I'm white and grew up and South Texas and know white guys with nicknames of Dos, Tres, Quattro and Cinco. Are they posers? My first name in James (don't dox me bros) and a lot of my friends both white and mexican call me "Jaime" as a nickname. Am I a poser?
Different story all together, but the original travel ban prevented green card holders from the effected Countries from entry. The administration had to scramble to fix that, but not before Sally Yates was canned for saying it was unconstitutional.
Trump paid Stormy $130K. Stormy might pay Trump's attorneys $342K (currently being appealed). Trump is still out $130K, for banging a pornstar once, "art of the deal" indeed.
The problem with that analogy is that Steelers fans have a baseline of 90% of the stadium on any given gameday. The last game we played in Texas (2016) 43% of the stadium was filled up with the "blue team" and that blue team was 2017 Cleveland Browns bad. Now we are playing the game again, but this time it's 2005 Longhorns, and we're just hoping to get about 6% more in the stands. Judging by the bars and restaurants it appears the enthusiasm is greater than it was for the 2016 team, we just don't know if it going to be enough.
So much this. It's astounding. With deer season opening last weekend I saw a handful of posts from acquaintances sitting in the deer blind with comments like "waiting for the caravan". Obviously, most were joking, I hope. But this phenomenon on the right, the dudes that go to church every Sunday, to openly joke about murdering poor brown people is sickening.
IF Beto wins (huge if), it will be because he went to places like Big Springs and Carthage and Mentone and Victoria multiple times. Those are small towns that Senators and Sentate candidates NEVER go to. I've spent a lot of time in small Texas towns. If you show your face, talk to the locals and are polite and decent, it goes a long way. A portion of those repulican voters he met in diners and coffee shops will vote for him because they met him and he is likely the only congressmen they've ever met. And the little old ladies that met him and liked him as a person, will tell their friends in the beauty parlor and bridge clubs. He's not going to win Reeves County, but he will do better than Clinton did because he went to those towns and met those people. Just not sure if it will be enough.