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Alex Jones screamed at a pile of horse poop on the ground pretending it was Democrat Beto O’Rourke
https://theweek.com/speedreads/80336...t-beto-orourke
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This one should be a double-thread post, but that facility isn’t possible, so here goes...
Alex Jones screamed at a pile of horse poop on the ground pretending it was Democrat Beto O’Rourke
https://theweek.com/speedreads/80336...t-beto-orourke
Mumbles if you want an issue to sway voters here you go, lurkers, everyone.
Mitch McConnel is on the record on this
As usual the GOP lied about the tax cuts paying for themselves. Remember trump promised not to gut these programs, he lied.
It's not just Trump this has been GOP policy forever.
GOP: Lets give tax cuts to the billionaires and corporations and pay for it by robbing Americas retirement money.
"They're wretched, slimy, reptilian motherfuckers. They would kill their own mother for a dollar, they're ruthless".
Mike Tyson
Now you know why they got this immigration caravan diversion, spread the word, America they're robbing your ass blind..
Which will kill more Americans, the $900 million we spend daily on military or gutting Medicare?
If you think they care if you die you must be blissfully unaware what the war machine has been doing the last 15 years.
The gutting of medicare means a shitload of people will die under 60 or whatever age and never draw the SS money they paid into it, see what they're doing?
Another major Texas newspaper endorses Beto O'Rourke over Cruz.
We recommend Beto O'Rourke for U.S. Senate
https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/e...urke-us-senate
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In looking at the race for United States Senate in Texas, we recognize that this country stands on a precipice. Whether we fall off the edge depends on how we answer this question: Can we set policy differences aside, even for a moment, and agree to treat each other with the respect befitting a great nation, with acknowledgment of the humanity of each person?
We have been at divisive political moments before, and we know those often end when leaders emerge who find ways to get along personally even when they are engaged in grand, tectonic political debates. That is one of the underappreciated stories of the 1980s, when President Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O’Neill worked together. Even when they fought it out on tough issues, they fostered an enduring friendship.
For this reason more than any other, we favor U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke for U.S. Senate. The pivotal issue before our country is public leadership, and here we believe O’Rourke’s tone aligns with what is required now. This inclusive and hopeful tone, along with O’Rourke’s approach of starting with shared principles and working toward solutions, offset any policy differences we have with him. Leadership is more than policy, and whether we are addressing the very real challenges before us now turns on our ability to find points of agreement.
In this respect, O’Rourke is the stronger candidate. In conducting his campaign, he has displayed a demeanor that offers respect for each person and a humbleness that will allow him to open the door to working with those who hold political views different from his. We believe O’Rourke is right in calling for rejoining the Paris climate accord, supporting the vast potential of renewable energy in Texas, and calling for universal background checks on guns. He is also right to reject the call for construction of a border wall and to call for comprehensive and fair immigration reform.
By contrast, through his actions in Washington and his rhetoric from Iowa to New Hampshire and beyond, incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz has distinguished himself as a cutting figure in today’s politics. Lincoln, echoing the Gospel of Mark, cautioned us long ago that a house divided against itself cannot stand. And we believe that at this moment, we cannot afford such an approach.
That is not to say that Cruz doesn’t arrive to this debate with a host of policy positions that we are deeply devoted to. On economic policy, for example, we supported the president’s tax cuts that Cruz voted for. And we stand with Cruz in looking to remove federal regulations that stifle job creation. Removing barriers to American employment and prosperity is itself an act of compassion.
We were also moved by Cruz when he told us about meeting with the students from Santa Fe High School after the shooting there. In those comments he listed a number of ideas on how to curb such attacks, including an idea we supported this year to create a unit in the Justice Department to find holes in the background system before they are exploited by the next shooter. He also supports political dissidents who push for human freedom abroad, support that we share as we look for ways to ground American foreign policy in a set of guiding principles that will rally others to our cause.
But there is a set of principles we would like to restore in domestic politics that starts with building political bridges. Before he became Cruz’s challenger, O’Rourke was a congressman best known outside of El Paso for road-tripping across Texas and up to Washington with Republican Congressman Will Hurd. The two had serious differences, but their camaraderie and their willingness to discuss compromise were a brief antidote to the political poison seeping out of the capital.
O’Rourke largely framed his campaign around the spirit of the road trip with just a few notable exceptions. Those include saying he would vote to impeach the president, thereby putting himself in favor of what would be one of the most divisive fights in politics. At the end of the campaign he also broke with his approach to repeat an insulting nickname Donald Trump once slapped on Cruz. These are blemishes on his campaign.
O’Rourke is no conservative Democrat. His positions on taxes, immigration, the judiciary, federal regulations and health care are further to the left than many statewide voters would like. But he is shattering expectations in a state where Democrats haven’t won a statewide race in decades. The dollars he has raised and the number of supporters he has garnered are evidence of an embedded hunger in this state and country for a campaign that’s based on unifying communities.
In the divisive times in which we live, we believe that tone and leadership are the top issues with which to judge these candidates' tenures in office. So we’re placing a bet on Beto.
If they were going to do these things, wouldn’t they have already done them since they have both houses and the senate?Quote:
Originally Posted by FPS_Russia
Actually the big theft is done, the tax cuts. The only question is the severity of cuts to SS and Medicare.Quote:
Originally Posted by TexterIf they were going to do these things, wouldn’t they have already done them since they have both houses and the senate?Quote:
Originally Posted by FPS_Russia
Nope same cycle over and over.
They campaign on great policies for America and win majorities.
They do nothing they promised, in fact usually the opposite, they reveal themselves to be total Charlatans.
The whole time they have their enormous propaganda machine spinning the truth aka the CEC (Conservative Entertainment Complex)
but they know they'll probably get voted out on their ass, so they set the dems up to take the fall.
They know it's likely the dems will win and since Citizens United they wont overturn the tax cuts.
They will be forced to cuts SS and medicare for the GOP's tax cuts.
The whole time the Dems are doing this the CEC will be in full spin.
Fake outrage, fake patriotism and outright lies, over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
The whole shebang 24/7 365 X 2 or 4
After a couple years of constant spin, the process starts over.
Example
Immigration: No wall no end to chain migration, just an evil child separation scheme for their donors.
The media and ADL helped by making it seem like white racist just enjoy doing this to Mexicans.
as if
the ADL doesn't trains the border patrol.
Trump did try to pass the largest amnesty in 50 years.
and he did try to remove E verify so illegal immigrants can compete with American workers.
It almost passed too
Nice huh
But Trump's a Fuckin agent of Israel aka the Russian Mafia aka the Oligarchs and so is his entire fucking cabinet.
They are looting, dumping off our technology to the highest bidder and shaking down Arabs and they want to
privatize everything like they did in the former SU.
Vote dem, or don't vote.
For sale!
He needs to spend the rest of his term arguing w Dems and that's it.
The money spent on our military is beyond ridiculous, if you’re going to cut taxes, at least cut military spending.
This is why we need isis and China and any other phony enemy we can drum up, to justify the $681 Billion military budget.
Although the military does employ a shitload of people so you need to wait until unemployment is low to cut military spending....like how about right now with the labor shortage in the private sector....get them paying into the tax rolls vs being a net loss.
Still not voting for Beto...he really has no new ideas...same old Bernie Sanders type crap...he also looks like Butthead from beavis and butthead...
I remember being a kid and thinking that people in congress must be the smartest in the whole country...boy was I wrong...bunch of self serving asshats.
#stream of consciousness
Beto will not solve any problems....and just spend us even more into Bolivian #favoritemiketysonquote
This would fit right in on magabombers van.Quote:
Originally Posted by TexterBeto will not solve any problems....and just spend us even more into Bolivian #favoritemiketysonquote
Also, Ted is a Cuban born in Canada.
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Originally Posted by duped_samaritanThis would fit right in on magabombers van.Quote:
Originally Posted by TexterBeto will not solve any problems....and just spend us even more into Bolivian #favoritemiketysonquote
Also, Ted is a Cuban born in Canada.
Thanks captain obvious...I actually went to high school in El Paso, Beto is a pendejo wedo and always has been.
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Originally Posted by TexterBeto will not solve any problems....and just spend us even more into Bolivian #favoritemiketysonquote
:lol4
Funny shit......its funny cause its true...
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Originally Posted by duped_samaritanThis would fit right in on magabombers van.Quote:
Originally Posted by TexterBeto will not solve any problems....and just spend us even more into Bolivian #favoritemiketysonquote
Also, Ted is a Cuban born in Canada.
You know what crazy nut jobs put on their van? What else do you know?
Lol at the great white hope.......same shit different day....
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Originally Posted by MumblesBadly
I actually read the Houston Chronicle endorsement, it basically said “we pick Beto, not because we like Beto but because we hate Trump, also Ted Cruz is a bit self serving”
So they picked Beto because they hate him less than the other candidate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Texter
Sounds familiar.
Caught this dude on hardball last night. I had heard a lot about him being a rising star and possible future presidential candidate. I had heard a lot of Kennedy comparisons. He definitely has that vibe. I was unaware his family had been involved with Kennedy era politics back when via some military connection or whatever. He looked like a Kennedy.
Like if JFK and RFK hadn’t been long buried and I was his dad, I’d be thinking dna test. He definitely has that constantly upbeat and positive vibe going. I found him a bit much. More rah rah than substantive. I assume he’ll lose because he’s a dem in Texas. I wouldn’t be shocked if he is a future national figure. He’s charismatic and looks the part, and given the Dems charisma vacuum, I don’t think he’s going anywhere. I’d vote for him before Cruz obviously, but I’d vote for an empty chair before Cruz, and tbh, I kind of expected more. Really upbeat which the country needs, and fine, but he didn’t say anything that made me think this fucker really is smart and gets it. Just generally likable rather than transcendent rock star politician that I had heard him portrayed as. That was just my general impression.
Aaaah yes, he has the timing of an adolph Hitler.....very practiced and delusional just like they like em.....Robert Francis by decision, sooo fucking obvious....
His voice sounds exactly like Phil Laaks.
Thank God for people like O'Rourke. I'd vote for him regardless of party affiliation
:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by limitles
All the easily manipulated drones swoon for this guy like Obama cuz he makes em feel good.
Nope, it's because they're smartQuote:
Originally Posted by thesidedish:lolQuote:
Originally Posted by limitles
All the easily manipulated drones swoon for this guy like Obama cuz he makes em feel good.
https://www.texasobserver.org/2483-e...l-paso-barrio/
Beta abused his power in El Paso in a shady eminent domain land deal to benefit his father in law....he is like a Kennedy after all.
He fights for the little man by stealing and bulldozing their homes...
Note this article is from 2007...Before Beto de wedo started running for Senate
He later abstained from a key vote in support of the plan, then voted against a key feature of the original plan that angered voters the most (use of eminant domain to acquire private property for the plan). And that helped him to mend his relationship with many of the Hispanic community there. That’s one of reasons he was above to defeat his long-serving and quite popular Hispanic incumbent predecessor in the Democratic primary for the Congressional seat that represents El Paso.Quote:
Originally Posted by Texter
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/u...as-senate.html
Because he got caught is the only reason why he abstained and ctawfished....Puto is shady AF....Quote:
Originally Posted by MumblesBadlyHe later abstained from a key vote in support of the plan, then voted against a key feature of the original plan that angered voters the most (use of eminant domain to acquire private property for the plan). And that helped him to mend his relationship with many of the Hispanic community there. That’s one of reasons he was above to defeat his long-serving and quite popular Hispanic incumbent predecessor in the Democratic primary for the Congressional seat that represents El Paso.Quote:
Originally Posted by Texter
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/29/u...as-senate.html
For the record, I voted today. You can guess for whom.
So did a close friend who is a life-long registered Republican who utterly despises Hillary Clinton, considers most politicians as disgustingly corrupt, voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 by default because Trump is also awful, but is thoroughly excited about the prospect of Beto winning this election. And would love if he eventually runs for President.
When are you two finally getting married?Quote:
Originally Posted by MumblesBadlyFor the record, I voted today. You can guess for whom.
So did a close friend who is a life-long registered Republican who utterly despises Hillary Clinton, considers most politicians as disgustingly corrupt, voted for Gary Johnson in 2016 by default because Trump is also awful, but is thoroughly excited about the prospect of Beto winning this election. And would love if he eventually runs for President.
I voted Gary Johnson as well...but Beta is too liberal...and corrupt...I’m sure his degree in English Lit would make him a great president though.
lol @ actually voting, what a complete faggot
There's no way Cruz should win, the results will be interesting.
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Originally Posted by FPS_Russia
You can pick straight ticket then make changes which is what this person probably did, took the pic then changed it back to Beto.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/lo.../285-609288596
Democracy is a total sham it really isQuote:
Originally Posted by TexterQuote:
Originally Posted by FPS_Russia
You can pick straight ticket then make changes which is what this person probably did, took the pic then changed it back to Beto.
https://www.khou.com/article/news/lo.../285-609288596
I heard they blamed the users but it's only flipping Beto to Cruz and not vice versa.
So even if you overcome all the obstacles and have a real grassroots movement
there's these paperless voting machines that nobody believes are secure.
The US has the nerve to decide whether foreign elections are fair lol.
GREAT TEAM
It actually does happen both ways...mostly because old people can’t handle rudimentary technologyQuote:
Originally Posted by FPS_RussiaDemocracy is a total sham it really isQuote:
Originally Posted by Texter
I heard they blamed the users but it's only flipping Beto to Cruz and not vice versa.
So even if you overcome all the obstacles and have a real grassroots movement
there's these paperless voting machines that nobody believes are secure.
The US has the nerve to decide whether foreign elections are fair lol.
And if anyone hasn’t voted in Texas yet, please vote for anyone but Dan Patrick....he’s the worst
The latest poll has Beto only down 3 and within the margin off error. The posts below are from 2014, and Texas has slowly morphed closer to a California type of place since then. It hasn't been that long since Texas had a Democrat govenor and senator, and anyone who doesn't think Texas can go blue in a presidential election in the near future hasn't lived there to see the change. Trump carried Texas by about 9 points, I'd be shocked if that margin wouldn't be smaller in the current climate. The younger generation in Texas that will eventually vote is sadly full of douchey liberal types, and more and more actual Californians and New Yorkers keep moving here. They have ruined Austin and are slowly poisoning DFW.
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Originally Posted by Dan DruffI don't think Texas will soon go Democrat. It's got a long way to go for that to happen.Quote:
Originally Posted by VaughnP
However, I do believe the Republican Party is in trouble in general, and needs to come up with a unified message that appeals the the majority of Americans. The Tea Party is a fringe element which just makes the party appear out of touch.
In 1994, Republicans finally did it right. There was public dissatisfaction with Bill Clinton and Democrats in general, and they put together a unified plan and message to attack Democrats where they were weak. That election ended up being the largest ass-whooping of the Democrats in modern times, and it was primarily thanks to Republican leadership zeroing in on the issues that were important to Americans, and highlighting where they were stronger than Democrats. Newt Gingrich, a very smart man who is great with ideas but poor at actually governing, led this successful 1994 effort.
Since then, Republicans haven't had a 1994, and their 2010 victories were more a result of the failures of Obama/Reid/Pelosi than anything the Republicans did right.
Right now, Republicans have the opportunity to hit it out of the park if they get the right message across and bring forth the right people to deliver that message, but so far they have dropped the ball big time.
The modern Republican Party seems to be more of a contest of out-conservativing each other, and the more centrist/practical Republicans (like Mitt Romney) don't seem to quite have it all together.
This is the poker equivalent of seeing your opponent at the table making tons of stupid mistakes, but also making plenty of mistakes of your own and failing to capitalize on his missteps.
This has been the most popular slogan, sign etc. during this election cycle in the state - everything from a Facebook meme to a yard sign.
quick reminder vaughn is literally a downlow proud boy.
If Texas goes blue, it's pretty much game over for awhile for Republicans in Presidential elections.
California has 55 electors, Texas has 38, and NY has 29. That's 122 votes right there. If they're all blue, Republicans won't be able to pick up enough from other states to win the Presidency. It's just too much of a hurdle to overcome. Right now, Texas has an important role in neutralizing the CA/NY lock for Democrats, only leaving Dems with a 46 vote gain between the 3 states. That would become a 122 vote gain if Texas flips.
If Florida's 29 ever flips reliably to blue (right now it's swing), then it will really be a lock for Dems, as that would be 151 guaranteed votes, requiring just 119 of the remaining 387 to win.
From my observation as an outsider, Vaughn seems to be correct. Austin is very liberal, and I've noticed DFW slowly moving in that direction. If DFW goes blue enough, that might be enough to negate the redness in the rest of the state.