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Wow I didn’t know that, not to be rude but is there a source on that?  I cannot imagine living with a national public figure for a parent, who not only spreads that hate to a huge audience but is also

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2 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Perhaps some of it is jobs? The increased enforcement, construction, etc may be putting money in people's pockets? The GOP strategy in Florida was through a Trump Spanish language radio blitz that worked pretty well. I don't know if they did much in the RGV, but in the documentary about Florida during Bush-Gore they discussed the way the Elian Gonzalez affair was used as a wedge issue. Fear is always a short term strategy and it's difficult to get people to thinking in longer terms sometimes, but maybe having a ground force that is good with visionary strategies that work can illustrate how immigrant citizens working puts more money in people's pockets for a longer length of time would help.

I thought about the economics of the wall, but I can't imagine that the construction benefits enough people to account for an appreciable amount of the swing. It could be that people in that region are just staunchly pro-wall due to negative effects there from illegal immigration, but the wall was already a big deal in 16. 

It seems to me it had to be something recent, so maybe the lockdowns are somehow part of the answer. But on the other hand, lockdowns are/were a state govt issue, though it's feasible a goodly number of people were confused about that. Even more confounding to me about the swing is how much that region in particular has suffered from covid. 

I'd guess it was mostly the Rs winning the messaging war down there and sewing fears of socialism. The Dems probably took those votes for granted and got outflanked. 

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

In Florida, they used SOCIALISM and swamped the air/social media with false attacks on Democrats to appeal to the Cuban/Venezuelans. 

In Texas, Republicans really ran with "Democrats want to defund the police and lock everyone down," which really hurt because Hispanics are actually pro-police and of course, lockdowns hurt them disproportionately. 

Yep. This is why I think the "Without COVID, Trump wins the election" crowd is wrong. As dumbfounding as it is to say, I think his handling of COVID gained him voters. 

There's 50M voters out there who are just never going to vote for a Democrat (or anyone they view as too liberal) for literally any reason, killing off everyone's grandparents obviously included. Socialism, taxes, abortion, anti-religion...really playing the hits.

Then about 20M true MAGAs who won't let this "Plandemic" take out their lord and savior.*

After seeing nothing wrong with the previous 3 years of shit show, those votes were lock absolutely locked in. 

But there are a shit ton of people closer to the middle who were very successfully sold on the idea that Democrats want the lockdowns to last forever, not allow you to make a living, and only allow you to leave your home to burn down a police station.

 

*Ted Cruz wants those 20M, but he's not about that life.

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Just send another email to his office telling him to resign. Sure it won't do shit and he'll never set eyes on it but it makes me feel better. 

This may have been covered before but do any of you guys that have worked in a political office know how those are handled exactly? I'm assuming they have interns working through them and maybe one out of every few hundred gets run up the flagpole for whatever reason. For emails of support they probably send a form "thank you" letter and make sure that email is on fundraising lists. 

Would they keep a general accounting of what they are receiving (positive/negative/issue)? Is there a critical mass of "resign" emails Ted Cruz could receive that would come across his radar in any real way?

 

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Poor Ted, he's got all these cute little campaign pet issues ready to go without slogans and everything. He's been waiting 4 loooong years to step out as 2024's leading candidate.

And folks are just styling on this motherfucker. Hahaha. 

Pittsburgh should fucking ban him from the city. He tries to disenfranchise their voters and now is trying to use them as a political prop - as a Texan. Where is that Lt Governor of theirs? 

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54 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

Pittsburgh should fucking ban him from the city. He tries to disenfranchise their voters and now is trying to use them as a political prop - as a Texan. Where is that Lt Governor of theirs? 

This right here. Didn't MMA originate there? They have a lot of GOP, but Ted shouldn't assume they want him messing in their business.

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Ted's moved away from Pittsburgh and left no forwarding address (after being slapped around on Twitter). Now he's about the National Guard (in case you missed it, read the Politico article about the NG being removed from the Capitol fracas):
 

Ok, a couple of issues with this. My first and biggest issue is Cruz self-righteously commenting on it. The National Guard wouldn’t even have been needed were it not for seditious politicians like DJT, Cruze, Hawkeye, Gaetz, et al stirring up their followers.

Second, this may be a little controversial, but aren’t these soldiers? Don’t they train to fight wars in uncomfortable climates and rough conditions? Don’t they bivouac in conditions far worse than outside in the National Mall or in parking decks? I mean sure, take care of them if we can, but I’m not getting the complete outrage over their circumstances. I guess they can’t dig latrines in the National Mall, so there’s that.
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Ok, a couple of issues with this. My first and biggest issue is Cruz self-righteously commenting on it. The National Guard wouldn’t even have been needed were it not for seditious politicians like DJT, Cruze, Hawkeye, Gaetz, et al stirring up their followers.

Second, this may be a little controversial, but aren’t these soldiers? Don’t they train to fight wars in uncomfortable climates and rough conditions? Don’t they bivouac in conditions far worse than outside in the National Mall or in parking decks? I mean sure, take care of them if we can, but I’m not getting the complete outrage over their circumstances. I guess they can’t dig latrines in the National Mall, so there’s that.

Well yes, but see earlier posts about Ted's likely belief that people Texans are too stupid to think like you do, and he's trying to make them forget that he riled everyone up in Georgia and other things prior to the 6th. It's the short term thinking crowd. Ted loves to stand before them on the stage with the t-shirt cannon so everyone is watching and forgets the game sucks.

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4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Ted's moved away from Pittsburgh and left no forwarding address (after being slapped around on Twitter). Now he's about the National Guard (in case you missed it, read the Politico article about the NG being removed from the Capitol fracas):

 

What was Ted doing, tweeting about it like a bitch?

AOC offered up her office to the NG troops and offered to keep them well-fed with snacks.

Where was Ted when Texas NG and DPS troops were sleeping in the Texas Capitol over the summer and lege members were paying for supplies for them out of their own pockets? 

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24 minutes ago, Js1 said:

What was Ted doing, tweeting about it like a bitch?

AOC offered up her office to the NG troops and offered to keep them well-fed with snacks.

Where was Ted when Texas NG and DPS troops were sleeping in the Texas Capitol over the summer and lege members were paying for supplies for them out of their own pockets? 

doing his best to not do his job

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On 1/21/2021 at 8:48 AM, Mrs Whiggins said:

Perhaps some of it is jobs? The increased enforcement, construction, etc may be putting money in people's pockets? The GOP strategy in Florida was through a Trump Spanish language radio blitz that worked pretty well. I don't know if they did much in the RGV, but in the documentary about Florida during Bush-Gore they discussed the way the Elian Gonzalez affair was used as a wedge issue. Fear is always a short term strategy and it's difficult to get people to thinking in longer terms sometimes, but maybe having a ground force that is good with visionary strategies that work can illustrate how immigrant citizens working puts more money in people's pockets for a longer length of time would help.

 

I've said this before somewhere on one of these threads: If you are high school graduate who stayed out of trouble and can speak some decent spanish, you can get a job with Border Patrol right of HS paying 50K plus decent benefits.

A LOT of people in the RGV have a brother or tio or primo or a husband who fits that description, going back however many years BP has been on their hiring spurge.

They think a Biden presidency puts a stop to all that.

 

 

Then there is the who machismo thing.

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29 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

 

Wasn't this fuck just a few days ago fomenting insurrection to keep in power a guy that has created our current recession and killed more Americans than any other president since Hoover?  You'd think he'd give it a few days at least to let the heat die down and for our goldfish sized attention span move on to other things first.

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Wasn't this fuck just a few days ago fomenting insurrection to keep in power a guy that has created our current recession and killed more Americans than any other president since Hoover?  You'd think he'd give it a few days at least to let the heat die down and for our goldfish sized attention span move on to other things first.

Yes. This fuck was also completely fine with the GOP policy of letting millions of Americans die from covid.  

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On 1/21/2021 at 9:48 AM, UncleSonny said:

Just send another email to his office telling him to resign. Sure it won't do shit and he'll never set eyes on it but it makes me feel better. 

This may have been covered before but do any of you guys that have worked in a political office know how those are handled exactly? I'm assuming they have interns working through them and maybe one out of every few hundred gets run up the flagpole for whatever reason. For emails of support they probably send a form "thank you" letter and make sure that email is on fundraising lists. 

Would they keep a general accounting of what they are receiving (positive/negative/issue)? Is there a critical mass of "resign" emails Ted Cruz could receive that would come across his radar in any real way?

 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/what-calling-congress-achieves

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14 minutes ago, The Royal We said:

Good call on the diet Coke there chubbs. 

Replace the subway sandwich with a Big Mac and he'd be 80% transformed into Trump.  He'll reappear in 2 weeks with a fake orange tan. 

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33 minutes ago, Foosters said:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/03/06/what-calling-congress-achieves

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 No matter how a message comes in—by phone, e-mail, post, fax, carrier pigeon—it is entered into a software program known as a constituent-management system. Owing to stringent security requirements, only a few of these systems are authorized by Congress, and many members use one called Intranet Quorum, made by Leidos, a Virginia-based defense contractor and technology company. 

Thanks, this is what I was looking for. 

Story even includes a quote from Ted's press secretary confirming he doesn't give a shit, because it's his unimpeachable values and ideals that drive his service to the state of Texas: 

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“We want people to know their voices are being heard,” Phil Novack, the press secretary for Ted Cruz, told me, before going on to say, essentially, that they wouldn’t be heeded: “The senator was elected based on certain values and ideals, and he’s going to keep fighting for those, even though some of his constituents might disagree.” 

 

 

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38 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

Thanks, this is what I was looking for. 

Story even includes a quote from Ted's press secretary confirming he doesn't give a shit, because it's his unimpeachable values and ideals that drive his service to the state of Texas: 

 

 

In other words, he's only there to represent those who think like he wants them to.   

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