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Roumba posted:Since that poll/survey is garbage, what IS the best way to express to my representatives how much I think they suck, apart from voting for someone else at every opportunity? You can call them every day and leave a rude message if you want. If you're actually in the district they'll at least take it down. I haven't heard of anyone doing town halls lately but you could go to one of those and boo loudly at them.
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Roumba posted:Since that poll/survey is garbage, what IS the best way to express to my representatives how much I think they suck, apart from voting for someone else at every opportunity? Well, you and your buddies get together, go down to home depot and get some supplies. Then build a guillotine to leave on your representative's front lawn in the middle of the night as a message.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Castro's stated appeal has always seemed artificial and media-generated to me. He's young... handsome... and Latino! He was a good mayor i dunno
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Alkydere posted:Well, you and your buddies get together, go down to home depot and get some supplies. Then build a guillotine to leave on your representative's front lawn in the middle of the night as a message. pretty sure that falls into the "even Clarence Thomas thinks this is a terroristic threat and not free speech" basket
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The 2018 Texas Monthly Bum Steer Awards are out: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/bum-steer-awards-2018/ 8. Lamar Smith 7. Louie Gohmert 6. Bob McNair 5. Alex Jones 4. Texas Democrats 3. The Travis County District Attorney 2. Mother Nature 1. Dan Patrick IMO Gohmert is a gimme and they should have put Dawnna Dukes in there or something.
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TropicalCoke posted:Why Texas Democrats? He linked the article... here's the page specifically for them: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/bum-steer-awards-2018-no-4-texas-democratic-party/
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Texas Monthly has a highlight piece on Beto O'Rourke, who is running against Cruz, if you are not familiar with who he is. Does Beto O’Rourke Stand a Chance Against Ted Cruz? The tl;dr is that he checks all the standard progressive Dem checkboxes except he is pro free trade and he has won every race he has ever been in by ridiculous ground campaign wherein he is constantly block walking. In office he keeps that same level of constituent engagement. He is planning on doing the same against Cruz by visiting every Texas county before ballot day.
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Dameius posted:Texas Monthly has a highlight piece on Beto O'Rourke, who is running against Cruz, if you are not familiar with who he is. Does Beto O’Rourke Stand a Chance Against Ted Cruz? The tl;dr is that he checks all the standard progressive Dem checkboxes except he is pro free trade and he has won every race he has ever been in by ridiculous ground campaign wherein he is constantly block walking. In office he keeps that same level of constituent engagement. He is planning on doing the same against Cruz by visiting every Texas county before ballot day. That's a dumbass strategy
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It's a stunt, because visiting King and Cottle counties makes no sense. Wendy Davis was in Wichita county like a week before the election. She pulled 25ish % there. Why bother? Drive up turn out in the cities, you will not get elected off visiting the 20 people in Loving county.
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Of course it is a stunt but I think the idea that Democrats can win by just turning out the cities has been proven false time and time again. To win statewide Democrats need to GOTV in the cities and also hold the Republican margin down in rural counties too.
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Also he doesn’t have a (serious) primary opponent so he has lots of time. He does have some DSA person running against him but I saw her tweeting about Seth Rich getting bumped off by Killary so I don’t think that will be a problem.
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Badger of Basra posted:Also he doesn’t have a (serious) primary opponent so he has lots of time. She's DSA? Lmao I thought she was a trot
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Aliquid posted:She's DSA? Lmao I thought she was a trot This is the one I'm thinking of: https://twitter.com/SemaForTexas Maybe there's another!
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Badger of Basra posted:This is the one I'm thinking of: https://twitter.com/SemaForTexas Yeah, I had just been going by posts in a fb group I'm in screaming about the MSM ignoring her, I figured that's what only trots do
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I do think it’s weird that not even many of the DSA Houston people I follow on twitter have mentioned her.
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Houston attorney who hosted Trump at his mansion gets his poo poo wrecked: https://twitter.com/ChudsMacKenzie/status/946551267668758529 He's a very successful attorney and has done some good, still lolling though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Buzbee BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Dec 29, 2017 |
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Article about Veronica Birkenstock, who is trying to primary Michael Burgess in his U.S. House district up here in Denton. quote:Birkenstock runs Practical Employee Solutions, which facilitates H-2B visas for temporary foreign workers. And she has one very notable client: the Trump International Beach Resort in Miami. Anyways, I doubt she's going to beat Burgess. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 03:06 on Jan 3, 2018 |
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Ted Cruz wins with 99 percent of the vote, all Texans now required to wear badges with Ted Cruz's face on them. Giant statue of Ted Cruz goes up in front of the capitol building. Cruz's birthday becomes the Day of the Sun and a state holiday.
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VitalSigns posted:just sayin Somebody in the thread I got that tweet from also pointed out that the Dem has like 23% name recognition.
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Someone explain to me what's the jazz surrounding Beto's chances because I'm convinced (based purely on gut feeling) that a clock is ticking until he spontaneously combusts like Wendy Davis. For that is the way of things. I think I'll vote for his socialist opponent in the primary because why not.
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I was considering that too, but isn't she a Seth Rich truther. I want a socialist, but not a crazy person. Right now I'm probably going to be voting for the least horrible Republican candidates in their primary.
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VitalSigns posted:I was considering that too, but isn't she a Seth Rich truther.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Someone explain to me what's the jazz surrounding Beto's chances because I'm convinced (based purely on gut feeling) that a clock is ticking until he spontaneously combusts like Wendy Davis. For that is the way of things. Here's her twitter if you want to look at it for yourself: https://twitter.com/SemaForTexas
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Badger of Basra posted:Here's her twitter if you want to look at it for yourself: https://twitter.com/SemaForTexas Ah there it is https://twitter.com/SemaForTexas/status/864327923695800321 Shame too because I scroll through her twitter and it's  after and then whooaahh  
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Someone explain to me what's the jazz surrounding Beto's chances because I'm convinced (based purely on gut feeling) that a clock is ticking until he spontaneously combusts like Wendy Davis. For that is the way of things. He's a legit good dude. I met him on a couple occasions at political events when I was living in El Paso. He is very personable and down to earth. He ticks all the right boxes with no real negatives. Plus coming from El Paso I think he'll have a better understanding of what needs to be done to get out the vote in latino communities, which is a huge impediment to winning statewide.
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KIM JONG TRILL posted:He's a legit good dude. I met him on a couple occasions at political events when I was living in El Paso. He is very personable and down to earth. He ticks all the right boxes with no real negatives. Plus coming from El Paso I think he'll have a better understanding of what needs to be done to get out the vote in latino communities, which is a huge impediment to winning statewide. Yep! My main concern with him is the aforementioned name recognition (which comes from not being super loud atm), but he's relatively young and his positions on the issues are solid. He's got my vote so far, and I think he's got a fair chance considering the GOP is doubling down on stupidity. poo poo, my parents have said & done nearly fuckall about politics this year, and part of that comes from shame.
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If O'Rourke can just earn some media for house candidates that would be worth considering a win. Beating Cruz is an uphill battle anyway, but if O'Rourke can drive turnout in a few districts that could make the difference in the US House.
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Trabisnikof posted:If O'Rourke can just earn some media for house candidates that would be worth considering a win. Beating Cruz is an uphill battle anyway, but if O'Rourke can drive turnout in a few districts that could make the difference in the US House. He also needs to hammer Cruz for every negative thing he has done in the past couple of years. Mention he was up late looking at porn on twitter, play clips of him endorsing Roy Moore, make an ad about both his endorsement+non-endorsement of Trump "how can you trust what he says, he might flip-flop tomorrow." zoux posted:It's waaaay to early for polls to mean poo poo. this
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Spacebump posted:He also needs to hammer Cruz for every negative thing he has done in the past couple of years. Mention he was up late looking at porn on twitter, play clips of him endorsing Roy Moore, make an ad about both his endorsement+non-endorsement of Trump "how can you trust what he says, he might flip-flop tomorrow." Ads that are just 15 second loops of Ted Cruz eating that thing on his lip at the GOP debate.
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Just had a convo with my work's pest control guy who comes in about every month. He is a tall Black man, around 40 yo. He came in and told me how the people upstairs are super uptight. (I work downstairs and with a bunch of white people). And how he gets weird looks from them all the time. (To be fair he is really tall, but he's definitely getting weird looks because he's black.) I work in uber-Liberal Austin, in an uber-Liberal non-profit... Anywho, that's my completely anecdotal evidence showing that middle-class white Liberals are hypocritical trash and that Austin is incredibly white and evil. BrutalistMcDonalds posted:Someone explain to me what's the jazz surrounding Beto's chances because I'm convinced (based purely on gut feeling) that a clock is ticking until he spontaneously combusts like Wendy Davis. For that is the way of things. I'm torn on this one too, but I think I have to vote Beto. He's pro Medicare for All, wants to end the War on Drugs, he's come out hard against Super PACs and money-in-politics in general. Other than that, he's fairly run-of-the-mill. But not a bad choice imo
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Frijolero posted:Just had a convo with my work's pest control guy who comes in about every month. He is a tall Black man, around 40 yo. He came in and told me how the people upstairs are super uptight. (I work downstairs and with a bunch of white people). And how he gets weird looks from them all the time. (To be fair he is really tall, but he's definitely getting weird looks because he's black.) Austin is super segregated and had negative minority population growth from 2000-2010 while the city itself grew ~20%. It isn't nearly as much a Blue Utopia in a sea of Red like it likes to pretend.
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