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On 2/17/2021 at 9:29 PM, UpperWestside said:

I left the state for reasons not related to politics, but looking back I am okay with being where I am now. I am from Texas, but I will never live there again no matter what political party controls the state.
 

I personally find the Texas exceptionalism attitude to be just as out of touch and divisive domestically as the American exceptionalism attitude comes across abroad to both friends and foes. We are all just people trying to make it in this world and differentiating what person or group of people is worth more based on where they are from is an attitude that needs to be retired permanently. Just way too much toxicity in thinking in such terms about our fellow human beings. 

Lord, today, yes.

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On 8/13/2025 at 1:35 PM, Captainant said:

what is it with chuds telling people to "cope" or "cry harder" and whatnot? Saw it a ton yesterday from imma's buddy stassney and it's like they're spiking the football on being a shithead. Really strange antisocial stuff.

You saw it once from me recently, and you yourself have used the phrase over the years. The search function does work.

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The Texas Dems on the run accomplished their goal: attention to what Abbott is doing. They were never going to be successful forever. Allowing Abbott to do this quiet would have been the sin.

By creating attention to Abbott steal, this gives the Dems cover to repeat this in other states. Yes it's a race to the bottom but Dems need to stop being the party who plays fair. If the GOP wants to ultimately destroy the US, then so be it.

They should have stayed away.   Bringing attention to this unconstitutional bullshit isn't enough.   

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https://www.texastribune.org/2025/06/26/texas-schools-commandments-requirement-lawsuit/

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A Texas federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked from taking full effect a new state law requiring public schools to display donated posters of the Ten Commandments in classrooms.

The ruling only applies to the nearly a dozen Texas school districts named in the lawsuit, though attorneys who brought forth the case expressed hope in court that other districts would not implement a law that a federal judge has now found unconstitutional.

In his decision, U.S. District Judge Fred Biery concluded that the law favors Christianity over other faiths, is not neutral with respect to religion and is likely to interfere with families' “exercise of their sincere religious or nonreligious beliefs in substantial ways.”

“There are ways in which students could be taught any relevant history of the Ten Commandments without the state selecting an official version of scripture, approving it in state law, and then displaying it in every classroom on a permanent basis,” Biery wrote in his opinion, adding that the law “crosses the line from exposure to coercion.”

 

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1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The Texas Dems on the run accomplished their goal: attention to what Abbott is doing. They were never going to be successful forever. Allowing Abbott to do this quiet would have been the sin.

By creating attention to Abbott steal, this gives the Dems cover to repeat this in other states. Yes it's a race to the bottom but Dems need to stop being the party who plays fair. If the GOP wants to ultimately destroy the US, then so be it.

Exactly.  The dems did what they could do with the very limited power the shitty people of the state of Texas have provided them.  This shit show is on the voters of Texas who blindly reward incompetence and corruption.   The dems accomplished their mission.  Attention has been drawn.  Now they need to let it happen so that Cali can do their thing.  Staying away and stalling Texas from doing  what they are going to do anyway (with no time limit) only provides ammunition to those trying to delay Cali from passing their resolution.  That resolution needs to be passed ASAP in order to allow it on the ballot in Nov. 

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2 hours ago, Nivek said:

They should have stayed away.   Bringing attention to this unconstitutional bullshit isn't enough.   

I'm with you.  They ran away a couple of years ago over something or other.  That did so much good I can't even remember what the issue was.

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1 hour ago, Horn Dog said:

Exactly.  The dems did what they could do with the very limited power the shitty people of the state of Texas have provided them.  This shit show is on the voters of Texas who blindly reward incompetence and corruption.   The dems accomplished their mission.  Attention has been drawn.  Now they need to let it happen so that Cali can do their thing.  Staying away and stalling Texas from doing  what they are going to do anyway (with no time limit) only provides ammunition to those trying to delay Cali from passing their resolution.  That resolution needs to be passed ASAP in order to allow it on the ballot in Nov. 

A week from now, no one outside of BlueSky nerds and other political Twitter adjacent groups will remember it.  Then when CA tries it, the right wing propaganda network will fire up and claim Newsom is doing it unilaterally and has no justification.

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34 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

A week from now, no one outside of BlueSky nerds and other political Twitter adjacent groups will remember it.  Then when CA tries it, the right wing propaganda network will fire up and claim Newsom is doing it unilaterally and has no justification.

True but at least it will be easy to refute if Texas passes this first.   The alternative is this, which despite the "trigger clause" (that 95% of voters won't know about or understand) will be the narrative:

FOX NEWS:  "This just in,  the LIBERAL dems are at it again!   In California, dems are illegally FORCING the voters to choose a extreme partisan gerrymandered map ahead of the midterm in a unprecedented move..  Meanwhile poor Gov. Abbott in  Texas is just trying to counter them and FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE, but that too is being stopped by the LIBERALS with their ILLEGAL walkout!    First they stonewalled the release of the Epstein files, now they are illegally trying to STEAL votes from republicans in California and all the while preventing dully elected Texas representative from countering this ILLEGAL redistricting scheme!"

 

And guess what....it will work.

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2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

A week from now, no one outside of BlueSky nerds and other political Twitter adjacent groups will remember it.  Then when CA tries it, the right wing propaganda network will fire up and claim Newsom is doing it unilaterally and has no justification.

 

1 hour ago, Horn Dog said:

True but at least it will be easy to refute if Texas passes this first.   The alternative is this, which despite the "trigger clause" (that 95% of voters won't know about or understand) will be the narrative:

FOX NEWS:  "This just in,  the LIBERAL dems are at it again!   In California, dems are illegally FORCING the voters to choose a extreme partisan gerrymandered map ahead of the midterm in a unprecedented move..  Meanwhile poor Gov. Abbott in  Texas is just trying to counter them and FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE, but that too is being stopped by the LIBERALS with their ILLEGAL walkout!    First they stonewalled the release of the Epstein files, now they are illegally trying to STEAL votes from republicans in California and all the while preventing dully elected Texas representative from countering this ILLEGAL redistricting scheme!"

 

And guess what....it will work.

You are both being so silly.  We all know this will go to the Supreme Court where they will rule in a 5-3 decision that any state that gerrymanders their districts in favor of more Republican seats is legal and any state that does the same for Democrat seats is illegal.  A few people on CNN and MSNBC will scream how horrible this is for a few days and then they will move on to the next thing Trump does like claim that all votes in all states for any Democrat are invalid and only votes for Republican candidates will officially be counted.  

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2 hours ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

 

You are both being so silly.  We all know this will go to the Supreme Court where they will rule in a 5-3 decision that any state that gerrymanders their districts in favor of more Republican seats is legal and any state that does the same for Democrat seats is illegal.  A few people on CNN and MSNBC will scream how horrible this is for a few days and then they will move on to the next thing Trump does like claim that all votes in all states for any Democrat are invalid and only votes for Republican candidates will officially be counted.  

Wait 5-3?? Which conservative judge is about to die??

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5 minutes ago, The Hot Dog Buffet said:

What's stopping these dems from loading up in a white Ford Bronco the day the vote is supposed to happen and leading their escorts on a low speed chase until they run out of gas somewhere in Oklahoma?

Good grief, why do you hate them?  At least NM has recreational weed.

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The Democrats are not responsible for the sad state of affairs in Texas. Voters along with the 40% of registered Texans who did not vote in the last election are.

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Rep. Perez, in very stark terms, put it where the goats can get it:

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/08/07/528214/latino-black-voters-are-big-losers-from-proposed-texas-redistricting-map-house-democratic-deputy-whip-says/

State Rep. Vince Perez (D-El Paso), the House Democrats' deputy whip, disputes the Republican argument. He noted there are about 11 million white residents in Texas. Latino residents passed that number within the last few years. Yet congressional districts where whites can elect their candidates of choice far outnumber those where Latinos and/or Blacks can do likewise.

"If I’m telling you that there’s 26 seats and there are 11 million white residents, that breaks down to 430,000 white residents per congressional seat," Perez said. "So, what does it take for Latinos? Well, there’s one congressional seat for every 1.2 million Latinos, and there’s one Black seat for every 2 million Black voters. That’s why the value of a Latino resident in Texas is one-third of the political power of that that a white resident in Texas delivers, and again, for Black residents in Texas, it’s one-fifth."

RELATED: As Texas pursues mid-decade congressional redistricting, some members of Congress aim to ban the practice

By Perez's analysis, the proposed map would help Republicans to elect representatives on behalf of 90% of all white voters in the state of Texas.

"We have never seen a map so racially discriminatory in Texas since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965," Perez said. "What will be the implications of a government not being held accountable to all of its residents but almost exclusively to one race?"

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7 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Rep. Perez, in very stark terms, put it where the goats can get it:

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/08/07/528214/latino-black-voters-are-big-losers-from-proposed-texas-redistricting-map-house-democratic-deputy-whip-says/

 

State Rep. Vince Perez (D-El Paso), the House Democrats' deputy whip, disputes the Republican argument. He noted there are about 11 million white residents in Texas. Latino residents passed that number within the last few years. Yet congressional districts where whites can elect their candidates of choice far outnumber those where Latinos and/or Blacks can do likewise.

"If I’m telling you that there’s 26 seats and there are 11 million white residents, that breaks down to 430,000 white residents per congressional seat," Perez said. "So, what does it take for Latinos? Well, there’s one congressional seat for every 1.2 million Latinos, and there’s one Black seat for every 2 million Black voters. That’s why the value of a Latino resident in Texas is one-third of the political power of that that a white resident in Texas delivers, and again, for Black residents in Texas, it’s one-fifth."

RELATED: As Texas pursues mid-decade congressional redistricting, some members of Congress aim to ban the practice

By Perez's analysis, the proposed map would help Republicans to elect representatives on behalf of 90% of all white voters in the state of Texas.

"We have never seen a map so racially discriminatory in Texas since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965," Perez said. "What will be the implications of a government not being held accountable to all of its residents but almost exclusively to one race?"

If I could sacrifice my own life with the simple guarantee that this alone would change forever, I would. It wouldn’t even be a difficult choice. I’m so fucking mad about all this shit right now.

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8 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Rep. Perez, in very stark terms, put it where the goats can get it:

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/08/07/528214/latino-black-voters-are-big-losers-from-proposed-texas-redistricting-map-house-democratic-deputy-whip-says/

 

State Rep. Vince Perez (D-El Paso), the House Democrats' deputy whip, disputes the Republican argument. He noted there are about 11 million white residents in Texas. Latino residents passed that number within the last few years. Yet congressional districts where whites can elect their candidates of choice far outnumber those where Latinos and/or Blacks can do likewise.

"If I’m telling you that there’s 26 seats and there are 11 million white residents, that breaks down to 430,000 white residents per congressional seat," Perez said. "So, what does it take for Latinos? Well, there’s one congressional seat for every 1.2 million Latinos, and there’s one Black seat for every 2 million Black voters. That’s why the value of a Latino resident in Texas is one-third of the political power of that that a white resident in Texas delivers, and again, for Black residents in Texas, it’s one-fifth."

RELATED: As Texas pursues mid-decade congressional redistricting, some members of Congress aim to ban the practice

By Perez's analysis, the proposed map would help Republicans to elect representatives on behalf of 90% of all white voters in the state of Texas.

"We have never seen a map so racially discriminatory in Texas since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965," Perez said. "What will be the implications of a government not being held accountable to all of its residents but almost exclusively to one race?"

Based on recent Latino voting trends, this will soon be in the leopards thread.

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Who can/should I send money to. I want to support a Texas democrat  

AOC is the only person I would send money to at this point if I was just itching to waste my time.
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48 minutes ago, The Ace of Aces said:

Who can/should I send money to. I want to support a Texas democrat  

Every once in a while I also like to withdraw a couple hundred bucks and then light it on fire.

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25 minutes ago, SubliminalHorn said:

You can send it to me. I’m a Texan that votes democrat

You raise a good point - no D in Texas will have any power as long as we live so why even waste a cent on the party there. 

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12 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Support someone wry and amusing. We'll get a few laughs on the way down and leave great quotes for future historians.

NowThis isn't walking through that door any time soon.



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