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6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if much of the country wants to wall-off Texas in its entirety.  And I can't blame 'em.

Abbott and all these fucking Republican dipshits in Texas are just scared little cowards.  Frightened of their own fucking shadows.

They try to project this image of Texas being this amazing state that is tough and resilient, but the words coming out of their mouths are those of little chickenshit cowards.

Fucking pathetic what the GOP is scared of and how weak they look these days.

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13 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:

If You Say So Wow GIF by Identity

Oh, fuck me. I had the right movie character in mind but confused the movie and blew the line.

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Posted
4 hours ago, mchookem said:

insanity

It will never change until some big companies decide to pack up and leave. But the biggest free-loaders of society ain’t walking away from all these tax breaks. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

It will never change until some big companies decide to pack up and leave. But the biggest free-loaders of society ain’t walking away from all these tax breaks. 

No shit. When North Carolina passed controversial laws, the NCAA pulled several championship games. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2016/09/12/ncaa-to-relocate-championship-events-north-carolina-house-bill-2/90284584/)

When Texas passed anti-abortion laws that caused a woman to have to leave the state or risk not having more children, it was *crickets*

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24 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

No shit. When North Carolina passed controversial laws, the NCAA pulled several championship games. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2016/09/12/ncaa-to-relocate-championship-events-north-carolina-house-bill-2/90284584/)

When Texas passed anti-abortion laws that caused a woman to have to leave the state or risk not having more children, it was *crickets*

Arizona didn’t recognize MLK Day until the NFL stripped them of the 1993 Super Bowl.

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32 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

No shit. When North Carolina passed controversial laws, the NCAA pulled several championship games. (https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2016/09/12/ncaa-to-relocate-championship-events-north-carolina-house-bill-2/90284584/)

When Texas passed anti-abortion laws that caused a woman to have to leave the state or risk not having more children, it was *crickets*

Go ahead and look up who is the NCAA president and his previous position and political affiliation 

Posted
11 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

...and SBISD are finally starting to put 2+2 together that their choices led to this... and a vast majority will once again vote for the bozos who are screwing public education.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, texasdago said:

...and SBISD are finally starting to put 2+2 together that their choices led to this... and a vast majority will once again vote for the bozos who are screwing public education.

"I didn't think the Leopards would eat MY face!" chapter 5 million.

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

"I didn't think the Leopards would eat MY face!" chapter 5 million.

Some get it...

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Most will keep voting for the same idiots because of the letter next to their name on the ballot.  And there's always a few shills that will claim its all Phelan's fault.  

It's OK though... this guy is going all in on covering Abbott's ass...

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1 minute ago, texasdago said:

Some get it...

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Most will keep voting for the same idiots because of the letter next to their name on the ballot.  And there's always a few shills that will claim its all Phelan's fault.  

It's OK though... this guy is going all in on covering Abbott's ass...

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So....in short....they still don't get it.  They will keep voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party even as the leopard is chewing on their own face.  Because this fucking state.

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Posted
6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

So....in short....they still don't get it.  They will keep voting for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party even as the leopard is chewing on their own face.  Because this fucking state.

Correct... lots of big fans of leopards in SBISD

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If I had Soros money there would be a billboard as close to every school in the state saying their rep and governor voted against supporting this school, kids or teachers.

"Cuntface Dickhead and hot wheels doesn't care about this school, it's teachers and your kids. Why are you voting for them?"

Probably wouldn't make much of a difference but Id try it.

 

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Posted
3 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

If I had Soros money there would be a billboard as close to every school in the state saying their rep and governor voted against supporting this school, kids or teachers.

"Cuntface Dickhead and hot wheels doesn't care about this school, it's teachers and your kids. Why are you voting for them?"

Probably wouldn't make much of a difference but Id try it.

 

"They care about my kids because they are keeping away the trans homo goomers and the gay lib agenda" 

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Posted
37 minutes ago, Post Oak said:

If I had Soros money there would be a billboard as close to every school in the state saying their rep and governor voted against supporting this school, kids or teachers.

"Cuntface Dickhead and hot wheels doesn't care about this school, it's teachers and your kids. Why are you voting for them?"

Probably wouldn't make much of a difference but Id try it.

 

'its'

Details matter if you're going to trash talk politicians being weak on education.

Posted
2 hours ago, royiv said:

Arizona didn’t recognize MLK Day until the NFL stripped them of the 1993 Super Bowl.

 they can't understand why he the man
I'm singin' 'bout a king
They don't like it
When I decide to mic it
Wait I'm waitin' for the date
For the man who demands respect
'Cause he was great, c'mon
I'm on the one mission
To get a politician to honor or he's a gonner
By the time I get to Arizona...

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WTF is wrong with people in this state?

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/02/22/texans-signal-support-of-u-s-border-militarization-in-new-ut-poll/72673312007/

Texans want to see more police, razor wire at US-Mexico border, new UT poll shows

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A majority of Texans want to see more enforcement at the state's southern border with Mexico to deter migrants from crossing into the U.S. illegally and support Gov. Greg Abbott's border security initiatives, such as building border barriers and installing razor wire along the Rio Grande, a new polling says.

Just under two-thirds of those surveyed said they strongly support or somewhat support the allocation of additional state police and military resources to secure the border. It nearly mirrored the 57% of respondents who said they strongly support or somewhat support the installation of buoys and barbed wire along the Texas banks of the Rio Grande, an area where unauthorized crossings have surged in recent years.

The poll was conducted by the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas from Feb. 2 to Feb. 12. It asked 1,200 self-declared registered voters about their opinions on a variety of topics, including gun rights, immigration, abortion and their choice candidate for the 2024 presidential election. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 2.83 percentage points.

Unsurprisingly, plans to further militarize the U.S.-Mexico border were popular among Republican and independent respondents, with 75% and 45%, respectively, strongly supporting the idea. Only 15% of Democrats surveyed showed strong support for border militarization; however, 44% of Democratic respondents showed at least some support for an increased military presence at the border, according to the poll.

The governor announced Friday that Texas will build a permanent military installation along its border with Mexico, signaling that the Texas National Guard deployment there, which is part of Abbott's $11 billion Operation Lone Star, is not likely to end any time soon. The facility will be able to handle up to 1,800 Guard troops with the capacity to expand to accommodate 2,300 troops, Abbott said.

"This will increase the ability for a larger number of Texas military department personnel in Eagle Pass to operate more effectively and more efficiently," Abbott said.

Though an overwhelming majority of respondents signaled support for measures to curb unauthorized border crossings, just under half (48%) of the poll's respondents went so far as to call it a crisis. Nearly 1 in 4 respondents said they would opt to call illegal border crossings "a very serious problem" instead.

Additionally, 49% of respondents argued there is too much legal immigration in the U.S.

Abbott's push for a greater police presence at the border, paired with the installation of buoys in the Rio Grande and razor wire along its shores in Texas, has for months sparked intense public discourse and litigation between the federal and state governments.

The U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling last month sided with the Biden administration, allowing federal agents to cut through state-installed razor wire so that Border Patrol agents can patrol the border, deploy surveillance equipment and reach officers or migrants in distress.

In Eagle Pass in July, USA TODAY reported that several migrants, including children, required hospital treatment for deep cuts and lacerations from the razor wire. The report also cited an internal email from a state trooper obtained by the newspaper stating that the state's efforts had become "inhumane."

Abbott in December also signed a controversial law that allows state law enforcement officers to arrest, detain, and deport individuals suspected of illegally crossing the Texas-Mexico border.

Senate Bill 4, which is set to go into effect in March, allows local and state law enforcement to arrest anyone suspected of crossing the border unlawfully and charge them with a crime ranging from a class A misdemeanor to a second-degree felony. Those found to have violated the law can be jailed or ordered by a magistrate to be returned to Mexico.

Opponents of the law say Texas has no standing to regulate immigration, which is a federal power, and the bill could result in racial profiling of residents by law enforcement. Sixty percent of respondents to the recent Texas Politics Project survey, however, support making it state crime for most undocumented immigrants to be in Texas, with only 33% opposed.

 

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Posted (edited)
5 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Abbott needs blame for the increase in border crossings since he started busing them out of the state.  That has to be seen as a plus for anyone crossing into Texas.

This. He’s spending billions on a migrant transportation system that enables and encourages illegal immigration. He might as well be placing ads in Central America promoting free transportation. Someone should create a mock advertisement with Greg Abbott promoting free plane and bus rides to the destination of your choice in the US.

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Posted
5 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Abbott needs blame for the increase in border crossings since he started busing them out of the state.  That has to be seen as a plus for anyone crossing into Texas.

No shit.  I heard a report on NPR earlier in the week discussing how immigrants have been able to get a free ride from Texas to places like the New York and Chicago areas, and from there find work to earn some money, get a place to live, get a driver's license, etc.  Many of them are loving the busing out of Texas.  

I can only imagine they're calling their friends and family back in Mexico and telling them, "Look, just get your ass across the Texas border, and then their governor -- yeah, the dumbass cripple -- he'll pay for your bus fare all the way here!"

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Posted
5 minutes ago, royiv said:

This. He’s spending billions on a migrant transportation system that enables and encourages illegal immigration. He might as well be placing ads in Central America promoting free transportation. Someone should create a mock advertisement with Greg Abbott promoting free plane and bus rides to the destination of your choice in the US.

That would be a worthy billboard to put up in Guatemala.  Surely there's enough left in the wreath fund for it.  The monthly rate for a billboard down there has to be less than tree fiddy.

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7 hours ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Abbott needs blame for the increase in border crossings since he started busing them out of the state.  That has to be seen as a plus for anyone crossing into Texas.

If I was a rich guy/company that relied on illegal immigrants (construction, agricultural, food processing, etc.) I’d be absolutely getting word out south of the border to get their asses to the Texas border and get a free bus ride away from the border and away from border law enforcement.

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Maybe a good start...Now if the AAS would get off their ASS.

Alongtime Texas newspaper says that it was "wrong" to endorse Texas Governor Greg Abbott 10 years ago, accusing him of "spewing lies and half-truths" and going after fellow Republicans who did not support his school vouchers initiative.

As well as being front and center on issues such as illegal immigration, Abbott—elected in 2015—has been on the campaign trail supporting Texas statewide candidates who are running against 16 current Republican lawmakers who last year voted against his voucher initiative, in which taxpayers' money would have been used to allow some students to attend private schools.

 

Last year, a total of 21 Republicans in the Texas Legislature voted against the initiative.

"A decade ago, we endorsed Greg Abbott, saying the then-Texas Attorney General was a man of good character who had 'the respect necessary to govern our state,'" reads a new editorial by the Daily Sentinel, which has covered the state's oldest town of Nacogdoches since 1899. "Our opinion of what makes a good governor hasn't changed, but Abbott has. He's become the Disrespecter-in-Chief of Texas.

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Posted

I wish the media were better at interviewing. She should have followed up by asking what the fuck difference does the number make, and why won't he answer the question. 

And it never ceases to amaze how bad he is at talking. Such an insincere and dumb man.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Cap33 said:

I wish the media were better at interviewing. She should have followed up by asking what the fuck difference does the number make, and why won't he answer the question. 

And it never ceases to amaze how bad he is at talking. Such an insincere and dumb man.

So many of our social problems would be better addressed if our "public" sources of information were better about actually getting useful information and not just repeated soundbites ad nauseum

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Posted
11 minutes ago, Cap33 said:

I wish the media were better at interviewing. She should have followed up by asking what the fuck difference does the number make, and why won't he answer the question. 

And it never ceases to amaze how bad he is at talking. Such an insincere and dumb man.


all of abbott’s ‘interviews’ are staged with questions he’s provided or has before hand 

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Texas passes on $450 million summer lunch program for low-income families

 

Doesn't mention abbott but I'm sure this was his doing and I'm positive Jesus would be proud ....

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/22/texas-federal-summer-lunch-program/

 

This year 35 states will participate in a $2.5 billion federal nutrition program that will help low-income parents buy groceries for their children when free school meals are unavailable during the summer months.

But Texas, which has 3.8 million children eligible for the program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has opted not to join this national effort. If it had, qualifying families would have received $120 per child through a pre-loaded card for the three summer months. The USDA calculated that Texas is passing on a total of $450 million in federal tax dollars that would have gone to eligible families here.

When the USDA notified Texas Health and Human Services Commission officials of their new Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT program on Dec. 29, that gave the nation’s second largest state only six months to get it up and running and that’s not enough time, said Tiffany Young, a spokesperson for the state agency.

Although the summer program would involve two other agencies as well – the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Department of Agriculture – HHSC would have to bear the brunt of the work because they would have to coordinate and direct the distribution of the preloaded cards to qualifying families.

Already on their plate is the cumbersome unwinding of Medicaid coverage. Since last April, the agency has removed more than 2 million Texans from the program since the federal government lifted continuous coverage rules during the pandemic, forcing those who still qualify for coverage to reapply.

From HHSC’s perspective, launching an entirely new program would be at this time. Additionally, the USDA would only cover 50% of the administrative expenses for Summer EBT. It would be up to the state to cover the residual cost.

For more than 3 million Texas children, school lunch may be the only full meal they get each day. According to Feeding Texas, a nonprofit organization that supplies food banks across the state, one in five children are affected by food insecurity — defined as an insufficient amount or unreliable sources of food to sustain oneself.

 

The Texas Department of Agriculture administers the free and reduced meal program for students during the school year. Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said he understands the disappointment some families have about Texas’ decision not to participate this year. . He said his agency would have assisted if the decision was made to participate.

“The problem we’re facing — and we face this at the TDA in our school meals program and our summer feeding programs — everything is so much more expensive,” Miller said. “An extra 40 dollars could have gone a long way to offset that.”

Every Texan petitioned alongside statewide and regional organizations for the program last November, signing a letter to Cecile Young, executive commissioner of HHSC.

“Summer EBT is something that we have been advocating for for years, because we know how hard it is in a state as spread out as Texas to access enough food, to be able to afford enough food for their kids when school is closed,” Rachel Cooper told The Texas Tribune.

Though not as comprehensive as Summer EBT, food insecure children still have options for food assistance during the summer. Miller told the Tribune that “kids aren’t going to get fed any less” on account of the TDA’s expansion of their Summer Meals Program. Children 18 and under are eligible to receive a free meal at their meal sites across the state.

Parents can also find out if their child’s school district is one of many that provide free meals during the summer. National organizations, such as the YMCA and Boys & Girls Club, provide summer meal assistance at select locations.

Though it remains possible to secure a balanced meal without Summer EBT, Cooper believes it is still possible and necessary for Texas to join the program in 2025.

“Our kids need it,” Cooper said. “They deserve it, and we just need to do our part.”

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Posted

The main issue here is these guys keep fucking up my company stock for a bunch of people who claim they are business friendly /s

Patiently waiting as they become experts in IUI/IVF/ICSI in the upcoming weeks

Posted
1 hour ago, Smax said:

Already on their plate is the cumbersome unwinding of Medicaid coverage. Since last April, the agency has removed more than 2 million Texans from the program since the federal government lifted continuous coverage rules during the pandemic, forcing those who still qualify for coverage to reapply.

 

Sorry we can't provide food for kids during the summer, because we're too busy making sure they don't have access to affordable health insurance. Fuck fuck fuck.

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5 hours ago, Smax said:

Texas passes on $450 million summer lunch program for low-income families

 

Doesn't mention abbott but I'm sure this was his doing and I'm positive Jesus would be proud ....

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/22/texas-federal-summer-lunch-program/

 

This year 35 states will participate in a $2.5 billion federal nutrition program that will help low-income parents buy groceries for their children when free school meals are unavailable during the summer months.

But Texas, which has 3.8 million children eligible for the program, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has opted not to join this national effort. If it had, qualifying families would have received $120 per child through a pre-loaded card for the three summer months. The USDA calculated that Texas is passing on a total of $450 million in federal tax dollars that would have gone to eligible families here.

When the USDA notified Texas Health and Human Services Commission officials of their new Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer, or EBT program on Dec. 29, that gave the nation’s second largest state only six months to get it up and running and that’s not enough time, said Tiffany Young, a spokesperson for the state agency.

Although the summer program would involve two other agencies as well – the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Department of Agriculture – HHSC would have to bear the brunt of the work because they would have to coordinate and direct the distribution of the preloaded cards to qualifying families.

Already on their plate is the cumbersome unwinding of Medicaid coverage. Since last April, the agency has removed more than 2 million Texans from the program since the federal government lifted continuous coverage rules during the pandemic, forcing those who still qualify for coverage to reapply.

From HHSC’s perspective, launching an entirely new program would be at this time. Additionally, the USDA would only cover 50% of the administrative expenses for Summer EBT. It would be up to the state to cover the residual cost.

For more than 3 million Texas children, school lunch may be the only full meal they get each day. According to Feeding Texas, a nonprofit organization that supplies food banks across the state, one in five children are affected by food insecurity — defined as an insufficient amount or unreliable sources of food to sustain oneself.

 

The Texas Department of Agriculture administers the free and reduced meal program for students during the school year. Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said he understands the disappointment some families have about Texas’ decision not to participate this year. . He said his agency would have assisted if the decision was made to participate.

“The problem we’re facing — and we face this at the TDA in our school meals program and our summer feeding programs — everything is so much more expensive,” Miller said. “An extra 40 dollars could have gone a long way to offset that.”

Every Texan petitioned alongside statewide and regional organizations for the program last November, signing a letter to Cecile Young, executive commissioner of HHSC.

“Summer EBT is something that we have been advocating for for years, because we know how hard it is in a state as spread out as Texas to access enough food, to be able to afford enough food for their kids when school is closed,” Rachel Cooper told The Texas Tribune.

Though not as comprehensive as Summer EBT, food insecure children still have options for food assistance during the summer. Miller told the Tribune that “kids aren’t going to get fed any less” on account of the TDA’s expansion of their Summer Meals Program. Children 18 and under are eligible to receive a free meal at their meal sites across the state.

Parents can also find out if their child’s school district is one of many that provide free meals during the summer. National organizations, such as the YMCA and Boys & Girls Club, provide summer meal assistance at select locations.

Though it remains possible to secure a balanced meal without Summer EBT, Cooper believes it is still possible and necessary for Texas to join the program in 2025.

“Our kids need it,” Cooper said. “They deserve it, and we just need to do our part.”

Well, it really is the [nationalist] Christian thing to do.

Posted
14 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Anybody get the feeling that Abbott’s owners are leaning on him pretty heavily to make good on his promise to sign voucher legislation into law?

I’m surprised he’s not threatening to call a special session this year.



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