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Hank Scorpio
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I'm sorry, look at all these old fucking goblins at this thing:  Let's go one by one:  Beatrice She has not missed a single city council meeting or church bingo in 35 years. S

Born to Run
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I’ve heard this bullshit my entire life, hell I used to believe the myth that Republicans were all about “faith in the common man succeeding when unimpeded by the govt.” Left alone business and humani

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I do volunteer work for Beto's campaign (surprise!). I get called a "libtard" on a regular basis and get a lot of responses that are just "#MAGA!" and the like, but I also hear a lot of "who is Beto?"

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Saw Beto speak in Houston tonight.  Packed house at Warehouse Live and I'd guess there were around 1500 people there. 
A retired friend of mine drove from Austin yesterday to be at this event. He moved here from the Woodlands a few years ago. Texted me a few pics and also estimated about 1500 attendees. Even got some of his old pals who lean hard right to join him. They all came away impressed.
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11 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:
9 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:
Saw Beto speak in Houston tonight.  Packed house at Warehouse Live and I'd guess there were around 1500 people there. 

A retired friend of mine drove from Austin yesterday to be at this event. He moved here from the Woodlands a few years ago. Texted me a few pics and also estimated about 1500 attendees. Even got some of his old pals who lean hard right to join him. They all came away impressed.

When you pull people away from Fox News for a few hours, the brainwashing can be removed.  However most go back to Fox News. 

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I’m getting a few of my coworkers to vote with me this fall. They never vote. I may have to buy them lunch though.
 
One of them asked me “what’s this guy even running for?” I told him he’s going against Ted Cruz.
 
His response: “fuck that guy. He has such a punchable face. I’m in.”

Hound them, get them to sign the Beto pledge to vote, get them to a rally, drive them to the polls. Whatever the fuck it takes.
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Okay, maybe alt-country doesn’t suck (except for Drive-by Truckers, which is the cause of my ire and I think Sturgill is massively overrated by the unwashed masses. He’s just kinda good)

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13 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

Okay, maybe alt-country doesn’t suck (except for Drive-by Truckers, which is the cause of my ire and I think Sturgill is massively overrated by the unwashed masses. He’s just kinda good)

My man, you are cruisin for a bruisin

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6 hours ago, thepop said:

I’m getting a few of my coworkers to vote with me this fall. They never vote. I may have to buy them lunch though.

 

One of them asked me “what’s this guy even running for?” I told him he’s going against Ted Cruz.

 

His response: “fuck that guy. He has such a punchable face. I’m in.”

I'll send you some of my Jersey Mikes coupons to help with the cause

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29 minutes ago, OatmealRaisinCookie said:

Okay, maybe alt-country doesn’t suck (except for Drive-by Truckers, which is the cause of my ire and I think Sturgill is massively overrated by the unwashed masses. He’s just kinda good)

Drive By Truckers are not alt-country or any kinda country at all. They are just a kick ass rock band that happens to be from Alabama. 

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1) Notice how Cruz is keeping the anthem/kneeling thing alive to distract from the fact he has no actual platform than keeping Texas scared and red? 

2) He doesn't use the Tough as Texas slogan much anymore.  Didn't test out as well as CA thought it would, I guess.  Funny how people want more from a senator than being a Ford truck.

3) He's got this in the bag as long as the russian puppet keeps at bay any real attempt to secure elections.  http://grassrootsdempolitics.com/index.php/2018/08/23/gop-senators-stalling-on-the-secure-elections-act/

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GOP Senators Stalling On The Secure Elections Act

Yahoo News today reported that at the request of the White House(read Trump), GOP members of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee that overseas federal elections today stalled a bill–Secure Elections Act–that enjoys bipartisan support and would have significantly shored up election system defenses against the threat of Russian hacking in the  midterms and beyond. Listed below are the shameful GOP Senators in the Rules Committee who don’t want to secure our voting machines. Notice the list includes two of the most despised U.S. Senators–Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell–truly deplorable!!

4) Bolded part fits in with the talk about the rest of the country's view of Texas political acumen if we allow this guy to be re-elected. 

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6 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

I keep an eye on the pages of my old friends who are effectively conservative bots.  They are a good window into how these folks, umm, "think."  Here's a fun one:

39072477_1731790170252437_27823412023163

Fairly weak.  I can appreciate a good joke or meme even at the expense of someone I like (even myself) but this isn't funny.

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Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Fairly weak.  I can appreciate a good joke or meme even at the expense of someone I like (even myself) but this isn't funny.

Well, Cruz and his fans aren't very good at being funny, so....yeah.

And honestly, the "he's a socialist" attack pattern is just so damned lazy.  Look, there are folks on the left who definitely deserve scrutiny for some far-left positions they hold.  But the "socialist" label has come to be so broadly applied -- really, to anyone and everyone who isn't full-on Trumpist -- that it has no real meaning, other than "it's scary!"  Which, by the way, works like a charm on Cruz's base.  So, I'm not saying it's a bad tactic -- it works for them, groovy.  I'm just observing that it's meaningless to everyone outside of the base.  

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On top of that, that meme went out of style a decade ago didn't it?

No worries, they'll come up with something featuring a dancing baby next....

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What we have to understand -- and I'm being serious here -- is that the average Cruz supporter is the exact kind of person whose computer screen looked like this a few years ago:

FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:

 

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Well, Cruz and his fans aren't very good at being funny, so....yeah.

And honestly, the "he's a socialist" attack pattern is just so damned lazy.  Look, there are folks on the left who definitely deserve scrutiny for some far-left positions they hold.  But the "socialist" label has come to be so broadly applied -- really, to anyone and everyone who isn't full-on Trumpist -- that it has no real meaning, other than "it's scary!"  Which, by the way, works like a charm on Cruz's base.  So, I'm not saying it's a bad tactic -- it works for them, groovy.  I'm just observing that it's meaningless to everyone outside of the base.  

the worst part about democracy is that if you spend 100 hours learning all the issues and reading and sorting through the mess, your vote counts the same as a guy acting with no prefrontal cortex.

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4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And honestly, the "he's a socialist" attack pattern is just so damned lazy.  

"Socialist" (regardless of whether the person accused is just left of center, a Democratic Socialist, or an actual Socialist) has pulled into a horse race with the specific "Hitler was a Socialist" for the best stupid right-wing echo chamber bullshit award.  There is no arguing any of it, either, regardless of mountains of evidence to the contrary, because as we know, the truth simply no longer matters, even to people who at one time were seemingly intelligent.

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29 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

No worries, they'll come up with something featuring a dancing baby next....

giphy.gif

What we have to understand -- and I'm being serious here -- is that the average Cruz supporter is the exact kind of person whose computer screen looked like this a few years ago:

FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD:

 

That stupid ass dancing baby .gif has pissed me off since it first showed up on the innertubes.

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36 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

[dammit, fixed imgur link -- it didn't show up as one when I copied it]

 

Fwd>Fwd>Fwd>Messing up the link that shows the archaic calculator joke is way more awesome in the desired vein of performance art, than getting the link right.

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Fwd>Fwd>Fwd>Messing up the link that shows the archaic calculator joke is way more awesome in the desired vein of performance art, than getting the link right.

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Someone here recommended the Preet Bhara podcast with Steve Schmidt last week and i finally got around to listening to it.

Schmidt said that one cause of Trump was that we dont teach civics anymore.  Leaders along time ago thought that getting an education wasnt just the key to being employable and intelligent but it was vital in making you a good citizen.

Agreed with alot he said but that part resonated with me

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Someone here recommended the Preet Bhara podcast with Steve Schmidt last week and i finally got around to listening to it.

Schmidt said that one cause of Trump was that we dont teach civics anymore.  Leaders along time ago thought that getting an education wasnt just the key to being employable and intelligent but it was vital in making you a good citizen.

Agreed with alot he said but that part resonated with me

Being a good, educated citizen?

Sounds like commie socialist talk.

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Steve Schmidt is woke AF

great podcast 

here’s the link if anyone wants a listen.

It’s the third one down.

Why I Quit the GOP (with Steve Schmidt)

Steve Schmidt was a top Republican strategist - until he left the party this June. He joins Preet to talk about Trump's appeal, the silence of Congressional Republicans, and what's next for principled conservatives. 

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/551791730/stay-tuned-with-preet

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4 minutes ago, scottsins said:

Does anyone have the details on Beto being one of 4 dems who voted against the tax exemptions, etc, related to Harvey relief today?

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O’Rourke defends that vote. The Children’s Health Insurance Program was expiring, and he and many other Democrats wanted to use the Harvey tax bill as a vehicle to extend it. Congress later passed a six-year extension of CHIP, nearly four months after the program expired.

Texas Democrats split on the bill. Three others also opposed it but six, including three from Houston, supported it.

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O’Rourke did support four other bills that provided disaster relief for Harvey victims, three of which became law.

O’Rourke voted “no” on an earlier version of one of the bills containing Harvey aid that was passed to avert a government shutdown. Many Democrats opposed that bill because it did not address the status of young immigrants facing deportation after President Donald Trump scrapped the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

After a brief shutdown, the bill passed Feb. 9 with O’Rourke’s vote and a pledge by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to bring a DACA bill to the Senate floor. O’Rourke called the budget bill “imperfect” but said it “includes a lot of good things for Texas.”

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2018/08/24/votes-ted-cruz-beto-orourke-disaster-relief-scrutinized-hurricane-harvey-remembered

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4 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

I keep an eye on the pages of my old friends who are effectively conservative bots.  They are a good window into how these folks, umm, "think."  Here's a fun one:

39072477_1731790170252437_27823412023163

Vote for Cruz, he doesn't want to be a senator, he keeps trying for a different job and he doesnt show up to this one!  

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Does anyone have the details on Beto being one of 4 dems who voted against the tax exemptions, etc, related to Harvey relief today?


Here’s what the campaign sent me:

Not only was Beto on the ground as Rockport, Victoria, Goliad, Port Arthur, Beaumont, Port Lavaca, and Houston recovered from the greatest amount of rain ever recorded in the continental United States but he has consistently voted for robust Harvey funding. This includes working with bipartisan members of Congress to pass disaster relief packages totaling $15.3 billion (HR 601), $36.5 billion (HR 2266), $81 billion (HR 4667), and $90 billion (HR 1892).

It's also important to note that Senator Cruz voted against over $12 billion for FEMA, including $7.9 billion for the Disaster Relief Fund. He also voted against $250 million for pre-disaster mitigation grants, $260 million for flood mapping, and $700 million for firefighter equipment and staffing grants. While Cruz refused to support this funding, Senator John Cornyn and Congressman O'Rourke both voted for it.


Really enjoyed meeting you the other day.
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Nice Guy Eddie

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Tax relief for disaster victims is not an efficient way to help people.   "Don't worry about paying certain taxes next April.  We got your back."  It's almost always better to give people direct relief.  Here's $1000.  

I think general tax breaks for disasters are fine but I don't like tax relief that is created for specific disasters.  It also politicizes disasters.  Set up a rule based on declared disaster areas and definitions by FEMA.  Then it doesn't matter where or how the disaster occurs.  You get the funds or other relief.

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