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I think he's saying these things to motivate those Texans who don't vote. He's not going to win by being a fence sitter. The idea of doing away with those weapons in Texas is not ludicrous, it makes sense. He's telling people he's different and has the guts to speak up for them, so get off their asses and go vote for him. For years all we hear is 'they are all the same, either side, why vote?' Those people thinking that aren't as studied in this as most of us are. They need something short and sweet to grab their attention. Playing it safe to win isn't going to do it. Win or lose, he is right. So yeah he could lay out some really good plan to fix just about everything, but no one would listen. At least not the ones he needs to persuade. That takes too long.
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Constitution doesn't mention abortions either. Weird, huh? They run it because other people let them. They are much better at getting out the vote. The dildo war was instigated by Cruz right? the biggest dildo of all? https://www.thewrap.com/ted-cruz-sets-the-record-straight-on-sex-toys/ They wrote off pretty much all rural Texas. I have heard repeatedly where only 5 counties are needed to turn Texas blue. I think 2020 is forcing people to revisit that strategy, particularly in South Texas. Now they are trying to make it seem they give a damn, but the failures of 2020 haunt them in fundraising and support and they are backpedaling as quickly as possible trying to regain ground, at least in the RGV. I think both of you guys have good points. I grew up in south Texas and lived in Laredo for a handful of years. It's a different world for sure and still operates on a lot of old political machinery, see the Cuellar race. The Laredo I knew 40 years ago more resembled chainsaw's version. But I can definitely see where Brisket has a point, particularly on the overall macro view, and changes in attitude since then. My son graduated from a rural school in east Texas last year. He was in a group chat with maybe a dozen guys from his class. One of them has one more than one occasion spouted misogynistic shit like this guy was apparently doing. My son called him out in the group chat and not a single other guy in that group backed him up. In fact about half of them threatened him. The misogynist dude is all ready to throw down! Peer pressure is a hell of a thing. Like I said a couple of days ago, increasing funding for mental health won't help until you make mental health therapy acceptable. There's no way in hell assholes like this bully kid will admit to needing help, much less engage in any counseling. That group chat would eviscerate him for being "gay" or "soft." And then you got the preachers in line telling parents to save their kids they need to be getting back to god. And oh yeah, bring your checkbooks. Fuck that. In most any other age we could laugh this off, but Vinnie is 18..can buy a gun, no problem. Maybe he won't shoot up a school, but who's going to say he won't shoot up my house, then claim some "stand my ground, protect my freedoms to be an asshole" defense? He'd get off in this county for gunning down a lib. Are you talking about Biden's programs? Or did you have some in mind being promoted by Dems running for office here in Texas? Like serious agenda items, not those trumped up things like Defund Police or Take all the guns!! I mean I follow these folks pretty closely and don't see anything that's overly progressive. But then maybe I am too close to the action and could use a thump on the head to see a broader pic.
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After wading through the last half dozen pages of stanco dumbassery, I finally caught up. If we arm all the teachers, then they become prime target one every time. Most times the teacher is going to be concentrating on teaching, not defending, so to be in the perfect place to thwart a maniacal gunman would be pretty low odds. Yes, maybe they would be prepared after alerted, after the gunman had decimated an entire classroom. Too little too late. Like so many have said, who wants to sign up for that along with all the other shit teachers have to deal with? We are talking small town rural Texas. These people (and I know them well, since I am one) get the worst LEOs for employment. We're certainly not talking cream of the crop here. Think Barney Fife. They are ok with intimidating regular citizens, but too often wilt under threat themselves. So even with the best guy filling the chief or sheriff position, his pool of possible employees is pretty dismal. Having mental health issues is bad enough, but having them in small towns where everyone knows you is really hard. Already you are "different" and an easy target for those who need to tear someone else down to feel bigger. Kids are notoriously cruel. Word leaks out that you are engaging counseling then you are further stigmatized and targeted. Your pool of friends goes to nearly nothing. And that's assuming your parents and family are fully supportive. No the issue isn't mental health as much as it is the fear of the stigma of seeking it. And now you see these fools like MTG and her slimy ilk saying "we just need god, not counseling" and that gives people something to hide behind. So blaming it on mental health is a cop out. There's a lot more to it, but of course none of that will be considered, since it's all window dressing, what they are tossing out. As far as hardening targets, lets say that path is chosen. Use that figure someone put out claiming around 130,000 schools (schools alone). On average, say to get and maintain decent, non Barney Fife LEOs, you need about $300,000 annually for staffing. That's 39 billion annually. Not including any structural modifications or training. Maybe try something else then. Like paying legislators across the country a decent working salary and in so doing, invoke massive election funding and lobbying reform. Get the money out of politics. Without getting into the weeds too much, let's just stay general and see what that would cost our country. US senators 100 $1,500,000 $150,000,000 US representatives 425 $400,000 $170,000,000 State senators 1972 $500,000 $986,000,000 State representatives 5411 $250,000 $1,352,750,000 $2,658,750,000 Offer them all housing allowance, make their salaries non taxable, give them the finest healthcare and even toss in some retirement options and still all that costs maybe a tenth of what the most basic target hardening would do. 39 billion vs 3-5 billion? Seems like a deal. Not to mention you could tie in bonuses based on job performance. Let people vote on bills after they have taken effect a few years. Good bills? Bad bills? Let the public score them out and those who wrote, supported or voted for the good ones get bonuses for doing their job...others get black stains on their records. I know, it's all pie in the sky. But I figure winter is coming. After a long maddening summer filled with much more of this. But at least offer some logical options besides God and prayer. Give these people a salary they can live on and let them do their jobs.
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There's something to be said about a party that wants to save the innocent unborn, but has no issue with people gunning down elementary kids. Guess once they get into PreK, they lose their innocence? Going to be interesting to see why this guy was even at the school..so many rumors running around.
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YOUR 2022 Texas Primary Runoff Election thread
pyrohornIII replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
I missed that. Never heard of a PSF. -
YOUR 2022 Texas Primary Runoff Election thread
pyrohornIII replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Cloak Room
And I imagine there will be a lot of long lines still at 7 trying to vote, and those precincts have to allow everyone in line by 7 the right to vote. So those extra hours will delay things before even the trek to the central count office. -
YOUR 2022 Texas Primary Runoff Election thread
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Conspiracies have always sold well to aggy. BMOC ring a bell?
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YOUR 2022 Texas Primary Runoff Election thread
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What does abortion or CRT stances have to do with running the RRC? -
To me there are two camps here. First you have people who don't care about the babies or the fetuses. THIS is the only issue they can try to pin on liberals that could be considered cruel. That is why they push so hard to make it about babies, not fetuses. Makes us murderers. In their mind it's their only "whataboutisms" and bothsiderisms." This way they can scream "You can't call us immoral or despicable, we don't kill innocent babies!!" That's all it is...never was about the kids. And with the Catholic church, it's about guilt...and control. Hello Walton family. You have to wait for them to start feeding on themselves. Cawthorn is gone and apparently Boebert is next. Kemp is going to beat Perdue. Find a way to start them fighting amongst themselves and feed that. That should be a part of the plan.
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Less innings is kind of like letting the clock run.
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I work a 4 hour shift on the voter hotline most days during early voting and on ED. Been helping a lot of people find out if their mail in ballots were received and counted. Suffice to say the Secretary of State ballot tracker mandated by SB1 works about as well as Abbott's lower extremities. (Oh and I blocked a few trolls here)
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Sadly, she's more likely to be assassinated by some right wing psycho than getting divorced in that time span.
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Their common threads are what they do (tilt government in favor of the wealthy) and how they do it (fearmongering and hatred). It's the two pronged cornerstone of all CPAC attendees, American or not.
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I didn't know where to put this, but it's infuriating. All these people going on about how BLM is overreaction and such. In the meantime this shit is happening all over the state on local levels. They gerrymandering has been in play at all levels, and not only just for blacks. https://www.texastribune.org/2022/05/20/galveston-redistricting-black-voters/ It's a long read and I am not going to post all of it. It's not paywalled.
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Nope I only negged you because of your takes. You are right about that. I agreed with them and not you. You must really feel guilty about what you have and what you will do to hang on to it, to be this vitriolic about people you know absolutely nothing about. Maybe their POS neighborhoods are like that due to redlining and ghetto landlords like Kushner. Maybe if they had a chance to actually buy their own places, they might put as much into them as their vehicles.
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I negged you several times in the 'have more white babies" thread because you derailed it with a lot of obtuse remarks, many of which were very derogatory to other posters. I don't have you on ignore, like I have many others, because I do enjoy some of your postings on other sections of the boards. However, you seem to delight in taking threads off topic and make them about you and your kind being victimized because of your personal stances. I get tired of that. I would imagine Beau Vine negged you like I did, in hopes to just get you to go away and let the thread get back on topic. You are definitely persistent, but tiring.
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Great Replacement Theory is no longer fringe, it’s mainstream
pyrohornIII replied to Satchel's topic in Cloak Room
So not engaging in all the fatty trolling nonsense. But back on topic. I know a guy whose always been a bit of a grifter. He was in my VFD for about a month, until he realized we weren't going to change everything to meet his way of thinking. He told me that his responsibility was to help repopulate the world with white people and he married his wife more for her child bearing hips and eagerness to have a large family than love of her. He wasn't worried so much about within our borders, but more that christianity was falling behind globally to "mooslims." He was very pro Catholic. They home birthed most of their kids, and she miscarried twice I seem to remember. That was 16 years ago. They had 6 kids as a couple, and are now divorced. The kids for the most part are good kids, just kind of different. They all lean heavily right and godfearing. So yeah, it's been a thing for a while. It's probably been expanded from being a global problem to more domestic. He's now a realtor. Big shock. -
YOUR 2022 Texas Primary Runoff Election thread
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I'm thinking we know where Kyle gets his dry sense of humor more than his dad leans maroon. I'd bet that gear has the tags still on it so he can take it back to whatever Krogers he bought it after the joke. So confused. Jimbo's dad would slap him if someone else lied? "Maybe someone should have slapped him (jimbo's dad) for not pulling out."
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Thanks so much for the input. I'm learning a lot. Bevo has been messaging me as well. Part of the problem is because her mom hasn't worked much over the past year and a half, due to being in hospital or rehab facility due to Covid, her credit was really damaged. She was a paramedic and caught covid on the job before there were vaccines available. It's been a long 18 months. So that will be the next part, finding someone willing to do the work on a payment system. But yeah, her daughter is really feeling it. She started cutting her own hair off the other day because some kids at school teased her about it. Just sickening.
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Are F250s still a thing?
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He looks like a kid sitting at the kitchen table being grilled after he got his hand caught in the cookie jar. All wide eyed, "BUT Daddy sneaks cookies all the time and no one says anything!"
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