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46 minutes ago, bluto said:

The biggest losers will be the retail strip owners losing 25% of their tenancy by year end. 

Developers and large corporations landlords hold a lot of power with Texas republicans. But the top of their conservatard hierarchy will always be feigned religious outrage. Helping the poor need not apply.

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Finally.  Texas can bet back to what it does best: imprisoning black and brown people at absurdly disproportionate and high rates for a harmless activity that white people engage in at a similar rate, but somehow, are only 25% as likely to be arrested for.  Because at the end of the day, the important thing is that those folks be kept as a perpetual near-slave class (can't get a good job with a conviction) and this is SUPER-IMPORTANT: they can't mess up Texas with their votes anymore.

Voting is only for white folks.  Jim Crow out front shoulda told ya.  And once we renamed Jim Crow ("the War on Drugs" rebranding was quite successful), it took right off again.

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11 minutes ago, kevwun said:

If the people of Texas enjoy something, Abbot and Goeb will eventually ban it.

Coming soon - post oak, mesquite, hickory and pecan wood give you cancer.  Henceforth, all brisket must be prepared "a la Cornyn".

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Alcohol industry
 
but its only a matter of time before weed passes alcohol in usage. Likely before 2050

I may be wrong, but the alcohol industry is poised to buy/distribute THC infused drink manufacturers the same way they did microbrewers. They see it as an opportunity.
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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Finally.  Texas can bet back to what it does best: imprisoning black and brown people at absurdly disproportionate and high rates for a harmless activity that white people engage in at a similar rate, but somehow, are only 25% as likely to be arrested for.  Because at the end of the day, the important thing is that those folks be kept as a perpetual near-slave class (can't get a good job with a conviction) and this is SUPER-IMPORTANT: they can't mess up Texas with their votes anymore.

Voting is only for white folks.  Jim Crow out front shoulda told ya.  And once we renamed Jim Crow ("the War on Drugs" rebranding was quite successful), it took right off again.

It doesn't take much to interpret that actions by Abbott and Goeb are solely about keeping the GOP in power in the face of changing demographics. Even the school voucher program might harm some of their constituency, there is an element to have kids educated in private schools that can be openly hostile to actual history and liberal ideas.

The top priority is always about keeping Democrat stronghold (youth, non-white, and big city) votes as suppressed as possible. 

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2 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

If the Democrats can’t win with this setup, they are fundamentally broken and we need a different opposition party. 
 

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They are fundamentally broken and we need a different opposition party

 

There's a false narrative that there's a Texas Democratic Party. Obviously they exist but do they do anything but work to keep themselves in the minority?  If they were secretly run by a GOP operative, would the outcome be any worse?

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I'm sure the usual suspects will come out a month or so before the next statewide election saying it's only another couple of cycles before demographics takeover and TX turns blue.  Same old shit they've been saying for 20+ years.

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Called my state representative Jolanda Jones this morning to try and get an explanation why a Democrat is voting in lock step with Dan Patrick on the full THC ban and am appalled to report according to whoever answered on her staff said l it’s because she was “confused” about the amendment that made SB 3 a full ban… what in the ever loving fuck are our dumb ass bitch state representatives doing voting blind on something as big as a full ban of a whole industry???

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33 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

There's a false narrative that there's a Texas Democratic Party. Obviously they exist but do they do anything but work to keep themselves in the minority?  If they were secretly run by a GOP operative, would the outcome be any worse?

The funny thing is that you aren’t wrong. It’s not conscious, but they’ve institutionalized the process of losing. It’s what they are organized to do, like the Washington Generals.

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Imagine being such a fucking dork that not only did your high school and college peers refuse to invite you to parties, share their joints, or sleep with you, but half a century later you are still so obsessed with this rejection that you work tirelessly to ban porn and weed. I can only imagine sex not for the purposes of procreation is next.

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19 hours ago, UTCzech III said:

Coming soon - post oak, mesquite, hickory and pecan wood give you cancer.  Henceforth, all brisket must be prepared "a la Cornyn".

So Dickeys playin the long game with the bag boilin and all?

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4 hours ago, hookem2010 said:

Imagine being such a fucking dork that not only did your high school and college peers refuse to invite you to parties, share their joints, or sleep with you, but half a century later you are still so obsessed with this rejection that you work tirelessly to ban porn and weed. I can only imagine sex not for the purposes of procreation is next.

Im not a fan of thc products and you know my solution that works 100% of the time: I don’t use them. Ridiculous to ban the industry.

the trouble with Texas is that it’s full of Texans.

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Colorado is making about 20 million a month in weed taxes. Texas has about 5x the population. Could help with reducing property taxes or funding schools…..but nah. We will just keep funding Colorado’s schools with our weed tourism. They have a fund that uses the excise tax money to renovate old schools or build new ones. 

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Know it's probably going to just find its way into the round file but just sent a message to the Governor's office urging him to Veto SB3 and send it back to the Lege to come up with some regulations rather than full ban on THC. Think I made some decent points that this is just handing an 8 billion dollar industry to the Cartel, showing contempt for small businesses by shutting them down with the stroke of a pen eliminating 50,000 jobs, and is going to push thousands of Texans back into the hands of opioids and other dangerous prescription drugs. Likely spitting in the wind but had to at least try...

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2 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Know it's probably going to just find its way into the round file but just sent a message to the Governor's office urging him to Veto SB3 and send it back to the Lege to come up with some regulations rather than full ban on THC. Think I made some decent points that this is just handing an 8 billion dollar industry to the Cartel, showing contempt for small businesses by shutting them down with the stroke of a pen eliminating 50,000 jobs, and is going to push thousands of Texans back into the hands of opioids and other dangerous prescription drugs. Likely spitting in the wind but had to at least try...

I sent an email to Ted Cruz once. I was immediately added to so many far right email lists that the block button wouldn’t really work. Various mutations of email addresses sending propaganda 10x per day. Eventually abandoned the email account. So, have fun with that.

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3 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

the trouble with Texas is that it’s full of Texans.

Incorrect. The trouble with Texans is it’s full of all the non-Texans who came here and turned our libertarian-leaning conservative base into an authoritarian one. Danny Goeb is fucking exhibit A.

The Texas I grew up in is gone. Carpetbaggers killed it and cosplay as us now. 

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25 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

I sent an email to Ted Cruz once. I was immediately added to so many far right email lists that the block button wouldn’t really work. Various mutations of email addresses sending propaganda 10x per day. Eventually abandoned the email account. So, have fun with that.

Well if using the contact page on an official state website like the Office of the Govenor gets me put on a ton of spam lists think I may get to lawyer up because that doesn't sound very legal...

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20 minutes ago, softlynow said:

Incorrect. The trouble with Texans is it’s full of all the non-Texans who came here and turned our libertarian-leaning conservative base into an authoritarian one. Danny Goeb is fucking exhibit A.

The Texas I grew up in is gone. Carpetbaggers killed it and cosplay as us now. 

 

non texans aren't sending abbott and goeb to austin the past 30 years 

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1 hour ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Colorado is making about 20 million a month in weed taxes. Texas has about 5x the population. Could help with reducing property taxes or funding schools…..but nah. We will just keep funding Colorado’s schools with our weed tourism. They have a fund that uses the excise tax money to renovate old schools or build new ones. 

We had a fund for schools as well once - the lottery.  At least that is how it was sold to voters 35+ years ago.  

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15 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Well if using the contact page on an official state website like the Office of the Govenor gets me put on a ton of spam lists think I may get to lawyer up because that doesn't sound very legal...

Everything "they" do is legal.   Moose out front should have told you.

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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

non texans aren't sending abbott and goeb to austin the past 30 years 

Not alone, but they give our native shitheels a big assist. The portion of the folks we take in fleeing pronouns and masks heavily outweighs the normie portion. 
 

Also, my state rep is from upstate New York.

Having met almost every local GOP activist in Montgomery County, I learned first-hand that  way too many Trumpkins hail from other states, and just couldn’t wait to get here and fuck shit up. 

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2 hours ago, softlynow said:

Incorrect. The trouble with Texans is it’s full of all the non-Texans who came here and turned our libertarian-leaning conservative base into an authoritarian one. Danny Goeb is fucking exhibit A.

The Texas I grew up in is gone. Carpetbaggers killed it and cosplay as us now. 

Nah native Texans are also shitty, stupid and selfish.  Go read Texas History.



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