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"DON'T INTERRUPT ME!" Cruz demands before insisting that we can be civil to one another.
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IM TALKING ABOUT HOW CIVIL I AM DONT loving INTERRUPT ME
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Oct 17, 2018 02:43
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Omg the moderator called Cruz out.
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Oct 17, 2018 02:44
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Skex posted:Omg the moderator called Cruz out. I'm at work and can't watch. Details please!
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Oct 17, 2018 02:50
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Sexual Aluminum posted:I'm at work and can't watch. Details please! Cruz said it's possible to disagree with civility, the moderator tried questioning him on that, Cruz snapped DON'T INTERRUPT ME (or it was a different moment that I missed)
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Oct 17, 2018 02:53
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Hahaha that pause
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Oct 17, 2018 02:55
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"Senator, can you please, just for a few moments pretend to be human?" "..."
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Oct 17, 2018 02:57
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Ted Cruz: And in conclusion, America is a land of contrasts.
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Oct 17, 2018 02:57
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isk posted:Cruz said it's possible to disagree with civility, the moderator tried questioning him on that, Cruz snapped DON'T INTERRUPT ME No I was referring to the question before that and the moderator was "with all do respect Senator I was covering you and you something something.." I don't even remember what it was about it stunned me so much.
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Oct 17, 2018 03:03
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Skex posted:No I was referring to the question before that and the moderator was "with all do respect Senator I was covering you and you something something.." I don't even remember what it was about it stunned me so much. poo poo, my bad
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Oct 17, 2018 03:07
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isk posted:poo poo, my bad Well to be fair Cruz gives essentially the same non answer string of right wing trigger words every time he makes noise.
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Oct 17, 2018 03:27
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Skex posted:Well to be fair Cruz gives essentially the same non answer string of right wing trigger words every time he makes noise. cruz is smart to remind people that even though he's a disgusting alien fish monster who murdered a series of people in california over the course of two decades, if youre a republican and you vote for him you'll get a steadfast and reliable senator for everything you want in an elected representative (lib owning and lib triggering). being able to credibly say that if you win your base will get the things they want no matter how they feel about you personally is a big advantage republicans have over dems Shear Modulus fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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Oct 17, 2018 04:15
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Oct 17, 2018 06:19
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Covering all US/Mexico border fencing with signs would have been so much better.
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Oct 17, 2018 12:40
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1052554594667118592 https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1052555040945307649 UHC there you go
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Oct 17, 2018 14:51
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Gaze into the dreamy face of Beto! Down with the reactionary Ted!
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Oct 17, 2018 15:35
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I know most of us probably wanted him to attack Cruz more but I do wonder how much of his appeal, if at all, is based on the fact that he wouldn’t do that. People love to say they hate negative ads but they do work a lot of the time.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:36
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Those are barely negative tho and they don't use any of the usual tricks like the bad pictures of the opponent, reversing into negatives and the scary voice announce guy.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:45
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zoux posted:Those are barely negative tho and they don't use any of the usual tricks like the bad pictures of the opponent, reversing into negatives and the scary voice announce guy. To be fair, every picture of Ted Cruz is a bad picture.
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Oct 17, 2018 15:49
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https://twitter.com/CHueyBurns/status/1052378239862231042 Just loving lol https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1052575414139461633 That's a strong ad, you probably haven't heard about the Teacher Retirement System crisis because public pensions are boring but they're about to do a major benefit cut and the retired teachers are mad as gently caress about it. This is a state level thing though so not sure what Senator Beto could do about it, but it'll certainly make some former teachers perk up their ears. Also stay safe out there San Saba county https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1052574272164700161 Oh cmon now zoux fucked around with this message at 16:32 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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Oct 17, 2018 16:01
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So an incredibly appealing, attractive, and charismatic Democrat who's been given fawning national media attention and is armed with more money than God is going to lose by around 6-8 points to a pile of mashed potatoes who literally no one likes and has been publicly humiliated non-stop for the past 2 years? And this is what qualifies as a moral victory for the Texas Dems?
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Oct 17, 2018 16:38
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nuclear take my man e: for some content no losing by 6-8 wouldn't really be a moral victory, losing by 1-3 points would though because the GOP machine and entrenched base here has made a demographically red-but-pockets-of-deep-blue-and-violet state seem way deeper red than it should be No Safe Word fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Oct 17, 2018 |
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Oct 17, 2018 16:48
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Also Beto's coattails would maybe drag a couple of State Senate to the Democrat corner and half a dozen State house seats as well.
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Oct 17, 2018 17:46
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TropicalCoke posted:Also Beto's coattails would maybe drag a couple of State Senate to the Democrat corner and half a dozen State house seats as well. If Dems come within one seat of 3/5s in the state Senate, man....
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Oct 17, 2018 17:48
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Yes. Gallego losing made that path forward almost impossible. That was brutal. I put money on Hurd the next day.
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Oct 17, 2018 17:53
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How *are* we feeling about state congress, anyway? Governor's obviously not happening, but I haven't seen any reporting/polling on those races even from local outlets.
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Oct 17, 2018 18:12
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Oct 17, 2018 18:17
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Spiritus Nox posted:How *are* we feeling about state congress, anyway? Governor's obviously not happening, but I haven't seen any reporting/polling on those races even from local outlets. Dallas is the big battleground focus this cycle. A lot of Republican incumbents in districts that went for Hillary in 2016. In Dallas, keep an eye on Matt Rinaldi and Victoria Neave's respective races. In San Antonio, Philip Cortez's race is a battleground, but his opponent isn't doing much. In Houston, Sarah Davis might get waved, but she is a good incumbent. In Austin, Vikki Goodwin in 47 is trying to take on Paul Workman, the last R in Travis Co. Williamson County also has James Talarico, who has run a brilliant campaign and hopefully will go to the Capitol in January.
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Oct 17, 2018 18:26
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Senate's a little more firm, I think SD 10 (Ft Worth, and Wendy's old district) and 16 in Dallas are possible, at least the PACs are spending heavily there. Also Schwertner, he of the alleged dick pick, is up vs. a woman but his district is Bryan/College Station over to WilCo so they probably won't care. Also congress means the US congress, state is legislature
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Oct 17, 2018 18:32
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I personally hope to vote out Joan Huffman but I'm not expecting it to happen.
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Oct 17, 2018 19:30
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No Safe Word posted:I personally hope to vote out Joan Huffman but I'm not expecting it to happen. I personally hope that all of the poling is wrong and that the GOP are delivered a giant gently caress you come Nov 6th. I'm probably wrong but I remain stubbornly optimistic.
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Oct 18, 2018 00:25
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Skex posted:I personally hope that all of the poling is wrong and that the GOP are delivered a giant gently caress you come Nov 6th. I'm probably wrong but I remain stubbornly optimistic. *All of the Texas polling. There's plenty of national polling that I very much hope is proven turbo-correct in a few weeks.
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Oct 18, 2018 00:37
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i maintain this is the most consequential policy / political trend in texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8_xfxfPJ1Y the republican party really emerged in texas in the 1980s by fusing the white rural / exurban vote with the booming suburban vote; hanging the cities around democrat necks. this is the republican firewall that allowed the party to dominate the state for a generation. if you look at election maps of texas in presidential years it was counties such as collin that flashed bright "red" for reagan. that was/is the republican base. i think hank hill, despite being a cartoon character, is the like the singular texas republican voter in the 90s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64MkJ1fe46c exurban/suburban homeowner. assistant manager at a small business. his interests are in good schools for his kids and low taxes. but there's a contradiction as property taxes pay for the schools. at the same time, the republican party serves the interests of commercial property developers who are underpaying, so as a result guys like hank hill are getting screwed. the GOP tax bill also lowered the maximum amount of property taxes homeowners could deduct from their federal income taxes. in the press, this was widely reported as disproportionately hurting "blue" coastal states. but it's also hurting texan homeowners. middle-class homeowners are also much more likely to vote than the working poor.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:exurban/suburban homeowner. assistant manager at a small business. his interests are in good schools for his kids and low taxes. but there's a contradiction as property taxes pay for the schools. There’s actually zero contradiction because school resources have no significant impact on educational outcomes, good schools are just those that start with good students.
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Oct 18, 2018 12:46
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Wolf Pussy posted:There’s actually zero contradiction because school resources have no significant impact on educational outcomes, good schools are just those that start with good students. According to whom, because everything I've read says differently
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Oct 18, 2018 16:25
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Good soup! posted:According to whom, because everything I've read says differently Well, the Republican leadership and education policy makers for one. You see the problem isn't lack of spending, it's waste, abuse and bad teachers. If anything we spend TOO MUCH on public education here in the state of Texas.
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Oct 18, 2018 16:28
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Spiritus Nox posted:*All of the Texas polling. No i mean all of the polling. I'm wanting the LV screens to be shredded to the point that the statisticians spend years trying to figure out how wrong they were, I want a blue loving Tsunami to the point where the surviving Republican Senators are falling over themselves to place President Pelosi in the Oval Office in the futile hopes to avoid the coming purge. I want the 50% of the population that tends to be more progressive than the voting population to come out and deliver such a thorough and complete rebuke of the Republican Party and Conservative ideology that they are relegated to permanent minority status. Then I want the Democrats to investigate the living poo poo out of every elected Republican, freshly unseated Republican and right wing talking head and think tank and the entire loving conservative movement. Every dark money donor every conservative judge. I mean it probably won't happen because we're in the hell timeline but that's what I want to see happen. That said I do feel relatively confident that the polls are understating the coming wave. There has been a shift of mood in the country when it comes to this poo poo. Notice that the open anger and desperation of the Kavanaugh hearings have given way to a determined resolve. Lefties aren't marching in the streets they are marching to the ballot boxes.
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Oct 18, 2018 16:41
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Wolf Pussy posted:There’s actually zero contradiction because school resources have no significant impact on educational outcomes, good schools are just those that start with good students. Entirely coincidental is that good schools with good students are also have good resources.
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JUST MAKING CHILI posted:Entirely coincidental is that good schools with good students are also have good resources. Good parents produce both good children and good resources.
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