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BoosterDuck
Mar 2, 2019
HE'S LUKE'S FATHER TOO?!

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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Darth Vader?

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

Watto O'Rourke

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/jaspscherer/status/1470747482636402690

quote:

Democrats did not see the same flurry of activity in Houston or on the statewide ballot, with elected officials mostly avoiding major primary opposition. Only one Democratic elected official in Texas, state Rep. Michelle Beckley of Carrollton, is giving up her seat to run for a statewide office.

Republicans, on the other hand, have fielded candidates in each countywide judicial race in Harris County, a reversal from last year’s sparse showing. And a half-dozen GOP elected officials in Texas are giving up their seats to run against statewide incumbents from their own party.


The outlook is a departure from the last two election cycles, when Democrats went after Republican districts long considered untouchable as they made aggressive plays to flip Texas blue.

.......

Until Monday, no Democrat had filed to run for Murphy’s open west Houston seat, which Trump carried by less than a percentage point in 2020. Hours before the filing deadline, Mohamad Maarouf, a program director for School Empowerment Network, an education nonprofit, filed for the seat.

“The reality is, there are no battleground seats. That’s the problem,” Evbagharu said. “When Republicans get to carve up the state of Texas and gerrymander it by diluting the votes and taking away the voice of Texans, particularly brown and Black people, you’re not going to have these seats that are competitive.”

Texas Democrats Give Up

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004


I feel like that's a very very tiny reason for not fielding any candidates or how NO ONE is even doing any physical rallies to protest ANYTHING at all and that's because Dems are spineless, especially in this state. I may still be incredibly bitter as to how things are starting to play out down here in the RGV. Maybe they're waiting for after the Christmas/Hanukkah season to be over? Who knows it's just depressing.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1470813476650205187

He's cooked now

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

https://www.latinorebels.com/2021/12/14/latinopostmortemreport/

"A New 105-Page Report Provides an Even Deeper Look Into Why US Latinos Voted the Way They Did in 2020"

We aren't a loving monolith vote, the socio-economic status ranges from dirt poor to disgustingly wealthy, and the lasting effects from the 1950s push for Hispanics at the time to be considered white has done the most damage.

(See Hernandez v. Texas 1954)

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007


Bun Steer

Cael
Feb 2, 2004

I get this funky high on the yellow sun.

Jiro posted:

https://www.latinorebels.com/2021/12/14/latinopostmortemreport/

"A New 105-Page Report Provides an Even Deeper Look Into Why US Latinos Voted the Way They Did in 2020"

We aren't a loving monolith vote, the socio-economic status ranges from dirt poor to disgustingly wealthy, and the lasting effects from the 1950s push for Hispanics at the time to be considered white has done the most damage.

(See Hernandez v. Texas 1954)

The Dem Establishment: what if . . . uh . . . what if we started saying 'Latinx' to be more inclusive? . . . WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S NOT ENOUGH!!??!

radical meme
Apr 17, 2009

by Fluffdaddy

Jiro posted:

https://www.latinorebels.com/2021/12/14/latinopostmortemreport/

"A New 105-Page Report Provides an Even Deeper Look Into Why US Latinos Voted the Way They Did in 2020"

We aren't a loving monolith vote, the socio-economic status ranges from dirt poor to disgustingly wealthy, and the lasting effects from the 1950s push for Hispanics at the time to be considered white has done the most damage.

(See Hernandez v. Texas 1954)

Progressive Democrats expectation that the Hispanic vote would lean their way is gonna gently caress the Democrats for at least the next two decades.



edit: and it should.

radical meme fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Dec 15, 2021

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006

Cael posted:

The Dem Establishment: what if . . . uh . . . what if we started saying 'Latinx' to be more inclusive? . . . WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT'S NOT ENOUGH!!??!

LLSix
Jan 20, 2010

The real power behind countless overlords


I know it doesn’t matter to the target audience, but there are no immigrants in that photo.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

my tiger protection charm is working perfectly. haven't even seen one

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

LLSix posted:

I know it doesn’t matter to the target audience, but there are no immigrants in that photo.

In a fit of even bigger irony, I'd bet you're wrong.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/kfdmnews/status/1470865863947563014

Oh my god the machine gun guy was right

Mistaken Frisbee
Jul 19, 2007

I see no kids playing in that yard. Did the feral hogs already get them?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/CNNSitRoom/status/1470940883201712133

Well look who got himself a new job

FoolyCharged
Oct 11, 2012

Cheating at a raffle? I sentence you to 1 year in jail! No! Two years! Three! Four! Five years! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
Somebody call for an ant?

I like how they keep calling his fired rear end chief and have the current Austin chief walking around the city with a gun on his hip like it's not a political desk job.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/EricaGrieder/status/1471140866756644864

Poor Erica Greider has the "I'm a moderate conservative" brain disease where she can't perceive reality anymore.

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost


https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ/status/1469750581346508801

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012
The most impact a San Antonio councilmember has had since Trevino attacked Chickfila

Doom Rooster
Sep 3, 2008

Pillbug

Mistaken Frisbee posted:

I see no kids playing in that yard. Did the feral hogs already get them?

Kids don’t play outside anymore, gramps.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/McGeeReports/status/1471439059574837251

Pete Gallego sucks at everything.

quote:

Then in early February, Gallego was delivered a gut punch from a political rival. State Sen. Roland Gutierrez, D-San Antonio, filed legislation to pull Sul Ross out of the Texas State University System and place it in the Texas A&M University System, a proposal that has been discussed within the Alpine community for almost a decade.

The move, if successful, would most certainly mean an ouster of Gallego because a new university system would likely put its own administrator in place.

Most public universities in Texas fall within a larger system. Sul Ross State has been part of the Texas State system since 1975, and the system also includes Texas State University in San Marcos, Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Lamar University in Beaumont, the Lamar State college campuses in Orange and Port Arthur, plus the Lamar Institute of Technology.

Gutierrez and others argued Sul Ross had been neglected by the Texas State system over the years. Gutierrez and his supporters said the declining enrollment and the school’s struggle to retain students they did have proved their point. They also raised concerns about presidential turnover. Sul Ross has had three presidents over the past decade who have all left after a rift developed between community members or faculty.

The political history between Gutierrez and Gallego is deep. They ran against each other in a bruising Democratic primary for state Senate in 2018, which Gallego won. Gallego lost in the general election against Republican Pete Flores. But Gutierrez ran again in 2020 and won.

Despite the fact that some residents wanted Sul Ross out of the Texas State system for years, Gallego said he was “blindsided” by Gutierrez’s bill, according to an interview he gave to the school paper. And the threat of shifting Sul Ross to a new university system appeared to have rattled him.

In one private conversation with two faculty members, Gallego said he saw Gutierrez’s bill as political retribution, according to a recording of the meeting by one of the principals in it, a math professor named Michael Ortiz.

“It isn't about the system and it isn't about Sul Ross and the bill is not about policy. The bill is about politics,” Gallego says on the recording before adding that moving a school to a new system was the way to get rid of him.

Ahhh Bexar County Democrats

zoux fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Dec 16, 2021

ReidRansom
Oct 25, 2004


quote:

Sul Ross has had three presidents over the past decade who have all left after a rift developed between community members or faculty.

Pretty sure this also describes Texas A&M.

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

What’s the opposite of the Midas touch

Shooting Blanks
Jun 6, 2007

Real bullets mess up how cool this thing looks.

-Blade



Badger of Basra posted:

What’s the opposite of the Midas touch

Medusa's Glare?

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Also I would like to object to the trib’s characterization of Gallego’s political career as “successful”

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

with that track record Gutierrez should be running for governor lol

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012
I think Gallego is a nice guy

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

radical meme posted:

Progressive Democrats expectation that the Hispanic vote would lean their way is gonna gently caress the Democrats for at least the next two decades.



edit: and it should.

I'm pretty sure I heard that more from right-aligned Democrats than any "progressive" by your description. Demographics are destiny after all.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

No, everyone thought that Hispanic voters would continue to break 66/33 for Dems. Even Republicans thought this.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

zoux posted:

No, everyone thought that Hispanic voters would continue to break 66/33 for Dems. Even Republicans thought this.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

[re: senate deadlock for bbb and possibly vote bills]

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1471576283758972934

i love my lonely, lonely senator

SlothfulCobra
Mar 27, 2011

Of course he's loving it, every moment in DC is a moment he doesn't have to be in Texas.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

SlothfulCobra posted:

Of course he's loving it, every moment in DC is a moment he doesn't have to be in Texas.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005



imagine, lol

hawowanlawow
Jul 27, 2009

drat I would eat them nachos

Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
https://twitter.com/KHOU/status/1471683236648660996

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

lol what a bunch of rubes. Jesus christ.

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DuckHuntDog
May 13, 2004


PostNouveau posted:

lol what a bunch of rubes. Jesus christ.

If they do not get ahead of it like this, then parents just refuse to send them to school at all. We had a social media thing like this a few weeks ago and only a third of the students showed up at all, and a lot of them had parents refuse to let them go.

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