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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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    MissingInAction

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

    What's his surly handle?

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    Nice Guy Eddie

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    1 hour ago, TexasHooch said:

    Um... What?

     

     

    53 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

     

    The correction isn't helping me understand what is going on here.

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    DDD Dad

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    8 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

     

    The correction isn't helping me understand what is going on here.

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    bolverk

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    4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

     

    The correction isn't helping me understand what is going on here.

    I read it as:

    • The first one says he discussed it with colleagues for a long time, for months.
    • The second one says he discussed it in excruciating detail with influential and powerful people for a long time, once during dinner.
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    wildcat09

    Posted

    56 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    So he’s a weeb, a neckbeard, a sex pest (allegedly), AND, of course:

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    He was a Scalia clerk too.

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    Brisketexan

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    16 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

     

    The correction isn't helping me understand what is going on here.

    The context and length of time over which you discuss forcible asteroid sodomy is a very important detail. Pay attention, man.

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    sasquatch69

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    In essentially one generation, we have gone from having folks in state and national leadership who, while differing on policy sometimes to an extreme level, were still generally respected, knowledgeable, and held in high esteem -  to cretin like this  in many crucial roles. I don’t see any easy way to recover from this.

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    tx 3 putt

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    never heard of asteroid anal rape fetish 

     

    NYTransplant

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    2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    never heard of asteroid anal rape fetish 

     

    TILT. Will not be googling.

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    Schulz2.0

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    3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    never heard of asteroid anal rape fetish 

     

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    DDD Dad

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    6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    never heard of asteroid anal rape fetish 

     

     

    3 minutes ago, NYTransplant said:

    TILT. Will not be googling.

    From the comments.

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    tx 3 putt

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    hits close to home, the female friend suggested anal this am (for her, not me) 

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    Bozo_Casanova

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    9 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    hits close to home, the female friend suggested anal this am (for her, not me) 

    She sounds nice

    BrickHorn

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    1 hour ago, TexasHooch said:

    Um... What?

     

    Another liberal Democrat LGBTQ luciferian sex creep, amirite?

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    Macanudo

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    12 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

    hits close to home, the female friend suggested anal this am (for her, not me) 

    Interesting that you needed to clarify.

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    Ghost of NMAS

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    I'm still not clear as to whether you were top or bottom

    Planet Houston

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    8 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

    Interesting that you needed to clarify.

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    TwiceHorn

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    58 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

     

    The correction isn't helping me understand what is going on here.

    It was James Ho, some Texas federalists, and it was a circle jerk.

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    BrickHorn

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    4 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    It was James Ho, some Texas federalists, and it was a circle jerk.

    It’s a relief to hear that there weren’t any of those lib perverts present.

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    Sawbonz

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    38 minutes ago, Disco Strangler said:

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    First thing I thought of. I knew I would be too late to post.

     

    I’m still unclear about whether his fantasy involved his being anally raped by the asteroid or someone else.

     

     

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    Judge Roybeanbag

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    12 minutes ago, sasquatch69 said:

     I don’t see any easy way to recover from this.

    An asteroid.

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    HornOnTheBayou

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    Are we talking about an asteroid falling from space? In this case, would the victim be pointing their ass towards the sky or does the asteroid bounce of the ground and then into the victim's anus? Either way, 

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    tx 3 putt

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    1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    An asteroid.

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    Homercles

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    19 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

     

    From the comments.

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    Brisketexan

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    Jive Turkey

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    This choad is so worthless. His continued re-election to office pains me more than any other elected official in Texas. 

     

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    bluto

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    And the fact he pointed that at Jeremy Wallace, guy is a legit reporter and generally just a dork/nice guy. 

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    Brisketexan

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    37 minutes ago, Jive Turkey said:

    This choad is so worthless. His continued re-election to office pains me more than any other elected official in Texas. 

     

    "What a stupid question!  Everyone knows that marihuana makes white women listen to jazz music and be seduced by negroes!  You heard the story of Mildred Johnson!  One puff of reefer, and she left her family to cavort with a black saxophonist!  And no, don't ask me any stupid question about how many Texans die each year from alcohol poisoning or accidents while drunk. We're here to focus on the real threats: negro men and jazz!"

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    Horn Under a Bad Sign

    Posted

    On 5/28/2025 at 11:50 AM, Brisketexan said:

    The context and length of time over which you discuss forcible asteroid sodomy is a very important detail. Pay attention, man.


    Well, yeah ... because, I mean, who among us HASN'T fantasized over dinner about watching an asteroid sodomizing our boss? But you think about that for a longer period of time than that? Well that's just sick. 

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    That Guy

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    Guys, I gotta be honest, I once partook of the devil’s lettuce. Only now through angry Rosie Odonnel do I realize just how closely I danced with death. That could’ve been me walking in front of a train. Texans should celebrate how their fierce defenders of liberty are making them safer by clearing the shelves of these Canadian fentanyl laced assassin candies smuggled in by Mexican fentanyl mules. I think they should replace all of those godless vape shops with bible shops so other folks can learn to walk an enlightened path like our leaders. Well I guess wheels doesn’t walk the path, he rolls the path, and that’s cool too. 
     

     

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    Underdog

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    On 5/28/2025 at 11:40 AM, DDD Dad said:

    What's his surly handle?

    None of your business. 

     

     

    On 5/28/2025 at 1:01 PM, tx 3 putt said:

    never heard of asteroid anal rape fetish 

     

    You haven’t? Do you like camping? 
     

    On 5/28/2025 at 1:10 PM, tx 3 putt said:

    hits close to home, the female friend suggested anal this am (for her, not me


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    Bozo_Casanova

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    14 hours ago, Underdog said:

    You haven’t? Do you like camping? 

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    tchookem

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    This may be the most pathetic display I've ever seen.
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    Satchel

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    1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

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    Good grief, Dan. Get up.

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    mchookem

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    he's still not going to fuck you, Dan

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    2 hours ago, tchookem said:
    2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
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    This may be the most pathetic display I've ever seen.

     

    trump doesn't give a shit about patrick or abbott

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    Biff Tannen

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    2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

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    Are you fucking kidding me?

    Nice Guy Eddie

    Posted

    On 5/29/2025 at 9:53 PM, Disco Strangler said:

    The R politician’s new playbook: you’re an idiot for even asking this question.  

    Reporters need to follow up better: my job is to ask you the hard questions about the laws you are pushing through as THE PEOPLE’S GOVERNMENT.   Your job is to answer these hard questions.  Calling the question dumb is a tell that you can’t defend the law you passed.  

    The playbook also is to reply to the reporter something like, you must be from cnn.

    when a politican fails to answer these simple question especially about laws they want to pass, every reporter should ask why Patrick (or abbot) is refusing is newer a question.




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