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My friends it is Dead Cop Day on Texas politics twitter and ughhhhhhh
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zoux posted:My friends it is Dead Cop Day on Texas politics twitter and ughhhhhhh I hope you're wearing blue
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Jul 7, 2017 16:31
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/883355051045134336 Abbott's toast!
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Jul 7, 2017 17:02
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https://twitter.com/MWatkinsTrib/status/885200593270321152
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Jul 13, 2017 15:55
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So the whole Denton gas plant thing is kind of blowing up at the moment. http://www.dentonrc.com/news/denton-municipal-electric
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Jul 13, 2017 20:18
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Fuckin Californians just as bad as Aggies if they can't tell a Longhorn apart from an Aggie. 
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Jul 13, 2017 20:38
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https://twitter.com/BudKennedy/status/885652635398832128 This poo poo is insufferable. If they get off this much on feeling persecuted maybe they're the ones that should move to California.
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Jul 14, 2017 01:15
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/BudKennedy/status/885652635398832128 I like the implication of that statement. "We made our state too successful that "those types" want to move here. We need to poo poo up the state a bit to make "them" not want to come here."
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Jul 14, 2017 01:55
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I have to wonder if all the poo poo the Lege and Abbott are pushing is basically designed to make Texas so inhospitable to gays, minorities, immigrants, poor people, and liberals that they just get us all to leave. Those of us with that option, anyway.
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Jul 14, 2017 05:49
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Why isn't this rabid squirrel out of a job yet?
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Jul 14, 2017 05:50
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/BudKennedy/status/885652635398832128 As a very liberal person born and raised in Texas, that sort of poo poo makes me really annoyed.
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Jul 14, 2017 07:09
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Captain Monkey posted:As a very liberal person born and raised in Texas, that sort of poo poo makes me really annoyed. To be fair the entirety of Texas exists in Rodeo grounds, Highschool football fields and Church Buildings. Kinda odd that they keep their capital in my unincorporated city-state, especially since everything we do here makes them so angry. Is it too soon to light the Gov. Mansion on fire again?
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Jul 14, 2017 17:08
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Captain Monkey posted:As a very liberal person born and raised in Texas, that sort of poo poo makes me really annoyed. You'd think if liberals weren't here already the GOP wouldn't need to gerrymander the poo poo out of the state. edit: Good thing our state was one of only 9 to give the Trump admin this info. https://twitter.com/ChrisLu44/status/885894329079808001
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Jul 14, 2017 20:26
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TFW every state reporter you follow is at the same media event. https://twitter.com/Max_Gorden/status/887022630422949889 *nods just so loving sarcastically* https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/887023072640999424 FOLKS HE'S OUT HERE JUST TRYING TO HELP TRANSGENDERED PEOPLE ACTUALLY. https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/887024093568139264 Dan Patrick is going to be the governor of this state sooner rather than later and then he is going to be a permanent Presidential candidate on the right and there's nothing anyone can do about it. 20 years from now we're still going to be listening to his bullshit. Or gently caress it, he might actually win, and be president. zoux fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Jul 17, 2017 19:53
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https://twitter.com/morgansmith/status/887006564237934593 Peace, land, bread, and heritage trees
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Jul 17, 2017 20:07
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On the one hand I am for the preservation of trees and green spaces in general, but on the other, when you have to extend throwing-away-your-lovely-toilet-paper-in-the-garbage-rather-than-flushing-it regimen for three days while you wait for the city to OK a sewer line replacement because it runs near a tree, well, you get why the other side may have a point.
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Jul 17, 2017 20:09
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/morgansmith/status/887006564237934593 Surprise! It's a personal vendetta. quote:“I live in the Governor’s Mansion now,” Abbott said last week during a radio interview on WBAP 820. “But, before that, I had a house. I wanted to cut down a very common pecan tree in my yard. And the city of Austin told me, ‘No.’ I could not cut it down.
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Jul 17, 2017 20:27
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zoux posted:On the one hand I am for the preservation of trees and green spaces in general, but on the other, when you have to extend throwing-away-your-lovely-toilet-paper-in-the-garbage-rather-than-flushing-it regimen for three days while you wait for the city to OK a sewer line replacement because it runs near a tree, well, you get why the other side may have a point. Yeah the heritage tree ordinance isn't great but I thought the quote was funny. There was a WaPo article the other day about city/state conflict in Austin and the thing they chose as emblematic was the dumb fight over trees at Austin Oaks instead of like, income nondiscrimination or something 
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Jul 17, 2017 20:31
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Badger of Basra posted:Yeah the heritage tree ordinance isn't great but I thought the quote was funny. I think 10 of the 20 items are preemption stuff so they were spoiled for choice. But Tree Thing is the easily digestible, I don't have to know the first thing about politics in Texas, issue for GODDAMN YANKEE CARPETBAGGERS to read about in their MAINSTREAM MEDIA. I have no idea why moderate, or at least non-Tea Party Republicans, can't challenge some of these guys from the middle, especially when they make votes that loving murder their own district. The current Senator from Lubbock made two huge votes for SB's 2&3 despite the fact that it kills his small towns on revenue and his small school districts, who abhor even the idea of vouchers. He was the final vote for both 2 & 3 that put it over the top, he got excoriated for it by the Avalanche-Journal but guess what, I bet he gets returned to the Senate next time around, because he's rabidly pro-life. It used to be axiomatic to "vote your district" but now it's "vote your scorecard/Tim Dunn's whims" and no one is paying any political price for it.
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Jul 17, 2017 20:40
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zoux posted:I think 10 of the 20 items are preemption stuff so they were spoiled for choice. But Tree Thing is the easily digestible, I don't have to know the first thing about politics in Texas, issue for GODDAMN YANKEE CARPETBAGGERS to read about in their MAINSTREAM MEDIA. Their voters will probably just blame the greedy teachers and firefighters when their public services go to poo poo. E: see below https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/887020451226169346 Badger of Basra fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Jul 17, 2017 20:47
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Badger of Basra posted:Their voters will probably just blame the greedy teachers and firefighters when their public services go to poo poo. During the committee testimony on 2, they had armies of drawlin', cowboy hat wearin', rural-as-gently caress/conservative-as-gently caress city and county officials telling them they are going to completely destroy their ability to keep up with service demands in their communities, because this bill goes after local, rather than school, property taxing jurisdictions. It literally offers no actual property tax relief, it's a total smoke-and-mirrors show that isn't going to cut a dime off anyone's property tax bill. It'd be one thing if they were doing all this stuff to gently caress cities in order to get a meaningful tax reduction, but they are loving municipalities in order to be able to lie and say they did something about property taxes. No one is getting anything except a handful of state level pols who are trying to burnish their conservative cred so they can run for higher office. You cannot offer meaningful property tax reform without delinking school finance from the property base, that's just the economic reality. https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/887020451226169346 I'm just so sick of this argument that the only thing that isn't wrong with our school finance system is the amount of revenue we spend on schools.
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Jul 17, 2017 20:58
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Tree ordinance chat: Very frustrating that a useful regulatory power morphed into a monster due to the anti-development folks desire for a weapon to completely block any and all development (after the same thing happened to the ability to modify drainage regulation). Maybe next time they could loving learn how to pick their battles or have the self control to not mount campaign after campaign under the guise of a particular ordinance when their clear real concern is change in general... For fucks sake it got to the point where several people in this neighborhood were sneaking onto "for sale" properties to measure the trees so they could immediately complain if a demolition permit was requested.
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Jul 17, 2017 21:03
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Shifty Pony posted:Tree ordinance chat: Very frustrating that a useful regulatory power morphed into a monster due to the anti-development folks desire for a weapon to completely block any and all development (after the same thing happened to the ability to modify drainage regulation). Maybe next time they could loving learn how to pick their battles or have the self control to not mount campaign after campaign under the guise of a particular ordinance when their clear real concern is change in general... NIMBY's, NIMBY's never change.
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Jul 17, 2017 21:26
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Jul 17, 2017 22:15
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zoux posted:
Did these people not see the episode of the Drew Carey Show where Craig Ferguson didn't want to hire the transgender salesperson?
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Jul 17, 2017 22:18
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Er, is that a common cultural touchstone?
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Jul 17, 2017 22:19
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Shifty Pony posted:Tree ordinance chat: Very frustrating that a useful regulatory power morphed into a monster due to the anti-development folks desire for a weapon to completely block any and all development (after the same thing happened to the ability to modify drainage regulation). Maybe next time they could loving learn how to pick their battles or have the self control to not mount campaign after campaign under the guise of a particular ordinance when their clear real concern is change in general... Did you read about the people who went around and named all the trees on the Austin Oaks site so they could pretend they were important?
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Jul 18, 2017 01:54
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What like Kevin the tree
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Jul 18, 2017 02:03
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More like Willy Nelson, Steven F Austin, Sam Houston, pretty much famous Texans that would make bad headlines. "Out of State Developer wants to cut down Old Willy"
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Jul 18, 2017 02:27
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A lot of my ex-girlfriends have tried to trim Old Willy.
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Jul 18, 2017 03:06
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Badger of Basra posted:Did you read about the people who went around and named all the trees on the Austin Oaks site so they could pretend they were important? I have met some of those fuckers. They are exactly as insufferable as you would imagine. Best though was the guy on Mesa who stole one of the "Stop the PUD" signs and changed it to read "Stop the PUG" along with a picture of a pug face.
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Jul 18, 2017 03:10
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 Also how do we feel about Wendy Davis still involving herself in all of this https://twitter.com/PhilPrazan/status/887377700964503552 zoux fucked around with this message at 19:28 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Jul 18, 2017 19:26
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They're living organisms that take decades to grow, and would take even longer to replace now. More useful than most human beings, too.
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Jul 18, 2017 20:03
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zoux posted:
I'm more annoyed by the TREE LIVES MATTER guy than I ever could be by Wendy Davis tbqh.
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Jul 18, 2017 20:14
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Badger of Basra posted:I'm more annoyed by the TREE LIVES MATTER guy than I ever could be by Wendy Davis tbqh. There was also a chant where they said "hey hey ho ho hate has got to go" https://twitter.com/mannyNYT/status/887391255193321477 You know, this is one of those times where a quorum break makes sense. I don't think there's a single issue Dems are even remotely OK with, just go to Ardmore until after Sep. 1, see how bad this no Medical Board thing really is. Chant game continues to be extremely poor https://twitter.com/NacioMartinez/status/887391847219441664 zoux fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Jul 18, 2017 20:16
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Why do we dislike Wendy Davis? I thought she was good?
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Jul 19, 2017 02:00
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She's fine she just wasn't very good at running for governor.
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Jul 19, 2017 02:13
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I don't really think anyone else could have done any better though, given the state of the democratic party in this state then. And also now kinda still.
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Jul 19, 2017 04:11
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ReidRansom posted:I don't really think anyone else could have done any better though, given the state of the democratic party in this state then. And also now kinda still. Basically it was a shambles campaign run by a shambles party lead by a person who, while competent, didn't have the personal energy to break through and shine on her own.
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ReidRansom posted:I don't really think anyone else could have done any better though, given the state of the democratic party in this state then. And also now kinda still. She did worse than Chris Bell
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Jul 19, 2017 04:38
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