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2 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

In the '70s, it was a big deal if your tuition bill topped $100. If you had a good summer job, you could pay for the year. If you worked oil rigs or something like that, you could live like a god. I returned to graduate in the mid 80s and it was still less than maybe $400? 

My beloved had daughters graduating high school in the first few years of this century. I was dumbfounded and furious when I heard about what had happened to college costs. Guaranteed loans for banks who face no risk. No reason other than decency and an understanding of public university education to keep the colleges from raising fees in tacit collusion.

I'm glad to be a Longhorn, but I can't exactly say that I love the University. Money grubbing cunts.

That’s not a UT thing. It’s a state of Texas thing. 

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1 hour ago, Born to Run said:

WTF

I'd be gone tomorrow for a couple million.

Ive said that many times, but yet here I am still working. Its harder to walk away than one thinks, but I can see that day happening more clearly every passing minute. One of my buddies and I were joking on a jobsite today actually if someone came up with the right offer we would hand over the keys to our companies tomorrow.

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58 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

My brother in law is a union plumber in CA.  He's made as much 150k a year and oftentimes he gets paid to sleep in his car for hours. Raising four kids on his income and his daughter just started at UCSB. He can't wait to move to TX or FL to flee the liberal policies of CA.  He'd do fine in Austin, but good luck elsewhere.

Locally a lot of blue collar guys are Maga because of media consumption- fox, talk radio, Joe Rogan.  For vast majority it's guns and just being anti PC. Not a lot of thought goes into it. Even Mexicans.

What does he say when you point out he only makes that kind of money because he’s in CA?

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38 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

The bullet was not close enough to his ear to do any damage (if it had been close enough, the damage would have been much greater). The best explanation I've seen is that the bleeding was caused by his fingernail.

https://www.threads.net/@clancy123457/post/C93DY0exr_3

I saw a pretty convincing video that showed him hitting his ear on the holster of one of the SS agents when they ducked down, which could have caused the bleeding.  Honestly seems plausible as hell when you rewatch the footage.

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4 hours ago, wood said:

Your experience with actual firefighters must be very limited then.

One of my hiking buddies is a retired LA County firefighter and one of the best people I’ve ever met.
 

I also lived across the street from the firehouse on 30th street for 6 years and they were always super nice and helpful.  

I also toured around with Guy Forsyth for a few years in my 20s and his sister was a firefighter and we used to play one of their annual events and they were all great.
 

Mucho respect to firefighters from me. 

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1 minute ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I saw a pretty convincing video that showed him hitting his ear on the holster of one of the SS agents when they ducked down, which could have caused the bleeding.  Honestly seems plausible as hell, when you rewatch the footage.

I guarantee if an intrepid reporter had Trump's attention and asked him to give the name of the attendee who died, he would not remember the name of Corey Comperatore.

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A real quote from Trump: "FEMA has no money because the Biden/Harris administration gave it all to illegal immigrants, a large percentage of which are murderers."

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A real quote from Trump: "FEMA has no money because the Biden/Harris administration gave it all to illegal immigrants, a large percentage of which are murderers."

That has been the main Fox News story all day. Sigh. 

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Posted
8 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A real quote from Trump: "FEMA has no money because the Biden/Harris administration gave it all to illegal immigrants, a large percentage of which are murderers."

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Posted
31 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

One of my hiking buddies is a retired LA County firefighter and one of the best people I’ve ever met.
 

I also lived across the street from the firehouse on 30th street for 6 years and they were always super nice and helpful.  

I also toured around with Guy Forsyth for a few years in my 20s and his sister was a firefighter and we used to play one of their annual events and they were all great.
 

Mucho respect to firefighters from me. 

Gracias senor! Yeah, Station 3. I worked there a few times in my career, filling in for minimum staffing needs.

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5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

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He is telling unbelievable, staggering, very dangerous lies every day. Meanwhile, Politico is super concerned about Tim Walz misremembering the summer month he visited China in 1988. 

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Posted
1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

1) the direction of polling error has tended to be consistent and 

2) pollsters adjust to error based on previous results. 

It's weird how much people refuse to believe #2 based on 2 previous elections,  one of which was during a pandemic that fucked everything up

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Posted
2 hours ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

whoah, we agree on something. marking the date and time

100% this, just go away. in some capacity. I don't care. just get out of our fucking lives you fat sack of diapered shit

He's just pissed off because he wasn't able to steal the billion without being caught.

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38 minutes ago, Red Five said:

A real quote from Trump: "FEMA has no money because the Biden/Harris administration gave it all to illegal immigrants, a large percentage of which are murderers."

Next on Fox News: How murdering illegal immigrants use FEMA money to increase the cost of living and cause all your problems. 

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Vance gave a speech in Georgia.  Let's look at the size and makeup of the crowd.

People are bored already early in, and they keep moving the camera side-to-side to make it look like the audience is bigly

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They panned over to the left a bit, not sure why as the "MAGA BLACK" lady was in the shot before and now she's not really in it.

Pretty sure those people "filming" with their phones are actually texting because you could see that it looked like they were holding them up like that while still texting.

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So how big was that crowd? Fox Now above won't show you, but The Hill will. This was just minutes before Vance came out.

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Unless you watch these rallies, you really can't see how bored most of the people behind Vance or Trump are, except for what looks like coached cheers and certain people will hold up their signs on cue, like they are aggy.

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Vance gave a speech in Georgia.  Let's look at the size and makeup of the crowd.
People are bored already early in, and they keep moving the camera side-to-side to make it look like the audience is bigly
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They panned over to the left a bit, not sure why as the "MAGA BLACK" lady was in the shot before and now she's not really in it.
Pretty sure those people "filming" with their phones are actually texting because you could see that it looked like they were holding them up like that while still texting.
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So how big was that crowd? Fox Now above won't show you, but The Hill will. This was just minutes before Vance came out.
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Okay but for real, what’s the deal with the chyrons on these pics?
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8 hours ago, Rex Kramer said:

Not sure he’d incite a riot. They’re in different categories. I abhor Cruz. Our daughters go to the same camp so I’m exposed to him for a day every summer. He’s very aloof and is basically a fat dork. One of his daughters got booted from the camp a few years ago because she’s fucked up. I give Cruz credit for not making a big stink about it, or pulling his other daughter from camp. I fully expected him to do both. 

Eh, he shouldn't get credit for acting like a normal human person.

1 hour ago, G650 said:

Ive said that many times, but yet here I am still working. Its harder to walk away than one thinks, but I can see that day happening more clearly every passing minute. One of my buddies and I were joking on a jobsite today actually if someone came up with the right offer we would hand over the keys to our companies tomorrow.

Nice humblebrag.

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Posted
22 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

They're there because they feel like they have to be, but they're bored.

In other words, it's church.

My son just felt that.

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1 hour ago, G650 said:

Ive said that many times, but yet here I am still working. Its harder to walk away than one thinks, but I can see that day happening more clearly every passing minute. One of my buddies and I were joking on a jobsite today actually if someone came up with the right offer we would hand over the keys to our companies tomorrow.

 

go high, everyone likes the guy that empties those port a johns 

Posted
3 hours ago, Born to Run said:

Same. The stress sucks. I had the daily worry women and LBGQ friends have over this wretched pustule.

I fear that Trump has shown other politicians that there is no consequence for lying, no limit on the outrageousness of those lies or any real need to have Any substantative position on anything. Say one thing to one group and the exact opposite to another group? No consequences.

At a play last night in Lakeway; old ass lady walks up and tells me how handsome I am and that I look like JD Vance and she hopes I share her political viewpoint. (I do not look like him and my wife was like wtf This shit just creeps into everything all the time.  I can't drive to dinner without seeing "no balls in women's sports" and other bs a dozen times.  It fucking sucks.

It might be the eyeliner - just saying 🤣

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Even Elon's sycophants are asking for details and he never responds
 
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Because he’s lying.
He just says shit that has no relation to reality at all. He’s a psychotic lying piece of shit.
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Posted
6 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

 

Yeah, why not.  It's too bad Rush Limbaugh couldn't have pinned that medal on Trump's chest (but he's dead). Donald had a chance to win a Purple Heart in Nam but the bone spurs got in the way of his heroism.  

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I love how Kamala and Biden have wisely refrained from playing politics with this. I hope her surrogates and aligned PACs spread the message that Trump would rather play politics than help.

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