If Texas goes blue, is America done for?

[BrokeLoser]

They're saying in the news that Texas is going blue, apparently five GOP Congressmen have resigned because they don't think they'd win re-election in 2020.

Texas has been a solid Republican state ever since the South switched over during the Nixon years.

If Texas goes blue, we lose every election I think. It would be hard to pull off a Republican victory without all those electoral votes.

Is it time to panic?

It is time for Democrats to put on the feather headpiece, beat the drums, and do a victory dance?

Once it goes blue, Republicans will never take the White House again

It had to go brown first...right?
But, but, but....RUSSIA!

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

Oh, when you mentioned O'Rourke I didn't know who you were talking about. Everyone always calls him Beto.

I think a man who runs for President should have something more on his resume than that he ran for Senate and lost.

I would agree, but the point isn’t about Beto. It’s about how goddamn awful republicans are. People are just shooting for anything not GOP.

True.

And given the fear, ignorance, bigotry, and hate exhibited by most Republicans and others on the right, a state turning blue can’t be anything but an improvement.

 

[Rambunctious]

The Texas elections board needs to get tough on voter fraud or the dems will steal the state....

 

[BrokeLoser]

Oh, when you mentioned O'Rourke I didn't know who you were talking about. Everyone always calls him Beto.

I think a man who runs for President should have something more on his resume than that he ran for Senate and lost.

I would agree, but the point isn’t about Beto. It’s about how goddamn awful republicans are. People are just shooting for anything not GOP.

True.

And given the fear, ignorance, bigotry, and hate exhibited by most Republicans and others on the right, a state turning blue can’t be anything but an improvement.

States turned blue had to turn brown first...show us a state that turned brown that has improved please.
Thanks in advance.

 

[leftwinger]

Oh, when you mentioned O'Rourke I didn't know who you were talking about. Everyone always calls him Beto.

I think a man who runs for President should have something more on his resume than that he ran for Senate and lost.

I would agree, but the point isn’t about Beto. It’s about how goddamn awful republicans are. People are just shooting for anything not GOP.

True.

And given the fear, ignorance, bigotry, and hate exhibited by most Republicans and others on the right, a state turning blue can’t be anything but an improvement.

States turned blue had to turn brown first...show us a state that turned brown that has improved please.
Thanks in advance.

Or the reverse......South Africa once turned white? (compare SA to Kenya, Obamaland) got running water, electricity, cars.

 

[Blackrook]

What illegal aliens bring with them is ignorance of what it means to be an American, to enjoy the freedoms we are guaranteed by the United States Constitution, like freedom of speech, free of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms.

And because they are ignorant of these freedoms, they make perfect voters for Democrats, whose first order of business when they have enough power is to abolish our Constitutional freedoms.

 

[whitehall]

They both betgn with "R" but there is a big difference between "resign" and "retire". Look it up.

 

[bodecea]

Oh, when you mentioned O'Rourke I didn't know who you were talking about. Everyone always calls him Beto.

I think a man who runs for President should have something more on his resume than that he ran for Senate and lost.

I would agree, but the point isn’t about Beto. It’s about how goddamn awful republicans are. People are just shooting for anything not GOP.

Is that the reason why Republicans control the White House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, and a majority of governorships and state legislatures?

It’s been a slow transition, I’ll agree, but thanks to Trump, the GOP is worse off than before and hopefully the damage is irreversible.

You say that but have no idea how deep and strong support for Trump is among the ordinary Americans you apparently never meet in your day-to-day life. But here's a big clue: every time Trump holds a rally, they never have room for everyone who shows up. Most politicians are lucky if they can get a few dozen people to show up, Trump brings them in by the truckload.

"everytime trump holds a rally, they never have room for everyone who shows up".......prove it.

 

[bodecea]

I've been saying for a long time that when Texas goes blue, this is over.

Time's running out for the Right to stop with the talk radio platitudes and to start actually changing hearts & minds.

You can't fix stupid. That is the problem for Republicans trying to change Democrats to their side. Democrats are brainwashed idealogues. Many think they know everything and are unwilling to listen to anyone who disagrees with them. They won't even entertain the possiblity that they could be wrong.

For those of us who believe in the prophecy, things are going just as planned and can't be stopped no matter what is done. Granted, we try, but it is a loosing battle.

I love Irony on a Saturday morning.

 

[candycorn]

Candidates make races.

What most don’t understand about the shit-hole that is Texas is that the people in the small towns can’t be told what to do by the law, by the courts, or by the political parties. The local LEOs have tolerance for good old boys and whatnot. If you’re not hurting anyone and live 3 blocks from the bar where you get plastered every night, they don’t care that much when you drive home and take out a few mailboxes. Or if you grow weed and clearly aren’t juiced enough to get mixed up in some violent turf war over it….they will let you grow your weed. Speeding, burning your trash during a drought, etc… Its all good. You see this on the roadways, in the schools, etc… all the way up to the businesses whose plants continuously blow up along the coast line due to zero regulation.

The only people who are almost incorruptible are the TDPS. Try driving from SA to Houston/Corpus/Victoria/Fort Stockton without seeing platoons of their cars patrolling the roadways. You can’t. Anyway, they basically arrest all of the folks who are given a pass in the counties and small towns. There is no “DPS” style authority patrolling the chemical plants so that is why if you drive over the speed limit on I-10 or 37, you’ll get a ticket. If you push out 3 gazillion cubic yards of pollution over your limit, you’re a “model citizen” who will never be arrested much less fined.

The reason I said all that is to say this. The culture is one of “nobody tells me what to do” and every moronic hick in the state passes this along to their kid. So when it gets into the voting booth, the parties don’t have all that much of an impact in Texas. What does have an impact is psychee. The Democrats have a big problem over there because a lot of their platform is doing exactly that….telling you what to do. You can’t pollute. You can’t play football on Friday if you’re failing Monday-Thursday in high school. You can’t buy 500 rifles at a time…. whatever. For the Republicans, the problem is that the rural areas in Texas have become so hickified that a Hispanic who wants to get a house in Beeville or Splendora or Ozona or Kerrville etc… will quickly find themselves being pulled over for driving while Mexican, their kids will be treated differently in school, etc… So they move to a larger town like Corpus, San Antonio, Houston, etc… where their culture has taken some root and you end up with places like South Houston, where English is essentially a foreign language.

I used to work near this place in South Houston on Spencer Highway near Shaver Street.

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I don’t know if it’s still there but across the street was another super market named Mi Tienda. And I see in the pic that Fred Loya has an insurance office there—"Let Loya Insure Yah!” He’s a big Beto Backer.

Just a little side-bar. The hilarious thing is that the “you can’t tell me what to do” is played out every year in some degree by kids getting expelled from school because they wore a shirt that the district didn’t like, or had their hair dyed a color that didn’t conform etc… The same law enforcement apparatus that enforces the laws it deems necessary is the same group that puts the hammer down on non-conformity. When, in actuality, they too are the non-conformists.

Anyway…as for politics, Republican psychee is the biggest problem the republicans have. It drives Hispanics out of the small towns to larger cities where they vote in blocks for Democrats who are only a few degrees less repugnant than Republicans.

This is Cruz’s victory in 2012 as I recall.

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The blue areas in the middle is Bexar County (I believe) and Dallas County. Note the light red around each.

Now here is his victory in 2018:

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Note the Tarrant County (by Dallas) and Comal and Travis County around San Antonio. All Flipped! The largest WTF isn’t that Harris County (Houston) flipped but Fort Bend County to the SW of Houston flipped too.
If I were the Republicans…I’d be launching a full court press probe of voter fraud in FTB county. That is Tom DeLay territory (or at least was). Shocking results there.

Anyway…you see the pattern. Nueces County got rid of an old white puss ball as it’s county judge and replace it with a young Latina named Barbra Canales so It looks ripe for the picking for the Dems as well.
So the future looks bright for the DEMS in Texas until they screw it up which won’t be long if history is any indication.

Democrat Voters want to be submissive and obedient serfs.
GOP Voters are independent thinkers.
Traditionally the Democrats bigots have hated mainstream society.
Texas Democrats are typical angry racist bigots who hate Anglos and religious bigots who hate Christians.
The Blues parts of Texas are where all of the problems are.....poverty, crime, corruption, gangs, bad schools...
Democrat voters are low class people.
What will happen is the educated middle class voters will abandon the Dem cities first and then the entire Dem states.
The racist and corrupt Democratic Party is not really changing any minds, they are just chasing the vital middle class away.

Wow, you’re stupid

 

[bodecea]

They're saying in the news that Texas is going blue, apparently five GOP Congressmen have resigned because they don't think they'd win re-election in 2020.

Texas has been a solid Republican state ever since the South switched over during the Nixon years.

If Texas goes blue, we lose every election I think. It would be hard to pull off a Republican victory without all those electoral votes.

Is it time to panic?

It is time for Democrats to put on the feather headpiece, beat the drums, and do a victory dance?

It’s time for conservatives to stop with ridiculous loaded question fallacies.

Everything looks like a fallacy to you, Clayton.

I think you're confusing the word "fallacy" with the word "fellatio".

Ah....and now we get to what the OP REALLY wanted to talk about.

 

[bodecea]

Oh, when you mentioned O'Rourke I didn't know who you were talking about. Everyone always calls him Beto.

I think a man who runs for President should have something more on his resume than that he ran for Senate and lost.

It would be nice if he had done more than a reality show too.

Trump built an Empire. Taking the job of President was actually a step down for him.

"trump built an Empire".......how many bankrupcies?

500 companies owned, more than 20,000 employees, operating over several decades and only six bankruptcy filings.
Hmmm, I’m certain you’ve contributed more to American society...right?

"only six bankrupcies"......

 

[rightwinger]

The Texas elections board needs to get tough on voter fraud or the dems will steal the state....

Code for saying......We need to stop negroes and Mexicans from voting or we will lose the state

 

[Rambunctious]

The Texas elections board needs to get tough on voter fraud or the dems will steal the state....

Code for saying......We need to stop negroes and Mexicans from voting or we will lose the state

Only in your distorted race conscious mind....

 

[bripat9643]

They're saying in the news that Texas is going blue, apparently five GOP Congressmen have resigned because they don't think they'd win re-election in 2020.

Texas has been a solid Republican state ever since the South switched over during the Nixon years.

If Texas goes blue, we lose every election I think. It would be hard to pull off a Republican victory without all those electoral votes.

Is it time to panic?

It is time for Democrats to put on the feather headpiece, beat the drums, and do a victory dance?

Yes.

 

[Crepitus]

They're saying in the news that Texas is going blue, apparently five GOP Congressmen have resigned because they don't think they'd win re-election in 2020.

Texas has been a solid Republican state ever since the South switched over during the Nixon years.

If Texas goes blue, we lose every election I think. It would be hard to pull off a Republican victory without all those electoral votes.

Is it time to panic?

It is time for Democrats to put on the feather headpiece, beat the drums, and do a victory dance?

If Texas goes blue it's our first step back from the edge.

 

[basquebromance]

Beto will beat Trump in Texas, and will take us with him to the white house. bank on it!

 

[bripat9643]

They're saying in the news that Texas is going blue, apparently five GOP Congressmen have resigned because they don't think they'd win re-election in 2020.

Texas has been a solid Republican state ever since the South switched over during the Nixon years.

If Texas goes blue, we lose every election I think. It would be hard to pull off a Republican victory without all those electoral votes.

Is it time to panic?

It is time for Democrats to put on the feather headpiece, beat the drums, and do a victory dance?

If Texas goes blue it's our first step back from the edge.

It's our first step swirling down the toilet bowl.

 

[bripat9643]

Beto will beat Trump in Texas, and will take us with him to the white house. bank on it!

Beto couldn't beat Trump in Massachusetts.

 

[lennypartiv]

Code for saying......We need to stop negroes and Mexicans from voting or we will lose the state

If we want the best government, only the smartest people should be allowed to vote.