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  • I think that it’s now safe to say that we Texans now live in a failed state.  30 years of GOP rule, setting our own standard, living the “Texas Dream,” which they’ve bragged about relentlessly…and let’s see where we are:

    A majority of the state in complete failure, unable to deliver the most BASIC of services (things that are called “utilities,” not “luxuries,” for a reason).  No power.  No water.  No means of clearing roads (that one, I can’t fault the state so much….but it wouldn’t be as big a crisis if people weren’t stuck in their homes with no power and water).  So citizens are stuck in their homes, some of them dying there. 

    Water resource planning?  After pretending for decades that a drought would never happen again, and not doing ANYTHING to develop resources in the state water plan (a document actually developed using science and mathematical projections), we had several locations, including actual cities, down to a few days of water supply.  We’ve finally gotten on our horse a bit, but it may be too late if the next drought comes anytime soon.  

    State rank in key categories:

    Education – 34

    Health Care - 37

    Infrastructure - 33

    Opportunity - 39

    Environment - 44

    Infrastructure - 33 

    In overall quality of life ranking by US News, we are now #38, down from #36 just two years ago.  At that rate, we’ll be in the bottom 3 within ten years.

    We are SUPER independent, and FUCK the feds….but we have requested federal disaster assistance more than any other state in the past decade or so.

    But hey, our economy is ranked #15!

    That’s right, we have a “roaring economy” and the “Texas Miracle!”  But we can’t deliver the basics for our citizens.  The economy is VERY efficient at funneling bazillions to the very few…..with little of it “trickling down” to most Texans.  Yeah, the people on this board generally do fine, but face the facts – we’re the top 10% or so.  We are educated, older, and fortunate.

    Our federal system allows for state-by-state experiments.  Texas is the poster child for near anarcho-capitalism and zero regulation or oversight.  We have tested that approach, for over a generation now (30 years of Republican rule).  That approach is a failure.  The evidence is undeniable, and overwhelming.  It doesn’t matter how many River Oaks millionaires you produce if the rest of your people are dying in their homes.  Shit, some of those River Oaks millionaires might be freezing to death today, too.

    The kids of a middle class family can hardly afford to go to a good state school.  Their prospects for employment are mediocre.  Their prospects of suffering crippling medical debt at some point are significant.  Their chances of not having basic utilities needed for life safety at some point – all but certain.  Their chances of becoming ill or dying from a pollution-caused illness are material.

    What’s the result?  Our leaders have sold Texas as a paradise – move here!  Bring your business here!  And some businesses have done so, adding opportunity…..but providing little to no tax support for the infrastructure we all depend on.  To the contrary, over the past few years, I know more and more people – educated people, people who can do their jobs elsewhere, who are looking to bail on this state.  It’s people with young kids, who want them to grow up in a better place.  It’s people in their working years, who simply want a better path.  It’s retirees, who want a safe and secure place to live.

    We have consumed our seed stock.  We have burned through our reserves.  We are now consuming ourselves.  The ability to pitch Texas as the land of opportunity is done.  Seeing what we have become, the tentative thought/plan my wife and I had of wrapping up our careers here and then getting the hell out of Dodge is becoming much more concrete.  My children are already unlikely to make their future in this state.  Now we are, too.

    But the response from the Republican leadership and their sycophants – “how are you gonna pay for it?  Taxes?  That’s socialism!  You want that stuff, you have to pay for it!”

    Fuck yes I do, and I’m okay with that.  I want groceries…so I have to pay HEB.  I want a car…so I have to pay Ford.  I want clothes…..so I have to pay Dillards.  I want my population educated….so I have to pay the school district.  I want electricity, with enough capacity to keep us running when we need it…..so I have to pay my bill, maybe with a capacity surcharge.  I want water to come out of the taps….so I have to pay for development of resources and maintenance of infrastructure.  I want roads….so I pay taxes to build and maintain them.  YES, I have to pay for all of those things, and “nothing is free” – no fucking shit.  So, let’s pay for it.  We have the #15 economy….we HAVE the funds in this state.  An economy with the flow of funds that ours has can produce and maintain all of those results.  But we have chosen a different path; funnel all the dollars to the top, and spend next to nothing for the public good.  We have privatized profit….we have socialized the costs.  And we are dying because of it.

    My fellow Texans are dying in their homes….and there’s nothing I can do about it today.  And I am enraged.

    I love Texas.  I am 6th generation here.  My ancestors have Texas historical markers on their graves.  We helped make this state, and this state helped make us.  It educated us (back when college was affordable).  But it’s time to face the fact – this state is a failure, and on its current path, with its current leadership and philosophy, it will only get worse.  This state has a terrible future, unless we dramatically change our path.   Chances of that happening?  0.0% -- because we’ll continue to vote for the guys who make our leadership priorities bathroom bills, and transgender sports, and requiring the national anthem be played at certain events.  Any bill that has been proposed to improve emergency preparedness of gov’t entities has been crushed by the Republicans controlling the lege….but we will definitely stick with those guys.  No taxes.  No government functionality.

    What we are seeing happening right now is our system working EXACTLY AS IT WAS DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO WORK.  And we will, I guarantee it, collectively decide to stick with that.  This state is in free-fall, and anyone with eyes can see it.  And anyone with a brain is starting to think of ways to make their life elsewhere.  It breaks my goddamned heart to see us commit collective suicide, but here we are.

     

     


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    Evil Bill Obrien

    Posted

    Know it's probably going to just find its way into the round file but just sent a message to the Governor's office urging him to Veto SB3 and send it back to the Lege to come up with some regulations rather than full ban on THC. Think I made some decent points that this is just handing an 8 billion dollar industry to the Cartel, showing contempt for small businesses by shutting them down with the stroke of a pen eliminating 50,000 jobs, and is going to push thousands of Texans back into the hands of opioids and other dangerous prescription drugs. Likely spitting in the wind but had to at least try...

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    Larry T. Spider

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    Know it's probably going to just find its way into the round file but just sent a message to the Governor's office urging him to Veto SB3 and send it back to the Lege to come up with some regulations rather than full ban on THC. Think I made some decent points that this is just handing an 8 billion dollar industry to the Cartel, showing contempt for small businesses by shutting them down with the stroke of a pen eliminating 50,000 jobs, and is going to push thousands of Texans back into the hands of opioids and other dangerous prescription drugs. Likely spitting in the wind but had to at least try...

    I sent an email to Ted Cruz once. I was immediately added to so many far right email lists that the block button wouldn’t really work. Various mutations of email addresses sending propaganda 10x per day. Eventually abandoned the email account. So, have fun with that.

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    Evil Bill Obrien

    Posted (edited)

    25 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    I sent an email to Ted Cruz once. I was immediately added to so many far right email lists that the block button wouldn’t really work. Various mutations of email addresses sending propaganda 10x per day. Eventually abandoned the email account. So, have fun with that.

    Well if using the contact page on an official state website like the Office of the Govenor gets me put on a ton of spam lists think I may get to lawyer up because that doesn't sound very legal...

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, softlynow said:

    Incorrect. The trouble with Texans is it’s full of all the non-Texans who came here and turned our libertarian-leaning conservative base into an authoritarian one. Danny Goeb is fucking exhibit A.

    The Texas I grew up in is gone. Carpetbaggers killed it and cosplay as us now. 

     

    non texans aren't sending abbott and goeb to austin the past 30 years 

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    landman

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    Colorado is making about 20 million a month in weed taxes. Texas has about 5x the population. Could help with reducing property taxes or funding schools…..but nah. We will just keep funding Colorado’s schools with our weed tourism. They have a fund that uses the excise tax money to renovate old schools or build new ones. 

    We had a fund for schools as well once - the lottery.  At least that is how it was sold to voters 35+ years ago.  

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    Macanudo

    Posted

    15 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

    Well if using the contact page on an official state website like the Office of the Govenor gets me put on a ton of spam lists think I may get to lawyer up because that doesn't sound very legal...

    Everything "they" do is legal.   Moose out front should have told you.

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    softlynow

    Posted

    1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

     

    non texans aren't sending abbott and goeb to austin the past 30 years 

    Not alone, but they give our native shitheels a big assist. The portion of the folks we take in fleeing pronouns and masks heavily outweighs the normie portion. 
     

    Also, my state rep is from upstate New York.

    Having met almost every local GOP activist in Montgomery County, I learned first-hand that  way too many Trumpkins hail from other states, and just couldn’t wait to get here and fuck shit up. 

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    Born to Run

    Posted

    2 hours ago, softlynow said:

    Incorrect. The trouble with Texans is it’s full of all the non-Texans who came here and turned our libertarian-leaning conservative base into an authoritarian one. Danny Goeb is fucking exhibit A.

    The Texas I grew up in is gone. Carpetbaggers killed it and cosplay as us now. 

    Nah native Texans are also shitty, stupid and selfish.  Go read Texas History.

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    Bozo_Casanova

    Posted (edited)

    Yet another example of what lefties don’t see because they don’t make a point to understand Texas Republicans:

    Even the politically active R’s are sick of this shit and are begging  Democrats to be competitive and giving strategic pointers. 

    “Their insanity may turn Texas blue after all.  All Democrats have to do is use Brian Harrison’s rhetoric against the R’s and talk about what people really want…property tax relief, public safety & safe schools & roads. And get rid of vouchers.”

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    Pato del Muerto

    Posted

     Need real Texans not transplants!  Real like Moses and Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, davey Crockett, MB Lamar!

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    hobbes2702

    Posted

    On 5/23/2025 at 9:38 AM, softlynow said:

    Incorrect. The trouble with Texans is it’s full of all the non-Texans who came here and turned our libertarian-leaning conservative base into an authoritarian one. Danny Goeb is fucking exhibit A.

    The Texas I grew up in is gone. Carpetbaggers killed it and cosplay as us now. 

    Libertarian lol. Sure Jan.

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    hobbes2702

    Posted

    20 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Yet another example of what lefties don’t see because they don’t make a point to understand Texas Republicans:

    Even the politically active R’s are sick of this shit and are begging  Democrats to be competitive and giving strategic pointers. 

    “Their insanity may turn Texas blue after all.  All Democrats have to do is use Brian Harrison’s rhetoric against the R’s and talk about what people really want…property tax relief, public safety & safe schools & roads. And get rid of vouchers.”

    You’re such a beating

    hobbes2702

    Posted

    56 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

     Need real Texans not transplants!  Real like Moses and Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, davey Crockett, MB Lamar!

    Lipan Apaches only.

    Bozo_Casanova

    Posted

    2 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    You’re such a beating

    You’re right. We must stay pure, and the only way we’ll avoid attracting the support of undesirables is to keep losing. 

    hobbes2702

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    You’re right. We must stay pure, and the only way we’ll avoid attracting the support of undesirables is to keep losing. 

    It would just be cool if we could go more than a day without you lamenting the Dems for Republican problems. But alas.

    Fudge Nuggets

    Posted

    On 5/23/2025 at 2:13 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Yet another example of what lefties don’t see because they don’t make a point to understand Texas Republicans:

    Even the politically active R’s are sick of this shit and are begging  Democrats to be competitive and giving strategic pointers. 

    “Their insanity may turn Texas blue after all.  All Democrats have to do is use Brian Harrison’s rhetoric against the R’s and talk about what people really want…property tax relief, public safety & safe schools & roads. And get rid of vouchers.”

    For every Republican voter that sits out an election or even votes blue, there are enough transplant assholes to make up for them.  The crazier those fuckers get, the bigger the margin of victory.

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    Bozo_Casanova

    Posted (edited)

    1 hour ago, hobbes2702 said:

    It would just be cool if we could go more than a day without you lamenting the Dems for Republican problems. But alas.

    Texas Democrats, as a political party, are retarded losers and their incompetence and hubris is how we got here. 
    No offense to you, but I’d rather be a part of an opposition with skin in the game, and calling 30 years of losing and self-inflicted damage a “Republican problem”  tells me you don’t have any. 

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    PenelopeWitherspoon

    Posted

    In Venice today, I was asked to sign a petition to outlaw drugs. I told the guy no. Signed a New Yorker who will be buying edibles and flower once she gets home.

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    hobbes2702

    Posted

    20 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Texas Democrats, as a political party, are retarded losers and their incompetence and hubris is how we got here. 
    No offense to you, but I’d rather be a part of an opposition with skin in the game, and calling 30 years of losing and self-inflicted damage a “Republican problem”  tells me you don’t have any. 

    Cool. I think how we got here is that a bunch of “libertarians” voted for shitty republicans for several decades and now blame the Dems for not catering to them while they supported people like W. And then they post about it on every single topic. 

    15 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    In Venice today, I was asked to sign a petition to outlaw drugs. I told the guy no. Signed a New Yorker who will be buying edibles and flower once she gets home.

    Mail some here.

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    TwiceHorn

    Posted

    On 5/23/2025 at 11:36 AM, softlynow said:

    Not alone, but they give our native shitheels a big assist. The portion of the folks we take in fleeing pronouns and masks heavily outweighs the normie portion. 
     

    Also, my state rep is from upstate New York.

    Having met almost every local GOP activist in Montgomery County, I learned first-hand that  way too many Trumpkins hail from other states, and just couldn’t wait to get here and fuck shit up. 

    Yeah, the social conservatism that is so "aTexan" sort of crept into a more traditional conservatism aided and accelerated by fuckstick carpetbaggers until it's all social/culture lunacy all the time.

    However, those Texans, native or otherwise, that haven't come to their goddam senses yet are now fully complicit and blameworthy.

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    Willfully Horn

    Posted (edited)

    Exit polling in the last Senate race concluded a majority of native Texans voted for Beto. The last presidential election showed rural Hispanics shifted their support to turnip in numbers that could mean the majority of native Texans voted R. I haven’t seen, and not for lack of trying, a report definitively saying so, one way or another.

    But, I too am represented in Washington by a carpetbagging coprophagist. Paxton and goeb are both carpetbagging grifters. While Abbott is believed to be  born in Wichita Falls, many people are saying his mother actually pushed him out in Oklahoma, but sucked enough ass in Wichita Falls to get his birthplace changed,

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    Bozo_Casanova

    Posted (edited)

    46 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

    I think how we got here is that a bunch of “libertarians” voted for shitty republicans for several decades and now blame the Dems for not catering to them while they supported people like W. And then they post about it on every single topic. 

    1 hour ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

    Wait- I’m a libertarian now? That’s rich. New here?

    Whether it’s 2000 when I was at the TDP convention in Ft Worth knowing that the ticket was toast front top to bottom and watching them congratulate themselves for “keeping their powder dry” for the 2002 “dream ticket,” or physically ejecting out of state Clinton ringers from my precinct caucus in 2008, or seeing how they abandoned Chris Bell in a year when Perry was beatable, or later promoted Lupe Valdez as a viable candidate, or now, watching these losers work to avoid contested primaries and seeing how they discourage good candidates from running, I know what I’m talking about and come by my contempt honestly.
     

    Republicans did not win Texas. Democrats lost it, period. 

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    Bozo_Casanova

    Posted

    Speaking of which, did y'all know they might push Colin Allred to run for Senate against Paxton?
    It’s the political equivalent of point shaving.

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    Willfully Horn

    Posted (edited)

    3 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Speaking of which, did y'all know they might push Colin Allred to run for Senate against Paxton?
    It’s the political equivalent of point shaving.

    I did not know that. I have high hopes for James Talarico.

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    hornmpa96

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Speaking of which, did y'all know they might push Colin Allred to run for Senate against Paxton?
    It’s the political equivalent of point shaving.

    Holy fucking shit! 
     

    I actually like Allred but he’s a terrible statewide candidate. He has proven completely incapable of motivating the Democratic base to vote and doesn’t generate any excitement.

    Losers supporting losers.

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    bluto

    Posted

    Ten Commandments posted in EVERY public school classroom about to be on the governors desk. 

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    Ghost of NMAS

    Posted

    They should include a list of all the ways that Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick have broken them to hang next to them

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    Beantown Express 2.0

    Posted

    3 hours ago, bluto said:

    Ten Commandments posted in EVERY public school classroom about to be on the governors desk. 

    It’s about fucking time they passed something like this.  Now all the troubles of this state, dare I say the world will be solved.  Can’t wait for the Texas law saying you have to pray to Jesus before your food is served at a restaurant or you get arrested.  

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    Brisketexan

    Posted

    They should include a list of all the ways that Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick have broken them to hang next to them

    Tell em how that would violate any law.

    Hint: it wouldn’t. Not in the slightest. Make it an interactive learning exercise, just here to educate the children.
    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    14 hours ago, bluto said:

    Ten Commandments posted in EVERY public school classroom about to be on the governors desk. 

     

    church of satan has to be laughing

     

    Pato del Muerto

    Posted (edited)

    15 hours ago, bluto said:

    Ten Commandments posted in EVERY public school classroom about to be on the governors desk. 

    Unmet need for secular private schooling in Texas- approximately 10k per year tuition, maybe?

    just be prepared for the state to close that loophole as soon as it gets their attention.  

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    PenelopeWitherspoon

    Posted

    17 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

    They should include a list of all the ways that Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick have broken them to hang next to them

    Well, they violate the, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me," once since they all worship at the alter of the Great Orange Dotard.

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    Fastbreak

    Posted

    THC ban is heading to Abbotts desk to sign. Woukd kill entire industry while boosting big pharma. With the upcoming destruction of Medicare it's going to mean more pain and financial ruin for people like the elderly and veterans.

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    Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand

    Posted

    On 5/24/2025 at 9:20 PM, Ghost of NMAS said:

    They should include a list of all the ways that Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick have broken them to hang next to them

    I Did That Trump stickers next to each one

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    Fastbreak

    Posted

    You shall have no other gods before Me.

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    You shall not make idols.

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    You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain.

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    Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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    Honor your father and your mother.
    You shall not murder.
    You shall not commit adultery.

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    You shall not steal.

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    You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

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    You shall not covet.

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    Bullneck

    Posted

    Vibrators too?  I guess the incel lobby is stronger than I thought.

     

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    Chad Fuck

    Posted

     

    I was told this ban is all because our buddy Danny Goeb was late to the pot party and wound up with poor position in the thc market. So he’s going to burn it all down, then once the backlash happens he can bring it back with his own corporate friends. He will be a hero to those who forgot he tanked it and then also be much richer. The bearer of this message occupies a “Lobo-esque” (the cartels are coming after Ole Googly Eye, dontcha know!) position in my personal circle of friends, so take it as you will. But it has the air of plausibility around it.
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    GreenspointTexas

    Posted

    The 10 commandments shit is fucking so dumb. At this point, I dont know how anyone can be a christian anymore

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    Ghost of NMAS

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    Well, none of the people doing this shit are actually Christians

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    Steamboat1874

    Posted

    I am getting ready to place a very large order before the Republicans once again pass a bill the majority of Texans are against.

    Fucking assholes will not put it on the ballot because they know they will lose.

    Same with vouchers and gambling.

    I fucking hate Republicans and if you voted for one I hate your ass too.

    Nazis

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    12 hours ago, Fastbreak said:

    THC ban is heading to Abbotts desk to sign. Woukd kill entire industry while boosting big pharma. With the upcoming destruction of Medicare it's going to mean more pain and financial ruin for people like the elderly and veterans.

     

    more customers for private prisons 

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    pyrohornIII

    Posted

     

    On 5/24/2025 at 5:10 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Speaking of which, did y'all know they might push Colin Allred to run for Senate against Paxton?
    It’s the political equivalent of point shaving.

    While there are some who are behind another Allred run, I say the majority are gunshy of it at this point.  He burned a lot of bridges trying to play the bi-partisan game.  Beto has been rattling his sabre some.   We shall see.  I'd personally like to see Crockett take a swing at it. 

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    Brisketexan

    Posted

     
    While there are some who are behind another Allred run, I say the majority are gunshy of it at this point.  He burned a lot of bridges trying to play the bi-partisan game.  Beto has been rattling his sabre some.   We shall see.  I'd personally like to see Crockett take a swing at it. 

    Fuck this shit.
    We need Danny Trejo to move here and run as Machete.
    You think I’m kidding. I’m not. The GQP redefined itself with a “celebrity.” We have to do the same. That’s the American attention economy at work.
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    Pato del Muerto

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Fuck this shit.
    We need Danny Trejo to move here and run as Machete.
    You think I’m kidding. I’m not. The GQP redefined itself with a “celebrity.” We have to do the same. That’s the American attention economy at work.

    He’s 2 years older than Trump

    Brisketexan

    Posted

    He’s 2 years older than Trump

    Sure.
    But Machete.
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    wildcat09

    Posted

    On 5/24/2025 at 4:04 PM, Willfully Horn said:

    Exit polling in the last Senate race concluded a majority of native Texans voted for Beto. The last presidential election showed rural Hispanics shifted their support to turnip in numbers that could mean the majority of native Texans voted R. I haven’t seen, and not for lack of trying, a report definitively saying so, one way or another.

    But, I too am represented in Washington by a carpetbagging coprophagist. Paxton and goeb are both carpetbagging grifters. While Abbott is believed to be  born in Wichita Falls, many people are saying his mother actually pushed him out in Oklahoma, but sucked enough ass in Wichita Falls to get his birthplace changed,

    There's something very unintentionally (and darkly) hilarious about this. Nobody remembers Allred's run because he never even fucking campaigned.

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