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slouch posted:Here's my trip report: if you weren't there an hour and a half early you couldn't get in at all. so says the fire marshall. really strong crowd out there today. Impressive for Flower Mound I went to a fort Worth run with Beto event Sunday morning. His answers were charismatic but boilerplate politician, but the turnout was impressive. He got ~300 people out at 8 am on a Sunday in Fort Worth for a run in 90 degree weather which is shocking.
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For every blue-collar Democrat we lose in San Antonio, we will pick up two moderate Republicans in West Texas, and you can repeat that in Fort Worth and Amarillo and Waco
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Of course, a few posts down it gets  quote:Words are spells cast upon the human mind, that's why it's called spelling.
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My hopes are going to get up and then Texas is gonna do Texas things and elect Cruz and break my heart again.
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TropicalCoke posted:im 17% no opinion The cynical part of me reads that as 17% too embarrassed to admit I'm Republican but will vote for Cruz anyways.
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Thanks for fighting on my behalf everyone. I realize I have very hardened opinions about MJ. I live in her district. I volunteered for her primary opponent. Mj was bankrolled pretty hard and had a lot of larger party apparatus support. I supported the candidate I liked and she lost. I don't like MJ because she is like a dem focus group candidate. I'm going to vote for her, but I'm not going to help her win. Because I do not like her opposition to universal health care, the mailers which showed her always in uniform, and her statements of being "pro small business." gently caress all of that. She is not the voice I want representing me. I'm going to vote because I always vote. Will 19 year olds? Will other leftists? I basically consider everyone who participated in the US military's imperial wars in the Middle East to be war criminals. I think do not think it is laudable. I understand this is a minority position. Regarding electability. Republicans will never vote for you. If 2016 didn't prove that to you then I got nothing for you. Republicans win by running ideologues who appeal to the base and drive up turnout. Being a centrist does not drive anyone to vote. The incumbent, John Carter, is a real Trump Republican rear end in a top hat. He doesn't do town halls. He does teleconferences. At the last one I attended, the first pre screened question was "what are you doing to help get Hillary locked up." You're not carrying those voters ever. If you're pro abortion, you're not carrying those voters. (I believe MJ is silent on abortion.) I am not excited over another blue dog veteran. The internet sure seems to be. Do you think she'll show up at tomorrow's anti-ICE rally? The district has a 500 person female ice jail. For me, she is a bad candidate and a product of the Democratic party that can't help but lose elections with milquetoast candidates. It doesn't inspire me. I know I'm in the minority.
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Dameius posted:The cynical part of me reads that as 17% too embarrassed to admit I'm Republican but will vote for Cruz anyways. this is exactly what it is
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Seriously if you live in a red district please go volunteer for a local candidate. It'll help them tons. be local vote local
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Here's how you know the admin's immigration policy is going too far https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/1011688423751651335 TOO EVIL FOR WILCO
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zoux posted:TOO EVIL FOR WILCO I had to double check to make sure this was the same Williamson county I know. Kudos for the broken clock being right.
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Oh also: https://twitter.com/BillyCalzada/status/1011696667349876736 He's going to jail. The special election to fill his seat is July 31, and there are 8 candidates. His brother, Tomas, filed for the seat as well, but since he lost his House seat based on being related to Carlos, he'll have a bit of an uphill battle.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Going to Beto in Flower Mound. Trip report to come. It was at capacity. Lots of people stood outside and watched the live stream. Many people liked my wife's "Humans Against Ted Cruz" shirt. Beto came outside afterwards and took pictures with people out there first. He seems boilerplate for Democrats, but would be a major improvement over Ted Cruz.
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I went to a protest at Ted Cruz's San Antonio office today. There were around 40 people who showed up, and multiple groups went in and talked to his staff. I felt it was pretty positive but I can't help to think about whether these people will go volunteer or help out in another way and not just powwow.
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Texas Tribune did a nice article on how "transportation planning" in Texas really just means "bigger highways." Though honestly this is true in most of the US besides a few select cities.quote:And while millennials may be pushing away old ideas about what transportation infrastructure — and the development patterns it creates — should look like, the Council of Governments’ proposed $135 billion plan for North Texas’ future looks decidedly old school: https://www.texastribune.org/2018/06/26/millennials-new-urbanism-texas-highway-compulsion-dallas-fort-worth/
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Alright Texas we need to get our poo poo together https://mobile.twitter.com/DecisionDeskHQ/status/1011795836232036352 Oklahoma may have pot before we do. Well legal pot.
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I would expect that the Legislature will pass and Abbott will sign a full abortion ban in the state next session. I don't think a bunch of Austin women cosplaying Handmaid's Tale in the gallery is gonna do it this time.
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What if Ted Cruz is the nominee for SCOTUS? I want Ted Cruz out of Texas but I'm not sure it would be worth it.
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He won't be. He wants to be president. I'm trying to keep perspective because I was inconsolable in November 2016 but the worst predictions didn't come true so I'm trying to remain sanguine about all this. At least we're going to see if accelerationism works! https://twitter.com/kherman/status/1012053844430348288 Hate to agree with a CNN pundit but I think he's largely correct here. Every state with a solid red statehouse is going to be rushing to be the Vs. in Woman with Standing Vs. State of XXXX This is more US pol but nuts to that thread so, friends, I think that the "open SCOTUS seat will galvanize the GOP and save the Senate for them" doesn't make any sense, as Dave Weigel (the wise) points out https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1012050337606270976 zoux fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jun 27, 2018 |
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zoux posted:He won't be. He wants to be president. That was a lifetime ago, but weren't the worst predictions way more innocuous than poo poo like "child concentration camps"?
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Friend posted:That was a lifetime ago, but weren't the worst predictions way more innocuous than poo poo like "child concentration camps"? People were saying all lgbt people would be in camps by month 3. So it hasn’t been that bad/fast.
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Friend posted:That was a lifetime ago, but weren't the worst predictions way more innocuous than poo poo like "child concentration camps"? The ACA still exists, we're not in a nuclear war. People predicted bad poo poo towards immigrants, which baby jails certainly qualify for, but people went loving berzerk over that and Trump had to reverse himself, which he never does. I'm not saying this isn't all bad, and it isn't a big deal and people aren't suffering under Trump, because they are, but mere anarchy isn't loosed on the world. The falcon can still hear the falconer. Look, the nuclear bomb with respect to SCOTUS right now is RvW, and yeah, it's more in danger than it was yesterday, but only one seated justice (Thomas) has straight up said he'd overturn it. Roberts went left on the ACA and that's a lot less consequential and ingrained in US culture and case law than Roe vs Wade. So I don't think abortion will ultimately become illegal, though it may become restricted and there will be a lovely period between passage of the law and the SCOTUS ruling on it, depending on lower court stays and what not. This is my hopeful prediction, trying to learn my lesson after my unwarranted month-long depression and despair after the last GE
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zoux posted:The ACA still exists, we're not in a nuclear war. People predicted bad poo poo towards immigrants, which baby jails certainly qualify for, but people went loving berzerk over that and Trump had to reverse himself, which he The idea that Donnie doesn't fold like a loving washcloth is a myth of his own making, albeit a surprisingly persistent one. He'll rant over and over that he's going to hold firm, but then he'll see something shiny, or someone will give him a slice of cake and he'll completely forget what he was saying and backtrack. In fact, usually the louder he insists that he won't back down is a clear indication that he's going to soon.
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zoux posted:The ACA still exists, we're not in a nuclear war. People predicted bad poo poo towards immigrants, which baby jails certainly qualify for, but people went loving berzerk over that and Trump had to reverse himself, which he never does. Well they did just rule that it's a violation of freedom of speech to force the christian pregnancy centers to not lie about abortions or having the ability to provide medical care.
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between the crisis pregnancy decision and janus, which both had the majority opinion basically saying that laws are unconsitutional because making someone follow a law violates the first amendment, the roberts court has declared a new lochner era and have signaled there will be no future restraint (of, eg, bothering to find precedent or an argument that passes the laugh test for future decisions). roberts only saved a threadbare version of obamacare so the democrats wouldnt turn against the institution of the court like in the new deal era. if he was still worried about that, he wouldnt have signed on to this term's heinous decisions.
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Someone stole my Beto yard sign 
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1012330644037296128 See, it's not all bad AUgh I spoke too soon https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1012159141337591808 zoux fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Jun 28, 2018 |
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Mrs. D. Chudley, of Facebook posted:Baytown police me that is ok for mexicans redoing a home across the street from me to drink and play loud music. I can't even relax in my own home because of them. The cop told me this is america!! Is this the new america?
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100% of chuds immigration stance is because a Hispanic person was in front of them in line at a grocery store with too many things in their cart or they saw someone speaking spanish in public and to them, that justifies any indignity put upon an immigrant. https://twitter.com/eramshaw/status/1012723627891060737 zoux fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jun 29, 2018 |
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Anyone going to the Families Belong Together rally in Austin tomorrow? I'm going to be the guy in the undershirt and bad complexion hoping I don't die of heat exhaustion.
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Yeah I'll be there tomorrow, hopefully coming out of it with a brief sense of consolation about the course of this city that'll last for a couple of days tops.
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1stGear posted:Anyone going to the Families Belong Together rally in Austin tomorrow? I'm going to be the guy in the undershirt and bad complexion hoping I don't die of heat exhaustion. I'll be running about an hour late but there's no way I'm missing the rally tomorrow. I'll be wearing black and red with the DSA folks
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I assume that I'm actually better off taking the train/bus to get there than actually trying to find parking.Thermal Anomaly posted:I'll be running about an hour late but there's no way I'm missing the rally tomorrow. I'll be wearing black and red with the DSA folks I'll keep an eye out for y'all - attending a DSA meeting's been on my to-do list a while since the local democratic party activities never did hook me. drat shame I won't be able to make it to the legal workshop on Monday. Look for... hell if I know. Some random internet idiot in a beard with a gray hat.
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