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On 4/18/2025 at 4:04 PM, bluto said:

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Texas Monthly calls him a lay preacher.  First I have heard of it because he lacks any formal theological or religiosity degree, even from quack theological or divinity schools.  Even an ordination from one of his congregations.

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Most cult leaders are like that.  Only difference is this one was already rich when he started.

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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Friends, Wes Virdell understands you are busy but asks you to make time to comment and support this important effort. 

 

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Will he be attaching my rider, which will create a rigorous set of regulations regarding the for-profit exploitation of unicorns?  We must ensure that we ban the use of unicorns to pull plows in this state -- such majestic creatures must not be used and harmed in the course of such menial tasks.  I promise you, once those regulations are passed, you will never see a unicorn pulling a plow in this great state.

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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Friends, Wes Virdell understands you are busy but asks you to make time to comment and support this important effort. 

 

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Speaking of Texas' 53rd, I think Andrew Murr posts here as @aggie08

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Will he be attaching my rider, which will create a rigorous set of regulations regarding the for-profit exploitation of unicorns?  We must ensure that we ban the use of unicorns to pull plows in this state -- such majestic creatures must not be used and harmed in the course of such menial tasks.  I promise you, once those regulations are passed, you will never see a unicorn pulling a plow in this great state.

I don't understand how we're going to make money off of this. 

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6 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

b @ T s h 1 T c r @ z y 

 

Yeah. If we have decided to just turn our society over to a few rich assholes, why are they always extremist weirdos? Like they all seem to dream of turning everything into some kind of oppressive dystopia.

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2 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Yeah. If we have decided to just turn our society over to a few rich assholes, why are they always extremist weirdos? Like they all seem to dream of turning everything into some kind of oppressive dystopia.


“what if all of Texas looked like Midland”

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4 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Yeah. If we have decided to just turn our society over to a few rich assholes, why are they always extremist weirdos? Like they all seem to dream of turning everything into some kind of oppressive dystopia.

Normal billionaires are too busy banging models on their super yachts to care about imposing their world views upon on us peons.

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6 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

Yeah. If we have decided to just turn our society over to a few rich assholes, why are they always extremist weirdos? Like they all seem to dream of turning everything into some kind of oppressive dystopia.

 

1 minute ago, kevwun said:

Normal billionaires are too busy banging models on their super yachts to care about imposing their world views upon on us peons.

Every accusation part eleventy billion: These assholes are doing what the wingnuts claim Soros and Gates are doing. 

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On 4/18/2025 at 3:05 PM, TwiceHorn said:

Tim Dunn is not a preacher.  Not even a self-anointed one.

Which is not to say that they don't exist.

From Texas Monthly:

Tim Dunn grew up in Big Spring, about forty miles northeast of Midland, with three older brothers in a cramped house. He now lives in a mansion, hidden within a roughly twenty-acre walled compound on the northern edge of Midland. Nearby is the nondenominational church where he regularly delivers sermons as a lay minister.

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14 minutes ago, Satchel said:

From Texas Monthly:

Tim Dunn grew up in Big Spring, about forty miles northeast of Midland, with three older brothers in a cramped house. He now lives in a mansion, hidden within a roughly twenty-acre walled compound on the northern edge of Midland. Nearby is the nondenominational church where he regularly delivers sermons as a lay minister.

A billionaire preaching to the poor, only in America!!!!! I wonder what he thinks when he preaches this to the flock. Is the flock too gotdamned stupid to recognize the absolute hypocrisy of it all. But then again, why should they. The whole thing is a double down on the passages which shepard your hate and ignore the passages which make you a hypocrite.

Titus 2:11-14
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus, who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

 

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On 4/18/2025 at 1:22 PM, The Dark Knight said:

What do you all think about Kendall Scudder, the new Texas Democratic Party Chair? He seems to be making a visible presence at the Capitol. If TX Dems ever had a time to grow their influence this is it. Besides everything that the Dotard and Musk are doing, opposition to vouchers should be a rallying point. Anecdotally I have been encouraged by how many acquaintances on social media who have historically voted Republican are really pissed off about vouchers.

I really like Kendall.  If you see he is nearby, go meet him.  He's the new direction our group needed.  

6 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

You generally have an idea that shit like this is happening behind the scenes, but it is really jaw-dropping to have it all laid out like this.

Must watch for every Texan, IMO.

 

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Now we are supposed to shut up and be grateful to our dear leaders

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/texas-school-vouchers-virdell-20286629.php

State Representative Wes Virdell (R-Brady) recently found himself at the center of controversy following a now-deleted tweet criticizing constituents for complaining about recent proposed increases in public education funding.

"Lesson learned for sure. We voted for the largest increase in pub ed funding in Texas history, and folks complain about it," Virdell wrote on Sunday in a now-deleted X post.

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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Le me put that in real terms:

After starving someone for years so that they've lost an unhealthy amount of body mass, we served them one meal.  BUT, it's the biggest meal they've every seen, and the bastards still have the nerve to complain about their years of malnutrition.

Fuck this Lege.  Fuck this party.  Fuck everyone who votes for them, especially when they've made it plain they have nothing but contempt for YOU, the fucking citizens they serve, who are fucking ABOVE EVERY FUCKING ELECTED OFFICIAL ON THE ORG CHART OF THIS STATE. 

They got served a big fat meal with a poison pill in it.

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1 hour ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

The Texas GOP wants to put you in jail for posting internet memes.  Please call Dade Phelan's office and tell him what you think about his bill.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/dade-phelans-bill-would-criminalize-political-memes/

Text of the bill

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB366/id/3197809

 

While I love to put the Texas GOP on blast as much as the next guy, read the bill and tell me again why I should be upset about this?  I understand that ideally we shouldn't NEED to explain to voters that something is a parody, but look around - we're surrounded by fucking idiots.  Including a "Parody - this did not actually happen" tag on videos / memes isn't the end of the world.  Moreover, if not selectively enforced (I know - that's a BIG IF), this could potentially cut into the ratfuckery that the GOP engages in on Facebook in the runup to all elections.  I just have a hard time getting worked up about this.

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You absolutely know it will be selectively enforced.  Any meme making fun of the regime will have something wrong with the disclosure, font size, font color, or disclaimer placement.  Taking one bucket of sand from the beach isn’t something to get worked up about, until there is no beach left at all.

All you have to do to see the result is look at what’s happening with ICE.  Post a meme about Abbott, Paxton, or Patrick and you’ll have masked DPS officers kicking your door in with a no-knock warrant, confiscating your phone, computer, and any cash they find, shooting your dog, and maybe you for resisting.  Then months later your family will be informed that the charges were dropped

 

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3 hours ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

You absolutely know it will be selectively enforced.  Any meme making fun of the regime will have something wrong with the disclosure, font size, font color, or disclaimer placement.  Taking one bucket of sand from the beach isn’t something to get worked up about, until there is no beach left at all.

All you have to do to see the result is look at what’s happening with ICE.  Post a meme about Abbott, Paxton, or Patrick and you’ll have masked DPS officers kicking your door in with a no-knock warrant, confiscating your phone, computer, and any cash they find, shooting your dog, and maybe you for resisting.  Then months later your family will be informed that the charges were dropped

 

You should realize you have this completely backwards. While Phelan is a Republican, he is the former Speaker of the House who Patrick and Paxton tried to get primaried. Phelan led the effort to impeach Ken Paxton, something he actually got the majority of Republicans in the house to support.

Read the bill. This is related to the mountains of misleading campaign materials aimed at Phelan in the primary; much of which was funded by the $3 million Defend Texas Liberty PAC (largely funded by Tim Dunn) gave Dan Patrick ahead of the impeachment trial in the senate.

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Yes, I'm sure Phelan's intentions for the bill will be completely honored by Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick once it's on the books.  The only way to stop shit like that is to put a stop to the unlimited dirty money flowing into politician's campaign coffers. I'm going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen

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44 minutes ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

Yes, I'm sure Phelan's intentions for the bill will be completely honored by Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick once it's on the books.  The only way to stop shit like that is to put a stop to the unlimited dirty money flowing into politician's campaign coffers. I'm going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen

Speaking of dirty money, if you’re going to link articles published by Texas Scorecard, you should know Tim Dunn was the primary financial backer of Empower Texas; Texas Scorecard is an online publication that was launched by Empower Texas; Tim Dunn is on the board of Texas Scorecard; Tim Dunn is a contributing author for Texas Scorecard.

Tim Dunn is the one who wants to kill this bill because it would criminalize misleading campaign materials like the ones aimed at Dade Phelan when Patrick, Paxton, and their cronies were trying to get him primaried.

The dirty money guys you mentioned above are the ones who funded the article you linked, and are the ones fighting against this bill.

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10 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

I will be so glad when this fucking legislative session is finished.

....says every sane Texan every two years.

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And before anyone else gets their panties in a wad over this (or gets tricked by a far-right leaning, billionaire-funded smear machine again), if you read the bill you’ll see it only applies to the following people/entities:

Sec. 255.0015.  REQUIRED DISCLOSURE ON CERTAIN POLITICAL 
  ADVERTISING CONTAINING ALTERED MEDIA; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) This 
  section applies only to a person who:
               (1)  is an officeholder, candidate, or political 
  committee;
               (2)  makes expenditures during a reporting period that 
  in the aggregate exceed $100 for political advertising, other than 
  an expense to cover the basic cost of hardware, messaging software, 
  and bandwidth; or
               (3)  publishes, distributes, or broadcasts political 
  advertising described by Subsection (b) in return for 
  consideration.

So if you want to make funny memes fire away. You’re safe so long as you aren’t a politician, PAC, or getting paid to do so.

Sincerely, 

Dade’s mom

 
 

 

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42 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

....says every sane Texan every two years.

Every time session ends, I breathe a sigh of relief and think “it could have been worse”

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57 minutes ago, Baconboy said:

And before anyone else gets their panties in a wad over this (or gets tricked by a far-right leaning, billionaire-funded smear machine again), if you read the bill you’ll see it only applies to the following people/entities:

Sec. 255.0015.  REQUIRED DISCLOSURE ON CERTAIN POLITICAL 
  ADVERTISING CONTAINING ALTERED MEDIA; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) This 
  section applies only to a person who:
               (1)  is an officeholder, candidate, or political 
  committee;
               (2)  makes expenditures during a reporting period that 
  in the aggregate exceed $100 for political advertising, other than 
  an expense to cover the basic cost of hardware, messaging software, 
  and bandwidth; or
               (3)  publishes, distributes, or broadcasts political 
  advertising described by Subsection (b) in return for 
  consideration.

So if you want to make funny memes fire away. You’re safe so long as you aren’t a politician, PAC, or getting paid to do so.

Sincerely, 

Dade’s mom

 
 

 

So like a paid political cartoonist, or Stephen Cobert’s writers that create satirical videos for his monologue?  The question is what constitutes political advertising.  Although it’s probably a moot point since if Dunn is against it there is no chance it passes, and even if it did his personal Governor would veto it if told to.

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Yes, I'm sure Phelan's intentions for the bill will be completely honored by Abbott, Paxton, and Patrick once it's on the books.  The only way to stop shit like that is to put a stop to the unlimited dirty money flowing into politician's campaign coffers. I'm going to hold my breath waiting for that to happen

I still have PTSD from the mountains of shit Phelan and Covey shoveled into my mailbox last year. Every single fucking day it was crammed full of propaganda. I live on a private drive now but the same goes for door hangers and flyers.

Tv? Everytime I turned it on someone was screaming “Dade Phelan is the lab grown cross between Joe Biden, Ho Chi Minh, Vladimir Lenin, and chairman Mao!!!!!!11!!!”

Covey canvassers forced their way into Dade’s living room when he wasn’t home and harassed his wife, and wouldn’t leave until DPS forcibly removed them. Then they stationed a trooper in front of his house for the remainder of campaign season.

I personally had a MAGA clad asshole covey supporter come into my garage while I was sweeping to start an argument. Then another young adult stopped by and wanted to take a survey, and when I told him he should be ashamed he looked at the ground and said “look, man, I’m just trying to earn some money and they are paying well” which made me feel horrible and apologize for being an asshole.

Just typing this post makes me tremble in rage. It’s a stupid bill but I can appreciate the motivation. Covey and his fracking backers tried to ratfuck him and thank god he won the runoff - this time.
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The guy Talarico is questioning is Stan Gerdes, State Representative for Bastrop, Burleson, Caldwell, Lee, and Milam counties. The guy isn't an old or really even a rural rube either. He's a 39yo Texas grad whose biography seems to indicate he's lived in and around Austin, as well as DC, for the last two decades.

He didn't write this bill out of ignorance or gullibility. It's just another example of manipulative lies to throw on the pile with the intent of breeding hate, scaring old people, and destroying public education in Texas. If any of you live in that district, he and his staff need to be mocked and hassled relentlessly over this complete stupidity.

I realize that Talarico's M.O. is calm and patient logic, but he missed a chance to ask that asshole if he wants his name permanently attached to such an imbecilic law that folks will still be making fun of in 100 years like we do other pointless bullshit on the books like those forbidding using feather dusters in public buildings or milking your neighbor's cow. 

Or maybe Talarico should take Brisket's advice and just start accusing the guy of being a sick pedo to his face for fantasizing about children using a peepee box while wearing garanimals.

 

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33 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

I know administrators that have had to release public statements saying they do not have litter boxes in their schools.

It was actually a campaign issue in Round Rock a few years ago and the district had to release a statement. It reads like an onion article.

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/williamson-county/tables-not-being-lowered-for-furries-rrisd-responds-to-candidates-twitter-claim/amp/

Yeah, pretty sure you can thank this very special person for all of this furry and cat litter talk....same story as the other right wingers, a basic nobody and then rose to "fame" by making an outlandishly false claim..now lives off the far right salary in some made up policy org..

An Interview with Michelle Evans - The Texas Horn

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6 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

I just saw this. Sheer madness.

 

It's like every conspiracist from the John Birchers on down to today's anti-vaxxers are running the show now.

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