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  1. 3 hours ago, RomaVicta said:

    The wild card for the country would be if someone cunning enough can sweep in to take the Trumpite reins and keep the country's future in a tight downward spiral.

    This has been my fear all along.  I mean, Trump is an absolute moron and he's got more than 1/3 of the populace.  Get someone in there with half a brain and it could get really, really bad.

  2. I am not gruntled.  Maybe it's the eternal pessimist in me.  But like Troph, this Kavanaugh thing has me rattled.  I mean, how in the blue hell could that cluster have COST the Democrats?


    No don't answer that.  I already know. I see it every day.  It's kind of not fun walking around and knowing that statistically, 1/3 of everyone I see would consider me a liar, a con, a freak, a Soros shil, a loony, a liberal propagandist operative, and a fraud if I told my story.  Anyway we'll find out in a few weeks.  Operation M12/M12BH pop-up office is in full swing over here.  

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  3. 51 minutes ago, horncyclist said:
    1 hour ago, M12BH said:
    Beto popup office people are invading my home as we speak.

    How many will you have?

    Well this is going to be going on 9PM to 6PM five days a week, and they will be phone banking and organizing block walks.  So I think it's going to be variable.  Right now we just have an organizer here - apparently they have more offices than they do volunteers and it will take them a few days to catch up processing volunteers.  If you know anyone who wants to work out of the 360/2222 area in Austin, ping me and we'll get you over here.  Special bonus attraction, the office is my music room that's been temporarily converted.  So if anyone is musically inclined we can jaw at my guitars and maybe drag out some of the amps.  I wouldn't be opposed to a little after hours jamaroo if anyone is so inclined.   

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  4. Was out last night wearing my Beto pin as usual, and had people come up to me as usual, wanting to know where I got it, how to get one, blah blah blah.  The sentiment behind the conversations carried a lot more gravitas yesterday.  Especially with the women.  Several of them were crying when they told me that they too supported Beto and that they wanted to get involved in his campaign, and that the last week had been intolerable.  I knew exactly what the deal was with them.  I could see it in their eyes and I know they could see it in mine.  They are galvanized.

    But here's my biggest concern:  I am still in shock and disbelief that the Kavanaugh thing has given a bump to the Republicans. I don't know why I'm shocked. You'd think I would have learned by now, but I keep waiting for that one thing that is going to cause them to turn.  I think it has finally sunk in emotionally as well as intellectually that 1/3 of our country would break the law, ignore the constitution, protest the holding of elections - whatever their orange cheetoh god commands.  Because liberals and democrats are worse than Russians, they are worse than Nazis, they are worse than terrorists, they are worse than anyone.  So if we have to keep kids in cages and lie about it and ignore the Supreme court, that's OK.  If we have to keep women down by whatever means to protect our boys, then it's OK.  Kick them out of their jobs if they are a threat to men. Mexicans are all rapists and leeches.  No more Latinos in this country.  Muslims are all terrorists.  Can't be Muslim in the U.S. anymore. Two term limit gonna endanger making America great?  Ignore that rule.  I believe 100% that Trump's minions would support these positions.  And get enough crooked and biased judges and crooked, power-hungry Congress members, and it's not so farfetched that these things could happen.  Not tomorrow or next week or next year, but certainly within a generation, two at the outside. 

    Couple these positions with the elimination of the social safety nets, which is the stated goal of many Republicans, and the continued gutting of the public school system, which is already happening, and the possibility that a great many citizens will not be able to afford healthcare, which they are trying like hell to make happen and who knows where we go from there.  I think it's something of a coin toss between a new Facist regime or a new pre-revolution France. And oh yeah, there's the anti-Semitism part.  I told M12 as far back as Trump's campaign that sooner or later it would come around to the Jews because it always does.  Then of course on Friday we got the Trump Soros tweet and the Grassley reinforcement.  Does Trump believe that shit about Soros?  Maybe not, but that's not what matters.  What matters is the neo-Nazis are now ecstatic that the President of the United States has validated one of their narratives about the wealthy left-wing Jews secretly pulling the strings behind the scenes.  Yep, right on schedule. 

    OK I kind of got off on a tangent there, but that's how important I think these midterms are.  It's now or never.  Our spare bedroom Beto popup office opens today, and we already have some campaign people here. They are all so young and confident.  I feel very old and tired and jaded.  I've never felt this threatened or helpless before in my entire life.  Maybe some of it is the re-experiencing of what happened to me (it's in the Trump thread if you missed it, I'm not gonna repost it here).  But I think most of it is not fear of the past but fear for the future.  These next 31 days are, I think, going to tell us the direction our country is going to move for at least the next 50 years.  And, like I always say when I go on a rant like this:  I hope to hell I'm wrong.  But to drag out another old tired analogy, we are the frogs in the pot of water that is just starting to warm.  I don't want to be in it when it starts to boil.

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  5. 10 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

    Well, I'd guess it's one of two things -- misogyny or anti-intellectualism.  Both hallmarks of the right, both reprehensible.

    Anyone who is somehow so unaware as to doubt the legitimacy of a PhD should be shunned.  I guess there's a slight chance they were mocking the field of study, but that's only one step less damning.  Plenty of people equate psychology with "counseling", though, in a negative way.  You know, maybe slightly more rigorous than "African American Studies".  #ivorytower

    Yeah, I was too busy screaming at him and telling him to go pound sand before I blocked him so I didn't follow up on that particular line of thought.  I was just so shocked.  I've known this guy for two decades and though we've always had different politics, we've remained good friends.  Now it seems he's gone all in on the far right Fox/Rush/Hannity koolaid but in a mean way.  Among other things he told me I needed a lobotomy.  Nice, huh?  And posted a picture of some women grafitti-ing Kavanaugh's house and held me responsible.  Nice, huh?  And you know what, "MERRICK GARLAND DIDN'T GET HIS HOUSE GRAFITTI-ED, SO HOW'S THAT FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS YA DIZZY BROAD, WHY ARE THE LIBTARDS SO RADICAL???"  Ugh.  Good riddance. 

  6. 1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:

    for real, though, thanks for sharing. we may all be a bunch of assholes around here, but we care about each other, mostly. 

    my ma has told me stories about being literally chased around her desk by her boss in the 80s. i'm sure she has worse stories, but she's reached an age where she sadly says things like "what did she expect?" 

    we need to get past that mentality first, i really think. yes, sometimes women find themselves in compromising situations. okay. so what? that doesn't mean that they are less a victim, because a man presses an advantage. that's the first milestone we need - to empower women into thinking they did nothing wrong when they are victimized, because that is the biggest specter over the whole issue, imo. 

    it's the guilt the victim feels. 

    Oh, fuck the 80s, for lots of reasons.  Something else that set me off - I posted my thoughts on the Kavanaugh testimony on my Facebook page and was immediately reminded why I stay away from politics in that cesspool.  A guy I've been internet friends with since the AOL days immediately went off on me to the point that I unfriended and blocked him yesterday.  One of the things he said that caught my eye was referring to Dr. Ford as "a so-called doctor, and I use that term loosely". I've seen that characterization a few other times in the last couple of days.  I mean, what the fuck? Because she came forward with a story about sexual assault, that somehow negates her PhD from the University of Spoiled Children, and her research and publishing work at Stanford?  Can someone smarter than me please explain?  What does any of this have to do with her credentials?  Are words like this meant to denigrate her further, to say that because she dared to be a slut at 15, and to ruin a choirboy's life during the pinnacle of his professional success, that she shouldn't be referred to by a title that she has earned by both education and profession?

    Seriously.  I don't get this one. Someone please splain.  

  7. 9 minutes ago, sachick said:

    So much this. This resonates with so many women. We can accomplish so many things but still be treated like a sexual object or less of a person that a  man.  It's just the lack of respect and it's so infuriating. Thank you for sharing. I think the more women share their stories, the more men in our lives will realize how prevalent the problem is.

    I consider myself "lucky" in that I've never been raped or assaulted if you don't count that time my cousin hugged me a little two long in a way that wasn't very cousinly, or that time I drank too much and had already passed out/"went to sleep" and a guy I was crushing on joined me in bed and we started making out and stuff. I didn't say no but I wasn't exactly all there either. There's also all the times I've been grabbed in clubs and bars. For women, that's just a given. So I'm not really in the statistics of women who have been assaulted but I know a lot of women who have been assaulted and I can empathize. Women aren't going to make this shit up. There's also a lot of us with grey stories like mine. Was it assault when my cousin touched me? Was it assault when some guy came to do things when I obviously wasn't all there? But I do know it was morally wrong.

    Holy hell if I counted the times I've been groped in clubs...well I might have an easier time counting the stars.  Yeah, I know, I played guitar in a rock band, I dressed like a slut, I sang dirty lyrics, blah blah blah.

    Yeah it's the lack of respect that is the worst.  I was brought up to do and be anything I wanted, never mind the fact that I am a female.  I have a very strong, very ahead-of-his-time father, who absolutely would not let me put up with any shit from any stupid stinking men. I was instructed to kick them in the balls, figuratively for sure and literally if needed, and stand up for myself and do what I wanted.   I think it's no accident that my profession and avocations are all in male-dominated areas, nor is it an accident that my sister is a surgeon, a job that is still a bastion of men.  But today none of that matters.  Today I'm less.  Because I my privates go in rather than out.

    I guess I should mention the good guys. My dad.  My husband.  One of my two brothers.  They guy who almost took my virginity until I chickened out at the last minute and I was so embarrassed and apologetic, and he said it was ok and then took me out and bought me french fries at McDonald's.  I'm ashamed that I don't even remember his name (told y'all, I'm old AF).  I know y'all are out there.  But today you don't matter.  I'm sorry to have to say that, but nothing much does matter today. I'm having to force myself through work, which involves finalizing a financial plan for someone who has jillions of dollars. I may have to actually take some time off today and reschedule our meeting.  I can see it now.  "Hello, Mr. XXX, I'm sorry I have reschedule our appointment.  You see, I'm having a mini-breakdown today brought on by past sexual trauma that is resurfacing because of the political atmosphere in this country".  Yeah, that will go over great.  Actually this client is a gay man so he might be a little more sympathetic than I would think.  

    But seriously.  I know most of y'all are assholes n shit but you are helping me today.  Thank you.

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  8. 9 hours ago, troph said:


    So wanted to go to this, had a client invite me too but we’re out of town this weekend and some shit gone down with my kids and my baby other momma so it didn’t happen. Glad y’all made it though. Missed Lord Huron at Stubbs too, grrrr.

    Oh bummer, especially about Lord Huron.  Hope things settle down for ya.

  9. 3 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

    I admit, I knew very little of Soros, only just what a Qtard I know spewed at me once.  

    So I wiki'ed him and he has quite a track record of pushing progressive agendas across the globe. 

    Apparently he fell out of grace with the pubs when he vowed to get shrub out of office and put some money behind that.   Seems his point was that the War on Terror was not the best way to go about being the biggest and best nation.   Fox News, particularly O'Reilly started the ball rolling and then Q picked it up later.   Their main thing against him is that he pushes one world government, thus diminishing the power of the US.  At least that is what my Qtard posits.

    The guy has quite a list of accomplishments and philanthropy.  I might not know enough about him to debate my Qtard, but i know enough now to not give much credence to anything the right says about him.

    Just to expound, he's also been labeled as a Nazi sympathizer despite the fact that he is Jewish and actually, you know, was persecuted by and escaped from the Nazis in occupied Europe.  He did a 60 Minutes interview in which he described his experiences and of course his story got completely mischaracterized and taken out of context to make it sound like he was a collaborator and that he enjoyed being one.  At age 14 or whatever.  

  10. 46 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    Willie is 85 years old - you're not wrong, but I think the quick timing, somewhat clunky guitar playing, sounding a bit winded, that's what you're going to get when you go see Willie now.  Had the same experience when I saw him a year ago at the Floore Country Store.

    I wonder if the weirdness with trying to group people for the pictures was planned or if maybe Beto was running a bit late from whatever Tribfest stuff he was doing.  Sounds like that happened before the concert?

    Yeah the picture weirdness was before the concert, and Beto was running late and he had to get onstage for the rally.  Still and all, it seemed like they could have come up with a better solution.  I'm not gonna bitch about it too much, I know everyone is doing the best they can.  As far as Willie is concerned - I guess like you said, he's 85 and showing it.  I didn't expect him to be at the top of his game but it's just sad to see the deterioration.  

  11. Quick update from the Shaggy 1% VIP experience last night.  The good:  Got to meet Beto.  He's evah so dreamy.  Pic to follow as soon as I get a chance.  The not as good:  We spent the first 2 hours of the concert sitting in a fenced-off area where we could neither see nor really hear the music.  Waah.  Also I don't know if they planned this out in advance, but when we formed the photo line, we were told that pics would be taken in groups of five, and they assigned us three random people to take a picture with and instructed us to decide whose camera we were going to use and then to exchange phone numbers for sharing the picture.  By the time we got to the front of the line that whole plan had kind of fallen apart; people were just wandering up to Beto in whatever group formations they desired and taking pictures that way. We ended up with a random dude in ours but he was on the outside and can easily be cropped out.   The good again:  Once we got the pictures out of the way we got to watch the rest of the concert right up front from a VIP section. Noice.  The not as good - Um, was it just me or was Willie's set not all that great?  I don't know if he was having trouble hearing or if he's just old AF, but his playing and his timing were so off that it was affecting the bad.  Not a biggie, though, I mean, given why we were all there.  The best:  Beto's speech.  Holy fuck.  I was all in before but now I'm REALLY all in. 

  12. 1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

    Tell me about the VIP thing. I just donated more yesterday but would have rathered spent money on a VIP thing at the concert if possible. How do you sign up?

     

    We'd like to invite you Backstage with Beto on Saturday, September 29th in Austin. The fundraising reception will take place backstage on Auditorium Shores ahead of musical performances by Texas legend Willie Nelson, Grammy-nominated artist Leon Bridges, Lukas and Micah Nelson, Carrie Rodriguez, Tameca Jones, and Joe Ely.

     

    For more details and RSVP information please visit the link below:

     

     

    www.betofortexas.com/AUS092918.2 

     

  13. This dude comes across as arrogant, entitled, petulant when things don't go his way, disrespectful to those who don't treat him with what he believes is the proper esteem.  Kinda like...I dunno...the guy who nominated him.  Given the similarities, it's fairly obvious why Judge K was chosen, and given all that is coming out, why the Repubs tried to shove him through without the customary transparency.  

     

     

  14. 7 minutes ago, Mack Tripper said:


    Who are you volunteering with to drive people to the polls? I heard the Beto campaign won’t be doing that.

    I'll ask M12.  He's following up on it for me. I'll report back.

  15. 12 hours ago, horncyclist said:

    Just got home. Guy's the real deal, just exudes passion throughout his stump and actually persuades you. Place was packed, definitely a younger crowd of a lot of ex Texans gone up to DC to save the world or whatever. Wife said it gave he goosebumps and made her cry. I'll allow it.

    Event was really well organized and the thing that impressed me most is he stayed after to take a photo with every person there. Which was cool but also brilliant as those will become facebook profile pics for Aunt Thelma to ask about and influence friends.

     

    Well, thanks to Troph I will get to experience the phenomenon first-hand later this month. I will closely monitor his effect on me, emotionally, mentally and physically.  For science, of course.  

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