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Jake Gittes posted:I didn't realize (or just forgot) that Rick Perry was the governor for 15 years. I guess we're stuck with Greg for a while longer. he's there as long as patrick wants to stay lt gov imo
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We tried this last night it was good. At the very least, better than some restaurant queso I've had.
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drat the house committee is specifically talking about my job, that's nuts
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i say swears online posted:drat the house committee is specifically talking about my job, that's nuts As long as they aren’t like “we need to get rid of it”
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https://twitter.com/ajcorchado/status/1677359173389160448 Whoa goddamn
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Does that mean like.... they'll kill him, and then revive or resuscitate him, over and over again? Like a hosed up Flatliners?
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I don't get the point of it, Texas has a LWOP statute but I guess the feds don't. Just have a sentence that's permanent imprisonment. I guess it's for the victim's families, to feel like the guy is being punished for their specfic loss
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The Bananana posted:Does that mean like.... they'll kill him, and then revive or resuscitate him, over and over again? 
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man think of the density we could get by stacking baby jail cells
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I thought the point was to prevent people from getting out by overturning a single sentence?
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We ceded that piece of land as part of the ILLEGITIMATE compromise of 1850 that stole all our northern and western hinterlands, in exchange for the US government taking on our sovereign debt
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That was stolen from 1st Nation tribes when they were slaughtered and genocided. And was stolen AGAIN a second time after making Oklahoma essentially Native American penal colony and then just having the government basically say, "go settle everything white people don't mind the Indians they're just living there." Jiro fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Jul 9, 2023 |
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leper khan posted:... Meth? And meat packing. Not the fun kind.
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Jiro posted:And was stolen AGAIN a second time after making Oklahoma essentially Native American penal colony and then just having the government basically say, "go settle everything white people don't mind the Indians they're just living there." i love using the "sooner" as a mascot
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Jiro posted:That was stolen from 1st Nation tribes when they were slaughtered and genocided. I've said it many times before, but one thing I appreciate about Oklahoma over Texas is that Oklahomans are never taught to be proud of our history. It's mostly a lot of "we did a lot of bad poo poo to Native Americans, then we starved in the dust bowl" in schools. Texas puts a ridiculous positive spin on all its bad history.
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Isn't the Superintendent of Tulsa ISD trying to say that the Tulsa Massacre wasn't race related?
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Texas has the dubious honor of not only downplaying the Texas Indian Wars but downplaying the role of the Black Seminole Scouts in ending it. Twofer!
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:I've said it many times before, but one thing I appreciate about Oklahoma over Texas is that Oklahomans are never taught to be proud of our history. It's mostly a lot of "we did a lot of bad poo poo to Native Americans, then we starved in the dust bowl" in schools. Texas puts a ridiculous positive spin on all its bad history. Yeah, I didn't know the Texas Revolution was a land grab based on slavery until college. I really believed that Texas' founders were fighting back against tyranny. I hope it's gotten better, that was 35 years ago.
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Jiro posted:Isn't the Superintendent of Tulsa ISD trying to say that the Tulsa Massacre wasn't race related? No no, that was the STATE Superintendent, who is a three Fox News talking points in a trenchcoat.
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I assume Oklahoma has plenty of problems of its own considering how it's also a red state, but it's not big enough to make the national news and I guess there's enough empty space between the populated parts of Oklahoma and the populated parts of Texas that there's not much spillover. Surprisingly good public daycare though. zoux posted:We ceded that piece of land as part of the ILLEGITIMATE compromise of 1850 that stole all our northern and western hinterlands, in exchange for the US government taking on our sovereign debt Texas was lucky to have its western claims enforced, and then it decided to specifically shave off the top of the state to make sure that it could be a slave state without disrupting earlier compromises.
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Jesus III posted:Yeah, I didn't know the Texas Revolution was a land grab based on slavery until college. I really believed that Texas' founders were fighting back against tyranny. I hope it's gotten better, that was 35 years ago. hey now, some of it was the rich-Mexican-rural-landowner equivalent of libertarians who didn't want to risk Mexico having a strong central government (which is easier to rephrase as tyranny but make no mistake, a bunch of these guys were shitheads) joke's on them in hindsight
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zoux posted:We ceded that piece of land as part of the ILLEGITIMATE compromise of 1850 that stole all our northern and western hinterlands, in exchange for the US government taking on our sovereign debt and letting us keep slaves - dont forget about that
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Jesus III posted:Yeah, I didn't know the Texas Revolution was a land grab based on slavery until college. I really believed that Texas' founders were fighting back against tyranny. I hope it's gotten better, that was 35 years ago. Rename Travis County imo.
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there's no Richards County yet what would be the best replacement? ivins county? o'hare county?  cochran county was wasted on the wrong person i say swears online fucked around with this message at 23:09 on Jul 9, 2023 |
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i say swears online posted:there's no Richards County yet Im sure there is already a Hooks County - but for this thread - Hooks County.
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All counties should be renamed to Garza, Garcia, or Gonzalez and Gonzales.  The Drunk History segment on the Texas "Revolution" and the Alamo are gooduns. https://youtu.be/DdStIvC8WeE Here's the first episode of a Behind the Bastards overview of Border Patrol and it's huge strong ties to the original Texas Rangers and their racist murderous ideals and actions. Jiro fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Jul 9, 2023 |
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no! no!! controlled from afar by the COMNOLA
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Jesus III posted:Yeah, I didn't know the Texas Revolution was a land grab based on slavery until college. I really believed that Texas' founders were fighting back against tyranny. I hope it's gotten better, that was 35 years ago. The bigger land grab was the Mexican-American war, which was entirely predicated on the Texas Republic creatively misinterpreting where the border for the province of Texas was supposed to be. With the Texan Revolution, I think looking at it as just a Texas-centric event might be wrong, since it was just one of many provinces that were revolting against Mexican rule at the time (albeit the most successful). Slavery was definitely was one of the things that Texas wanted to defend, but there were still a number of other things that the provinces were rebelling against. The guy who wrote the pre-Santa Anna federalist constitution wound up becoming Vice President of the Republic of Texas. The poor relation between Mexico's central government and its various provinces were a big part of how the US could just take so much territory with relatively little trouble.
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Badger of Basra posted:[url]https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1678372538177540096[url] So the big question: How will this effect the out-of-state money faucet? Allred clearly has the advantage there, but the WFAA headline does lead with those magic cash-summoning words: "Ted Cruz faces a new challenger".
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People are going to find that Roland Gutierrez is a psychotic ambulance chaser. His only political platform is gun control so that'll probably draw in some cash but firing shots at Allred like that out of the gate doesn't bode well for the primary and Bexar vs Dallas dems.
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zoux posted:People are going to find that Roland Gutierrez is a psycho but is he the psycho we need to unseat ted?
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Jake Gittes posted:but is he the psycho we need to unseat ted? One throughline you see in every story about him, positive or negative, even in this very kind write up about him https://twitter.com/ben_c_rowen/status/1678359656362565632 Is that he's an inveterate grandstander who is probably using the Uvalde families as political props. quote:Until recently, he was a fairly unremarkable lawmaker. Gutierrez served twelve and a half long years in the Texas House. Through most of that time, he was roughly middle-of-the-road among members of the House Democratic Caucus—not one of the most progressive members but also not one of the most conservative. He earned a bit of a reputation for being not the shrewdest member of his caucus—he was regarded by his Democratic colleagues, usually affectionately, as a grandstander. (The 2009 edition of this magazine’s Best and Worst Legislators list dinged him for repeated trips to the microphone to “debat[e his] elders in a grating, fingernails-on-a-blackboard manner.”) From the Best and Worst list: quote:Gutierrez’s persistent focus on gun safety hasn’t always served his constituents, who effectively have been without a senator this year. Patrick froze him out. Gutierrez filed 28 bills; none even got a hearing. It’s possible he’ll never be able to get much done as long as Patrick rules the Senate. zoux fucked around with this message at 14:13 on Jul 10, 2023 |
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yeah but i legit don't care about any of that if ted is gone
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