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MidTexHorn

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  1. Interesting little anecdote from my Facebook feed this morning. Every couple of days I'll post something about Beto, positive supportive stuff. An old Air Force friend of mine who is a big time gun nut conservative type from out of state will always use my post as a reason to launch into a bunch of standard right wing butt hurt attacks against Beto, libruls, etc. Of course I engage because I just can't help myself. Yesterday we had a long conversation that got rather heated when I invoked Trump, lying, etc. This morning, a number of friends chimed in to defend me which is always nice, but I was shocked when a very VERY conservative buddy chimed in to say that he agreed with me about Cruz's negative politics. Said that despite agreeing pretty much 100% on Cruz's policy points, he is very disappointed in how he is running his campaign. Shocked this shit out of me. He'll never vote for Beto, but it was interesting to see that Cruz isn't necessarily winning any friends amongst the more thoughtful conservatives out there.
  2. Fuck, the Russians have invaded Texas!
  3. Well said. This, plus my general lack of faith in the whole God thing, is why I'm no longer a Christian and closer to an atheist than anything else. Grew up in a Christian home with a father who was a pastor but I'm done with it all. And I'm done with the party who has co-opted (or been co-opted by) the evangelicals like my parents. You are correct that there are many Christians doing good things around the world. I just lean towards thinking that humanity can come up with a system that provides a venue for such good works without all of the negatives that come along with religion. I think I'd enjoy a conversation with you and your pastor wife.
  4. Saw another Beto sign in my little Midland neighborhood last night. I'm not naive enough to think Midland is anywhere close to going blue, but that's two more democratic signs than I've ever seen before and still no Cruz signs. I think it speaks to the energy felt by Beto supporters and the apathy felt by Cruz supporters combined with the fact that many Republicans probably don't want to admit that they support Cruz so they'll just quietly vote for him.
  5. We may suck, but don’t count on the crowd being quiet Saturday night. It’ll be electric.
  6. Buddy just took his wife and two kids to Holbox. They loved it. Very laid back, main street is still dirt, was a total mud pit after a big rain.
  7. Reckless Kelly and the Peterson Brothers
  8. Seems like they need to shut down entrances as sections get close to filling up
  9. Fucking flying Bevo is so badass!
  10. God dammit. Is everyone on this board a lawyer? (yeah, I’m one too)
  11. Yeah, I'm coming around to that point. It's not easy to admit you've been buying a lie for most of your life.
  12. Think I'm gonna stick around Dallas after the OU game for this.
  13. This 100%. As a former Republican voter, I'd love to see the Republican party get back to its roots (or at least to what it claims are its roots) of limited government, fiscal responsibility, individual liberty and responsibility, etc. I'm likely never going back to them, but it would still be nice to see. The only way it happens is if folks who support them start going against them out of disgust for how they have been operating. Continuing to vote for the corrupt status quo will just encourage the bad behavior.
  14. I'd like to slammer, ya know what I mean?
  15. SIAP but Beto has a song
  16. Fuck off dude. I said she doesn't like politics, in fact she typically just turns the channel if anything political comes on the news. She's not very informed on the issues, so seeing someone explain what was going on in a rational way that took it beyond the knee jerk "those guys are disrespecting the national anthem/troops/flag" bullshit that she typically hears from her dad and others helped her understand. His whiteness had nothing to do with that issue, although I'm sure she thinks he's sexy. So again, fuck off.
  17. I just did a quick read through and nothing jumped out at me either. He takes some typically conservative positions regarding racial preferences, but nothing outside the norm of conservative judges that I can see. Maybe that's the point, or maybe the point is in who is copied on the emails but that level of detail is way beyond what I've been paying attention to. Given the drama over this, I was expecting (and hoping for) a blatant smoking gun and I don't see it.
  18. I think this is a big issue. The most negative anti-Beto comments I see on Facebook come from Hispanics. They are certainly not a monolithic Democratic block.
  19. No doubt
  20. My suburban white wife really was impressed by Beto on Ellen yesterday and it caused her to go watch the NFL kneeling video. She’s a life long Republican non-voter who doesn’t like politics and was generally irritated at the NFL guys for kneeling but she said “hell yeah they should kneel” after watching Beto. Between my encouragement to check him out and what she saw of him yesterday she’s all in and will actually vote this fall. She also thinks Trump is an utter scumbag so that helps.
  21. Less than 10 hours
  22. I never found Obama to be that great of a speaker. Thought he was better in the one on one setting. Think Beto is way better, best I’ve seen in a long while.
  23. I want my old Beto thread back
  24. Had dinner with some Chinese national clients last night. Asked them about how Trump is viewed in China. Their response: “everyone just thinks he’s a crazy person.”
  25. Every one of Mueller’s band of badasses will get free drinks for life from me if I ever run into them. They’re doing the Lord’s work.
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