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Marxalot posted:same I'd managed to forget about that. It's funny, the NRA has been awfully quiet about this case of home invasion and attempt to fght it off with a firearm.
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LanceHunter posted:Hyper-leftists eating their own is an Austin tradition right up there with complaining about Californians moving in. On that same tip, we have Defend our Hoodz attacking the Austin Creative Alliance because they're convinced if they can stop the Riverside Arts District from happening then Riverside will never gentrify (instead of it just gentrifying anyways but now with no space set aside for anyone doing creative work. quote:Austin Creative Alliance vandalized overnight
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Cornyn is such a toad. https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1094338543785332741 Hell yeah get 'im
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Y'all remember how we were talking the other day about how It Didn't Used To Be Like THis https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1093055382019325953 https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1095001144605241346
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn/status/1094962479535403010 Cornyn normally shows a level of caution and reserve that the party as a whole would really be well-advised to rediscover.
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It's because the Republican voters have also gotten dumber and less nuanced. That's where all these terrible candidates are coming from. The pleasure centers that are triggered by hearing some idiot demagogue "tell it how it is" are so powerful that it overwhelms any sense of cultural self-preservation they may have once had.
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General Dog posted:It's because the Republican voters have also gotten dumber and less nuanced. That's where all these terrible candidates are coming from. The pleasure centers that are triggered by hearing some idiot demagogue "tell it how it is" are so powerful that it overwhelms any sense of cultural self-preservation they may have once had. yeah, watch cornyn get primaried by a pack of hooting chuds screaming "John Cucknyn"
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it's cool we sent one of those oldschool smart/nuanced republicans to handle "the venezuela problem" so I'm sure everything will go over swimmingly
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https://twitter.com/JohnnieMo/status/1095005890497806336 "Finch the Mall" Also lol at all these Austin based reporters having to schlepp it out to El Paso because President Tweets decided he was mad that people said he was wrong about crime in the city being fixed by a wall
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did they pick el paso because it's so far from everyone that nobody would really show up to protest
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I just said why they picked El Paso, it's one of the safest cities in the US despite being across the river from one of the least safe cities in North America, and in his SotU Trump said it was because of walls. Everyone who knows what they are talking about, left and right, said "no that's not why" so he got all salted up and decided he was going campaign-rally his way to this being true. And he's going to get protested to gently caress because that's a city that went like 65% for HRC in 16.
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Marxalot posted:did they pick el paso because it's so far from everyone that nobody would really show up to protest El Paso is also far away from a lot of places so people don't know much about it, you know? Like obvious El Paso is not a dangerous place, but people who don't live in Texas only really know about Austin and Houston
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This is one of those "my unsubstantiated beliefs are better than your facts" things. There's no real discussion to be had, just lies and misdirection.
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Look, morality of it aside, we know how to interdict border crossings. The degree to which we do it is a matter of policy but as far as the mechanisms of stopping crossings, we know what works and what doesn't. Cornyn knows what works and what doesn't, he knows the wall is ineffective in that regard. But you can't say that because President Baby has the support of 85% of the GOP and he'll start calling him Jerpin' John or something and own him right out of office. You'd have to have political courage to do it and well
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Yeah Cornyn saw that Ted kissed the ring and won his seat back in spite of himself and a strong challenger, so there's no way he's not on the Trump train. He's not an idiot, he's just disingenuous/dishonest at best and evil at worst.
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https://twitter.com/JeremySWallace/status/1095044808593281024 Trump's venue has a cap of 7k people, Beto's rally will be open air and it's supposed to be real nice out there tonight. 3 or 4 times bigger than the Trump rally isn't out of the question (also what if Beto announces for prez tonight >_> )
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PostNouveau posted:Hopefully Beto announces for U.S. senator from Texas tonight. This. We could use another non-psychopath politician in Texas more than we can use yet another centrist dem attempting to self-own by running for president. zoux posted:I just said why they picked El Paso, it's one of the safest cities in the US despite being across the river from one of the least safe cities in North America, and in his SotU Trump said it was because of walls. Everyone who knows what they are talking about, left and right, said "no that's not why" so he got all salted up and decided he was going campaign-rally his way to this being true. oh god is that seriously why he was tweeting about el paso being safe  e: I also said nobody would show up in mass protest because el paso is far as gently caress from literally anywhere, not because it's chudville. Marxalot fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Feb 11, 2019 |
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*extremely Faith No More voice* https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1095065077655449601 lmao https://twitter.com/steveholland1/status/1095066783390801929 https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1095062394689257473 zoux fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Feb 11, 2019 |
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PostNouveau posted:Hopefully Beto announces for U.S. senator from Texas tonight. Marxalot posted:This. We could use another non-psychopath politician in Texas more than we can use yet another centrist dem attempting to self-own by running for president. I say this as someone who blockwalked for Beto, phonebanked for Beto, and was incredibly happy with how well he performed: Is there a reason to believe that Beto has a snowball's chance in hell of beating Cornyn? Ted Cruz is absolutely hated, is a known lizard person, and super ulikable, yet Beto still didn't win. Is there something I don't know that would mean that Beto would have any shot against semi-charismatic milquetoast Cornyn?
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Doom Rooster posted:I say this as someone who blockwalked for Beto, phonebanked for Beto, and was incredibly happy with how well he performed: I don't know that he does, although someone mentioned Cornyn somehow having worse favorables than Cruz. But he'd stand a better chance than any other nominee, and it would give Texas 2 more years of a galvanizing campaign uniting the center and left in the state.
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Marxalot posted:This. We could use another non-psychopath politician in Texas more than we can use yet another centrist dem attempting to self-own by running for president. yeah but like... people live there, you know. people do actually live in el paso
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Nobody loves Cornyn. Nobody. He could easily have an enthusiasm problem in 2020, though the coattails for Trump in the state should be enough.
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Also those numbers would change drastically if an actual Beto-Cornyn race got kicked off. You'd see better approval rates for Cornyn in that case, imo.
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corn in the bible posted:yeah but like... people live there, you know. people do actually live in el paso propaganda and lies also McAllen/Brownsville/Laredo aren't -that- far from San Antonio/Houston/Austin; at least not compared to el paso Doom Rooster posted:I say this as someone who blockwalked for Beto, phonebanked for Beto, and was incredibly happy with how well he performed: That campaign did wonders for down ballot races and is probably what tipped the election from "ok maybe some random dems will win in a few districts somewhere" to "oh god did every major city just switch from majority red to entirely blue?". He has a far better chance of helping to pull that off again here (and maybe winning, who knows) than he does of becoming the next president.
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Also it looks like the great grandson of the captain of the titanic just hit the I-10 bridge just outside of Houston lol https://twitter.com/CityofBaytown/status/1095083115335290880 Marxalot fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Feb 12, 2019 |
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Badger of Basra posted:https://twitter.com/brandonformby/status/1095085638964133890?s=21 Honestly this makes it harder to pass imo because now those small entities who might have been sitting out this round are back in the mix. The carve out was specifically intended to blunt rural pushback, but that’s back on the table now. E: the opt in provision I mean, you’re correct about the first responder carve out Also Badge you’ll be happy to know someone filed a bill to replace all references to marihuana in the code with cannabis
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zoux posted:Honestly this makes it harder to pass imo because now those small entities who might have been sitting out this round are back in the mix. The carve out was specifically intended to blunt rural pushback, but that’s back on the table now. Yeah I’m not sure why they did the opt in thing, the whole point was to split the small jurisdictions from the hated Urban Libs
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