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Ken Paxton just keeps doing his best Rafael Cruz impression and running away from anyone who asks him a question...
Talarico signed up for three debates and said he'll show up even if Paxton doesn't.
Cruz is slimey, but he's a legitimate master debater, he can slime his way out of shit most people can't, and Paxton is just expecting it to work out.
As long as Talarico doesn't start talking about taking people's guns, he's got this in the bag.
Talarico signed up for three debates and said he’ll show up even if Paxton doesn’t.
Yes. Get up there and laugh at am empty podium if you have to. It was beyond frustrating in 2024 when the Harris campaign was like "ok, I guess the debates are cancelled". No! Make a show of it. Stand on stage for an hour and read everything wrong your opponent has every done. Dare them to show up next time. Do something.
It was beyond frustrating in 2024 when the Harris campaign was like “ok, I guess the debates are cancelled”.
They really did run a terrible campaign.
Especially the part where they didn't have a primary and picked the VP of the unpopular incumbent.
I fully believe if they had a primary the winner would be president
For those who have forgotten the 2020 primaries, she also had no rizz.
I get it, they were afraid of losing the funds they had raised, but it stood to reason that everyone who wanted Biden to step down would see her as partly responsible too.
I'm a tin hat wearer who doubts the veracity of some of the 2024 election results... So I'm on the fence of whether that would have been different with a more compelling Democratic candidate.
They briefly got some actual traction when Walz was calling Republicans "weird," but then some idiot strategist stepped in and told him to stop. The campaign fell back to being anodyne and uninspiring after that, and then they tried to bring Liz Cheney in and everything just felt like it was going through the motions and expecting to have the thing handed to them on a silver platter.
Two things felt painfully obvious:
They, being wealthy political class themselves, were completely detached from the people's plight and motivations.
They knew no matter how badly they threw the fight, they could still be chilling back, buying low and selling exponentially high through whatever easily avoidable economic crisis hit our (not their) country next.
All part of the riches plan.
If you think it was a coincidence that he beat two women and almost an old man, I have some ocean front property in South Dakota to give you.
Democrats play good cop but they are still cops
No! Make a show of it. Stand on stage for an hour and read everything wrong your opponent has every done
That happened here in Romania last presidential election. Our neofascist candidate (Simion) got dunked on by the neoliberal (Dan) in the first debate, so he came up with excuse after excuse as to why he couldn't come to the rest.
The media companies got pissed off, and instead of cancelling decided to dunk on Simion by asking the questions to Dan and playing the absolute worst clips they could find of Simion answering those questions. Definitely didn't singlehandedly lose Simion the election, but it definitely didn't help him.
Damn... It must be really nice to have media companies who are actually against fascism...
That's giving them far too much credit. They're against losing all that delicious ad revenue from the debates and wanted to make an example of him. If Dan had cancelled, they'd have done the same to him in a heartbeat.
Okay then ... must be nice to have media that's at least neutral, instead of being pro-fascist.
Ken Paxton just keeps doing his best Rafael Cruz impression and running away from anyone who asks him a question…
Greg Abbott pioneered the strategy of just ignoring your actual opponent and scream "The communists are coming to take your guns!" at rallies hosted by your billionaire friends. To date, it's kinda-sorta worked. Republicans have a stranglehold on the state senate due to gerrymandered districts. All the statewide offices are reliably Republican, year in and year out. And the Republican base loves to see a candidate throwing out red meat far more than a candidate who treats liberal opponents as serious contenders for office.
As long as Talarico doesn’t start talking about taking people’s guns, he’s got this in the bag.
Anyone who thinks Democrats have a statewide office in a bright-red state in the bag because the Republican is ignoring them, is delusional.
You'll know Paxton is in trouble when he starts crying about the liberal media not giving him enough attention and demanding a dozen debates a week with Talarico straight through election day.
Having lived in Texas for 39 years, I don't think it's delusional this time. Wendy Davis, Beto O'Rourke, Colin Allred...I wanted all of them to win but knew it was super unlikely.
What's different this time is that Paxton has such a lengthy, tainted history in Texas. He's made lifelong enemies of so many Republicans in this state, and Talarico is so very, very palatable to them with his level of comfort framing all of this through Christianity. Obviously, nothing is in the bag, but I have confidence in this race for Talarico I never had for the other 3 candidates I mentioned
“And what’s your stance on gun violence?”
My stance is that crime goes down when poverty goes down, so let’s work on making sure people can actually earn a decent living.
"but he's legitimate a master debater"
Stop saying that like it's some kind of redemption. He's a lying sophist, it's like saying trump sucks but he's legitimately a good golfer.
There is a reason Reagan and the neocons were founded and backed by corpos.
As well as the fact he pushed the Heritage Foundation’s agenda.
Evangelical conmen
The only thing that actually trickles down from the 1% is piss.
If we tried harder some other fluid might be included..
Either way it’s not money, or even valuable.
I'm all for their blood trickling down.
That's literally what the term originally alluded to, it was written by a critic of tax cuts for the wealthy.
Just curious, do you have an easily available source, by chance? Or do I need to dig through the search engines' slop for more info?
Great, now I have way too much piss, zero gold, and InfoWars' revolutionary "turn your piss into gold" program is sold out
shame a huge number of americans keep voting to be fucked over
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. — Rutherford B. Hayes, 1888
Ever since agriculture allowed some of the population to not be farmers, there has been inequality.
Overall, it's probably a good trade-off. I'm not ultra rich, but I'm not a subsistence farmer either. So, some inequality is probably the price we pay for technology.
The current world is better off than most of history. Since the Odyssey is in theatres now, look at that. Odysseus is a king in a palace-centric economy where the riches flow to the kings who then redistribute it to everyone else. In the middle ages peasants were tied to the land from birth. They weren't slaves, exactly. But, it was pretty similar.
Capitalism was supposed to be more efficient and fair. Instead of the bosses being born as bosses and the workers born as workers, in theory a boss who made terrible decisions could lose his capital and become a worker. A worker who had an idea and could find investment could become a boss. In the 1800s that was revolutionary, until that point classes were classes for life. But, of course, for it to work there needed to be laws and those laws needed to be enforced.
The US was revolutionary at the start because it was going to be a country without a king. They carefully designed the system so the president wasn't a monarch. However, there were some problems. First, these were 20 year olds in the 1700s. They didn't know game theory. They were idealists who thought that congressional representatives would be honest and honourable. They didn't think a party would collude with a corrupt president. Second, these were aristocrats. Sure, they didn't like kings, but they thought that only land-owning white males should have a say.
So, really, it's no surprise that a few hundred years later the people who would have been the land-owning aristocrats 1000 years ago are once again in control.
It remains to be seen if the people can once again restore a sane level of inequality, or if this American experiment has run its course and something new will emerge.
Talarico is saying the right things. He deserves a few bucks. The others, not so much. Democrats, in general stood by and let all this corruption go on.
Support only those who understand the problem but understand that we need many more to actually actually change things.
Democrats didn't stand by and allow the corporation to happen. They participated in it.
You ever get the feeling that you've been manipulated into hating the political opposition to fascism?
Democrats aren't the opposition to fascism, they're its beauticians. They don't want to fight fascism, they want a version of fascism that follows the rules of respectability politics. They want a sensible, noncorrupt fascism that keeps thorough records of the people it kidnaps. They want a gentle fascism with body cameras to make sure the kidnappings stay "nonviolent" while they get a first person view of families being destroyed. They want a fascism with more humane concentration camps.
You know who is the actual political opposition to fascism? The mutual aid group in your city. The neighborhood group chat where community members talk to each other and keep each other safe. The rapid response networks. The tenant's rights organizers. All the people out there building alternative power structures.
Give em hell kid.
*the pedefilic elite
I made this meme like ten years ago:
Do you get it? The police state is two thousand years old. The New Testament describes a decentralized autonomous organization of secret police at an eighth grade reading level. Epstein was a Mossad agent - so, a cop - and is thus alive because of that. We do something called pairing, which is a big part of how "the battle is won," according to them dum dum Christians, and so Epstein was paired with Maxwell, and thus Epstein disappeared and there are many loose ends of parallel investigations that just go poof, as far as suspicion of rats in criminal networks go. Trump/Hunter Biden/Clintons are all cops. That's how won the battle is. We don't give evil a chance to reach power. But, I'm just some retard doing his counterintelligence job on the internet.
Lol I had that image many years ago in a forum. Except it said "Worms? In my vagina?"
Also note that this is not a D vs R situation. It is the people vs those who keep taking advantage of the leadership we afford them.
Looks like the Democrats have finally refined their messaging, now all they need to do is form a coalition more powerful than the establishment DINO centrists.
The bullshit in here is strong:
This is Paxton plus way more than I can put in here:
On July 28, 2015, a state grand jury indicted Paxton on three criminal charges:[276] two counts of securities fraud (a first-degree felony) and one count of failing to register with state securities regulators (a third-degree felony).[277][278] Paxton's indictment marked the first such criminal indictment of a Texas attorney general in thirty-two years since Texas attorney general Jim Mattox was indicted for bribery in 1983.[279] The complainants in the case are Joel Hochberg, a Florida businessman, and Byron Cook, a Republican and former member of the Texas House of Representatives.[280][281] Paxton and Cook were former friends and roommates while serving together in the Texas House.[281] Three special prosecutors were trying the state's case.[282]
In October 2020, seven of Paxton's top aides published a letter to the office's director of human resources, accusing Paxton of improper influence, abuse of office, bribery and other crimes, and said they had provided information to law enforcement and asked them to investigate.[318][319] The letter was signed by first assistant attorney general Jeff Mateer,[319][318] and the deputy and deputy attorneys general overseeing the office's divisions for criminal investigations, civil litigation, administration, and policy.[318] Paxton denied misconduct and said he would not resign.[319][320] By the end of the month, all seven whistleblowers had left the office: three resigned, two were fired, and two were put on leave.[321]
The allegations were made the more serious by the accusation that the affair was facilitated by friend, donor, and Austin, Texas real estate investor Nate Paul, with Paul alleged to have hired the "girlfriend" with whom Paxton was having the affair, and facilitated her move to Austin and Paxton's clandestine meetings with her, actions the managers of Paxton's failed state impeachment effort contended (see Texas House investigation and impeachment section, above) were abuses "in exchange for his office... help[ing] Paul ’s faltering businesses..., looming bankruptcies[,] and a litany of related lawsuits."[356] The impeachment managers also contended that Paxton and Paul shared an Uber account under a pseudonym to help Paxton meet with the woman.[356]