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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Is this the highest court in the land or a danged pyramid scheme????

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Keeshhound
Jan 14, 2010

Mad Duck Swagger
I'm trying to remember where I saw that idea first.

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Keeshhound posted:

I'm trying to remember where I saw that idea first.

I first saw it in gym class dodgeball and it was lovely there too.

Keeshhound
Jan 14, 2010

Mad Duck Swagger
No, someone wrote an article about it last year, and it was a dumb appealvto centrism then, too.

I'm just trying to figure out where he got the idea.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
Unsurprisingly, Louie Gohmert's statement on the shooting is loving terrible

https://twitter.com/replouiegohmert/status/1106542079335952384

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Were I a racist Kiwi Islamophobe, I would simply sue muslims for being foreign, in the courts.

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

PostNouveau posted:

Unsurprisingly, Louie Gohmert's statement on the shooting is loving terrible

https://twitter.com/replouiegohmert/status/1106542079335952384

"egregiously reprehensible" sure is a phrase

No Safe Word
Feb 26, 2005

zoux posted:

Were I a racist Kiwi Islamophobe, I would simply sue muslims for being foreign, in the courts.

Louie Gohmert read this and got his first non-pill-induced boner in 50 years just at the thought of this being a possibility

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/emmaplatoff/status/1106621246232510475

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/TexasTribune/status/1106657824283811840

These guys seem pretty bad!

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

I’ve seen that grift before, opening a charter school in a building you own . Charter schools are very bad

Spiritus Nox
Sep 2, 2011

He's running (for senate)

https://twitter.com/natemcdermott/status/1106678149037899776

Spacebump
Dec 24, 2003

Dallas Mavericks: Generations

PostNouveau posted:

Unsurprisingly, Louie Gohmert's statement on the shooting is loving terrible

https://twitter.com/replouiegohmert/status/1106542079335952384

Why does a member of Congress from East Texas need to comment on a mass shooting in New Zealand?

1stGear
Jan 16, 2010

Here's to the new us.

Spacebump posted:

Why does a member of Congress from East Texas need to comment on a mass shooting in New Zealand?

Gohmert's a media hog.

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006

Spacebump posted:

Why does a member of Congress from East Texas need to comment on a mass shooting in New Zealand?

Same reason Marco Rubio gave us this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1105081215261069312

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

1stGear posted:

Gohmert's a media hog.

Yeah he makes Sheila Jackson Lee look circumspect

Keeshhound
Jan 14, 2010

Mad Duck Swagger

"he's probably the strongest recruit the Democrats could have hoped for."

That hurt more than I expected it to.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Watermelon Daiquiri
Jul 10, 2010
I TRIED TO BAIT THE TXPOL THREAD WITH THE WORLD'S WORST POSSIBLE TAKE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID AVATAR.
Oh holy wow just ignore whats probably an elementary school poem by beto and check out the scrolling text at the bottom. Like, I get that they are probably quoting the dude, but if Fox wasn't salivating to add that bit in somewhere I'll eat my hat (and I won't carmen miranda it!)

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD

Who?

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer
Him?

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012
Isnt that guy running for president

FBS
Apr 27, 2015

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

holy gently caress Texas Tribune needs to cool it with the Democratic Candidate For President Of The United States Beto O'Rourke content or I'll have to unsubscribe

I don't want my Texas news source telling me about presidential campaign stops in Iowa

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012
Texas Tribune survived the past two years by posting article after article about Beto. They can't stop now.

FBS
Apr 27, 2015

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

If it's me vs. them I have no doubt who will win. But it will suck to unfollow some otherwise good reporters over this nonsense

TropicalCoke
Feb 14, 2012
Ross Ramsey column is a good subscribe and you can be selective with your Tribune email lists so only that and NO BETO. otherwise you receive Beto

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

TropicalCoke posted:

Isnt that guy running for president

Ah this gets funnier every time

Marxalot
Dec 24, 2008

Appropriator of
Dan Crenshaw's Eyepatch
https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1107517813089013761

Hell yeah.



e: https://twitter.com/_SemaHernandez_/status/1107532932288339969

Marxalot fucked around with this message at 07:48 on Mar 18, 2019

corn in the bible
Jun 5, 2004

Oh no oh god it's all true!
Les Twins Castro

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/JTHVerhovek/status/1107597520836931584

!!

When he refused to release these nos. over the weekend all the wise pundits were like "his fundraising must be disastrous"

Doom Rooster
Sep 3, 2008

Pillbug
They're not releasing average donation size, which means it's probably pretty damning.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

Doom Rooster posted:

They're not releasing average donation size, which means it's probably pretty damning.

it's all from daddy

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Doom Rooster posted:

They're not releasing average donation size, which means it's probably pretty damning.

- people saying that him not releasing fundraising totals over the weekend means it's probably pretty damning.

Doom Rooster
Sep 3, 2008

Pillbug

zoux posted:

- people saying that him not releasing fundraising totals over the weekend means it's probably pretty damning.

I'm not really invested here, but I could easily see them spending the weekend watching the coverage and deciding whether it would be worse to release no numbers, or release only the total number.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

There is no world in which it is a bad idea to release your record-breaking fundraising total.

Also kind of the whole story of the Beto Texas Senate campaign was small donor fundraising, I know we're all skeptical of him but he excites normal people. His Iowa tour has been SRO so far.

Keeshhound
Jan 14, 2010

Mad Duck Swagger
Yeah, Beto's whole thing is that he is good at fundraising. It's part of why people are so irked with him for bailing on any kind of attempt to shore up Texas organizing in favor of a national campaign.

Doom Rooster
Sep 3, 2008

Pillbug
It's entirely possible that he still did get tons of small donations, and people are excited. This world however is a a world where it is a bad idea to release a record-breaking fundraising total, if that total comes from an average donation size close to the $2,700 max. It instantly kills the narrative of excited normal people.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Doom Rooster posted:

It's entirely possible that he still did get tons of small donations, and people are excited. This world however is a a world where it is a bad idea to release a record-breaking fundraising total, if that total comes from an average donation size close to the $2,700 max. It instantly kills the narrative of excited normal people.

Again, I don't think normal people care about that, or at least as much as extremely online people care about it. I think more people are satisfied by his promise not to take PAC/special interest money.

VitalSigns
Sep 3, 2011

zoux posted:

There is no world in which it is a bad idea to release your record-breaking fundraising total.

Also kind of the whole story of the Beto Texas Senate campaign was small donor fundraising

So he's keeping those record-breaking small-donor numbers secret because...

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zoux
Apr 28, 2006

VitalSigns posted:

So he's keeping those record-breaking small-donor numbers secret because...

Whatever confirms your priors man.

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