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  1. 2 minutes ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

    Yeah, I am sure Con Law is first and foremost on the minds of the average Texas voter. 

    This.  While Cruz might know a lot of trivia and legalese, probably has the ability to form arguments to persuade or defend, he isn't the one who has been out there traveling Texas for the past several months.  Beto has engaged Texans from all walks of life repeatedly.  He isn't using cambridge analytic type information to decipher what is on the minds of Texas voters.  He is talking to them and their friends and listening to what they say.   

    He has sincerity going for him.  So even if Cruz wins some technical points, Beto will be winning votes by speaking for the people. 

  2. First off, this is what i would do for a fun bug.

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    Second, if you ever have a question or need a part I have a cousin in SA that is all things Bug.  He used to build rail sand buggies when they were legal.

    Third...Triumph on 4 wheels.   Had one of these in high school.  GT6+  Being British Leyland it was broken a lot.   But when it ran, it ran very nicely.  I think a lot of the datsun 240Z styling came from this car.    It was basically a spitfire but it had an inline 6 with dual strombergs.   

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  3. 3 hours ago, RPM said:

    When I was a kid we lived in a house that was built using clutch head screws exclusively. Everyfuckingthing in the house had them. Strip one of those and you are in for a party. Oh, don't misplace the screwdriver because it's gotdam near impossible to find a new one.

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    I have 3 sizes of clutchhead screwdrivers.  The late 40s through mid 50s GM cars and trucks used lots of those screws.  Like the torx, they are superior to slotted and phillips for not stripping out.

  4. 6 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    We went through a long period where there wasn’t significant ideological differences between major party candidates.  Both party candidates embraced traditional American values and democracy (for the most part).  

    There was a ton of common ground shared between Clinton/Bush, Clinton/Dole, Gore/Bush, Kerry/Bush, Obama/McCain, Obama/Romney.  

    It had a demoralization effect on a lot people presupposing everything would be fine as long as a major party candidate won.  There’s no way we’d get an overt traitor to American values on the ballot among the major parties.  Not only did we get one but people didn’t even notice his anti-American positions and authoritarian tendencies when they were on display, repeatedly.

    People gravitated to Trump’s energy because it was so new and different from anything we’ve seen before.  His messaging was very seductive and everyone was already familiar with the media personality Donald Trump.  

    Despite the desperation for something new and different, I think most Americans had strong enough faith in our institutions to check the president should anything go terribly wrong. They rolled the dice with Trump because Hillary was the epitome of “same old same old”.  Unfortunately, most Trump voters didn’t appreciate just how fragile democracy is and were unable to recognize the threats when they showed up.  This was mostly due to the ideological common ground among the parties over the last few generations.

    That's a good theory of why we got here.  And once here, we as Americans are getting a lot of hard lessons.  Like I had no idea there was only one company manufacturing flatware in the US.  Same for nails.   For a country that made its place in the world in manufacturing this seems unfathomable.  What do we make besides some autos and ton of military stuff? 

    And just like our democracy, we are beginning to see the fragility of other areas, like environment, energy, immigration, education, healthcare and infrastructure to name a few.  Trump is causing us to look at ourselves with new consciousness.  And like Dropout said, his base is getting smaller with each new con he runs.   I would hope that as that base diminishes, then more republicans stand up to him, or get replaced by those who will. 

    But Huckleberry was right too, we have to stay vigilant or we become complacent and lazy.  We start to think others will rectify it, my vote doesn't really count. 

  5. 49 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    It has to be somewhere that he can benefit financially.

    So Mar-a-Lago it is.

    I agree with this and will go further to expect the bigger part of it to be a casino.  All his tweets loaded into slot machines. 

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  6. 23 minutes ago, Tom said:

    I'm confused by how that happened.  I thought marriage automatically = visa/green card.  My mom lived in this country for well over 20 years just on the basis she was married to my father before she finally became a citizen.  

    No, marriage alone won't do it.  Have to have a sponsor and a valid green card. 

  7. 30 minutes ago, Celery Man said:

    Little known fact - Ted Cruz was the director of photography for Texas Rising.

    Makes sense.  He sure as hell wasn't doing anything for Texas as the junior senator.   Also makes sense that that program was highly anticipated and widely panned for being inauthentic.

  8. 3 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

    hm.  then revoking their clearance seems really dumb.  they only get classified material when someone with clearance reaches out to them.  it's not like they are copied on the daily security briefing.  so he's just making sure his administration has fewer tools to work with.

    I think this last week shows once and for all that Trump has no use for tools, or advice.   Taking away their clearances is a muscle flex and a wink to his base. 

    We keep looking to weigh  him and this administration against history, but there just isn't any other close to this and I think that is what's terrifying to most of us.  Politics, finance, trade, national defense and matters of state are all very complex issues.  And we have this idiot emperor.  I'd go with Nero.  He had a thing for incest too.

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  9. I have this hope that whoever we send to DC as senator actually represents ALL Texans, not just one group or another.  Represent all, regardless of wealth, race, age, gender, religious leanings, sexual orientation or any other measures of difference people want to use.

    I want a statesman, one who is doing his or her best for the people.   One who makes sacrifices for the greater good.  Who would gamble a political future to stand up against those who would sell us out to line their own pockets.

    I don't know if Beto can do that, but I sure as hell know Cruz has no interest in that.  He is all about power and money. 

    Beto might not win.  But he's doing the right thing in my opinion.  If he loses, he will still have his integrity, something Rafael lost long ago. 

    In this Texas heat I am working on the blueberry Beto snowcones instead of Koolaid. 

  10. 12 minutes ago, Nivek said:


    He fucks his sister and all of their children are now dead as a result of their intrigue and general shittyness. Oh and he killed the Mad King - he was the equivalent of the head of the secret service.

    Well shit.  And I was gonna start binging on GoT next week. 

  11. A good article on Big Pharma and what could be done.   My brother was a sales rep and my SIL is a pharmacist.  They always throw out the "but research costs need to be covered" argument when discussing pricing on meds.  This says the opposite.  But since BP has been indoctrinating  us with their story for decades, it is hard to get out any other viewpoint. 

    https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/columnists/only-a-healthy-democracy-will-save-us-from-big-pharma/article_cccf0305-b72a-59ad-a3ae-fabe7f88d369.html

    A quote from the article:

    " Drug development and manufacturing used to be considered part of the American “common good.” Two key developers of insulin — Frederick Banting and John Macleod — refused to put their names on the original insulin patent. Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, also rejected patenting for his breakthrough; it was just too important for public health to belong to any one person or company.

    As a nation, we have always invested heavily in medical research, because we believe that breakthroughs should benefit everyone. In fact, the underlying research behind almost all of today’s medicines was conducted by academic or government researchers with taxpayer-funded grants. But thanks to an obscure provision of the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, publicly funded researchers can patent their discoveries and sell them to private drug firms, who can then — as my patients know too well — set whatever price they like. Congress could easily change this law so that tax-funded breakthroughs actually benefit the American people, not just corporate bottom lines.

    By failing to invest in the public good of pharmaceutical research, we’ve let drug companies set the research agenda. Instead of solving major health problems like Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s, private firms often just make minor tweaks to existing formulas to extend the patents — and profitability — of their products. In fact, 90 percent of newly approved drugs offer few or no new health benefits, but still win the patents and market exclusivity that keep prices sky-high. "

    The author is part of Physicians for a National Health Program:

    http://www.pnhp.org/pharma

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  12. 8 hours ago, FondrenRoad said:

    I'd rather they nab Kush and Jr.  Trump is too old for any punishment to matter. Knowing Jr is looking at 40 years would be worse for Sr than throwing Sr in there for the rest of his life. Plus, the Trump and Kush organizations need to be entirely dissolved and their assets resold. Fuck having these crooked assholes still doing dirty deals and handing that legacy onto their kids like their daddies did to them. 

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  13. 3 hours ago, BigHorn'13 said:

    Meh I'd tear it up... Brisket looked like it may have been a little dry, not sure what kinda chicken that is but it doesn't look grilled and idk when fajita became part of a BBQ but I would've got down on it. All in all a pretty good spread tho. 

    I don't think fajitas are on the menu.  No tortillas or fixing.   I would say sausage, some sort of honey bbq chicken, brisket and pork loin. 

  14. My brother is a died in the wool trumpkin.   It seems the further this goes, the more crotchety he gets.  He yelling at a lot more clouds, usually mexican restaurant staff. 

     

    Unfortunately, most of the people of my age and location are just like him.   Lots of pride there to swallow to admit they were duped and brainwashed.

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  15. 17 hours ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

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    What is the difference in using information gained through phone taps or using info gained through Cambridge Analytic?  The second just seems more technologically advanced. 

    Of course he calls out Obama for the former, but no one for the latter. 

    And that line about "very sacred election process.  This is Nixon/Watergate"  How very projection-isty. 

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