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A Beto volunteer didn't appreciate me asking about why Beto thought it was a good idea to call Abbott a socialist. Sounds like they are having a rough go of it.
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https://twitter.com/texasdemocrats/status/1490400867509440513 lol conservatives
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Manditory That's a whole lot of words just to say white power
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BetterToRuleInHell posted:Manditory I'm a big fan of victoms. I like how she leans into it with "gently caress due process, kill them immediately" to try and mitigate the jump to "and kill these ethnicities for existing, they're all spies and terrorists."
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Feb 7, 2022 16:12
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1490694948701802497 Where's the beef was deemed too dated
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/texasdemocrats/status/1490400867509440513 Read the whole thing and calls to commit genocide and “wage war” hit a little different when it has a ton of incorrectly spelled poo poo. The red underline only enhances the effect
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I'm too out of the loop lately. For some reason, I thought I was in CD35, and that it was Rodriguez vs. Casar vs. Doggett. Turns out I'm in CD37, and Doggett is in that race with a bunch of newcomers. I would like to not vote for an older white guy, but I met Doggett once and he seems fine. Steady, constituent focused guy. I like his campaign slogan "works for us" because it could go either...he works hard for his district, or "eh...this is fine."i say swears online posted:the person who bet on boil water but no power outages made a fortune in that parlay What's wild to me is that after the storm prepping and now the boil water notice, it's still very possible to find bottled water in stores (at least stores outside of HEB), but the Gatorade (and generic equivalents) was GONE. My wife needed a lot of it for surgery recovery, but there was almost nothing left at the nearby Target and Walmart. Mistaken Frisbee fucked around with this message at 18:20 on Feb 7, 2022 |
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In the grand scheme of things Doggett seems one of the better establishment Democrats. I'd be surprised if he even got a primary challenger from the left. If anything I'd expect some terrible Thatcher/Clinton type attempting to capitalize on people's idpol desires while dragging the party right. Though probably not this cycle.
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Sardonik posted:In the grand scheme of things Doggett seems one of the better establishment Democrats. I'd be surprised if he even got a primary challenger from the left. If anything I'd expect some terrible Thatcher/Clinton type attempting to capitalize on people's idpol desires while dragging the party right. Though probably not this cycle. He has a few challengers, maybe just because CD37 itself is a brand new district. I don't actually know much about the other folks yet - a quick glance at the voters' guide, they seem fine and similar enough to him. But agreeing, he seems like a safe choice and a decent politician, so I'll probably go that way. Representation matters a lot, so I lean towards queer candidates, female candidates, candidates of color, etc. in my default stance. But I also actually do read up on races and if there's a compelling reason to vote for the straight white guy, I'll vote for him. Because if two candidates look relatively equal, I'll lean in the direction of greater diversity. But if you're dealing with some Tim Sulak vs. Madeleine Connor election poo poo, you really don't want to gently caress that up and accidentally vote her into office, as folks did.
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Feb 7, 2022 18:35
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Seniority working the way it does in the House, it's better for Austin if the congress person repping it has some nice committee assignmentsMistaken Frisbee posted:But if you're dealing with some Tim Sulak vs. Madeleine Connor election poo poo, you really don't want to gently caress that up and accidentally vote her into office, as folks did. What's this now
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zoux posted:Seniority working the way it does in the House, it's better for Austin if the congress person repping it has some nice committee assignments Yeah, that's the challenge of incumbency - unless the person is really bad or from a different party, getting a new person in hurts your district's power. https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2020-02-18/the-strange-case-of-the-353rd-district-court/ Another article says the primary was decided by fewer than 2,000 votes - a margin of victory of 1.1%.
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lmao she won? incredible
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https://twitter.com/reesejgorman/status/1490761066174984197 No it's inconceivable
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https://twitter.com/Grav1/status/1490790826460471305 You have got to be loving kidding me. I just read two weeks worth of stories about how the state did nothing to prepare, the grid was precariously teetering and could collapse at the merest breath of frost.
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*Also, it hasn't dropped below freezing statewide for a week straight this year, but I don't think that has much to do with it.
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Attn: Matt Kruse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_LVfhqY3o
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zoux posted:Attn: Matt Kruse Comments are turned off. You cowards!
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i say swears online posted:we should absolutely ban manga from schools I thought Bush banned anime when he was president. The AOL message boards told me that. I used to read questionable romance manga as a middle schooler (they sold it at Walden Books), and now I'm gay. But seriously, it was weird to be a preen/teen who was mostly sheltered from there, but also had unfettered, unsupervised access to the internet in the early to mid 2000s. And parents didn't know what manga or anime was, so any of it could have been for kids! zoux posted:https://twitter.com/reesejgorman/status/1490761066174984197 Sounds like the governor needs to retake Oklahoma History. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/surviving-the-dust-bowl-mass-exodus-plains/ Mistaken Frisbee fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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Lol this nazi is going to stop Chinese Nationals from visiting the Alamo. How will it economically recover?
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zoux posted:I think it's extremely cool how the state press raised the expectations to the moon for this, heavily implying that the grid wasn't fixed and playing up the storm like it was going to be another apocalypse. So when that didn't happen - and there's never, ever any reason to think it would've - it lets Greg take a victory lap for doing the absolute minimum. Meanwhile, Beto's on the "Keep the Lights on Tour" pretending like the lights actually did go out while the city of Austin, that avatar of liberal governance doesn't have potable water for some loving reason, which really makes Democrats look like the party to restore competence to state infrastructure. Lol. Yeah a lot of people in pork pie hats missed their lattes and espressos this weekend. Lol.
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zoux posted:Attn: Matt Kruse Lol. My school sold me Jurassic Park in elementary school. Also I find it hilarious that people care so much about the school library these days. Libby exists, and its fuckin' great.
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https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1490719253405786119FoolyCharged posted:Lol. My school sold me Jurassic Park in elementary school. Also I find it hilarious that people care so much about the school library these days. Libby exists, and its fuckin' great. my favorite author in elementary school was jack london. now i'm a yukon prospector with regrets
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i say swears online posted:https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1490719253405786119 Call of the wild, indeed.
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look it was the only novel in the library about animals that wasn't i say swears online fucked around with this message at 11:17 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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It looks like we're on track for the water to be safe again late tonight. https://twitter.com/AustinWater/status/1490891580152197129?s=20&t=PxMHRqItaxChfo8PNpH9pQ
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Wasn’t even aware of the notice, that’s fun.
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chglcu posted:Wasn’t even aware of the notice, that’s fun. Lucky, you've been happily using tap water to no probable detriment while the rest of us are rinsing our toothbrushes out with bottled water because of the burden of knowledge.
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zoux posted:Lucky, you've been happily using tap water to no probable detriment while the rest of us are rinsing our toothbrushes out with bottled water because of the burden of knowledge. Heh, yeah, haven’t noticed any problems, but should I have gotten a text or something? I’m definitely in one of the orange areas on their map.
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Austin Water: Employee error led to boil water notice https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/austin-water-employee-error-led-to-boil-water-notice/
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Slow News Day posted:Austin Water: Employee error led to boil water notice Yeah, apparently somebody didn't turn off a pump when they were supposed to and now I've got all of my day's water sitting in my biggest pot on my kitchen counter. (I realized only yesterday that it was smarter to boil the water the night before and then put a lid on the pot, instead of boiling it in the morning and having to wait over an hour for it to be cool enough to drink.) chglcu posted:Heh, yeah, haven’t noticed any problems, but should I have gotten a text or something? I’m definitely in one of the orange areas on their map. I got both a text and an (automated) phone call Saturday while at the gym. Is your phone number the primary one on your Austin Energy account? I'm assuming that's how they had my info to contact me.
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LanceHunter posted:I got both a text and an (automated) phone call Saturday while at the gym. Is your phone number the primary one on your Austin Energy account? I'm assuming that's how they had my info to contact me. Hmm, I get electric through Pedernales, though other utilities are CoA and they all have the correct phone numbers, so I would hope they would get the info from there. I’ll have to look into it at some point. Maybe I’m just somehow on a different water supply and the map isn’t accurate or something.
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https://twitter.com/rebekahallen/status/1491150952145244160 These people are crazy quote:While Nehls, the former Fort Bend Sheriff, helped defend the Capitol on the day of the attack, helping police barricade the doors, he has since labeled investigations into the events as a Democrat-led attack on former President Donald Trump. https://twitter.com/RonnyJacksonTX/status/1491151103169540099 Do you mean "laws" zoux fucked around with this message at 22:21 on Feb 8, 2022 |
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the "no murder" mandate is impinging on my freedom
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Desperately trying to put on a show of being a crazy fascist nutjob because he's ashamed of not supporting an insurrection. https://twitter.com/SheriffTNehls/status/1346924508498845698
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Well if tens of thousands of children born of Republican parents have to die of easily preventable childhood diseases in order to learn a lesson we already learned 100 years ago, I guess that's what's gonna happen. https://twitter.com/KevinRKrause/status/1491156761835085825 You're a real winner of a father if both of your children are willing to testify against you in a criminal proceeding.
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zoux posted:Well if tens of thousands of children born of Republican parents have to die of easily preventable childhood diseases in order to learn a lesson we already learned 100 years ago, I guess that's what's gonna happen. exodus 9:12 - and god hardened abbott's heart, and he did not hear them
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https://twitter.com/HoustonChron/status/1491182363270946820 Haha. Marvelous. quote:“I am not comfortable with the transgenders,” Luther told the audience of Republican voters. “The kids that they brought in my classroom, when they said that this kid is transgendering into a different sex, that I couldn’t have kids laugh at them … like, other kids got in trouble for having transgender kids in my class.” Do you guys think there are even 1000 trans kids in K-8 in the whole state
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What we don't acknowledge is that anti-bullying bills in Texas got stalled because of "religious freedom" to bully the gay kids. I think she just realizes in the clip, as she said it, that she may have gone too far being that explicit. I also wouldn't be surprised if she made up having a trans kid in class. But if she somehow did, I completely guarantee she let that kid get bullied.
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