
MidTexHorn
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Well this lifelong Republican voter is going to happily vote for Bernie later today. That's one Texas vote for positive change.
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Flying in tomorrow morning. Hitting the Dynamo game in the afternoon before heading over to Minute Maid. May have a beer or two at some point.
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5 minutes ago, 6th Street said:
I'm surprised Warren hasn't been able to better leverage her Native American heritage to garner support from minorities.Â
So fucking clever. Really really clever stuff.Â
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30 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
This race drives home the pitfall of the old adage that a candidate has to run as far to the left as their nearest competitor in the primary and then turn heel and run back to the center for the general. If batshit crazy Bernie and his cult were not in the picture then Senator Warren could have stayed more towards the center and kicked fucking ass. She could have been another Bill Clinton / Barack Obama, but to the Bernie Bros that's not good enough.
I said it when Bernie announced his candidacy and I'll say it again. He's going to fuck this up for all of us.
You are a fucking beatdown. Â Worse than the Bernie bros you love to ridicule. GTFO or get on board man. Bernie is way to my left but this is happening. Get with it or get with Trump dude.Â
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I know what I’m going to do. I love Liz, think she would be a great President but she’s not a great candidate. She’s been my #1 pick, but it ain’t happening. I’m jumping on the Bernie train. All aboard! Let’s kick Trumps ass!
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5 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:
We all have our blindspots. I work in two blue states with muted Trump support - which is far different than those of you living as a blueberry in a raspberry soup.Â
Just a hunch (which may be totally wrong) - but this may be the blindspot for moderates in Texas - a state where the fracking economy has temporarily shielded moderates from the real economy:Â
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Household debt is again at record highs - surpassing the 2008 levels by $1.5 trillion.
The CMD’s latest Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit reveals that total household debt increased by $193 billion, or 1.4 percent, to reach $14.15 trillion in the fourth quarter of 2019. This marks the twenty-second consecutive quarterly increase, with total household debt now $1.5 trillion higher, in nominal terms, than the pre-recession peak of $12.68 trillion, set in the third quarter of 2008.ÂÂÂThere is genuine economic fear our there - outside of the oil patch. And you know what happens when the non-oil economy falters - down goes oil and the workers in the the fossil fuel industry.  I think we are already seeing those pains work their way through the system. If China's industry crashes, the demand for oil will sink quickly.ÂI remember what it was like to live in Texas when oil and gas + banking sectors were ailing, while the nation was feeling no pain. Texas was on an island and no one cared. Frankly, with Sanders' support in Texas, I think economic worries have become pressing - even if it doesn't hit centrists' bank accounts just yet.ÂÂBut again - you blueberries in Texas know what it is like to live under Trump in a red state and I don't. And you may be far more connected to the damage done by Trump to vulnerable communities in Texas.ÂÂI don't believe giving up is the answer - when so many with less powerful voices need your solidarity.ÂUs, not me.Â
I live smack dab in the middle of the strawberry soup that is Midland, Texas. This town abso-fucking-lutely loves Donald Trump. I mean looooooves him. You should see the ads the guys running for the Repub congressional seat here are running. They might even make Trump blush, they're so obviously publicly fellating him.
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1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:
Yeah, I don't recall seeing ANY Bloomberg excitement around here.
But I'll tell you a Bloomberg supporter who has surprised me -- my 76 yr old mom. She HATES Trump. I mean, pure, visceral loathing. And just in the past couple of weeks, has gotten all Bloomberg-y. I haven't had time to visit with her about it, but I'm betting pretty strongly that it's the "electability" perception -- she thinks Bloomberg can beat Trump, and that's the most important thing. I get the priority, I just don't think that Bloomberg is that guy. The "safe, utterly uninspiring, generic old white guy who can probably beat Trump" choice remains Biden. Biden has a lotta weaknesses, but I think he holds up a shitload better than Bloomberg.
Yeah, this is my wife. Normally completely apolitical, but hates, despises, loathes, etc. everything about Trump. She is all in to beat him, but really knows almost nothing about his policies or about the policies of any of the Dems except in the most general sense. She's really enjoyed the Bloomberg ads and may end up voting for him. I'm trying to talk her out of it.
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1 hour ago, Lobo said:
Is opening day for MLS traditionally the last Saturday in February? 376 days then, a bit under 54 weeks. Reason I ask, I think they get the stadium proper finished out in time. But the infrastructure/parking egress are not going to be done in time at this current pace. Â
Suspect you're correct which is why I'll be Ubering to/from the Domain or a nearby brewery rather than directly to the stadium, at least initially.
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2 hours ago, Gil Bang said:
so handsome
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So gross. And yet, his gross looks are actually the least gross thing about him.Â
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Saw Pat Green at Mile Zero Fest in Key West a few years back and then ran into him at a little bar near our Airbnb after the show. He was ordering a margarita and insisted on buying for our entire group. After all of the shit I've heard about him, I was fully expecting the show to suck, but he was great and we were all pleasantly surprised. Then, to meet him afterwards and for him to be totally cool was also a pleasant surprise. He was in a great mood, when we resisted having him pay for our drinks he said "shit man, if you knew how much they pay me for this you'd take the free drink. It's ridiculous!" Got a big laugh from everyone. He was very laid back, chatting with everyone. I became a fan after not really having liked him that much previously.
Saw Lance Armstrong at the Marfa "Railroad Revival Tour" stop featuring Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharp & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow. Still probably the best concert experience of my life. Lance was hanging at the sound booth, but didn't talk to him.
Saw Lars Ulrich of Metallica at the Radiohead show at ACL Fest in 2016. He was hanging in the VIP area by the sound booth with some hottie and we were right in front of that on the other side of the rail from him. We said hi and my buddy and his wife got a pic with him, but that was it.
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Just booked an Airbnb a block off of Canal for Thursday - Sunday of the LSU game weekend. Gonna be spending some time in this thread doing a little research. I've been to New Orleans a handful of times, and the food and drink choices are so good and numerous that is overwhelming. Fortunately, everything is so good that its hard to make a bad decision.
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If not already sold, I'm also interested in it.
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Rule of Law? What rule of law???
Fuck the ignorant shit that this country has become. A true banana republic.
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48 minutes ago, BradInATX said:
Well fuck, I guess I can scratch England off the list of places we'll move to when Trump gets re-elected.
When we were in Vancouver in 2017, I got dragged into a few political conversations with randoms. I fully expected to get accosted about him and told everyone my thoughts on him which are well documented here. Of course I hate him; I'm not a greedy prick, a racist, an idiot, or scared of change. To my surprise, a lot of them looked at him as a cult of personality that they were envious of. Several comments along the lines of "I wish our government stuck up for us like Trump does", yada yada. Got the same thing with an Uber driver that took us to Heathrow. Older black guy. And you're seeing Trump-like figures get elected here and there with increasing frequency all over the world.
This stuff is pretty frightening. Not sure where is safe from the wave of anti-intellectualism that is en vogue right now. Germany and France were pretty staunchly anti when we went, I guess.
It will pass. Eventually.
Odd. Every Canadian I've met hates the guy. In Ireland last year, I drank beer with a couple Canadians for a couple hours and we all agreed that Trump is disgusting and reflects horribly on the US. Every other person we talked to about Trump over there felt the same. England may be different.
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46 minutes ago, Mojo Hand said:
What would she say if you asked her if she agreed with the thing about "Their  numbers will soon overwhelm the culture as we have known it"?  Does she "love brown people" but not their cultures?Â
I suspect she didn't pay too much attention to that or what it means or the race baiting double meaning. If I did ask her that question, I think she'd say we don't want their culture of corruption and violence (MS-13 holla!).
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1 hour ago, Foosters said:
Fuck your mom.
Fuck you back, but I understand the sentiment
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
It’s never been about anything more than that. Everything else they say is completely disingenuous bullshit.
And they WILL say a lot. Because they know that their real reasons are loathsome and evil. But know that what they say - all of it - is bullshit.
Preserving our “cultural purity” is the driver. Always has been. Always will be.
21sr century nationalist nazi dreams.Yup, and I'm seeing it first hand. My mom is not a nazi. She loves brown people. She has several in her family. She is not in any way racist that I've ever seen.
Yet here we are. I suspect there were many like her in Germany in the 1930s who didn't hate the Jews but were easily led down that path out of fear, manipulation, propaganda, economic worries, etc. Really sad to see it happening here, in my family, in 2019.
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My very evangelical mother just posted this little essay on Facebook from that paragon of Christian decency James Dobson: https://drjamesdobson.org/about/july-newsletter-2019?sc=hpslider1
So much bullshit, I don't even know where to start. He acknowledges the fucking humanitarian nightmare of it all and then proceeds to blame the liberals and say that prayer for Trump and his Wall are the only fix (I'm paraphrasing). Unreal what so called Christians in this country have become. My mom was a fucking missionary in Central America for crying out loud, and this is what she has been reduced to.
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23 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:
it's not just trump. it's mcconnell, it's the nra, it's dan patrick, it's abbott, it's cruz and cornyn. it's a number of things. the whole republican party is just so fucking gross right now. just watch a trump rally.Â
i used to vote probably 75% republican, with the rest libertarian. very rarely would i vote for a dem.Â
now i am 0% republican and it's largely because fuck them, that's why. the party is shit.Â
Yup. Described me to a T, as well as multiple family members and friends. It's anecdotal, not sure how many other folks fall into our camp.
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11 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:
I don’t agree with any of the Dem candidates on much, but after write in candidate protest voting in 2016 I’ve accepted that I’m just going to have to vote for the Democrat in 2020 no matter how looney the platform is.  Trump being our President is too unconscionable.
But I do hope the Democrat nominee is one of the moderates (which basically leaves Biden, and then Klobuchar, Delaney and maybe Beto, although only Biden has a real shot), and that the Congress stays divided after 2020.  I just want the psychopath con man out of the Presidency while mostly being gridlocked and returning to normal instead of the Democrats getting to pass Bernie’s platform or the Dotard and Republican sycophants continuing their homage to Nero’s Rome. Â
I don’t think there are a lot of ton of people exactly like me, but there probably will be more conservatives in play for Democrats than any other election in the last 20+ years, and there are plenty of older left-leaning people who just want a return to normalcy more than radical change.  It could be enough to make a moderate primary campaign a better play than you would think, especially since about 19 of the 24 candidates are all vying for the most progressive mantle.Â
I know some folks like you. What I strongly believe though, is that at the end of the day they won't be able to pull the trigger for a D no matter how distasteful they find Trump. I don't think going overboard to appeal to this segment of the electorate by nominating a Biden is worthwhile.
I also know a number of folks like me, who are lifelong Republican voters who have fully made the switch and will not only vote anything but Trump but will also support much more left-leaning policy and Democratic candidates for offices other than the Presidency. I have several friends and family members who I am firmly convinced will never vote for another Republican again, at least at any time in the foreseeable future. For some of us, Trump was the eye opener we needed to swing way left and realize the lie we'd been buying from the so called conservatives.
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Super Tuesday - 1,357 Delegates at Stake
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Long lines in 90%+ Republican Midland. Several very competitive local races likely bringing out some extra folks.Â