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2 hours ago, TexEx15 said:

Honestly what is there left to see? This shouldn’t be close.

Yeah, these shooters choose schools because they are soft targets. Has nothing at all to do with them being 14 year old students at the school and their dad keeping an AR 15 propped up against the fireplace.

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1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

I'd like to know where that kid hid his gun before blowing away 4 innocent people and injuring 9 others.  We know he was in class, got up, and left.  Did he hide the gun in the school?  What "security" measures would have prevented that?  Are they going to TSA-search every student upon entry?  Really?  Has Vance ever been anywhere near a middle school or high school when first bell is about to ring?

Security is mostly performance theatre to make people feel secure. It definitely helps, but it's very hard to actually stop a shooting before it happens.

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3 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

Yeah, these shooters choose schools because they are soft targets. Has nothing at all to do with them being 14 year old students at the school and their dad keeping an AR 15 propped up against the fireplace.

Or their dad buying them one of their own.

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I just watched Doug Emhoff on Kimmel.  He's been hidden behind the scenes during the Biden Presidency, for good reasons, but holy shit it's nice to see normal, decent, smart, funny human beings supporting our elected officials.  Not that Vance's wife is a psycho (narrator: she is) or that Melania Trump is disinterested, pissed off, and AWOL (narrator: she is).

Between Harris, Walz, and their spouses I am supremely confident that our country will be in good hands if the vote just gets out.

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17 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I just watched Doug Emhoff on Kimmel.  He's been hidden behind the scenes during the Biden Presidency, for good reasons, but holy shit it's nice to see normal, decent, smart, funny human beings supporting our elected officials.  Not that Vance's wife is a psycho (narrator: she is) or that Melania Trump is disinterested, pissed off, and AWOL (narrator: she is).

Between Harris, Walz, and their spouses I am supremely confident that our country will be in good hands if the vote just gets out.

I agree, however we will still have soulless ghouls like Mitch McConnell running around, so we will still have to combat him and people of his ilk.  This isn't a one off battle, it's going to be a long fight if we want real change.  (Though I will say, the day McConnell turns room temperature, I'm not lowering my flag to half mast, I'm going to double the flag pole size and fly Old Glory as high as I can).  

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7 hours ago, safe sex said:

Vance's eyes are just...dead inside. Every picture of him. Like a fuckin' doll's eyes. Reminds me an awful lot of the still closeted gay/trans kids I see at work (reLAX I'm old enough that I can call people in their 20s kids). Who knows if Vance is queer to whatever degree, but there is something inside of him that he is not able to express in his public life; it is slowly and inexorably killing him.

No it’s not killing him; what’s getting killed are the puppies he strangles just to feel something

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8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Tangential, but funny:  we had a HS classmate who was a damn genius.  He never did his homework.  Our Calculus teacher would ask kids to put homework problems up on the board, and when it was his turn he would just bring the textbook up and solve the problem (correctly) in real time.  He's now a Chemical Engineering prof at U-Wisconsin.

I don't consider myself a genius by any stretch but that was me. My high school GPA was 2.8, 0 percent average for homework, 98 or so for tests. Got a scholarship to CofC behind testing scores too.

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Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

and how stupid do you have to be to vote for that !!!!

Who are we kidding?  They are clapping for cheap, big booty Venezuelitas to mingle with after the speeches and round tables and breakout sessions.

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Emerson -

CA Harris 60-36 (Schiff 55-33)

FL Trump 50-45 (Scott 46-45)

OH Trump 53-43 (Brown 46-44)

TX Trump 50-46 (Cruz 48-44)

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7 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

Holy shit—I’m in a swing state.

So many Kamala ads. Actually some good positive ads.

Watching the nfl game last night at one point I had 2 consecutive commercial breaks that were each 3 consecutive ads that were anti bob casey and then anti Kamala.

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Posted (edited)
17 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

This.

Childcare has to be one of the biggest drags to the US economy out there.

It incentivizes people to pay under the table, it keeps people out of the work force, and the front line workers don’t make close to a living wage.

There needs to be public childcare starting at 3. Super head start or whatever. I’d even try and make it 2.

I shouldn’t have to pay more for day care than I would for private college. 

Childcare doesn't start at age 2 or 3 for majority of parents in the US. It starts at 6-16 weeks old depending on birth circumstances, FMLA, and vacation time.

16 hours ago, SydneyCarton said:

Not nit picking here, but the general range of daycare in Houston was 11-1500 a month per kid. You'd get like a 1-200 discount for multiple kids per month, but it's a fucking rake. That being said, private school starts at around 24k a year per kid, and goes up to 40, and I think private colleges now are 25-40 as well. 

Listen, I'm all for NC being a purple battleground with a douchebag for a Gubernatorial candidate, but I'd rather not have to count on "Well, if we don't get PA we can win anyway with these other 5 states."

Researching childcare back in the spring because these fucking places, especially the decent to good ones, have ridiculous wait times to get in was eye opening price wise. The really nice places were $300-350 a week. We were able to find one that is nice and relatively affordable and that shit is $260 a week. We also looked at a "budget" daycares there were $175-190 a week and they were just very trashy looking facilities that we were hesitant to use. In home care is roughly that $175-200 range as well. This is all in San Antonio but I couldn't imagine the prices of some locations in Houston, Austin or DFW. You're 100% right that that 10% "discount" for having multiple kids go there is laughable. It makes me not want to have another kid because we'd be looking at $20-25k a year for 2 kids in childcare alone at our nice "affordable" facility.

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22 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

While this is good for our current circumstance, I guess, how fucked up is it that we are raising the most money for campaigns (both sides) in history and 90% of voters have been decided for years?  Will we ever have another discussion about campaign finance reform or is this just how we are now?

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3 minutes ago, tbone_ said:

I have no idea what this means. Is it supposed to influence my vote?

It’s a contrast to JD Vance, who can’t help but being a Grade A weirdo even when doing something as simple as ordering donuts. Maybe you missed that clip from a couple weeks ago.

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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

While this is good for our current circumstance, I guess, how fucked up is it that we are raising the most money for campaigns (both sides) in history and 90% of voters have been decided for years?  Will we ever have another discussion about campaign finance reform or is this just how we are now?

Like everything else, there are diminishing returns for political spending past some point. We’re probably well past that point.

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47 minutes ago, Js1 said:

 

Yet when I checked in on my spam catching email account, there was an email from the Harris campaign saying they needed more money or else difficult decisions would have to be made on where to direct their efforts.

Really?

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4 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Yet when I checked in on my spam catching email account, there was an email from the Harris campaign saying they needed more money or else difficult decisions would have to be made on where to direct their efforts.

Really?

Pretty typical campaign scare tactic. 

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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Pretty typical campaign scare tactic. 

Yeah, no shit.  The absurdity was mind bottling.

There was another email showing the results of the latest Silver hack job bemoaning that Harris is a huge underdog so of course needs more money.  I realize those emails come from unmonitored accounts, but I replied with a simple "Nate Silver is dumbass."

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51 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Childcare doesn't start at age 2 or 3 for majority of parents in the US. It starts at 6-16 weeks old depending on birth circumstances, FMLA, and vacation time.

Researching childcare back in the spring because these fucking places, especially the decent to good ones, have ridiculous wait times to get in was eye opening price wise. The really nice places were $300-350 a week. We were able to find one that is nice and relatively affordable and that shit is $260 a week. We also looked at a "budget" daycares there were $175-190 a week and they were just very trashy looking facilities that we were hesitant to use. In home care is roughly that $175-200 range as well. This is all in San Antonio but I couldn't imagine the prices of some locations in Houston, Austin or DFW. You're 100% right that that 10% "discount" for having multiple kids go there is laughable. It makes me not want to have another kid because we'd be looking at $20-25k a year for 2 kids in childcare alone at our nice "affordable" facility.

I mean, we had to do the same research 7 years ago. And we had friends who were on the wait list at places like Goddard or Primrose for over a year and ended up getting notices a year after their first was born saying "Hey, you're next on the waitlist." Uh, thanks. We got extremely lucky that a very nice place opened up about 4 blocks from our house, and therefore there wasn't a waitlist when we signed up. Which was like 6 months before our son was born. The waitlist about a month later when we suggested it to a friend was 3 months. I'm sure by the time we enrolled our son it was 6-12. 

My wife and I do ok, but I have no idea how a family with an income of less than 100k affords childcare. Because as you said, the places that were $800 a month were literally like a run-down house next to a tire shop and we were not super comfortable there. I've heard some people find like licensed home daycare options for a mom who will turn who house into a daycare and have 5-6 kids there. Except my first instinct is "That woman must be insane. No thanks."

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Suburbanites got us into this trumpy hellscape, the least they can do is help pull us out

You have to give them some credit for how much they've flipped since then.  At least somebody showed some damn growth and remorse for 2016.  

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Emerson -

CA Harris 60-36 (Schiff 55-33)

FL Trump 50-45 (Scott 46-45)

OH Trump 53-43 (Brown 46-44)

TX Trump 50-46 (Cruz 48-44)

These are decent polls, since in 2022, Emerson was pretty far to the right on most of the outcomes, sometimes has much as 4-7 points in favor of the Republican. 

UT-Austin poll of Texas has it 49-44 Trump, so not that different from the Emerson poll (Cruz up 44-36, with 14% undecided - weird poll) 

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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Yet when I checked in on my spam catching email account, there was an email from the Harris campaign saying they needed more money or else difficult decisions would have to be made on where to direct their efforts.

Really?

While campaigns do play up the "things are really close, we need your help", a lot of "campaign" emails are from spammers or from down-ballot races, so you need to check the mail headers and the links in the actual message to see if they are legit. 

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4 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Texas is a lost cause.  This state is a beacon for shitty humans and they're moving here in droves. 

And yet Paxton and Hot Wheels are scared shitless of the big cities turning out the vote.

 

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4 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I'm Missouri on this:  fucking show me.  

Paxton has been suing cities/counties in Texas who are trying to increase their voter turnout - just this week he sued Bexar County.

And Paxton and Hot Wheels want full control over Harris County elections and have moved in that direction, and made it publicly clear.  

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15 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

While campaigns do play up the "things are really close, we need your help", a lot of "campaign" emails are from spammers or from down-ballot races, so you need to check the mail headers and the links in the actual message to see if they are legit. 

100%. If an email is tempting you to donate, don't click on it. Go find the campaign's real website and donate there. Even if they tell you that donating via the email will trigger an automated match. That's just a psychological trick. In reality the match is going to be made regardless of any donation.

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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Paxton has been suing cities/counties in Texas who are trying to increase their voter turnout - just this week he sued Bexar County.

And Paxton and Hot Wheels want full control over Harris County elections and have moved in that direction, and made it publicly clear.  

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