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blue squares posted:you have to collect a bunch of signatures or pay a bunch of money (or both?) $3,750 or 500 signatures to run for congress.
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blue squares posted:you have to collect a bunch of signatures or pay a bunch of money (or both?) SA's financed worse wastes of money.
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I'll y'all vote for me I'll cook you four hot dogs on the edge of a cliff
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:I'll y'all vote for me I'll cook you four hot dogs on the edge of a cliff Only the deepest of cuts for them hot dogs, I see.
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Dameius posted:Only the deepest of cuts for them hot dogs, I see. I wonder how many signatures you need to run a candidate for congress. I bet we could run a somethingawful candidate if we got people to sign up.
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I promise you, I will get Smashmouth to finally- Finally!- eat those eggs!
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We could totally run for state house of representatives at least. We have a drat Texas thread in DnD.
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I hereby declare my candidacy for elected office in the great state of Texas as a representative of D&D. With your support, we will Make Texas Estupendo Again.
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I genuinely want to run for office someday but while I can be charming and outgoing, I am an introverted guy and prefer to spend most of my time alone. I don't know if I have the personality type to be a successful politician, especially on the federal level
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blue squares posted:I genuinely want to run for office someday but while I can be charming and outgoing, I am an introverted guy and prefer to spend most of my time alone. I don't know if I have the personality type to be a successful politician, especially on the federal level *opponent just publishes your post history*
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KIM JONG TRILL posted:*opponent just publishes your post history* I can see the TV ads now... "blue squares says he has never shitposted, but The Football Funhouse has a different opinion." <ominous storm sounds>
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How many of you degenerates helped fund Metis' magnum opus Swap.avi? Cause that would definitely come back to haunt y'all, and myself if I was dumb enough to run for Texas public office. I'd need a whole team to try and delete posts from here I've made over the years.
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Hello I'm a lawyer who used to work in the house and worked on campaigns in this state. Run for office.
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I'll do it, I'll run as the SomethingAwful.com "The internet makes you stupid" Texas State Representative. I'll just be a puppet figurehead for the will of the Texas Goons. I'll list out every vote on the schedule and we can debate them, open up a poll, and then I'll do what the majority wants. It's the ultimate in on-demand e-democracy. Edit: Better yet, why don't we nominate someone who is well respected in the thread. That would be the democratic way.
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Lol I didn't mean any of you idiots.
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Too late. We can't be any worse.
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Rabble posted:Edit: Better yet, why don't we nominate someone who is well respected in the thread. That would be the democratic way. I don't respect any of you btw
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PostNouveau posted:I don't respect any of you btw This is the kind of honest and straightforward disrespect we can all get behind. You should run.
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Dameius posted:This is the kind of honest and straightforward disrespect we can all get behind. You should run. True. Just not respecting us is a lot better than the open contempt that most state officials have for people like us.
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The only person in this thread I respect is blue squares. Thank you for all of your service.
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I'd be a lot more politically involved if I weren't worried about pissing off some vindictive online jackass and becoming a test case for whether the Hatch Act applies in new and exciting ways when you work from home and your internet is partially paid for by the federal government. Extremely unlikely but the effects would be so personally devastating that I don't want to risk it. Yay chilling effects!
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:The only person in this thread I respect is blue squares. this appears to be a trap
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we have your posting history to leverage against you for political favors
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Proud Christian Mom posted:we have your posting history to leverage against you for political favors This post and username combo is scarily accurate.
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The internet makes you unelectable
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Before this election, I would have agreed.
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This state seems to be sliding backward. https://www.texastribune.org/2016/11/28/texas-moves-forward-rules-requiring-burial-or-crem/
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Donald Trump just got elected. He was in three softcore porn movies and may understand less about governing the nation than Palin. Your post history is not what's keeping you from public service.
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This story owns. http://www.mystatesman.com/news/news/local/officials-stunned-to-learn-of-kyle-housing-authori/ntFqW/ quote:KYLE — When Kyle Mayor Todd Webster received a scathing letter this month from the federal government suggesting rampant mismanagement at the city’s independent housing authority, he was shocked by the findings — particularly because he hadn’t even known the agency existed.
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Badger of Basra posted:This story owns. Mayor of Kyle posted:
I'm the shook mayor.
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Stories like that just inspire me to run for office somewhere. If these idiots can win then surely an idiot like me can!
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One of the Texas electors is resigning his spot rather than voting for Trump From the Texas Tribune link: quote:A Texas Republican elector is resigning over the election of Donald Trump, saying he cannot "in good conscience" vote for the incoming president. I applaud the principles even if I disagree with the reasoning. And I agree with Kuffner about the stupid pledge crap: quote:[...] the Texas GOP requires people who want to become electors to sign a pledge affirming that they will only vote for the candidate who won the vote in the state, which if you want to get all original-constructionist is a perversion of the intent of the Electoral College.
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Another story of slapstick policymaking: https://www.texasobserver.org/rationale-for-texas-largest-corporate-welfare-program-was-a-typographical-error/quote:In March, the Observer took a close look at the state’s largest corporate welfare program, the Texas Economic Development Act, which is meant to attract new business to the state by offering companies big breaks on their property tax bills. The program, often called “Chapter 313” after its place in the tax code, was born 15 years ago out of a fear that Texas was losing its competitive edge to Louisiana, Arizona and other states with generous incentives. As we wrote in March:
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I don't understand how this elector reconciles his resignation with the fact that his successor will almost certainly vote for Trump. Wouldn't it be a better expression of his conscience to stay in his position and be a faithless elector or whatever? 
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nikitakhrushchev posted:I don't understand how this elector reconciles his resignation with the fact that his successor will almost certainly vote for Trump. Wouldn't it be a better expression of his conscience to stay in his position and be a faithless elector or whatever? Maybe he just doesn't want crazy people sending him and his family death threats.
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nikitakhrushchev posted:I don't understand how this elector reconciles his resignation with the fact that his successor will almost certainly vote for Trump. Wouldn't it be a better expression of his conscience to stay in his position and be a faithless elector or whatever? It doesn't matter if someone else pulls the trigger, all that matters is that I didn't pull the trigger.
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Badger of Basra posted:Another story of slapstick policymaking: https://www.texasobserver.org/rationale-for-texas-largest-corporate-welfare-program-was-a-typographical-error/ I read part of the report mentioned in this story, prepared by the Texas Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development committee. In one paragraph it cited Breitbart, WSJ, and the Cato Institute. 
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Spacebump posted:Maybe he just doesn't want crazy people sending him and his family death threats. Honestly this is probably a very good and real reason.
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nikitakhrushchev posted:I don't understand how this elector reconciles his resignation with the fact that his successor will almost certainly vote for Trump. Wouldn't it be a better expression of his conscience to stay in his position and be a faithless elector or whatever? Nikita Khrushchev wants a small elite to ignore the will of the voters, what a shock In seriousness, though, I'm generally against faithless electors because of how much damage such an outcome would do to our institutions and basic democracy.... but jesus christ trump is going to be awful
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Badger of Basra posted:I read part of the report mentioned in this story, prepared by the Texas Senate Natural Resources and Economic Development committee. In one paragraph it cited Breitbart, WSJ, and the Cato Institute. There's isn't an *UGH* big enough.
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