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  1. 49 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    never mind the fact that Beto has repeatedly stated that he he knows the importance of the fossil fuel industry in Texas. He wants to strengthen Texas as an energy leader, not weaken it (like Cruz and Trump have)

    He wants to keep the O&G but also start investing in renewables like solar, wind and tidal.  I have a hard time understanding why this is so bad for anyone.  It brings new jobs and money into Texas without killing off others.  We are not going to walk away from O&G tomorrow, we can't.   But it's a scare tactic used too often. 

     

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  2. 2 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    There's a reason Texas has the lowest voter turnout in the country and it's not because the republicans aren't voting. 

    I didn't turn out for on a regular basis, especially in the last 2 decades.  Complacency and apathy were the result of feeling my vote didn't matter.  They were all politicians, they were all crooked, they were all in the pockets of the special interests and corporations.  Some just wore red ties, and other wore blue.  They all slung mud at each other, and all came across as disingenuous liars set only on obtaining office for their own interests, not mine.   I think more than anything, that last part is why Beto has stirred me.  He has espoused a message of unity, compromise to benefit everyone as much as possible.  He hasn't reverted to the scare tactics.  He wants Texas to lead in finding solutions, not cowering from the problems. 

    I too think Beto wins.  And if he doesn't, then at least he has reinvigorated those of us who felt passed by by legislators who paid us lip service, but were puppets for much larger, greedier interests.  

    I, like many of you, have donated both money and time to a candidate for the first time.  I see others rising up around me to do the same and feel maybe our vote does still count, it just needs leadership, organization and focus.  Not only Beto, but MJ, Gillum, Abrams and others are standing up and running.  We aren't beaten down into submission by the lobbyists, we are rising up and retaking our system. 

    Maybe a new party arises from this, maybe on old one is rebuilt to be better.  Either way there has been an awakening and things are going to change.  In the state of Texas the Dem system needs to be rebuilt, new blood needs to bring new fresh ideas and tactics.  For a long time the Dem party here has basically given up, put placeholders in for statewide offices.  But that is going to change. 

    The Dems of Texas need to use this campaign by Beto to re-energize.  To rebuild for the future.  Truly grass roots.  Like Brisket thinks, maybe it is too late, but I hope it is not.  

     

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  3. 7 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

    No but my dad is unfortunately a scared old retired man.

    He probably thinks Antifa is creeping around the golf course behind his house.

    He lives in a gated golf course neighborhood yet keeps a loaded giant handgun in his bedside table and one in the remote control compartment in his fancy recliner.

    I think he should be proud to have raised a daughter who can think and speak for themselves.  I mean if that isn't what we are here for, to raise children that are better people than we are, then what?   I think for a lot of them it gets twisted when the definition of quality of life comes in.  

    It's pretty incredible how many on our board and how many I have met door knocking are in your shoes.  Children of very scared old white people who vote R, but they themselves counter their parents by being more progressive.  Prone to seek more than one viewpoint of an argument. 

    For years the topic of the boob tube, the dumbing down of America by what has come out of the TV has been floated.  I think this is an example of the birds coming home to roost.   That generation turns to the TV for entertainment and information.  Fox News is the new Walter Cronkite to them.   Like Walter, they speak the unvarnished truth.  There is no reason to go elsewhere for information. 

    Their world is defined by what they see on TV, while the world of their offspring is broader thanks to the internet.   Yes, some of the olds use the internet, but  really only to seek or spread reinforcement for what they see on TV. 

    The internet has made a difference to how we gather and disseminate information.  A lot of what we are seeing now, this purported blue wave, the standing up to Trump, et al, would not be happening without it.  Hopefully it can continue to be free range long enough to allow us a chance to protect it from being turned into the same message control system TV has become. 

    TL;DR:  He should be proud of you and yours.  TV is the debil.  Internet might save us.

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  4. So this is Trump trying to sneak a fox into the hen house?    What are the implications of this?  How will it affect Mueller?

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    Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility (CREW) revealed on Friday that Trump signed a secret waiver to prevent Solicitor General Noel Francisco, the man who “built his law practice as if his primary goal was to troll the libs” and is poised to oversee Mueller’s probe if Trump fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, from having to recuse himself from the Russia investigation.

    Trump’s campaign is represented by Francisco’s former law firm, Jones Day, in Mueller’s investigation, which has racked up more than 100 criminal charges against dozens of people, including guilty pleas from Trump’s former national security adviser, former campaign manager, and multiple former campaign advisers.

    The president signed an Executive Order shortly after taking office in 2017 that he claimed would strengthen ethics rules in government. CREW explained why that should have caused Francisco to recuse himself from the Russia probe.

    As required by that Executive Order, Mr. Francisco signed an ethics pledge in which he promised that, for two years after joining the government, he would not participate in any investigation in which Jones Day represents a client. That promise means he must stay out of the Special Counsel investigation until at least late January 2019.

    However, Trump’s waiver, signed by former White House Counsel Don McGahn in April, now means the man next in line to supervise Mueller is free to be involved with the investigation that involves his former employer.

    https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-robert-mueller-russia-investigation-special-counsel-noel-francisco-rod-rosenstein-bf9353160f62/

  5. 2 hours ago, NameWithHeld said:

    There are plenty of CITIZENS in this country that could use those blankets etc.  Give to the Salvation Army etc. 

    That's right!  Give them blankets but NO healthcare.  The christian thing to do is help them die warm.

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  6. 5 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

     

    You have to wonder if this is another SDI bluff move.   I know a guy (used to be a friend) who is complete cocooned in Q.  He once told me that if the US turned on Q that it had the superior brain power to hack into whatever they wanted and do some serious cyber disruption.  I wonder what they would do if the US could show that Russia really has been duping these people with the Q hoax.

  7. 32 minutes ago, retread said:

     

    This whole thing is a great interview.   I will accept his bothsiderism, because he is right.  He speaks of the weaknesses of both sides towards this issue and how they need to work together to build a better immigration policy.   I am not sure where you draw the line between "bothsiding" and being introspective and willing to accept no one is perfect.  He is right on many things.  And both sides have things to account for. 

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  8. 7 minutes ago, gmr548 said:

    Besides the obvious ethical (I'll defer tolawyers on the legal implications) issues surrounding infiltration of your opponent's campaign, is this even a good negative ad?

    If your idea of digging up dirt on your opponent is infiltrating their campaign and showing that campaign staffers used campaign funds on their own initiative - like you show them straight up brainstorming it and wrestling with the ethics, so it obviously didn't come from the top and didn't have anything to do with OmG mIlLiOnS oF iLlEgAl VoTeS!!!!111 - to buy some food for refugees or help get them transportation, then you are probably a shit stain of a human being.

    Also, anyone that would be really outraged about some staffers going out and buying food and first aid kits for migrants was probably not voting for Beto anyway. This is designed to rile up the base. To a neutral observer what is more unethical - feeding those in need or infiltrating your opponent's campaign? Which candidate does that actually say more about? How much does this move the needle?

    The people involved are obviously exposed to the consequences of violating campaign finance law, so they will be punished as the law sees fit if the case it pursued. It likely won't be because this is political theater. But again, how exactly does this make Beto look bad outside of the people that were already Cruz locks?

    You have to wonder how long that infiltrator has been inside to finally come up with one semi juicy thing.   Will be interesting to see where that leads, the infiltration part of it.

  9. So some campaign workers want to help some immigrant/refugees by buying food and clothes.  I would think if it really did violate a law, they would have stated the law and how it was broken, or how they thought it was broken.    

    Anybody have anything on Hannity going after Duncan Hunter?   I did a search of Hannity's site for "duncan hunter indicted" and got no results.  Imagine that. 

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-duncan-hunter-wife-indicted-alleged-misuse-campaign-funds-n902701

  10. 7 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    The caravan shouldn’t even be in the news unless it’s about the plight of the people fleeing.

    And why the fuck they want to come to America, in spite of all the crap being flung at them, about them, they still want to start a new life here.   Those stories are being told, but the MSM is passing on them for the present. 

    I guess there is more money in trump's lunacy under spotlight every day than talking about the real stories.   Trump is becoming a soap opera, and the MSM is feeding it to us.   Didn't you post that interview with Jon Stewart about Trump and MSM reporters battling over their own egos, not the real stories?     He has hurt their feelings and pride, so they want his blood.  They care more about that than the blood of others he sheds while they go after his. 

    But even here we spend more time talking and reading about Trump and his antics than we do the things that are going on while we keep chasing the red herrings he throws out.   It intrigues us, it astounds us and it causes us to speculate a lot about how and when it ends.   It is easy to get caught up in.   I know you and others catch a lot of crap about posting twitter feeds and other links that bring up the actual fallout of Trump's actions.   I for one appreciate that, because there is so much out there, there's not enough time in my day to check everything.  This is a good clearinghouse for both sides.  

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  11. Thing is the caravan will shrink due to attrition like it does every year.  But dotard will claim a great victory, because he had the foresight to send our military down there and that caused them to give up the invasion.  

    2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

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    This needs to be front and center along with an anticipated schedule for the immigrants.

    Alongside needs to be a daily counter of the additional expense of having the military camped out for something that won't happen for months.  

    Maybe he will get them to start building a wall, or at least filling sandbags.   I wouldn't put it past him to have them mine the Rio Grande.

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  12. 1 hour ago, retread said:

    The House can investigate all they want. If the Rs hold the Senate, there will be no repercussions for DOTUS' insane actions after the midterms.tenor.gif

    There is no way the fire isn't going to keep growing.  Trump himself keeps fueling it.   The more he is investigated, the loonier his words and actions.  At some point people will start to turn on him.   The issue is going to be who will turn and who will stick with him and go down with the USS Trump, like rats on a ship? 

    But yeah, it's going to get a lot darker before we reach that.   How fast though?   Once midterms are done, I think he starts going full speed ahead, doing as much damage as he can before he gets relieved or tossed overboard.   I really don't see him lasting to make a decent run at 2020.  He will want to, his deluded mind will tell him he is a lock for it, but he will long have already trampled his mushroom to be taken seriously. 

  13. My first thought on number 4 was immigration/racism.   Another way to say depleting the strength of the "lesser" people.   Not sure why that came across that way, but it did.

     

    However if you have a preexisting condition, doesn't that legitimately disable you in one way?   Removing those people from the healthcare rolls is virtually sending many of them to an early death?  That would be eradicating, right?  Same goes for mental health care.  That gets a lot of lip service, but little movement. 

    It's not as immediate as Vlad Tepes or Hitler and death squads.  But if you ignore the people who need some sort of healthcare to the point of not helping them get that care, then it will be just as effective. 

    Statement 4 brings to mind firing squads, but in effect, by withholding government aid for those who need it, refusing to fix the healthcare system, we are talking death panels manned by those who make such decisions.  

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  14. 49 minutes ago, BigOrange1 said:

    the one thing i wish beto didn't do is wear the hat of whatever college/professional sports team of whichever city he is currently in while campaigning.  it just comes across as pandering/a total politician move.

    Yeah, but think of the hat collection his presidential library is going to have!

  15. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chinese-intelligence-officers-and-their-recruited-hackers-and-insiders-conspired-steal

    Department of Justice
    Office of Public Affairs

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
    Tuesday, October 30, 2018

    Chinese Intelligence Officers and Their Recruited Hackers and Insiders Conspired to Steal Sensitive Commercial Aviation and Technological Data for Years

    Chinese intelligence officers and those working under their direction, which included hackers and co-opted company insiders, conducted or otherwise enabled repeated intrusions into private companies’ computer systems in the United States and abroad for over five years.  The conspirators’ ultimate goal was to steal, among other data, intellectual property and confidential business information, including information related to a turbofan engine used in commercial airliners.

     

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