Bozo_Casanova

Hasan Piker isn’t on our side. He’s not a liberal, he’s not a Democrat, and he’s not even really a fellow traveler when Election Day comes. He’s a provocateur, for money. Fair game for the gas face.

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Interesting - apparently the Republicans did not take this race lightly J.J. Abbott @jjabbott @nick_field90 @phdcc @PaSDCC Worth noting that this is not a situation where Dems just caught GOP sleeping on a special. @PennHRCC spent more than $300k in this race including Pittsburgh broadcast TV. @PAGOP sent MAGA whisper Scott Presler there for GOTV to rally the base. 2:13 AM · Aug 19, 2026

Miss Teen South Carolina is all grown up I see

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DSA is an 501c4 political activist organization that has members. Angie Nixon is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

Exactly

Damn, Gina! David Weigel @daveweigel New entry into the data center wars: @GinaHinojosaTX going after Greg Abbott. A woman uses an AI chatbot to ask why her electric bill is going up; it answers, Greg Abbott. 1:46 PM · Aug 18, 2026

Cornyn was mostly a pleasant coward and people pleaser who happened to excel at constituent services. I am completely serious when I say Paxton would be a more faithful representative, because Cornyn has never had a core principal he wasn’t bullied out of in public and said thank you in return. You buy Paxton and he stays bought.

The central Austin establishment certainly agrees with you, in part because they are mostly baby boomers who own homes they bought for beads and shells in 1981, but that’s too simplistic a read and I know for a fact it was housing. Zo Qadri beat a Latina who had their backing as well in D9, and they didn’t see that either, for the same reason. People who don’t get it don’t get it. Watson got told, made it to the runoff by the skin of his teeth, completely changed his message, swapped out his field boss, and it worked (barely).

Big, big facts. You know it’s part of what makes DSA so disappointing in so many ways. They don’t seem to have much of any actual class consciousness, or at least not in a form that Phillip Randolph or John L. Lewis or Sam Gompers would recognize.

But why is that an unfortunate reality? Voters in general vote for people they like and relate to, and people like people who they perceive to like them. One of the first things you learn in sales is that people will think you are smart if you listen intently and mirror back their vocabulary and emotional state. Working and middle class people of all races and creeds don’t see that from Democrats because democrats don’t recruit from the working class and don’t relate to their frustration and struggles. And that’s not a racial thing. For those in Austin- that’s why Celia Israel almost beat Kirk Watson with white working and middle class support. Whereas she reflected deep intuitive understanding of middle income struggles in Austin, he didn’t talk like he felt the reality of the housing problem until he pivoted his campaign for the runoff.

No, that’s not all my criticism by an any means or even my main criticism, (which is that they recruit a Bennetton Rainbow of student-council and private grad school-to-nonprofit types with no talent) but: they don’t actually recruit from marginalized communities. It’s similar to Ivy League affirmative action admissions discourse, where you have these kids that are the product of affluence to go with multiple generations of college graduates and other than race are essentially demographically identical to their white peers “representing” marginalized communities. They usually don’t. Thats the cynicism. And then they compound the cynicism with stupidity. It is dumb for a multitude of reasons to discourage whites in general and white males in particular from running for office in Texas.

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As Swami Satchidananda once told my mom, “no appointments, no disappointments.”

Governor Hot Wheels @GovHotWheels_TX 🚨JUST IN: Governor @GregAbbott_TX's statement on Big Bend Border Protection The pause of the border wall construction is a result of my conversation with Sec. Mullin. There will be no border wall construction in Big Bend. There are other tools and technology that can be 8:39 PM · Aug 17, 2026

I don’t envy the task or minimalize the difficulty, and I’m more bullish about Democrats in Texas than I have been in 26 years, mainly because of people like yourself.

My grievance is that affluent progressive whites destroyed a functioning working class voting coalition to protect their own economic privilege and have the fucking gall to hide behind the marginalized communities they don’t actually recruit from.

They don’t. They also don’t ask the candidates they recruit to repudiate previous statements, which is really important to picking up young talent in South Texas that previously worked with or volunteered for Democrats - it’s more of a “we don’t care what supported before, you want to win and that’s what counts. Just be a team player and let us know how we can help.”

That’s because (as you point out) the bench is TERRIBLE, and instead of having young stars that code working class heroes, the young stars code as HR. 2026, inshallah!

From the looks of Rep. Fine, he’s had enough of literally everything.

No, they were told by the network of consultants and party operatives who gatekeep access to fundraising and infrastructure. It happens all the time. What they tell people like that is to open their checkbooks for a few cycles and maybe they’ll be a good fit for commissioners court or the community college district board when there’s an opening. It’s a much more accessible and supportive process on the Republican side- they recruit for talent, start young, and provide a lot of help. Hmmm, ideal is a strong word since we are limited to people that are publically involved already. Also bear in mind that I think styles make fights period, so I’m looking for how they matchup exclusively. So, off the top of my head: 1) Senate - Talarico is about as ideal as it could get against Paxton, and he’s doing it walking a fine line. What impresses me about Talarico is that he has grounded his campaign in faith without displays of personal piety or “praying on street corners” as it were. In other words, testimony not homilies. That’s very tough for Paxton if Talarico can hold the balance. 2) Gov: I wish Ann Johnson was running, but Gina is doing much better than I thought and has some unique strategic qualities- esp deep family connections to the South Texas machines. Somebody like Ann Johnson or Bill McRaven would have been ideal. 3) Lt Gov. - Roland Guitierrez would have been ideal here 4) Royce West would have been ideal to run for Comptroller 5) Clayton Tucker is pretty ideal for Ag … 8) @Brisketexan in real life would be pretty good against Roger Williams in 25

THIS ALL DAY- and they boxed out Roland Gutierrez and Royce West who would have been ideal against Cruz and Cornyn respectively, How’d that go, anyway? My dream candidate for what?