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We will never send our benevolent socialist dictator to Austin.
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We must protect our benevolent socialist dictator so she can one day save us from Greg
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Jun 28, 2021 19:08
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Captain Monkey posted:It's a selfish desire, Houston hasn't had a good mayor in a while. Annise Parker was a very good Mayor. Turner is ok, but its weird because no one has idea what he stands for, what his agenda is, what his goals as Mayor are other than being the Mayor.
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Jun 28, 2021 19:16
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Jiro posted:State AG, then LT Governor so she can actually get poo poo done and possibly wrangle the ledge to not be a complete poo poo show. Then Forever Governor. She can't be AG, she's not a lawyer. She dropped out of law school as a 1L to run for County Judge in a county she had never lived in (she's from Cinco Ranch in Ft Bend County!). She's good and I like her, it's just completely bonkers that she is the current County Judge for Harris County.
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Jun 28, 2021 19:19
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Sab0921 posted:Annise Parker was a very good Mayor. Nah, he's corrupt as poo poo. But he's a big city mayor so I repeat myself.
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Jun 28, 2021 19:48
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Sab0921 posted:She can't be AG, she's not a lawyer. She dropped out of law school as a 1L to run for County Judge in a county she had never lived in (she's from Cinco Ranch in Ft Bend County!). Cinco is literally on the cusp of Harris county (and in fact, partially in it). And it doesn't matter if you don't live smack in the middle of the county as long as you're relatively familiar with some of it at least. Getting to know the rest of it is part of the job. I mean, US Representatives don't even have to live in their districts.
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Jun 28, 2021 20:21
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https://www.tiktok.com/@calebwfranc...1&is_copy_url=0 I don’t know why everyone concerned about Portland and Seattle right now when Texas is hotter???
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Jun 29, 2021 03:25
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No Safe Word posted:Cinco is literally on the cusp of Harris county (and in fact, partially in it). And it doesn't matter if you don't live smack in the middle of the county as long as you're relatively familiar with some of it at least. Getting to know the rest of it is part of the job. I know what/where Cinco Ranch is. It was just surprising that a 1L in law school who hadn't lived in the region since she was in high school (and lived in a suburb that is in an adjacent county for that part of it) ran for and won the seat to be Chief Executive of a county that's larger than 26 states. She's been good at the job, I was just pointing out the absurdity of the whole thing. Like I'd be just as surprised if Liz Bruening became the Mayor of Dallas.
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Jun 29, 2021 04:56
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Sab0921 posted:Annise Parker was a very good Mayor. His mother named him Sly.
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Jun 29, 2021 04:59
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I went to law school with a really genuinely great and smart guy who ran for and a won a seat on the local city council 2L year. He had lived nearby his whole life and was really ingrained in the baseball scene, including coaching a little league team, said "gently caress it why not" and won. I think we're supposed to pretend Texas judges are the same as any other city official for some reason? They're not. Maybe a justice of the peace, but bad judges are huge headaches, and if she was a 1L their clerks probably know more about procedure and caselaw than them. That being said, you can probably get away with some guidance from a professor/helpful staff/predecessor. e: I realize now that I've only ever dealt with federal judges and I have no idea what state judging would be like so this post is inherently flawed probably
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Jun 29, 2021 05:08
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I'm not an expert on the subject or anything, and I'm sure one will chime in momentarily, but the county judge title is misleading. They aren't judges in the regular sense of that word. It's an executive position. They don't sit in court or hear trials or anything like that. Edit: For example, the county judges in the Dallas and Houston areas have mostly been in the news within the past year for setting Covid policy and fighting with the state executives about what should be done with regards to mask use, restaurant occupancy, etc. litany of gulps fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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Jun 29, 2021 06:07
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Sab0921 posted:Annise Parker was a very good Mayor. Red light cameras.  But yea she was pretty good. Turner sucks though.
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Jun 29, 2021 07:03
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^^^^ I liked red light cameras. They were objective and took enforcement of a thing away from the cops (they could obviously still stop you for running a red, but they didnt) zoux posted:His mother named him Sly. She probably did it to pander to all the fans of Sly and the Family Stone to set him up for a political career and knowing that tying her son to the funk could help get him some votes. Sab0921 fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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Jun 29, 2021 12:55
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Sab0921 posted:She probably did it to pander to all the fans of Sly and the Family Stone to set him up for a political career and knowing that tying her son to the funk could help get him some votes. 100%. Based on our knowledge of him being mayor opening anime conventions, he would prefer to be called Naruto.
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Jun 29, 2021 13:18
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litany of gulps posted:I'm not an expert on the subject or anything, and I'm sure one will chime in momentarily, but the county judge title is misleading. They aren't judges in the regular sense of that word. It's an executive position. They don't sit in court or hear trials or anything like that. Yeah, the county judge is the county executive and nothing more. It's an antiquated term like many in Texas.
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Jun 29, 2021 13:23
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Sab0921 posted:^^^^ I liked when the ones around here almost entirely dropped the yellow light. Efficient wealth extraction hell yeah Oil! posted:100%. Based on our knowledge of him being mayor opening anime conventions, he would prefer to be called Naruto. Pretty sure he's Akatsuki
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Jun 29, 2021 13:41
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As expected, the pandemic and online learning loving mangled education this year: https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/28/texas-staar-test-results/ The most disturbing part of this article is the chart about halfway down which shows that, at its peak in 2019, barely half of students grades 3-8 met grade level in reading and math, and now it's down to 35% in math and 42% in reading (Christ). Lots of things to unpack about this: internet access, home environment, food security (or lack thereof), language proficiency, parental involvement, etc. The bottom line is that the effects of this will be felt for years to come, if not at least a decade.
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Jun 29, 2021 14:13
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drat, you mean this state is gonna be full of morons in a few years
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Jun 29, 2021 14:39
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IT BURNS posted:As expected, the pandemic and online learning loving mangled education this year: The genuine results are probably even worse than reported. 9% of the total student body in the state didn’t take the exams this year as compared to last, and that group of students were primarily at-risk students that would have disproportionately failed the exams. Many of those students have vanished from the schools entirely, and it may be difficult to bring them back to campuses. If we spend another semester tracking them all down and pulling them back to school, they’ll effectively has lost two straight years of instruction.
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Jun 29, 2021 14:59
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Yeah a Lina Hidalgo is basically the mayor of Harris County, no idea why she's called a judge but she doesn't do anything with hearing cases. Also somewhat confusingly, she heads the commissioners court, which is also not a thing that hears cases - there are four county commissioners (no idea if this number is standard for all Texas counties or just for Harris), and the five of them vote on stuff for the government to do or not do. Hidalgo has executive power over county government organs but is just a regular voting member of the court, she can't veto anything and if she loses a vote, she is bound to follow the outcome.
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Jun 29, 2021 15:00
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Sab0921 posted:^^^^ just lol. You have terrible opinions sometimes friend.
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Jun 29, 2021 15:31
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County Judge is a fun position to do phone banking for because you have to explain what a County Judge is to like 95% of people.
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Jun 29, 2021 15:49
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https://twitter.com/kadiagoba/status/1409886664969838597 Lol this is such a farce
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Jun 29, 2021 15:52
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south dakotans digging up rifles and uniforms from underneath the floorboards like the three musketeers
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Jun 29, 2021 16:07
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zoux posted:drat, you mean this state is gonna be full of morons in a few years Thanks to the anti-CRT bill, we should be fine.
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Jun 29, 2021 16:28
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I still haven't seen any explanation for what all these foreign national guardsmen are doing once they get here. It's like when Iceland sent like three guys to Iraq, just to say that they did. I remember an interview with an army officer from when Trump deployed them to the border and she was like "yeah we're just kinda sitting in tents down here. I dunno why we're here. There's no job to do."
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Jun 29, 2021 16:36
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Nothing. There's nothing to do, there's no border crisis, it's a made up problem that Abbott is using to seem Trumpy and Noem is trying to get her beak wet since the border nearest to her has a bunch of polite, nonthreatening white people on the other side.
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Jun 29, 2021 17:00
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I still haven't seen any explanation for what all these foreign national guardsmen are doing once they get here. While I get your meaning, (1) strong Texan energy here and (2) now I can't shake the image of some middle aged dweeb in overpriced boots giving the sovcit lecture to a very bored and resigned staff sergeant informing him that no, we will not be moving those tents that we've set up because of your ancestral grazing rights.
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Jun 29, 2021 17:04
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 Twenty. Twenty Iowa state troopers are all that stand between us and being human trafficked by MS 13.
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Jun 29, 2021 17:52
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zoux posted:
Nothing for y'all just more bored white assholes down here in the Valley acting like jackasses. Hate having to put up with this poo poo.
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Jun 29, 2021 17:54
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https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1409880636970651650 gently caress off
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Jun 29, 2021 17:58
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1409880636970651650 _Former_ President Trump.
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Jun 29, 2021 18:41
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It's proper to style a former president (or any ex-pol) by their highest office, you'd say the same about President Obama or President Bush. Of course, you and I understand what's going on here, but Abbott would just be like "that's how it's done what are you talking about"
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Jun 29, 2021 18:55
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saintonan posted:_Former_ President Trump. _Disgraced_ _Former_ President Trump
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Jun 29, 2021 19:13
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zoux posted:It's proper to style a former president (or any ex-pol) by their highest office, you'd say the same about President Obama or President Bush. Of course, you and I understand what's going on here, but Abbott would just be like "that's how it's done what are you talking about"
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Jun 29, 2021 19:18
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https://twitter.com/JohnWFerguson/status/1409939571333210114 The border city of Galveston
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Jun 29, 2021 19:30
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zoux posted:It's proper to style a former president (or any ex-pol) by their highest office, you'd say the same about President Obama or President Bush. Of course, you and I understand what's going on here, but Abbott would just be like "that's how it's done what are you talking about" Yeah, bit can he really use that excuse when he's publicly giving a "security briefing" to the man? That's not exactly the norm for former presidents
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Jun 29, 2021 19:33
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Again, we all know what's going on here, we know what he's signalling. But if the press pushes him on it (lol) he'll just do the "What? What? It's normal??" thing and say libs are freaking out and have trump derangement syndrome
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Jun 29, 2021 19:34
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There's definitely nothing in Galveston that needs any government money, send it all to the border!
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They're using ARP funds in the hopes that the feds try to stop them so they can go "See! SEEE!!! Biden Border Crisis!!!"
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