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I support the idea behind the ftedcruz.com Pac even if Beto does not.

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  • Hank Scorpio
    Hank Scorpio

    I'm sorry, look at all these old fucking goblins at this thing:  Let's go one by one:  Beatrice She has not missed a single city council meeting or church bingo in 35 years. S

  • Born to Run
    Born to Run

    I’ve heard this bullshit my entire life, hell I used to believe the myth that Republicans were all about “faith in the common man succeeding when unimpeded by the govt.” Left alone business and humani

  • austingirl
    austingirl

    I do volunteer work for Beto's campaign (surprise!). I get called a "libtard" on a regular basis and get a lot of responses that are just "#MAGA!" and the like, but I also hear a lot of "who is Beto?"

2 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

One day this might matter half a shit, but for now everyone talks about punishing those that take big money but very few actually follow through with it.

It's the same deal with Congress having a 20% approval rate but incumbents win 99.9% of the time.  All talk... no follow through from the peasant class.

This is why I think Beto will do better in debates than people think. He has so many talking points that will be hard for Cruz to deflect. "All of my money has come from interested citizens. Why does most of your money come from corporations and PACs?" My prediction is that this race will become abortion-palooza 2018. Cruz sucks a fat one and will have to get his base motivated on an issue that Beto won't be able to talk his way out of. I expect him to hammer that issue daily. 

http://time.com/longform/beto-orourke-texas-democratic-senate-race/

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In the past seven days, the 45-year-old Democratic Congressman has clocked nearly a thousand miles across the state. Tonight, after a town hall in Uvalde, an hour away, he gets to go home. Small towns have been O’Rourke’s favored terrain since he launched a bid to unseat Republican Ted Cruz as the Lone Star State’s junior Senator nearly 14 months ago....He has spent more time than any other Democrat in recent memory visiting towns across Texas, including all 254 counties.

I guess he's made it to all of the counties now.  That's fucking impressive, you have to give it to him whether you like him or not.  It's absolutely commendable that someone running for this position has clearly made such a point of visiting the entire place.

I fucking hate Ted Cruz. Just had to get that out of me this morning. 

1 hour ago, Larry T. Spider said:

My prediction is that this race will become abortion-palooza 2018. Cruz sucks a fat one and will have to get his base motivated on an issue that Beto won't be able to talk his way out of. I expect him to hammer that issue daily. 

Either abortion or guns or both. Hell, see El Wappo earlier in this thread, that's what had him freaked out.

 

Edit: Or the tired "Friend of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi line", coming from a guy blowing the orange monkey.

Edited by relapse98

Cruz used to be my #1 most hated politician but the way he went from ultimate defender against the Trump takeover to a quisling in like a week has added an element of comedy about him that has softened my view. 

1 hour ago, troph said:

 


I live in lakeway and the Democrats and liberal/progressives usually stay quiet, but what I think we are seeing is staunchly republican suburbs are moving a few percentage points more blue. Could be immigrants from Cali or could be the republicans are idiots when it comes to school safety, and other issues.

 

Probably not true for Lakeway but other burbs are getting people that vote like they live in Austin but just can’t afford the hip hoods. Wilco barely went for trump.

i'm presently stuck in a staunchly reactionary area, and i'm seeing quite a number of beto signs in yards and on pickup trucks.  can't remember when i last saw one for cruz.  i mean, this area you can usually throw a rock and hit a nutjob, but the public show, at least, is all beto.

8 minutes ago, troph said:

western travis county was within 10 points I think.  lots of west coast folks here that can live central but want the hills and water.  school safety is becoming a wedge issue that works against the R's with suburban moms.  I don't know any mom that's happy with R's position on guns.

The western Travis County vote, particularly college educated women, is where I think the action is. I believe college educated suburban women are going to play a large role in November.

8 minutes ago, troph said:

 

Most here know my back story. I’ve met zero resistance out here. Everyone knows I’m gay and many know the rest of it. I’m sure some quiet haters but for the most part the moms I see are furious about guns, supporters of hashtag metoo and are sympathetic to social issues and opposed to discrim of at least gays generally. The Republicans are losing these otherwise conservative leaning moms - even in affluent conservative suburbs - at a break-neck rate. The men are another story. The number of male Trump supporters out here is astonishing, I think mostly on taxes. They love their recent tax break.

That’s more than anecdotal. 

Greenberg’s report provided a telling comment about how the Trump presidency has affected attitudes, particularly among college-educated women. 

“The anti-Trump voters are consolidated and motivated to resist the Trump presidency,” his report states. “They are seeking out tools and information to win arguments and maximize their engagement and are increasingly intent to vote. The college-graduate women seemed as much a base, anti-Trump group as the African Americans.”

The report also described the effect of these changes on men who supported and continue to support Trump. Unlike women, the attitudes of the men have hardly changed over time. They remain all in with the president.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/politics/when-it-comes-to-trump-men-and-women-remain-far-apart/2018/05/21/61d32e52-5925-11e8-858f-12becb4d6067_story.html

9 minutes ago, troph said:

 

Most here know my back story. I’ve met zero resistance out here. Everyone knows I’m gay and many know the rest of it. I’m sure some quiet haters but for the most part the moms I see are furious about guns, supporters of hashtag metoo and are sympathetic to social issues and opposed to discrim of at least gays generally. The Republicans are losing these otherwise conservative leaning moms - even in affluent conservative suburbs - at a break-neck rate. The men are another story. The number of male Trump supporters out here is astonishing, I think mostly on taxes. They love their recent tax break.

It's all fun and games until their banks get overextended.

 

4 hours ago, troph said:

 


I live in lakeway and the Democrats and liberal/progressives usually stay quiet....

 

Unless it involves screeching about the INHUMANE SLAUGHTER OF THE BEAUTIFUL PEACEFUL DEER BY THE FACIST CITY COUNCIL on nextdoor.

 

Oh, and no shit, the last nextdoor thread I saw on that topic devolved into some guy throwing bombs about abortion and democrats killing babies.

 

smdh

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12 minutes ago, troph said:

Side note are you living out here now??

Roger, moved to the cracker ass suburbs. And for the record I like the deer.  I just wish they would crossbow them instead of netting them. 

3 hours ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Probably not true for Lakeway but other burbs are getting people that vote like they live in Austin but just can’t afford the hip hoods. Wilco barely went for trump.

WilCo is going to be interesting to watch the next few cycles. It's growing like wildfire, and a lot of these newcomers are from places like California, New York, Michigan, etc. The Ronald Reagan Corridor (Parmer) from 1431 out to 3405 is a giant cloud of construction dust and the homes are selling as fast as they can put them up. Not cheap little cracker boxes, either. 

The interesting thing is the Republicans still own the major intersections. If you stop at a red light, you'd think there were no Democrats running for office out here, but turn into the neighborhoods, and its a different story. 

1 hour ago, troph said:

 

Most here know my back story. I’ve met zero resistance out here. Everyone knows I’m gay and many know the rest of it. I’m sure some quiet haters but for the most part the moms I see are furious about guns, supporters of hashtag metoo and are sympathetic to social issues and opposed to discrim of at least gays generally. The Republicans are losing these otherwise conservative leaning moms - even in affluent conservative suburbs - at a break-neck rate. The men are another story. The number of male Trump supporters out here is astonishing, I think mostly on taxes. They love their recent tax break.

It's not just that they are losing those moms.  It's that they, or at least Trump, are giving those moms a reason to vote against the GOP.

It's one thing to ignore a voting bloc or take them for granted.  It's an entirely different thing to give them a reason to vote for the other guy.

And for a current events example of this - witness Dannie Goeb out there blaming school shootings on abortion or doors or whatever.  That is not the kinds of things those moms want to hear.

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2 hours ago, troph said:

 

, I think mostly on taxes. They love their recent tax break.

LOVING those extra 35 dollars

That rising gas prices completely wiped out for the majority of people.

Just now, kevwun said:

That rising gas prices completely wiped out for the majority of people.

Most people don't know the first thing about economics.

Last time I was in Lakeway almost Every house had a thin blue line support for the police sign or light in the yard. It comes across as very conservative.

10 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

Last time I was in Lakeway almost Every house had a thin blue line support for the police sign or light in the yard. It comes across as very conservative.

Lakeway is a fucking police state. Cops everywhere. 

On 5/19/2018 at 12:29 AM, Brian Fantana said:

 

 

Why don't you go rape your mom. And your dad.

Jesus dude, seek some help, this is not a healthy way to live life

Just now, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

Jesus dude, seek some help, this is not a healthy way to live life

Why don't you go rape your mom. And your dad.

5 minutes ago, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

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VMW, pay no mind to the imp. 

1 hour ago, Chrispy said:

VMW, pay no mind to the imp. 

It's a troll account idiot

6 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

It's a troll account idiot

It may comfort you to feel that, but you’re sadly mistaken. I’ve known him for years. 

2 minutes ago, Chrispy said:

It may comfort you to feel that, but you’re sadly mistaken. I’ve known him for years. 

That makes a lot of sense. You know what they say..Birds of a feather, shit in each other's mouths forever. 

10 minutes ago, Pods said:

That makes a lot of sense. You know what they say..Birds of a feather, shit in each other's mouths forever. 

I’ve never heard that particular aphorism. VMW is a great guy that can become overly impassioned at times, which he will readily admit. 

2 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

 

There is very, very little that any politician has said in the last year and a half has said that's made me say "you're gotdamn right, and that's fucking worth fighting for."  But that just did.  I choose the Shining City on the Hill, not fucking Sauron's fortress:

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I know that his odds are tough, but dammit, what he said above is the essence of what we're fighting for here.

Every time he talks he reminds me of why he is the only politician I’ve ever given money to.

1 minute ago, Vince_McCoy_Williams said:

Ah yes, the false dichotomy! Guess I am gonna have to vote for Beto now /s

He’s right, you know.  Or maybe you shouldn’t be in this country. 

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