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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
Oh, I think Jasmine's failings here are both hers (failure to really campaign) and systemic (well, not in the primary necessarily....I just think that the broad Texas general election voters won't vote for a black woman. We're a retrograde state full of retrograde people). I know, I know, how dare you blah blah blah. I just see a racist sexist Texas, and I call it like I see it.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
No it's not. It's a contest to determine who is most popular among the most rabid voters for a particular party. Sometimes, a state is so far gone that the winner of that election by the rabid also wins the popular vote in the general election (see the Republicans the past 30 years). Often, when the primary is a creature of only the very, very most rabid partisan voters, the candidate THEY select can't garner broad enough support to win a general. In Texas, the Dems bounce back and forth off the guardrails of "we voted for the uninspiring milquetoast candidate" then over to the "or we voted for the unelectable partisan darling candidate." Generally more of option 1 than option 2 in Texas, but the overarching point is that primaries are a contest decided by the most partisan voters.
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2026 Midterms ...
Cut her some slack. She's sucked Ken Paxton's dick. She's seen some shit.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
Yeah, but did he say that he'd rip out Dunn's eyes and skullfuck 'im? Cuz that's the energy I'm looking for. We need some Robert Duvall in Secondhand Lions energy.
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
It's about the only fight I see in him. And I like it. But it's not enough. He needs to name the fuckers like Dunn here in Texas who are fucking people over. And truly, he needs to make it clear that he'll fight for us. And I don't mean bullshit politician-speak of "I'll fight for you." I mean "These bastards have spent the last 30 years coming for us. Well, billionaire assholes, I'm coming for YOU. You've fucked over the people of Texas. We're here to fuck back, you fucking assholes." I dunno. Maybe I just think he needs to cuss, and maybe punch someone in the fucking face. I'm dead serious, if I was running for POTUS, a key to my platform would be "I will physically kick Donald Trump's sorry ass. I'm dead serious. Anytime, any place. But that gutless pathetic pussy won't show, because he's not a man, he's a fucking pussy-ass coward. My offer stands. Come on, you fucking pussy. You need an ass-kicking, and I'm looking forward to giving it to you. Shoulda been done a long time ago, then maybe you wouldn't have grown up to be such a useless lying shithead."
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Do I get to start the James Talarico thread?
My complaints about Dems are two sides of the same coin: 1) When they need to show actual fighting spirit -- fuck smart talk and big words and grand policy ideas, those are DEAD now, show real fighting spirit. I want just one of these pathetic bastards to say "you come for me and my constituents, I will fuck you up" - they instead wave the biggest namby-pamby "MILQUETOAST" flag they can find. 2) When they have a chance to attack a fellow Dem, however.....they magically find that fighting spirit. Jasmine has turned all of her "attack dog" skill onto her fellow Dems, instead of telling us how she'll go to Washington and fuck people up who fuck with Texas. And Talarico has great ideas and "messaging," but that messaging needs more "I will slit fucking throats and take no fucking prisoners." And if that ain't who he is, then GTFO of the way and let someone run who WILL do that.
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Trump’s America
Whoda thunk entering a pointless trade war with some of the largest buyers of US farm commodities could have this effect? What's that? Everyone who is not breathtakingly stupid or clinically insane thunk EXACTLY that? Huh. Interesting.
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Trump’s America
TexArcher gets it. MAGA is the perfect cocktail of dumb, mean, and gullible. They're just pure shit, all the way around. Irredeemable, and unworthy of redemption. They are gleefully bringing about the complete destruction of the Republic, and will simultaneously proudly take credit for it and blame Obama and Biden for it. Because....and this bears repeating...they are complete shit.
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Lake Travis 2024: Countdown To Zero
That's because topography makes reservoirs to the east much less efficient. As a point of comparison, Travis has a capacity of 1.3 million acre feet. Lake Conroe has a capacity of around 430,000 acre feet. They have similar surface acreage - 19k acres vs 21k acres - so that massive difference in capacity (Travis at 3X Conroe) is all topography. The steep canyons and elevation of the highland lakes allows a single small dam to hold back a large, very deep lake. The flat topography of the prairie (everything east of Mopac in this state) makes those reservoirs much smaller in terms of capacity. It's also why they aren't great for flood control, either. They just don't have much room to catch water.
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Gone posters
As a follow up, heard back from AB. He's trucking along. Just at a more introspective place in his life, less focus on foolish social media (like us), more focus on what's important. And more power to him.
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Candace Owens
Now THAT is a Surly site motto.
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Gone posters
I sent him an email (he had my info somehow and messaged me a long while ago, and I still had his email). Won't dox him, but I at least don't see any obituary out there with his name. So.....odds are that he ain't dead yet! Srsly, AB...hoping that you're feeling okay these days.