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Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/annatinsley/status/1004425595747487744?s=21

Good news everyone

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poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

Hooray Indie Games!

College Slice

Finally Texas gets into the storage locker business...

Also, wasn't the whole point of gold is that it wasn't controlled by the state? Why would anyone just hand it over to the state and expect to get it back if poo poo hits the fan?

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

poemdexter posted:

Finally Texas gets into the storage locker business...

Also, wasn't the whole point of gold is that it wasn't controlled by the state? Why would anyone just hand it over to the state and expect to get it back if poo poo hits the fan?

Every gold repository has this problem.

"Excuse me sir, civilization has fallen, I have travelled here bearing this certificate that says you promised to give me 100oz of gold can I have it, what do you mean 'no gently caress off' I have a certificate."

"Ow please stop shooting me you're violating the NAP"

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus



This is for the secede crazies isn't it?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1004428719316979715

Every Texan knows the best place to be in a hurricane is on a bass boat

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1004428719316979715

Every Texan knows the best place to be in a hurricane is on a bass boat

They gotta find some way to blame the victims so they can justify not helping them.

Marxalot
Dec 24, 2008

Appropriator of
Dan Crenshaw's Eyepatch
I think he's confusing the people in boats rescuing people with the people being rescued.


Maybe McCain's brainworm has jumped to a new host?

Incidentally
Nov 11, 2005

free yourself, first thing.
So in what seems like an attempt to suppress conservative voter turnout favoring Adrian Hernandez in the Pearland city council runoff, Dalia Kasseb's team sent this out:



Although it might drive some low-information conservatives to the polls, only to find themselves sweating over which button to push...

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Haha that actually owns

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


Pearland going purple/blue would be an interesting thing.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



impressed that that guy is lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Shear Modulus posted:

impressed that that guy is lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans.

It's not so tough when you think about it

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1006567613936390146

Oh Christ what now

https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1006578898962874368

Oh

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

She's a real cutie, and she has some great ideas about what's to be done with #SanctuaryCities

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/KatherineBScott/status/1006619195516342272

Lol at his colleagues calling Cornyn a wuss on the Senate floor

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

https://twitter.com/KatherineBScott/status/1006619785306796032

Cornyn is a spineless poo poo

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth
lol Cornyn getting hollered at by one of the dumbest people in the senate.

BrutalistMcDonalds
Oct 4, 2012


Lipstick Apathy
He's gonna need to get a second dogwhistle.

Horseshoe theory
Mar 7, 2005

No Safe Word posted:

Cornyn is a spineless poo poo

Isn't Corker retiring so he doesn't give a poo poo about trashing Cornyn?

zoux
Apr 28, 2006



quote:

Slick videos on the Indie Party website promote independent candidates as the solution to politics as usual, and the party offers a high-tech innovation: a crypto-currency called Indie Tokens that volunteers can earn and sell to donors, and that can be used to buy campaign merchandise or political services from vendors, lawyers and pollsters.

Uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

Zil
Jun 4, 2011

Satanically Summoned Citrus


zoux posted:




Uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh

Thats a pretty good scam I have to admit.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Zil posted:

Thats a pretty good scam I have to admit.

Oh yeah

quote:

It’s “a party that is owned by you, the people, not by the politicians,” declares one of several videos on the Indie Party website. “This is real transparency, instead of behind closed doors and in the shadows.”

But the Indie Party is not a political party at all. It’s a private, for-profit corporation whose finances are — despite the gauzy advertising — not entirely transparent. And it’s owned not by the voters but by private equity investors who provided the start-up funds.

Indie Party spokesman Mitch Allen identified one of the investors as Las Vegas-based Global Trust Group, and said William Attinger, a former Morgan Stanley derivatives specialist, “led the initial investment” on behalf of the group. Attinger is managing director of venture management for Global Trust Group and is on the board of Raise The Money Inc., an online platform for political fundraising, according to his online bio. Calls and emails left with the Global Trust Group were not returned.

Neither Jenkins nor the Indie Party would identify the three other investors who contributed. Nor did Jenkins or the party say how much Jenkins was paid during his stint as CEO of the Indie Party Co., although Jenkins said his compensation was considerably less than the $600,000 the Indie Party estimated in a U.S. Securities and Exchange filing it would pay officers or directors. At the time of the filing Jenkins was the only disclosed officer or director.

Also this guy is 35?

Marxalot
Dec 24, 2008

Appropriator of
Dan Crenshaw's Eyepatch
He looks extremely British.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Love that they're doing America Elects again.

Finally the masses yearning for a socially liberal but fiscally conservative moderate will be heard!!!!!

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Shear Modulus posted:

Finally the masses yearning for a socially liberal but fiscally conservative moderate will be heard!!!!!

There's probably a considerable market for that now that the GOP has gone fully insane with Trump at the helm.

Comrayn
Jul 22, 2008

PT6A posted:

There's probably a considerable market for that now that the GOP has gone fully insane with Trump at the helm.

I thought so before the election but republicans happily voted trump the same turnout as any other year so I’m pretty sure that idea is in the toilet. Even guys I know who would say trump is a joke when the primaries started or even when Cruz was still hanging on were full maga by the time November rolled around.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



PT6A posted:

There's probably a considerable market for that now that the GOP has gone fully insane with Trump at the helm.

Hello Mr. or Ms. Person From the Past, how is it going back in mid-2016 when people were saying this and before all the republicans voted for Trump and continued to vote for the trumpiest candidate possible in every election for the following two years.

I'm sure Michael Bloomberg or Mark Cuban could capture the hearts of the NYT op-ed board in 2018 or 2020 just like America Elects did but unfortunately that's the total extent of their appeal.

Shear Modulus fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Jun 13, 2018

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Sure Donald Trump has an 80-90% approval rating among Republicans, but those folks will change their tune once they get the chance to hear what Howard Schultz has to say about common sense solutions to bring down the deficit!!!!

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

Shear Modulus posted:

Hello Mr. or Ms. Person From the Past, how is it going back in mid-2016 when people were saying this and before all the republicans voted for Trump and continued to vote for the trumpiest candidate possible in every election for the following two years.

I'm sure Michael Bloomberg or Mark Cuban could capture the hearts of the NYT op-ed board in 2018 or 2020 just like America Elects did but unfortunately that's the total extent of their appeal.

To be fair, I don't think this scam is about getting elected so much as it is fleecing rubes, and there's bound to be plenty of those.

PT6A
Jan 5, 2006

Public school teachers are callous dictators who won't lift a finger to stop children from peeing in my plane

Shear Modulus posted:

Hello Mr. or Ms. Person From the Past, how is it going back in mid-2016 when people were saying this and before all the republicans voted for Trump and continued to vote for the trumpiest candidate possible in every election for the following two years.

The Trumpists are always going to support Trumpy candidates, but if the special elections have shown anything it's that it does cost them support in general elections. I'm not saying a "fiscally conservative, socially moderate" party could ever be a serious electoral force, but if it can even manage 5% of the vote, that's enough to spoil GOP chances in some races, and that's a very noble cause.

EDIT: Perhaps "considerable" was overstating things. Non-trivial would perhaps be a better description.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

PT6A posted:

The Trumpists are always going to support Trumpy candidates, but if the special elections have shown anything it's that it does cost them support in general elections. I'm not saying a "fiscally conservative, socially moderate" party could ever be a serious electoral force, but if it can even manage 5% of the vote, that's enough to spoil GOP chances in some races, and that's a very noble cause.

EDIT: Perhaps "considerable" was overstating things. Non-trivial would perhaps be a better description.

texas needs its own evan mcmullin

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



PT6A posted:

The Trumpists are always going to support Trumpy candidates, but if the special elections have shown anything it's that it does cost them support in general elections. I'm not saying a "fiscally conservative, socially moderate" party could ever be a serious electoral force, but if it can even manage 5% of the vote, that's enough to spoil GOP chances in some races, and that's a very noble cause.

EDIT: Perhaps "considerable" was overstating things. Non-trivial would perhaps be a better description.

A new fiscally conservative but socially liberal party is going to take votes from the party that those handful of people currently vote for (that would be the democrats) and not the party that has near-zero ideological overlap with it.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1007264345141776384

Hot Dog Day #91
Jun 19, 2003

I never realized they put a fold in the shirt too cover up the full "asshola".

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Texas GOP Chair candidates currently trying to see who can lick Trumps boots the wettest

https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1007278140291534850

https://twitter.com/lmcgaughy/status/1007283021966237696

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/chucklindell/status/1007319486012317697

This should only take about 10 years

Nissin Cup Nudist
Sep 3, 2011

Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land





The Minnesota law was super vague and didnt actually define what "political" meant, which is why it was struck down

No idea about Texas' law

Nissin Cup Nudist fucked around with this message at 03:07 on Jun 15, 2018

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/mcpli/status/1007625783010086912
:yum:

Reik
Mar 8, 2004
I see a lot of Beto lawn signs in my Dallas suburb neighborhood. I'm not surprised.

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FBS
Apr 27, 2015

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1007666379535904770?s=19

:getin:

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