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When I went to research the different KISD candidates, the very first sentence from Perez on why he should be re-elected to a FUCKING SCHOOL BOARD was that he was a “strong Christian conservative.”
No additional research needed. Proud of the voters.
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the best thing about last night... we walked into a home of engaged, motivated and happy people, who care for one another and others even if those others are not like them, and they (we) were straight, gay, white, Hispanic, black, men and women (including trans) and it was amazing, normal, refreshing, and just undeniably right.  there can be hope.

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1 minute ago, troph said:

the best thing about last night... we walked into a home of engaged, motivated and happy people, who care for one another and others and they were straight, gay, white, Hispanic, black, men and women (including trans) and it was amazing, normal, refreshing, and just undeniably right.  there can be hope.

I certainly “hope” you are right.

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When I went to research the different KISD candidates, the very first sentence from Perez on why he should be re-elected to a FUCKING SCHOOL BOARD was that he was a “strong Christian conservative.”
No additional research needed. Proud of the voters.

Was the same for me. When a board candidate waffles on supporting librarians, it makes it really easy to select.
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29 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

I certainly “hope” you are right.

there's going to be a backlash like there always is in the mid terms. the real question is when will good people realize that you have to vote in every god damned election and you have to organize, give money and give time to help our neighbors who are running, from city council and school board to state rep and senate to state wide and then federal and national elections.  it's not an option anymore.

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11 minutes ago, troph said:

there's going to be a backlash like there always is in the mid terms. the real question is when will good people realize that you have to vote in every god damned election and you have to organize, give money and give time to help our neighbors who are running, from city council and school board to state rep and senate to state wide and then federal and national elections.  it's not an option anymore.

And possibly even more than that, will those who remain passive forget all this shit conveniently.  Like they seemed to in 2024.

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9 minutes ago, troph said:

there's going to be a backlash like there always is in the mid terms. the real question is when will good people realize that you have to vote in every god damned election and you have to organize, give money and give time to help our neighbors who are running, from city council and school board to state rep and senate to state wide and then federal and national elections.  it's not an option anymore.

Absolutely correct.

Hopefully at least some people might figure it out and I am pretty sure many of the people having their faces devoured by leopards will help swing the mid terms.

Seeing these school board results in Texas is an early, encouraging sign.

 

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1 minute ago, Steamboat1874 said:

Absolutely correct.

Hopefully at least some people might figure it out and I am pretty sure many of the people having their faces devoured by leopards will help swing the mid terms.

Seeing these school board results in Texas is an early, encouraging sign.

 

my dream is the voucher shit went one step too far and we actually make a dent in the state legislature and congressional races. it's still too much to ask for state wide offices.

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Just now, troph said:

my dream is the voucher shit went one step too far and we actually make a dent in the state legislature and congressional races. it's still too much to ask for state wide offices.

I agree and I think we just saw that with these school board results but we need the rural Texans to stand up and say enough!

That will be interesting.

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Seems like Democrats really need to hammer whether Texans voted for Tim Dunn, Faris Wilks, and Jeff Yass to run this state or not.

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4 minutes ago, Steamboat1874 said:

I agree and I think we just saw that with these school board results but we need the rural Texans to stand up and say enough!

That will be interesting.

They already fucked their small towns for eternity with the voucher bill. 

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Just now, Larry T. Spider said:

They already fucked their small towns for eternity with the voucher bill. 

Yes and hopefully those people will respond accordingly.

Wait until they can longer afford to replace the lights in the football stadium.

Maybe that will wake them the fuck up.

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1 minute ago, Sawbonz said:

Anyone got a link to how the GOP did on dog catcher races?

This is key, as you know that with the immigration crackdown the strays will be uneaten. 

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41 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Seems like Democrats really need to hammer whether Texans voted for Tim Dunn, Faris Wilks, and Jeff Yass to run this state or not.

That’s inside baseball, nobody knows who they are.

Texas Democrats need to bang on local tangibles, where even Republicans concede they have a problem, and don’t present themselves well, to wit,

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54 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Turnout > changing people’s minds

100% -- my efforts the next 2-3 years will be in convincing sidelined good folk to participate. our cabal added 30-50 new voters to the LTISD tally (about half donated money for the first time to a local election), and that's 10-15% of the vote differential. turnout is it, it will always be turnout. ELECTIONS ARE NOT OPTIONAL.

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52 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Seems like Democrats really need to hammer whether Texans voted for Tim Dunn, Faris Wilks, and Jeff Yass to run this state or not.

take a page from the other side - find a villain and hammer the message. for progressives and those who care about all people, the villain is the billionaire. hammer the fuck out of us vs them over, and over, and over.

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9 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

That’s inside baseball, nobody knows who they are.

Texas Democrats need to bang on local tangibles, where even Republicans concede they have a problem, and don’t present themselves well, to wit,

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10 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

That’s inside baseball, nobody knows who they are.

Texas Democrats need to bang on local tangibles, where even Republicans concede they have a problem, and don’t present themselves well, to wit,

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we as a society have turned into an us vs. them society, I think you lean into it. yes you can talk about tangibles but when you do, the otherside talks about gay commies and george soros and other enemies and riles them up. I think there is something to identifying the villain.

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That’s inside baseball, nobody knows who they are.
Texas Democrats need to bang on local tangibles, where even Republicans concede they have a problem, and don’t present themselves well, to wit,
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This checks out. From the few races I followed, Republican-endorsed candidates tended to emphasize why they would be good Republicans. The Democratic-endorsed candidates seemed to emphasize why they would be good for the position.

Likely not worth reading too much into, but de-nationalizing local races again would be a welcome development.
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32 minutes ago, troph said:

take a page from the other side - find a villain and hammer the message. for progressives and those who care about all people, the villain is the billionaire. hammer the fuck out of us vs them over, and over, and over.

Sure, and maybe I'm wrong but I'm just not sure that Wilks and co have any salience outside of Active Democrat circles and GOP intermurals. Elon Musk, on the other hand, seems to be a potent motivator. He's well known and acts weird in public. 
 

25 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Likely not worth reading too much into, but de-nationalizing local races again would be a welcome development.

I think talking about local issues works in local elections because of who votes in them.

 

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29 minutes ago, troph said:

take a page from the other side - find a villain and hammer the message. for progressives and those who care about all people, the villain is the billionaire. hammer the fuck out of us vs them over, and over, and over.

This right here.

Those assholes use every fucking tactic there is which is mostly, make shit up, scare the shit out of people with the made up boogie man, lie like crazy, act like you are a Christian and do it because you know there are so many dumb, gullible people out there that they will believe anything.

And guess what?

It fucking worked, especially that religion bullshit.

That is one of the main reasons Texas went from blue to red 25 or 30 years ago.

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15 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Sure, and maybe I'm wrong but I'm just not sure that Wilks and co have any salience outside of Active Democrat circles and GOP intermurals. Elon Musk, on the other hand, seems to be a potent motivator. He's well known and acts weird in public. 
 



 

agreed the actual names of texas conservative billionaire won't resonate with anyone.

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3 minutes ago, troph said:

agreed the actual names of texas conservative billionaire won't resonate with anyone.

Maybe they need to be educated.  Soros certainly resonated with some people.

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49 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Maybe they need to be educated.  Soros certainly resonated with some people.

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3 hours ago, troph said:

take a page from the other side - find a villain and hammer the message. for progressives and those who care about all people, the villain is the billionaire. hammer the fuck out of us vs them over, and over, and over.

Evolution has hardwired a negativity bias into our DNA. Use it, because unlike litterboxes in bathrooms, the threat from billionaires turning America into a neo-feudal society of techno scam artists is real.

 

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

“some people,” a live look

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Fuck that ugly ass cunt in the Trump shirt many times over and not literally.

She looks like a trailer living dumb fuck.

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if only all trumpers followed his lead ....

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, 35, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 30, according to a report from the Texas County Coroner’s Office in Missouri. That is the same day Von Nukem was scheduled to be in court in Arizona, facing four counts relating to illegal import and sale of fentanyl.

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How the fuck could we have all these ISD elections and hot wheels couldn't get a vote in Houston for Turner's seat?

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How the fuck could we have all these ISD elections and hot wheels couldn't get a vote in Houston for Turner's seat?

Houston ISD didnt have any board elections
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1 hour ago, tx ind said:

How the fuck could we have all these ISD elections and hot wheels couldn't get a vote in Houston for Turner's seat?

Corruption. The answer is always corruption. 

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Texas public school are taking it up the ass this session, is anyone paying attention to this bullshit?

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/14/texas-public-school-funding-legislature/

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Legislators will need to sort out whether to provide public schools with an increase to their base funding for each student and, if so, by how much.

The House has proposed raising the funding, known as the basic allotment, from $6,160 to $6,555 per student. That $395 boost falls well short of the roughly $1,300 increase districts say they need to address inflationary pressures that have only intensified since the Legislature last raised the allotment in 2019.

The Senate, on the other hand, has opposed increasing schools’ base funding this session by any significant amount. The chamber’s education committee announced earlier this week that it would propose doing so by a modest $55 per student.

A $55 increase in the basic allotment per student which hasn't been raised since 2019, go fuck yourself Abbott

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5 minutes ago, elguapo said:

Texas public school are taking it up the ass this session, is anyone paying attention to this bullshit?

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/14/texas-public-school-funding-legislature/

A $55 increase in the basic allotment per student which hasn't been raised since 2019, go fuck yourself Abbott

That's because....and this is very, very important, because it is the foundation, cornerstone, walls, girders, and roof of the political ruling class in Texas....THEY WERE LYING.

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Lawmakers called it the “Texas Two-Step,” promising that passage of a private school voucher bill and a multibillion-dollar public school funding proposal would happen in tandem. But with less than three weeks until the end of the 2025 legislative session, additional funding for cash-strapped public schools is dancing alone.

They lied to get the school voucher bill passed.  "Pass the voucher bill, and we'll increase funding to public schools."  We've passed the school voucher bill.  And....they have broken their promise.

Because there is no part of the political ruling class of Texas that is not built of and for lies.  It's not what they do.  It's what they ARE.

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Superintendents are already coming out and saying that if we get a $55 increase to the basic allotment, expect staff reductions and programs to be cut. It’s an embarrassingly low amount, even for the clowns running our state. As one pundit put it, people passed vouchers to save the hostage and now they are returning the hostage dead, in pieces, and in a body bag.

Even if a slightly larger amount gets passed, we have started negotiations at such a low number, we are going to end up in a really bad place. This is the equivalent of somebody offering you 15k for your 500k house. 

Two things need to happen, and neither will help the kids or the districts.

1. Every superintendent needs to be extremely transparent with their community about what this will mean. Nobody should have any doubts about where blame lies when programs get cut. They have kept quiet in the past and taken the blame for the legislature’s fuck ups.

2. Rural republicans should be publicly shamed by their communities for being little bitches that fucked over their kids and (usually) the largest employer in their area.

Edit: just for some context, the current basic allotment is $6,160 so $55 is less than a 1% increase. Districts have faced massive inflation on building costs, maintenance, busses, and a million other things since the last increase 6 years ago.

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I hope my son gets through the next four years of high school with as little fuckery as possible and then goes to college somewhere other than this shithole state.

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1 minute ago, Chips O'Toole said:

My kids' elementary school (Hays CISD) has already announced they are cutting STEM completely for next year to avoid staff reductions.

If Jesus wanted your kids to know about microchips, science or medicine, he would have added it to the Bible.

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34 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

just for some context, the current basic allotment is $6,160 so $55 is less than a 1% increase.

Like anyone (with a Texas education) could know that.

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35 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I hope my son gets through the next four years of high school with as little fuckery as possible and then goes to college somewhere other than this shithole state.

I'm so thankful both of mine graduate Saturday. 

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37 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I hope my son gets through the next four years of high school with as little fuckery as possible and then goes to college somewhere other than this shithole state.

I have a senior next year then 3 more years to go too. Ugh.

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33 minutes ago, Chips O'Toole said:

My kids' elementary school (Hays CISD) has already announced they are cutting STEM completely for next year to avoid staff reductions.

Damn, STEM has become so fundamental to a well rounded education.  But I had to send both of mine to private school to ensure they would get it.

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On 5/15/2025 at 4:12 PM, elguapo said:

Texas public school are taking it up the ass this session, is anyone paying attention to this bullshit?

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/14/texas-public-school-funding-legislature/

A $55 increase in the basic allotment per student which hasn't been raised since 2019, go fuck yourself Abbott

 Nobody gives a fuck. Hell in our district they blamed the budget problems on the current board and want to DOGE the district. We won so I guess some care. But not enough to matter.

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Superintendents are already coming out and saying that if we get a $55 increase to the basic allotment, expect staff reductions and programs to be cut. It’s an embarrassingly low amount, even for the clowns running our state. As one pundit put it, people passed vouchers to save the hostage and now they are returning the hostage dead, in pieces, and in a body bag.
Even if a slightly larger amount gets passed, we have started negotiations at such a low number, we are going to end up in a really bad place. This is the equivalent of somebody offering you 15k for your 500k house. 
Two things need to happen, and neither will help the kids or the districts.
1. Every superintendent needs to be extremely transparent with their community about what this will mean. Nobody should have any doubts about where blame lies when programs get cut. They have kept quiet in the past and taken the blame for the legislature’s fuck ups.
2. Rural republicans should be publicly shamed by their communities for being little bitches that fucked over their kids and (usually) the largest employer in their area.
Edit: just for some context, the current basic allotment is $6,160 so $55 is less than a 1% increase. Districts have faced massive inflation on building costs, maintenance, busses, and a million other things since the last increase 6 years ago.

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