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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/scottbraddock/status/1425182379585548294 Voters won't remember this in a few months, if the Dems are smart (they aren't) they'll hold out and just prevent all legislation from passing. It's worked for the GOP for 15 years. And capitulating hurts them by a percent or two in voting suppression anyway.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1425180964100222984 You're legally correct. In the modern age, people have been bombarded with alternative realty that started way before Trump, and even before Luntz and Turd Blossom. We have lived on a steady diet of misinformation and political posturing since, forever. It's a feed back loop. Government is broken, therefore it is permissible to ignore government and its laws, since the other side ignored the laws, government must broken, therefore its ok for our side to ignore government, on and on.
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https://twitter.com/ksatnews/status/1425202499015880708?s=20 loving finally a small victory.
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i say swears online posted:1000 pages of texas democratic party failure love my lovely state
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JosefStalinator posted:Voters won't remember this in a few months, if the Dems are smart (they aren't) they'll hold out and just prevent all legislation from passing. It's worked for the GOP for 15 years. And capitulating hurts them by a percent or two in voting suppression anyway. i mean if it's still happening the voters will probably remember like what is the end game for this, assuming that joe manchin does not allow a new voting rights law to be passed? or are they supposed to stay in dc until (very optimistically) january 2023?
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Texas deserves to be like Belgium, nothing more nothing less.
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Badger of Basra posted:i mean if it's still happening the voters will probably remember https://twitter.com/Forrest4Trees/status/1425133041370996738 Pretty decent article -or should I say tick-tock  - of the D's wild DC month. This is the guy that broke the Gonzales/Johnson Portugal Vacation story. Highlights:quote:Others on the plane were making similar family sacrifices. One row in front of Sherman sat Erin Zwiener, a 35-year-old Democratic state representative from Driftwood, in the Hill Country, who brought her luminous 3-year-old daughter, Lark, with her. Across the aisle was Diego Bernal, a 45-year-old attorney from the West Side of San Antonio, who had left his nearly 4-year-old daughter back home with his ex-wife. He, like Sherman, was turning to history for inspiration. During the flight, he read The Sword and the Shield, a dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Representative Trey Martinez Fischer, who was also on the flight, had given the book to every member of the House during his short-lived campaign for Speaker last fall. Could not be more of a TMF thing quote:Many Texas Democrats felt emboldened. They were getting lots of attention. But nobody knew how to convert that publicity into tangible progress. Federal legislation could easily pass the Democratic-controlled U.S. House. But in the Senate, it would face a Republican-led filibuster. The only way to overcome that obstacle would be to change the rules regarding filibusters—a move opposed by two Senate Democrats, Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema, of Arizona, as well as Biden. quote:Quorum-break decorum became especially important for those vulnerable Democrats. Their critics were hungry for any morsel of gossip that could undermine the caucus’s cause. The first viral image of the Democrats’ D.C. expedition was that of a pack of Miller Lite that they’d taken with them on the bus to the airport, and which GOP representatives in Texas presented as evidence that their counterparts were unserious. #MillerDs became the meme—a reference to the Killer Ds of 2003, who decamped to Ardmore, Oklahoma, in a failed attempt to defeat a Republican redistricting plan. Once in D.C., members had learned their lesson, and they carefully avoided even dipping a toe in the hotel pool for fear of a leaked snapshot that might suggest that maybe this was a vacation after all. That is, until the end of the session, when two members of the caucus—Julie Johnson, of Farmers Branch, and Jessica González, of Dallas—took a long-planned trip to Portugal, two other Democrats in D.C. told Texas Monthly. (“No one has shown proof. These are rumors, period. End of story,” González texted the San Antonio Express-News.) RIchard Raymond was only there to gladhand federal politicians and get his face on camera, that dude loves the sound of his own voice. quote:When I talked to Sherman two weeks into the Washington stay, he said the caucus had grown into something more akin to a congregation. Late the day he testified before Congress, Bernal similarly spoke about the unity of the Democrats. “This is one of those things where, no matter what happens to us later in life, we’re gonna see each other and remember this time and be bonded by it.” That's your answer.
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Nonsense posted:Texas deserves to be like Belgium, nothing more nothing less. Hellfucked 4 lyf....
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https://twitter.com/LinaHidalgoTX/status/1425272633793318913?s=20 You have my sword
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I don't trust Texas courts to see it but Abbott's order banning mask mandates (and really any response whatsoever) is frankly something straight out of Catch-22. Covid is such a huge emergency that it necessitates invoking emergency powers which I'm using ban local health departments from responding to Covid because it isn't an emergency.
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Lol pretty much every big city ISD is giving the bird to Abbott. More and more districts hanging up on him just makes him more and more likely to reveal his secret riddle solution.
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George H.W. oval office posted:https://twitter.com/LinaHidalgoTX/status/1425272633793318913?s=20 Harris gotta catch up to mighty Bexar.
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Shifty Pony posted:I don't trust Texas courts to see it but Abbott's order banning mask mandates (and really any response whatsoever) is frankly something straight out of Catch-22. https://twitter.com/cscudder/status/1425272563006119936 Look, it's in Abbott's interest to slow walk fighting the cities on this, especially since the hope among state leadership is that Delta follows the same arc here that it did in the UK and India, a sharp spike up but also a sharp decline. He knows that masks work, but he'll be thrown to the wolves by Allen West if he implements any mandates. So here he gets to have it both ways, he can glower at those liberal cities who are actually going to help reduce the covid burden, which are both things he wants. If we don't get a final decision on this before the delta wave declines, that suits him just fine. So let's hope old greg is looking out for number one here. zoux fucked around with this message at 04:19 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Badger of Basra posted:i mean if it's still happening the voters will probably remember I'd be surprised if even 30% of Texans even know its happening, with the vast majority of those who know already decided in who they'll vote for.
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JosefStalinator posted:I'd be surprised if even 30% of Texans even know its happening, with the vast majority of those who know already decided in who they'll vote for. Hell I lurk this thread and don’t know its happening outside of the bus=\=plane thing.
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JosefStalinator posted:I'd be surprised if even 30% of Texans even know its happening, with the vast majority of those who know already decided in who they'll vote for. Ok fine, what about the second part of my post
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I just want to know why we're supposed to be annoyed/mad that Dems aren't just allowing the GOP to do its regular abhorrent bullshit. Is everyone just that used to the lie that you shouldn't even try if it doesn't seem like you have a sure path to victory?
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Marxalot posted:I just want to know why we're supposed to be annoyed/mad that Dems aren't just allowing the GOP to do its regular abhorrent bullshit. Is everyone just that used to the lie that you shouldn't even try if it doesn't seem like you have a sure path to victory? 
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Well I pointed out that this is deeply unpopular even in democratic leaning swing districts last page I'd expect them to lose some seats over this. But for me politics isn't about aesthetics, it's about outcomes, so if the outcome is going to be the same either way, I'd prefer it was in a way that didn't cost Democratic seats in the Texas House, didn't result in every single Democratic chairman losing his seat next session and every Democrat removed from leadership right before a much more substantial special session on redistricting, which is going to do way more harm to Dem electoral chances than banning the use of covid mitigation strategies in one county and, idk, letting poll watchers exist more. zoux fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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https://twitter.com/MarkDavis/status/1425455419779125251 That sure doesn't sound like they're going to go to the mattresses over this stuff, does it Also I didn't know Paxton cared about our constitutional system of government, given that he tried to overturn the presidential election like six months ago. I guess he had a road to Damascus moment.
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I'm not sure which would be funnier, Prescott lamely dropping out after it sinks in that he can't occupy either the pro-Trump lane or the anti-Trump lane of the primary, or Prescott sticking with it and coming in 3rd even after Paxton gets hit with a federal indictment e: actually now that I've typed it out I'm pretty sure the 3rd place scenario would be much funnier Blotto_Otter fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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Blotto_Otter posted:I'm not sure which would be funnier, Prescott lamely dropping out after it sinks in that he can't occupy either the pro-Trump lane or the anti-Trump lane of the primary, or Prescott sticking with it and coming in 3rd even after Paxton gets hit with a federal indictment Thought this was about Dak for a second and it still pretty much is a salient post.
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Chieves posted:Thought this was about Dak for a second and it still pretty much is a salient post. posting jokes about Dak is a hippa violation, I would never violate my sworn oath to preserve and defend hippaa Also, today's reminder of how much Baylor sucks: can't get in trouble with the NCAA for playing favorites and shielding football players from sexual assault investigations if you just shield all your students from sexual assault investigations! https://twitter.com/NicoleAuerbach/status/1425488377860829188
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Blotto_Otter posted:posting jokes about Dak is a hippa violation, I would never violate my sworn oath to preserve and defend hippaa Can’t wait until the big 12 falls apart and baylor has to go conferenceless
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https://twitter.com/GeneforTexas/status/1425500462413922309 Man idk about fundraising off of this https://twitter.com/JoeWalter/status/1425516566137950215 Also Teddy killed it in DC at 3 am. Apparently the Texas Dems DC endgame was a unanimous consent amendment to the budget resolution. There was not unanimous consent. zoux fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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uhh phelan's signature loving rules
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https://twitter.com/jaspscherer/status/1425517977747734530 Oh well I guess that's settled then, until this afternoon anyway
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https://twitter.com/CarolforTexas/status/1425528821336379394 She just has to make it, what, 26 days? loving Wendy Davis and her loving sneakers.
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Your honor, I should not be punished for drunk driving this time because of all the other times I escaped punishment for drunk driving, furthermore, I do everything else while drunk.
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i say swears online posted:finally, a plan!! Yeah looks like we found our '22 gubernatorial candidate
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lobster shirt posted:Your honor, I should not be punished for drunk driving this time because of all the other times I escaped punishment for drunk driving, furthermore, I do everything else while drunk. 
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1425540338551332876 Well the good news for the Governor here is that testimony on the issue during the regular session, physicians said that literally no one performs reassignment surgery, or indeed any irreversible gender affirming care, on minors.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/CarolforTexas/status/1425528821336379394 Don't worry, she'll be done in 2 hours at most for speaking about things that are not germane to the bill (like talking about individuals that would be affected or voter suppression in general).
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Blotto_Otter posted:posting jokes about Dak is a hippa violation, I would never violate my sworn oath to preserve and defend hippaa The NCAA is a loving joke. They might as well have declared open season on women at any power 5 school.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1425540338551332876 They're going to use it to go after puberty blockers - they've already vilified them. And that's what they use now to treat gender dysphoria in minors until they're adults and able to make their own medical decisions. The best comment I saw was that DFPS is too lovely to reliably investigate claims of child abuse anyway.
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Oil! posted:Don't worry, she'll be done in 2 hours at most for speaking about things that are not germane to the bill (like talking about individuals that would be affected or voter suppression in general). The only reason they gave a poo poo in '13 (?) was because they were up against a midnight deadline. They can let Alvarado talk as long as is humanly possible and it won't matter. They'll let her address an empty chamber for two weeks if they want and come in and pass it the second she collapses.
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zoux posted:The only reason they gave a poo poo in '13 (?) was because they were up against a midnight deadline. They can let Alvarado talk as long as is humanly possible and it won't matter. They'll let her address an empty chamber for two weeks if they want and come in and pass it the second she collapses. only a weak dem too worried about decorum would be unable to filibuster for ~1.5 years (at the earliest)
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