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More in Patrick's very bad week. Leadership has a weekly breakfast and they ain't getting along.quote:But as Patrick arrived at the speaker’s quarters behind the House chamber for today’s breakfast, he encountered House Administration Chairman Charlie Geren in the hallway. Geren sniped about the letter Patrick had put out against Abbott. Patrick again denied having anything to do with it. Fun stuff.
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zoux posted:More in Patrick's very bad week. Leadership has a weekly breakfast and they ain't getting along. Will this put a damper on pushing through the Tea Party agenda? A guy can hope.
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Apr 24, 2015 18:39
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Dante Logos posted:Will this put a damper on pushing through the Tea Party agenda? A guy can hope. That damper's name is "Joe Strauss".
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Apr 24, 2015 18:41
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Strauss is pretty good as a coalition builder. He doesn't have to work with the democrats, but he does a little because I think he wants to be an effective speaker. Probably eyeing Cruz's Senate seat. When I worked in the lege my democratic member liked him a lot personally and said he got poo poo on a lot by the "former fetuses" of the party. But don't worry, Sid Miller is doing every thing he can to make Texans fatter. He wants to bring back deep fat fryers to schools. Son of a bitch is in the pocket of big (canola) oil.
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http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Texas-Gov-Abbott-responds-to-Jade-Helm-15-6229453.phpquote:AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday asked the State Guard to monitor a U.S. military training exercise dubbed "Jade Helm 15" amid Internet-fueled suspicions that the war simulation is really a hostile military takeover. Abbott won his election easily didn't he? He's the incumbent GOP governor of Texas. His reelection is assured, any political realignment in the state that could endanger that is many years off from what I can see from inside Texas, this state just likes being Republican too drat much right now. Why does he feel the need to pander to the extreme yahoos like this? If election time was near and a wingnut Tea Party challenger was primarying him, okay. But why?
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Greg Abbott is a 100% true believer, dude. He's doing this because he literally believes the US loving military needs our lovely state guard to 'oversee' them just in case. If you read something about Abbott and think 'this is dumb' it's because he's legitimately a very dumb, paranoid, little man.
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I've heard a lot of jokes/speculation over the years about how the State Guard likes to recruit from the militias that plague the southern counties. While I'm sure that more than a few ex-Segregationists have made it there over the years, is there any truth to the rumors of a mass exodus? I've just thought of them as clubhouses for the degenerate "patriots" that wanted to join the National Guard but couldn't bring themselves to take orders from the "evil gubment", but if they're the same shitheads exercising their right to brandish assault rifles at brown people, how has nobody raised a stink about it? edit: And while on the topic of me being clueless, why the gently caress does the Texas State Guard have a navy? Malleum fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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Apr 30, 2015 06:55
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Malleum posted:edit: And while on the topic of me being clueless, why the gently caress does the Texas State Guard have a navy? Probably for the same reason why plenty of other coastal states have one; Search & Rescue, natural disasters, and other emergencies. Back Hack fucked around with this message at 07:59 on Apr 30, 2015 |
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Apr 30, 2015 07:57
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Back Hack posted:Probably for the same reason why plenty of other coastal states have one; Search & Rescue, natural disasters, and other emergencies. But why is the State Guard running it? Unless I'm horribly misreading the rest of the Wikipedia articles on US Naval Militias, most other states have their maritime militias and regular militias segregated with different command structures for whatever reason. But Texas has them all under the same umbrella, along with the State Guard Air Force.
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Apr 30, 2015 08:32
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Malleum posted:But why is the State Guard running it? Unless I'm horribly misreading the rest of the Wikipedia articles on US Naval Militias, most other states have their maritime militias and regular militias segregated with different command structures for whatever reason. But Texas has them all under the same umbrella, along with the State Guard Air Force. It's a hold over from when Texas used to be a independent country that was never changed since probably because no one wants to be the one to reorganize an entire branch of the national guard.
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Apr 30, 2015 16:06
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This Jade Helm 15 paranoia stuff is the stupidest poo poo ever. Where do they find these idiots?  (from http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-governor-abbott-orders-national-guard-military-takeover )
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Apr 30, 2015 18:00
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Nobody misses shrub pugs no matter how bad the Republican field has become.
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Apr 30, 2015 18:33
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Sardonik posted:This Jade Helm 15 paranoia stuff is the stupidest poo poo ever. This is a military training exercise. Whatever happened to "SUPPORT ARE TROOPS"?
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Apr 30, 2015 18:36
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The military runs exercises along the border a lot, but they don't give a gently caress because nobody here was that paranoid, and also there weren't enough white people to feel threatened. BASTROP COUNTY IS A STEP TOO FAR OBUMMER!
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Apr 30, 2015 18:39
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Sardonik posted:This Jade Helm 15 paranoia stuff is the stupidest poo poo ever. NO GESTAPO IN BASTROPO
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Apr 30, 2015 18:46
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Sardonik posted:This Jade Helm 15 paranoia stuff is the stupidest poo poo ever. I hate that 'don't train on me' is a solid joke but then they ruined it with 'or tread'.
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I do have to say, the "Miss me" shirt combined with the woman's dopey face does cause a certain level of annoyance.
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I'm actually really surprised by the reaction to this. I figured the crazy "government going to get me" people were scared of Obama's secret police forces, e.g. ATF, irs police, and the BLM. Being scared of the U.S. military conducting training in your community is a new one on me.
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May 1, 2015 12:04
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Not when the president is a black man.
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Fun poo poo, the worst rep at the Capitol, Jonathan Stickland, he of the "former fetus" and associated bullshit, got tossed from House Transpo last night. Video Story And I'm seeing reports that the issue of witness falsification is getting referred to House Investigations. Oh Lord let him get expelled! zoux fucked around with this message at 16:46 on May 1, 2015 |
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May 1, 2015 16:36
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people are losing their minds over this Jade Helm poo poo because on one hand OBAMA IS RUINING OUR COUNTRY and on the other SUPPORT ARE TROOPS
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May 1, 2015 18:28
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zoux posted:Fun poo poo, the worst rep at the Capitol, Jonathan Stickland, he of the "former fetus" and associated bullshit, got tossed from House Transpo last night. "Pickett, D-El Paso, ultimately had one of the House sergeants escort a fuming Stickland, R-Bedford, from the committee room in the Capitol." lol
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The amusement keeps on coming. Texas immigration bills in danger because not all Texas Republicans are idiots.quote:With five weeks left in lawmakers’ session, hard-line measures — including bills on college tuition for those in the U.S. illegally and on “sanctuary city” policies — are languishing in the Senate and lacking traction in the House. I want to believe...!
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I'm actually really surprised by the reaction to this. I figured the crazy "government going to get me" people were scared of Obama's secret police forces, e.g. ATF, irs police, and the BLM. These people believe he nuked New York City.
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Nonsense posted:These people believe he nuked New York City. Please, they believe he nuked Charleston
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Badger of Basra posted:Please, they believe he nuked Charleston Even Obummer has me spinnin'!
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zoux posted:Fun poo poo, the worst rep at the Capitol, Jonathan Stickland, he of the "former fetus" and associated bullshit, got tossed from House Transpo last night.  quote:Earlier Thursday, Pickett and Stickland had a run-in on the House floor when Stickland used parliamentary procedures to remove a proposal by Pickett from consideration for the day. 
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May 2, 2015 22:08
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Observer has an outstanding article on Sticky.
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Sardonik posted:This Jade Helm 15 paranoia stuff is the stupidest poo poo ever. This is the whitest photo I have ever seen. You could take a photo of a white rabbitt eating white rice on a field of snow and this would be whiter.
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Even Rick Perry is ragging Abbott over this. http://www.mediaite.com/online/rick-perry-chides-texas-governor-over-jade-helm-ok-to-question-govt-but-not-military/ Rick Perry posted:“It’s OK to question your government. I do it on a regular basis. But the military is something else,” Perry said, per the Dallas Morning News. “Our military is quite trustworthy. The civilian leadership, you can always question that, but not the men and women in uniform.” When even Rick Perry is going "dude, aren't you getting a bit too paranoid about Obama", maybe you're getting just a bit too paranoid about Obama.
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As I was driving home from work today (north 45 out of Galveston) I saw some people presumably protesting Jade Helm on one of the overpasses. I say "presumably" because they didn't have a sign; it was two guys holding up flags. The Texas and "Come and take it" flag were upright and the US flag was tilted down at an angle. Be more entertaining, conspiracy theorists.
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sithwitch13 posted:As I was driving home from work today (north 45 out of Galveston) I saw some people presumably protesting Jade Helm on one of the overpasses. I say "presumably" because they didn't have a sign; it was two guys holding up flags. The Texas and "Come and take it" flag were upright and the US flag was tilted down at an angle. This could be anything though. Just another Tuesday hanging out on the overpass with a Gadsen flag.
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Isn't Texas a "Support Are Troops!" type of state?
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ToastyPotato posted:Isn't Texas a "Support Are Troops!" type of state? Not when they're planning an invasion of your territory.
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ToastyPotato posted:Isn't Texas a "Support Are Troops!" type of state? Only when invading countries full of brown people.
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VitalSigns posted:
Funny thing is he's all backwards from the way the system was set up and no one is going to bother calling him out on it. We have civilian leadership of our military precisely because people did question the military and didn't want to give it too much power.
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ToastyPotato posted:Isn't Texas a "Support Are Troops!" type of state? Support Are Troops does not apply if troops are gay/non-white/non-Christian/Democrat/female/planning a fascist takeover of your state.
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1stGear posted:Support Are Troops does not apply if troops are gay/non-white/non-Christian/Democrat/female/planning a fascist takeover of your state. That is only if they didn't include you in the fascist takeover and thus are doing the wrong kind of coup.
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I'm going to give Perry the benefit of the doubt and assume he means "accusing the army of plotting a coup is insane and an insult to servicemembers" and not "the military can do no wrong, ever".
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