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4 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Where are they?  What impact might they have on the electoral college? 

Well NV, Arizona and Georgia are important. NV is not a populated state but even a small shift can impact in a state that is normally pretty close. Same with AZ and GA. Some of these states will be 2 points or less and even her doing 1-2% better than Biden did will make her chances of winning easier

Also 100% matters - if she does better with them, better chance of picking off some CA house seats and holding onto the RGV seats 

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3 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

I don't presume to explain things to you as you're clearly expert. Vance and Palin demonstrate what I believe to be the only possible impact of a VP choice is making a dreadful decision.

Well yeah. That’s why Trump’s campaign is downplaying the importance. 

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6 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Every poll showing him losing is going to damage his fragile psyche. He’s going to flail and lash out as it slips away from him 

He is obsessed with ratings. He'll go nuts denying the results of all polls leading to the election. He will lapse into repetitive gibberish about how wronged he is and everybody else is a bad guy.

He'll exit as a clown. Sadly, he'll never accept it. He'll keep milking the cult hopefully from a cell in the psych ward of a federal prison.

8 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

They're front running pussies.

Excellent.

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3 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:

Defeating Trump is a good step, but we still have the malignancy of a large part of the electorate. Most of the people who became Trumpists were already GOP. Trump just showed up and said the quiet part out loud and seized the reins of the hate engine. That engine won't sink into the sea with Trump.

 

Agreed. And you've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know .... Aggies.  

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2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Well NV, Arizona and Georgia are important.

Sure, she has to keep them.  I'm just thinking out loud about how she should target various demographics.  If say 2/3 of the targeted group can't effect change, it's worth considering given somewhat limited resources.

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Hospitality union is committed to knocking on 3.3 million doors in swing states for Harris

Our ground game will be much better in 2024. 2020 was just bad bc of COVID

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Posted
42 minutes ago, immamac said:

Enthusiasm for trump is not great right now. As stated here, lots of people who had signs and flags up even earlier this summer have them down. That's not to say they won't vote or favor him anymore, but the enthusiasm in deep red Texas is waning. 

My wife and made a note to look for Trump signs driving through the Park Cities this weekend and we didn't see a single one. Of course we were on more of the major roads like Mockingbird or Lovers where the "poor" Parkies live so ...

We are over by Love Field and there is one house with Trump signs on our entire daily 2+ mile walk route. Zero Biden or Harris signs.

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I live in one of about 8 districts that has a dem in the state legislature and a trump flag went up around the corner. Pretty disheartening, but i posted in 2020 after Biden won, a bunch of American flags went up on my street the following day, including my house. But in general, it really does feel that the full maga movement is far more muted this time around.

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45 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Man near where I live there's a shitty MAGA business that lines the I-10 feeder road with signs, and they all have "Biden THIS!" "Biden THAT!" and it warms my heart lol. I don't think they're really able to de-select the target that they've already locked on and so they're starting from scratch with Kamala and defaulting to racist attacks.

I certainly know of a bunch of idiot boomers that are still "trump is who Jesus would vote for!!!" because I have an unfortunate amount of family that's still deep in the SBC, but they've been having a hard time with answering why they think a criminally fraudulent rapist is the """christian vote"""

This shit never makes sense to me. How fucking stupid do you have to be to potentially aliente potential customers? There's a restaurant by our house, with mediocre food, but a huge outdoor space and playground that is good for kids. There aren't a lot of places like there in my area of Houston, so we frequented for awhile. Up until the time they started posting MAGA bullshit on their marquee sign. Never went again. And I know I'm not the only person. It's just fucking stupid. 
 

10 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

What would a Collin, Montgomery, and maybe even Denton county flip mean in terms of the state?

That...will never fucking happen. 

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11 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

What would a Collin, Montgomery, and maybe even Denton county flip mean in terms of the state?

As a resident of Collin County, if it were to flip the whole damn state is flipping. Collin is still quite Trumpy/Maga.

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1 minute ago, SydneyCarton said:

This shit never makes sense to me. How fucking stupid do you have to be to potentially aliente potential customers? There's a restaurant by our house, with mediocre food, but a huge outdoor space and playground that is good for kids. There aren't a lot of places like there in my area of Houston, so we frequented for awhile. Up until the time they started posting MAGA bullshit on their marquee sign. Never went again. And I know I'm not the only person. It's just fucking stupid. 
 

That...will never fucking happen. 

Even with all the growth coming into that county? I assume it's gerrymandered to shit? I don't know enough about that area.

1 minute ago, Hawndoh said:

As a resident of Collin County, if it were to flip the whole damn state is flipping. Collin is still quite Trumpy/Maga.

Yeah it is the closest of the big counties I listed to flipping....within 4-5% at least in the 2020 election 

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12 minutes ago, C-Man said:

My wife and made a note to look for Trump signs driving through the Park Cities this weekend and we didn't see a single one. Of course we were on more of the major roads like Mockingbird or Lovers where the "poor" Parkies live so ...

We are over by Love Field and there is one house with Trump signs on our entire daily 2+ mile walk route. Zero Biden or Harris signs.

i live in the darkest blue 2020 precinct in central texas and there is currently one harris sign.

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1 minute ago, BurntOrange&White said:

Even with all the growth coming into that county? I assume it's gerrymandered to shit? I don't know enough about that area.

It's the fastest growing county in Texas, but it's also I believe one of the reddest counties in Texas. It went 71% for Trump in 2020. You're basically talking about The Woodlands and Conroe and rural areas around it.  It doesn't have to be gerrymandered, it's just red AF. 

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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

This shit never makes sense to me. How fucking stupid do you have to be to potentially aliente potential customers? There's a restaurant by our house, with mediocre food, but a huge outdoor space and playground that is good for kids. There aren't a lot of places like there in my area of Houston, so we frequented for awhile. Up until the time they started posting MAGA bullshit on their marquee sign. Never went again. And I know I'm not the only person. It's just fucking stupid. 
 

That...will never fucking happen. 

It is sadly is a decent restaurant and a great play area for kids. I've only been back a couple of times (because of other people having events there) since they went full MAGA.

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1 minute ago, jimmyjazz said:

. . . and then there's Penzeys Spices, which has this blurb on their website:

About Republicans

  Reveal hidden contents

About Republicans

As we’ve now said on our first-ever About Us page on our website, there’s something unique about humankind’s relationship with spices that time and again have caused spices to be a driving force for change. We live in a time calling out for change and for solutions to the very real problems our country and our planet face. There’s two very different futures ahead for us totally dependent on whether we solve these problems or not. With so much at stake we feel obligated to use the unique position spices hold in our lives to try to help promote the solutions to these problems as best we can.

Watching the slow decline of the Republican Party over the last half century, and the steep decline/bottom falling out over the last decade, it can be easy to see the nonsense that has overtaken the party as pretty much random. Once you start seriously looking at the problems America and the world face and who and what are standing in the way of solving those problems, it quickly becomes clear there is nothing random to what the Republicans are promoting.

The Republican departure from conservative values and embrace of what, from a distance, looks a whole lot like insanity didn’t happen by chance. All of it has been intelligently crafted with the goal of preserving the position of those who profit from the inhumanity that is at the very roots of pretty much every problem we are facing. From the environment, to racism/discrimination, to health, to saving our democracy at home and growing it abroad, half the time Republicans are intentionally blocking the solution to the problems we face. The other half of the time they are the problem we face.

The truth of our time is we’ve arrived at the point where there’s no way to respect the nonsense the Republican Party is promoting and have any hope of overcoming the problems we as a nation and we as a planet face. Given the choice between saving America and planet Earth or saving the feelings of Republican voters, we are choosing to side with saving our country and our world. I’m sorry it’s come to this.

And no, there is no HATE!!! in any of this. There is a whole lot of propaganda at the heart of much of how Republican voters have been steered away from conservative values to what they now seem all too happy to vote for. The thing to remember about propaganda is that it doesn’t just misinform, it also works to make people immune from the truth by convincing them any facts that counter their propaganda are nothing more than HATE!!! But we really have no hate for Republican voters. None at all.

I actually like and respect most of you guys. Sure, there are a growing number that are there for the racism, but I still believe the majority of you have good hearts that want to help and do the right thing. I know you to be trustworthy, and honest, and funny, and caring, and good souls. The problem isn’t what you are, the problem is what you are now voting to support. You guys have been turned around.

Remember when your distrust of big city types, and your deep rooted beliefs in paying your debts, respecting your marriage, raising kids willing to serve, honoring your word, and going to church every week had you voting for Donald Trump over Joe Biden all because Biden’s son had a computer? Or how you couldn’t vote for Hillary because she was over-prepared and used emails? I know that to you your actions seem rational and in keeping with your values, but when it comes to voting you are now consistently voting in people who are the exact opposite of you and the values you hold dear.

What does any of this mean? Going forward we would still be glad to have you as customers, but we’re done pretending the Republican Party’s embrace of cruelty, racism, Covid lies, climate change denial, and threats to democracy are anything other than the risks they legitimately are. If you need us to pretend you are not creating the hurt you are creating in order for you to continue to be our customer, I’m sad to say you might be happier elsewhere.

If on the other hand you still want the best spices and don’t need us to respect what you now vote for to be our customer, Hooray! We are happy to have you here, but know that we will, on a regular basis, try to wake you up from this dream that has you believing there is anything conservative left at all to what the Republican Party has become. We can and will work without Republicans to solve the problems we face, but it sure would be nice to get back to a time where Republicans were equal defenders of equality, the environment, and democracy. We look forward to that day.


Thanks for reading. Thanks for being here,

Bill

 

I mean I respect them. But that is not smart busienss. 

Posted
5 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

There's a restaurant by our house, with mediocre food, but a huge outdoor space and playground that is good for kids. There aren't a lot of places like there in my area of Houston, so we frequented for awhile. Up until the time they started posting MAGA bullshit on their marquee sign. Never went again. And I know I'm not the only person. It's just fucking stupid. 

Pressley’s? I drive by it to/from the gym every day and every day, I lament not having a carton of rotten eggs in my car to throw at those signs 

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Just now, Dahobbs said:

It is sadly is a decent restaurant and a great play area for kids. I've only been back a couple of times (because of other people having events there) since they went full MAGA.

It was an easy sell to the wife becuase she thought the food was mediocre. Now we drive a bit further and go to D'Alba. The space isn't as good, but oh well...

 

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3 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

i live in the darkest blue 2020 precinct in central texas and there is currently one harris sign.

I actually take that back. There is one house with a Biden sign that's been up for months. Forgot about that guy.

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3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I mean I respect them. But that is not smart busienss. 

Oh, I agree.  Even dumbass Lance Armstrong knew not to take a side when LiveStrong was a thing.

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3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

It was an easy sell to the wife becuase she thought the food was mediocre. Now we drive a bit further and go to D'Alba. The space isn't as good, but oh well...

 

I quite like D'Alba. They've been improving the space a lot recently and the food is better. 

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A lot of HOA's have 90 day sign rules.  90 days before the election is this week.  I would imagine more and more signs for both candidates soon.

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Posted (edited)
40 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

What would a Collin, Montgomery and maybe even Denton county flip mean in terms of the state?

Someone to beat 45s ass in golf, for starters. Post him at Turnberry.

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22 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

I'm no finance bro, but it sure seems like the market panic last night/this morning was basically just wishcasting from right wingers?  

Friday's jobs report and people want the Fed to cut interest rates now that inflation is under control. 

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48 minutes ago, BurntOrange&White said:

What would a Collin, Montgomery, and maybe even Denton county flip mean in terms of the state?

An 80/20 Allred win. 

Lubbock will go blue before Montgomery County does.

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5 minutes ago, The Dog said:

Friday's jobs report and people want the Fed to cut interest rates now that inflation is under control. 

I swear, jobs reports exceeded all expectations damn near every time for the last 2 years and one bad one and we get this horseshit. 

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Just now, SydneyCarton said:

I swear, jobs reports exceeded all expectations damn near every time for the last 2 years and one bad one and we get this horseshit. 

Based on what little I read the scope of the selloff is an overreaction and it's more related to interest rates than the jobs report. 

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3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I swear, jobs reports exceeded all expectations damn near every time for the last 2 years and one bad one and we get this horseshit. 

The major indices are still all up YTD (and not just by some razor thin margin)  If the slide really continues ok, but right now this looks more like maybe a cooling off rather than some full blown rundown.  

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1 minute ago, The Dog said:

Based on what little I read the scope of the selloff is an overreaction and it's more related to interest rates than the jobs report. 

I think it's largely an overreaction to the AI bubble deflating if not bursting, while some of the smarter money is deciding to wait for the anticipated interest rate cut.

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24 minutes ago, TheStoicPaisano said:

Someone to beat 45s ass in golf, for starters. Post him at Turnberry.

Remember the rules--no fact checking, real time or otherwise.  It won't be televised or recorded, because reasons.  It's all word of mouth confirmation.  In fact, it's about the only time a game of any merit isn't recorded this day and age.  Playing with an ex president--certainly don't record anything.      

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Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

 

I thought my border comment was obvious enough that the sarcasm would be an evident. 

Except when you explain to MAGAs about how much better we have fared than our peer countries, they won’t listen. Everyone knows Biden decided to raise inflation all over the world 

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4 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Except when you explain to MAGAs about how much better we have fared than our peer countries, they won’t listen. Everyone knows Biden decided to raise inflation all over the world 

You have an actual MAGA poster on this very thread blaming Biden and the Dems for....things like the Nikkei index taking a beating.  For you MAGAs out there, the Nikkei index is the stock index for Japan.  Also for you MAGAs, Japan is another country.  Also for you MAGAs, neither Biden nor any other dem is in office in Japan.

As a side note, neither Biden nor any other dem is in office in ANY of the numerous other countries where their stock markets are also taking a similar if not worse beating the last few days.

Although, if your point is that you believe that Biden and the dems are so damned powerful that they control the stock markets in every country in the world....don't we WANT giant badasses like that, who can control the whole world, in office?  I mean, that's a pretty solid sales pitch.

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