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Holy fuckin shit if you think the national scene was a bloodbath, you have no idea what that means until you dig into the state level results. Disastrous doesn’t begin to describe it. 

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My wife is not a native Texan. I’m officially on the clock to get us out of here. Looking like Denver is in the cards in  the next 2 years. 
 

what a catastrophic performance state wide for democrats today. 

33 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

My wife is not a native Texan. I’m officially on the clock to get us out of here. Looking like Denver is in the cards in  the next 2 years. 
 

what a catastrophic performance state wide for democrats today. 

We all have a lot of looking around at our fellow Texans to do.

y'all just fucking come to Colorado. make it bluer. fuck it. it's beautiful. the climate is incredible. it respects its citizens. you can get high.

and once locals realize most of us Texans aren't coming here to change it but to escape the madness that is Texas, they chill out. there are Texas alumni everywhere, and very few aggy.

hell, if enough move here maybe we'll even get some good Mexican and BBQ 🤘

1 hour ago, bluto said:

Holy fuckin shit if you think the national scene was a bloodbath, you have no idea what that means until you dig into the state level results. Disastrous doesn’t begin to describe it. 

Now don't get me wrong, it was bad...but it doesn't seem to be disastrous on a race by race basis. We are keeping most of our US House, State House, and State Senate seats.

However, in the past I hoped that 2018 and 2020 signaled the way forward. But now it looks like it was a high water mark. We are sliding back the other way. So I guess in that sense it was disastrous.

7 minutes ago, mchookem said:

y'all just fucking come to Colorado. make it bluer. fuck it. it's beautiful. the climate is incredible. it respects its citizens. you can get high.

and once locals realize most of us Texans aren't coming here to change it but to escape the madness that is Texas, they chill out. there are Texas alumni everywhere, and very few aggy.

hell, if enough move here maybe we'll even get some good Mexican and BBQ 🤘

 

ive applied to many jobs in colorado / denver, no one has bit yet 

ill keep trying 

tonight's win gives abbott / patrick / paxton a green light to fully implement their maga / project 2025 agenda 

paxton's power is unchecked in this state, he's going to as he wishes. i dont think abbott or paxton gets the AG nod from trump 

2 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

tonight's win gives abbott / patrick / paxton a green light to fully implement their maga / project 2025 agenda 

paxton's power is unchecked in this state, he's going to as he wishes. i dont think abbott or paxton gets the AG nod from trump 

Well see if Paxton was made Trump's AG I am pretty sure we would somehow end up with somebody worse. That seems to be how these things go.

Just now, Valmy77 said:

Well see if Paxton was made Trump's AG I am pretty sure we would somehow end up with somebody worse. That seems to be how these things go.

 

wonky eye. trump can't have that standing next to him 

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wonky eye. trump can't have that standing next to him 

100% this.
7 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

Now don't get me wrong, it was bad...but it doesn't seem to be disastrous on a race by race basis. We are keeping most of our US House, State House, and State Senate seats.

However, in the past I hoped that 2018 and 2020 signaled the way forward. But now it looks like it was a high water mark. We are sliding back the other way. So I guess in that sense it was disastrous.

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Good.  The blue city judiciaries are a joke.  And they need to be balanced by GOP appellate judges.

Trump takes Texas by 13.9, Florida by a mere 13.1. Texas is still the GOAT

3 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

Dems did a horrible job when the GOP implied that Biden took US oil and gas production to all time lows when it fact it was the complete opposite. Is there anyone in South Texas or the Valley that either doesn’t work in O&G or have friends/family who do?  I can only guess that there are some prospective workers who assume that the Texas will triple production in the next 6 months and jobs will be falling from the sky.

7 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Dems did a horrible job when the GOP implied that Biden took US oil and gas production to all time lows when it fact it was the complete opposite. Is there anyone in South Texas or the Valley that either doesn’t work in O&G or have friends/family who do?  I can only guess that there are some prospective workers who assume that the Texas will triple production in the next 6 months and jobs will be falling from the sky.

Facts don’t matter.

9 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Dems did a horrible job when the GOP implied that Biden took US oil and gas production to all time lows when it fact it was the complete opposite. Is there anyone in South Texas or the Valley that either doesn’t work in O&G or have friends/family who do?  I can only guess that there are some prospective workers who assume that the Texas will triple production in the next 6 months and jobs will be falling from the sky.

 

i agree, the dem energy - o/g message was horrible. on the flip side, they had no response for people wanting cheap gas

im curious if trump lets the saudis flood the market so they can regain market share ?

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42 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

i agree, the dem energy - o/g message was horrible. on the flip side, they had no response for people wanting cheap gas

im curious if trump lets the saudis flood the market so they can regain market share ?

Trump wants to drill baby drill but no one is going to do that if prices are lower. And is any producer spending money to produce more natural gas since basically we are at low prices at their lowest in decades?

but then again since facts don’t matter Trump will just claim drilling is up and gas prices are down even if not accurate.

1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Trump wants to drill baby drill but no one is going to do that if prices are lower. And is any producer spending money to produce more natural gas since basically we are at low prices at their lowest in decades?

but then again since facts don’t matter Trump will just claim drilling is up and gas prices are down even if not accurate.

And the sheep will believe him because they are in a cult.

Starr County Texas, highest % Hispanic population of any county in America, at 97%.

2016, the county votes Dem by a 60.2% margin over Trump

2024, Trump takes Starr County by 16 points.

In 8 years? 

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12 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Starr County Texas, highest % Hispanic population of any county in America, at 97%.

2016, the county votes Dem by a 60.2% margin over Trump

2024, Trump takes Starr County by 16 points.

In 8 years? 

The only saving grace is that Texas Dems have long learned to not count on heavy vote counts from the Valley. Still stats like this make Texas going blue  an impossible proposition especially if Harris County is a light blue.

18 minutes ago, Iceman said:

Starr County Texas, highest % Hispanic population of any county in America, at 97%.

2016, the county votes Dem by a 60.2% margin over Trump

2024, Trump takes Starr County by 16 points.

In 8 years? 

And had not voted for a Republican presidential candidate since 1897. 

22 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

ive applied to many jobs in colorado / denver, no one has bit yet 

ill keep trying 

May just be in the public sector, but when my wife was looking for work outside of TX, many Colorado jobs would explicitly only consider applicants that were current CO residents.

1 minute ago, gmr548 said:

May just be in the public sector, but when my wife was looking for work outside of TX, many Colorado jobs would explicitly only consider applicants that were current CO residents.

 

this is now a very common practice across many industries 

Dems need to come up w/ 3rd grade verbiage to communicate to the masses.  They also need to quit worrying about facts.  The American electorate is too fucking stupid to understand them or care. 

Dems need to come up w/ 3rd grade verbiage to communicate to the masses.  They also need to quit worrying about facts.  The American electorate is too fucking stupid to understand them or care. 

Yup. Believing that people care about facts is apparently passé.

4th-hand just heard san antonio school kids got a text this afternoon saying the free lunch program for kids who could prove hardship has been cancelled, and the mom of the kid that got the text says wheels is behind it

again, very simone, but throwing it out there

On 11/5/2024 at 7:27 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Abbott and Patrick will use tax dollars, mainly paid by the large cities, to fund doctors to staff small town hospitals. But those small town residents will sneer at the deadbeat welfare recipients in the big cities.

Small town hospitals are dropping L&D. Not worth the shitshow

On 11/7/2024 at 8:18 AM, Chad Fuck said:


Yup. Believing that people care about facts is apparently passé.

People believe lies about Democrats and their policies and refuse facts about Republicans and their policies. If Democrats lie to the people, the media will report it and people will believe it.

Truth is the Texas GQP is going to make life harder for kids that go to school in Texas. The lack of decent public education is going to mean that Texas kids will be ill prepared for higher education. And that means certain high paying jobs will be out of reach for a lot of Texas kids. Education is one of the ways that people can change their circumstances. The Texas government and the GQP as a whole is doing its damndest to fuck the population over. Its a joke that people keep voting for this.

Texas does a stellar job with public education per NAEP adjusted scores.  Other states need to catch up

 

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Texas is smoking shit holes like New York

14 minutes ago, PenelopeWitherspoon said:

So not surprised that you are cherry picking data. You picked 4th grade and math from 2017 and 2019. 

I can post others.  But it is the most recent data. It is from the Urban Institute, a liberal think tank.  Your state has some work to do to catch Texas.  Kind of embarrassing results given how much less Texas spends per student than the state you're so sure is superior.

 

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Again, 2019. That data is over 5 years old. I wonder what worldwide event happened between then and now that might change that data. Also, I wonder what the Texas GQP has done hard core since 2020 to change that. 

Long and short, by pulling funds out of publilc schools, you are really going to fuck over the people who need education the most. But I do not expect you to care given your track record here. 

I guess will just have to take your supposition for it.  Texas politicians didn’t shutdown schools near as long or as hard core as those disgusting shitbird New York politicians shut down their schools to fuck over kids.  So it’s likely the performance gap has widened. 

On 11/7/2024 at 8:18 AM, Chad Fuck said:


Yup. Believing that people care about facts is apparently passé.

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Texas is smoking shit holes like New York

Texas is worse than New York in reading and math. Adjusted for poverty, special ed, and race and ethnicity I guess looks better. Especially that Texas spends less per student than most states.

Is your point that all states should be like Texas? Because adjusted for childhood poverty and the high number of kids in special ed and the funding adequacy issues, we rule?

What brain worm do you have?
On 11/6/2024 at 10:31 AM, Frank Drebin said:

Trump takes Texas by 13.9, Florida by a mere 13.1. Texas is still the GOAT

Sorry buddy.  Trump takes OK by 34 points.  Texas sucks.  

5 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Sorry buddy.  Trump takes OK by 34 points.  Texas sucks.  

There is still work to do.  But:

 

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1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Sorry buddy.  Trump takes OK by 34 points.  Texas sucks.  

Trump crushed Kamala in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas as well. Huge MOV

On 11/9/2024 at 9:45 AM, closetohumping said:

We can drop the Texas is purple talk now right?

Depends upon the grip...

now Abbott will control UT’s purse strings. Changes incoming ….

 

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3 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

now Abbott will control UT’s purse strings. Changes incoming ….

 

As an educator, watching other educators vote for trump while teaching a form of special ed is just mind blowing 

43 minutes ago, Shut up Lou Holtz said:

As an educator, watching other educators vote for trump while teaching a form of special ed is just mind blowing 

You can say it.

It’s retarded.

 

Ok, so they did a really good job of tamping down the crazy voter turnout of 2020, they do everything they can to undermine the public school system, jam down vouchers to get money to Christian schools, weaken curriculum in schools, drive teachers out of the profession, go nutty with the abortion law and then when they are asked to clarify it for the health of the mother, they say no. They also are inactive on things like public health, don’t take part in Medicare expansion, and generally give the middle finger to anyone who is even remotely for action on climate. They are failing to address the coming problem with our water supply and are contributing to our skyrocketing insurance rates. In the name of freedom, they let people walk around with firearms without even as much as a basic proficiency test, but yet can’t ever seem to find the funds to get rape kits tested.  
They also spend a god awful amount of tax dollars on militarization of the border and start building their own wall while denying teachers raises. 
They allow about three West Texas billionaires dictate laws, lawsuits filed by the state, prosecutions and when someone stands up to them they crush them at election time.  Oh, and by the way, the three billionaires openly admit to wanting to make Texas a Christian Nationalist state. 
They maintain a power grid for only Texas pride purposes but can’t seem to pull their head out of their ass to fix it. But then, they offer tax incentives to crypto outfits who come in and account for 30% of our electrical use on any given day. 

I mean, what’s the end game here?

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On 11/8/2024 at 9:57 PM, Eskimohorn said:


Texas is worse than New York in reading and math. Adjusted for poverty, special ed, and race and ethnicity I guess looks better. Especially that Texas spends less per student than most states.

Is your point that all states should be like Texas? Because adjusted for childhood poverty and the high number of kids in special ed and the funding adequacy issues, we rule?

What brain worm do you have?

Imagine thinking that it is the states responsibility to educate your children. True brain worms. 

44 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

Imagine thinking that it is the states responsibility to educate your children. True brain worms. 

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