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I really like Kendall. If you see he is nearby, go meet him. He's the new direction our group needed. Must watch for every Texan, IMO.
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I've thought about that a lot too. The thing I keep coming back to is the US was always the bastion of democracy, the leader of the free world. How long will it take for the other democracies to fall and the whole world turn into regions split up amongst the oligarchs, like mob gangs and turf wars? As uphill as it seems, staying and trying to right the ship, reinforce it with better protection from internal threats is probably quicker back to democracy than letting the whole world fall into fascism. It could take us 2 to 3 generations to recover, but the other way, I just don't see any recovery, considering how the morons want to burn through our resources at breakneck speed which just drives us faster to climate change disaster.
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If (When) they pass something like HB3938 that will be the death knell to so many rural schools. Especially if they accept home schooling as a viable alternative to public ed. That's the bill that gives the kids a "scholarship" for alternative education sources besides public schools. And when presented that a child is enrolled in an accepted alternative, then their parents get a property tax refund not to exceed the allotment. So not only would the ISD lose the allotment from the state, they lose the local tax stream for that child as well. It's a whole movement, and I assume it's the next step down the destruction path for our public schools. They won't be happy until all the poors are in homeschooling pods that harken back to Little House on the Prairie days. https://www.texaspolicy.com/property-taxes-in-texas-must-go/
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you get extra for also teaching them a trade!
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Could we have another housing bubble blow up and end up with the schools holding a lot of properties? And even then, in that depressed market i would assume those with huge money would swoop in and buy those properties dirt cheap on the courthouse steps? Just seems tailor made to push more wealth into the oilgarch's accounts.
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Now they are pushing hard on property tax rebates for those who choose to pull out of public ed and send their kids to private. This could be even more devastating to the small rural schools due to how many they stand to lose to home schooling. Especially in the elementary years. Then after jr high, they want to send them back to the public system for a variety of reasons. A public ISD that will be damaged by the loss of those tax rebates in the lower grades.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
pyrohornIII replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
Pride goeth before a fall. Too proud to admit they made a mistake in backing this guy. She bought them that way figuring like most Karens, she'll grow into them. They'll be a fat girl's skinny jeans. CNN had to tell him to turn off the TV, since it's been stuck on FOX since about 2014, and they lost the control. Actually pretty good analogy of most of their brains too. -
Historical Events that are Worthy of Epic TV Shows
pyrohornIII replied to NotActuallyALonghorn's topic in Movies and TV
Marco Polo does a pretty good job on Kahn. But that would just be a start, I grant you. still Kahn would be a natural spin off from that series. -
The problem we run into here is that those you have listed, including Beto, are all white men. And there are a lot of voters in the Democratic bloc that do not trust white men and will vote for anyone else first. We have a lot of voters who don't do any research on candidates and when they go to vote they will choose by name. Are they a woman? What race are they? That's how they decide. We need to somehow change that and get people to vote for the most electable candidate in November regardless of age, race, gender, etc. It doesn't even have to be the most qualified candidate, but the one who stands the most chance of winning against the R. I mean that's how Trump won. He's not the most qualified, he was the most electable. It's not the ideal way, obviously. The risk you run when you take that path is you end up with someone like Trump whose incompetence keeps getting exposed. Will it harm the Republican party? Probably not. Will it harm the country? Absolutely. So the trick is finding someone both electable and capable. I tell people who start to spit on older white politicians that that is the demo for the people who built and use the system to their advantage. It's easire to break a good ol boys club up from inside if you infiltrate it as a good ol boy. Our opposition by their very nature do not see anyone else as their equals, other than other white males (and somehow Cruz has worked around this). So with that in mind, all the other electeds are fighting just to gain respect, much less get their voices heard on specific issues. And that good ol' boy persona rates pretty high in Texas.
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Historical Events that are Worthy of Epic TV Shows
pyrohornIII replied to NotActuallyALonghorn's topic in Movies and TV
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Texans really don't get to vote on those things though. Other states put vouchers on the ballot, same for abortion and other hot topics. But for the most part Texans never get to vote on the actual issues, just the legislature does. There are polls out there that show that the majority of texas voters object to at least one of the issues you listed, but they seem to be willing to compromise on that single issue "for the overall good of the people" bullshit. So they keep pulling the R lever because they have been convinced overall that their futures are in better hands with republicans.
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I appreciate all y'all's input and comments. The Democratic tent covers a lot of divergent groups, and like you can see in the comments on this board, has a lot of different advise coming from a wide variety of factions. Not the least of those are the 'high-roaders' vs the 'punch them in the face' groups. We definitely have our work cut out for us but I do like the "regular people" concept. Somewhere along the line the Dems got complacent and took for granted the working class and started trying to appease the smaller special interest sectors. I'm not so sure it's as much a case of people switching sides, but that a whole lot of folks started feeling unrepresented, and just quit voting. That's what Trump exploited. We need to remind people what we had 40-50 years ago, the good progress this country was making, and convince them to come back and vote to begin the process of getting this out of the hands of the oligarchs and back to being a machine for the people. It's a hard task, and maybe even impossible, but I'm going to keep trying. And coming here and getting your input is valuable to keep me from isolating myself in a blue silo. All surly tongue in cheek self degradation aside, there's a pretty decent source of input here from a group of critical thinkers. But it all comes back to oligarch vs common battle. Wash, rinse and repeat.
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We've finally got a new State Chair. Let me know what you folks think. He's down in on the ground with us, not locked away in some blue bubble tower somewhere. I'm proud to call him a good friend. This was shot immediately after he won handily this past Saturday in Austin. Kendall Scudder interview And here's another interview:
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I wonder how many of those old manufacturing sites have residual enviromental concerns that would make it unwise to rebuild pretty much anything on those sites without adequate cleanup or containment. Trump killing off the EPA also kills off any Superfund monies going to those projects, and likewise probably kills any regulations about land use without said reclamation measures. Just more food for thought when it comes to re-establishing manufacturing here in the US.
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