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zoux posted:It's astonishing. I know two people who this year, accepted good jobs and moved to California. It's a conundrum for sure because they couldn't find jobs they wanted here.
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Oil! posted:People will vote against your candidate if they get enough unsolicited calls. I mean, if the phone screen showed "Oprah calling" or "Willie Nelson calling" hell yeah I'm gonna answer. But otherwise, I'm just gonna ignore and then block the number.
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i don't get why caller ID isn't a thing for cellphones but it is for landlinesBadger of Basra posted:
honestly the way things are going I'd be pretty jazzed to see gangs of youths roaming the streets or whatever on eternal 4 day weekends the U.S. has already thrown parents under the bus wrt childcare now, just axe the whole education thing - that's small government, right there. wolfs fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Oct 6, 2020 |
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wolfs posted:i don't get why caller ID isn't a thing for cellphones but it is for landlines It used to be a thing for cellphones too. I remember my first few phones displaying a name when someone called, and it used to be an annoyance when family plans all displayed the name of the account holder instead of whoever actually had the phone. I wonder when it stopped.
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When the cell companies realized they could charge for it. I think att charges like $3/mo for it
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zoux posted:Did he, this guy who is definitely from here, just say "our Texas" in a tweet disparaging WILLIE NELSON "Our" referring to Republicans across the nation and in Russia. Fascism is all about denying political rights to groups outside your own, and the Republicans are pretty straightforward about trying to lock up states regardless of the political or ideological slant of their populations in order to create a facade of popular support to use to control the federal government. I'm pretty sure a lot of them are on record for saying that they're trying to reduce the amount of voters, and they sure do circulate all those arguments directly against democracy in defense of the electoral college or the filibuster or gerrymandering or whatever poorly-planned facet of our government that they're currently relying on to consolidate power.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:They're probably just going to reopen under another name. It looks like the Wilks are just giving the money directly to campaigns rather than funneling it through ET.
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zoux posted:It's astonishing. this motherfucker
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zoux posted:It's astonishing. Isn't Allen West from Florida? Known to be in the East?
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Actually, I wonder if conservatives think of being a "texan" like baptism, like it only really counts if you become an adult and decide of your own volition to move to Texas as a true believer.
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Badger of Basra posted:I'm a cafeteria Texan (the cafeteria is Picadilly) Only acceptable because you can't go to Luby's anymore 
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How do we start a trend of adding "and Carpetbagger" to Noted War Criminal Allen West's name. Noted War Criminal and Carpetbagger Allen West. Got a ring to it.
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F'n lol. Also if Paxton could go down and take a bunch of shitheads with him, that would be great. I know we live in the post-law age, but it's nice to imagine.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Actually, I wonder if conservatives think of being a "texan" like baptism, like it only really counts if you become an adult and decide of your own volition to move to Texas as a true believer. i was born in the state but i'm not really observant. my dad was a texan and so i just believed what he believed
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radical meme posted:I don't even understand the reasoning behind phone banking anymore. You're trying to convince people that are too stupid to ignore an unsolicited phone call to vote for your guy. Who the hell even answers an unsolicited phone call in the year 2020. Mid level managers with an obligation to, and the kind of insane old fucks who find the melt-brained rants of Biden and Trump "Relatable". i say swears online posted:lmao this is bigger news than dan patrick dying of covid Don't tease us
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Lemniscate Blue posted:How do we start a trend of adding "and Carpetbagger" to Noted War Criminal Allen West's name. Florida man is better, I think. In any case, noted war criminal and Florida man Allen West disparaging native Texan and legitimate national treasure Willie got me wondering how many assholes running our state are actually alamosexual carpetbaggers, and it's quite a few! Both Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are just dickheads playing cowboy.
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i say swears online posted:everyone is a dickhead playing cowboy hth Yeah but for some of us that is our birth right.  
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I'm like 7th generation rear end in a top hat cowboy. Where's my loving lifted F250 dualie king ranch edition???
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https://twitter.com/jsmccullou/status/1313842812878761984 Now for Abbott to amend his executive order un-extending early voting
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I know Texans haven't voted a governor out in nearly three decades but I am looking forward to 2022 so I can impotently vote against Abbott.
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if abbott didn't like that tree there, why did he lie back and enjoy it edit beyond my egregiously awful joke here, what could abbott do to lose? jade helm, ICE and covid were bad enough, what worse could he do politically?
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Wow he's getting insane returns on his investments. Must be because of his business acumen and work ethic...oh no it was because of crimes
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Hang on, am I reading this correctly? Texas Tribune posted:According to the Houston Chronicle, former top aides to Paxton have alleged that the attorney general inappropriately appointed a special prosecutor to target “adversaries” of Paul, who donated $25,000 to Paxton’s reelection campaign in 2018. Those “adversaries” appear to include agents who raided Paul’s home and business office, though Paxton has confirmed only that he authorized an investigation into “allegations of crimes relating to the FBI, other government agencies and individuals” and that the investigation involved Paul. Are they telling us that Paxton tasked a special prosecutor to go after FBI agents who raided Paul? Paxton thought that he could go after the feds?
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Blotto_Otter posted:Hang on, am I reading this correctly? With Barr as AG, it's quite likely it would have worked.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Hang on, am I reading this correctly? My man has accused his seven top deputies of being rogue agents and is refusing to step aside, don't think he's the brightest bulb in the Texas GOP lightshow "He shared a Sun Tzu quote this summer: “Pretend to be weak, so your enemy may grow arrogant,” appending the hashtag #WorldClass." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nglVo9rj2Nk
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Blotto_Otter posted:Hang on, am I reading this correctly? rod rosenstein would have just separated paxton from his parents
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That's not okay, but it's not a problem for the Trump campaign to send unsolicited absentee ballot applications. https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/p...4c-8bdcd8740c28
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https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1313875599358861314 You can tell this is Bill Miller the lobbyist and not Bill Miller the restaurant, because only one of those actually knows anything about smoke
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Paxton has said Texas will go after voters who filled out the mail in ballot form with disability box checked due to fears of COVID-19. Do any of you fall under this category? How exactly will they go after the voters? Can they request a medical history? Is it basically an empty threat? Will they just throw away my ballot because of this? I'm really confused and annoyed about this whole debacle. I will probably surrender my mail in ballot once it arrives and just vote in person.
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Bioshuffle posted:Paxton has said Texas will go after voters who filled out the mail in ballot form with disability box checked due to fears of COVID-19. Do any of you fall under this category? How exactly will they go after the voters? Can they request a medical history? Is it basically an empty threat? Will they just throw away my ballot because of this? I'm really confused and annoyed about this whole debacle. I thought the courts said it was 100% ok to do mail in ballots with the disability box checked for specifically this reason? Am I misremembering?
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poemdexter posted:I thought the courts said it was 100% ok to do mail in ballots with the disability box checked for specifically this reason? Am I misremembering? https://www.texasattorneygeneral.go...-actual-illness quote:Fear of contracting COVID-19, however, is a normal emotional reaction to the current pandemic and does not amount to an actual disability that qualifies a voter to receive a ballot by mail. I believe he has said he will go after voters who do this, but I can't find the relevant article at the moment.
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You're gonna have to show me where he said that. From the SCOTx ruling denying universal vote by mail due to covid quote:The State has conceded that “Respondents have no discretion to do anything but determine There's no way to prove that a person is lying about a disability. The whole reason the GOP was trying so hard to keep Harris Co. from mailing out absentee ballot applications to all county residents was because they knew that people could just claim a disability and vote by mail regardless (and well they should). It's the same the state's voter ID law, if you don't have photo ID you can cast a regular ballot if you sign an affidavit stating that you had a reasonable hardship to obtaining an ID - and no one can challenge you on it. You could put "aliens from Mars stole my drivers license" and they'd have to say "Fine"
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