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Marxalot posted:Home Depot buckets are far cheaper and you can put your own pinto bean and rice based slop in them for less money   theyre really cool until the owner stops caring about them. once you paint over the access panel theyre a pain in the rear end to fix and painting pretty much any part of them without properly sanding surfaces and avoiding the moving parts is going to gently caress of the mechanismj
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zoux posted:Wow it only took two months but finally an article is published that points out that no one is teaching critical race theory in schools. or perhaps for the media to acknowledge when covering this
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zoux posted:He ain't running with these numbers all those drat right wing carpetbaggers
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I'm from CA and I've learned that rhetoric that gets exported from Texas tends not to match the culture (at least not entirely). I'm moved from Trump country there, and people there are dead serious about constitutional carry. The libertarians back there are straight up ideological anarchists.
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Sab0921 posted:Not that this will be any help to Beto because none of these people would vote for him in a million years anyway, and it's also entirely anecdotal, but the most crazy rabid 2nd amendment people I know are not very happy with permitless open carry. right wing gun laws are never designed around actual gun people that respect them and encourage safe usage, theyre for the ones that buy berettas with trump quotes engraved into the barrel and pork laced ammo
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eSporks posted:I'm from CA and I've learned that rhetoric that gets exported from Texas tends not to match the culture (at least not entirely). Well, seeing as Abbott signed con carry like two weeks ago, we're pretty serious about it too
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Speaking of con carry, Canales sponsored it so he can smfd https://twitter.com/TerryCanales40/status/1408056519174803456 How dare the governor use ridiculous and evil political games to compel my presence in Austin for a special session, preempting my use of good and pure political games. gently caress the election bill, gently caress the special session, but you don't get to whine about parliamentary gambits when half of your caucus spent hours on cable news shows over the past weeks being fawned over because of your own parliamentary gambit I bet they show up, but I wonder what would happen if they actually did break quorum until September 1, I guess they'd start furloughing legislative employees.
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Please god I hope they kill the 45 expansion
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Jun 24, 2021 17:22
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Please it let that old monster crumble to dust, I hate that highway.
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Serious question: what are the alternatives to the 45 expansion? It's been on the table for so long that I don't know that I've even seen other plans beyond just " the Pierce elevated will suck forever"
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Shooting Blanks posted:Serious question: what are the alternatives to the 45 expansion? It's been on the table for so long that I don't know that I've even seen other plans beyond just " the Pierce elevated will suck forever" The alternative is to just not do it
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Random aside, but if any of you have yet to eat at Jones Fried Chicken in Houston, you need to.
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Dameius posted:Random aside, but if any of you have yet to eat at Jones Fried Chicken in Houston, you need to. I'll have to give that one a try. I'm partial to #1 Chicken Rice and Seafood off Almeda.
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Their lamb over rice is very good and between their red sauce which is actually proper hot and the option of getting it with spicy rice you can really dial in your spice level.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Serious question: what are the alternatives to the 45 expansion? It's been on the table for so long that I don't know that I've even seen other plans beyond just " the Pierce elevated will suck forever" just not doing it would be great, TxDOT could set the money on fire and it would be more socially and environmentally beneficial than expanding 45
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George H.W. oval office posted:I'll have to give that one a try. I'm partial to #1 Chicken Rice and Seafood off Almeda. Oddly enough, Jones Fried Chicken is more of a halal joint than a fried chicken joint more like Abu Omar or Shawarma Stop, if we're sticking to Almeda. Still very good, just a misleading name.
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All the stereotypes about Texas are strong enough to let the democrats know it's a lost cause just like how they're strong enough to make republicans move here like it's the promised land that their favorite racist autocrat told them was out there waiting for them. Georgia surprised everyone in 2020, but nobody expects politics or votes to matter in Texas. Beto believed enough for one run against Ted Cruz, and he cared enough to do a big show of trying to help people during the winter storm while Republicans shrugged hundreds of people to death, but maybe that's it.
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If Beto spent the next 10 election cycles doing nothing but burning the rot out of the state party and rebuilding it he'd do infinitely more good for everyone but the current Republicans in office.
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i say swears online posted:the dallas-cancun highway at last, ted cruz gets something done in office
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Sab0921 posted:Not that this will be any help to Beto because none of these people would vote for him in a million years anyway, and it's also entirely anecdotal, but the most crazy rabid 2nd amendment people I know are not very happy with permitless open carry. Hey that's me, the socialist gun owner who would still vote for him. I think an O'Rouke type figure could win in Texas but they would have to break with the national party on at least a few culture war issues that are just losers in Texas like gun control. I don't think they would have to go so far as to completely renounce it but draw a distinct line between what they endorse and the official party position. They would draw some fire from traditionally aligned with the Democratic party groups because of it, but it would probably help more than hurt. If I was running as a Democrat in Texas and broke with the national party on gun control, and that Bloomberg gun control group critized me, I'd have that lead every one of my campaign ads.
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the Texas House will flip blue before anyone ever deigns to visit the poors, let alone all 254 counties.
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Jun 24, 2021 23:20
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ugh it's probably like six months before we see hints of the new congressional map
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New map gives every seat to Republicans except where required to be minority representation districts. SCOTUS refuses to hear case, says this is a congressional issue.
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i say swears online posted:ugh it's probably like six months before we see hints of the new congressional map Just take a red sharpie and fill in the entire state and then poke a tiny blue dot on Dallas/Austin/Houston. Stand back and marvel at the effect that like ten million democratic votes can have. Thank you, Elbridge Gerry’s Salamander, for forwarding the cause of democracy.
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Dameius posted:SCOTUS refuses to hear case, says this is a congressional issue. SCOTUS wouldn’t do that. They would say it’s a state legislature issue.
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Numlock posted:Hey that's me, the socialist gun owner who would still vote for him. Generally most politicians have some kind of deviation from the general party line of the national party. That's extremely, extremely normal. I don't think you can ditch gun control entirely as an issue though because the current state of gun control in Texas isn't the result of any kind of real demand from the electorate, it's an insane totemistic measure to somehow spite politics in other states or the federal government. The next time they feel the need to do something like that, it'll be more directly harmful like requiring teachers to pack heat so that kids can more easily get their hands on a gun to get killin' or some dumb loving thing there are no goddamn limits, and it won't loving matter what Texas Dems do to try to compromise on gun control or be super pro-guns getting spread far and wide to kill the maximum amount of people, the entire Republican strategy doesn't care about that, they'll just lie and the people plugged into the Republican machine will believe them, and it's just wasting everybody's time to loudly proclaim that no, you actually like bad things too and damage what support you do have by pretending to be the same kind of nihilistic monster trying to grind all humans in the state into a pulp like the Republicans are.
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SlothfulCobra posted:gun control in Texas isn't the result of any kind of real demand from the electorate, it's an insane totemistic measure to somehow spite politics in other states or the federal government. I keep seeing people in this thread mention how the electorate in TX doesn't really want constitutional carry, it's just a stunt aimed at other states. It's also been my experience that the Texans I have talked to about it, and some of the sheriff's that have commented on it, are against it. Back in CA, that Texan ideal gets interpreted as the holy land, there is an actual voter base for that insanity. Sheriff's do come out in support of it, probably because these Sheriff's are running toys for tots drives with Proud Boys, in a town that decided to remove a noose from it's seal. And now those same proud boys are marching in the streets with nooses. Maybe that stuff is happening here in TX too, but I don't see it being talked about in this thread, the news, or in the world. It really does look like these are political stunts aimed at a stage larger than Texas. I definitely could be wrong, I'm new here. If that stuff is happening, let me know about it.
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eSporks posted:It really does look like these are political stunts aimed at a stage larger than Texas. That's Texas politics baby
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Maybe it wasn't the best issue to do it on, but Robert Francis O'Roarke at least took a clear and bold stance on something instead of doing the usual obfuscating mealy-mouthed trying-to-have-it-both-ways Democrat poo poo their pols usually do, which I think is overall beneficial for him because I think people respect someone they disagree with more than they respect an obviously cowardly weasel. Shame it's over some pointless culture war issue like how scary guns are allowed to look instead of over something that would actually help literally anybody anywhere, but I guess if you're a millionaire owned by billionaires you can't do anything bold on the helping people front. I mean what's the alternative? Get Wendy Davis back up there to filibuster another abortion bill then agree with the worst parts of it to chase Republican votes? Go down the identity politics checklist to find a candidate who hits every box except "actually bothers to campaign or even think of one good reason they should be governor"?
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why are we saying Robert Francis
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idk, because it's his name? Why does the White House historical society say Joseph R. Biden Jr.?
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VitalSigns posted:idk, because it's his name? It is still weird to not call him Beto when that's what he goes by. We aren't a historical society. It'd be like NBA commentators or courtside reporters randomly deciding to call Steph Curry Wardell Curry II. Technically accurate, but not how anyone actually addresses him in a normal context.
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Barack Hussein Obama
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:why are we saying Robert Francis You know why. VitalSigns thinks Beto has stolen hispanic valor and won't stand for it.
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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:Barack Hussein Obama lol at even trying to make this comparison
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VitalSigns posted:idk, because it's his name? It's a great way to point out that he's very white I guess! I originally felt the "Beto" moniker felt it was just playing to the Hispanic demographic, but it doesn't seem that way. I was also under the impression he was quite the silver spoon tech bro but that was also untrue. I think Beto has a lot of misconceptions around his persona, and is actually just a Good Dude. I like the name Robinette, too. I still think the best/funniest/most absurd name in politics is Jeffrey Beauregard Sessions III, the most "I wish I owned slaves right now" name I have ever heard in politics.
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