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Sure. Why not. Personally, I’d like to see Talarico run.

More power to him, I'm sure he's a swell dude, but this state is broken. The problem is the people that keep electing psychopaths like Paxton, Abbott, and Patrick. They f'n love this shit.

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How long will it take the Texas GQP to paint a straight, white male firefighter turned successful cattle rancher as a DEI-loving socialist groomer who drinks the blood of the kids he's trafficking in from Mexico due to his love of open borders?

7 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

How long will it take the Texas GQP to paint a straight, white male firefighter turned successful cattle rancher as a DEI-loving socialist groomer who drinks the blood of the kids he's trafficking in from Mexico due to his love of open borders?

It’s already done, no need to fire directly, the programming is complete. The guy has to run as a D to get over 20% of the vote… but that also caps him 45%. 

A D will never win another statewide race in Texas as long as I’m alive. I’m around 40. And hope to live to 105. 

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6 hours ago, The Ace of Aces said:

A D will never win another statewide race in Texas as long as I’m alive. I’m around 40. And hope to live to 105. 

So,  we just gotta get rid of you so a D could win?

3 hours ago, SKJ said:

So,  we just gotta get rid of you so a D could win?

I’d gladly be a martyr to make that shithole political state turn around. 

The problem is the people that keep electing psychopaths like Paxton, Abbott, and Patrick. They f'n love this shit.


I don’t know if they love it so much as they are mostly ignorant and vote R without the slightest understanding of what that means.

They’ve been brainwashed into thinking the Republican is the good ole Texas boy who loves Jesus, whereas the Democrat is the evil liberal who likes drugs, homosexuality, transgender bathrooms and sports, and killing babies. They don’t need to actually educate themselves on topics because they already know the above to be true and nothing will change their minds.

They don’t care that our state AG has an affair, uses the powers of the AG office and taxpayer funds to hide it, and is so corrupt that a Republican dominant House overwhelmingly impeached him for betraying Texans. He is a Republican and therefore deserves their vote again, no questions asked.

They don’t care that Greg Abbott received a massive campaign donation from Jeff Yass and pushed for a voucher program that benefits only a tiny percentage of Texans, all while ignoring the quality of public education for the masses. Abbott is a Republican and therefore represents good Christian and conservative values, and stands against the evil liberals who want sex changes in school bathrooms.

Hell, when vouchers come up in conversation with friends, very few of them have any clue what it means. They almost all have school-aged children and should absolutely pay attention to these things. Yet they vote.

I like him. Our challenge is we can't keep recycling Beto or whomever. We need to keep finding new people who have to gain traction. The Republicans just get to run the same motherfuckers for decades.

It will obviously take some kind of massive disaster for the Democrats to win. Almost isn't worth it as they will be trying to govern whatever smoking crater the Republicans leave them.

But we have to try with an intention to win, and continue to find good new faces. Gotta make the bastards sweat a little from time to time.

He's gonna have to show me something.

This reminds me a lot of the MJ Hegar campaigns. Well-produced commercial introducing the candidate to people who've never heard of them?

How many times do they need to learn this lesson? It really don't make a shit how much of a veteran, rancher, cop, firefighter, or whatever the candidates are. Texan voters do not actually care about how much you LARP as a "real" Texan. For fuck's sake Dan Patrick is from Maryland. Nice guy, great platform, but this is a sales pitch that has never worked for any Democrat in any statewide race.

Please tell me they have more in the playbook than this.

14 hours ago, Blotto said:

More power to him, I'm sure he's a swell dude, but this state is broken. The problem is the people that keep electing psychopaths like Paxton, Abbott, and Patrick. They f'n love this shit.

Yeah- I can’t see any Dem doing better than losing by 7 points 

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6 hours ago, The Ace of Aces said:

I’d gladly be a martyr to make that shithole political state turn around. 

Thank you for your service

Just a touch too polished like MJ Hager,  but I like the basics.
Plus, after the mule died and the bank took the farm in Yantis my Grandfather grew up picking sharecropped cotton in Quitman, so this hits close to home.

I like Cole.  I also like Benjamin Flores.  I have met him on several occasions and he is the real deal.  If you notice his URL, his domain name is 4Texas, not 4BayCity, so he was thinking ahead.  Both of these guys are new to state level politics and as FDR and others said, new guys haven't made any mistakes yet they can be dogged for. 

We have a young progressive running for Ag Commisioner in Clayton Tucker.  Clayton is a populist and he has a lot of similar qualities to Bobby Cole.  He reminds me of Hightower with less of the homespun homilies.  Here's a good interview he did with ProgressTexas once he announced.  Clayton Tucker takes on Sid Miller interview.  

 What Texas needs is a slate of strong candidates who bring different factions out to vote.  We need to choose the most electable in the primaries, and not individually, but as a team.   Problem is that the TDP has a hands off policy in crafting a slate, letting the primaries decide.  But as we saw in the last senate race, DC has no such qualms in putting their thumbs on the scales.  That whole "let the voters decide" depends on an electorate that is much more engaged and willing to be educated than what we currently have, or probably will ever have, especially on the nuances of assembling a slate.  We have to find ways to make it effortless to self educate and spread the word.  Give people an easy means to research and feel strong for having learned.   

I got some time with Beto in Amarillo and was impressed with how he has been sharpening his game.  Much better at speaking and not coming off as canned in responses.  How to overcome the three losses already is the hurdle.  Unfortunately people do not seem to take into account the strength of the blind loyalty to the (R) in this state.  I explain it like David and Goliath.  We have no proof, but the odds are that David didn't bring down the behemoth with his first stone.  It took a few practice lobs to get it right.  Time to land the big one this time.  He is forward thinking when it comes to strategy and effectiveness as to turning out vote.  While he believes in data, he also makes sure people feel they are more than a number.  

 

On 6/24/2025 at 1:31 AM, C-Man said:

Sure. Why not. Personally, I’d like to see Talarico run.

 

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