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3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

So you want Texas, which votes about 56% Republican, and is currently gerrymandered to predetermine a 66% Republican outcome, to increase the number of safe seats to 79%? That does not square with your repeated insistence that you think it should reflect how the state votes. 
The fact is that if we just had 38 competitive districts drawn without regard to partisan lean and reflected actual communities it would play out closer to the natural break than anything else. 

 


Designing districts around actual places on the map where people have important things in common is called “representation,” not “gerrymandering.”

So you support efforts to hugely overepresent Republicans?

I don’t have a side, I have a community. You do have a side, and your side is doing this in Texas. I don’t care about states where I don’t live. I care about Representative from Austin who have a reason to pick up the phone when someone from Austin calls.

 

These numbers are skewed because they represent how people voted, but don't take into account how many would vote if they felt their districts were established fairly.  And also in the smaller rural counties they vote Red because that's the only party that has candidates, usually.  

2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yep, the actual tax burden in California is lower for most people than in Texas.

And then when you start figuring in things like cost of health insurance that are directly impacted by a state's political policies, the non-real-estate cost-of-living in Cali is even or cheaper than Texas.

Plus I am betting the return of services per dollar is greater in a lot of those blue states.  

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And it’s fucking beautiful. One of the healthiest states with the lowest level of obesity. I love Colorado. Maybe it’s time to start planning the escape 

Met a vendor rep at a conference who splits time living between Texas and Colorado. She says in Texas people meet up for margaritas and queso. In Colorado they meet up for activities like hiking, yoga, cycling or climbing.
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4 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


Met a vendor rep at a conference who splits time living between Texas and Colorado. She says in Texas people meet up for margaritas and queso. In Colorado they meet up for activities like hiking, yoga, cycling or climbing.

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11 minutes ago, Eskimohorn said:


Met a vendor rep at a conference who splits time living between Texas and Colorado. She says in Texas people meet up for margaritas and queso. In Colorado they meet up for activities like hiking, yoga, cycling or climbing.

You can't spell "excessively fat" without Texas.

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27 minutes ago, Gourmand said:

repped for the Bomani Jones reference

Far too few people have heard Bomani torch Will Cain on his own show in the aftermath of that Bubba Wallace Nascar controversy. Absolute fire from Bomani.

Not sure if he went to school here but he’s a Longhorn fan as well

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Yep, the actual tax burden in California is lower for most people than in Texas.

And then when you start figuring in things like cost of health insurance that are directly impacted by a state's political policies, the non-real-estate cost-of-living in Cali is even or cheaper than Texas.

Yeah I figured that out when I got a tax calculator. I would actually pay less tax in California in my position. But the big earners would get soaked.

I cannot speak to the cost of living though. I imagine living inland in California is not too bad. Those coastal cities seem pretty horrifyingly expensive but I have only ever visited them.

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23 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Yeah I figured that out when I got a tax calculator. I would actually pay less tax in California in my position. But the big earners would get soaked.

I cannot speak to the cost of living though. I imagine living inland in California is not too bad. Those coastal cities seem pretty horrifyingly expensive but I have only ever visited them.

what would this cost inside the loop in Houston?

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/901-Grizzly-Peak-Blvd-Berkeley-CA-94708/24848629_zpid/

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33 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Yeah I figured that out when I got a tax calculator. I would actually pay less tax in California in my position. But the big earners would get soaked.

This is not how you humblebrag

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15 minutes ago, We’reTexas said:

Someone’s really interested in Berkeley!

Haha...you got me.

I was with some friends/family from Texas 2 weeks ago - all of whom live in "desirable" parts of DFW and Houston. Their homes are all valued well over 1m, but they were bemoaning the fact that they could never make it in CA due to home prices. Played a bit of cell phone flop out with Zillow to illustrate. No doubt coastal CA is more expensive, but depending on where you live, you might not experience the sticker shock you'd expect. 

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2 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

Yep but that’s nine future GOP voters

have that many and the odds of having a 'black sheep' or two go way up.

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26 minutes ago, Foosters said:

Haha...you got me.

I was with some friends/family from Texas 2 weeks ago - all of whom live in "desirable" parts of DFW and Houston. Their homes are all valued well over 1m, but they were bemoaning the fact that they could never make it in CA due to home prices. Played a bit of cell phone flop out with Zillow to illustrate. No doubt coastal CA is more expensive, but depending on where you live, you might not experience the sticker shock you'd expect. 

That’s a really nice house - think it will go closer to $3M based on comps, but to your point that’s a huge house for Berkeley and relatively not a bad deal compared to the nicer neighborhoods of Houston, Dallas and Austin (especially). 

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17 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

That is an amazing property with incredible views. I would expect a similar property to be pretty closely priced in most major cities in Texas actually. Certainly in the 1.5 million dollar area at least.

That house is gorgeous, we need to start a house porn thread.  

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11 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

Is this real?  If so, troll game is strong:

 

He’s talking a lot. But like most Democrats, he is just talking and tweeting. He needs to set the process in motion. Texas will be ready by midterms. Talking about it won’t help that. 

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3 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

And it’s fucking beautiful. One of the healthiest states with the lowest level of obesity. I love Colorado. Maybe it’s time to start planning the escape 

Made the move to CO from FL. Zero, I repeat, ZERO regrets.

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52 minutes ago, Dr. Teeth said:

He’s talking a lot. But like most Democrats, he is just talking and tweeting. He needs to set the process in motion. Texas will be ready by midterms. Talking about it won’t help that. 

you assume they aren't? I'm pretty sure he can chew gum and walk. I'm guessing their silence on details is so they don't get leaked and someone tries to counter them with some other bullshit

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44 minutes ago, pacman said:

Idiocy at its finest.

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And the predictable commentary..

 

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what is it with chuds telling people to "cope" or "cry harder" and whatnot? Saw it a ton yesterday from imma's buddy stassney and it's like they're spiking the football on being a shithead. Really strange antisocial stuff.

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1 minute ago, Captainant said:

what is it with chuds telling people to "cope" or "cry harder" and whatnot? Saw it a ton yesterday from imma's buddy stassney and it's like they're spiking the football on being a shithead. Really strange antisocial stuff.

because the internet and this current regime have emboldened cowards everywhere and the thing about cowards is they usually don't have cogent arguments when facts and opinion don't align with theirs (usually only opinion), so they resort to name calling, or in this case, the more pedantic version of that. if they were allowed to tell you to go kill yourself, they would. instead they resort to that adjacent version

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17 minutes ago, Gooby said:

This right here is how the cow ate the fucking cabbage....

 

whoa 😳 who's that guy? i like Talarico but i think y'all need more of this 🔥 

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2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

How the fuck the consultant class forces Colin Allred down our throats instead of Roland Fucking Gutierrez is beyond me. 

Only Democrats could think "you know what we need? A football player, but we gotta make sure he doesn't act anything like a football player, he'll have to act like a normal politician!" 

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2 hours ago, Foosters said:

5 bed 5 bath, West U, $2.5MM

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3779-Jardin-St-Houston-TX-77005/27826966_zpid/

1 hour ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

That is a nice house at a great price.     Prices are dropping in Oakland area.  Check this out:

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Beds to sq ft ratio sucks.

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Also, if your ideology is that good, and your belief in it that strong, exposure to other ideas will only reinforce it.

Problem is  . . . . 

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I realized, Michael ... that I had emerged, not through the doors of Kenner, Bach & Ledeen ... not through the portals of our vast and powerful law firm but from the asshole of an organism whose sole function is to excrete the poison, the ammo, the defoliant necessary for other larger more powerful organisms to destroy the miracle of humanity. And that I had been coated in this patina of shit for the best part of my life. And the stench of it, the stain of it would take the rest of my life to undo. And you know what I did? I took a deep, cleansing breath and I set that notion aside. I tabled it. I said to myself, "As clear as this may be, as potent a feeling as this is as true a thing as I believe that I have witnessed today, it must wait. It must stand the test of time."
And, Michael, the time is now

 

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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

My daughters and I talk about this. I’ve always been puzzled about where the idea of on-campus indoctrination comes from. I don’t think humanities and liberal arts faculty are any more or less tolerant of dissent than they ever have been, and so also frankly don’t think curricula and professors usually have the ability to dictate a  point of view to their students. 

My daughters have said they think it’s just a matter of exposure to other students and new places, because the only kids they have seen do 180  ideological turns in college are kids from sheltered, homogeneous environments who see the world outside for the first time and realize that things are not as they were told. There’s a prog-left version of this too, but the Republican small city kids learn that cities aren’t dangerous, liberals don’t hate the free market, people don’t get third term abortions other than in medical emergencies and white Christian political conservatives are the discriminators more often than they are the object of discrimination. 
And it is not extremely important also that college is where the gay kids from those environments finally have the space to accept themselves for the first time. 
And then they come home from college, and the parents blame woke indoctrination, when it was really just seeing the world outside the cloister for the first time. 

Yep. My Facebook aunts and uncles think higher education filled our generation’s heads with evil liberal bullshit. But the truth is: my aunts and uncles are fascist country dumbfucks. When we were kids, we suspected as much. College merely helped us confirm it.

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Steel spine, yeah right. We're the people sitting in 68 degree AC all day listening to bro country and complaining about brown people that make me pick English on the ATM. 

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

who the fuck is Will Cain? first i have heard of him

He’s a dipshit from Sherman who played water polo at Pepperdine before running a magazine about quinceañera planning.

No, really. 



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