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36 minutes ago, YGIFS said:So raising the most money gets him the win? Is that like who has the biggest rally attendance automatically wins the election? JFC folks, I'm on your side. I busted my fucking ass to raise nearly $200k for Biden in futility to show that Texas would be vulnerable to the GOP in 2020. We can all exchange pissing contest political resumes. I'm just saying Paxton, Patrick, and Cruz are not going away in the next 2-8 years. They're just not. The blueprint is just pissing away money that can be spent on the 2-4 competitive US House races from Texas and at least swing away a GOP super-majority in the State Senate. Everything else is just fucking panacea noise. Neg rep all you want, this fucking thing isn't going anywhere until 2032, at best. Not saying my idea is foolproof but it's got some agreement from some moderate Republicans. Yeah, it has a very low chance of happening but at least it humiliates these asshats and makes them more awkward than they already are.
Nobody wants Ted on the SCOTUS or their cabinet. And we know he can't be nominated as President. So we're literally stuck with him for 30 more fucking years unless somebody primaries his ass.
Ken Paxton cannot be taken out by the cartels as long as he holds office. And that guy can work the fuck outta the legal system and the impeachment process. So he ain't going anywhere for 20 years.
Dan Patrick is either gonna be our Lt. Gov or Governor for 20 years as well. Unless he's beaten in a primary by a non-raging lunatic.
There are competitive races to be won. And those folks need resources. But we're just pissing up a rope right now thinking we're gonna Rock the Vote our way to victory in 2024/2026 in Texas. Fucking send the money and effort to Arizona, at least it'd make a fucking difference. We're all just gonna be back on here in 9 months time wringing our hands saying, "But Guitierrez/Allred raised so much money, how could this have possibly have happened. And oh yeah (checks notes), we lost a couple House races from South & East Texas and even a few more State Legislative seats...but we raised so much money against Ted...how could it possibly be?"
Fuck you. I generally always agree with your point of view, but you won't make me feel like some idiotic second-class citizen because I have to live in a rural county. This kind of talk that their votes don't matter has been driven into their minds by the urban elite so much that they believe it. Believe it down to the point where the votes don't matter because too many stay home, why should they vote? I get no funding from the state, none from national level and very little from local. Our volunteers out here in rural Texas pay with their time and checkbooks every time they travel to someplace in county for an event or knock on a door or two.
It wouldn't have taken but a one or two percentage increase in rural turnout to make a big difference in the outcome of the 22 elections. But everyone insists that the urban vote will turn us blue and there is no doubt that's where our strength lies. But there are just as many if not more blue voters in counties like Harris that stay home too. And the bulk of all this funds you bitch about were spent in those locales.
And the funding has targeted seats that can be flipped, and not all. It is hard to watch some local candidate run for HD or CD and they get no support from the state or DC if their races are considered long shots. They make the effort to run and know they won't win, but they do it anyway because they feel someone has to offer an alternative.
But this kind of talk is just as harmful to our chances of winning, if not more, than underfunding. Our rural Dems are ridiculed and laughed down at by the Dunning Kruger assholes, some have their jobs threatened, their kids at school taunted and other slights just for standing up for the party of reason and empathy. It's not a hard decision to stay home and not vote.
I don't have all the high level contacts you do, nor those experiences, but I do know rural Texas and the blue voters there, and the challenge of getting them to the polls to vote. I would appreciate you think about those people before you dismiss them as dumbasses from Possum Piss who don't mean shit when it comes to voting. Maybe just keep this logic to yourself, or modify it where you aren't denigrating a large base of voters. We have enough problems with turning out Texas Dems without having our own people telling them they are pointless.
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3 hours ago, YGIFS said:
First off, in most races---somebody attempting to primary a prominent incumbent in Texas has to swing even further to the right, correct? I think we can all agree that's the case usually. How does one 'out-batshit right tack' Cruz, Patrick, or Abbott? It's impossible. There's no flank to their pandering to the stupids. Nobody's gonna try that angle. What somebody could do, and I don't fault them for wanting to fight an uphill battle and probably have their children's lives threatened by MAGA lunatics...is some moderate tries to out-primary them by simply getting a few hundred thousand Democrats/Independents to come out and go for them in both a primary and run-off. For the umpteenth fucking time, I'm not saying it's the Democratic Party of Texas' responsibility to rid us of these three fucking lunatics, but nobody from that party is going to take either of those seats by the end of this decade. It's just not going to fucking happen and the sooner you make peace with it, the better. But if they can find a moderate Republican (spare me the 'those do not exist' bullshit) that they can work with, they can turn out just a few hundred thousand of their own plus the fed-up GOP'ers whom would gladly vote against these guys and at least have somebody who's not a fucking monster in office until the demographics switch down the road in the 2030's. It's not fucking complicated. It's not the Democrat's fault here, but the system is what it is. In terms of turnout, it's a +5 state for Republicans (depending on the cycle). That's just a fact right now. We can discuss voter suppression in the other thread.
The maths are the maths. And the primary system is the primary system. Several hundred thousand Democrats would have to be convinced by said primary opponent to Cruz or Patrick to not pull a D ballot in March/May and instead choose to put their ballot chips all in behind this hypothetical moderate candidate on the R-side. And it's done, it's over with. Game over for Cruz or Patrick. Now as soon as it looks dicey for them, they'll change the law that says we all have to be registered and the open primary system is dead, but that's the battle after that. And we can bitch and moan about this new moderate tilting too far right once in office, but that's the battle after that. And the battle for blue control down the road is the battle after that. And on and on and fucking on we go. The D primary votes for judges in Houston or State rep are largely performative anyway, it's not changing jackshit but in a handful of districts.
But wouldn't it just be fucking nice to for a couple of goddamn years to live in a State with no Cruz or Paxton or Patrick. Sure it'd be somebody most of you don't prefer or even respect, but at least it's not one of these insurrectionist cunts. Then you can boot 'em out the next cycle. This is not that fucking difficult, but nope-let's throw another $80mm at Beto for something and act like voting in a GOP primary makes you a fascist. Oh hey---maybe Wendy Davis will have a third act to her political career, right? These guys are not going anywhere until you kneecap them in a primary.
Another problem is that a lot of counties have no Dems in local races, so if people in Possum Piss need to vote for cousin clyde for constable, they can't vote in the Dem primary.
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4 hours ago, WBT said:
This shit needs to ramp up in Texas. The House has been able to barely hold on under the last 3 speakers but where are the primary challengers to Abbott, Patrick, and Cruz?
Abbott and Patrick won't be up for re-election until 26. So far the only Dem who is talking about either is Rep Vicki Goodwin of north Travis Co. She's in the same mold as Talarico, she's been instrumental in the voucher fight and other hot issues the past few sessions. It's hard to see these new brighter stars in the Texas lege because the media is constantly focused on the political theater Abbott and his ilk keep producing.
There's a really good daily podcast of 10-15 minutes duration that gives you a rundown on things in DC and Austin affecting us. Progress Texas on Spotify and other platforms.
Cruz is up this year and I like Roland Gutierrez. He's not apologetic about being a Dem and he's not pandering to the right side of the aisle to swing a few never trumper votes. And while a lot of his campaign focuses on the Uvalde massacre, he has some solid ideas for addressing other issues like immigration, codifying Roe V Wade, etc. He wants to expand the USSC to match the number of districts, which makes a lot of sense. Check him out.
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2 hours ago, TreatyOak said:
You’re right. The magazine folded that summer when the donation money went missing. I saved one of the two magazines that were test printed. I figure it’s probably worth around $600.
I was thinkin' tree fiddy. 🤷♂️
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10 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:
I am more interested in why it’s so impossible to get us to a place where we can have a sensible policy solution and I think we have to talk about our tendency to decide whether a proposal is “good” or “bad” by how it aligns with our deep moral judgments before “does this work?” And this aligns with our Puritan roots, where the state of a person’s heart is more important that the outer realities. We argue in these terms even when we are non-theists.
Sometimes this is good, there needs to be a little alarm that stops us from choosing expediency even when it’s morally abhorrent. But the tendency in American political competition is to frame EVERYTHING along moralistic lines, even when the alarm bells aren’t going off. I could point to all the people who will gladly go bankrupt and die if the alternative is getting healthy and having money under “socialist” medicine as the example par excellence.
Put another way, in Deng Xiaoping thought, he backed off of Maoist dogma and announced “it doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.”
Americans REALLY care about the color of the cat. Or more accurately, whether the cat has a the correct motivation to catch the mice.
I think a big part of the reason we can't get to sensible policy is that there is this huge push by a mouthy lot to install some sort of theocracy, which then puts some skewed Christian ideals as the centerpiece of our government. You said earlier that part of addiction is a spiritual problem and the government shouldn't be in the business of trying to fix that. I won't argue how much of it is spiritual or mental health as that line is hard to define in many cases. But my point is you can't get where you want to be by having all your considerations be judged by some accepted canon first.
Safe sex mentioned earlier how many homeless start out as homosexual teens that are cast out of their homes and their support systems. By and large who condones parents to treat their children that way? The churches, who translate their own code of morals to fit their purposes. So if your government is based on those sorts of things, then they will see every issue through "God's" eye as they interpret it. That is too susceptible to change on the whims of a single small group, or even a single person who has the charisma to influence the masses.
The government should be built and operated on a set of laws that are solid, based on facts that can endure from generation to generation. We've recently seen how it's been under siege by those who want to run things according to their feelings, instead of the rule of law.
4 hours ago, Celery Man said:Running policy through a morality test before judging it pragmatically could potentially be positive if the this exact base sinful instinct had not already been exploited by evil to remove all of the good from our national morality. It doesn’t work now that our guiding light is entitlement and contempt.
Now you have to figure out who set up that guiding light and why. Who is evil? I'd say the upper elite money people have been spurred on by their greed and competitiveness to turn a great deal of western society into brain dead consumers, and have used the pulpit to help people justify to themselves this move away from serving humanity and their neighbors, to serving the almighty dollar, which a great percentage of ends up in those uber rich pockets. They instill insecurities in us, then give us ways to feel better than others by introducing the notion it's ok to feel contempt for those different from us, or seemingly worse off. It's a lose lose for all but the puppetmasters.
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4 hours ago, crash_davis said:
So it's our fault because they are homeless druggies? My sarcasm meter is broke.
Well for some of them, yeah it's our fault, as a collective country. Many of those homeless druggies are veterans we gladly welcomed into the arms of our military to serve and protect our country. There's a myriad of reasons these people end up with the short end of the stick, but it maddens me how as a country we ask people to serve, put them in difficult situations, then turn our backs on them once they leave active duty. Our VA is magnificently underfunded while our defense contractors get fatter and richer. Then you turn the television on and get hit with a Wounded Warrior commercial. Excuse me, but isn't that the goverment's job to take care of these people?
So yeah it is partly our fault, and one of the reasons many of us look upon the homeless and addicted with compassion, because maybe we (our country) put them in a vulnerable position and refuses to help them when the gamble went south.
https://treatmentsolutions.com/treatment/rehab-guide/veterans/homeless-veterans/
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(CNN) — A Jackie Robinson statue that was cut off at the ankles and stolen Thursday from a Little League baseball field in Wichita, Kansas, has been found in a trash can at a different park – burned and in pieces, police say.
Officers responded to a call Tuesday morning about a trash can fire in Garvey Park, Wichita Police Department spokesperson Andrew Ford said at a Tuesday news conference.
“Shortly after extinguishing the fire, the fire department saw what appeared to be pieces of the Jackie Robinson statue, which is not salvageable at this time,” Ford said at the news conference.
League 42, a nonprofit that provides low-cost baseball registration for children, had raised $50,000 for the life-sized statue at its field, according to CNN affiliate KLBY. The league was named after Robinson’s jersey number, honoring the legendary athlete who broke the Major League’s color barrier as a Black player. The theft occurred shortly after midnight Thursday, police have said.
The theft and arson remain under investigation. On Monday, police said they found a truck believed to be connected to the theft.
“There will be an arrest but we’re going to make sure that when we do, we will have a solid case,” Wichita Police Chief Joe Sullivan said Tuesday.
The statue “was a symbol of hope” in the community, Wichita City Council member Brandon Johnson told CNN on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Johnson described the discovery as “heartbreaking.”
“I hate to see that the statue was not in one piece,” he told reporters. “I do want everyone to know we are undeterred to make sure that statue gets rebuilt and put back there for our community, for League 42, for young people, that symbol of hope will be only gone for a short time.”
League 42 will move forward with creating a replica of the statue by the late James Parsons with the same material, director Bob Lutz said at the news conference.
“Fortunately, the mold from his work is still viable, and the statue that reappears at McAdams Park will be the work of John Parsons,” Lutz said.
A GoFundMe organized by Lutz has so far raised over $19,000 to replace the statue.
The GoFundMe is up to 156,000/175,000.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/replace-our-stolen-jackie-robinson-statue
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On 1/24/2024 at 9:46 PM, Hate said:
After the great big middle finger JJ gave every single Cowboys fan when he announced McCarthy will be back, I am officially done with this team. I was already apathetic, but now I genuinely dislike this team. The only player I really give a shit about is Micah and I mostly feel sorry for him...he's DeMarcus Ware 2.0. A HOF caliber player that will have to leave to win a title after trying for most of his career in Dallas. Romo is Dak 2.0. Same as it ever was. I'm officially out until JJ is under ground. I fucking HATE what he has done to the Cowboys.
I don't think JJ going room temperature will make much difference with his imbecile spawn taking charge. The only way the Cowboys return to winning form is for the Jones family to sell them to someone else.
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That halftime show with Phyllis George sure brought back memories. Some good, some bad.
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4 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:
He only made it to the minors, but it is still a great story
SpoilerMovie said he made it to play for the Expos for 4 years. Maybe just their farm team, but it sure seemed like they meant the big league. Either way, like you said, a great story.
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The Hill was a good story, but done in that cheap Hallmark sappish kind of way. But the story was good enough to warrant sitting through the poor production.
A story about a kid from Texas who fights off a lot of disabilities to make it to the Majors. Just don't expect Brenham to look like Brenham.
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3 hours ago, Red Five said:
Where the fuck are my Japanese lesbian cheerleaders then, smart guy??
At Rice, I imagine.
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Say what you will about Sarah, but she's been a bulldog after the O&G industry on abandoned wells, saltwater mishandling, pipeline leaks and other negative environmental issues.
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18 hours ago, YGIFS said:
Boy, he did not see that coming!
Depends on which side they approached from.
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On 11/10/2023 at 10:57 AM, MrBig said:
The Texas Democratic primary for U.S. Senate will be State Sen. Roland Gutierrez vs U.S. Rep Colin Allred. Two minority candidates who each represent a place where a mass shooting occurred (Uvalde and Allen). They are also against the Texas abortion law.
I think James Talarico would have a better chance at beating Ted Cruz. He’s a smart, deeply religious man who uses logic and reason instead of arguing like a little bitch to get his way like Ted Cruz.
Well, we are where we are now with our primaries set. Allred leads in funds collected, but Gutierrez is working the campaign trail hard and gaining recognition and support every day. I have met 6 of the 9 candidates, and Allred isn't one of them. I'll just say he hasn't been as available as most of the others. I really admire those I have met and all would be a step up from Cruz, but to be practical it will come down to a runoff between Allred and Gutierrez. Gutierrez reminds me of Beto with a personality. He is humble and available and speaks with a genuineness that Beto seemed to lack. Allred is running a Hegar type campaign it seems. Maybe it will pick up, but I think he is saving his treasure chest for the runoff, and then the general.
I really suggest you get out to see Roland when he gets into your neck of the woods. He's a good speaker. I feel he and Talarico are two of the best rising stars on the Texas Dem bench presently.
Watch for the debates. There is one hosted by the PAC134 already online. PAC 134 Texas Dem Senator debate
Most senate hopefuls made it, but Allred and Gonzalez both missed. There is one coming up sponsored by the AFL CIO, and it will be streamed on their Facebook page.
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On 1/21/2024 at 8:12 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:
The guy who tweeted is running against Cuellar in this year's election. His treasurer is based in DC, but he's only just filed his PAC forms in the last month or so. He's a retired vet I believe.
Here is the link to his Plan Alamo. Dead solid perfect fascist. He's justifying all this by predicting that the Texas border will be invaded by armed masses of immigrants, organized in some sort of Pancho Villa uprising, I suppose.
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11 minutes ago, MrBig said:
Aggy is using state money allocated to TAMU College Station and using it to pay for operating expenses for its “satellite” branch TAMU-Qatar. This money is then paid back to TAMU through gifts from the Qatar Foundation. So no there is no oversight with how they are using their money at all.
And it's doubtful we will in the future, due to all the legislators who have roots in A&M.
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8 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:
We called it the Tel Aviv Tower
Hebrew Hilton, right across from NoMan Hall
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13 hours ago, ABSR said:
See bold below. Anyone else surprised that aggy waited until Texas reported before making up a larger number in any way possible, including using loans and donations as a “revenue” source….yet again, in order to over inflate their numbers. There is no ncaa standards around this, but I would think they do have to get their books audited. So which former student mom and pop countin’ firm is certifying this?
The Texas A&M athletic department had $279.2 million in operating revenue during its 2023 fiscal year, its new financial report to the NCAA shows.
The document was obtained by USA TODAY Sports through an open-records request in partnership with the Knight-Newhouse Data project at Syracuse University.
It comes days after the University of Texas’ report showed just over $271 million in operating revenue for 2023.
Guess if they included the money they had to raise to make Jimbo's payoff down payment, it might be close.
13 hours ago, Jkwellborn said:
Well, I watched “We are Marshall” and they had to be taught by Bobby Bowden.That was the veer Bowden taught them.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
This. And that drowning (purposefully making public schools worse) is done for two purposes in mind:
1) those who can afford to get out of the shithole schools end up in private schools that are generally more likely than not to indoctrinate students into the Christofascist beliefs of the current Ruling Party, and
2) those who can't afford it can get fucked, and be the low-income wage slaves that the Ruling Party wants them to be.
White Christian from a middle class and above family? Step right up and enroll at Freedom Eagle Gun Jesus Academy! Get some basic education of decent quality, and all the indoctrination you can stand and more!
From a poor family, especially a minority family? Get fucked, mud people. You exist to mow our lawns and bus tables, so you don't need any book learning anyhow. Get to work! (See also the fact that the same folks pushing school choice are pushing for relaxed child labor laws). Brown kids belong at the chicken processing plant, not at school.
No first those brown students are needed to help the athletics teams get to district or beyond, then they can disappear into the woodwork once their eligibility runs out.
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17 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:
I think it makes perfect sense, and is in no way surprising. Similarly to the way the Southern Baptist convention makes it damn near impossible to imprint any kind of requirements or guidelines about individual churches, moving away from an actual spiritual church/organization/denomination means you have freedom to say whatever the fuck you want is in the name of Jesus. Sort of like what the Moms of Liberty plan on doing with their charter "school." Except instead of education, it's "Faith."
You know all those quotes of people saying the teaching of Jesus are liberal bullshit so their church should stop teaching them? This is the next step.I agree that's a big part of it, my brother is a member of one of these type churches. But I think part of it is the rural churches feeling less important than their urban and suburban counterparts. Lots of little churches in Possum Piss have reverted back to circuit riders of the past, partly because they can't afford a pastor dedicated to solely their church anymore.
It's all tied together with the deterioration of the rural communities.
The Pentecostals are just a magnet for the MAGA/Misogynistic crowd. Big into patriarchy and keeping the women barefoot in the kitchen. Probably also strong white supremacy stuff taught there too.
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The Republican Civil War - it will be because we destroyed ourselves
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I agree with Bozo, it works better on a local level than it does statewide. The primary to replace Bryan Slaton, House District 2 had a 'jungle' primary. All candidates were on the same ballot, regardless of party. So that meant there were no individual party primaries. Texas does not register you as a D or R or L, that only happens when you vote in one of those parties' primaries. If you vote in the Dem primary this cycle, you cannot vote in any runoff other than a Dem one. And same for Red side. You cannot hold county or precinct chair positions or be a delegate to the state convention if you vote in a republican race. There are a few other implications, but those are the major ones.
In a jungle primary there is no party association, so people can cross over during that primary. This happened in HD 2 where once the local Dem candidate, Kristen Washington, did not gain enough votes to make the runoffs, many of the local Dems went in and cast votes for Jill Dutton over Brent Money. Money had been endorsed by the 3 evil stooges. Money did not get sizeable donations from outside the districts, ala Dunn, Wilks or any others. I guess Abbott and his klan calculated their endorsement alone would win the day.
So that was a short term win, and Dutton is no prize, but she's lengths better than Money. But now they are all on their party ballots again for the 24 primaries, and Dutton will serve out the rest of this term until 1/25 no matter who wins the primary now.
Even locally like that, it was only like 100-120 vote difference. It will be interesting to see the results of a normal primary.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/30/brent-money-jill-dutton-texas-house-district-2/