Abbott being Abbott

[mchookem 16361]

6 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is what we are getting - pissing away even more of our tax dollars to make his rich buddies even richer, and potshots at UT football

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/abbott-urges-school-choice-supporters-to-not-be-like-ut-football-in-final-push/

 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13519]

Abbott says he is offering  a carrot to public school teachers that if the state passes the voucher program, he will give the teachers a raise. Feels more like a stick to me since he says they won’t get a raise until he gets his way.

Edited October 14, 2023 by Nice Guy Eddie

[South Austin 52558]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Abbott says he is offering  a carrot to public school teachers that if the state passes the voucher program, he will give the teachers a raise.

[CooterBrown 18022]

Does the voucher bill still have the requirement that you have to be enrolled in a private school for one full year prior to getting the voucher money? It’s not even hidden who that money is for.

[MrBig 5425]

From last week but always relevant

 

[Firemans4Horn 18118]

 

Shouldn’t have got stopped at the 1 yard line. Should have just finished the job.

[elfenix 34331]

Starting to secede from the US:


 "We are now fortifying the border between Texas and New Mexico to block migrants who are entering New Mexico illegally and then crossing into Texas."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/texas-installing-concertina-wire-new-mexico-border/story?id=104056805

[YGIFS 19452]

Does he know how interstate highways work?  

[atomheartbevo 89775]

5 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Does he know how interstate highways work?  

[atomheartbevo 89775]

Greg going to have to send more National Guard or police to the border to show he's tough on Mexicans.  Also Greg will support the Rangers as a result of this.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/18/sport/mexico-amlo-world-series-astros-cec/index.html

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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is a devoted baseball fan. And this week, he weighed in with a World Series prediction.

“I support Houston as a repeat champion of the World Series,” he wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “There are many Texans of Mexican origin. And as the corrido from the Tigres del Norte says: ’I didn’t cross the border. The border crossed me.’”

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In his post on Sunday, AMLO shared a photo of him standing beside Astros pitcher José Urquidy, who was born in Mexico. And he noted that a number of Astros players are Latino.

“Also, even though the governor of this state is very racist and anti-immigrant,” AMLO wrote, “on the baseball team of nine who play, five are Latinos, sometimes six, when our countryman José Urquidy enters to pitch. That’s all, don’t get mad.”

 

Edited October 19, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[TexasEd 8070]

4 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Does he know how interstate highways work?  

Well we do have those interstate border patrol checkpoints.  Don’t you remember the guy with the modified Eagle Talon on here with all the cameras that would troll the BP by not rolling down his windows?

[YGIFS 19452]

Does the Razor Wire have large Talons?  

"WHAT?"

Does the Razor Wire have large Talons?

"Boy, with your windows up...I don't understand a word you just said."  

[tx 3 putt 77287]

Abbott claimed on the radio today that the ‘white house’ is working with cartels on the border 

 

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[Biff Tannen 45702]

15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Abbott claimed on the radio today that the ‘white house’ is working with cartels on the border 

 

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[StassneyHorn 6624]

30 years of Texas Republicans doing nothing on the border, and the guy elected 3 years ago is at fault.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

30 years of Texas Republicans doing nothing on the border, and the guy elected 3 years ago is at fault.

I see it as a federal issue. If it's not what the Biden admin wants, I'm not sure why he doesn't tell Texas to knock it off, honestly. 

[Goofyboy 3293]

It is a federal issue that Congress has ignored / used for votes for years - but let’s blame the president

[StassneyHorn 6624]

It’s a federal issue until Texas Congressmen go on Fox News and announce to the world they have cultivated an environment of open borders and have done nothing to curtail it.

[tx 3 putt 77287]

1 hour ago, StassneyHorn said:

It’s a federal issue until Texas Congressmen go on Fox News and announce to the world they have cultivated an environment of open borders and have done nothing to curtail it.

 

it's one huge scam

Edited October 26, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[CooterBrown 18022]

15 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

It’s a federal issue until Texas Congressmen go on Fox News and announce to the world they have cultivated an environment of open borders and have done nothing to curtail it.

I wonder how many Texas Congressmen have authored border security bills in Congress.

I'm setting the over/under at 0.5.

 

Edited October 26, 2023 by CooterBrown

[jimmyjazz 46057]

How is it a Federal issue when the Texas House is advancing a $1.5B bill to build more border wall?  Did "we" just discover that, decades into Republican control of the state, "we" can do something about this crisis "crisis"?

[tx 3 putt 77287]

 

 

[atomheartbevo 89775]

I said it in the legislature thread, this massive ramp up in racist bullshit, whether it be trying to take over Houston's voting, hauling Hispanic Americans to the Mexican border if they don't provide their papers to a cop, or sending people to prison for 10 years for giving a ride to somebody who isn't here legally, it's coming on the heels of Hispanics passing up whites in Texas demographics.

This is the last gasp of a party that thinks it's going to lose power if it doesn't crack the whip and make people fear it.

[tx 3 putt 77287]

11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I said it in the legislature thread, this massive ramp up in racist bullshit, whether it be trying to take over Houston's voting, hauling Hispanic Americans to the Mexican border if they don't provide their papers to a cop, or sending people to prison for 10 years for giving a ride to somebody who isn't here legally, it's coming on the heels of Hispanics passing up whites in Texas demographics.

This is the last gasp of a party that thinks it's going to lose power if it doesn't crack the whip and make people fear it.

 

if 10 to 15% more latin voters show up, Texas MAGA GQP is toast 

[Pescado_Rojo 19427]

15 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

if 10 to 15% more latin voters show up and vote D, Texas MAGA GQP is toast 

Fixed. Not a guarantee anymore. 

[South Austin 52558]

Just now, Pescado_Rojo said:

Fixed. Not a guarantee anymore. 

Yep.  The Rio Grande Valley voting numbers for Trump were troubling.  

[Bozo_Casanova 26521]

24 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

Fixed. Not a guarantee anymore. 

 

23 minutes ago, South Austin said:

Yep.  The Rio Grande Valley voting numbers for Trump were troubling.  

1) Hispanics are not a voting bloc, and Texas Democrats have made a grave mistake of ever thinking of them that way. The ones who fit the socioeconomic markers we associate with white Republican voters are Republican voters. 
2) The dominance of Democrats in the RGV/South Texas is a product of machine politics and it's not a pretty picture. I can't blame ambitious political types for seeking an alternative. @tx 3 putt is 100% right about what 10-15% higher hispanic turnout would mean because of the split, but it's the other areas of the state outside the RGV that they need to cultivate and they aren't effectively doing it. 

Edited October 27, 2023 by Bozo_Casanova

[safe sex 11741]

1948 Ballot Box #13, baby.

[tx 3 putt 77287]

44 minutes ago, safe sex said:

1948 Ballot Box #13, baby.

 

#csb - one of my uncle's was pretty involved here. I know he was always very close to the Parr family through the years. 

[atomheartbevo 89775]

[safe sex 11741]

17 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

#csb - one of my uncle's was pretty involved here. I know he was always very close to the Parr family through the years. 

Wonder if y'all's family has a copy of the incriminating photo stashed somewhere?

[The Original Greaser Bob 2844]

On 10/27/2023 at 2:16 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

The ones who fit the socioeconomic markers we associate with white Republican voters are Republican voters. 

I prefer to call them "Los Briketexans" or "Pinches los briketeros"

[Al Czervik 1229]

I glad this (GA, not Al) cocksucker took time out of his week to visit Israel. Fuck that guy.  
 

Just wanted to contribute to the thread. 

Edited November 2, 2023 by Al Czervik
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[YChang 3460]

On 10/27/2023 at 12:16 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

2) The dominance of Democrats in the RGV/South Texas is a product of machine politics and it's not a pretty picture. I can't blame ambitious political types for seeking an alternative. @tx 3 putt is 100% right about what 10-15% higher hispanic turnout would mean because of the split, but it's the other areas of the state outside the RGV that they need to cultivate and they aren't effectively doing it. 

It's kinda depressing. A cohort in my grad school is from McAllen or Edinburgh. Mexican-American. Tells me with glee about how happy he is about the busing program to LA, NY, etc. Can both-sides with the best of them. 

[Guest]

Holding public education and teachers hostage for his pet project of a $10K to rich private-school parents. The fact that he isn't being lambasted for this is insane to me.

Greg Abbott: Your piddly rural school will get a little money when I get something for the well-off parents in the Dallas suburbs. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26521]

How much is a year at St Mark’s these days, anyway?

[Guest]

30 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

How much is a year at St Mark’s these days, anyway?

Gonna be $10,400 more next year if Abbott gets his way.

[Tonesky 948]

1 hour ago, Al Czervik said:

I glad this (GA, not Al) cocksucker took time out of his week to visit Israel. Fuck that guy.  
 

Just wanted to contribute to the thread. 

I guess I need to update my spelling to Gov. Chotwheels....

[Al Czervik 1229]

1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Gonna be $10,400 more next year if Abbott gets his way.

Will keep getting raised just enough to keep the poors out. 

[UrbanAchiever 278]

2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

How much is a year at St Mark’s these days, anyway?

I know what it is for a first-grader at a school in Austin, and it's more than double $10,400.

[SydneyCarton 48147]

25 minutes ago, Al Czervik said:

Will keep getting raised just enough to keep the poors out. 

It's already more than enough to keep the poors out, even with a 10,400 voucher. See below. 

9 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

I know what it is for a first-grader at a school in Austin, and it's more than double $10,400.

Standard private school cost for a kid is in the 25k dollar a year range. Obvoiusly some are in the 40-50k a year range. But if the average amount is about 25k per year, it's about to be about, oh, 35,400 per year. 

Edited November 2, 2023 by SydneyCarton

[Captainant 27723]

1 hour ago, SydneyCarton said:

Standard private school cost for a kid is in the 25k dollar a year range. Obvoiusly some are in the 40-50k a year range. But if the average amount is about 25k per year, it's about to be about, oh, 35,400 per year. 

What the actual fuck that's more than my fucking undergrad education cost PLUS COST OF LIVING IN AUSTIN IN THE EARLY TEENS

[SydneyCarton 48147]

16 minutes ago, Captainant said:

What the actual fuck that's more than my fucking undergrad education cost PLUS COST OF LIVING IN AUSTIN IN THE EARLY TEENS

Yes. Now imagine that you have 3-4 kids, and you've enrolled them in those various schools from pre-school to high school. You're paying well over a million dollars just to get your kids TO college. The math is staggering. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13519]

Abbott in Israel today. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/02/greg-abbott-travels-israel-legislature/

jokes write themselves.

[atomheartbevo 89775]

16 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

Yes. Now imagine that you have 3-4 kids, and you've enrolled them in those various schools from pre-school to high school. You're paying well over a million dollars just to get your kids TO college. The math is staggering. 

And if you have 3-4 kids, 1-2 of them are going to be fuckups that piss that money away and end up in community college.

[South Austin 52558]

1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Abbott in Israel today. https://www.texastribune.org/2023/11/02/greg-abbott-travels-israel-legislature/

jokes write themselves.

I wheel with Israel?

[jimmyjazz 46057]

4 hours ago, Captainant said:

What the actual fuck that's more than my fucking undergrad education cost PLUS COST OF LIVING IN AUSTIN IN THE EARLY TEENS

It's still more.  I'm sending 2 kids to UT Austin for right at $50K annual.

[tchookem 3905]

Will keep getting raised just enough to keep the poors out. 

They don't have to raise prices. A private school can just say no, and take the voucher money from the families they want to let in.

[tx 3 putt 77287]

10 minutes ago, tchookem said:

7 hours ago, Al Czervik said:

Will keep getting raised just enough to keep the poors out. 

They don't have to raise prices. A private school can just say no, and take the voucher money from the families they want to let in.

this

a friend of mine has her kid going through pre k interviews now, at some higher end private schools

a fucking 4yo, being interviewed 

Edited November 3, 2023 by tx 3 putt

[atomheartbevo 89775]

2 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

this

a friend of mine has her kid going through pre k interviews now, at some higher end private schools

a fucking 4yo, being interviewed 

That's not going to fuck up a kid - if they don't get in, I imagine the parent(s) will probably not be very happy.

I don't even like the whole interview thing for public school kids going into one of the specialty programs in junior high (performing arts, STEM, etc.).