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Texas73

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  1. The bank bailouts are not the reason we have Trump. The low intelligent whites don't give a shit about that. Trump conned them into believing he is a great businessman and he is a non-politician and Americans are sick of politicians. 

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  2. 17 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Gillum winning the Dem nomination for FL Governor is encouraging news. 

    I hope he can win in the general. He is a far left progressive endorsed by Bernie. I think he is great but this is in Florida.

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  3. 3 hours ago, Brothahorn said:
    3 hours ago, Mojo Hand said:
    It's always amazing watching a Trump cultist shit his pants over and over again and think he's owning everyone else. 

    It's even more amazing when an idiot projects his stupidity.

    The only post I agree with. 

  4. 49 minutes ago, 4th&Five said:

     

    A Blue Wave means a check on your craziness and survival of our country. A Red Wave means more corruption and you and hero Putin wins and destroys our country

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  5. 27 minutes ago, XR4ticlone said:

    Oh...I've got no doubt that those people will vote...2 & 3 times even.  

    I know, how could I assume that shady shit would happen in South Texas?  🙄

    Tell us how you know "those people" will vote 2 or 3 times and how you know "shady shit" will happen in South Texas.

    My opinion is it is because you are a racist.

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  6. 36 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    I do like what little I know about Ted Cruz. Not sure how that makes one a cuck. I just find the generalized stereotype of Beto fans (what I’ve seen here at least, manlet incel looking guys with alt-country tastes and middle aged women with crushes on a good looking peer/contemporary) to be funny and I’m curious how real the wave is...and that it would be funny if he got smashed, however unlikely.

    Do you like what you know about Trump?

  7. 5 hours ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    “YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT” is held as the dumbest but I actually don’t mind that and see his point. I also see Cuomo’s point but I guess we can’t be honest and call the baby ugly because it’s all about feelings.

    "I am in agreement— I think initially it was jarring to hear (much like the Cuomo comment) for a lot of folks, but if you took time and gave honest thought, there is merit. I get that."

    The above are the 2 full posts you wrote. I fail to read where you explained in context that Obama speech that day was about public works in our country and specifically the  “YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT” was about roads and bridges. Call it what it was, bullshit to claim Obama said private business owners didn't build their businesses. 

    It is not initially jarring to hear as you stated. Rather it was disingenuous for Republicans to use those 4 words completely out of context, placing them on the giant backdrop banner at the GOP convention.  And of course the Trumpkins and low intelligent voters bought into it: "Obama hates capitalism. He is a communist."

  8. 5 hours ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

    “YOU DIDNT BUILD THAT” is held as the dumbest but I actually don’t mind that and see his point. I also see Cuomo’s point but I guess we can’t be honest and call the baby ugly because it’s all about feelings

    Obama was talking about the roads and bridges that allow consumers to get to people's businesses. The individual business owner's didn't build them. Using this quote insinuating business owner's didn't build their businesses is Bullshit. 

    And the Trumpkins bought it hook line and sinker. Low intelligent voters.

  9. 44 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    For those immobile demographics what is the underlying cause?  Are they lazy, don't care, scared or ignorant? 

    I think it is scared or ignorant, especially ignorant. For the old white Trumpkins stuck in rural towns, when they graduated from high school not everyone was told they could go to college like they are today so they got jobs and married right after high school.

    Moving to live in an urban area expands a person's perspective and working with and meeting diverse people increases the likelihood they will vote for Democrats.

  10. 24 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    I believe it can all be explained by race. White people are afraid this isn't going to be a white country anymore. And they are right. The change that is happening in this country terrifies a lot of white folks who grew up being fed the myths of America. They don't know this country's history. They don't know who actually built this country and who had to be removed to make it happen. Many of them do know and simply don't care. It's tragic.

    You got that right. Van Zandt is 93% white (7% hispanic), and only 3% black. My hometown has no blacks other than a few children without a father in the home. Some pickups display the Confederate flag and liberals are hated worse than the devil. 

  11. 14 hours ago, RPM said:

    When I was a small boy my Granddad told me "Republicans are for the rich man, Democrats are for the little man." I haven't seen anything to change my mind about that in 50 years. Sure, both sides are lying crooks. But there seems to be a bit more gravy on the biscuit when Dems are running the show.

    My dad who was born in 1930 always said the same thing and if he were alive he was still be a yellow dog Democrat. I grew up in Van Zandt county and when I was young it was solid Democratic. Now it is all Republican. All I hear up there is Democrats want free things from the government and they kill babies. 

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    If we bring freedom loving voters to the polls,Texas will stay bright red.

    I'm a freedom loving voter, allowing women the freedom to choose and allowing gays the freedom to marry. I'm voting bright blue.

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  13. So explain what I stated as antiquated..? Explain what is wrong to enlighten some, not just post an arbitrary word that someone is "wrong", extrapolate your point...

     

    "Here is an example of early age indoctrination" Youth are not indoctrinated into being gay. They are born that way. Neither straight nor gay youth can be converted to the other side. 

    "I am in now way condemning people that choose such a lifestyle" People don't choose to be gay. See above.

    "I believe it hard to "pray away" someone's gayness". Gay people can't pray the gay away. The idea that it is hard to pray away someone's gayness implies it is possible and is idiotic. You should be more explicit in what you think happens when this difficult exercise of praying the gay away is successful.

    Your thoughts are antiquated and wrong. I'm not going to waste time being more explicit trying to convince you your thoughts are from the the thinking of more than 50 years ago. 

  14. 1 hour ago, RayDog said:

    Republicans lost 7.5% of their vote in the 11 largest counties representing 50% of Texas voters from 2012 to 2016 and 3.5% in the next 15 counties representing 25% of the vote.

    If that rate of change is equaled from 2016 to 2020 Texas will be a lean Democratic state. In 2018 it is a tossup.

    I like the way you think.

  15. 38 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    College should be affordable. I'm not convinced it should be free. I think you probably have to charge something to discourage the attendance of people who won't take it seriously. Obviously you can't eliminate that completely because there will always be parents willing to pay for their kids who aren't committed to the task even if they're qualified. But free? That just sounds reckless and it makes it hard for me to take its proponents seriously.

    This. A lot of students attending college, especially junior college, can't pass a 7th grade math test so they have to take several semesters of developmental math which don't count toward a degree. Most of them are getting grant money and almost 70% never take a college credit math class. They use the grant money for a few semesters and then drop out because they failed so many classes the grant stops funding. The small percentage who are paying for their tuition have a much higher passing rate than the ones getting grants. 

    I wish getting a high school diploma meant something like it used to. How so many can graduate from high school with Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II and don't know how to solve 2x + 5 =35 is is unreal. Many can't give the correct answer to -8 + 5.

  16. The race was determined long before the primaries were over and before the convention but unlike Hillary, who was much closer to beating Obama in 2008, Bernie stayed in the race until the convention which was divisive. Hillary dropped out before the Democratic convention in 2008 and it made for a smooth convention. A large number were so butt-hurt that the #NeverHillary bullshit got popular and those Bernie bots were successfully targeted by Russians and stats show they helped elect Trump. 

    Clinton got 16.8 million primary votes and Sanders got 13.2 million. That's 56% to 44%, a landslide. 

    I remember the Bernie idiots claiming Hillary was a Republican. They refused to vote for her by either voting for Trump, staying home for voting for Stein.

    I wonder if they are happy with who they help elect. In my opinion they are as guilty as the Republicans and they deserve to own it. 

    I hope you are still laughing when Bernie loses again.

  17. Bernie isn't going to be the Democratic nominee in 2020. Hillary Clinton beat him badly in 2016 for the nomination and those millions and millions of supporters are not going to vote for him in Democratic primaries. Bernie is very popular among young progressive Democrats and they don't get out and vote. 

    Keep wishing and hoping though.

  18. 16 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    Texas Lyceum Poll (we are also getting a Quinnipiac today on the race);

    Cruz 41

    Beto 39

    And it has Abbot up 47-31, Patrick up 39-29 and Paxton up 35-25.  So this is Cruz underperforming.

    Link?

  19. 4 hours ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    A good friend of mine said the exact same thing just the other week. He's 61 and is as honest as the day is long, but he's Team R regardless of the candidates in front of him. He did walk it back a bit by saying "never say never", because his dad was a yella dog Dem from Wichita Falls who never voted for an R in his life until the final 2 presidential elections of his life (hint: the D won but was infamous for wearing a tan suit once).

    Beto is not going to win by converting these type of Republican voters. Texas is not going to go blue by converting them either. Beto's and Texas' hope of going blue is with increased voter turnout, specifically among Hispanics. 

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