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I see Beto is running for Texas Governor, apparently much to the delight of the GOP. He’s raising a lot of out-of-state money that might have otherwise gone to more viable candidates.
Can I ask why you do not support/like/think highly of Beto?
Can I ask why you do not support/like/think highly of Beto?
Robert Francis O’Rourke doesn’t seem bright enough to run a big state like Texas. He makes much of how he’s coming for your guns in a state where you’d be better served by advocating a puppy strangulation policy.
I wouldn’t want to see another round of weirdly narcissistic videos of Beto strumming guitars, skateboarding or getting his teeth cleaned. If you want a cult of personality, you should at least have an interesting personality. The good people at Vanity Fair can only do so much for you.
On the plus side, I agree with Kevin Williamson that he will serve as a black hole for Democrats to shovel money into. Better yet, he may be striving to stay in the public eye for purposes of another presidential run. Biden will be 82 by then. Harris is slightly less popular than smallpox. That could mean another primary melee for the donkey party where everyone appeals to the looney extreme and hopes for a short public memory.
iris lilies
11-17-21, 12:26pm
Robert Francis O’Rourke doesn’t seem bright enough to run a big state like Texas. He makes much of how he’s coming for your guns in a state where you’d be better served by advocating a puppy strangulation policy.
I wouldn’t want to see another round of weirdly narcissistic videos of Beto strumming guitars, skateboarding or getting his teeth cleaned. If you want a cult of personality, you should at least have an interesting personality. The good people at Vanity Fair can only do so much for you.
On the plus side, I agree with Kevin Williamson that he will serve as a black hole for Democrats to shovel money into. Better yet, he may be striving to stay in the public eye for purposes of another presidential run. Biden will be 82 by then. Harris is slightly less popular than smallpox. That could mean another primary melee for the donkey party where everyone appeals to the looney extreme and hopes for a short public memory.
My local extreme loon, Cori Bush, is now claiming she had to duck bullets when she was rioting at night in Ferguson all those years ago.
I imagine she will be making a run at the Presidency in the future. Maybe she and her sorority birthing people will try some sort of job share presidency. Maybe I will luck out and be dead by then.
My local extreme loon, Cori Bush, is now claiming she had to duck bullets when she was rioting at night in Ferguson all those years ago.
I imagine she will be making a run at the Presidency in the future. Maybe she and her sorority birthing people will try some sort of job share presidency. Maybe I will luck out and be dead by then.
What are sorority birthing people?
My local extreme loon, Cori Bush, is now claiming she had to duck bullets when she was rioting at night in Ferguson all those years ago.
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Is she the one who hires private security for her Defund the Police rallies?
iris lilies
11-17-21, 1:15pm
What are sorority birthing people?
Cori’s cohort is affectionately known by mainstream media as “The Squad” as a specific set of freshmen Congresspeople, a group that includes Alexandria OC.
They are “birthing people” according to Cori, not to be confused with “women.”
Yes, Cori travels with armed security at rallies. I do not know if those guys (I presume they are burly men) were included in her lunch date with Adam Shiff recently at the restaurant literally around the corner from my house.
I was once annoyed that our Congressman seemed to ignore my neighborhood since I saw him visit exactly once in 30 years, but now I am wishing he was back in the seat. Oy vey.
Ugh. I wanted to go hear him speak when he came to NH but no one in his campaign could help me figure out where to park. He only did rallies at college campuses, not places where older people more likely to vote are.
Beto is very popular in Austin where I used to live. Ditto Matthew McConaughey who is considering a run at some point. Regardless of political beliefs, I hope to see some younger candidates rather than the many very old lawmakers still in charge. If you want conservative, think Ben Sasse. He is whip smart and very principled. It is hard for people who don't know Texas and Texans to understand that it's a whole other country.
when I was younger, I voted for Kinky Friedman for governor of Texas and actually was surprised he didn't win. But now I know O'Rourke just doesn't stand a chance to win. There are just not enough Democrats state-wide to elect him. A moderate, reasonable Republican MIGHT, and my money and support (even as a self-identified Democrat) would go to him/her...but every Republican candidate who has announced for governor in Texas is more right-wing wacky than the current governor.
Moderate, reasonable Republican? Liz Cheney is about the only one of those left. And the Wyoming Republican Party just tossed her out on her ass. The future of the Republican Party looks more like marjorie Taylor Greene than it does Liz Cheney.
It seems like one party is in thrall to a ridiculous man and the other is in thrall to ridiculous ideas. Whoever wakes up first should do very well.
Beto is very popular in Austin where I used to live. Ditto Matthew McConaughey who is considering a run at some point. Regardless of political beliefs, I hope to see some younger candidates rather than the many very old lawmakers still in charge. If you want conservative, think Ben Sasse. He is whip smart and very principled. It is hard for people who don't know Texas and Texans to understand that it's a whole other country.
I like Ben Sasse, also.
gimmethesimplelife
11-19-21, 10:19pm
Moderate, reasonable Republican? Liz Cheney is about the only one of those left. And the Wyoming Republican Party just tossed her out on her ass. The future of the Republican Party looks more like marjorie Taylor Greene than it does Liz Cheney.I agree. What. does this say about the US and how bizarre some things are becoming? Rob
I agree. What. does this say about the US and how bizarre some things are becoming? Rob
It says that if republicans win majorities in either, or god forbid both, houses of congress Anytime soon we’re like to experience 30’s Germany style excitement in our lifetimes.
It says that if republicans win majorities in either, or god forbid both, houses of congress Anytime soon we’re like to experience 30’s Germany style excitement in our lifetimes.
Never again.
It says that if republicans win majorities in either, or god forbid both, houses of congress Anytime soon we’re like to experience 30’s Germany style excitement in our lifetimes.
The looney left might not be any better. I have been complaining at Board of Health meetings about mask mandates and yard waste issues and last weekend a masked man came and shot at one of my neighbors while she was working in her yard. I wasn't home at the time and wondered if I was the intended target but not being around he settled for her.
Two counterprotestors were arrested in Boston at an anti-mask, anti-vaccine rally.
Antifa is loving the mask mandates. Previously there were laws that you couldn't wear a mask to obscure your identity when wreaking mayhem at protests. No more.
It says that if republicans win majorities in either, or god forbid both, houses of congress Anytime soon we’re like to experience 30’s Germany style excitement in our lifetimes.
People have been crying Nazi ever since the invention of Nazis. Yet here we still are.
People have been crying Nazi ever since the invention of Nazis. Yet here we still are.
Yeah but we also didn’t have a political party stake it’s entire plans for success around building the big lie into a central defining feature of the party. Yet here we are. And not just at the federal level. Wisconsin’s Republican Party has some interesting plans for continued ‘success’ that go well beyond typical Republican voter suppression and gerrymandering.
Republicans have loaded the lower courts and the Supreme Court. State level and local level elections are where it began. They are working to have no checks and balances. Taking over a country is a slow process that they have been working on since at least the Roe V Wade decision. It has become larger and more open. As I understand it ( no expert here) Germany fell into Nazi-ism over a decade. I do fear for our country and democracy. I thought things would change....
iris lilies
11-21-21, 11:33am
Republicans have loaded the lower courts and the Supreme Court. State level and local level elections are where it began. They are working to have no checks and balances. Taking over a country is a slow process that they have been working on since at least the Roe V Wade decision. It has become larger and more open. As I understand it ( no expert here) Germany fell into Nazi-ism over a decade. I do fear for our country and democracy. I thought things would change....
And yet, in my area, liberal politics continue on where there seems to be little interest in containing crime, traditionally an interest of conservative judges. Granted, the main player is our incompetent prosecuting attorney, an elected position.
i would welcome a “loaded court” system right about now.
As a general comment, I think it is funny that ”loaded courts” and “gerrymandering” are themselves loaded terms to describe normal political activity by parties in power.
“Gerrymandering” is purely in the eye of the beholder as voting district maps are notoriously difficult to draw fairly, in a way that passes muster in a “loaded court.” I have heard discussions about mathematical models for assigning voters to districts, and that algorhuymthmic science seems complicated to me.Let us hope I am never appointed to a citizen review board or court case or however these redistricting issues are adjudicated because I don’t have the mental stamina to sit through those discussions. Super technical stuff.
If you’re looking at the real world, where violent crime is burgeoning in defund-the-police towns, where inflation is rearing its ugly head, where a president takes time out from killing pipelines and energy leases to investigate the high price of energy, where the border is violated with impunity and wars end in humiliating retreat, I could see how the American left is eager to retreat into comforting conspiracy theories. They get to be the heroes combating the dark powers of fascism and white supremacy rather than the sowers of chaos
With that mindset, Wisconsin Republicans talking about dissolving a commission they created in 2015 can be spun into an attack on “our democracy”. It’s sort of like living in your own political metaverse.
My city is not one that has defunded the police, but the new chief is making his numbers look good and proclaiming crime is down by not recording/pursuing charges. This does not appear to have any correlation to race, but to his concern about job performance.
A man told me he went into city hall to get a property map and threw his mask on the floor in front of the clerks and they didn't do anything (maybe knowing this about the chief), but I am one to challenge unjust laws rather than disobey them unless the stakes are great. (I would have violated the Fugitive Slave Act.)
ApatheticNoMore
11-21-21, 2:35pm
If you’re looking at the real world .... where a president takes time out from killing pipelines and energy leases to investigate the high price of energy
well that's a heavily filtered "real" world if ever there was one, "real" world lol:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/17/biden-administration-gulf-of-mexico-oil-gas-drilling-leases
more like where a president takes time off from climate conferences to expand oil drilling. I don't deny a pipeline here or there may have been cancelled (some of which were probably not even profitable and that has as much to do with why they were cancelled as anything) but that is pretty meaningless overall.
And that same president is also apparently willing to trade off a chunk of the build back better bill to keep open a dirty coal plant just because joe manchin’s family sells it coal scraps because he needs another Maserati and won’t agree to the bill otherwise.
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