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Posted
  22 hours ago, bolverk said:

Quite the conundrum, ain't it? It's almost as if they want to prevent a lot of Texas citizens from voting by a) creating an elaborately Byzantine process and b) intimidating the shit out of our darker-hued neighbors.

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Why are they bothering?  Non GQP people don’t vote now.

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  23 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

Bill filed to eliminate TPWD. Enjoy your state parks before they are sold to the highest bidder.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2025/03/17/texas-parks-and-wildlife-department-pat-curry-house-bill-hb-4938-representatives/82490153007/

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Friend who works as staff for a House member told me this morning that this bill is already dead (see how high the bill number is,  will likely never even make it to a committee hearing) and is likely just a freshman rep trying to swing his tiny little dick around. Said its likely someone at TPWD slighted that member and he is trying to get their attention...

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  22 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

How exactly would the average voter be able to prove their citizenship status? And realize that Trump is fighting to remove birthright citizenship. If that occurs, then showing up with a certified birth certificate means nothing other than you were born here. And just saying your parents were citizens, and therefore confers citizenship on you, may not be enough. Whos to say that your parents were citizens or their parents? 

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The elimination of birthright citizenship absolutely has this as the end-game.  You say you're a citizen?  Well, your birth certificate isn't enough.  You need to show proof your PARENTS were citizens/legal residents when you were born.  What, you don't have that paperwork?  Then GIT OUTTA HERE, YOU DIRTY FOREIGNER!*

* Please note that this will NOT be the way the law works....at least, it won't be if your name is John Smith, Bill Jones, etc.  You only have to worry if you have a name like Juan Gomez or some dirty messican shit like that.  And don't think I'm not looking at you, too, Maheer Abdul.

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Just called Pat Curry’s office.  I’d recommend you all harass them too.  Fucking insanity 

Here’s the number - 512-463-0135.  They have some kid answering the phone.  He was cordial, but I want to shame him for working for a dickhead 

Posted
  20 hours ago, HalfSack Horn said:

Just called Pat Curry’s office.  I’d recommend you all harass them too.  Fucking insanity 

Here’s the number - 512-463-0135.  They have some kid answering the phone.  He was cordial, but I want to shame him for working for a dickhead 

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Great idea. Maybe if enough people call their elected leaders and voice their outrage it’ll have absolutely no impact whatsoever.

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Posted (edited)
  20 hours ago, South Austin said:

Great idea. Maybe if enough people call their elected leaders and voice their outrage it’ll have absolutely no impact whatsoever.

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I don’t disagree, but it made me feel better for all of 1 minute and for the minute it took me to type my post haha.   These people answering the phones deserve to hate their jobs at least…

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  20 hours ago, HalfSack Horn said:

Just called Pat Curry’s office.  I’d recommend you all harass them too.  Fucking insanity 

Here’s the number - 512-463-0135.  They have some kid answering the phone.  He was cordial, but I want to shame him for working for a dickhead 

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Kinda surprised you got an answer right away on the phone, have heard some rather astonishing stories of how far the phone skills of the fresh meat Gen Z new capital staffers have fallen...

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  20 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Kinda surprised you got an answer right away on the phone, have heard some rather astonishing stories of how far the phone skills of the fresh meat Gen Z new capital staffers have fallen...

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I harangued the staff of my State Rep, my State Senator, and my U.S. Rep late Friday afternoon. It felt so good to unload on them, I'm pretty sure I'm going to make it a weekly thing to call just before 5 pm while they're getting ready to leave the office for the weekend.

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For all the fuckupedness Texas politicians demonstrate, I have an equal disdain for New York and South Carolina idoit politicos. The three states have produced some of the most craven windbags in the history of this nation. A pox on all of them. 
 

 

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The lege is really going after the furries and the anime dorks (probably quite a bit of overlap in that Venn diagram) this session. 

Posted (edited)
  23 hours ago, South Austin said:

So much fraud and waste going on with our state parks.

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The bill transfers all employees and current appropriations and property to other agencies.  It doesn't save a nickel.

The real reason here. https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/texas-lawmaker-deer-breeder-abolish-tpwd/

All in the name of protecting deer breeders, like himself.

Piece of shit.

 

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  13 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

The bill transfers all employees and current appropriations and property to other agencies.  It doesn't save a nickel.

The real reason here. https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/texas-lawmaker-deer-breeder-abolish-tpwd/

All in the name of protecting deer breeders, like himself.

Piece of shit.

 

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Can't edit.  Some things I learned.  Native deer are legally publicly owned, regardless of the "living" or "breeding" conditions.  TPWD thus regulates even private herds as game animals.  This can be unpleasant and expensive for deer breeders, especially if some mad cow crops up.  TPWD can order destruction of the herd.

Curry wants to have "private" deer herds that are (un)regulated as livestock.

That's the whole reason for this.

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  13 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Can't edit.  Some things I learned.  Native deer are legally publicly owned, regardless of the "living" or "breeding" conditions.  TPWD thus regulates even private herds as game animals.  This can be unpleasant and expensive for deer breeders, especially if some mad cow crops up.  TPWD can order destruction of the herd.

Curry wants to have "private" deer herds that are (un)regulated as livestock.

That's the whole reason for this.

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It always boils down to corruption in some form or fashion. If sanity is ever going to prevail, "corruption, corruption, corruption" has to be the leading message to the masses...on repeat and ad nauseum. There's nothing ideological about it, and everyone "gets it" on a gut level, so the head-in-the-sand independents, low-information voters, and the conscientious conservative crowds could, theoretically, eventually comprehend what the fuck is going on if hammered home consistently and constantly.

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  12 hours ago, bolverk said:

It always boils down to corruption in some form or fashion. If sanity is ever going to prevail, "corruption, corruption, corruption" has to be the leading message to the masses...on repeat and ad nauseum. There's nothing ideological about it, and everyone "gets it" on a gut level, so the head-in-the-sand independents, low-information voters, and the conscientious conservative crowds could, theoretically, eventually comprehend what the fuck is going on if hammered home consistently and constantly.

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It will only work if this admin causes them pain - in meaningful numbers.  And that may actually be happening.  Hammering anyone by saying shit does jack shit.  

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  12 hours ago, ChiTownDoc said:

It will only work if this admin causes them pain - in meaningful numbers.  And that may actually be happening.  Hammering anyone by saying shit does jack shit.  

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Oh yeah, of course, they've got to feel pain, and I'm all for that. That's a given which should go without saying. But I'm also suggesting we "shape the battlefield" or "condition them" so they're more amenable to the idea when each of them gets burned. And it will. And God help them when it does. Repeating the word "corruption" a) is fucking true, b) has no ideology, c) plants the idea, and d) will be fertile fucking ground. Even the non-evil numbskulls of the bunch will get it. Shit, the idea that everything is fucking corrupt is what actually brought down the Iron Curtain.

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Why in the flying fuck would this state need to breed deer? Every hill country neighborhood is overrun with scrawny malnourished deer scrambling for water and food.

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  6 hours ago, DaysOff said:

Why in the flying fuck would this [landowners]state need to breed deer?

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To put it succinctly since I'm derailing the thread: money.

Less succinctly, the way I understand it has to do with a messy convergence of private property rights, high vs. low fencing, canned hunts on large tracts of private land (where one can introduce those bred deer), and a general trend towards serfdom in rural areas wherein a few wealthy landowners (either individuals or corporate) own swaths of land and the remaining smaller outfits exist to provide services (plumbing, HVAC, etc). If one essentially creates a barrier wherein wildlife cannot escape, then it's been argued that the situation resembles the sheriff of Nottingham and the monarchy wherein the public no longer can access 'their' deer and it is the possessive 'their' that is the sticking point. Wild life as was mentioned were considered as belonging to the state, but some landowners having gone to the trouble of feeding them and whatnot, considered them 'theirs.' Thus when enterprising folks began breeding deer, it introduced a whole 'nother level of complications. Add CWD to the mix and the usual corrupt nature of Texas politics and here we are.

(I didn't even get into the whole poaching and/or setting up blinds near fence lines type behaviors. I don't have a dog nor deer in this hunt, just things I've observed and if I'm off base, feel free to chime in)

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  12 hours ago, bolverk said:
It always boils down to corruption in some form or fashion. If sanity is ever going to prevail, "corruption, corruption, corruption" has to be the leading message to the masses...on repeat and ad nauseum. There's nothing ideological about it, and everyone "gets it" on a gut level, so the head-in-the-sand independents, low-information voters, and the conscientious conservative crowds could, theoretically, eventually comprehend what the fuck is going on if hammered home consistently and constantly.

It is about corruption. According to FOX voters, Biden had the most corrupt administration ever, after Clinton and Obama.

Among the less braindead, we have bothsiders who believe both sides are corrupt and that money rules politics, which it does. Nevermind that democrats are the only party that wants to do something about it.


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