Texas Governor's Race 2022

[Brisketexan 106922]

I can already tell I'm regret asking this but what are "Puberty Blockers"?  Is like when you don't let a 9 year old have an AR-15?  

They’re like Blue Blockers, but they block you from seeing prepubescent girls.

As you might have expected, the Matt Gaetz GQP HATES them.

[Biff Tannen 46170]

Isn’t is a trans thing?  Or am I making that up?

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 

I really wish UT would somehow take their degrees back, they are so fucking embarrassing.

But then they'd hold that up as "LIBROOLS ATTACKING US"

 

huffines wants to be the governor or beat out abbott for worst UT graduate ?

[JimmyJames 12271]

I’ve come around. Either we get a dem for gov or we get sniffing huffines. It’s the only way to burn it all down and flip this mofo. 

[Brisketexan 106922]

 
huffines wants to be the governor or beat out abbott for worst UT graduate ?

Yes.

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3 hours ago, Lobo said:

I can already tell I'm regret asking this but what are "Puberty Blockers"?  Is like when you don't let a 9 year old have an AR-15?  

It's the stuff that turns frogs gay.

That's all that's missing from Huffines' rants.

[Horn Dogg 4297]

4 hours ago, JimmyJames said:

I’ve come around. Either we get a dem for gov or we get sniffing huffines. It’s the only way to burn it all down and flip this mofo. 

So let me ask you this.  I’m by no means a fan of Huffines, but what the fuck has Greg Abbott actually done to help the state of Texas?  I literally can’t think of one good thing. 

[kevwun 16442]

It's not that Abbott has done a single good thing, it's that Huffines is a fucking psychopath.

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2 hours ago, kevwun said:

it's that Huffines is a fucking psychopath.

I still think we need to find the motherfucker that fed him after midnight.

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6 hours ago, Horn Dogg said:

So let me ask you this.  I’m by no means a fan of Huffines, but what the fuck has Greg Abbott actually done to help the state of Texas?  I literally can’t think of one good thing. 

Abbott is going hard-right and pushing MAGA everything because he thinks it will win him votes/endorsements from Daddy Trump.

Huffines does it because he's a True Believer in that shit.

[Brisketexan 106922]

44 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Abbott is going hard-right and pushing MAGA everything because he thinks it will win him votes/endorsements from Daddy Trump.

Huffines does it because he's a True Believer in that shit.

Synthetic opioid.

Natural opioid.

Get a mega-dose of either, you're dead just the same.  In the GQP primary, Texas has a choice of HOW it wants to ingest deadly poison, but zero choice as to IF it wants to.

This fucking state.

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14 hours ago, Lobo said:

I can already tell I'm regret asking this but what are "Puberty Blockers"?  Is like when you don't let a 9 year old have an AR-15?  

Not sure if you already got an answer to this, but this is related to transgender kids.  One of the treatments helps delay puberty.  The intent is that it gives transgender kids and families time to figure out what the right path is before the kid goes through all the changes of puberty, which may be confusing and difficult to reverse.  This came up when Arkansas tried to block all the trans treatments for kids.

This article covers some of it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-arkansas-law-and-similar-bills-endanger-transgender-youth-research-shows/

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Experts say claims that gender-affirming medical treatments are experimental or risky are flawed on several levels. Puberty blockers—a class of drugs called GnRH agonists that dampen the effects of sex hormones—have been used safely for decades to delay puberty in children who start it too early. In transgender youth, the drugs are used to prevent the development of permanent sex characteristics such as breasts and voice changes at the onset of puberty—generally age nine or older. Gender-affirming hormones—testosterone or estrogen—are not usually given until a person is in their teens. These hormones promote the development of sex characteristics that are different from those of the sex that an individual was assigned at birth.

 

[bluto 4998]

I saw Chad Prather at the Colorado Springs airport Sunday with his entourage. Don’t worry, I didn’t know who the f he was either.

[elfenix 34753]

 
I really wish UT would somehow take their degrees back, they are so fucking embarrassing.
But then they'd hold that up as "LIBROOLS ATTACKING US"

Is he actually a big time candidate when he only has 320 engagements on a tweet?

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1 hour ago, elfenix said:

Is he actually a big time candidate when he only has 320 engagements on a tweet?

He's apparently big enough to scare Abbott.

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2692]

Anyone who gives a shit about whether some other random family might use a puberty blocker (which is temporary) in consultation with a doctor, because they are potentially dealing with the most stigmatized situation you can encounter, can fuck right off. How the fuck do people asserting much rights/muh freedoms reconcile this authoritarianism?

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

8 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Anyone who gives a shit about whether some other random family might use a puberty blocker (which is temporary) in consultation with a doctor, because they are potentially dealing with the most stigmatized situation you can encounter, can fuck right off. How the fuck do people asserting much rights/muh freedoms reconcile this authoritarianism?

easily. they're terrible people

[Hornius Emeritus 12806]

Just realized Huffines is following me on Twitter. 

[Satchel 6982]

I don’t understand why, in a state of 34 million people, the Democrats can’t find anybody to run against Abbott, Patrick and Paxton?

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1 hour ago, Satchel said:

I don’t understand why, in a state of 34 million people, the Democrats can’t find anybody to run against Abbott, Patrick and Paxton?

Because they are Democrats?

[F250 29201]

1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Just realized Huffines is following me on Twitter. 

[C-Man 27787]

I know this has been shared before but I feel it cannot be posted too many times.

 

[capnamerca 585]

9 hours ago, C-Man said:

I know this has been shared before but I feel it cannot be posted too many times.

 

What in the literal fuck?

 

I hadn't seen that before. Thank you for sharing. Jesus.

[Js1 87190]

1. I am conflicted on Abbott versus Huffines.  I think Abbott is more of an opportunist - he will go whichever way the wind blows with the base.  If, somehow, miraculously, the entire GQP base went pro-business, pro-immigration, pro-masks and pro-public education tomorrow, he'd be calling for a special session to repeal basically the entire 2021 legislative agenda he signed.  Huffines is a true believer in the crazy - he'd more likely help turn Texas blue faster than demographics, but at what cost? 

2. I've heard some rumblings of an imminent Beto announcement for governor. 

[DigglerontheHoof 21554]

5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

1. I am conflicted on Abbott versus Huffines.  I think Abbott is more of an opportunist - he will go whichever way the wind blows with the base.  If, somehow, miraculously, the entire GQP base went pro-business, pro-immigration, pro-masks and pro-public education tomorrow, he'd be calling for a special session to repeal basically the entire 2021 legislative agenda he signed.  Huffines is a true believer in the crazy - he'd more likely help turn Texas blue faster than demographics, but at what cost? 

2. I've heard some rumblings of an imminent Beto announcement for governor. 

Beto will get crushed.   Whoever the Rep candidate is will run that clip of him saying he'll take guns over and over and over again.  

Edited September 16, 2021 by DigglerontheHoof

[Js1 87190]

4 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

Beto will get crushed.   Whoever the Rep candidate is will run that clip of him saying he'll take guns over and over and over again.  

We are 12 months out from the 2022 election and no one has stepped up.  At all.   

Honestly, I don't see anyone who will keep it to single digits.  Beto can at least do that much, as long as he doesn't even talk about guns.  Keep it to what it is - the bogus abortion law, the mask mandates/public health, Abbott going full MAGA, etc.  The GQP will do whatever it takes to deflect from that and bring up guns. 

He at least has name recognition already and has put in the work to get Texans registered to vote.  If Clay Jenkins or Linda Hidalgo or Ron Nirenberg are going to run, they have a lot of fucking work to do because outside of Dallas/Houston/San Antonio, they have no name recognition.  Which is what dooms Dems every cycle. 

Edited September 16, 2021 by Js1

[kevwun 16442]

Trump was the burn it all down candidate for many.  After living through that, I don't ever want to hear someone try to rationalize doing that again.

Edited September 16, 2021 by kevwun

[Js1 87190]

Just now, kevwun said:

Trump was the burn it all down candidate.  After living through that, let's never try that shit again.

Yeah, a Huffines and Patrick combo would do a lot of damage.  A lot.  

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23 minutes ago, kevwun said:

Trump was the burn it all down candidate for many.  After living through that, I don't ever want to hear someone try to rationalize doing that again.

[C-Man 27787]

1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

This. I was somewhat amused that a game show host was elected president in 2016. I didn't think he'd do shit. I was wrong. I was way the fuck wrong. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'd like to extend a hearty "fuck you" to Don Huffines and his ilk.

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

16 minutes ago, C-Man said:

This. I was somewhat amused that a game show host was elected president in 2016. I didn't think he'd do shit. I was wrong. I was way the fuck wrong. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I'd like to extend a hearty "fuck you" to Don Huffines and his ilk.

I was terrified as all hell bc I was with a chick who saw doom and gloom everywhere. She was right about some of it, wrong about much of it. But in the end her paranoia and my curiosity lead me to follow TFG more closely than I wanted to. I can easily say the republic won't survive a TFG2. And yes, he paved the way for sentient gargoyles like Huffines to slither from their swamp and make their presence known.

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2692]

I don't think Huffhines has a chance. While I've been voting in the R primaries for a while just to vote against all these horribles that keep getting in anyway, there are no circumstances under which I'd vote for Abbott. Let the chips fall where they may.

[DaysOff 8212]

I don’t understand why, in a state of 34 million people, the Democrats can’t find anybody to run against Abbott, Patrick and Paxton?

They are lazy. Waiting for the brown ones over there to have a demographic advantage.

[Js1 87190]

Just now, DaysOff said:

They are lazy. Waiting for the brown ones over there to have a demographic advantage.

There’s also no bench. None. 

[Bozo_Casanova 26860]

11 minutes ago, Js1 said:

There’s also no bench. None. 

No party, really. It's like a building and letterhead more than anything else. 

[Satchel 6982]

53 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

No party, really. It's like a building and letterhead more than anything else. 

Really demoralizing.

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

16 hours ago, Satchel said:

I don’t understand why, in a state of 34 million people, the Democrats can’t find anybody to run against Abbott, Patrick and Paxton?

I don't either, but I'm all for paying @RDCanecutter to move in long enough to run. Everyone would be charmed by the storytelling and no one could remember what all the anger at each other was about. Win in a landslide.

Pretty disheartened by the lack of local candidates, but it's tumbleweeds and dusty curtains in my neck of the woods.

[Brisketexan 106922]

1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

No party, really. It's like a building and letterhead more than anything else. 

 

22 minutes ago, Satchel said:

Really demoralizing.

These.  There is no statewide organization or strategy.  None.  Just a name brand that some people run under.  Believe it or not, Beto has done more to create a unified party strategy than anyone in the past 30 years....and to be clear, he hasn't done shit.  He's just done more than anyone else.

And some of that blame goes to the national Dem party (which isn't a lot better).  It hasn't provided any help of note to Texas in building a state party.

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11 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I don't either, but I'm all for paying @RDCanecutter to move in long enough to run. Everyone would be charmed by the storytelling and no one could remember what all the anger at each other was about. Win in a landslide.

Pretty disheartened by the lack of local candidates, but it's tumbleweeds and dusty curtains in my neck of the woods.

I would vote for RD.

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2692]

So, Joe Jaworski is running against Paxton, and Mike Collier is running against Patrick (again). 

They seem like decent candidates but agree the name recognition is pretty weak. Being the grandson of Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski is at least something though. 

Regarding Governor, as much as those of us who pay attention have criticisms of the Castro bros, I think one of them could make a decent run against Abbott. Time to man up.

[Satchel 6982]

1 minute ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

So, Joe Jaworski is running against Paxton, and Mike Collier is running against Patrick (again). 

They seem like decent candidates but agree the name recognition is pretty weak. Being the grandson of Watergate prosecutor Leon Jaworski is at least something though. 

Regarding Governor, as much as those of us who pay attention have criticisms of the Castro bros, I think one of them could make a decent run against Abbott. Time to man up.

I agree. There are millions of us just waiting to vote for somebody decent.

[Js1 87190]

They won't. 

[YChang 3570]

Donate or turn out and help get the recognition out for Jaworski and Collier then! Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I think Paxton and Patrick are the most vulnerable. 

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

33 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I don't either, but I'm all for paying @RDCanecutter to move in long enough to run. Everyone would be charmed by the storytelling and no one could remember what all the anger at each other was about. Win in a landslide.

Pretty disheartened by the lack of local candidates, but it's tumbleweeds and dusty curtains in my neck of the woods.

Mr Whiggins not putting out anymore? 🤣

Edited September 16, 2021 by Longhorn_Fan68

[Brisketexan 106922]

22 minutes ago, ChuckNorrisActionJeans said:

Regarding Governor, as much as those of us who pay attention have criticisms of the Castro bros, I think one of them could make a decent run against Abbott. Time to man up.

Waiting on one of the Castro brothers to man up and acquit himself well on behalf of the state of Texas?  Yeah.....shit in one hand and wish that in the other, etc.

[RDCanecutter 26898]

38 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

I don't either, but I'm all for paying @RDCanecutter to move in long enough to run. Everyone would be charmed by the storytelling and no one could remember what all the anger at each other was about. Win in a landslide.

Get me a little person and a broom and a truck we can both stand in while campaigning. Then later I'll give everybody new things to be angry about.

[Pescado_Rojo 19590]

2 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Get me a little person and a broom and a truck we can both stand in while campaigning. Then later I'll give everybody new things to be angry about.

I'm picturing you in a seersucker suit and straw hat, holding your lapels while you talk. 

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20929]

On his campaign website, Huffines talks about how he's "self-made."  Yeah, other than being the son of the owner of Huffines Auto Group in the Dallas Metroplex, which was started by his grandfather in 1924. You know, the auto group with 9 locations, 800 workers, and sold 19000+ cars last year. 

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27 minutes ago, YChang said:

Donate or turn out and help get the recognition out for Jaworski and Collier then! Maybe I'm too optimistic, but I think Paxton and Patrick are the most vulnerable. 

Just have to have a recognizable name in the Dem box for Gov, though.  Just have to.

[Longhorn_Fan68 34106]

10 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

On his campaign website, Huffines talks about how he's "self-made."  Yeah, other than being the son of the owner of Huffines Auto Group in the Dallas Metroplex, which was started by his grandfather in 1924. You know, the auto group with 9 locations, 800 workers, and sold 19000+ cars last year. 

irony is indeed dead