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Larry T. Spider

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  1. I want him to live on the less than 1% chance it will help lead to more information about who he was involved with. He’s a goner though.
  2. Not surprised at all. Only question is if he is suicidal knowing that he will never get out or the hit is on to make sure he never talks. I’ll go with suicide just because he’s still alive.
  3. M4A that want it seems like a terrible idea. It will be treated like another welfare program for the unemployed, poor, undocumented, etc. The per person costs will be astronomical and it will be first in line for the chopping block for republicans. It also loses the overhead reduction benefits from having everyone on the same plan. If we are worried about the middle class being scared off, the best bet is selling them on supplemental insurance. “This plan will cover all of your basic needs, including if something really bad happens. But, if you’re worried about _______, you can always purchase supplemental insurance. Since all of your medical necessities are already covered, these plans will be very affordable.”
  4. Austin isd raises go into effect this month.
  5. “Just because someone is offended doesn’t make an act offensive.” This is the hard part with things related to sexual harassment. All of the trainings I go to say exactly the opposite. I’m careful as hell at work because I work with 90% women and one accusation can sink you.
  6. Just because these people are chanting things that they have always believed privately doesn’t really mean that much has changed. These people have been here all along trying to drag down progress since the start. We overcome them most of the time but they rear their ugly heads at others. Let’s hope that we overcome them once more in 2020 but also never forget that these terrible people aren’t gone. We can never let our guard down again.
  7. What about access to his office 12 days a month?
  8. If I’m going to pick a candidate that doesn’t know policy, I’ll just stick with Beto. Getting pretty close to joining team Liz.
  9. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’re involved with Our Revolution?
  10. Fair warning. I’m going to be telling a lot of trumpkins to get out of America if they bitch about our New Democrat president. It’s the new standard. Love it or leave it. Or as aggy would say...highway 6 runs both ways.
  11. At this point I’m just donating to my house rep for the Texas legislature. He’s a first term dem in a newly light blue district. My money is next to meaningless in a presidential campaign.
  12. Through our latest report, we’ve raised a staggering $13 million from 193,000 donors. From all people, no PACs. A brand new poll in New Hampshire means Beto is officially qualified for the debates in the fall. We’ve invested a ton in building out a stellar campaign team in our El Paso HQ. Our National Finance Director started this week. Our Digital Director started a month ago. We opened 11 offices in Iowa. The infrastructure is growing rapidly. There’s been a lot of talk about what our fundraising numbers last quarter meant. We’re here to tell you that the media narrative is wrong. There’s plenty of time before the first primaries and caucuses in February, and we’re growing in support and size every single day. Still, we have to grapple with the fact that some of our opponents raised two, three, or four times as much as we did last quarter. And it’s important to pick up the pace.
  13. Same reason you have the Bradley effect in polls, especially ones regarding trump. People know they should be ashamed but still have to go hit that R straight ticket button every time. With all the vile shit that trump has said and done, I will not be trusting the polls as much as usual this time around.
  14. But the Supreme Court....
  15. I don’t think an informed center exists. If you have been paying attention at all you are clearly going to come down on one side or the other. I think this is more true now than ever before. I do think there is a group of low information undecided voters out there. “Center” would imply they are liberal on some issues and conservative on others. I don’t think that label really fits this group because they haven’t given it enough thought. They don’t watch political shows, just kardashians and tmz. I find that they are easily swayed by personal interactions because they don’t have set beliefs that you have to overcome. They also don’t have a lot of competing sources of information. I want to be clear that I don’t think you change policy positions based on them or devote a lot of campaign resources to them. They aren’t paying attention and it would be a waste. However, I do feel they are worth a quick personal conversation.
  16. I think Hugo and Brisket are both correct here. Massive GOTV for Dems and left of center moderates is the only way.
  17. I don’t think we need them to win and I wouldn’t waste of lot of resources on them. My response is mainly to the people that think it’s a winning strategy to go after people that never vote. It’s a great way to end up disappointed on Election Day when they do what they always do....sit it out. Making sure that you have a clear message to democrat and independent voters with a solid ground game is the most sure fire strategy out there. Our only difference is that I still consider some of the trump voters (not supporters) in the independent category.
  18. For many, they haven’t developed a distaste because they are watching the Kardashians. They decided to push the trump button on a whim and have little emotional connection to the guy. If they can defend him at all, they have an emotional connection that you aren’t going to break. The reason they are worth engaging is because they are voters. Relying on non-voters is inherently risky as very few politicians have been able to pull it off. It’s easy to see that 40% on the sidelines and think that they are easy targets. They are anything but. It takes an intese ground game months in advance to get them registered. Then you have to follow up religiously to get them to the polls. In many cases you have to drive them yourself.
  19. Too many people are confusing everybody that pushed the trump button with trump supporters. Trump supporters are people that know what is going on, like it, and will vote trump no matter what he does. They are hopeless, not just for this election, but likely forever. They are a huge challenge that our country will have to overcome to be successful. There are also people that decided in the last few days before the election that are typically low information voters. They decide based on superficial information and likely couldn’t outline the policy positions of either candidate. These people decide to vote for trump because he’s “an outsider” or “he seems tough”. They probably can’t even name a single democrat in the primary right now. The second group is very winnable and is large enough that they should be written off completely. You definitely don’t change policy positions for them and they wouldn’t even know if you did. But, this is a large enough group that they are worth engaging with. It’s not like it’s hard to tell the difference between the two. When you talk to them, if they defend trump AT ALL, they are lost and you should move on. But, I have found that many of them won’t, simply because they are so uninformed that they can’t. They are open to new information.
  20. We have no attention span. After Bernie hits minute two of explaining his healthcare policy proposal everybody would be changing the channel. Gotcha questions and Kamala attacking Biden keeps people watching. We get the government we deserve.
  21. His approval rates will go up amongst republicans just like they did when he made racist comments on twitter.
  22. “Medicare 4 All covers basically everything medically necessary. You can buy concierge cash services for anything. You can get private insurance for things M4A doesn't cover.“ Sounds great, sign me up. Simple and to the point. Would get everybody covered, reduce overhead, and treat people in the most cost effective way possible....not the er for a cold. The bed wetters over death panels can still buy supplemental insurance. My biggest frustration with politics in America is that we can’t get this done and continue to bash our heads in with an incredibly shitty system, even if you do have insurance.
  23. Y’all are leaving one group of voters out. The low information voter that doesn’t know anything about 90% of the stuff we argue on here about. They probably won’t decide until a couple of weeks before the election. A lot of these people were the “hell, I’ll give trump a shot” types and they may do it again. They don’t have a mental list of all of trumps insanity since taking office. They probably know that he tweets a lot but could give you very few specifics. My theory is that they really don’t pay much attention to online or tv advertising but could be swayed by a person talking to them or the candidate coming to their area. The lack of ground game and HRC avoiding certain states probably hurt her with these people.
  24. I try to avoid call the cops at all costs but almost did yesterday. One of the squeegee guys near Caesar Chavez and 35 was messed up on something. Screaming and cussing out everybody in their cars. Started acting like he was going to break this lady’s driver window with his pole (not that one) when the light turned green and she gunned it. Drove past the arch on 7th today around 6:00 and it looked like a laundry truck exploded. Clothes everywhere.
  25. It’s actually quite reliable. I use it for all my health concerns.
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