Abbott being Abbott

[atomheartbevo 90543]

4 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

While the corndog deepthroat aggy wasn’t the brightest, he had the same aspirations of the mighty Beto. To be the president.  He was born for it, just ask him. All the hopes and passionate sweaty soap box speeches doesn’t mean shit.  Dude is a fucking slimeball with flavor of the month policy ideas.  I can sit here and talk about all the awesome things I’d do too, it’s one of the perks of not actually being in the seat.  

You just described Greg Abbott, who is the fucking epitome of flavor-of-the-month ideas, based on whoever is a threat to him, whether it's Don Huffines (and the billionaires backing him) or Beto.  Oh, and when Abbott beats Beto in November, you will see flavor-of-the-month ideas like nobody's business because Abbott gives no fucks about Texas, his sights will be firmly set on DeSantis.

The only people who think walls will stop illegals are fucking morons, because the walls aren't removing the incentive to come to the US, and that incentive is construction, lawn, etc. jobs that, even as shitty as they are for us Americans, pay a shitload more than most jobs in Mexico and points further south.

You know what the aggy was actually proposing in 2001?  An actual solution that would slow down illegal immigration, because he pushed the idea that if we improve conditions in Mexico, it removes the incentives to come to the US.

Republicans don't want to stop illegal immigration and you know this.  You fucking know this flatty.  They want that cheap labor, which is why Bush, McCain, Perry, etc. were pushing a guest worker program in 2006 and 2007, and it's why Republican administrations, whether it's Bush or Trump, don't take the simplest of steps to make life difficult for the illegals.

What are those steps?  Well, if you want to stop illegal immigration, you shut down the jobs.  Have the IRS and Social Security Administration pour through their databases and look at all of the times that clearly showed Social Security #s being used illicitly (I had to become intimately familiar with how easily they are misused due to somebody using my SS#).

And you get strict.  Tyson Foods gets raided for the 5th time for employing hundreds of illegals?  Stop with these bullshit fines and fucking drop the hammer on them, and drop the hammer on their management that is helping hire illegals.  Frame it as a national security issue if you want - claim that by encouraging people to enter our country illegally for jobs, they are working to subvert our law enforcement and border security.

But Republicans won't make the IRS and SSA crack down on Social Security # fraud.  They won't drop the hammer on companies that keep on employing illegals.  Because Republicans want it and they've wanted that illegal labor for decades, because why should Betty J. Babyboomer mow her own lawn, and why should a major homebuilder in Texas pay more for actual American citizens to build homes for them when illegals do just fine.

 

[atomheartbevo 90543]

4 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

Personally, I think he’ll win.

You know Beto won't win.  Because people like you will keep on rewarding Abbott and his two decades of not doing anything.

[Grade of D as in David 13255]

2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

That list was meant to capture issues that appeal to #bothsides.   There are single issue voters in both parties.  
 

The loudest voices and up and coming superstar Ds would thanos snap my career and hobbies tomorrow.   Would you do the same if roles were reversed? 

I'd Thanos snap your career and hobbies in an instant, but that's just because you seem like a prick.

[tchookem 3965]

I'd Thanos snap your career and hobbies in an instant, but that's just because you seem like a prick.

Won't somebody please think of the careers and hobbies!

[MonkeyDoughnut 10761]

This cycle I'm weighing what Beto "might or might not do" versus what Abbott "has or has not done" and for me it's pretty easy to decide based on that.

Abbott trying to out trump DeSantis to solidify a 2024 spot was the 100'th nail in the coffin. He's shown he desires to be something other than the Texas Governor so figure we should help him out.

[Pods 7622]

5 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

SIAP

 

 

This is a great ad. If you haven't watched it yet, do so. 

[StassneyHorn 6755]

 

[fattyflattie 4640]

59 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

I'd Thanos snap your career and hobbies in an instant, but that's just because you seem like a prick.

You should run for office. 
 

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Republicans don't want to stop illegal immigration and you know this.  You fucking know this flatty.

I literally said this upthread. You aren’t teaching me anything in that regard. 

[Poe It Up 126]

Beto actually seems like a nice guy, I can’t seem to muster up any anger towards him. That’s not like me. After he flames out this November I’m sure he’ll release a book about his political career. I might even read it. 

 

[BearSchlong 8231]

This is a great ad. If you haven't watched it yet, do so. 

I’m close to the media buyer for that ad.

[Pods 7622]

Just now, BearSchlong said:

I’m close to the media buyer for that ad.

Badass. The other one I saw from them was also really good. It's about fucking time someone on this side found some teeth. 

[Dnaguy 12572]

3 hours ago, hornmpa96 said:

This is the Mother Fucking Truth!

if Republican policies are responsible for Texas maintaining its status as a leading economy in the world, then shouldn’t Democrats get kudos for maintaining California’s economy as the 5th largest in the world?

Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.

[Snake Diggity 4698]

5 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

With Beto?  I’m not afraid of anything. One, thing I very much don’t like is that he’s vowed to remove well into 5 figures of my property. Second, I find him insufferable and disingenuous.  It’s easy af to pick apart real issues and claim you are the answer. It’s another to actually solve them. I believe his actual abilities end at campaigning.  

Damn dude.  I remember reading some of your first posts in this forum months (years?) ago and thinking “this dude reminds me of myself 15 years ago, another reasonably smart guy raised to believe a crock of shit who is just now taking a look around.  It’ll be fun to watch his eyes open.”  Boy was I wrong.  Instead you’ve taken to shitting in your hands and rubbing it on your face, in public.  It’s depressing as fuck and I’m very embarrassed for you.

[tigol 2466]

7 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Fatty relaxing with his extended family:

That smoker is pathetic.

[HornOnTheBayou 9056]

8 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

Fatty relaxing with his extended family:

x, x (but get back to me after a couple of drinks), x, x

[F250 29171]

1 hour ago, tigol said:

That smoker is pathetic.

And the weathered deck and siding, torn screens, dirty windows, etc. That picture makes me feel sad, it's like a snapshot of neurosis.

The compulsion to collect that many guns but ignore basic home maintenance is a little weird.

[fattyflattie 4640]

4 minutes ago, F250 said:

The compulsion to collect that many guns but ignore basic home maintenance is a little weird.

That’s probably where 90% of his $$ goes.  Notice it’s mostly tactical stuff. Dude has some things going on. 

[tigol 2466]

Just now, fattyflattie said:

That’s probably where 90% of his $$ goes.  Notice it’s mostly tactical stuff. Dude has some things going on. 

You don't say.  

[troph 25089]

pos that a nerf gun in the lawn chair? 

Edited July 27, 2022 by troph

[fattyflattie 4640]

Just now, tigol said:

You don't say.  

I said 90%. I spend folding money that would typically go to bar nights. Big difference.  

[Satchel 6982]

6 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

That’s probably where 90% of his $$ goes.  Notice it’s mostly tactical stuff. Dude has some things going on. 

Most gun hoarders do.

[fattyflattie 4640]

2 minutes ago, troph said:

pos that a nerf gun in the lawn chair? 

Looks like it.  I’ve seen this pic a dozen times but never noticed whatever gargantuan shit is between the wife and kid on back row. Forest green color. That looks…not necessary. 

[tigol 2466]

58 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Looks like it.  I’ve seen this pic a dozen times but never noticed whatever gargantuan shit is between the wife and kid on back row. Forest green color. That looks…not necessary. 

There is a whole shit ton of not necessary in that pic.  Glad you're starting to pick up on it.

[tigol 2466]

1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

Looks like it.  I’ve seen this pic a dozen times but never noticed whatever gargantuan shit is between the wife and kid on back row. Forest green color. That looks…not necessary. 

Have you ever thought about taking up golf as a hobby rather than pewpew?  PXG will hook you up!!

 

[fattyflattie 4640]

1 minute ago, tigol said:

Have you ever thought about taking up golf as a hobby rather than pewpew?  PXG will hook you up!!

 

Nope. Clays and fishing. If it’s golf Wx, it’s clay and fishing Wx.  

[tigol 2466]

9 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Nope. Clays and fishing. If it’s golf Wx, it’s clay and fishing Wx.  

You need an arsenal of AR's to shoot clays?

I've shot them.  Meh.  I mean, I didn't have to run after anything.  I did bend over to pick up some shells to help my uncle out after the family reunion. 

I love fishing, but it's not an athletic sport unless you are Brad Pitt fishing Big Blackfoot.  Golf is on the margins if you're competitive.  Have you checked out the team UT is fielding this year?  Or in the last 5 years?  Or on the PGA tour?  Puts your guns down and have a look.

 

Edited July 27, 2022 by tigol

[fattyflattie 4640]

2 minutes ago, tigol said:

You need an arsenal of AR's to shoot clays?

I don’t have an arsenal of anything. I’ve socked away more Italian shotguns and custom bolt action rifles than anything “assault rifle”. You are confusing an amount of money with quantity.  
 

In regards to skeet/trap. It’s essentially golf of another stripe.  It’s expensive, competitive, and you are playing against yourself as much or more as you are this field.  You can be a ++ shooter and not gain those last 5 birds for years.  It’s also safe, and the next violent event with a Perrazi will be the first.  

[tigol 2466]

1 minute ago, fattyflattie said:

I don’t have an arsenal of anything. I’ve socked away more Italian shotguns and custom bolt action rifles than anything “assault rifle”. You are confusing an amount of money with quantity.  
 

In regards to skeet/trap. It’s essentially golf of another stripe.  It’s expensive, competitive, and you are playing against yourself as much or more as you are this field.  You can be a ++ shooter and not gain those last 5 birds for years.  It’s also safe, and the next violent event with a Perrazi will be the first.  

Safer than golf or fishing?

[fattyflattie 4640]

20 minutes ago, tigol said:

Safer than golf or fishing?

Ability to be worse, absolutely. But I’d say it’s on par with golf. Fuck my wife's cousin took a lightning bolt to the 3 iron in his 20’s (lived). I can think of more than one tournament I wasn’t sure I was going to make it back to the jetties, have had the mono buzzing, all the normal shit you deal with in adventurous sports.  I’d say it’s safer than hunting, and more controlled. I may be bias as I’ve been shot in the face whilst hunting. 
 

I understand your point.  But yes, it’s rather safe.  Let’s just say there isn’t any of the guys in the pic above on the blues or Orange range.   3 gun tournaments, no offense to anyone here who participates, is probably more that guys speed, and that’s a whole other world that I don’t care to participate. 

[Updawg 2378]

You’ve been shot in the face ?


Are you dick Cheney?

[Beau Vine 55816]

19 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Ability to be worse, absolutely. But I’d say it’s on par with golf. Fuck my wife's cousin took a lightning bolt to the 3 iron in his 20’s (lived)

Tell the dumbass that he's supposed to be holding a 1-iron when there's lightning.  Tell him Lee Trevino sez so.

[fattyflattie 4640]

7 minutes ago, Updawg said:

You’ve been shot in the face ?


Are you dick Cheney?

Face, ears, neck, hand, and thighs.  Ears are the only ones that are completely clear to date.   I highly, highly recommend you don’t partake.  Know. Who. You. Are. Around. 
 

I am not Dick Cheney, but was hunting with his spirit animal, apparently. 

[fattyflattie 4640]

5 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

Tell the dumbass that he's supposed to be holding a 1-iron when there's lightning.  Tell him Lee Trevino sez so.

My understanding was it was pretty sunny out, then pop. Blown out the ankles.  Scares the shit out of me as I never get thru a full day of fishing without thinking about that.  

[Foosters 18223]

I'm going to need to watch you play a round of golf if getting shot in the face, neck, ears, hand, and thighs is "on par with" the danger inherent in golf.

[Grade of D as in David 13255]

42 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

Face, ears, neck, hand, and thighs.  Ears are the only ones that are completely clear to date.   I highly, highly recommend you don’t partake.  Know. Who. You. Are. Around. 
 

I am not Dick Cheney, but was hunting with his spirit animal, apparently. 

Ok man. Story time. You've got to tell us how you got shot.

 

Were you shot 9 times? Do you walk with a limp?

Edited July 27, 2022 by Grade of D as in David
50 cent

[fattyflattie 4640]

6 minutes ago, Foosters said:

I'm going to need to watch you play a round of golf if getting shot in the face, neck, ears, hand, and thighs is "on par with" the danger inherent in golf.

That was a hunting trip with a dumbass.
What I equated to being comparable to a round of golf is a bunch of well mannered, responsible adults spending too much time and money trying to best themselves at shooting at clay targets. I’m sure there have been accidents, but it’s pretty safe.  Hunting with a dumbass is not. 

3 minutes ago, Grade of D as in David said:

Ok man. Story time. You've got to tell us how you got shot.

 

Were you shot 9 times? Do you walk with a limp?

I’ve told this story a bunch on here, probably in hobbies.  But yeah, quail covey flushed. Birds flushed straight out. I shot and hit, and from ~90* came a whack.  I put my gun down and went to my knees, lots of blood pouring down onto shotgun and hands.  Did quick check on my eyes and teeth - all ok. I get up and guy next to me is white as a ghost.  I try to finish up the last few birds for our limit but call it. Get back to camp and I’m hurting at this point.  Hop in shower, pellets hitting floor all over out of my hair.  Assess damage and have both ears (enter in front, worked to backside) forehead, chin, neck, hand (top of hand - most painful to this day) and 2 each deep in each thigh in scrotal area.  I was able to get two out of my left leg digging a bit with a knife.    Took some aspirin, headed four hours home, let buddy drive. Called wife about 10 mins out and told her, don’t want you to be alarmed but I got shot.  Come inside and start trying to dig the other 2 out of my thigh.  It was a bad deal. Looked like a dexter scene. Wife says fuck this, you are going to hospital.  Went to hospital. They put me in as a “multiple gunshot victim - buckshot”.  I try to correct the Dr over and over, she takes my suggestion to clarify much like the board here (j/k).   They run about 25 X-rays on me.  Move head 3”, another, etc.   They decide I need to go to Ben Taub because 2 pellets are nearly touching artery in neck, and they are worried about the ones in my thigh.  Put me in ambulance, I joke with EMS guy who said he just had to see the guy who survived 14 buckshot.  I reiterate that they are 7’s and he obviously knows the difference. We take a full on scary fucking ride lights blazing which was most dangerous part down to Ben Taub. Wife and newborn following behind. It’s late night now. They wheel me right past a man in the hallway who appears to have lopped off his hand. I tell them they really should be taking care of that poor bastard and to get to me later.   They ignore me and put me in a room. 1 Dr and what had to be 15 students (residents?) come in and start working me over.  Taking blood pressure at my feet, looking at my neck, etc.  A good looking young Hispanic student/resident awkwardly tells me she is going to have to check my garbage to see if any blood comes out. The said something to the effect of, “this will seem sexual, it is medical”. She had to squeeze a few times to make sure I wasn’t leaking blood. It was cold, I was not representing   Doc says pellets in neck were too dangerous to work on, and that I missed bleeding out in a field by a mm. Said to see a specialist about my hand, and they let me go home about 0330.  At one point, a HS classmate of mine came in and said hello. Said he has seen my name and wondered wtf, 14 buckshot?   Hadnt seen him in 5-7 years at that point. Weird shit, par to the course that day. 

I have since pulled a few out of my chin and ears (next day) but still have one in my forehead (sinus area), several in neck, one in hand, and 2 in my thigh. Sinus and hand are the only ones that ever bother me.  They told me it was safer to leave than to cut out. Asked if I was done having kids, said no, they said get on that and hurry up.  Wife made me go but still got pissed about my medical handy.  Absolutely stunning shotgun stock got fucking demoed with pellets. Guy who shot me never even checked up after about 10 mins after the shot.  Kicker of it was I had to fly to Singapore the next week.  That was an uncomfortable trip.  I still have the hat with holes all in it. I was in a carhardt jacket and starched jeans or it would have been much worse.  Jacket and jeans had holes all over them. The button up shirt I had on still has a pellet stuck near a button.  I was about ~35 yds away I’d guess. I don’t hunt with anyone I don’t know very, very well now.  
 

Don’t recommend. Fin. 

[Homesickhorn 2217]

Fatty what are you so afraid of?

Being doxxed as Greg Abbot?

[Grade of D as in David 13255]

1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

That was a hunting trip with a dumbass.
What I equated to being comparable to a round of golf is a bunch of well mannered, responsible adults spending too much time and money trying to best themselves at shooting at clay targets. I’m sure there have been accidents, but it’s pretty safe.  Hunting with a dumbass is not. 

I’ve told this story a bunch on here, probably in hobbies.  But yeah, quail covey flushed. Birds flushed straight out. I shot and hit, and from ~90* came a whack.  I put my gun down and went to my knees, lots of blood pouring down onto shotgun and hands.  Did quick check on my eyes and teeth - all ok. I get up and guy next to me is white as a ghost.  I try to finish up the last few birds for our limit but call it. Get back to camp and I’m hurting at this point.  Hop in shower, pellets hitting floor all over out of my hair.  Assess damage and have both ears (enter in front, worked to backside) forehead, chin, neck, hand (top of hand - most painful to this day) and 2 each deep in each thigh in scrotal area.  I was able to get two out of my left leg digging a bit with a knife.    Took some aspirin, headed four hours home, let buddy drive. Called wife about 10 mins out and told her, don’t want you to be alarmed but I got shot.  Come inside and start trying to dig the other 2 out of my thigh.  It was a bad deal. Looked like a dexter scene. Wife says fuck this, you are going to hospital.  Went to hospital. They put me in as a “multiple gunshot victim - buckshot”.  I try to correct the Dr over and over, she takes my suggestion to clarify much like the board here (j/k).   They run about 25 X-rays on me.  Move head 3”, another, etc.   They decide I need to go to Ben Taub because 2 pellets are nearly touching artery in neck, and they are worried about the ones in my thigh.  Put me in ambulance, I joke with EMS guy who said he just had to see the guy who survived 14 buckshot.  I reiterate that they are 7’s and he obviously knows the difference. We take a full on scary fucking ride lights blazing which was most dangerous part down to Ben Taub. Wife and newborn following behind. It’s late night now. They wheel me right past a man in the hallway who appears to have lopped off his hand. I tell them they really should be taking care of that poor bastard and to get to me later.   They ignore me and put me in a room. 1 Dr and what had to be 15 students (residents?) come in and start working me over.  Taking blood pressure at my feet, looking at my neck, etc.  A good looking young Hispanic student/resident awkwardly tells me she is going to have to check my garbage to see if any blood comes out. The said something to the effect of, “this will seem sexual, it is medical”. She had to squeeze a few times to make sure I wasn’t leaking blood. It was cold, I was not representing   Doc says pellets in neck were too dangerous to work on, and that I missed bleeding out in a field by a mm. Said to see a specialist about my hand, and they let me go home about 0330.  At one point, a HS classmate of mine came in and said hello. Said he has seen my name and wondered wtf, 14 buckshot?   Hadnt seen him in 5-7 years at that point. Weird shit, par to the course that day. 

I have since pulled a few out of my chin and ears (next day) but still have one in my forehead (sinus area), several in neck, one in hand, and 2 in my thigh. Sinus and hand are the only ones that ever bother me.  They told me it was safer to leave than to cut out. Asked if I was done having kids, said no, they said get on that and hurry up.  Wife made me go but still got pissed about my medical handy.  Absolutely stunning shotgun stock got fucking demoed with pellets. Guy who shot me never even checked up after about 10 mins after the shot.  Kicker of it was I had to fly to Singapore the next week.  That was an uncomfortable trip.  I still have the hat with holes all in it. I was in a carhardt jacket and starched jeans or it would have been much worse.  Jacket and jeans had holes all over them. The button up shirt I had on still has a pellet stuck near a button.  I was about ~35 yds away I’d guess. I don’t hunt with anyone I don’t know very, very well now.  
 

Don’t recommend. Fin. 

Thanks for sharing. That's fucked up that the shooter never checked in on you.

 

 

[Snake Diggity 4698]

2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

That was a hunting trip with a dumbass.
What I equated to being comparable to a round of golf is a bunch of well mannered, responsible adults spending too much time and money trying to best themselves at shooting at clay targets. I’m sure there have been accidents, but it’s pretty safe.  Hunting with a dumbass is not. 

I’ve told this story a bunch on here, probably in hobbies.  But yeah, quail covey flushed. Birds flushed straight out. I shot and hit, and from ~90* came a whack.  I put my gun down and went to my knees, lots of blood pouring down onto shotgun and hands.  Did quick check on my eyes and teeth - all ok. I get up and guy next to me is white as a ghost.  I try to finish up the last few birds for our limit but call it. Get back to camp and I’m hurting at this point.  Hop in shower, pellets hitting floor all over out of my hair.  Assess damage and have both ears (enter in front, worked to backside) forehead, chin, neck, hand (top of hand - most painful to this day) and 2 each deep in each thigh in scrotal area.  I was able to get two out of my left leg digging a bit with a knife.    Took some aspirin, headed four hours home, let buddy drive. Called wife about 10 mins out and told her, don’t want you to be alarmed but I got shot.  Come inside and start trying to dig the other 2 out of my thigh.  It was a bad deal. Looked like a dexter scene. Wife says fuck this, you are going to hospital.  Went to hospital. They put me in as a “multiple gunshot victim - buckshot”.  I try to correct the Dr over and over, she takes my suggestion to clarify much like the board here (j/k).   They run about 25 X-rays on me.  Move head 3”, another, etc.   They decide I need to go to Ben Taub because 2 pellets are nearly touching artery in neck, and they are worried about the ones in my thigh.  Put me in ambulance, I joke with EMS guy who said he just had to see the guy who survived 14 buckshot.  I reiterate that they are 7’s and he obviously knows the difference. We take a full on scary fucking ride lights blazing which was most dangerous part down to Ben Taub. Wife and newborn following behind. It’s late night now. They wheel me right past a man in the hallway who appears to have lopped off his hand. I tell them they really should be taking care of that poor bastard and to get to me later.   They ignore me and put me in a room. 1 Dr and what had to be 15 students (residents?) come in and start working me over.  Taking blood pressure at my feet, looking at my neck, etc.  A good looking young Hispanic student/resident awkwardly tells me she is going to have to check my garbage to see if any blood comes out. The said something to the effect of, “this will seem sexual, it is medical”. She had to squeeze a few times to make sure I wasn’t leaking blood. It was cold, I was not representing   Doc says pellets in neck were too dangerous to work on, and that I missed bleeding out in a field by a mm. Said to see a specialist about my hand, and they let me go home about 0330.  At one point, a HS classmate of mine came in and said hello. Said he has seen my name and wondered wtf, 14 buckshot?   Hadnt seen him in 5-7 years at that point. Weird shit, par to the course that day. 

I have since pulled a few out of my chin and ears (next day) but still have one in my forehead (sinus area), several in neck, one in hand, and 2 in my thigh. Sinus and hand are the only ones that ever bother me.  They told me it was safer to leave than to cut out. Asked if I was done having kids, said no, they said get on that and hurry up.  Wife made me go but still got pissed about my medical handy.  Absolutely stunning shotgun stock got fucking demoed with pellets. Guy who shot me never even checked up after about 10 mins after the shot.  Kicker of it was I had to fly to Singapore the next week.  That was an uncomfortable trip.  I still have the hat with holes all in it. I was in a carhardt jacket and starched jeans or it would have been much worse.  Jacket and jeans had holes all over them. The button up shirt I had on still has a pellet stuck near a button.  I was about ~35 yds away I’d guess. I don’t hunt with anyone I don’t know very, very well now.  
 

Don’t recommend. Fin. 

Holy shit.  The fact that you have been shot in the fucking face and still hold up maintaining everyone’s right to own/buy guns as one of your top priorities says it fucking all.  
 

Fucking fatty, picking buckshot out of his fucking face before heading to the polls to make sure that nothing is done to prevent people from getting shot in the face.  What a fucking world.

[DaysOff 8157]

I’ve added that in last 18 months. But yeah, lots of people have 3-4 different calibers lying around, much less, more.  Contrary to what the news says, they aren’t all $500 rifles.  

Other than a small penis why would you have that? Nobody's gonna step to you snoop dog. You guys always bring up mental health, but the only mental health problem is the sick obsession with owning an arsenal like yours. No other civilized society on the planet would think that's sane.

[CooterBrown 18272]

That's fucked up that the shooter never checked in on you.

Maybe it wasn’t an accident.

[Steamboat1874 4280]

17 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

You just described Greg Abbott, who is the fucking epitome of flavor-of-the-month ideas, based on whoever is a threat to him, whether it's Don Huffines (and the billionaires backing him) or Beto.  Oh, and when Abbott beats Beto in November, you will see flavor-of-the-month ideas like nobody's business because Abbott gives no fucks about Texas, his sights will be firmly set on DeSantis.

The only people who think walls will stop illegals are fucking morons, because the walls aren't removing the incentive to come to the US, and that incentive is construction, lawn, etc. jobs that, even as shitty as they are for us Americans, pay a shitload more than most jobs in Mexico and points further south.

You know what the aggy was actually proposing in 2001?  An actual solution that would slow down illegal immigration, because he pushed the idea that if we improve conditions in Mexico, it removes the incentives to come to the US.

Republicans don't want to stop illegal immigration and you know this.  You fucking know this flatty.  They want that cheap labor, which is why Bush, McCain, Perry, etc. were pushing a guest worker program in 2006 and 2007, and it's why Republican administrations, whether it's Bush or Trump, don't take the simplest of steps to make life difficult for the illegals.

What are those steps?  Well, if you want to stop illegal immigration, you shut down the jobs.  Have the IRS and Social Security Administration pour through their databases and look at all of the times that clearly showed Social Security #s being used illicitly (I had to become intimately familiar with how easily they are misused due to somebody using my SS#).

And you get strict.  Tyson Foods gets raided for the 5th time for employing hundreds of illegals?  Stop with these bullshit fines and fucking drop the hammer on them, and drop the hammer on their management that is helping hire illegals.  Frame it as a national security issue if you want - claim that by encouraging people to enter our country illegally for jobs, they are working to subvert our law enforcement and border security.

But Republicans won't make the IRS and SSA crack down on Social Security # fraud.  They won't drop the hammer on companies that keep on employing illegals.  Because Republicans want it and they've wanted that illegal labor for decades, because why should Betty J. Babyboomer mow her own lawn, and why should a major homebuilder in Texas pay more for actual American citizens to build homes for them when illegals do just fine.

 

This right mother fucking here.

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9 hours ago, Updawg said:

You’ve been shot in the face ?


Are you dick Cheney?

Other way around. Fatty had to apologize to Cheney. 

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7 hours ago, Homesickhorn said:

Being doxxed as Greg Abbot?

My walking sticks still work. 

6 hours ago, Grade of D as in David said:

Thanks for sharing. That's fucked up that the shooter never checked in on you.

 

 

I have a feeling it was extreme embarrassment. But yeah, not the way I would have handled it. 

5 hours ago, Snake Diggity said:

Fucking fatty, picking buckshot out of his fucking face

Itiswydt 

5 hours ago, DaysOff said:

Other than a small penis why would you have that? Nobody's gonna step to you snoop dog.

My kids got old enough to start hunting. Collapsible stock and recoil make them perfect for growing kids. 

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2 hours ago, Steamboat1874 said:

This right mother fucking here.

We just think Abbott was dragged to the far right  by Huffines and his piddling fan base.  

Now that the primary is over, Abbot is running against DeSantis.  Sure, Beto’s name will be on the ballot and it will be for the position of Governor, but Abbott is 100% terrified of DeSantis and in his mind is running against him.   

And next year when the legislature presents him with anti-contraception bills or bills targeting Texas women leaving the state for abortions, Abbott will make sure the media is there watching him sign them into law.  
 

 

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And Abbott is dumb enough to think he has a shot in ‘24.  His only chance is Trump not running and not endorsing DeSantis, and instead endorsing Abbott.  

But I don’t know that Trump’s endorsement would help Abbott.  DeSantis is what the MAGA crowd in Texas wants, and Abbott supported masks and vaccines and closures.  Big mistake on Greg’s part. 

But man, Abbott is going to do his best to make things miserable in Texas while he chases DeSantis.  

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19 hours ago, Pods said:

This is a great ad. If you haven't watched it yet, do so. 

And it'll do fuckall with the electorate. They think abortion is about sluts who have too much sex. Their brains can't contemplate anything more complex, and if they did, their preachers would condemn them to hell for even having such horrible empathy for others.

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20 hours ago, Pods said:

This is a great ad. If you haven't watched it yet, do so. 

I think it would have been stronger had they not leavened it with humor. 

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And Abbott is dumb enough to think he has a shot in ‘24.  His only chance is Trump not running and not endorsing DeSantis, and instead endorsing Abbott.  
But I don’t know that Trump’s endorsement would help Abbott.  DeSantis is what the MAGA crowd in Texas wants, and Abbott supported masks and vaccines and closures.  Big mistake on Greg’s part. 
But man, Abbott is going to do his best to make things miserable in Texas while he chases DeSantis.  

Lolz at the thought of Trump endorsing some crippled whose dick doesn't work. Not happening.

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5 hours ago, 'stache said:

And it'll do fuckall with the electorate. They think abortion is about sluts who have too much sex. Their brains can't contemplate anything more complex, and if they did, their preachers would condemn them to hell for even having such horrible empathy for others.

You are right, but that ad isn't targeted at the religious zealots currently ruing the state and country. You will never convince the right wing, they are warped and twisted. 

The ad is aimed at the millions of voters that aren't paying attention and can't be bothered to get off their asses and vote. 

That said, I don't expect it will make enough difference to oust Abbott, or anyone else, but it's a great ad and properly targeted.