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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:38:58 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Here is an interesting map that I found while looking for the one I posted above. This is a map of the the 2016 election on the county level. Yet Billary won the popular vote. That tells you why the electoral college is so important. http://i0.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/election-2016-county-map.png?resize=570%2C366 Not exactly... Hillary just had a shit ton of votes in CA and NY. Not really a representation of the 'popular vote' IMO. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:39:07 PM EST
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Texas is headed for the same fate as California. Demographics will eventually sink the ship. Look at California. From 1952 up to 1992 when Clinton won California, he was only the second democrat they had elected. The other was Johnson in 1964. They voted Eisenhower 2x, Nixon over Kennedy in 60, Nixon 2x, Ford over Carter, Reagan 2x, and lastly Bush I. After 1992 though, that was all she wrote. Texas is headed that way. Probably will be another few elections but once they go blue they will never go back.
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:40:16 PM EST
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Lots of defeatism here.
Florida is trending more red. A decade ago, Ohio and Missouri were battleground states. They are now solid red states. Pennsylania, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and even Minnesota are now competitive states. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:41:44 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Lol. Now I know why you think Ted Cruz caves. That is some seriously laughable shit. Ann Richards was a corrupt old alcoholic bitch. But not conservative. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Texas has always been a "Battleground" state. It goes through periods of red and blue. Always has. Of course the most conservative Governator we had in the past 30 years was a Democrat. She was a tough old broad too. I liked her, and had the opportunity to meet her one morning. I wasn't all that in line with some of her politics, but she was an amazing woman. YMMV That is some seriously laughable shit. Ann Richards was a corrupt old alcoholic bitch. But not conservative. Ann Richard's "lost" the first batch of money from the lottery. One if the bjggest crimes ever committed. They never were able to find it. That scandal got us George Bush as Governor. Left Texas in 2003. State sucks ass for working men. White collar run shithole. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:42:03 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I voted for T ..Early turnaround voting is huge .. I wonder who’s they are casting the ballots for ?  Same here. I had to go three times to two different locations before I could actually vote without waiting in line for hours. It still took me an hour to get through the line. I assure you that there weren't any anti-fracking libtards in the line that I could see. That being said I am in the Permian Basin wouldn't really expect to see any, I am sure that there are a few here but not many. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:44:40 PM EST
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lots of defeatism here. Florida is trending more red. A decade ago, Ohio and Missouri were battleground states. They are now solid red states. Pennsylania, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and even Minnesota are now competitive states. Yes there is. Every time one of these types of posts are made there are just more closet Ds outing themselves with their public handwringing. These voter suppression threads are worse than the blatant DU trolls. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:47:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes there is. Every time one of these types of posts are made there are just more closet Ds outing themselves with their public handwringing. These voter suppression threads are worse than the blatant DU trolls. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Lots of defeatism here. Florida is trending more red. A decade ago, Ohio and Missouri were battleground states. They are now solid red states. Pennsylania, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and even Minnesota are now competitive states. Yes there is. Every time one of these types of posts are made there are just more closet Ds outing themselves with their public handwringing. These voter suppression threads are worse than the blatant DU trolls. Voter fraud is what it is. No state is safe from it. As of today (just in time) we have some numbers to prove it thanks to Judicial Watch. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:47:57 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: New Judicial Watch Study finds 353 US Counties in 29 states have voter registration that exceeds their population according to the US Census Here are the counties for Texas: Texas: Loving County (187%); Presidio County (149%); McMullen County (147%); Brooks County (117%); Roberts County (116%); Sterling County (115%); Zapata County (115%); Maverick County (112%); Starr County (110%); King County (110%); Chambers County (109%); Irion County (108%); Jim Hogg County (107%); Polk County (107%); Comal County (106%); Oldham County (104%); Culberson County (104%); Kendall County (103%); Dimmit County (103%); Rockwall County (102%); Motley County (102%); Parker County (102%); Hudspeth County (101%); Travis County (101%); Fort Bend County (101%); Kent County (101%); Webb County (101%); Mason County (101%); Crockett County (101%); Waller County (100%); Gillespie County (100%); Duval County (100%); Brewster County (100%) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Fake news or is this in fact happening? New Judicial Watch Study finds 353 US Counties in 29 states have voter registration that exceeds their population according to the US Census Here are the counties for Texas: Texas: Loving County (187%); Presidio County (149%); McMullen County (147%); Brooks County (117%); Roberts County (116%); Sterling County (115%); Zapata County (115%); Maverick County (112%); Starr County (110%); King County (110%); Chambers County (109%); Irion County (108%); Jim Hogg County (107%); Polk County (107%); Comal County (106%); Oldham County (104%); Culberson County (104%); Kendall County (103%); Dimmit County (103%); Rockwall County (102%); Motley County (102%); Parker County (102%); Hudspeth County (101%); Travis County (101%); Fort Bend County (101%); Kent County (101%); Webb County (101%); Mason County (101%); Crockett County (101%); Waller County (100%); Gillespie County (100%); Duval County (100%); Brewster County (100%) Most of those are the nasty, broke as fuck border countries. The rest are sparsely populated. How many people actually live in Brewster county? Like maybe 500?? And Brewster is HUGE.* Comal is in the middle of a giant boom right now. It's been over run by out of staters in the last 10 years. Small, charming towns of 20,000 are now at 100,000!! No way is that sustainable, nor desirable. Nothing but sprawl and out of control growth. It's happening right in front of my eyes and it's horrifying to watch * OK, turns out Brewtser has about 9,000 but only because it happens to cover Alpine and the college there.. but it's also 6,192 sq mi The entire state of Connecticut is 5,567 sq mi. ( with a population of 4 million) |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:53:17 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Blue staters fleeing their ruined states, and voting the same way they did to ruin their last home. Pretty much. As long as the rest of the state has a larger population than the big five, Dallas/Houston/San Antonio/Austin/El Paso, the state will be red. The thing that is turning it purple is the out of staters moving into the smaller cities and counties and bringing in that Dem vote. If they don't totally screw the state up in the next 10 years they may change their ways. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:53:54 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most of those are the nasty, broke as fuck border countries. The rest are sparsely populated. How many people actually live in Brewster county? Like maybe 500?? And Brewster is HUGE.* Comal is in the middle of a giant boom right now. It' been over run by out of staters in the last 10 years. Small, charming towns of 20,000 are now at 100,000!! No way is that sustainable, nor desirable. Nothing but sprawl and out of control growth. It's happening right in front of my eyes and it's horrifying to watch * OK, turns out Brewtser has about 9,000 but only because it happens to cover Alpine and the college there.. but it's also 6,192 sq mi The entire state of Connecticut is 5,567 sq mi. ( with a population of 4 million) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Fake news or is this in fact happening? New Judicial Watch Study finds 353 US Counties in 29 states have voter registration that exceeds their population according to the US Census Here are the counties for Texas: Texas: Loving County (187%); Presidio County (149%); McMullen County (147%); Brooks County (117%); Roberts County (116%); Sterling County (115%); Zapata County (115%); Maverick County (112%); Starr County (110%); King County (110%); Chambers County (109%); Irion County (108%); Jim Hogg County (107%); Polk County (107%); Comal County (106%); Oldham County (104%); Culberson County (104%); Kendall County (103%); Dimmit County (103%); Rockwall County (102%); Motley County (102%); Parker County (102%); Hudspeth County (101%); Travis County (101%); Fort Bend County (101%); Kent County (101%); Webb County (101%); Mason County (101%); Crockett County (101%); Waller County (100%); Gillespie County (100%); Duval County (100%); Brewster County (100%) Most of those are the nasty, broke as fuck border countries. The rest are sparsely populated. How many people actually live in Brewster county? Like maybe 500?? And Brewster is HUGE.* Comal is in the middle of a giant boom right now. It' been over run by out of staters in the last 10 years. Small, charming towns of 20,000 are now at 100,000!! No way is that sustainable, nor desirable. Nothing but sprawl and out of control growth. It's happening right in front of my eyes and it's horrifying to watch * OK, turns out Brewtser has about 9,000 but only because it happens to cover Alpine and the college there.. but it's also 6,192 sq mi The entire state of Connecticut is 5,567 sq mi. ( with a population of 4 million) I know Hudspeth, next door, is solid red. There are places that barely have mail service out there, let alone a census worker going out and actually counting noses. So increased registration vs census isn't necessarily an indication of "illegal" actions happening. Of course their population was 3476 for the 2010 census so a 1% bump is only 35 more. Hudspeth is 4,572 square miles, so less than 1 person per square mile. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:55:25 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And I'm the bad guy for saying we need quarantine camps to deprogram the locusts swarming here. Go Fund Me link? |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:55:45 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Too many Big city dems. The cities are speaking, and they are decidedly blue. Welcome to my problem. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:56:42 PM EST
[#13]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Most of the "Real" Texas is still Republican. And only Portland and Eugene are blue here... So? |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 12:59:54 PM EST
[#14]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Texas is not the last bastion of Freedom. In fact, it has less freedom in some ways than other states. I agree 100% but it is fun to listen to fellow Texans parrot that shit as a point of pride when we actually have some draconian shit laws here |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:01:50 PM EST
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Demographics are destiny We were warned! Pat Buchanan, The Death of the West (2001) Demographics are destiny but instead we got - "ooh bad man is racist!!" World wide issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_threat We invited in the 3rd world, and now...here we are. Let me know when we're being over run with Italian artists and Swiss scientists. I'll be in my room listening to Lizzo and Cardi B. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:02:10 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I agree 100% but it is fun to listen to fellow Texans parrot that shit as a point of pride when we actually have some draconian shit laws here Speaking of which, it's Saturday... gotta go hit the liquor store. 
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:04:11 PM EST
[#17]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Speaking of which, it's Saturday... gotta go hit the liquor store. Man when I still used to drink that pissed me off also. Especially when I liked to get started early |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:08:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Austin is already San Francisco light... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That whee all the people from Californian and Washington are fleeing to.  California is fucked up beyond belied, homeless people everywhere, tent cities that stretch for block and block in major tourist areas, out of control wildfires. electricity being turned off due to fire danger, feces and used needles everywhere. Literal crazy people and zombies running through the streets screaming at people, and then released a bunch of of people form jail and prison, and then they passed a statewide law that theft under $900 was a misdemeanor and very unlikely to be prosecuted. And now those assholes are fleeing the wastelands they created and are moving to AZ, NV and TX. Fuck 'em all. Austin is already San Francisco light... Austin used to be small, cool, laid back and wacky. Then they showed up... The Austin area has increased about 400% in population in the last 30 years. That's from out of state liberals moving there and trashing it. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:09:08 PM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Most of those are the nasty, broke as fuck border countries. The rest are sparsely populated. How many people actually live in Brewster county? Like maybe 500?? And Brewster is HUGE.* Comal is in the middle of a giant boom right now. It' been over run by out of staters in the last 10 years. Small, charming towns of 20,000 are now at 100,000!! No way is that sustainable, nor desirable. Nothing but sprawl and out of control growth. It's happening right in front of my eyes and it's horrifying to watch * OK, turns out Brewtser has about 9,000 but only because it happens to cover Alpine and the college there.. but it's also 6,192 sq mi The entire state of Connecticut is 5,567 sq mi. ( with a population of 4 million) Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Fake news or is this in fact happening? New Judicial Watch Study finds 353 US Counties in 29 states have voter registration that exceeds their population according to the US Census Here are the counties for Texas: Texas: Loving County (187%); Presidio County (149%); McMullen County (147%); Brooks County (117%); Roberts County (116%); Sterling County (115%); Zapata County (115%); Maverick County (112%); Starr County (110%); King County (110%); Chambers County (109%); Irion County (108%); Jim Hogg County (107%); Polk County (107%); Comal County (106%); Oldham County (104%); Culberson County (104%); Kendall County (103%); Dimmit County (103%); Rockwall County (102%); Motley County (102%); Parker County (102%); Hudspeth County (101%); Travis County (101%); Fort Bend County (101%); Kent County (101%); Webb County (101%); Mason County (101%); Crockett County (101%); Waller County (100%); Gillespie County (100%); Duval County (100%); Brewster County (100%) Most of those are the nasty, broke as fuck border countries. The rest are sparsely populated. How many people actually live in Brewster county? Like maybe 500?? And Brewster is HUGE.* Comal is in the middle of a giant boom right now. It' been over run by out of staters in the last 10 years. Small, charming towns of 20,000 are now at 100,000!! No way is that sustainable, nor desirable. Nothing but sprawl and out of control growth. It's happening right in front of my eyes and it's horrifying to watch * OK, turns out Brewtser has about 9,000 but only because it happens to cover Alpine and the college there.. but it's also 6,192 sq mi The entire state of Connecticut is 5,567 sq mi. ( with a population of 4 million) New and/or transient populations where people don't know each other personally make it easy to commit fraud. You are also pointing out one of the ways the Democrats intend to justify their results, by pointing out inherent inaccuracies in the CENSUS and the radical changes from recent boom economies combined with their largely fabricated phone poll numbers to claim any vote in their favor is valid. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:10:12 PM EST
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: it's true. Texas will soon be purple. Purple really means blue. The cities will have control of everything. And they will 'interpret'/make the laws. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:11:06 PM EST
[#21]
Trump is converting many Hispanics and Blacks to the Republican side along with a lot of the non commie conservatives democrats.
He is single handedly winning the future by differentiating us from the democrats. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:13:44 PM EST
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Austin used to be small, cool, laid back and wacky. Then they showed up... The Austin area has increased about 400% in population in the last 30 years. That's from out of state liberals moving there and trashing it. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: That whee all the people from Californian and Washington are fleeing to. California is fucked up beyond belied, homeless people everywhere, tent cities that stretch for block and block in major tourist areas, out of control wildfires. electricity being turned off due to fire danger, feces and used needles everywhere. Literal crazy people and zombies running through the streets screaming at people, and then released a bunch of of people form jail and prison, and then they passed a statewide law that theft under $900 was a misdemeanor and very unlikely to be prosecuted. And now those assholes are fleeing the wastelands they created and are moving to AZ, NV and TX. Fuck 'em all. Austin is already San Francisco light... Austin used to be small, cool, laid back and wacky. Then they showed up... The Austin area has increased about 400% in population in the last 30 years. That's from out of state liberals moving there and trashing it. Why don’t the tech jobs bring in conservatives? |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:14:33 PM EST
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Lots of defeatism here. Florida is trending more red. What does that mean exactly? A decade ago, Ohio and Missouri were battleground states. They are now solid red states. Pennsylania, Michigan, Iowa, Wisconsin, and even Minnesota are now competitive states. No offense, but several of those are barely even real 'states', more like rust belt wastelands waiting to die. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:15:55 PM EST
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Yes there is. Every time one of these types of posts are made there are just more closet Ds outing themselves with their public handwringing. These voter suppression threads are worse than the blatant DU trolls. What county are you in? |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:18:13 PM EST
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Purple really means blue. The cities will have control of everything. And they will 'interpret'/make the laws. Until the people in the Red counties wake up and realize they can turn off the cities electricity and water. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:20:10 PM EST
[#26]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Pretty much. As long as the rest of the state has a larger population than the big five, Dallas/Houston/San Antonio/Austin/El Paso, the state will be red. The thing that is turning it purple is the out of staters moving into the smaller cities and counties and bringing in that Dem vote. If they don't totally screw the state up in the next 10 years they may change their ways. They're already doing it. There's no stopping that fail train after this election. That's why we need to make sure Trump wins this one to give up a little more time to prepare. They entire lifestyle is unsustainable- that's why they ruin everyplace they touch. I just want us to be in control when their shit catches fire. 
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:21:26 PM EST
[#27]
You can thank the religious right that hijacked the political right, especially in Texas.
Their refusal to live and let live on all the personal/social liberties except guns has alienated huge swaths of voters. Guess where all those votes went? Same thing that happened in VA is going to happen in TX, because the religious boomers can't imagine a world where others are free to do the stuff they don't like.  |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:23:09 PM EST
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: And only Portland and Eugene are blue here... So? I heard Seattle is dying too. Are you being flooded with Texans? Or is Texas being flooded with escaping/fleeing liberals? Thanks a lot. 
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:26:46 PM EST
[#29]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Trump is converting many Hispanics and Blacks to the Republican side along with a lot of the non commie conservatives democrats. He is single handedly winning the future by differentiating us from the democrats. Quote HistoryQuoted: Trump is converting many Hispanics and Blacks to the Republican side along with a lot of the non commie conservatives democrats. He is single handedly winning the future by differentiating us from the democrats. Wishful thinking. When he's gone, they'll revert back to the old ways of voting for whoever hands out the most free stuff. Sheila Jackson Lee (born January 12, 1950) is an American politician. She is currently the U.S. Representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, currently serving in her 13th term in the House, having served since 1995. The district includes most of central Houston. She is a member of the Democratic Party. 13th |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:34:11 PM EST
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Why don’t the tech jobs bring in conservatives? Several reasons I think; tech relies on a lot of cheap, imported labor. tech doesn't always have to make great products. In a flooded marketplace, there is a lot of useless churn and burn- which is fine if you're just writing cutesy phone apps- but no so charming when you're build roads, highways and electrical grids. And tech is also much more encouraging of people with alternative lifestyles and unrealistic thinking. I think the tech market just changes so fast it's harder to see it. remember- we've really only had 'the internet' for about 15 years practically speaking, and Facebook and smart phones for about that same time frame. The dot com boom/bust in 2000 wiped out about 30% of the 401k's of people that I knew- and they were just every day investors. And some of it seems to be a self licking ice cream cone- I think half of tech employees spend their day fixing things the other half broke or didn't do properly in the first place. Churn and burn. Everything is disposable and easily replaced. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:39:29 PM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Until the people in the Red counties wake up and realize they can turn off the cities electricity and water. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Purple really means blue. The cities will have control of everything. And they will 'interpret'/make the laws. Until the people in the Red counties wake up and realize they can turn off the cities electricity and water.  When I see the people who actually run the infrastructure here- it's almost like the all came from the same factory... very odd. The electric guys are all tall, strapping guys with short hair that almost look military. And I've traveled in Mexico and saw their "water" and "sewage" systems.   People don't know how good we have it here. (and not to go on a tangent here, but I enjoyed traveling in Mexico, we were in some big cities and some small dusty ass roadside towns, but the people were friendly and the children well behaved. North of the border seems...different) |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:44:08 PM EST
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You can thank the religious right that hijacked the political right, especially in Texas. Their refusal to live and let live on all the personal/social liberties except guns has alienated huge swaths of voters. Guess where all those votes went? Same thing that happened in VA is going to happen in TX, because the religious boomers can't imagine a world where others are free to do the stuff they don't like. https://i.imgur.com/Tnrun5e.jpg I will admit that has some part to play in it. Not controlling the border/nation security has some to do with it, but I'm fed up with the R's over the issues you've mentioned. It's actually getting kind of embarassing. And I've been very verbal with my reps about it. Hell. if Trump said he would have cannabis rescheduled at the federal level and issued a moratorium on federal raids and prosecutions in legal MJ stes, heads would exploded and he'd have won in a landslide. Think about this - pot smokers, homos, trannies, BLM, illegal aliens and other oddities are treated better than gun owners these days.
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:46:28 PM EST
[#33]
Demographic change. Non white Hispanics and Latinos vote Democrat and reproduce at greater rates than white conservations.
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:47:27 PM EST
[#34]
Yes, we are flooded with people who fled the high taxes and restrictions of Blue states, but want to bring the same s**t they've left behind to Texas.
Heard some guy on the radio say he loved Austin because he could afford a much bigger home and he liked the city's politics.  They are also invading what used to be conservative suburbs of Austin. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:50:51 PM EST
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Texas reminds me of California 1992 era.... California used to be a Republican stronghold until 1992, hasn’t turn red since. Liberty loving Texans need to have more kids and start the political battle to regain your state and keep it red. Bienvenido a América. Vote temprano y con frecuencia. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:54:22 PM EST
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: While the rest of us responded, "it's currently happening." It's happening in Idaho, too Hang in there. I'm bringing a conservative vote and lots of money.
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:54:36 PM EST
[#37]
Quote HistoryQuoted: But VA was the result of fraud. Wrong ! Virginia was the result of unfettered immigration both legal and illegal and transplants from blue states. I moved to Virginia from South Carolina 15yrs ago and I could see it changing back then . Democrats are using the 1965 immigration act to stack the deck in their favor during our elections. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 1:56:29 PM EST
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bloomberg and Soro's millions bearing fruit. Más como Andrés Manuel López Obrador dando frutos Ve al norte joven. No al norte. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 2:07:40 PM EST
[#39]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I will admit that has some part to play in it. Not controlling the border/nation security has some to do with it, but I'm fed up with the R's over the issues you've mentioned. It's actually getting kind of embarassing. And I've been very verbal with my reps about it. Hell. if Trump would just have cannabis rescheduled at the federal level and issued a moratorium on federal raids and prosecutions in legal MJ stes, heads would exploded and he'd have won in a landslide. Think about this - pot smokers, homos, trannies, BLM, illegal aliens and other oddities are treated better than gun owners these days. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You can thank the religious right that hijacked the political right, especially in Texas. Their refusal to live and let live on all the personal/social liberties except guns has alienated huge swaths of voters. Guess where all those votes went? Same thing that happened in VA is going to happen in TX, because the religious boomers can't imagine a world where others are free to do the stuff they don't like. https://i.imgur.com/Tnrun5e.jpg I will admit that has some part to play in it. Not controlling the border/nation security has some to do with it, but I'm fed up with the R's over the issues you've mentioned. It's actually getting kind of embarassing. And I've been very verbal with my reps about it. Hell. if Trump would just have cannabis rescheduled at the federal level and issued a moratorium on federal raids and prosecutions in legal MJ stes, heads would exploded and he'd have won in a landslide. Think about this - pot smokers, homos, trannies, BLM, illegal aliens and other oddities are treated better than gun owners these days. Exactly. End 95% of the drug war? He'd be a hero. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 2:09:54 PM EST
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Every place that is either up for grabs or usually Republican, but which has Democrat run big cities playing with the voting laws, is now a battleground state.
So, yes, Texas is a battleground state because the Democrats in the large, liberal, urban areas will try to get away with overwhelming the rest of the state by any means necessary. No, California is not a battleground state because no matter how much fraudulent voting they engage in, it's a smokescreen to distract us because the Democrats were never going to lose California anyway. California is like Obama's birth certificate in that the birth certificate, and the show of not simply providing a proper birth certificate was never the issue. I believe Obama could have either presented a birth certificate or at least nobody would ever have proven that he WASN'T born in Hawaii under the laws at the time. The reality was always his college records and the fraud of CLAIMING to be foreign born and taking federal student aid. The "issue" of the birth certificate (which Obama could have resolved with a $35 certificate) served to keep the focus of his enemies on something that didn't matter. Same with what will be fairly obvious fraud in heavily Democrat states. John |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 2:11:35 PM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A few years ago all the Texans here said it would never happen, lol |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 2:14:15 PM EST
[#42]
Quote HistoryQuoted: A few years ago all the Texans here said it would never happen, lol And folks saying it were ridiculed? Yeah, I remember.
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Posted: 10/17/2020 2:29:46 PM EST
[#43]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Hell. if Trump would just have cannabis rescheduled at the federal level and issued a moratorium on federal raids and prosecutions in legal MJ stes, heads would exploded and he'd have won in a landslide. Maybe so but I was in Colorado when they legalized weed. I could not wait to leave after that happened. I watched as the cities turned into shit holes right in front of my eyes. Crime, bums sleeping in the streets, people shooting up in public areas. Denver looks like San Francisco now. No thanks. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 2:32:00 PM EST
[#44]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Trump is converting many Hispanics and Blacks to the Republican side along with a lot of the non commie conservatives democrats. He is single handedly winning the future by differentiating us from the democrats. This. 
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Posted: 10/17/2020 2:35:26 PM EST
[#45]
Quote HistoryQuoted: You can thank the religious right that hijacked the political right, especially in Texas. Their refusal to live and let live on all the personal/social liberties except guns has alienated huge swaths of voters. Guess where all those votes went? Same thing that happened in VA is going to happen in TX, because the religious boomers can't imagine a world where others are free to do the stuff they don't like. https://i.imgur.com/Tnrun5e.jpg You can thank the radical left that hijacked the political left, especially in Texas. Their refusal to live and let live on all the personal/social liberties except drugs has alienated high swaths of voters. Guess where all those votes went? Same thing that happened in TX is going to happen in VA, because the atheist millennials can't imagine a world where others are free to do the stuff they don't like. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 2:43:55 PM EST
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Demographic change. Non white Hispanics and Latinos vote Democrat and reproduce at greater rates than white conservations. Demographics is a part of it, probably a minor part though. I think a simple explanation would be that the population exploded after 1900 or so destroying individualism/small communities, technology increases have made the world a small place, and wars/militaries have shown the capability of unprecedented destruction/power instantaneously. Countries have quickly taken power from individuals to collectivism. People willingly participate in becoming slaves to the state for the free stuff and technology it brings. People always want more free stuff. Humanity hasn't changed since the beginning, bread and circuses for all while the government enslaves all. |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 3:01:27 PM EST
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bienvenido a América. Vote temprano y con frecuencia. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Texas reminds me of California 1992 era.... California used to be a Republican stronghold until 1992, hasn’t turn red since. Liberty loving Texans need to have more kids and start the political battle to regain your state and keep it red. Bienvenido a América. Vote temprano y con frecuencia. Vota Aqui ! |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 3:10:44 PM EST
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Maybe so but I was in Colorado when they legalized weed. I could not wait to leave after that happened. I watched as the cities turned into shit holes right in front of my eyes. Crime, bums sleeping in the streets, people shooting up in public areas. Denver looks like San Francisco now. No thanks. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Hell. if Trump would just have cannabis rescheduled at the federal level and issued a moratorium on federal raids and prosecutions in legal MJ stes, heads would exploded and he'd have won in a landslide. Maybe so but I was in Colorado when they legalized weed. I could not wait to leave after that happened. I watched as the cities turned into shit holes right in front of my eyes. Crime, bums sleeping in the streets, people shooting up in public areas. Denver looks like San Francisco now. No thanks. Denver is liberal. Where you there when Hickenlooper was Mayor? A cop was shot and killed by an illegal alien that worked in the mayor's restaurant. Then they elected him governor. Weed isn't your problem. CO is about the same population as Oklahoma. OK seems to be running a fairly successful medical MJ program. (surprisingly enough) And CO has a rep for lame weed.  As an example- the retards in the TX state leg, recently missed their own deadline to issue guidelines for HEMP! These fucktards can't even manage to let TX farmers grow HEMP. Then they banned smokable CBD made IN TEXAS - but allow it to legally come in form other states?? What the fuck? Do you think they'd do that with beer? |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 3:11:34 PM EST
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Trump is converting many Hispanics and Blacks to the Republican side along with a lot of the non commie conservatives democrats. He is single handedly winning the future by differentiating us from the democrats. This.  Seriously- where do you people live? |
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Posted: 10/17/2020 3:20:47 PM EST
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Texas has always been a "Battleground" state. It goes through periods of red and blue. Always has. Of course the most conservative Governator we had in the past 30 years was a Democrat. She was a tough old broad too. I liked her, and had the opportunity to meet her one morning. I wasn't all that in line with some of her politics, but she was an amazing woman. YMMV She ruined TXDOT by breaking up the ole boys club, pushing all the senior engineers into early retirement with big retirement packages to bring in diversity. Since there were so few civil engineers of either sex, some of the “retired” engineers became consultants doing a fraction of the work for many times the pay. We are pissing away hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds and got toll roads on top of that. She also raised the president of planned parenthood. |
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