Larry T. Spider

Not sure that I qualify in any of these categories because I ditched the GOP in around 2013 because of how the Texas GOP conducted business. Obviously the national version of the party has done even worse, which didn’t seem possible back then. Im never going back and will oppose their agenda until I die. It’s hard to share a country with people that think it’s good to lock brown kids in cages, separated from their parents. Or think that you can wish away a pandemic. Or worship a man that stokes racial division and hatred while calling other countries shit holes. Or normalizes election fraud. I’m just going to stop because the list goes on and on. The point is that these people are going to think like this long after trump is gone. There is one (flawed) group that is able to keep them from having real power over the rest of us and that is the Democratic Party. Get on board or be complicit in the horror show.

I worry about a version of the Bradley effect with polling. The true trumpers will gladly tell a pollster they support trump. But I’m not sure some republicans who will pull the R lever no matter what will admit it. I think people like my parents who don’t like trump but will vote for him because “zomg libruls want communism” would just tell a pollster that they are undecided.

Talked to an investigator that deals with children as part of my job. Said he was wilco but bailed because of chody. “Won the lottery and bought himself a playground” was the quote.

I’m guessing that people that never vote or vote infrequently are weighted less in quality polls. This year could see those people actually show up to vote against trump. Highly anecdotal but I have a couple of friends that never vote, don’t care about politics, and removed themselves from various group texts where politics are discussed. Both say they are 100% in on voting trump out. We will see...

Seems like ring doorbell cameras would cut down on people actually answering the door.

I'll take that as a nomination for Wendy. I personally think that is a solid choice. Close to Austin, has act blue, competitive district, and running against a douche. No rush in getting others in as we have a while but keep them coming.

You can nominate for that as well. Just not much of a chance of flipping it.

With everything going on and democrats feeling more motivated than I have ever seen before, I thought it would be a good time to bump this. Act blue has been setting fundraising records for democrats, and I want to make sure that candidates for the Texas House aren't left out. This is the best chance democrats have had to flip the house in decades, and in a redistricting year no less. I was hoping to get this started sooner but there are still primary run offs happening July 14th and I want to give everybody a fair chance. On July 15th I will start a new thread with a poll of nominated candidates from this thread. We select the candidate that we want to support as a group. We hit them with surly elite cash via act blue (preferred) or a similar site. I will update that thread with volunteer opportunities or chances to meet the candidate. We celebrate their victory and the ousting of the dotard. Please nominate democratic candidates below for the July 15th poll that are running for a Texas House seat in a district that is going to go either way. Closer to Austin for volunteering opportunities is preferred but not required. Act blue is preferred but not required. If the candidate still has a run-off to get through, please indicate that.

Rush always wanted racial divisiveness. I’m sorry that he lived to see what he wanted all along. At least we will be able to rebuild without him.

NYC government saying that 1 in 7 is from out of state like that’s a big impressive number. That means 6/7 is from your state and pissed. Also willing to bet that most of the out of state protesters are from far away lands such as....New Jersey.

Correct. And even if that teacher wasn’t arrested, the district that fired or non-renewed the contract has to report it to the state for their database in Texas. Also, I’m a campus administrator. It’s not that hard to fire a teacher. It’s likely that they will be able to finish out the year assuming they are being fired for being ineffective and not abusive in some way. The files on some of these cops that keep their job amazes me.

Yeah, tough to recruit new GOP voters with the nursing homes not allowing visitors. Meanwhile dotard is running the democratic voter driver with every tweet.

I mean you already charged a police station and torched it. Probably weren’t planning on playing it safe today.

Regular Academy During academy (approximately 8 months) $50,000/year rate At graduation $60,453/year At 1 year anniversary of graduation $67,839/year At 2 year anniversary of graduation $74,876/year At 6 year anniversary of graduation $80,115/year At 10 year anniversary of graduation $85,724/year At 14 year anniversary of graduation $91,726/year At 16 year anniversary of graduation $98,147/year This is for Austin. Remember that they can make plenty of extra money on side jobs too. 16 years in Austin isd will get you 53,000

Next y’all are going to tell me Frisco high is the coons too....not buying it

Oh come on...

No new info from me yet. Campus administrators are typically only finding out new info slightly before the public. I feel like they are listening to the different situations families are in and trying to make the best of it while keeping people safe. It’s just not going to be possible to please everyone with whatever the eventual “solution” is. I fully expect people to act like AISD shot their family dog when the plan is released no matter what they decide.

Problem solved for you in that immediate moment. Problem not solved for the rest of Texas trying to stop a pandemic.

You didn’t read the fine print. That only applies to white people wanting a haircut during a pandemic.

I don’t trust random propaganda like that, even with sources listed. But if even half of that is legit....wow. We need to make guys like that such a big liability to the department that it’s easier to fire them than keep them around BEFORE something like this happens.

Sure, but it doesn’t take that many guys with deep pockets to correct a bad line. Especially when it’s been up for months. Betting markets are much more sophisticated than they used to be when the cowboys would always be bad value because all the fools would dump money on them no matter what.

He’s still the favorite on my sportsbook. Quite bizarre.

When I was 17, some friends and I went driving down a dirt road right behind one guys house. It was just behind the fence line of an old neighborhood but close to where they were starting a new development. As we were heading home after about 20 minutes, we were swarmed by four or five cop cars. We stopped, thinking they would tell us to head on home. Cops jump out of their vehicles, guns pointed at us, screaming for us to get on the ground. They chain us together and accuse us of all types of strange things. They said that we were trespassing on an environmental preserve for an endangered species, which was a felony, and the department would soon own our trucks. Talked all types of shit to us for hours while they waited for wreckers to impound the trucks. It was 20 yards from a construction zone so that made no sense. They took us DT and booked us on all types of charges that had nothing to do with driving down a dirt road. They all got dropped but I always wondered what that would have played out like if we weren’t clean cut white kids from the burbs with college educated parents. /csb

To me the blue wall has to be Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Arizona. If Biden gets those, he doesn’t need Ohio, Wisconsin, Florida, or North Carolina.

Between 1997 to 2014, the Department of Defense transferred $4.3 billion in military equipment to local law agencies. I don’t pretend that cops in the good ole days were all perfect. There were always racist assholes and corrupt pieces of shit. But the roided up military pretenders should scare everybody. These guys do not see their job as to protect and serve. They are there to intimidate.