i say swears online posted:

I hadn't driven out to Fredericksburg in about a decade until last week. The winery fad is reaching bubble levels, jesus christ. None of them even make good reds.

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/ddale8/status/1018836963317690368

Uhhhh

i say swears online posted:

I hadn't driven out to Fredericksburg in about a decade until last week. The winery fad is reaching bubble levels, jesus christ. None of them even make good reds.

Zil posted:

Sadly usually in these cases the stuff gets recovered after sicking/killing the people who stole it.

Friend posted:

i say swears online posted:

I hadn't driven out to Fredericksburg in about a decade until last week. The winery fad is reaching bubble levels, jesus christ. None of them even make good reds.

Doom Rooster posted:

The wife and I went to Fredericksburg for a weekend a few years ago. We stayed in the middle of "downtown" and there was a really nice wine/cigar bar across the street from where we were staying. The French owner was working the bar, and when we asked for some local wine, he said "I won't do that to you" and refused to give us anything from the area. It was awesome.

We were so confused by why a French person would move to the middle of a self-proclaimed "wine country", if he hates the wine. Kudos for the principles though!

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Legvold’s mystifying acceptance by the state party is a case study in those trends. As many of the activists who determine the course of the party have grown more insular and paranoid, more motivated by fear and bigotry, the party’s leadership has done little to repudiate them. Legvold is wrapping up a two-year stint with the State Republican Executive Committee, an organization that, according to the committee’s bylaws, “act[s] as the governing body” of the party. Her name and photo are prominently displayed on the party’s website. And her status as a member of the Republican Party’s leadership lends her considerable influence.

At this year’s convention, she sat on the committee that helped write the party’s 2014 platform. For weeks, she had strategized with other conservatives looking to gut the so-called Texas Solution, and helped draft new platform language that did just that, beginning with the words: “In support of Dan Patrick…” In the list of committee members that endorsed the hardline language, her name was at the top. That language was ultimately defeated, but a measure similar to what Legvold’s team proposed was eventually adopted.

Her endorsement of an anti-gay rights rally was trumpeted on that rally’s flier—she was listed as a co-sponsor, her name sitting alongside the state’s most powerful Republicans. When a minor physical altercation broke out between a Texas Solution supporter named Norman Adams and a member of the Texas Nationalist Movement, Legvold was there, confronting Adams until the police arrived.

And after the Texas Solution had been killed, Legvold helped bring the convention to a close—pre-empting debate on the platform’s toxic anti-gay language. In the most prominent debates at the convention, Legvold’s side won.

Here are some things that Legvold believes. In just the last couple months, Legvold has characterized Muslims as “vermin,” “threats” and breeders and cheered the efforts of the British fascist party Britain First. She expressed her belief that Muslim fighters in Syria are selling the blood of exsanguinated Christian children for “$100,000 per bottle.” She calls New Jersey Governor Chris Christie a “fat POS” and a “Muslim Dhimmi,” calls for GOP House Speaker John Boehner to be jailed for collaborating with President Obama, and calls for Bowe Bergdahl to be executed.

She warns her friends about the specter of racial violence—she links to a World Net Daily article, headline: “House torched in black-on-white revenge attack,” and exhorts like-minded friends to pack heat and “make sure your aim is true and deadly.” She indulges in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, crediting Russian President Vladimir Putin with taking action against the Rothschild banking family.

She urges “real Americans” to stand up to “crimmigrants” who want to latch on to the “government teat.” On the question of gay people, she quotes from a blog approvingly: “Homosexuals have a lot in common with the little dogs people like Paris Hilton hold in purses: they’re generally vain, generally high maintenance, and their bark is always far louder and more obnoxious than their bite.” Homosexuality, she says, is a precursor to socialism.

The state party has long known exactly who Sara Legvold is, and what she believes. In December of last year, Legvold aimed her bile at the recently deceased Nelson Mandela, and people took notice. She called Mandela a “butcher/destroyer:”

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When some began looking more closely at her social media presence, they realized she posted racist links pretty frequently, including from Stormfront, the internet’s foremost repository of neo-Nazi and white nationalist organizing, and American Renaissance, which bills itself as a bastion of “race realism.”

FBS posted:

https://twitter.com/TexasTribAbby/status/1018960433779273728

TropicalCoke posted:

What's crazy about Beto signs is that their campaign charges for them. People are buying their signs! Normally we give them away. They have so much $$$ its insane.

RisqueBarber posted:

I've had one in my yard for about two months now and my neighbor just got one too

Although, I only think he has about a 1 in 4 chance of winning

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She urges “real Americans” to stand up to “crimmigrants” who want to latch on to the “government teat.”

zoux posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/hellofasandwich/status/1018998531351166977

Lol

Shear Modulus posted:

interesting tactical move by cruz to ape hillary's ironclad strategy of having no yard signs and not attempt at all to get people excited to vote for you

zoux posted:

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1019666578584072194

Beto voted No