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The only way to truly be inadequate as a Texas is to have a draft-dodging New Yorker shit on your wife’s looks and mental health and insult your dad, and then follow it up by kissing his ring.

I early voted today. Y’all would be surprised by some of my selections. I will leave you with this: fuck Dan Patrick and fuck Ken Paxton.

Annnnnnd I stopped reading there

finally donated to Beto. Been brikety-broke of late, but shot $25 his way. Hope it does some good.

Ouchhhhhhh

Dude, there are a dozen dipshits just in Trump’s immediate orbit who have fail-giffed as badly as Wohl. Carter Page; The Mooch; that drunk Numberg; Cohen; Giuliani; Dersh; Chris Christie; that dingleberry who bought $20 grand worth of furniture; etc., etc. This is the clown car of presidential administrations. It houses an endless supply of idiots ready to pants themselves for the nation’s amusement.

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The latest Cracker Barrel Poll predicts that men wearing belt buckles that are made from scorpions encased in amber will ultimately swing this election to Ted Cruz by a decisive 14 point margin. You win a 'Duck Dynasty' watch for participating in the poll so I'm confident that it's accurate. Also, the Duck Dynasty watch has an alarm that you can set when it's "beer thirty," which increases not only the participation but also the accuracy of the poll. Science can be a bummer.

In memory of our 15 year old golden that we lost a year ago this month Meet Mr. Rocky Starr

This was a part of the conversation I had with a very well connected Republican lobbyist this morning. They tried to make the late push with being "for pre-existing conditions" and its backfired in the latest internal polling. The public is dumb, but not dumb enough to know R's have voted over 60 times to repeal the ACA/Obamacare and that most families(extended) have one person in it with a pre-existing. House R's know that it's over and many are making plans for their future on K street. Take it for what it's worth, but my friend has been doing this for 40 years and he's not a bullshitter.

Finally voted for Beto tonight. Hitting that submit button never felt so good.

Counterpoint

Not directly related to FNC, but this is a nice essay on how Facebook is driving the olds insane. https://thebaffler.com/latest/twilight-of-the-racist-uncles-burmila

I'm not sure extrapolating votes in early voting is as simple as people want to make it this year. I voted yesterday and I've probably voted R 95% of the time in the past including in the R primary. While I didn't go straight party D this time voted for exactly 1 R (a county judge who had done good things infrastructure wise for the county) and 2 Ls in races where a D wasn't running. I'm not sure I'll ever vote R again consistently. I'm center right by most metrics, but the daily actions of the Republican party today has completely alienated me.

A nice glimpse into understanding Trump and his supporters. And the distinction noted in the article is an important one: while there is typically SIGNIFICANT overlap between racial identity (say, white pride) and racial animus (that is, racism against brown folks), they are two distinct phenomena. The Economist has a great piece on it this month: The graphic that went with it was quite illuminating: In summary, the ethos of the party of Trump is "FEAR" because....the supporters of Trump are afraid. They are afraid of losing status. Nevermind that I think that's a bit ridiculous - our country is beautifully shallow, meaning that the greatest determinant of "status" is $$$$$$. And as long as white folks are healthily represented among the economic upper classes -- and they will be for a LONG TIME -- then the fear is over jack squat. And, layer on to the fact that the white working class, which coasted for decades on the historical anomaly that was the post-WWII order (a strong, undamaged America with an incredible manufacturing base, dealing with a busted-up remainder of the world), is facing an end to that incredible advantage that we had....well, there's reason for anxiety. Of course, it's a LAZY anxiety, the kind that looks for someone else to blame, and conveniently chooses the closest available easy, weak target to blame (seriously, little Guatemalans -- come one, my daughter could beat up the average Gautemalan). Thought this was really interesting, and compactly-written insight, wanted to share.

People mock Jacob Wohl but you have to give him credit for deciding to name the international spy agency run from his mom's house 'Surefire Intelligence' instead of 'Hapless Slapdick Intelligence.' That was a good decision that indicates he's also keen on marketing.

So Vic went as a big game hunter?

As i've said before, immigration is such a clarifying topic with respect to the actual feelings and beliefs that animate the right-wing worldview. True market fundamentalists would be all in favor of the mobility of labor across national borders, just as they would be all in favor of the mobility of goods across those borders. Lumpenproletariat like Slorch, when you get down to it, aren't nearly as pro-market as they believe.

I can't wait until we play WVU this weekend. We are going to smoke them.

Voted for the first time in a mid term today. Here is my snap shot. i am in Denton county which is traditionally republican. I was amazed how many under 30 something’s were voting this morning . I’d say There were about 40 % minority voters and about 70 % women in the 15 or so minutes I was there. Busier than I thought it would be. Probably about 50-70 people were either voting or in line. Voted straight ticket dem. Let’s see how close we can get this

Twelve guitars, zero guns. What do I win? Oh yeah, fuck Ted Cruz. Really. Fuck that guy.

Working the Poll hotline all day tomorrow in Austin. (PS. voted on Tuesday and wife voted today, so add +2 to Beto)

The leader of their party -- who happens to be the leader of our country -- just gave a single speech that did more to destroy any unity or reasonable discourse than any statements made by the last 3 presidents combined. When one side is gleefully supporting a human verbal diarrhea machine, with a seemingly endless supply of liquid feces to spew, calls for "reasonable discourse" are pretty hollow. There's a guy spewing liquid shit over everyone and everything, and you want us to TALK ABOUT IT? Is THAT your reaction when someone is spewing feces all over anything? Or, perhaps, isn't the only rational approach one that says "FIRST, LET'S STOP THE DIARRHEA MACHINE?" Discussing "ideas" is all but pointless, because one side of the discussion is not about ideas at all. It's based on a man who just spewed dozens of out-and-out LIES, all aimed at inflaming one group of people against another. The most fundamental ground rule for reasoned discourse is to have some agreed approach to objective truth. It's silly and a waste of time to argue about the best way to stay dry in the rain when the other side insists that the very concept of rain is "fake news." Bottom line, you don't reason with the unreasonable. You can't.

What women want?? I’ll tell him what this woman wants, I want his crackless orange ass in prison and out of my White House.

NG'TopGD....sounds great......I need to get better...much better Guess I'm warming to the relic concept

The core is this: The inflammation of a malignant, violent, anti-democratic core of lunatics. There is nothing supernatural protecting our experiment, and it can be destroyed like every other experiment before. The only thing keeping it together are some basic shared beliefs about humanity, and eroding those erodes the nation. I'm not arguing that we should even care about saving the nation as it currently exists, but the threat to our nation is on the inside and Trump inspires the very type of radical lunatics who would destroy our democratic society from the inside.

Tech mod put in a Texas pick for Hoofkin.

y'know one thing I like about this thread. I don't think I have ever seen a neg in here. And If I do I'm not sure what I would do. There's not one of you that has ever posted in here that I would even in my wildest fevered dreams consider doing that in here. It's no holds barred elsewhere, but I have done everything I can to keep this space clean from internecine wars. I mean it when I say we are all in this together. I don't give a big rat's ass about your politics in here or where you went to school or even if you put beans in chili. everybody deserves a shot at redemption from the ghosts that haunt them never ever give up edit: if troph hadn't given me a + for the definition I would have stayed over there flinging poo in CR. I know, It's a weakness or a strength depending on who you ask. Anyhow, I appreciate all you sumbitches and believe it or not I even find a few syllables to try to say in your favor when the spirit moves me.

It seems like Loh got a feel for public perception of the situation and decided to play chicken with the board. Good for him, smart move. Can you imagine if they fire him after this? They can't, they know it, and Loh knows it.

Happy halloween from my daughter and niece!

Because Rs expect Dems/centrists to be sincere and respectable, while Rs can say or do whatever they want to win. The game is rigged.

We don't. Now if you will excuse me, I am late for lunch.

Tuesday will decide if it is truly normalized or not.

If Bru commits to a new coach at USC, then we never really had a chance in the first place. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Half-naked woman falls through ceiling at Kingsport restaurant RAIN SMITH • YESTERDAY AT 11:32 AM KINGSPORT — A bizarre incident at a city fast food restaurant has netted the arrest of a 26-year-old woman — nude from the waist down — as she reportedly fell through the ceiling and into the kitchen. A report at the Kingsport Police Department states Harley C. Morton, 26, of Granby Road is charged with criminal trespassing, vandalism and disorderly conduct. However, records contain no possible explanation for why she was in the ceiling of Cook Out on East Stone Drive. An employee called police shortly before 10 p.m. He stated a female had partially fallen through a ceiling tile, then pulled herself back up and was "running around" overhead. A responding officer didn't initially spot the suspect but found broken support rails lying on the floor. An inspection outside led to the roof, where police found a wallet containing Morton's ID. Access into the building is believed to have been made at an air conditioning unit by removing a screen. While the officer was still on the roof, the woman fell through a second ceiling tile in the kitchen, this time landing on the floor below. Police cut her off as she entered the dining area, finding her unclothed from the waist down. Morton was transported to the Kingsport city jail. Along with the charges she incurred for Tuesday night's incident, she was additionally served with an outstanding felony warrant out of Sullivan County for failure to appear.

The reality is that immigration is just a political tool for both parties. Bush 2 had a sensible plan for immigration and the repubs rejected it. Obama and the dems had control of the house and senate and proposed exactly zero immigration fixes. I tend to agree that birth citizenship needs to be re worked. I kind of like Canada's policy. Basically, if you are born here you are a citizen as long as your parents/mother are in the country legally. Immigration could be drastically improved if we adopt a very streamlined guest worker program. I would support an almost unlimited guest worker program. Essentially, have employers send requests for guest workers and have virtually all of them be approved. If/when we get to a point that no employers are requesting workers then stop issuing work visas. To the original topic, if a baby is born to a guest worker in the US then the baby is a citizen by birth. If you are in the US as a guest worker you should have ample ways to apply for citizenship while you are here if you want it. Take the caravan as an example. If we currently had 50,000 requests for guest workers, then lets go find 7000 Guatemalans and bring them in to fill those jobs. A lot safer for them than walking across mexico. But lets not kid ourselves. In no other country can people sneak into that country illegally and have a baby and then that baby be considered a citizen of that country.

Does your mom count?

What you're doing is accepting the right-wing framing of the issue as the objective framing of the issue and shaming others for not adopting the right-wing frame. To quote you, yourself, here are the two frames in your mind: " . . . or clear so we know whether he is talking about reducing insurance coverage or putting gimpy kids in front of firing squads."

I’ve always thought that when polls have someone at 50+ with likely voters a few days out, it’s a tough nut to crack for the underdog. That’s one reason why I think Beto is in a tough spot. It’s one thing if he was polling down 47-42 with likely voters. Instead Cruz is consistently hitting 51 or 52. Converting undecideds at that point only makes the race close but not winning. Hope I’m wrong. Gave Beto another $100 last night to help with his gotv effort.

Yeah, this thread and the “I’m an alcoholic” thread are like off-limits for trolls, somehow. And thank god for that.

OP wears jorts.