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5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Do you not twitter?  Who doesn't tag him?

Plus, occasionally he'll see something that he supports and blast it out to his users and something something viral.

No. Just the occasional parody account tweet and shit I click from here. And I’m very happy with that decision. 

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5 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

You should have also Included the screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post. That was the delicious part.

The really interesting thing is that one of Paxton's MAGA allies actually made sure everybody in the House knew that Trump and Cruz were backing Paxton by commenting on it during the proceedings today, and yet 62 Republicans still voted in favor of taking Paxton out.

Trump's influence in Texas is waning a bit (and Cruz's is non-existent), because we all know there's more than 23 MAGA types in the Texas House.

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30 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

The really interesting thing is that one of Paxton's MAGA allies actually made sure everybody in the House knew that Trump and Cruz were backing Paxton by commenting on it during the proceedings today, and yet 62 Republicans still voted in favor of taking Paxton out.

Trump's influence in Texas is waning a bit (and Cruz's is non-existent), because we all know there's more than 23 MAGA types in the Texas House.

 

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Damage has already been done, imo.

Yep. Anyone with any sense knows there’s a real risk it’ll happen sooner or later. The ability of Texas universities to recruit quality faculty just went in the shitter, never to recover. MAGAts got what they wanted: hamstrung Texas education.
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23 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Can someone get me the backstory on why the house and senate seem to hate each others guys? 

Because the House is much more moderate owing to the difficulties in gerrymandering such small districts. 
 

There are 150 house members. In a state of about 30 million people. That means each House district has only about 200,000 people.  When the districts are that small, it makes it real tough to do a good gerrymander. One precinct moved to a neighboring district can throw off that district.  So they’re not quite clean districts, but they’re a lot more representative of the populace.

The Senate only has 31 members. So each senator represents 1 million. That’s a lot easier to gerrymander, and the body represents that. It’s a lot more extreme.

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56 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

Because the House is much more moderate owing to the difficulties in gerrymandering such small districts. 
 

There are 150 house members. In a state of about 30 million people. That means each House district has only about 200,000 people.  When the districts are that small, it makes it real tough to do a good gerrymander. One precinct moved to a neighboring district can throw off that district.  So they’re not quite clean districts, but they’re a lot more representative of the populace.

The Senate only has 31 members. So each senator represents 1 million. That’s a lot easier to gerrymander, and the body represents that. It’s a lot more extreme.

Fucking Math Nerd!  actually this ^   and also the Senate is led by a self-hating far-right extremist lunatic with an IQ of probably 85.  The House is led by, even though he's not wildly popular on this forum, a rather intelligent and pragmatic Speaker who believes in being moderate, except with bourbon.  

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1 hour ago, bluto said:

Special sesh 1 is under way as of 9pm. Prop tax and border security first up. Abbott appears to have hamstrung the ptax talks to rate compression only, not even homestead bumps or caps. 

Wtf are they trying to do with border security?? I was literally on FM170 between Ruidosa and Presidio this morning at 9 and saw a BP truck about every 10 miles, they're swarming. 

Although we did also come across a pretty recent abandoned and torn up camp site from someone passing through the ranch. Really surprising to find a not old looking burnt out fire and abandoned tent and scattered belongings when you're hiking to the petrified wood

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24 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Wtf are they trying to do with border security?? I was literally on FM170 between Ruidosa and Presidio this morning at 9 and saw a BP truck about every 10 miles, they're swarming. 

Although we did also come across a pretty recent abandoned and torn up camp site from someone passing through the ranch. Really surprising to find a not old looking burnt out fire and abandoned tent and scattered belongings when you're hiking to the petrified wood

So a 'fear boner'???

 

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House proposed a bill with only monster cuts to school tax rate at abbotts order, senate offered less rate cut but included a homestead exemption bump. Phelan just ruled that since senate bills included HS exemption bump and Abbott didn’t approve that being discussed then house won’t even listen to senate bills. The shit show drags on

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