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I wonder if any voters will actually care about this. GOP primary voters maybe but I can’t imagine how that caring will manifest - will they vote for all the ET people or vote for moderates instead?
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I think the general recriminations and distrust sown here is going to be the real problem for the state party https://twitter.com/edwonkkimmy/status/1184130755154325507 This strikes me as correct. It's good gossip for Texas pol junkies and will probably make some enemies but if there's one thing the Republicans are good at it's setting aside their extreme personal dislike and hatred of another person to vote for them because they are Rs. Also you have to remember that MQS knows the convo is being recorded so he's being way more circumspect than he'd be if he was the one getting secretly recorded. zoux fucked around with this message at 16:44 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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These guys just utterly despise cities and counties. I just flat out dont understand it.
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Sab0921 posted:These guys just utterly despise cities and counties. I just flat out dont understand it. This I don't understand. If you take out cities and counties, what's left? The little rural towns? Are they relying on gerrymandering districts to carry them forward?
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Sab0921 posted:These guys just utterly despise cities and counties. I just flat out dont understand it. They needed a foil after Hillary lost.
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Well when you campaign on lowering property taxes, but have no real authority to lower property taxes, you demonize the tax collectors.
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Shifty Pony posted:They needed a foil after Hillary lost. In dark hours I sometimes wonder where the GOP would turn for single-issue votes if they ever got rid of Roe v. Wade
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Everyone is just shocked, SHOCKED! that this is going on  Between the time he mentored me as a freshman in session and uh, like two weeks later, he has been poisoned by partisan politics
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I've met Talarico, and he seems to be a good guy, but man is that some overly polite centrist speak.
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Thank you, Speaker Boner, for compiling a handy list of people you hate for me to donate to.
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We all knew A&M was for the birds: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/10/14/texas-m-system-chancellor-john-sharp-got-parakeets-his-officequote:Last fall, employees in a Texas A&M University System office space were alerted that three parakeets had been placed in the building’s light-filled atrium, and that more were on the way. 
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I'd love to see a parakeet say "saw vars'ty's horns off" https://twitter.com/DBUPatriots/status/1184168695284797445 Whoa wtf zoux fucked around with this message at 19:40 on Oct 15, 2019 |
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Now there's 2 individuals nicknamed Speaker Boner to keep track of. At least one is retired now. Anyways, while it's not new, I enjoyed playing around with 538's Gerrymandering Atlas. Texas, theoretically gerrymandered Democratic, would give them 5 Dallas seats, 5 Houston seats, 3 Austin seats and a San Antonio seat. It's a fun little fantasy. Meanwhile a fair map would probably be a gain anywhere from 0-6 seats relative to now depending on which map and election outcome variance. But since Texas doesn't allow statewide ballot measures, I'd guess fair maps in other states are more interesting. Geographic distribution, with Democrats clustering in cities, fucks Democrats in countless states, often forcing a Democratic gerrymander just to get outcomes that match the partisan breakdown of the statewide vote. Ohio is the most prime example of this. Texas is actually less so than many states, probably because it's so suburban and rural.
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Why does A&M think they own the word 'Howdy'?
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Sardonik posted:Why does A&M think they own the word 'Howdy'? Are you asking why Aggies are laboring under a grand delusion about something
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zoux posted:Are you asking why Aggies are laboring under a grand delusion about something Excuse me, my grand delusion is a tradition and you need to respect it
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I'm sort of bummed out I spent the summer reading some of the big spoilers, so some of it is not surprising. But months into this, I'm still in shock that Bonnen would be this dumb to assume he was not being recorded. My boss is still betting he'll win the Speakership again, but I wouldn't go that far.
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zoux posted:Seriously, just monumentally loving stupid. He was all set for a long, respectable Speaker career too For someone not from Texas, how bad a sign is that for Trump?
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It’s a conservative Dallas suburb
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Badger of Basra posted:What do all these guys have against Scott Braddock, who runs like a blog or something? QR was king poo poo before the Texas Tribune existed so it's muscle memory. Also he picks fights with them on twitter. I mean, if there's BTS poo poo I wouldn't know but that's the public facing reasons anyway
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Charlz Guybon posted:For someone not from Texas, how bad a sign is that for Trump? Garland is pretty conservative, so it's definitely a bad sign.
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Badger of Basra posted:I wonder if any voters will actually care about this. GOP primary voters maybe but I can’t imagine how that caring will manifest - will they vote for all the ET people or vote for moderates instead? "That guy.... is trash!!!" Cue him holding in barely contained rage. So I raised my Lyft driver's blood pressure a few extra notches that morning. Oh his mind was probably already made up though.
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Quandary posted:Garland is pretty conservative, so it's definitely a bad sign. Extreme right factoid: Garland was a hotbed for the Confederate Hammerskins back in the 1980s. Dallas was said to have birthed that particular group but a lot of them lived in Garland and in crash houses (many were juveniles, in fact). A whole bunch wound up in prison https://www.jta.org/1989/10/04/archive/skinheads-indicted-in-dallas-for-attacks-on-jewish-sites
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:I recently took a Lyft with the license plate OPN CARY and the driver was the ultimate mid-40s conservative dude with the Hawaiian shirt and trilby hat. Of course, considering I have a way to get people to trust me, I can get people to open up to tell me their deepest fears and fantasies. Turns out he was an activist for Open Carry Texas, the group that got into it with Bonnen earlier this year at his house, and now with the MQS tape I had to know what he thought. Was it this square-faced motherfucker?  Because the reason he pushes so hard for "constitutional carry" is that he has a criminal record that prevent him from getting a CC permit. He's been known to get real threatening with lawmakers who don't do what he says. Dude is bugfuck nuts, moreso than others of his libertarian ilk. Apparently he's way into marijuana legalization now. Go figure. https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-kennedy/article10243031.html
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TropicalCoke posted:drat this part of the conversation is comedic https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1184167120554381312 https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1184436000879185920 Oh I'm sure
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So a woman saw a man prowling around outside of her window and pulled out a gun.
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Keeshhound posted:So a woman saw a man prowling around outside of her window and pulled out a gun. No, that's just what the cops got the kid to say
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zoux posted:No, that's just what the cops got the kid to say My point is that even if it's true, so what? This is literally the scenario people insist that they need a firearm for.
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Keeshhound posted:My point is that even if it's true, so what? This is literally the scenario people insist that they need a firearm for. Well if you convince a jury that the cop felt threatened, a lot of people will give him the benefit of the doubt
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I say he doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt because it's Texas, and I would assume 99% of people have a gun in their house specifically for defending themselves during a break in. I can't imagine what police training is like to make an officer that scared at checking houses that he shoots at the first visible human inside.
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