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4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Does he know how interstate highways work?  

Well we do have those interstate border patrol checkpoints.  Don’t you remember the guy with the modified Eagle Talon on here with all the cameras that would troll the BP by not rolling down his windows?

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Does the Razor Wire have large Talons?  

"WHAT?"

Does the Razor Wire have large Talons?

"Boy, with your windows up...I don't understand a word you just said."  

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4 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

30 years of Texas Republicans doing nothing on the border, and the guy elected 3 years ago is at fault.

I see it as a federal issue. If it's not what the Biden admin wants, I'm not sure why he doesn't tell Texas to knock it off, honestly. 

Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

It’s a federal issue until Texas Congressmen go on Fox News and announce to the world they have cultivated an environment of open borders and have done nothing to curtail it.

 

it's one huge scam

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15 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

It’s a federal issue until Texas Congressmen go on Fox News and announce to the world they have cultivated an environment of open borders and have done nothing to curtail it.

I wonder how many Texas Congressmen have authored border security bills in Congress.

I'm setting the over/under at 0.5.

 

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How is it a Federal issue when the Texas House is advancing a $1.5B bill to build more border wall?  Did "we" just discover that, decades into Republican control of the state, "we" can do something about this crisis "crisis"?

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I said it in the legislature thread, this massive ramp up in racist bullshit, whether it be trying to take over Houston's voting, hauling Hispanic Americans to the Mexican border if they don't provide their papers to a cop, or sending people to prison for 10 years for giving a ride to somebody who isn't here legally, it's coming on the heels of Hispanics passing up whites in Texas demographics.

This is the last gasp of a party that thinks it's going to lose power if it doesn't crack the whip and make people fear it.

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11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I said it in the legislature thread, this massive ramp up in racist bullshit, whether it be trying to take over Houston's voting, hauling Hispanic Americans to the Mexican border if they don't provide their papers to a cop, or sending people to prison for 10 years for giving a ride to somebody who isn't here legally, it's coming on the heels of Hispanics passing up whites in Texas demographics.

This is the last gasp of a party that thinks it's going to lose power if it doesn't crack the whip and make people fear it.

 

if 10 to 15% more latin voters show up, Texas MAGA GQP is toast 

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Posted (edited)
24 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Fixed. Not a guarantee anymore. 

 

23 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Yep.  The Rio Grande Valley voting numbers for Trump were troubling.  

1) Hispanics are not a voting bloc, and Texas Democrats have made a grave mistake of ever thinking of them that way. The ones who fit the socioeconomic markers we associate with white Republican voters are Republican voters. 
2) The dominance of Democrats in the RGV/South Texas is a product of machine politics and it's not a pretty picture. I can't blame ambitious political types for seeking an alternative. @tx 3 putt is 100% right about what 10-15% higher hispanic turnout would mean because of the split, but it's the other areas of the state outside the RGV that they need to cultivate and they aren't effectively doing it. 

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44 minutes ago, safe sex said:

1948 Ballot Box #13, baby.

 

#csb - one of my uncle's was pretty involved here. I know he was always very close to the Parr family through the years. 

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17 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

#csb - one of my uncle's was pretty involved here. I know he was always very close to the Parr family through the years. 

Wonder if y'all's family has a copy of the incriminating photo stashed somewhere?

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I glad this (GA, not Al) cocksucker took time out of his week to visit Israel. Fuck that guy.  
 

Just wanted to contribute to the thread. 

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On 10/27/2023 at 12:16 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

2) The dominance of Democrats in the RGV/South Texas is a product of machine politics and it's not a pretty picture. I can't blame ambitious political types for seeking an alternative. @tx 3 putt is 100% right about what 10-15% higher hispanic turnout would mean because of the split, but it's the other areas of the state outside the RGV that they need to cultivate and they aren't effectively doing it. 

It's kinda depressing. A cohort in my grad school is from McAllen or Edinburgh. Mexican-American. Tells me with glee about how happy he is about the busing program to LA, NY, etc. Can both-sides with the best of them. 

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Holding public education and teachers hostage for his pet project of a $10K to rich private-school parents. The fact that he isn't being lambasted for this is insane to me.

Greg Abbott: Your piddly rural school will get a little money when I get something for the well-off parents in the Dallas suburbs. 

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30 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

How much is a year at St Mark’s these days, anyway?

Gonna be $10,400 more next year if Abbott gets his way.

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1 hour ago, Al Czervik said:

I glad this (GA, not Al) cocksucker took time out of his week to visit Israel. Fuck that guy.  
 

Just wanted to contribute to the thread. 

I guess I need to update my spelling to Gov. Chotwheels....

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25 minutes ago, Al Czervik said:

Will keep getting raised just enough to keep the poors out. 

It's already more than enough to keep the poors out, even with a 10,400 voucher. See below. 

9 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

I know what it is for a first-grader at a school in Austin, and it's more than double $10,400.

Standard private school cost for a kid is in the 25k dollar a year range. Obvoiusly some are in the 40-50k a year range. But if the average amount is about 25k per year, it's about to be about, oh, 35,400 per year. 

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1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

Standard private school cost for a kid is in the 25k dollar a year range. Obvoiusly some are in the 40-50k a year range. But if the average amount is about 25k per year, it's about to be about, oh, 35,400 per year. 

What the actual fuck that's more than my fucking undergrad education cost PLUS COST OF LIVING IN AUSTIN IN THE EARLY TEENS

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16 minutes ago, Captainant said:

What the actual fuck that's more than my fucking undergrad education cost PLUS COST OF LIVING IN AUSTIN IN THE EARLY TEENS

Yes. Now imagine that you have 3-4 kids, and you've enrolled them in those various schools from pre-school to high school. You're paying well over a million dollars just to get your kids TO college. The math is staggering. 

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16 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Yes. Now imagine that you have 3-4 kids, and you've enrolled them in those various schools from pre-school to high school. You're paying well over a million dollars just to get your kids TO college. The math is staggering. 

And if you have 3-4 kids, 1-2 of them are going to be fuckups that piss that money away and end up in community college.

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4 hours ago, Captainant said:

What the actual fuck that's more than my fucking undergrad education cost PLUS COST OF LIVING IN AUSTIN IN THE EARLY TEENS

It's still more.  I'm sending 2 kids to UT Austin for right at $50K annual.

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Will keep getting raised just enough to keep the poors out. 
They don't have to raise prices. A private school can just say no, and take the voucher money from the families they want to let in.
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10 minutes ago, tchookem said:
7 hours ago, Al Czervik said:
Will keep getting raised just enough to keep the poors out. 

They don't have to raise prices. A private school can just say no, and take the voucher money from the families they want to let in.


this

a friend of mine has her kid going through pre k interviews now, at some higher end private schools

a fucking 4yo, being interviewed 

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2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:


this

a friend of mine has her kid going through pre k interviews now, at some higher end private schools

a fucking 4yo, being interviewed 

That's not going to fuck up a kid - if they don't get in, I imagine the parent(s) will probably not be very happy.

I don't even like the whole interview thing for public school kids going into one of the specialty programs in junior high (performing arts, STEM, etc.).

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Abbott and his crew have already done enough damage to our district. People really don't understand (understandably) how public schools are funded in Texas. They look at their property tax increases and think more is going to their kids schools. It's not. Fixed amount per kid hasn't raised since 2019 and we would need to raise it 50% just to be "average" in the United States.  It is slow killing the state. 

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5 minutes ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

Abbott and his crew have already done enough damage to our district. People really don't understand (understandably) how public schools are funded in Texas. They look at their property tax increases and think more is going to their kids schools. It's not. Fixed amount per kid hasn't raised since 2019 and we would need to raise it 50% just to be "average" in the United States.  It is slow killing the state. 

Tell me more about that... for real, do you have something with some background on that?  There is a jackass who keep ranting about AISD funding and ignores recapture and thinks vouchers are going to magically fix everything.  That stat about 2019, etc is what is of interest to me.

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All we need to do is plant seeds on conservative social media about things that are beneficial to the state. The way Abbott's culture war stuff works, he would jump on it in a special session (see Colony Ridge).

  • Kids in low-funded public schools are dropping out to work for Mexican cartels.
  • Our private schools are drowning in fentanyl and vouchers will make the epidemic worse.
  • AR-15s are the preferred weapon of Chinese communists trying to buy up Texas farmland.

 

 

 

 

Posted
3 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Tell me more about that... for real, do you have something with some background on that?  There is a jackass who keep ranting about AISD funding and ignores recapture and thinks vouchers are going to magically fix everything.  That stat about 2019, etc is what is of interest to me.

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https://tea.texas.gov/finance-and-grants/state-funding/foundation-school-program/fsp-manuals/texas-public-school-finance-overview-presentation-2022-23.pdf

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8 minutes ago, texasdago said:

Tell me more about that... for real, do you have something with some background on that?  There is a jackass who keep ranting about AISD funding and ignores recapture and thinks vouchers are going to magically fix everything.  That stat about 2019, etc is what is of interest to me.

Recapture is really the root of the issue, it's ignoring the 800lb gorilla in the room to not consider it. It's offensive how much of my property taxes are going into a new new highschool football stadium for some shit hole speed trap town

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12 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:
  • Our private schools are drowning in fentanyl and vouchers will make the epidemic worse.

You know... on this one, its funny how the school voucher people who rail on the ills of public schools have no idea about the drug problems in private schools... more money, more drugs (and mommy and daddy's pills) 

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To add, like this year Abbott will talk about new funding for education on top of that, but that's to "cover" his add-ons... and it never does.  They are adding "billions" to system this year for school security. But the amount they add to an elementary school that will be required to have an armed guard is like $30k.  Our district can't currently find guards to hire at $50-60k. So the new "billions of school security funding" the state is giving out district will likely requiring eliminating a teaching position at every elementary school to cover the required expense.

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1 minute ago, MonkeyDoughnut said:

So the new "billions of school security funding" the state is giving out district will likely requiring eliminating a teaching position at every elementary school to cover the required expense.

But hey at least every man woman and child regardless of mental health state has ready access to an AR-15! I mean sure there are laws, but we've seen in practice that they do not stop mass shooters from getting their means. Thank god for patriots like @fattyflattie that ensure that children have the chance to be murdered in their very own classroom that's overfilled due to teacher shortages 

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