Texas -- a failed state

[CooterBrown 18006]

4 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

Will be interesting if/when those docs leave the state, and those places are left with no/limited options for OB/GYN. magat dipshits will blame cancel culture or some bullshit.

They'll dangle a visa at foreign doctors to get them to come and work here.   If you go look at the list of doctors in places like Victoria DeTar Hospital, it's already like 70% foreign doctors.  Most of the the rest are from Houston, Austin, and Dallas, who they pay 1-2 weeks salary to come practice there for 1 day a week. 

[tx 3 putt 76916]

1 minute ago, CooterBrown said:

They'll dangle a visa at foreign doctors to get them to come and work here.   If you go look at the list of doctors in places like Victoria DeTar Hospital, it's already like 70% foreign doctors.  Most of the the rest are from Houston, Austin, and Dallas, who they pay 1-2 weeks salary to come practice there for 1 day a week. 

[Macanudo 12976]

31 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

They'll dangle a visa at foreign doctors to get them to come and work here.   If you go look at the list of doctors in places like Victoria DeTar Hospital, it's already like 70% foreign doctors.  Most of the the rest are from Houston, Austin, and Dallas, who they pay 1-2 weeks salary to come practice there for 1 day a week. 

Isn't it ironic?

[crash_davis 23107]

28 minutes ago, Macanudo said:

Isn't it ironic?

Irony requires some self awareness. Magat don't self aware.

[Pimphand 5738]

Oh dear sweet summer communist fools. Please GTFO.

China needs you

[Nice Guy Eddie 13511]

18 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

They'll dangle a visa at foreign doctors to get them to come and work here.   If you go look at the list of doctors in places like Victoria DeTar Hospital, it's already like 70% foreign doctors.  Most of the the rest are from Houston, Austin, and Dallas, who they pay 1-2 weeks salary to come practice there for 1 day a week. 

Abbott and Patrick will use tax dollars, mainly paid by the large cities, to fund doctors to staff small town hospitals. But those small town residents will sneer at the deadbeat welfare recipients in the big cities.

[Eskimohorn 5635]

Abbott and Patrick will use tax dollars, mainly paid by the large cities, to fund doctors to staff small town hospitals. But those small town residents will sneer at the deadbeat welfare recipients in the big cities.

What program is this? They have 90% support as is. in rural communities. Why do anything to help? The rural people just blame Obamacare for their hospitals closing (that was literally the sentiment).

[tx 3 putt 76916]

 

4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Abbott and Patrick will use tax dollars, mainly paid by the large cities, to fund doctors to staff small town hospitals. But those small town residents will sneer at the deadbeat welfare recipients in the big cities.

 

small town medical care is already horrible 

[Valmy77 13226]

10 hours ago, Pimphand said:

Oh dear sweet summer communist fools. Please GTFO.

China needs you

This is my home. You will have to force me out.

[mchookem 16328]

my high-anxiety niece just called from Denton for a pep-talk. she picked up a shift at work (high end restaurant) to try and take her mind off it. she said they are almost fully booked with large parties tonight (8 and 10 tops)... election celebration dinners? hopefully.

she said 'even neighborhoods where old people live' in Denton are awash in Allred and H/W signs 🤞

it's a long shot but it would be so good for her mental health of Cruz could be taken down! i would love that for her soooo much!

anyways... she and her bf graduate next month (summa cum laude! UNT honors college! #proud 😊)...if Trump wins they plan to break their lease and move into our basement until they are ready to permanently relocate.

lol? 😐

 

[atomheartbevo 89656]

 

[DDD Dad 14335]

37 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

The only people interfering with voting or ballot tabulation are local poll watchers (primarily of the R variety).

Close friend of my wife worked during early voting at a location here in Dallas last week and is working again today.  She said that last week she was repeatedly approached by one of the poll watchers challenging what she was doing (when apparently watchers were prohibited from any interaction with poll workers and instead were required to notify the precinct judge of any issues to be addressed).  

Ghouls.

 

[Nivek 16923]

10 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

The only people interfering with voting or ballot tabulation are local poll watchers (primarily of the R variety).

Close friend of my wife worked during early voting at a location here in Dallas last week and is working again today.  She said that last week she was repeatedly approached by one of the poll watchers challenging what she was doing (when apparently watchers were prohibited from any interaction with poll workers and instead were required to notify the precinct judge of any issues to be addressed).  

Ghouls.

 

Feature, not a bug.

[atomheartbevo 89656]

[bluto 4920]

Holy fuckin shit if you think the national scene was a bloodbath, you have no idea what that means until you dig into the state level results. Disastrous doesn’t begin to describe it. 

[Firemans4Horn 18048]

My wife is not a native Texan. I’m officially on the clock to get us out of here. Looking like Denver is in the cards in  the next 2 years. 
 

what a catastrophic performance state wide for democrats today. 

[Biff Tannen 45677]

33 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

My wife is not a native Texan. I’m officially on the clock to get us out of here. Looking like Denver is in the cards in  the next 2 years. 
 

what a catastrophic performance state wide for democrats today. 

We all have a lot of looking around at our fellow Texans to do.

[mchookem 16328]

y'all just fucking come to Colorado. make it bluer. fuck it. it's beautiful. the climate is incredible. it respects its citizens. you can get high.

and once locals realize most of us Texans aren't coming here to change it but to escape the madness that is Texas, they chill out. there are Texas alumni everywhere, and very few aggy.

hell, if enough move here maybe we'll even get some good Mexican and BBQ 🤘

[Valmy77 13226]

1 hour ago, bluto said:

Holy fuckin shit if you think the national scene was a bloodbath, you have no idea what that means until you dig into the state level results. Disastrous doesn’t begin to describe it. 

Now don't get me wrong, it was bad...but it doesn't seem to be disastrous on a race by race basis. We are keeping most of our US House, State House, and State Senate seats.

However, in the past I hoped that 2018 and 2020 signaled the way forward. But now it looks like it was a high water mark. We are sliding back the other way. So I guess in that sense it was disastrous.

[tx 3 putt 76916]

7 minutes ago, mchookem said:

y'all just fucking come to Colorado. make it bluer. fuck it. it's beautiful. the climate is incredible. it respects its citizens. you can get high.

and once locals realize most of us Texans aren't coming here to change it but to escape the madness that is Texas, they chill out. there are Texas alumni everywhere, and very few aggy.

hell, if enough move here maybe we'll even get some good Mexican and BBQ 🤘

 

ive applied to many jobs in colorado / denver, no one has bit yet 

ill keep trying 

[tx 3 putt 76916]

tonight's win gives abbott / patrick / paxton a green light to fully implement their maga / project 2025 agenda 

paxton's power is unchecked in this state, he's going to as he wishes. i dont think abbott or paxton gets the AG nod from trump 

[Valmy77 13226]

2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

tonight's win gives abbott / patrick / paxton a green light to fully implement their maga / project 2025 agenda 

paxton's power is unchecked in this state, he's going to as he wishes. i dont think abbott or paxton gets the AG nod from trump 

Well see if Paxton was made Trump's AG I am pretty sure we would somehow end up with somebody worse. That seems to be how these things go.

[tx 3 putt 76916]

Just now, Valmy77 said:

Well see if Paxton was made Trump's AG I am pretty sure we would somehow end up with somebody worse. That seems to be how these things go.

 

wonky eye. trump can't have that standing next to him 

Edited November 6 by tx 3 putt

[Chad Fuck 17672]

 
wonky eye. trump can't have that standing next to him 

100% this.

[bluto 4920]

7 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Now don't get me wrong, it was bad...but it doesn't seem to be disastrous on a race by race basis. We are keeping most of our US House, State House, and State Senate seats.

However, in the past I hoped that 2018 and 2020 signaled the way forward. But now it looks like it was a high water mark. We are sliding back the other way. So I guess in that sense it was disastrous.

[Frank Drebin 5663]

Good.  The blue city judiciaries are a joke.  And they need to be balanced by GOP appellate judges.

[Frank Drebin 5663]

Trump takes Texas by 13.9, Florida by a mere 13.1. Texas is still the GOAT

[tx 3 putt 76916]

 

[tx 3 putt 76916]

 

[tx 3 putt 76916]

mission accomplished 

 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13511]

3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Dems did a horrible job when the GOP implied that Biden took US oil and gas production to all time lows when it fact it was the complete opposite. Is there anyone in South Texas or the Valley that either doesn’t work in O&G or have friends/family who do?  I can only guess that there are some prospective workers who assume that the Texas will triple production in the next 6 months and jobs will be falling from the sky.

[Dnaguy 11948]

7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Dems did a horrible job when the GOP implied that Biden took US oil and gas production to all time lows when it fact it was the complete opposite. Is there anyone in South Texas or the Valley that either doesn’t work in O&G or have friends/family who do?  I can only guess that there are some prospective workers who assume that the Texas will triple production in the next 6 months and jobs will be falling from the sky.

Facts don’t matter.

[tx 3 putt 76916]

9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Dems did a horrible job when the GOP implied that Biden took US oil and gas production to all time lows when it fact it was the complete opposite. Is there anyone in South Texas or the Valley that either doesn’t work in O&G or have friends/family who do?  I can only guess that there are some prospective workers who assume that the Texas will triple production in the next 6 months and jobs will be falling from the sky.

 

i agree, the dem energy - o/g message was horrible. on the flip side, they had no response for people wanting cheap gas

im curious if trump lets the saudis flood the market so they can regain market share ?

Edited November 7 by tx 3 putt

[Nice Guy Eddie 13511]

42 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

i agree, the dem energy - o/g message was horrible. on the flip side, they had no response for people wanting cheap gas

im curious if trump lets the saudis flood the market so they can regain market share ?

Trump wants to drill baby drill but no one is going to do that if prices are lower. And is any producer spending money to produce more natural gas since basically we are at low prices at their lowest in decades?

but then again since facts don’t matter Trump will just claim drilling is up and gas prices are down even if not accurate.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19101]

1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Trump wants to drill baby drill but no one is going to do that if prices are lower. And is any producer spending money to produce more natural gas since basically we are at low prices at their lowest in decades?

but then again since facts don’t matter Trump will just claim drilling is up and gas prices are down even if not accurate.

And the sheep will believe him because they are in a cult.

[Iceman 2701]

Starr County Texas, highest % Hispanic population of any county in America, at 97%.

2016, the county votes Dem by a 60.2% margin over Trump

2024, Trump takes Starr County by 16 points.

In 8 years? 

Edited November 7 by Iceman

[Nice Guy Eddie 13511]

12 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Starr County Texas, highest % Hispanic population of any county in America, at 97%.

2016, the county votes Dem by a 60.2% margin over Trump

2024, Trump takes Starr County by 16 points.

In 8 years? 

The only saving grace is that Texas Dems have long learned to not count on heavy vote counts from the Valley. Still stats like this make Texas going blue  an impossible proposition especially if Harris County is a light blue.

[cabowabo 4484]

18 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Starr County Texas, highest % Hispanic population of any county in America, at 97%.

2016, the county votes Dem by a 60.2% margin over Trump

2024, Trump takes Starr County by 16 points.

In 8 years? 

And had not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1897. 

[gmr548 16576]

22 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

ive applied to many jobs in colorado / denver, no one has bit yet 

ill keep trying 

May just be in the public sector, but when my wife was looking for work outside of TX, many Colorado jobs would explicitly only consider applicants that were current CO residents.

[tx 3 putt 76916]

1 minute ago, gmr548 said:

May just be in the public sector, but when my wife was looking for work outside of TX, many Colorado jobs would explicitly only consider applicants that were current CO residents.

 

this is now a very common practice across many industries 

[DigglerontheHoof 21194]

Dems need to come up w/ 3rd grade verbiage to communicate to the masses.  They also need to quit worrying about facts.  The American electorate is too fucking stupid to understand them or care. 

[Chad Fuck 17672]

Dems need to come up w/ 3rd grade verbiage to communicate to the masses.  They also need to quit worrying about facts.  The American electorate is too fucking stupid to understand them or care. 

Yup. Believing that people care about facts is apparently passé.

[Hagbard Celine 10854]

4th-hand just heard san antonio school kids got a text this afternoon saying the free lunch program for kids who could prove hardship has been cancelled, and the mom of the kid that got the text says wheels is behind it

again, very simone, but throwing it out there

[Sawbonz 27548]

On 11/5/2024 at 7:27 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Abbott and Patrick will use tax dollars, mainly paid by the large cities, to fund doctors to staff small town hospitals. But those small town residents will sneer at the deadbeat welfare recipients in the big cities.

Small town hospitals are dropping L&D. Not worth the shitshow

[safe sex 11712]

On 11/7/2024 at 8:18 AM, Chad Fuck said:

Yup. Believing that people care about facts is apparently passé.

People believe lies about Democrats and their policies and refuse facts about Republicans and their policies. If Democrats lie to the people, the media will report it and people will believe it.

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19101]

Truth is the Texas GQP is going to make life harder for kids that go to school in Texas. The lack of decent public education is going to mean that Texas kids will be ill prepared for higher education. And that means certain high paying jobs will be out of reach for a lot of Texas kids. Education is one of the ways that people can change their circumstances. The Texas government and the GQP as a whole is doing its damndest to fuck the population over. Its a joke that people keep voting for this.

[Frank Drebin 5663]

Texas does a stellar job with public education per NAEP adjusted scores.  Other states need to catch up

 

.

Texas is smoking shit holes like New York

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19101]

So not surprised that you are cherry picking data. You picked 4th grade and math from 2017 and 2019. 

[Frank Drebin 5663]

14 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

So not surprised that you are cherry picking data. You picked 4th grade and math from 2017 and 2019. 

I can post others.  But it is the most recent data. It is from the Urban Institute, a liberal think tank.  Your state has some work to do to catch Texas.  Kind of embarrassing results given how much less Texas spends per student than the state you're so sure is superior.

 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19101]

Again, 2019. That data is over 5 years old. I wonder what worldwide event happened between then and now that might change that data. Also, I wonder what the Texas GQP has done hard core since 2020 to change that. 

Long and short, by pulling funds out of publilc schools, you are really going to fuck over the people who need education the most. But I do not expect you to care given your track record here.