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Ghost of LL

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  1. I just came to say "fuck Colin Allred." I now return you to your regularly scheduled electoral discussion.
  2. But this is fundamentally the problem with Luther. He supposes that if people believe in Jesus, then they'll be in a state of Grace and do good works. And he supposes further that people can ascertain their belief in Jesus by reading the Bible with perhaps some shepherding by a non-episcopal clergy. The problem is that Luther didn't foresee the baseness of modern evangelical christianity, but it should've been predicable to anyone with any experience with humanity. People can twist any number of biblical verses to justify shitheelism, and then decide "but I'm a 'Christ-follower,' so I must be going to Heaven." Which, perversely makes them even bigger shitheels. And that's only exacerbated when a person can find a "church" with a pastor who is very willing to provide affirmation for your shitheelism (and almost certainly engages in assholerly that puts yours to shame). Whatever issues I may have with the Church of Rome, its conceptualization eliminates this risk (which I would regard as certainty). If you act like an asshole, that makes you an asshole, and I don't give one good goddamn how much you say "but I believe in Jesus." No, fuckface--if you listened to your catechism and actually believed in Jesus, then you wouldn't be an asshole. And your assholery is conclusive proof that you do not, in fact, believe in Jesus.
  3. So here's the really fun thing: last night Rehmet got 54,200 votes and Wambganss got 40,600 votes. In November, they got 56,500 votes and 42,700, respectively. That is to say that each one of them got just 2,000 fewer votes in the run-off then s/he did in November. Each held on to his/her voters. In the meantime, John Huffman (R) got 19,600 votes. And his voters . . . didn't vote in the run-off.* Huffman was mayor of Southlake and he ran a pretty standard Texas Republican campaign. Or at least what was a standard Texas Republican campaign before Trump turned the GOP into the GQP focused primarily on race-baiting and culture wars. Huffman focused on shit like reducing property taxes and increasing funding for police.** So the Republicans had a full-on MAGA Christian Nationalist culture warrior against a boring I'll-cut-property-taxes Republican and the voted in November for the former. But when the run-off came around, the latter's voters wouldn't vote for the MAGA Christian Nationalist. That's a sign of a broken party. And it is a real warning about November. It implies that if Paxton wins the primary, a whole lot of Cornyn's primary voters may not support Paxton. They won't necessarily vote for Talarico--most almost certainly won't. But it does indicate that the Texas Republican Party isn't so unified that one would assume that people who show up and vote in the Republican primary (even if for the losing candidate) are automatically going to show up in November to vote for the Republican nominee. Because that sure as fuck didn't happen here. * I understand that that's not exactly correct. There was obviously at least one Wambganss voter in November who didn't show up, and that vote was offset by the vote of a Huffman voter who showed up and voted for Wambganss yesterday. How many instances of that there were, we'll never know. You could probably drill down on a precinct-by-precinct level and draw some better conclusions, but I don't have time for that. But even without that, the implication from the numbers is that it's not a huge number. ** It's also worth noting that he took a lot of money from the pro-casino lobby, and that almost certainly hurt him. But I'd like to hear from our Fort Worth peeps on that dynamic.
  4. Just unbelievable. I really am shocked.
  5. I wish I had your optimism. The most MAGA/Q-Anon ED vote is still out.
  6. Not a great update.
  7. I imagine they might be under-staffed/volunteered.
  8. But the overwhelming majority did not at the same time protest for civil rights. And that tells you the reality of their "morals." Let's get one thing real straight about Boomer anti-war protesting: the vast majority of them had no real philosophical opposition to the use of American force in Vietnam. Functionally none of them protested similar American activities--propping up a right-wing dictatorship to forestall the spread of Soviet-aligned Communism--across Latin America and Southwest Asia. What the Boomers opposed was the prospect that they might have to fight and get killed. They're the most self-centered generation. They always have been. They didn't give a fuck about the morality of the Vietnam War; their only interest was in not having to fight it. I have absolutely no doubt that had they been around in 1942, they would've been out protesting our involvement in the Pacific War and Hanoi Jane would've taken photographs with a German antiaircraft crew somewhere in Occupied France. They're a generation of narcissists whose self-absorbtion borders on solipsism, and the country (and the world) will be immeasurably better off when the last of them meets his end.
  9. Thank you
  10. And his wife is sneaky hot. So really a double loss for Austin. Is that in Texas? Or is that a national poll? Because if it's the latter, we're in a whole lot of trouble. The Dems need to be up by at least 8 in the generic ballot to have a chance of taking the House owing to gerrymandering and the effect of states like Wyoming getting a representative even though only 400 people live there.
  11. Yeah--you missed the joke. In Switzerland, they speak "Swiss German" (Schweizerdeutsch). It's a particular dialect of German that is sufficiently different from standard German that when they show a Schweizerdeutsch speaker on German television, they generally have subtitles. As a native English speaker who only speaks German as a second language, Schweizerdeutsch is completely indecipherable.
  12. Dude--that is absolutely not true; I don't know what it is that they speak in Zurich and Luzern and Davos and elsewhere in der Schweiz, but it has little resemblance to German.
  13. As someone who occasionally runs along trails around Town Lake, that's honestly pretty fucking terrifying.
  14. That's an interesting comment, because the conspiracy to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand was actually an operation of the Serbian secret services. And there's good evidence that the Russians knew about and supported the operation. It was a state-sponsored assassination. What you're talking about is something like a DGSE asset taking down an American president, which would be . . . not ideal.
  15. Yeah--I'm just booking all of my hotels with a 24-hour cancelation policy with payment not due until check-in. Normally for a vacation I would pay at the time of the reservation and save a few bucks. Not this year.
  16. Or let me just be real honest here for a minute--if the Republic was so fragile that the likes of Donald fucking Trump could dismantle it, perhaps it was never worth saving.
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