestside said:
My time in the rust belt has been thankfully limited, but driving through parts of Ohio are just beyond depressing. Just nothing positive going on, at all.
The first time I ever witnessed a lock-out was in Canton, Ohio. I saw these hobos sitting in a cardboard shanty out in front of a manufacturing plant playing cards in dreary weather. As we passed by I made a comment about the hobos playing cards and a local corrected me and explained they were workers in a lock-out.
I knew what a lock-out was but never really processed it until I saw these guys sitting outside under a makeshift cardboard shelter in chilly drizzling rain in front of a plant where the chain fence was locked. That isn't something you ever see here in Texas. My expression was basically an Owen Wilson wtf face.
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Conservatives embracing these type of liberal economic policies while simultaneously supporting social conservatism and nationalism give me the fucking creeps. Tucker isn't representative of the entire Republican party or conservatives but he has a very influential platform and appears to be pushing European style right wing politics and I can't imagine any situation where that is a good thing.
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A Joe Biden nomination is the only thing preventing a third party run by Howard Schultz. Think about that for a while.
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5 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:
2018.
Kids hate Republicans.

and kids now vote.
- Among 18- to 29-year-olds, voter turnout went from 20 percent in 2014 to 36 percent in 2018, the largest percentage point increase for any age group — a 79 percent jump.
My 19 year old son has no interest in voting. I got him registered and everything but somehow he didn't have time bother to vote. He is pretty apathetic about politics.
My 17 year old is interested in the topic but then puts a big emphasis on not wanting to share my views by default and thinks everyone his age with a political view is just repeating what they hear at home. Currently he claims to still be exploring political views and isn't settled on any particular one. He is really analytical and tends to overthink things. He should have some political views in another decade or so.
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The Executive branch is in desperate need of being put in check by the Legislative branch. Make it happen.

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4 hours ago, EMAWesome said:
Kind of sad that I am the first one to bring this up and I am a day late. Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of Tienanmen Square. This is an old article but still appropriate.
I'm not really sure that article is relevant. China is an authoritarian nation for sure but what's going on today isn't the same as what's addressed in that article.
What is interesting is that China through its embrace of capitalist practices has created a very visible state of economic inequality. Not surprising since there are always winners and losers in capitalism. However because China has been an emerging economy based on exports and manufacturing, there have been really big winners and big regional losers. Its like America at the turn of the 20th century. Where things get interesting is China has generations of people that have been indoctrinated in communism. It seems like a no brainer that people would turn to the official ideology of the state that is predicated on empowering the exploited worker against the capitalist class. However, the Chinese government isn't cool with that kind of shit.
Check out what's been happening to young enthusiastic Marxists in China.
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Buttigieg is polling at 2% with California Latinos. No bueno.
This part of the article about Pete campaigning in Fresno caught my attention.
After the event ended, Gomez told Buttigieg in Spanish about the drinking water problems that plague the region. Buttigieg, who speaks several languages, responded in Spanish that he would try to help.
“That means a lot,” Gomez said. “The next time he comes here, he should speak in Spanish more.”
This guy is correct, if Buttigieg can speak Spanish he should be doing it as much as possible. Mexicans love a gringo that can speak Spanish. Shit, George W Bush won over a bunch of Hispanics when he gave a speech in Spanish.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Pete-Buttigieg-tries-to-diversify-his-13925825.php
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2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:
But we’re reliably stupid and in the red column.
The approximately 80,000 ding dongs in PA/MI/WI and the fence sitting flip floppers in Florida are the ones who got suckered and/or couldn’t pull the lever for an “emotional woman”.
And now we have the most emotional and irrational human being in America with a crippling Twitter addiction in the Oval Office.I agree that the Deep South is reliably stupid. SEC SEC SEC!
I disagree that the swing vote in the B1G states had anything to do with not wanting to vote for an emotional woman. HRC was fairly quiet on the class debate while Trump pounded the shit out of it with his populism. I've spent time in both Alabama and the Rust Belt for work and while both areas feel poor, the Rust Belt is depressing on a scale I didn't think was possible in the United States. Just complete hopelessness.
Democrats must remember the mistakes from the HRC campaign and not forget the importance of the class debate.
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Republican Senators are having a "This madness!" moment and implying they will be blocking the tarrifs and will override Trump's veto. Trump replying with a "fuck yo couch."
My guess is the tarrifs will not happen but without a public fight. If Trump goes full blown bukaki on Cornyn and Cruz and does it anyway, shit goes to 11 for the GOP in Texas.
“I want you to take a message back” to the White House, Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, told the lawyers, according to people familiar with the meeting. Mr. Cruz warned that “you didn’t hear a single yes” from the Republican conference. He called the proposed tariffs a $30 billion tax increase on Texans.
“I will yield to nobody in passion and seriousness and commitment for securing the border,” Mr. Cruz later told reporters. “But there’s no reason for Texas farmers and ranchers and manufacturers and small businesses to pay the price of massive new taxes."
Texas would be hit the hardest by the proposed tariffs on Mexican products, followed by Michigan, California, Illinois and Ohio, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. A 25 percent tariff would threaten $26.75 billion of Texas imports.
“We’re holding a gun to our own heads,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.“I think it’s more likely that the tariffs go on, and we’ll probably be talking during the time that the tariffs are on, and they’re going to be paid,” Mr. Trump said. When asked about Senate Republicans discussing ways to block the tariffs, Mr. Trump said, “I don’t think they will do that.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/us/politics/republicans-mexico-tariffs.html
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Sleepy Joe wins by decision.
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1 hour ago, elfenix said:
This leads me to believe that being a Trumpkin is a rooted in mental illness.
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Where are you, Alaska or something?
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58 minutes ago, torre said:
Very happy for Blair !
He was drafted in 22d rd by Yankees after high school.
That is a very good improvement. The odds of making it into MLB after being drafted passed the 12th round is pretty slim.
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On 5/9/2019 at 11:34 PM, F250 said:
My kid's High School team was recently eliminated from the HS playoffs. Lost 1-0 to Lake Travis in game 3. He is already over it, besides he has another year of high school left. Lake Travis has some serious talent. That Baty kid is a Texas commit and a potential 1st rounder in the MLB draft. Really would love to see him make it to campus in the Fall.
Brett Baty was the 12th overall pick in the MLB draft and looking at a 4.7 million dollar contract with the Mets. I don't think he will be playing for us next season. Lake Travis also had Jimmy Lewis picked up at #78 in the second round by the Dodgers.
Lake Travis will be playing in the State tournament this Friday at Dell Diamond against Southlake Carroll. They will be entering the tournament with two MLB draft picks taking the mound plus a TCU commit.
What the hell are you guys in Lake Travis putting in the water?
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I finished Goliath season 2 last week. I don't know what the hell I was watching, its like it switched genres midseason and a high school drama teacher wrote the last 2 episodes. It was terrible.
Started up with Good Omens over the weekend and its been great so far.
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30 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
Don’t forget when the select team owners / coaches demand the parents buy them diamond encrusted tournament rings and help cover expenses related to escorts / strip club trips
Ray had some issues.
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35 minutes ago, Lat22 said:
So familiar. Now try doing that every day for a week in Ft Myers or BFE Georgia.
We played against a couple of Adam Dunn coached teams. That’s a guy you want on your side in a fight.The life of a PO in Summer Ball.
Was your son a PO in high school too? My friend's kid played first and pitched in 9th grade on JV and then decided to tryout for varsity as a PO in 10th grade. He made varsity as a PO then the team attended the Border Olympics down in Laredo for the weekend which is a great tournament featuring over 50 teams from south and central Texas. Anyways, my friends kid pitched 1 inning at the tournament. Dad wasn't used to traveling out of town for the weekend to see his kid pitch a single inning and then spend the rest of the time watching other kids play. That was a bit of culture shock for dad.
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The travel is where the cost occurs but that's determined by your location and level of play. I remember in 12U Majors there were only a handful of teams between Austin and San Antonio that were competitive and the Houston teams rarely traveled to the area. So we would visit Houston for tournaments and occasionally DFW.
The greater Houston area has so much talent and local tournaments they really don't need to travel much since so many teams visit Houston from all over the place.
If you are in any metropolitan area and are AAA or below then you probably don't need to travel as much. Really, if you are AA and below there is no reason to travel at all. It makes no sense to travel until the local competition is no longer competitive.
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It's like the people in charge lack a basic understanding of history and economics. Australia was excluded from Trump's previous tarrifs on steel and aluminum but due to a basic concept known as trade diversion, imports for steel and aluminum increased from Australia. An unintended consequence of Trump's tarrifs made Australian imports cheaper. This should have been fucking obvious to any nitwit not wearing a MAGA hat.
So Trump and his advisors discover the increase and decide to slap tarrifs on Australia but the actual educated folks in the DoD and State Department fight it. Australia is one of our closest allies and we have a 29 Billion dollar trade surplus with them, they have supported us in every war we fought. Australia and New Zealand actually fought with the U.S. in fucking Vietnam! Obviously they are a critical ally in the Pacific in both trade and defense against China.
Why the fuck are these people so stupid? It blows my mind at how stupid this administration is when it comes to everything.
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LOL you damn hillbillies, ruined it.
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Come on West Virginia, don't mess this up.



What are some of your crazy ideas that you think would work if you ever became P.O.T.U.S
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I would have the Department of Justice aggressively investigate the SEC and the NCAA until both are a smoldering pile of ashes. All federal funding for Alabama would be removed and redirected to UAB where people value education. Of course aggy will receive an SMU like death penalty and lose access to all federal funds unless they agree to remove the name of Texas from their name. I would also look into the possibility of trimming off East Texas and reallocating it to the state of Louisiana or just make it a separate state called shit hole.
Stoops would be sent off to Gitmo and Kawhi Leonard would be put on a no-fly list and forced to stay in Canada.
After crushing my enemies, I will resign so that my Vice President Gregg Popovich can assume the office of POTUS.