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On 6/27/2025 at 2:38 PM, Satchel said:

My bad. The Bezos wedding will cost 56 million…slightly more than mine.

Are you including the inevitable divorce in that number? 

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14 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

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Was a bill really required to allow Texans to spend gold and silver? I'm assuming this doesn't require companies, stores, vendors, whatever accept gold. Hell, some places don't even accept cash these days.

Greg Abbott has morphed from entertaining the ideas of the fringes to mainly focusing on the fringes. Crazy how he's surpassed Rick Perry.

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5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Was a bill really required to allow Texans to spend gold and silver? I'm assuming this doesn't require companies, stores, vendors, whatever accept gold. Hell, some places don't even accept cash these days.

Greg Abbott has morphed from entertaining the ideas of the fringes to mainly focusing on the fringes. Crazy how he's surpassed Rick Perry.

Was just having that conversation with someone who was much closer to Republican inside circles than I ever was.  Conversation ended with "When Abbott took over for Perry, did you ever imagine how badly you'd be longing for the return to the relatively decent and benign reign of Perry?"

I'd kneecap any 10 Surly posters if it would get Rick Perry back in the governor's mansion.

I mean, I'd also probably kneecap any 10 Surly posters just because we've all got it coming, but still....

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On 6/26/2025 at 11:36 PM, Satchel said:

I hold on to hope that little by little, bone marrow Republicans/conservatives will begin to understand the degree to which their loyalty and obeisance to a party that no longer exists

You mean the party that was exactly like this one but was too embarrassed to act like this in public?

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18 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Was just having that conversation with someone who was much closer to Republican inside circles than I ever was.  Conversation ended with "When Abbott took over for Perry, did you ever imagine how badly you'd be longing for the return to the relatively decent and benign reign of Perry?"

I'd kneecap any 10 Surly posters if it would get Rick Perry back in the governor's mansion.

I think I’ve told you this before, but I would make Rick Perry Governor for life if it saved us one month of Greg Abbott. He’s the worst governor we have ever had, and no one is close. 

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3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I think I’ve told you this before, but I would make Rick Perry Governor for life if it saved us one month of Greg Abbott. He’s the worst governor we have ever had, and no one is close. 

Rick Perry was just a typical grifter politician. I remember 30 years ago him coming into my old bosses office to talk about the manor airport site.  He was just a dumb guy who was pretty likable and political.  Nothing like the evil criminals we like to put in office these days.

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Greg Abbott and Donald Trump have been some of the best PR money can buy for Slick Rick and W, respectively.

 

Oh Yeah Abc GIF by Dancing with the Stars
 

George Bush Dancing GIF
 

Sure they weren’t great but at the time had no idea how much worse it could get…

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On 6/18/2025 at 3:05 PM, Blotto said:

$3B .....65 miles. Money well spent. At least for the contractors that received that $3B. 

https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2025-06-17/with-only-8-built-texas-quietly-defunds-state-border-wall-program

State-built border wall under construction near the banks of the Rio Grande in Zapata Co. on Sept. 23, 2024.

impenetrable 

So to recap the new Texas. When these buffoons realized they couldn't build the wall they blamed the federal government. The party/cult of "small government" that wants Washington to stay out of their business now says flatly that this is the responsibility of the clown show in the nation's capital. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE. 

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11 hours ago, Hefeweizen said:

Rick Perry was just a typical grifter politician. I remember 30 years ago him coming into my old bosses office to talk about the manor airport site.  He was just a dumb guy who was pretty likable and political.  Nothing like the evil criminals we like to put in office these days.

The irony of Rick Perry is that the two things that killed his career were the two best things he tried to get done. 

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4 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

The irony of Rick Perry is that the two things that killed his career were the two best things he tried to get done. 

Well, yeah....human decency and good public policy are political poison in this state.

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I've mentioned it before, but I was working in one of the divisions that fell under the umbrella of the governor's office during the transition between Perry and Abbott. It wasn't a terrible place to work before the change, but after Abbott's political appointees took over, it quickly became a toxic workplace environment.

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Remember when Rick Perry had the audacity to suggest the idea that all Texas children should have the Gardasil vaccine to prevent HPV and future cancers. Since the virus is usually spread by sexual contact, the church going crowd cannot let their children have the vaccine since they believe it promotes sex. 

I give Perry credit that he saw this is a healthcare issue to prevent cancer, and not the ridiculous idea that it promotes underage sex. However even he had to retract the idea because conservatives look at the future cancer as a result of low morals and most likely they think the victims deserve it.

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8 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Remember when Rick Perry had the audacity to suggest the idea that all Texas children should have the Gardasil vaccine to prevent HPV and future cancers. Since the virus is usually spread by sexual contact, the church going crowd cannot let their children have the vaccine since they believe it promotes sex. 

I give Perry credit that he saw this is a healthcare issue to prevent cancer, and not the ridiculous idea that it promotes underage sex. However even he had to retract the idea because conservatives look at the future cancer as a result of low morals and most likely they think the victims deserve it.

To be fair, I think a lot of people that would be supportive of the vaccine considered this so out of character for Perry that it became immediately suspicious.  

Who knows, maybe some phd candidate working on their poly sci dissertation can make an argument this was the start of some traditional Dems moving toward MAHA.  

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To be fair, I think a lot of people that would be supportive of the vaccine considered this so out of character for Perry that it became immediately suspicious.  
Who knows, maybe some phd candidate working on their poly sci dissertation can make an argument this was the start of some traditional Dems moving toward MAHA.  

To be more fair, IIRC, one of Perry’s most influential money bundler/PAC people was on the board of the the pharma company that produced the vaccine to be mandated.

It wasn’t some legitimate rational decision based on wanting to do what was best for Texans.
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On 7/3/2025 at 12:22 AM, scottsins said:

It wasn’t some legitimate rational decision based on wanting to do what was best for Texans.

There was also some speculation of a personal element. 

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But we just couldn’t quite squeeze  60M into the budget for low income kids summer lunch assistance. 

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3 hours ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

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This is one I actually agree with. See Canada’s problem in British Columbia with Chinese nationals buying up all their real estate, making it unaffordable for actual citizens. Of course, we just have corporations doing that here anyway, but baby steps. 

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1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:

This is one I actually agree with. See Canada’s problem in British Columbia with Chinese nationals buying up all their real estate, making it unaffordable for actual citizens. Of course, we just have corporations doing that here anyway, but baby steps. 

I feel like North Korea probably already can’t buy land here…

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13 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

This is one I actually agree with. See Canada’s problem in British Columbia with Chinese nationals buying up all their real estate, making it unaffordable for actual citizens. Of course, we just have corporations doing that here anyway, but baby steps. 

Sure but what about South Koreans, Japanese, and Brazilians 

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Within 24 hours, you will hear almost verbatim:

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Liberal climate activists intentionally downplayed and covered up the Camp Mystic weather forecast to ethnically cleanse conservatives

 

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People are really sensitive about pointing fingers over in the rain thread, but it seems like to me that Texas government is pretty much like the federal government. They put their best people on the grift and the worst on policy and governance. 

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1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

Within 24 hours, you will hear almost verbatim:

 

I mean, if you look on Twitter there are a a few fundagelical influencers claiming that this storm, like recent hurricanes across the south, was caused by weather modification. 
As we all know, the only thing that can modify the weather is Jewish space lasers. In other words:

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Soros is a calamari appetizer compared to the army of Kraken behind Trump but at least it's an intersectional movement that includes gentile and non-gentile billionaires. Progress!

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52 minutes ago, CTC2 said:

People are really sensitive about pointing fingers over in the rain thread, but it seems like to me that Texas government is pretty much like the federal government. They put their best people on the grift and the worst on policy and governance. 

patricia says the gutted noaa told all of the counties and cities they were about to get a 27-foot wall of water

leaders of cities and counties say nay

kxan requesting all comms

wouldn't dare post this over in the dt feels thread but this shaping to be a popcorn-consuming event

probably should be in the leopards thread but that would be cruel to the maga families who lost kids

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/federal-forecast-concerns-surface-in-texas-deadly-flooding-debate/

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psa: lake medina sits at 2.9%, the top of the dam is 1076', and these deaths took place at 1900', so it remains comical that we do not have a giant flood control system for these hill country rivers that do this once every 10 years

i was laying in bed at 2am watching the system sit in place and rotate - it was a tight, 50-mile wide miniature hurricane and looked exactly like the blanco event from 15 which i also watched live on the radar

maybe wheels and paxton can hire some fascist cruelty iterns to take turns watching the kxan radar - that's all it would have taken to save 50 dead kids

/leopards

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17 minutes ago, Hagbard Celine said:

psa: lake medina sits at 2.9%, the top of the dam is 1076', and these deaths took place at 1900', so it remains comical that we do not have a giant flood control system for these hill country rivers that do this once every 10 years

i was laying in bed at 2am watching the system sit in place and rotate - it was a tight, 50-mile wide miniature hurricane and looked exactly like the blanco event from 15 which i also watched live on the radar

maybe wheels and paxton can hire some fascist cruelty iterns to take turns watching the kxan radar - that's all it would have taken to save 50 dead kids

/leopards

They say Waffle House has a dedicated weather monitoring team

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3 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

They say Waffle House has a dedicated weather monitoring team

HEB does.

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1 hour ago, chainsaw said:

Every preventable tragedy is partly caused by a pervasive culture among political and media figures that, in the past, stigmatized discussing exactly what should be discussed, that stigmatized advocating exactly what should be advocated, and that stigmatized spending political capital exactly when and on exactly what political capital should be spent.

Every single person who participates in "This is not the time and place" culture is standing in the way of saving lives in the future. I hope we remember that when (not if) this happens again.

Agreed.  Same can be said for Uvalde?  Sutherland Springs?  Santa Fe?     But there is a faction that continues to deny that guns kill people, and that our climate isn't affected by humans.  

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Texas appears to be getting more proficient at letting kids get killed in bulk. 
 

glad my kids aren’t in that ecosystem any longer. 

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On 6/30/2025 at 5:25 PM, Brisketexan said:

Was just having that conversation with someone who was much closer to Republican inside circles than I ever was.  Conversation ended with "When Abbott took over for Perry, did you ever imagine how badly you'd be longing for the return to the relatively decent and benign reign of Perry?"

I'd kneecap any 10 Surly posters if it would get Rick Perry back in the governor's mansion.

I mean, I'd also probably kneecap any 10 Surly posters just because we've all got it coming, but still....

 

On 6/30/2025 at 5:51 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

I think I’ve told you this before, but I would make Rick Perry Governor for life if it saved us one month of Greg Abbott. He’s the worst governor we have ever had, and no one is close. 

Both of you are missing the obvious catch here.  Perry of 15 years ago was way better than the current shit heaps, but I bet Perry today would be every bit as terrible as Hot Wheels now that he knows there will be no accountability for anything.

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6 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Im shocked no one in here has started the “who did the they vote for” line yet

Kids don’t vote.  And they aren’t local to that area. 

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2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Both of you are missing the obvious catch here.  Perry of 15 years ago was way better than the current shit heaps, but I bet Perry today would be every bit as terrible as Hot Wheels now that he knows there will be no accountability for anything.

I honestly don’t think that’s true. I’m not going to praise Rick Perry but he’s a real person with core values and cares about outcomes. Greg Abbott has a hole inside he has tried to fill by getting to the next thing. They are different.

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2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Fair. So who’d they vote for?

Kerr County:

Donald J. Trump 76.8%

Kamala Harris 22.4%

Most Mystic campers are going to be from affluent areas, so it's not guaranteed, but a decent percentage of Trumpists.

13 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

I honestly don’t think that’s true. I’m not going to praise Rick Perry but he’s a real person with core values and cares about outcomes. Greg Abbott has a hole inside he has tried to fill by getting to the next thing. They are different.

Trump has a way of coring those people out.  Eating out their substance.

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6 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

Texas will do absolutely nothing

This is offensive. Stop. Do you have any idea how high Ted and Heidi are lifting them up in prayer? Still think they're doing nothing?

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