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Larry T. Spider

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  1. Exact same thing for me. Lifelong Texas Republican until around 2011. I remember the specific moment that they lost me. I was driving home from work at an elementary school where we just told a bunch of hopeful, first year teachers that they didn’t have a job because the legislature cut our budget significantly. Our superintendent at the time was a budget master and had been a CPA before getting into education. He cut everything possible (25% of the admin building) and even found ways to make money for the district. He even started selling ads on the sides of busses to try to keep as many teachers as he could. I got in the car and rick Perry was on the radio blaming superintendents for teacher layoffs. It was absolutely unreal considering the situation. Patrick and the rest of the clowns continuing to embarrass the state was the nail in the coffin. As time has gone on I’ve really come to hate the GOP.
  2. We are going to end up with a dan patrick type in the house aren’t we?
  3. I counted 3 trump votes or no votes in the presidential election.
  4. I don’t want to live in a world where half of independents pick dotard over warren.
  5. And this surprises exactly....nobody.
  6. At this point I’m wondering if joe even wants this. I’m hoping he doesn’t and drops out after doing poorly in the first few states and polling drops.
  7. What a terribly weak answer from Harris. She’s always trying to say the right thing even when the obvious answer is right in front of her face. I have zero confidence that she will take trump to task as she claims she will.
  8. I have no doubt that the democratic nominee will win the popular vote by more than HRC did. Wisconsin giving the electoral college to trump scares the shit out of me. I also wonder if we will see a Bradley effect in polls. People know trump is a terrible human and might be reluctant to say they are voting for him. I’m not talking about the true believers but the right leaning people that just can’t pull the lever for a D.
  9. It’s a bit early but we need to get organized and start funneling cash into the correct races. How good is polling for Texas house races? Also, how many of them are set up with act blue? Bucy, my rep, did a fantastic job in his first term but he collected donations through a different site.
  10. Contrast this with trump’s reaction to tragedy. Tossing paper towels like basketballs, firing off ridiculous tweets, quick photo ops then bouncing. It would be so refreshing to have someone like beto or warren in the White House who genuinely cares about people going through the worst moments in their lives. The far right will find fault in anything they do but it will still shift the rest of the country back to valuing humanity a tiny bit more.
  11. I’ve heard the fried chicken is good. I’m not much for boycotts but food doesn’t taste quite as good with the Cheeto dick aftertaste.
  12. For those that don’t know the context, the bill millers owner is a max trump donor. Abbott is a cuck.
  13. Since always, but especially since trump.
  14. He would put the democrats at more risk by being a senile dumbass. #joe30330
  15. We should start a surly “PAC”. Not a real one but start a thread where people can discuss their favorite local candidate in a tight race, as a group we pick a couple, and donate. I bet there are enough surlists that would do it and move the needle for a person running for the Texas House.
  16. I’m informed enough to know the guy in Dayton did that amount of damage in 1 minute. People like you want to play semantics while we scrape bodies off the sidewalk. You aren’t interested in solutions so fuck off.
  17. If you are of the persuasion that people should not have AKs, then you have to come up with a plan to get them away from the public. Fully automatic weapons have to be registered and there are supposedly 638,000 out there. Nobody knows how many semi-automatic “assault rifle” type weapons are out there but the estimate is between 15 and 20 million. So, that’s a lot of guns and we don’t know who has them. I guess Beto’s plan makes as much sense as any but it would be require going all in. The far right would go absolutely ballistic and I would expect the number of guns turned in to be very small. If you were going to do this you would have to: 1. Ban new production 2. Do a mandatory buy back 3. Wait 50 years the guns to naturally decline in numbers. Side note: this is exactly why gun nuts have been against a gun registry forever. They want to keep their AKs even when the become illegal.
  18. I hope Bonnen sticks around until Dems take over. He is by far the most reasonable option that we have. The education funding bill was far from perfect but would have been unthinkable under a different speaker. Empower Texans won’t be happy until every student is in an unairconditioned shack learning that Jesus rose a t-Rex. Yes, it’s hyperbole but this stuff happens with state money in places like Louisiana. Guys like Bonnen are actually the best hope for republicans in Texas for the long run. The more influence guys like Patrick have, the quicker their demise will be.
  19. Beto is leading the way while the media refuses to call out trump to the full extent that he is responsible for this. The media has been looking for any credible evidence about Russia for years but you get a smoking gun in him inciting racist violence and all but ignore it. Doesn’t make any sense. The guy fucking said why he did this.
  20. If Wisconsin goes red but the other two go blue, how likely is a 269 to 269 scenario? Actually looks really plausible to me unless I am missing something. https://www.270towin.com/maps/BPjlE
  21. That guy sure seems to know a lot about how to get videos of young girls on YouTube. Just sayin.
  22. Beto needs to keep the rage going. After taking on trump and the media, he should make the NRA and how they own the republicans a big part of his campaign.
  23. I have shifted my position on joe biden in the days after the debate and mass shootings. old position: anybody but joe new position: fuck joe biden
  24. Yep, pretty much every country has every issue that we have other than one. Declining religion, video games, mental illness, social media. The only thing that separates us is easy access to military grade weapons so that our nut jobs kill 20+ instead of somebody losing a finger in a UK knife attack. Any politician that doesn’t directly address this as a gun problem is either on the nra pay roll or a complete moron.
  25. I could see the presidency coming down to the Milwaukee suburbs. It’s pretty scary.
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