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Larry T. Spider

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  1. If he’s going to come back and run for statewide election in Texas that could make it tough.
  2. I agree with this. I can see why it would be tempting from a political standpoint but it does damage in two respects. First this is how you get people like rick perry running the department of energy. The standard should be that you have a world of experts to pick from so you go for the absolute best, not political hacks. Secondly, it encourages people to run for president that have no chance. The field turns into a cluttered mess of cabinet hopefuls.
  3. He’s throwing a lot out there trying to get something to stick and nothing is working. Building a following in Texas was easy because Democrats have been so hungry for a quality candidate. He was running against one of the worst humans on the planet, which also helped. Hopefully he’s learned some lessons about running for national office. You have to use the media to your advantage, the country is just too big for retail politics only. You also need to come in with some really solid ideas in a deep primary where candidates are similar in a lot of ways. It’s easy to build a cult following when you’re running against Ted but primary voters are a completely different animal. I actually hope he sticks it out for a while longer as he will make more connections outside of Texas and learn a lot along the way. Being a congressman from Texas would be a good look for now and he will have enough experience to give it a go again in the future if he wants.
  4. So let’s say he’s not a ponzi schemer or a legit hedge fund guy. He was able to amass 600 million in assets plus no telling how many millions he spent over the lest 3 decades. And that’s assuming he doesn’t have more stored offshore somewhere....all or almost all from blackmailing people. Let’s think about all that it would take to pull that off: Money to start the operation with. Access to a lot of really rich people. Knowlede of which ones would be open to this stuff and not just immediately call the cops. Access to a constant supply of young girls set up through recruiters. Enough muscle to where really rich and powerful people won’t fuck with you. Setting up some system of payment that would look legit. My personal theory on that is that he would have people invest a large number in his “fund” then give them some of it back later. “Hey, you know that girl you fucked down on the island? Turns out she’s 14 and I have a video of this. I’ll tell you what...I can make all of this go away if you put 100 mil in my fund. I’ll make sure you get 90 mil back and everything stays quiet. Besides it would cost you a lot more than 10 mil if those tapes ever got out.” Or I could just be on beer 3 and completely wrong.
  5. Wow. If that’s real, and I have no reason to think it isn’t, she can fuck right off. Especially after seeing what trump is doing to brown kids...and she is a daughter of immigrants.
  6. Our best hope is that he hates the people he’s involved with and knows he’s going to end up dead either way.
  7. I don’t know how much land you can get in New Mexico for the 17 million that’s listed, but I bet it’s a lot. The AG will own it in a year or two.
  8. Clearly the 194 came from somewhere. I should have said “investor list” because it’s likely people he has videos of or some other kind of dirt. Probably took a billion from each of them and the 194 is what’s left.
  9. So the hedge fund has up to 194 mil in it. Would love to see the names on the investor list. Probably a lot of people shitting their pants right now.
  10. If this guy has serious mob protection, how is bill clinton allowed to get on a plane with him?
  11. I was recently given documents showing that both Amy and I are descended from people who owned slaves. Along with other possessions listed in their property log were two human beings, Rose and Eliza. A paternal great-great-great grandfather of mine, Andrew Cowan Jasper, owned these two women in the 1850s. There are also records showing that a maternal great-great-great grandfather, Frederick Williams, most likely owned slaves in the 1860s (“most likely,” because we are not certain that the Frederick Williams who is my ancestor and the Frederick Williams who owned slaves are the same person, but there’s enough circumstantial data to lead me to conclude that it’s likely). Records also showed that Amy had an ancestor who owned slaves and another who was a member of the Confederate Army. Something that we’ve been thinking about and talking about in town hall meetings and out on the campaign — the legacy of slavery in the United States — now has a much more personal connection. Ownership of other human beings conferred advantages not just to Andrew Jasper and Frederick Williams, but to Jasper’s and Williams’ descendants as well. They were able to build wealth on the backs and off the sweat of others, wealth that they would then be able to pass down to their children and their children’s children. In some way, and in some form, that advantage would pass through to me and my children. That those enslaved Americans owned by my ancestors were denied their freedom, denied the ability to amass wealth, denied full civil rights in America after slavery also had long term repercussions for them and their descendants. The way that fortune was passed through the generations from Andrew to me, misfortune was passed through the generations from Rose and Eliza to their descendants who are alive today. Rose and Eliza were denied their freedom and the benefits that their labor produced; they and their children were then denied their civil rights after the end of Reconstruction; and their descendants endured open terrorism, economic exclusion and racism in the form of Jim Crow, lynchings, convict leasing, voter suppression, red lining, predatory lending, and mass incarceration. Everything their descendants have accomplished in their lives is despite having all of these odds stacked against them. In the aggregate, slavery, its legacy and the ensuing forms of institutionalized racism have produced an America with stark differences in opportunities and outcomes, depending on race. For example, there is 10 times the wealth in white American than there is in black America. Black men are six times more likely to be incarcerated than white men. The disparity in infant mortality between black families and white families is greater today than it was in 1850. Whether it’s the economy, healthcare, education, criminal justice or even in the inherent biases revealed by technology, there really are two Americas. I benefit from a system that my ancestors built to favor themselves at the expense of others. That only increases the urgency I feel to help change this country so that it works for those who have been locked-out of — or locked-up in — this system. As a person, as a candidate for the office of the Presidency, I will do everything I can to deliver on this responsibility. In addition to making significant changes to education policy (immediately address $23 billion in underfunding for minority-majority public schools), economic policy (ensuring equal pay, deploying capital to minority- and women-owned businesses, $25 billion in government procurement to these same businesses), healthcare (universal healthcare and home health visits to women of color to reverse trend in maternal and infant mortality) and criminal justice (police accountability, ending the drug war, and expunging arrest records for nonviolent drug crimes), I will continue to support reparations, beginning with an important national conversation on slavery and racial injustice. We all need to know our own story as it relates to the national story, much as I am learning mine. It is only then, I believe, that we can take the necessary steps to repair the damage done and stop visiting this injustice on the generations that follow ours. - Beto
  12. I certainly hope you are right. It’s not often that republicans nominate somebody so polarizing that it will really drive democrat turn out. W’s second election could have been that way but Texas was much more conservative back then and he was from here. McCain and Romney were vanilla enough to not rile up Dems too much. Trump is a different animal. I truly expect Texans to show up and vote against him in record numbers, making the closest presidential election this state has seen in a long time. Carter beat ford by 3.2% in 1976. The next election Reagan won by 27.5% and it’s been red ever since. My prediction is that trump wins Texas by less than 5% (it was 9% last time) and it becomes very clear to all that Texas is a swing state. Republicans will later claim it was just a trump problem...and they will be wrong.
  13. Waco has some advantages that many of these other towns don’t. It has a university, it’s in between Dallas and SA/Austin, and it already has almost 300k people in the metro area.
  14. Of the early states, which ones are winner take all? I would never concede a state that is proportional.
  15. I can offer some perspective on the teacher situation as I’m somebody that hires them. As a group, you have to think of them as degreed professionals that like the same types of amenities that other degreed professionals like. They are no more likely to want to live in a town with few entertainment options than anybody else. Another major point for older, married teachers is that they are likely to not be the breadwinner in their household. They are married to another professional that would have limited job prospects in a smaller town. Teachers that are unhappy with their job are mostly likely to decide to quit the profession or move to a new school or district in the same metro area. When I was a teacher, I moved districts in the Austin area. It never once crossed my mind to move to a small town. In fact, I have been interviewing more teachers interested in moving from a small town to the city. Why? Because they are degreed professionals that like the same things that other degreed professionals like. Finally, culture matters and smaller cities/towns have a reputation problem. Whether it is true or not, they are perceived as backwards and not that interested in education. They aren’t very diverse and have a reputation of being intolerant to outsiders. It’s possible to fix that, but would the current residents allow it? Doubtful.
  16. The question is how motivated Texans will be to show up for trump.
  17. There will be 10 cents left when his lawyers are done with the costs of his legal defense.
  18. Mildred from needville will be donating $5 a month as soon as she gets her grandkids to set up her America online with her credit card info.
  19. I’m in this district and will support the democrat against carter. It’s very close to flipping. That being said, I have more twitter followers than Imam and I have 122. She is going to have an uphill battle considering MJ was great and lost.
  20. I came here to bitch about lines and crowds for everything that I like in Austin. Glad to see that people beat me to it. I grew up here when you could just drive down to Barton springs, park, and hang out for the afternoon. It’s an ordeal to do anything now. San Antonio has a completely different culture for being so close but many things about it remind me of Austin in the 90s. I would honestly consider it.
  21. Completely agree with this. It worries me that she doesnt just say that though.
  22. Harris and Castro both came off looking like snakes to me. I’m trying to be reflective and think about the fact that it was minority candidates going after white males and I might be more sensitive to that. But, I just can’t shake that it made them seem hard to trust.
  23. When should we expect fundraising numbers to become available to the public?
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