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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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SInce y'all seem to be my clearinghouse for all things political, let me tell a story. A couple of them, actually. Three, if you want to be specific. When I was 14 I went with a family friend to visit some of her relatives out of state in a very small Southern town. One of them was a 30 year old man married to my friend's 19 year old sister. My friend and I spent a week there by ourselves. I spent the whole week trying, not always successfully, to keep the 30 year old from shoving his hand down my shirt. While I was awake, while I was asleep. Anytime no one was around. This was well before the days of cell phones and my choices were to tell my 14 year old friend or her 19 year old sister. I did neither. I still feel the horror, the shame, the embarrassment, and the powerlessness to this day. What I remember most is sleeping in my heaviest nightgown with two heavy blankets over me in the heat of the summer in the deep South in a house without A/C. That is, when I slept at all. I spent most of each night waiting for that hand. When I was 20 I went with my boyfriend and his roommates to 6th Street on Halloweeen. I dressed as Billy Gibbons. Much drunken flirting and hilarity ensued. Somewhere in the crush, my boyfriend got separated and so his roommates and I took a cab back to his place. His roommates raped me. I was so drunk that I don't remember much about it except that I kept trying to turn over to stop them, but either I was too drunk or I was being held down. Now that I think about it, turning over probably wouldn't have done any good anyway, if you know what I mean. When I told my boyfriend about it the next day, he accused me of fucking them deliberately and kicked me out. Apparently flirting and drinking with roommates means I want to fuck them. I didn't tell anyone else. What would have been the point? There was no proof and no witnesses. "Date rape" wasn't even a concept then. Being raped meant by a stranger at gunpoint, knifepoint, or at least fistpoint. Fast forward more decades than I care to admit. I'm a successful business owner. I'm doing better than I ever dreamed. I make obscene amounts of money and I've got an agreement in place to sell my business in 3 years for a humongous payout. I spent 2013 bald and puking and kicked cancer to the curb, never to look back. I'm a published songrwiter and I've been involved in the Austin music scene for a long time. I do volunteer work. I'm happily married, have a nice house in one of the greatest cities in the world, and by all accounts, a great life. But this morning I feel, in turns, 14 and 20 years old. I'm being touched and violated against my will. And no one cares, no one believes me, and I'm being publicly mocked and scorned by the leader of this country and his disgusting minions. I should have said something. I should have done something. I shouldn't have drank. I shouldn't have flirted. I shouldn't have dressed up as Billy Gibbons with a fake beard and a cardboard guitar. I shouldn't have gone out of state with my friend at age 14 for a vacation from my parents. I'm nothing. My credentials don't matter, my credibility doesn't exist, and I'm just some skank trying to use something that certainly didn't happen, and, well, if it did, then it's my fault, to help the evil liberals bring down the poor persecuted conservatives. I guarantee you I'm not the only woman you know who feels this way today. Just keep it in mind, OK?
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Oh bummer, especially about Lord Huron. Hope things settle down for ya.
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Went to the original fundraising event that we had signed up for last night at Robert Rodriguez's house. It was pretty cool, got to rub shoulders with Richard Linklater and some other Austin luminaries. There was Beto beer, Beto cookies with his face on the front in sugar, Beto Whataburger tacos( beef, onions, mustard), and a whole lot of swag like buttons and coozies that we already have a million of. And a good Latino swing/lounge band. M12 scored himself a giant Beto mug, filled with Beto beer of course. Beto gave pretty much the same speech he did at the Willie concert. Listening to it again it occurred to me that he is actually to the left of me on a few of his positions. I don't care. I mean, no one (unless you allow Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to define your politics for you) is going to get 100% of what they want out of a politician. And this whole Tea Part, Evangelical, burn it all down if they don't get 100% of what they want mindset, is a great part of what is causing the damage being done to this country. So next week our house turns into a pop-up office. We'll have people here doing phone banks and organizing block walks for 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. Yippee. I'm starting to believe we can actually pull this off.To be honest, I have been of the Brisket mindset for some time, just not as vocal about it, at least here. I'm not normally a doomsday theorist but this just feels different to me, and very very dangerous and scary. I have decided to hold out on progressing further down the rabbit hole until after the midterms. Then I'll decide whether to recommence with the panic or not. Oh and to those of you who claim that M12 has outkicked his coverage, he wanted me to tell you all that he is well aware, and to give a big ol' grin and middle finger to each and every one of you 😉 One more thing, and I was really surprised to find this out, but Justin Nelson, the Democratic challenger for State Attorney General, is within a couple of points of indicted felon Paxton. Another encouraging sign, maybe. I just wanted to put it out there for everyone's radar screens.
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Heh. I just did what I was told.
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I'm the one in the pink .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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In. We signed up for the VIP thing. So pics, hopefully.
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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.
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I'll ask M12. He's following up on it for me. I'll report back.
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We're all in. We've got a campaign worker staying at our house this week while she attends training sessions. We're hosting a pop-up office at our home during most of October. M12 is taking the week of the election off to work full time on the campaign. I'm volunteering to drive people to the polls. We've maxed out our contributions to the campaign. We can fucking do this.
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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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Ted prefers children who haven't been born.
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Our eighth and final phone bank is underway. It's very obvious that Beto's name recognition has skyrocketed in the last five weeks. A lot more people we call know who he is. It's also gratifying to see how many enthusiastic young people are showing up for these things. I would say the average age of our attendees is about 23. NW Austin peeps, too bad you weren't able to show up, you would have enjoyed the, um, "scenery". No, no pics. I want these girls to come back if we have any more events. Anyway M12 is going this weekend to be trained as a volunteer trainer and I'll probably do the same. We're all in. We've also contributed the max to his campaign. That's right. The 1%, I am in it.
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Yeah OK, anyone else gonna be there ping me. I'll be the redhead wearing the Beto button.
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Sure. Me: "I'm calling on behalf of Beto O'Rourke. Beto is running for Senate against Ted Cruz.....blah blah blah....." Ignorant Person: "Who?" What? There's an election?" Shit like that. Yeah I know it's only August but with everything that's going on I'd think there would be a few more people who at least know the players in the game. Guess I've just learned, again to never bet against the complete and total stupidity and ignorance of the majority of the American electorate.
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We have our phone bank #5 tonight. Will be interesting to see how this last week's turn of events will affect the people we talk to. I've bee astounded thus far at the lack of name recognition Beto has (well, I've been astounded at how many people are totally clueless about and disinterested in the political climate in this country right now, but that's a whole other story). I wonder if that will change tonight. I hope so. On another note, thinking about heading up to Cedar Park Wednesday to see the man himself. 9:30 start time, what time do I need to show up to get a seat? Anyone been to one of these things yet?
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All I know is I have a nice string of pearls that I used to wear a lot for business, they were very classy and understated and went perfectly with most of my suits but now they are tainted AF and I want to toss them on the garbage heap. Thanks SHS.
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SIAP, and can't embed, but this is important y'all. And in my hood, not that it matters, but this area is frequented by 80 gazillion cars a day and it seems impossible that no one saw anything. https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/missing-woman-last-seen-on-loop-360-walking-away-from-broken-down-car/1389166765
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I heard some of that shit from some of my Trump supporter acquaintances right after the election -"He's a great man with a beautiful family who is working hard for America. He doesn't need to do this, he's already rich, he is just suuuuuuch a patriot that he wants us all to share in his prosperity and he's working 'round the clock for us all, just because he's a great and wonderful guy!" I guess they figure we've all got short enough memories to where we'll forget when they start recycling their shitty talking points. Or maybe they're so stupid that they've forgotten they've already tried this one. Either way....
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Call bank #3 is in da books. We had six people doing yeoman's work. Also I got rid of my two extra t-shirts and my yard sign that MB12 and I double-ordered. You know, not that we need any more examples of their rank and stunning hypocrisy, but I wonder what the Republicans beshitting themselves over Beto's arrest record have to say about Paxton's. Because nothing says "Honest Conservative" quite like supporting a State Attorney General indicted for fucking securities fraud, apparently.
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