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troph

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  1. 800 gallons of water trickled into our tank, about 1/3 of an inch so far today. would be perfect if we weren't in a fucking mega drought.
  2. Funny side bar, my wife’s women’s tennis team is called “Tennis takes Balls”.
  3. No balls in girls sports and make LT schools great again were the leads for the conservative PAC in LT.
  4. I saw that. Someone there needs to start building community more aggressively. Need new voters and new donors to step up. We have some momentum in LT and it’s growing. Doesn’t have to be that way.
  5. The libs of Lake Travis ISD won in a sweep 2-0, and now control the school board 4-3. First time in over a decade. I posted more about my experience in that fight in the Texas a failed state thread. we had significant increase in turnout which was still abysmal. But over 8000 votes which is 1000 more than last election when there was also city council on the ballot (this was just school board and some props). winning local school board elections is a good sign, I don’t think it means Dems are winning state wide but it does help and could point to less of a defeat in district races.
  6. agreed the actual names of texas conservative billionaire won't resonate with anyone.
  7. we as a society have turned into an us vs. them society, I think you lean into it. yes you can talk about tangibles but when you do, the otherside talks about gay commies and george soros and other enemies and riles them up. I think there is something to identifying the villain.
  8. take a page from the other side - find a villain and hammer the message. for progressives and those who care about all people, the villain is the billionaire. hammer the fuck out of us vs them over, and over, and over.
  9. 100% -- my efforts the next 2-3 years will be in convincing sidelined good folk to participate. our cabal added 30-50 new voters to the LTISD tally (about half donated money for the first time to a local election), and that's 10-15% of the vote differential. turnout is it, it will always be turnout. ELECTIONS ARE NOT OPTIONAL.
  10. my dream is the voucher shit went one step too far and we actually make a dent in the state legislature and congressional races. it's still too much to ask for state wide offices.
  11. there's going to be a backlash like there always is in the mid terms. the real question is when will good people realize that you have to vote in every god damned election and you have to organize, give money and give time to help our neighbors who are running, from city council and school board to state rep and senate to state wide and then federal and national elections. it's not an option anymore.
  12. the best thing about last night... we walked into a home of engaged, motivated and happy people, who care for one another and others even if those others are not like them, and they (we) were straight, gay, white, Hispanic, black, men and women (including trans) and it was amazing, normal, refreshing, and just undeniably right. there can be hope.
  13. We can NEVER take elections for granted again.
  14. I’ll admit it, we showed up at the victory party around 10pm after final results announced, we walked in all Bradley Cooper style at the end of American Hustle, I kinda blew open the front door and screamed “yeaaaaaah!!! We beat those nasty haters!!!” everyone looked at us like who are these weirdos, except the school board candidates, the current lib on the board and the president of the progressive pac, all of whom smiled with glee. The president then said, “everyone, this is troph and her wife, they raised the money for the last surge, she’s kind of a big deal.” it was exactly as I dreamed it in my head! not sure how long we are going to be here but we aren’t fucking around. Western Travis county has enough progressives to make a difference. I can’t do it all, I’ve done my penance phone banking and canvassing and so I’m not doing that but we can raise some fucking bank to beat the fascists out here. And if we are going to flee, we are going to do so trying all the way until the end.
  15. We control the school board now.
  16. Fuck yeah, Libs of Lake Travis ISD won… 260ish votes. Our efforts mattered. Fuck yeah.
  17. He actually thinks pig hates Texas more than anyone. I agree. its one thing to know it in your head, it’s another thing to experience it. Yeah this team very well coulda been blind sided by it.
  18. Talked about this with an Aggie at a pool party today. Family full of Horns and he said look, those fuckers HATE Texas and he said no way Schloss and co was ready for it. Seems like every Texas coach has to learn this the hard way.
  19. Our experience with MD Anderson - two occurrences - is that the gold standard of non-experimental treatment is always available and you don’t have to worry about the doctors not yet knowing the latest and greatest AND experimental treatment is also available. Though with research cuts who knows what’s happening. In our circumstances both patients took the latest and greatest treatments and are not in trials.
  20. What a fucking joke.
  21. Yeah our pitching has been shit too.
  22. 3 called strike threes on balls, even the announcers are saying it, two on full counts in the 6th in the heart of the line up. Fuck it, can’t watch. Y’all enjoy torturing yourselves this is bullshit.
  23. fuck this ump. Crowd got nothing to do with fucked calls
  24. Kxan as of 4:15pm still staying 0.5-2.0 inches wide spread, strike time 6-8pm.
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