• tidderuuf@lemmy.world
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    “X to turn Texas State Blue” has to be the most reused political headline of all time.

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      It translates to “Texas has a massive media markets and consultants get 20% on when they sell an ad-buy on behalf of a candidate, so lets throw money at Texas because it makes us more money” when you translate it to DNC consultant.

    • AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world
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      It’s not turning anything until we get rid of Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. Best Talarico can do is one of those three. This state is so fucked up. Our elections are fucked.

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        I moved from Austin to Jackson Hole, Wyoming after 23 years there. Wyoming is still red, but at least they leave me the fuck alone. Texas is always all up in your shit.

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          Especially for a state that’s supposed to be all about rugged individualism, they can’t stay out of your pants

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            There is next to 0 public land in Texas too, people like to compare it to the western states and its just wrong. The state of small government (for corporations and civil protections)

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              Near 0 federal public land. Texas has a lot of state land, and the Land Commissioner is a powerful statewide elected office.

              This situation is a result of the terms of the 1845 accession when the Republic of Texas entered the Union.

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              And we’re supposed to be fervent conservationists with respect for our parks and wildlife, but you can’t eat a fish you catch here without getting poisoned by 20 kinds of chemicals

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                There is a great line in the book “The Right Stuff” that says basically that. Houston was a hellhole in the 50s and all that which made ot that way has gotten worse or not gone away since then. All the mercury and dioxins are still in the silt in the San Jascinto river or Galveston Bay, or in your fresh gulf shrimp (sponsored by BP and TransOcean)

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                  And they have made further repeals of environmental protective laws here in recent years, courting the likes of SpaceX and AI data centers

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        Talarico is running against Paxton for which is going to replace Cornyn.

        Gina Hinojosa is running against Abbott, the limited polling so far has her losing by 3-8%. Which is within striking distance depending on what else goes on. I would assume that if Hinojosa wins, Vikki Goodwin will beat Patrick.

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        State wide elections go first, and you get a situation like Georgia where the at large elections can go either way but the state legislature and congressional delegation are still gerrymandered to hell for Republicans.

        Then you get a tipping point like Virginia when the state legislature goes blue and then it’s a blue state, and you can finally work to get some problems resolved.

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      The problem with fucking idiots is that they’re always fucking other fucking idiots and creating more fucken fucking idiots!

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      I think it’s neat. Talacrio is a genuine progressive – him running is a breath of fresh air

      Imagine people getting fired up to vote for someone they who they don’t have to hold their nose for – that’s what hope feels like

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      It’s because I think the GOP has all the voting machines rigged, so doesn’t matter who people vote for only GOP can win in any major election in Texas. So this guy will not get elected. Even if everyone in Texas votes for him.

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        The font boost defaults to puts the "c"s way too close the "l"s to make it seem like one letter.

        So when I read your comment fast, I just thought to myself “alright, I can dig the energy. But you do you homie.”