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zoux posted:I know we're all mad at Beto for running for president but imagine for a second you were surrounded by 50 Grima Wormtongues whispering in your ear that you're the chosen one and you can win this thing because they want to soak you and your supporters for campaign consultant cash. It is easy to understand why he did it. It just sucks he fell to siren song of a doomed vanity project rather than stay focused on building Texas.
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Jan 30, 2020 18:04
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Well yeah, I'm a life long liberal in Texas, why the gently caress would I have hope? 
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The fact that Beto did fall for the siren song of a doomed vanity project is precisely why he sucks rear end. In terms of Texas, he managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. It's like he had his own Mount Doom scene from LOTR.
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zoux posted:I know we're all mad at Beto for running for president but imagine for a second you were surrounded by 50 Grima Wormtongues whispering in your ear that you're the chosen one and you can win this thing because they want to soak you and your supporters for campaign consultant cash. I do understand that, but on the other hand he is responsible for his own choices and he should have had enough political sense to consider that they were selling him snake oil.
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Shadi Zitoon posted:It is a tough race. I like most of the candidates and think they would all do well. I haven't seen anything that suggest any of them aren't at least pretty left. I think Candace or Jan are the most left but I am not sure. The only one I haven't personally talked to is Sam Vega so his politics are more unknown to me. I spoke at IGA earlier this week with Kim Olson and she can command a room. Thanks! I checked out Vega a bit and he’s pretty explicit about M4A and Green New Deal. Also seems to be a DSA member, so that just about checks all of my lefty boxes for the primary.
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Honestly the most frustrating part about the Beto for President mess was everyone going "Dude, what are you doing?" and "what do you think actually sets you apart from the other presidential candidates?" from every single angle and he just kept blowing off the questions and criticisms. Like I can see him ignoring a few cranks but when everyone, ever, is asking him that in just about every interview it has to be a sign.
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Jan 30, 2020 18:40
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I bet Beto hates whoever convinced him to say he was born to run for president.
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Bizarro Watt posted:I do understand that, but on the other hand he is responsible for his own choices and he should have had enough political sense to consider that they were selling him snake oil. Well the point is that "Beto's Senate run was bad for Ds in Texas" is a wrong take. No one is happy with Beto's presidential run, least of all Julian Castro.
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Shadi Zitoon posted:It is a tough race. I like most of the candidates and think they would all do well. I haven't seen anything that suggest any of them aren't at least pretty left. I think Candace or Jan are the most left but I am not sure. The only one I haven't personally talked to is Sam Vega so his politics are more unknown to me. I spoke at IGA earlier this week with Kim Olson and she can command a room. I've met both Jan and Candace and they're both genuine people who I have no issue supporting, I donated to both. It looks like Kim Olson is running away with funding, probably because she ran for a state wide position in 2018. For what it's worth, M4A is a big issue for me and Jan is the only one that presents it as an end-goal while Candace and Kim suggest protecting and improving the ACA.
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"Beto couldn't even beat Ted Cruz!!!" is still real dumb, I'm glad we're mostly past that
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i say swears online posted:"Beto couldn't even beat Ted Cruz!!!" is still real dumb, I'm glad we're mostly past that Are we enraged_camel posted:In terms of Texas, he managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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EC is not representative of accepted discourse!!
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zoux posted:Well the point is that "Beto's Senate run was bad for Ds in Texas" is a wrong take. No one is happy with Beto's presidential run, least of all Julian Castro. Oh, I agree with that part.
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i say swears online posted:EC is not representative of accepted discourse!! That's true, I spent most of my life on the West Coast so my standards are a tad higher than whatever low rear end bar you guys are setting for yourselves. 
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enraged_camel posted:That's true, I spent most of my life on the West Coast so my standards are a tad higher than whatever low rear end bar you guys are setting for yourselves. do you not understand demographics or what
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i say swears online posted:do you not understand demographics or what Of course not, he's a transplant. In more positive/lest shitposting news: went out to my local elections office and updated my voter registration information and signed up to be a volunteer election person. I'll probably be picking and hauling equipment and stuff but hey, I figure every bit and every person helps.
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true for most "democratic" cities in texas https://twitter.com/gus_bova/status/1222989209578983424 quote:But, as Who Rules El Paso? makes clear, post-mortem boosterism hides a dirty secret: The city’s politics are neither robust nor multicultural. Instead, they are weak and racialized. Local government is controlled by a coterie of rich, primarily white Republicans. Most are bankers, real estate investors, and developers. Most abjure elected office but bankroll candidates of more modest means, who doubt they can get elected unless the tycoons fund their campaigns. quote:In the early aughts, a movement of young, well-educated people, including Beto O’Rourke, styled themselves as progressive reformers and began running for office on an anti-corruption, civic-improvement platform. Perhaps naively, they welcomed help from a newcomer group of Anglo Republicans, even richer than the old timers. One was William Sanders, the billionaire real-estate developer father of Amy Sanders, whom Beto married in 2005. BrutalistMcDonalds fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:true for most "democratic" cities in texas I think I mentioned this quite a while ago, but I lived in El Paso and worked at a position that gave me some inside baseball knowledge of the local politics and this is 100% true when I was living there. And Veronica Escobar is cut from the exact same cloth. She's going to be a fine center-left Dem, but she'll never get anywhere close to a AOC/Tlaib/Omar or Jessica Cisneros.
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The Baytown Exxon is extremely on fire again. Lighting up the whole rear end city this time. Normal things. Deregulation owns.
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Marxalot posted:The Baytown Exxon is extremely on fire again. Lighting up the whole rear end city this time. Got any links, I can't seem to find any news on this yet.
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Number_6 posted:Got any links, I can't seem to find any news on this yet. I'd post a pic from my front yard but it kind of makes it very obvious where I live. also still on fire lol e: also traffic was too bad on my way home to snap a pic on the spur. Blame the idiot who decided to do 35 in the 65 and get everything all backed up. Marxalot fucked around with this message at 07:57 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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Marxalot posted:I'd post a pic from my front yard but it kind of makes it very obvious where I live. Either this is the biggest cover up in history or you dreamed that up dude because it no one is posting about it anywhere
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My wife works in Baytown and said something looked like it was on fire on her way home last night
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Well, I can't find a single thing about it online
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Yeah this thread is the only place I’ve seen it. Usually the Houston reddit is plastered with peoples lovely out the car window drive by pictures of anything as mildly interesting as a sunset so something like a chemical plant fire would show up.
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I looked last night after he posted, and there was only like 3 other posts on Twitter about it, 1 of which was his. Looked like a giant Flare from a tower or something, not like a plant was on fire or exploding. https://twitter.com/BaytownSam/status/1223057455946616832?s=20
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BEAUTIFUL FIRE!
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BREAKING NEWS: Phantom Meance was a good movie
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https://twitter.com/BriscoeCain/status/1223264966968532993 Look he merely strongly implied he would kill a prominent political figure https://twitter.com/BenjaminEW/status/1223321313865060352 Kind of an odd thing for a D to go after another D for don't you think  (The shadowy dark money group being uhhhh Emily's List) zoux fucked around with this message at 20:33 on Jan 31, 2020 |
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He's the last of the Empower Texas Senators after Konni Burton and Don Huffines got rinsed in '18. All that money and they get a dude whose number one top tier issue is EMP attacks.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:bob hall's state senate district covers several towns and counties east of dallas like greenville / commerce and fannin county Pretty much. That's the area where I grew up, attending a tiny 1A rural school, and about 75% of the student body and faculty were all related in some way even if most of it was along the lines of having great-great-grandparents who were siblings, in-laws, or whatever. People tend to either immediately move away after high school and not come back, or settle down with their school sweetheart/fourth cousin in a house down the road from their parents because if they don't want to move there aren't really a lot of options for dating. And that's without even going into the families whose family trees were... even more interwoven than usual. I knew of two families with kids around my age whose parents were first cousins. One of them lived in a mad max-style compound of decaying trailer house with makeshift renovations and expansions fenced in by stacked junker cars and welded scrap metal. It's hard to overstate just how rural and insular northeast Texas is, even as the Dallas metropolitan area continues to expand and incorporate it along the I-30 corridor. Large chunks of the area didn't even have utilities like running water until the late 60s or 70s.
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zoux posted:He's the last of the Empower Texas Senators after Konni Burton and Don Huffines got rinsed in '18. All that money and they get a dude whose number one top tier issue is EMP attacks.  https://twitter.com/DrMarkPBarry/status/1209634002606399488
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DangerZoneDelux posted:Either this is the biggest cover up in history or you dreamed that up dude because it no one is posting about it anywhere The poo poo catches fire all the time. It's usually not news unless there's significant property damage or injuries. also lol rekt https://twitter.com/keribla/status/1223686897362440193?s=20 e: the other option is they had one or more of those short rear end portable flare stacks pulled up next to their olefins unit and flipped them wide open Marxalot fucked around with this message at 03:13 on Feb 2, 2020 |
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