Texas Guy

Our nation and our people are worth fighting for.

I’ve changed my opinion and now think the Democrats should platform Hasan Piker because today I had a mental image of the Democrats having Hasan try to connect with blue collar mechanics in Pennsylvania and that would be so funny it’s almost worth President JD Vance

It's funny, Houston is this supernova of growth, the rare place in the US that is absorbing millions of domestic and international migrants and making them richer, but if you say anything nice about it, e.g. maybe non-zoning is fine, people have a meltdown.

"It's all sprawl!" It's certainly a lot, and hey, that's how cities always and everywhere boom. But it's also a lot of infill. It's a lot of everything, because Houston defaults to "let people do things," warts and all. This is what real, existing American abundance looks like.

Dollar Generals are a parasite on small town America

"It's all sprawl!" It's certainly a lot, and hey, that's how cities always and everywhere boom. But it's also a lot of infill. It's a lot of everything, because Houston defaults to "let people do things," warts and all. This is what real, existing American abundance looks like.

it shouldn’t be a hot take, that’s the correct way to look at gentrification. some guy with a unicycle isn’t displacing you, but your residential & commercial landlords / investment capital / your capital-compliant municipal leaders etc are. hold those people to account!