Texas politics

[TexanStar]

All 12 Senate Democrats oppose Texas Secretary of State David Whitley. That's more than enough to block his nomination.
If all 12 senators are on the Senate floor when Whitley's nomination comes, he doesn't have the votes to be confirmed.

"This relationship is in tatters": How Texas' voter citizenship review frayed its relationship with local officials
A breakdown in communication has emerged between the state’s top election officials and county election offices since the citizenship review effort launched four weeks ago.

 

[TexanStar]

Mwa ha ha

Trump might want to keep a closer eye on Texas

The good news for Trump is that he had 50 percent approval or higher in 17 states, up from 12 in 2017. (The additions? Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, South Carolina and Utah.)

The bad news? In 13 states he won in 2016, his approval rating is underwater. And in no state that he won in 2016 is his approval rating worse than in Texas.

 

[TexanStar]

Senator John Cornyn decided to kick off his 2020 campaign by using a quote directly attributed to Benito Mussolini to attack Democrats.

https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn

 

[TexanStar]

Senator John Cornyn decided to kick off his 2020 campaign by using a quote directly attributed to Benito Mussolini to attack Democrats.

https://twitter.com/JohnCornyn

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‘Oooh! Do Hitler next!’: Texas Republican ripped to shreds for heralding Mussolini in Twitter quote

 

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‘Oooh! Do Hitler next!’: Texas Republican ripped to shreds for heralding Mussolini in Twitter quote

Trump quoted Bento when he began running, and when it was brought to his attention he said, "Well, yeah, but it's still a great quote."

 

[TexanStar]

Trump quoted Bento when he began running, and when it was brought to his attention he said, "Well, yeah, but it's still a great quote."

This article has a good breakdown of this stupidity.

Forgive John Cornyn: Quoting Mussolini to Own the Libs Is Just What the Right Does

John Cornyn, the Republican senior U.S. senator from Texas, spent Sunday in the ratio barrel. His offense: tweeting a quote from the well-known and respected thought genius Benito Mussolini.

Il Duce, Italy’s far-right fascist dictator (whose poster Hitler had on his dorm-room walls) is as famous for getting Italy’s trains to run on time as he is for imprisoning and murdering his leftist opponents. He was pretty “good” at both!

 

[TexanStar]

More (sorry for spamming on this one subject, but I refuse to let this one slide (just as I refuse to sit idly by while the powers that be try to slide this country towards fascism).

John Cornyn’s tweet: A reminder of the danger behind editing history to fit a political agenda
Cornyn lacked context, historical accuracy in quoting Mussolini to criticize democratic socialists

 

[TexanStar]

Trump faces trouble in Texas, and Beto O'Rourke had Sen. John Cornyn in dead heat: new poll

O’Rourke, Biden, Sanders Tied With Trump In Texas, New Quinnipiac Poll Says

 

[TexanStar]

Julian Castro says his brother is weighing Senate bid

Please please please please (please).

Having both of you in the presidential race is too much. We need that senate seat too

Talented Democrats Are All Running for President. It's a Problem.
Beto O’Rourke’s run for the White House could cost Democrats a Senate seat. That wouldn’t happen in other democracies.

 

[Thikn2velvet1]

The Permian Basin is ground zero for “ Massive Prosperity.”

In This Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180,000 - Democratic Underground

 

[TexanStar]

The Permian Basin is ground zero for “ Massive Prosperity.”

In This Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180,000 - Democratic Underground

Odessa's much closer to Beto's neck of the woods than mine, but here's an article that's not behind a paywall.

How an Oil Boom in West Texas Is Reshaping the World

And in other news (from just yesterday, in fact)

Texas’ largest solar project, a behemoth of national scale, breaks ground
497 MWdc of solar power is coming to Upton County, Texas, as Enel Green Power North America stakes its claim for the largest project in the Lone Star state.

This'll be the 4th largest solar power plant in the USA and the largest that's not in California.

 

[Thikn2velvet1]

Odessa's much closer to Beto's neck of the woods than mine, but here's an article that's not behind a paywall.

How an Oil Boom in West Texas Is Reshaping the World

And in other news (from just yesterday, in fact)

Texas’ largest solar project, a behemoth of national scale, breaks ground
497 MWdc of solar power is coming to Upton County, Texas, as Enel Green Power North America stakes its claim for the largest project in the Lone Star state.

This'll be the 4th largest solar power plant in the USA and the largest that's not in California.

West Texas is on track to produce more oil than Iraq. Unskilled labor is in demand at crazy wages. Food truck owners are pocketing $300-500000/year.

Solar cannot do that as it stands today.

 

[Industrialsize]

Beto O' Rourke at last night's Metallica concert is the most #Beto thing to happen this week.

 

[TexanStar]

West Texas is on track to produce more oil than Iraq. Unskilled labor is in demand at crazy wages. Food truck owners are pocketing $300-500000/year.

Solar cannot do that as it stands today.

Is there a point you're trying to make here? It's a regional politics thread in a politics forum.

 

[phonehome]

The Permian Basin is ground zero for “ Massive Prosperity.”

In This Oil Boom Town, Even a Barber Can Make $180,000 - Democratic Underground

Ask anyone from Texas or from North Dakota of late how many times, how many towns go from nothing to "boom town" to overbuilt "bust" in the space of less than 5 years.

Lisa Ling did a story about one of those "boom towns" in ND back around 5 years ago that followed the same theme. Unskilled 40 something divorced women showing up and in minutes getting jobs paying well into 6 figures, Young hotties showing up for any number of things from selling super expensive coffee out of basically "food trucks" to basic food truck selling basic food truck fare at super inflated prices while scantily clad and often displaying super inflated bust lines to just selling "other things" ,

"they" the town both public and private concerns could not build tracts of housing quick enough, roads schools all kinds of EXPENSIVE infrastructure

All was well as long as that fracked oil was going for 80 bucks.

She went back later after it has less than the 50 to 60 what it takes to even break even for years now and the place is fucking ghosttown. All those

"mancamps" are big empty fields, that housed thousands of workers with "money to burn" GONE

Miles and miles of streets leading to dozens if not hundreds of houses that were never lived in or even completed or empty building sites.

Schools built for thousands of students with barely hundreds.

 

[Thikn2velvet1]

Ask anyone from Texas or from North Dakota of late how many times, how many towns go from nothing to "boom town" to overbuilt "bust" in the space of less than 5 years.

Lisa Ling did a story about one of those "boom towns" in ND back around 5 years ago that followed the same theme. Unskilled 40 something divorced women showing up and in minutes getting jobs paying well into 6 figures, Young hotties showing up for any number of things from selling super expensive coffee out of basically "food trucks" to basic food truck selling basic food truck fare at super inflated prices while scantily clad and often displaying super inflated bust lines to just selling "other things" ,

"they" the town both public and private concerns could not build tracts of housing quick enough, roads schools all kinds of EXPENSIVE infrastructure

All was well as long as that fracked oil was going for 80 bucks.

She went back later after it has less than the 50 to 60 what it takes to even break even for years now and the place is fucking ghosttown. All those

"mancamps" are big empty fields, that housed thousands of workers with "money to burn" GONE

Miles and miles of streets leading to dozens if not hundreds of houses that were never lived in or even completed or empty building sites.

Schools built for thousands of students with barely hundreds.

I am not sure of what point you are trying to make.

 

[phonehome]

I am not sure of what point you are trying to make.

That it will not last

It is not really any different than all those people who "were making it rich" by "flipping houses" in the early 00's so much so that at the height of it there were like a dozen "flip my house" type shows on various cable channels.that made it "look so easy" which drew in more eventual "suckers"

It worked until it didn't and for a few years people made pretty good money and few made really big money but in the end most who did not have the good sense to quit loss their ass.

Give it 2 to 3 maybe at best 5 years and your "boom town" will be a ghost town too and your barber will be lucky if he/she is making 18 grand a year

 

[Thikn2velvet1]

That it will not last

It is not really any different than all those people who "were making it rich" by "flipping houses" in the early 00's so much so that at the height of it there were like a dozen "flip my house" type shows on various cable channels.that made it "look so easy" which drew in more eventual "suckers"

It worked until it didn't and for a few years people made pretty good money and few made really big money but in the end most who did not have the good sense to quit loss their ass.

Give it 2 to 3 maybe at best 5 years and your "boom town" will be a ghost town too and your barber will be lucky if he/she is making 18 grand a year

So the fact that it won’t last is a reason not to do it?

 

[TexanStar]

So the fact that it won’t last is a reason not to do it?

Again, what is your point? You've posted some non-political news, and now you're making up arguments to stick in the mouths of other posters.

 

[TexanStar]

Julian Castro says his brother is weighing Senate bid

Please please please please (please).

Having both of you in the presidential race is too much. We need that senate seat too

Talented Democrats Are All Running for President. It's a Problem.
Beto O’Rourke’s run for the White House could cost Democrats a Senate seat. That wouldn’t happen in other democracies.

Gah, twinsies!

It's not Julian that was considering the senate run, it's Joaquin (his twin brother who's currently serving in the house).

Still good to have some solid competition, but not what I thought was happening.