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"You started The Great Depression, shut up." is the response to anything from Oklahoma. I mean not really their fault, but why not pile on? With that said I went to Oklahoma City for the first time ever for a business trip a few months ago and I have to say, just the nicest bunch of people I've met. I was genuinely impressed with city and its residents, not that I met that many of them, and also the Mexican food. I have a fantastic shot of one of the last remaining Toby Keith's I Love this Bar & Grill outlets with the Sonic world headquarters in the background. oklahoma.jpg
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ReindeerF posted:"You started The Great Depression, shut up." is the response to anything from Oklahoma. OKC has really transformed itself over the last 15 years or so. It’s actually really nice (in the more urban core).
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Optimus Prime Rib posted:I find the dumb way Matthew McConaughey raises his horns to be infinitely more offensive than the horns down. Eat the rich
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KIM JONG TRILL posted:OKC has really transformed itself over the last 15 years or so. It’s actually really nice (in the more urban core). It's such a ghost town in its downtown area it's super creepy. Same with the memorial site but that's a more solemn area. Man going there at dusk was so surreal and entering the church across the street. Which was only candle lit.
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Looking forward to the leg legalizing this after Austin tries to ban it. https://twitter.com/CarlForrest/status/1150856399158730752
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Drone Jett posted:Looking forward to the leg legalizing this after Austin tries to ban it. Well, they're mothballing the A-10, so you've got to get your close air support from somewhere.
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Shoutout to the 11 pm noise curfew in the "Live Music Capital of the World" thanks to people who came to Austin for the scene and then moved into downtown condos and became ultra nimbys https://twitter.com/MorrisReports/status/1151159423219458053 Hmmm seems bribe-y to me zoux fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Jul 16, 2019 |
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https://twitter.com/keribla/status/1150914870814093315?s=21 She’s probably less relevant than Joe Strauss now but still interesting I guess. She’d previously made noise for saying the death penalty was bad (while still serving on the court).
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I look forward to her and the five other never trumpers in the country being used as a reason to drive the Democratic Party further right and keep appeasing Republicans. I got dinner with the owners of a truck company we work with last night. Real workin man small business built from the ground up all that. They run things real well give their guys better pay and time off than all the competitors. Also pastors, and the worst they managed to say about trump is that he might have crossed the line with his go back home tweets before turning around in the very next sentence and deciding it’s fine. I watched them change their standards of decency in real time to stay in line with trump and that’s what they’ll all keep doing. Democrats can’t do anything to ever appeal to them.
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Comrayn posted:I look forward to her and the five other never trumpers in the country being used as a reason to drive the Democratic Party further right and keep appeasing Republicans. Admitting you are wrong is the worst thing possible to most Americans.
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I was excited about Beto for senate, but not as excited for Beto for president. I still like the guy though. Just don’t think his message is really resonating right now
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Just don’t think his message meant poo poo when he went and squandered a second wind of a Senate campaign when nobody in this state gets a second chance after a gently caress up Senate/Gov run.
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zoux posted:Shoutout to the 11 pm noise curfew in the "Live Music Capital of the World" thanks to people who came to Austin for the scene and then moved into downtown condos and became ultra nimbys the worst part of that is there are plenty of nice places to live in Austin that are not 6th street if that's not your jam. but no, let's build condos next to bars and bitch about the noise
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They can complain. The cops doing anything to stop the noise is debatable. They hate those noise callers all the same.
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Nonsense posted:when nobody in this state gets a second chance after a gently caress up Senate/Gov run. ReindeerF posted:Don't worry, Chris Bell is coming to save the day!
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skipdogg posted:I was excited about Beto for senate, but not as excited for Beto for president. I still like the guy though. Just don’t think his message is really resonating right now His message largely boils down to “I'm not a chud”, which is substantial when you’re running against Ted loving Cruz, but not when you’re running against a dozen others who are also sending that same signal. Nonsense posted:Just don’t think his message meant poo poo when he went and squandered a second wind of a Senate campaign when nobody in this state gets a second chance after a gently caress up Senate/Gov run. Yep, he hosed up and arrogantly got into the wrong election, he could've made a second run at Senate, helped boost turnout again for all the down-ballot races, and stayed a rising star in the Democratic party win or lose; instead he's already an also-ran has-been embarrassing himself on a vanity project. Edit: someone in my San Antonio neighborhood put up a “Beto for President” yard sign back in March or April, not long after he announced. I just realized last week while walking my dog that the sign is gone now. Blotto_Otter fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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Blotto_Otter posted:Yep, he hosed up and arrogantly got into the wrong election, he could've made a second run at Senate, helped boost turnout again for all the down-ballot races, and stayed a rising star in the Democratic party win or lose; instead he's already an also-ran has-been embarrassing himself on a vanity project. To his defense, no one would shut the gently caress up about getting him to run for president once the senate race ended, and even before. I never liked the idea, but a lot of people inside and outside of Texas, especially the media, were constantly asking him and being impatient about when he was going to enter the race. I think Dems should just stop encouraging every candidate we halfway like to run for president.
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Mistaken Frisbee posted:To his defense, no one would shut the gently caress up about getting him to run for president once the senate race ended, and even before. I never liked the idea, but a lot of people inside and outside of Texas, especially the media, were constantly asking him and being impatient about when he was going to enter the race. I think Dems should just stop encouraging every candidate we halfway like to run for president. Oh definitely, the greater Democratic party has a real problem with obsessing over the presidential race to the point of neglecting potentially-competitive statewide races. Beto's hardly the only presidential candidate guilty of avoiding a competitive Senate race in order to mount an ill-fated presidential bid. But I think there's plenty of room to assign blame both to the party's overall neglect of statewide races and Beto's (and Bullock's, and half the Democratic presidential field) vanity and lack of political instincts. He should've known that the odds of winning a Senate race, while not great, were always going to be better than the odds of winning a nomination in a crowded field. He also should've known that another hypothetical losing Senate race, while personally painful, would've done a lot to help down-ballot Democrats again, like it did in 2018. I suspect he did know that all that, but decided that he was more comfortable bearing the cost of a probable presidential loss than the possible second loss of a senate campaign. He decided to play not-to-lose, rather than play to win.
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https://twitter.com/AC360/status/1151293969076109313 That sure is exactly what you would expect to see.
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Blotto_Otter posted:In fairness to Anderson Cooper, those ladies weren't even the worst Dallas-spawned white people that CNN gave a platform to yesterday. https://twitter.com/jesseltaylor/status/1151512989658492928  quote:"The Republican base is fired up," Gina O'Briant said from her North Dallas home Monday night. "He's really a great President in my eyes. And I think that somebody needed to say something." That's from last October. Google any one of them, they are all hardcore right wing Trumpers from way back. Media does this thing where they say "let's see what average voters think" but they're all operatives and talk radio hosts and then moron Dem strategists watch this and think "we have to reach these people" zoux fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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Blotto_Otter posted:I suspect he did know that all that, but decided that he was more comfortable bearing the cost of a probable presidential loss than the possible second loss of a senate campaign. He decided to play not-to-lose, rather than play to win. Beto isn’t running for President. Beto is running for Vice President, and he still has a legitimate shot at that. He’s a good “middle ground” guy to balance the ticket if any of the major progressive candidates get the nomination, and even if Biden gets the nomination he’s a chance for some “youthful energy” on that ticket. If he was running for Senate again there’s no way he’s be able to become the VP pick, and it’s a guaranteed loss. He has a real shot at VP, though.
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LanceHunter posted:Beto isn’t running for President. Beto is running for Vice President, and he still has a legitimate shot at that. He’s a good “middle ground” guy to balance the ticket if any of the major progressive candidates get the nomination, and even if Biden gets the nomination he’s a chance for some “youthful energy” on that ticket. If he was running for Senate again there’s no way he’s be able to become the VP pick, and it’s a guaranteed loss. He has a real shot at VP, though. Yep, which is why it's so funny that Julian waited and waited, avoiding running and losing for statewide, for just the right moment to run for VP as a potential purple Texas maker (lol) and riiiight when he makes his jump, here comes Beto in the same lane, with way more name recognition, money and momentum.
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Oh, I didn't mean to imply that they were anything less than terrible and that Cooper giving the MAGA Wives of Dallas a platform to talk about racism was anything less than preposterous, I only meant to imply that they weren't even the lowest depths of Dallas-raised racism that CNN plumbed yesterday. Packaging a conventionally-racist middle-aged Dallas wives' coffee klatch up as a focus group seems quaint after watching them go to lightspeed by inviting avowed white-nationalist, pro-ethnic cleansing Richard loving Spencer on to talk about racism.
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LanceHunter posted:Beto isn’t running for President. Beto is running for Vice President, and he still has a legitimate shot at that. He’s a good “middle ground” guy to balance the ticket if any of the major progressive candidates get the nomination, and even if Biden gets the nomination he’s a chance for some “youthful energy” on that ticket. If he was running for Senate again there’s no way he’s be able to become the VP pick, and it’s a guaranteed loss. He has a real shot at VP, though. Even if that's his intent, I think that's folly too - I think that if Biden or Sanders win the nom they're more likely to pick a woman or person of color (or both) as VP, not another white guy, because another all-straight-white-male ticket isn't going to excite the base. Perhaps a Warren or a Harris nominee might pick another run-of-the-mill white dude, but Beto's lackluster performance in this campaign calls into doubt how beneficial his "youthful energy" would be, and he's got to contend with Castro in the "vain hope that they might turn Texas blue" lane. Maybe that's only obvious in hindsight and VP looked like a good possibility at the time of his announcement, but it was still arrogant and selfish to pursue a national office in a field with plenty of equally- or more-qualified candidates instead of continuing to build the party up at the state level. (And yes, I recognize my own folly in expecting anything other than arrogance and selfishness in a politician's decisions about which race to enter.)
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Blotto_Otter posted:Even if that's his intent, I think that's folly too - I think that if Biden or Sanders win the nom they're more likely to pick a woman or person of color (or both) as VP, not another white guy, because another all-straight-white-male ticket isn't going to excite the base. Perhaps a Warren or a Harris nominee might pick another run-of-the-mill white dude, but Beto's lackluster performance in this campaign calls into doubt how beneficial his "youthful energy" would be, and he's got to contend with Castro in the "vain hope that they might turn Texas blue" lane. Maybe that's only obvious in hindsight and VP looked like a good possibility at the time of his announcement, but it was still arrogant and selfish to pursue a national office in a field with plenty of equally- or more-qualified candidates instead of continuing to build the party up at the state level. (And yes, I recognize my own folly in expecting anything other than arrogance and selfishness in a politician's decisions about which race to enter.) I mean, in my dream world Beto decided to become head of the Texas Democratic Party, using his experience with building his campaign to fix the broke-rear end party.
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Blotto_Otter posted:Oh, I didn't mean to imply that they were anything less than terrible and that Cooper giving the MAGA Wives of Dallas a platform to talk about racism was anything less than preposterous, I only meant to imply that they weren't even the lowest depths of Dallas-raised racism that CNN plumbed yesterday. Packaging a conventionally-racist middle-aged Dallas wives' coffee klatch up as a focus group seems quaint after watching them go to lightspeed by inviting avowed white-nationalist, pro-ethnic cleansing Richard loving Spencer on to talk about racism. CNN's audience is center left and center right people, and they love to watch Nazis say stupid things and feel outrage about it. There's a reason they didn't have a panel of Democratic women to comment. "Why do they keep giving these people platforms", because that's what the audience wants to see.
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LanceHunter posted:I mean, in my dream world Beto decided to become head of the Texas Democratic Party, using his experience with building his campaign to fix the broke-rear end party. Yup, that would have done Texas a lot of good. Instead, uhhhhh
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PostNouveau posted:Yup, that would have done Texas a lot of good. If the VP gambit doesn’t work out, there’s still a chance... zoux posted:A lot of this is because a bunch of professional political operatives saw paychecks, convinced candidates they had a shot, and that's why you have 23 Democrats running for president. Man, I’m still a bit depressed about Cory Booker. Dude is legitimately really awesome and motivated, has a track record of doing really good work in Newark, and could have been a legitimately good President. But now his campaign has FB ads out about how he needs to hit a goal of 5000 individual donors this month (with a “we are here” arrow pointing to a point that is depressingly far from the goal. LanceHunter fucked around with this message at 17:19 on Jul 17, 2019 |
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