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#1501
1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Oh wait, did Abbott put his foot in his mouth again? He does have a history of doing just that (Uvalde 'could have been worse', Garth Brooks booed offstage at fake music festival, Daniel Perry will be pardoned... then the nasty text messages come out)

Sounds like he's trying to bully pulpit Dade into just agreeing to it.  If nothing comes of it, he blames Dade for going back on the deal and the Texas MAGATs nuke Dade's speakership into the sun in 2025.

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    I vaguely remember some rumblings about Talarico. I think he’s going to be a huge presence in years to come. Loved this exchange he had, shows he does his homework, didn’t seem like he was talking at,

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    And this is the best we’ll get out of the brainwashed republicans. Just get them to not vote. They’ll never vote for a Democrat because, well, they don’t even really know why, but they won’t. Just do

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#1502

So this is just expanding the agenda of the session right, to attach public school funds so the voucher bullshit is more likely to get debated/voted on? That's my understanding. Hope it fails again.

#1503

all of this ends next year if just 20% of Texan Democrats pull GOP primary ballots.  All of it.  It never happened.  

#1504
7 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

pull GOP primary ballots

Yeah, man.  Those primary choices will be awesome.  I'll really feel like I made a difference, ensuring that the easy winner of the general election (because (R) next to his name) is Himmler instead of Mengele.  What a service I've performed!

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#1505
3 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

I mean if they are so "top notch" then why do we need any of this school choice/vouchers???

Really wish I could pull the brakes on Abbots chair and make him answer that question...

Somebody had to be pissed off enough to make this GIF (and the fact that the rest of their account is just animated GIFs of foxes says something)

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#1506

For at least the next few cycles, more districts than not are going to vote for a Republican in a general.  You can offer the stupids a MAGA/Briscoe/Patrick fuckwad or give them someone less insane.  Otherwise, the current strategy of hanging back and not touching a GOP primary ballot 'cause it feels icky ain't fucking working out too well.  I had to listen to Ellen with a straight face claim that women here illegally are taking advantage of our legal system to gain unfair protections against their rapists.  In 100 booze/drug-fueled benders, I could never come up with half the shit they're inventing now.  They need to given a timeout on the sidelines.  Only way to do it is force their constituents who have to keep voting Republican in generals to choose somebody who didn't wake up this morning thinking, "Yes, yes...it's clearly a lack of Jesus in libraries making our kids murder one another."  

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#1507
2 hours ago, Js1 said:

Sounds like he's trying to bully pulpit Dade into just agreeing to it.  If nothing comes of it, he blames Dade for going back on the deal and the Texas MAGATs nuke Dade's speakership into the sun in 2025.

Dan Patrick, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, a couple of West Texas billionaires, and Texas MAGATs are already going to try nuke pretty much everybody in the Texas House next year.

#1508
17 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Somebody had to be pissed off enough to make this GIF (and the fact that the rest of their account is just animated GIFs of foxes says something)

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How do you find and notice these things lol.

#1509
56 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

all of this ends next year if just 20% of Texan Democrats pull GOP primary ballots.  All of it.  It never happened.  

Lol tell me about the good options.

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#1510
Lol tell me about the good options.

Look man, if you can’t see that Himmler is the moral choice over mengele, I can’t help you.
#1511

Texas might be the farthest gone state in the "union," which is crazy when you think about some of the states. But yeah, there's a less horrible group of Republicans that will fix shit if the Dems would just help them get elected! Great fuckin plan ygifs

 

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#1512
2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Dan Patrick, Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, a couple of West Texas billionaires, and Texas MAGATs are already going to try nuke pretty much everybody in the Texas House next year.

How's that been working out for them?

#1513
Lol tell me about the good options.

I’ve been told it’s called winning
#1514
2 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Texas might be the farthest gone state in the "union," which is crazy when you think about some of the states. But yeah, there's a less horrible group of Republicans that will fix shit if the Dems would just help them get elected! Great fuckin plan ygifs

 

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Sorry.  Totally forgot what a bang up job your “we are a purple state that just has low turnout” model is going for our state.  My bad.  They won’t fix it but they’ll pass less insane shit.  But let’s totally go with Wendy and Beto again because that’s done phenomenal.  

#1515
Sorry.  Totally forgot what a bang up job your “we are a purple state that just has low turnout” model is going for our state.  My bad.  They won’t fix it but they’ll pass less insane shit.  But let’s totally go with Wendy and Beto again because that’s done phenomenal.  

That’s still not a great pitch for “voluntarily ingest strychnine instead of cyanide.” Nope. Not gonna ingest either.
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#1516
5 hours ago, Captainant said:

How do you find and notice these things lol.

On Tenor, when you search for Greg Abbott

https://tenor.com/search/greg-abbott-gifs

It's in the first 4-5 gifs.

Unfortunately, Abbott Elementary has a character named "Greg", so a whole lot of fans of that TV show have uploaded GIFs that interfere with our Greg Abbott searches, but there are still good ones at the top, like 

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#1517
4 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

Texas might be the farthest gone state in the "union," which is crazy when you think about some of the states. But yeah, there's a less horrible group of Republicans that will fix shit if the Dems would just help them get elected! Great fuckin plan ygifs

 

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#1518
6 hours ago, YGIFS said:

all of this ends next year if just 20% of Texan Democrats pull GOP primary ballots.  All of it.  It never happened.  

I did this twice in an effort to block Ted Cruz and Dan Patrick from their current offices, and all I got for it was a decade of nauseating republican mail and telephone calls. 

#1520
"The House has rules and we are up against the timeline," Buckley said. I asked Buckley if the House will try to accept the Senate's school voucher plan, and Buckley replied "No, we'll have a House plan." #txlege

 

#1521

Very on point 

Woodfill was involved in a child rape coverup btw https://t.co/scoCmOvIhZ https://t.co/XSey701QDJ

 

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#1523
On 11/2/2023 at 11:32 PM, tx 3 putt said:


love the idea of an income cap for vouchers 

Or, hear me out, no vouchers at all

#1524

Good news, Dan Patrick has a severe case of pneumonia.  I regret nothing! 

#1526
Thanks for all the support and trust over the years! I will not be seeking reelection for the 89th #txlege session.

 

#1527
On 10/31/2023 at 10:45 PM, Tonesky said:

I did this twice in an effort to block Ted Cruz and Dan Patrick from their current offices, and all I got for it was a decade of nauseating republican mail and telephone calls. 

Same here but I actually find it useful. If I get a mailer from, say, Steven Hotze, I can just carry that to the polls and vote the exact opposite. Research done for me.

My mailman definitely thinks I'm a real piece of shit, though.

#1528
On 10/31/2023 at 10:45 PM, Tonesky said:

I did this twice in an effort to block Ted Cruz and Dan Patrick from their current offices, and all I got for it was a decade of nauseating republican mail and telephone calls. 

 

1 minute ago, tokamak said:

Same here but I actually find it useful. If I get a mailer from, say, Steven Hotze, I can just carry that to the polls and vote the exact opposite. Research done for me.

My mailman definitely thinks I'm a real piece of shit, though.

Initially, I was entertained by Hotze, Link Letter, etc.  But, it got old real fast.

#1530

In other news, water is wet. Now, he’s gonna have to run for Congress:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/family-values-republican-candidate-arrested-183622073.html

The Republican candidate for a Texas city council was arrested just hours before Election Day on federal child pornography charges.

Brad Benson, who was running for the Granbury City Council, was arrested at his home Monday morning. Benson was a small-business owner and the deputy fire marshal for the town, which is southwest of Fort Worth.

“I can confirm he was arrested by the District Attorney’s Office yesterday and charged with two felony child pornography charges,” Hood County Sheriff Roger Deeds told Newsweek on Tuesday.

#1531
.@GovAbbott officially announces fourth special session to start at 5. Education, illegal entry, Colony Ridge https://t.co/2n2JIaBIc5 #txlege

 

#1532

Good god. This is a Republican tweet about a Republican:
 

The TX House, under Dade Phelan's failed leadership, has failed to advance meaningful legislation to secure the border. The TX Senate will return for the 4th special session to address concerns of the TX conservative majority–& wait for the House to join. https://t.co/yqC834HUPB

 

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#1533
4 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Good god. This is a Republican tweet about a Republican:

Did you miss the bits about Republican politicians publicly calling Phelan a drunk?

There's a war going on between suburban MAGA and a few West Texas BMDs who are making Paxton/Patrick/Abbott/etc. jump and dance to the best of their ability vs the House and the rural Republicans.

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#1535
24 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:
.@GovAbbott officially announces fourth special session to start at 5. Education, illegal entry, Colony Ridge https://t.co/2n2JIaBIc5 #txlege

 

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#1536
27 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Good god. This is a Republican tweet about a Republican:
 

The TX House, under Dade Phelan's failed leadership, has failed to advance meaningful legislation to secure the border. The TX Senate will return for the 4th special session to address concerns of the TX conservative majority–& wait for the House to join. https://t.co/yqC834HUPB

 

It's hard to imagine that this intraparty bickering is doing anything to help advance the GQP agenda. It's kind of nice to watch them eat their own and for Abbott to keep pissing down his leg.

#1539
On 11/2/2023 at 8:09 PM, tx 3 putt said:

Very on point 

Woodfill was involved in a child rape coverup btw https://t.co/scoCmOvIhZ https://t.co/XSey701QDJ

 

Went to law school with that fucker and he was a huge pos then. 

#1540
In an email to members, Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair @TMFtx says the committee vote on vouchers should be seen as a reflection of the desire to have a floor vote on the voucher portion of the bill. Left unsaid: The House could very well strip vouchers out of this #txlege

 

#1541

Getting a little interesting. No quorum yesterday. No quorum today. Will try again Monday. Four of the red members of the house are accusing Phelan of orchestrating it. 

 

Who is organizing the quiet-kill of @GregAbbott_TX's legislative agenda? Sounds like that would be #TxLege Speaker @DadePhelan...@NateSchatzline, @Toth_4_Texas, @reptinderholt, and @brianeharrison are calling out the speaker. Loudly.

 

#1542
On 11/10/2023 at 11:14 AM, FirstTimeCaller said:
In an email to members, Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair @TMFtx says the committee vote on vouchers should be seen as a reflection of the desire to have a floor vote on the voucher portion of the bill. Left unsaid: The House could very well strip vouchers out of this #txlege

 

The House Select Committee on Educational Opportunity voted this out of committee 10-4.  The 4 votes were NO by Dems. The 5th Democrat on the committee, Rep. Oscar Longoria (RGV) was absent.

Rep. Longoria is working with Phelan quietly against the wishes of the Dems. He is one of the most conservative Dems in the House. Longoria didn’t even stick with the Dems when they left the state to block Republican voter bills a few years ago.

Longoria and other Dem reps located on the border have voted with Greg Abbott in favor of immigration bills because it provides more border funding to their districts. 

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#1543
Pat fallon is leaving congress to run for the state house in Austin. https://t.co/sLfVfAx8AN

 

#1544

Lol from Congress back to the state legislature? GOP knows they have lost the House majority. That’s not a lateral move, that’s going from a P5 to FCS

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#1545
5 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Lol from Congress back to the state legislature? GOP knows they have lost the House majority.

And/or they know next year will be a Republican shitshow and they don’t want to be tainted by it.  People like Gaetz, MTG, Trump, Tubberville, etc. are going to be actively trying to primary republicans they don’t like as well.

#1546
Just now, atomheartbevo said:

And/or they know next year will be a Republican shitshow and they don’t want to be tainted by it.  People like Gaetz, MTG, Trump, Tubberville, etc. are going to be actively trying to primary republicans they don’t like as well.

Texas GOP is doing the same thing. 

#1547
On 11/7/2023 at 5:08 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Did you miss the bits about Republican politicians publicly calling Phelan a drunk?

There's a war going on between suburban MAGA and a few West Texas BMDs who are making Paxton/Patrick/Abbott/etc. jump and dance to the best of their ability vs the House and the rural Republicans.

There aren't enough aggy in the suburbs to filibuster away all the rural seats in the house.  Such a shame.

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