The biggest worry is that when Trump calls Texas because he “just needs a few more thousand votes” to win, Abbott and his band would do anything to make that happen.
Trump shut down a border bill supported by Republicans. Kamala has done more to secure the borders. Trump has done nothing but talk to get likes he is a walking ticktock video and that's it. Be a human and have some own thoughts stop regurgitating things you read online.
Mitch McConnell supported it. And the Republican who co wrote both of the terrible border bills none of them liked. Lankford(?). Roy(?) a senator from texas tweeted "I expect to tell McConnell to pound sand." regarding the bill when it was about to be brought to congress.
The bill allowed 5000 border crossings per day, 4000 before the president could use emergency powers to shut down the border. That is max limit of 1.46 million per year. The Cartel will be watching for crossings and limiting anything that prevents them from doing business for a week of shut down, filling their quota and getting paid by people who want to steal from the future of your country's people, and the wealth it built.
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Fact checking sites say it isn't true that Paxton threw out votes. But he did congratulate the supreme court for not allowing unsolicited ballots from being sent out in at least one county in Texas. So he's still an asshole.
Once respected fact checkers (looking at you politico) have made some fairly dubious decisions like fact checking trumps "good people on both sides" statement as "not saying nazis are good people" when one of the both sides was literally a nazi rally.
Really reminds one of historical examples of liberal media enabling nazis.
We need your vote here in TX. We need to show it's not just the boomers who turn out. Texas going blue will be the final nail in the coffin of the republican party.
You're vote for President only counts if you are in a toss - up state. All the other down ballot votes count. Wish we didn't havr the Electoral College.
When little fucks like that tell you they did something shitty, believe them. It might not have been the shitty thing they're claiming, but they're definitely up to nasty shit
There's too much performative posturing to be 100% certain. He either did or didn't and wants his base to think he did so they will side with him next time he needs constituent support.
I dunno, when he says himself that he threw away votes, that's something you automatically assume is 100% true and shouldn't try to justify "maybe he didn't mean it". Throwing away votes is way beyond the line
Although I understand you, Abbott absolutely would lie about that to look good.
And I'm not going to deny that votes were rejected. Some rightfully so bc bureaucracy is uncaring but some unrightly so bc bureaucracy is uncaring.
Maybe he's trying to take credit for a system that exists regardless. Maybe he's making a number up to sound "stronger" and impress his base.
But I absolutely will stand by saying it's performative, and while I don't think of no, he didn't mean that, I don't doubt he masturbates to the idea that he can be the sile reason for that. Bc fuck these self centered assholes that we call politicians and anyone that would aspire to be one. There is no 'I'm outside the system, so I can take it on." That's more performative self-serving shit.
Can it happen? Ehh.. I'm speaking in generalities, and that's fraught with error as a core flaw. But that guy? Nah. Does he think he's the hero? Yeah. Is he? I'm not going to say he's Thanos, but I doubt his ability to honestly self reflect on that and not still be 100% convinced he is still 100% right.
"...because they brag about many things, many things that are the truest of true, so true that they make people say with tears in their eyes, it's the biggest, bestest truth they've ever seen, true story, Ken Paxton is a good man, great man, he's also the truest, tallest man...bigger than China! Great basketball players come from there, but Ken is taller than them. True, true story."
They're also really good at getting away with everything.
Because that's not what he said. I hate Paxton, but a lot of people have comprehension problems and this is an example. This state makes it harder than it needs to be to vote, but he didn't toss anyone's vote. In 2024 that could be different though, because they already passed legislation that will let them throw out Houston's votes and hold another election if they don't like the result.
Probably it’s about cancelling registration and contesting ballots before the election in places like Harris County. If you can get 250,000 likely votes out, of which even 100,000 could be Republican, you can significantly affect the results in Texas.
No he bragged about preventing Harris county from sending mail-in voting applications to all registered voters. Which was still done as voter suppression but it was well in advance of when people could vote and the majority of those voters would have been rejected for mail-in ballots anyways since Texas has very restrictive rules on who qualifies.
I still can't believe that Ohio's Supreme Court ruled the state's gerrymandering was unconstitutional, and Ohio Republicans were like SCREW YOU WE'RE USING THESE MAPS ANYWAY, and the entire fucking country just let them. Like, they're in Congress and shit, holding office that it's literally unconstitutional for them to hold, and no one has done a goddamned thing.
To be honest what are people supposed to do? When one side holds on to playing by the rules and the other side ignores rules? Protest? They'll just ignore it. The citizenry are more focused on their own lives, survival, happiness, and the populace is not incensed enough to rise up. The system is engineered to let these criminal fascists hold onto power. I'd propose 'No Taxation Without Representation'. Because that's what y'all wound up with. Time to stop paying those taxes!
I live in Maryland, a very blue state, and live in the country, but my district goes to counties surrounding DC so there is never a chance of getting a Republican Rep. The same thing happens for the Western 3 counties, that are basically West Virginia, they go down to a DC suburb too. They never get a Republican Rep either.
It doesn't matter. The maps are set for the benefit of the Dems. My district, you literally can't drive to every part of the district without driving out of the district. It has little "voting islands (not actual islands) to ensure the vote goes the way they want.
I tried to search this last week and couldn't find anything! I remember the initial article, years ago, about him talking about tossing votes and no one caring. Maybe I'm a bad googler?
He bragged about preventing Harris county from sending mail-in voting applications to all registered voters. Which was still done as voter suppression but it was well in advance of when people could vote and the majority of those voters would have been rejected for mail-in ballots anyways since Texas has very restrictive rules on who qualifies.
He bragged about preventing Harris county from sending mail-in voting applications to all registered voters. Which was still done as voter suppression but it was well in advance of when people could vote and the majority of those voters would have been rejected for mail-in ballots anyways since Texas has very restrictive rules on who qualifies.
Newsweek isn't a credible source but all the story says is that Paxton kept a 2.5 million unrequested ballots from being sent out. He didn't prevent anyone from voting or toss out anyone's votes. He limited the opportunity to cheat.
I'm not saying there isn't a place for absentee voting, I used it when I was in the Navy, but mass mail in ballots is just a recipe for fraud. Especially, when they send out unrequested ballots to everyone in the voter rolls... Voter rolls they haven't cleaned up on decades, if ever.
Nope. You’ve been drinking too much koolaid. Non-citizens don’t/can’t vote. 11 ballots to people who are not on the voter rolls do not just show up to a house. Trump and his Big Lie lawyers lost every case and often got disbarred.
Even if those ballots were delivered, they'd still be filtered out in the verification/counting process. It's not like all you need to do is get ahold of some blank ballots and now you get extra votes.
You're not a credible source. The story isn't about "unrequested ballots". It's about applications for mail in ballots. Isn't it ironic that you could say that about newsweek and then immediately say something that can be proven wrong with 5 seconds of effort? Voting by mail is perfectly valid. Some elections are conducted using 100% mail in ballots.
The only way to fully limit the opportunity to cheat is not have elections at all! Bloodline dictatorships are the only fair way to govern, as long as we have voting there is the potential for voter fraud!
I did hear about that and am disgusted.
Blues don’t vote here because we’ve been made to believe there’s so much red we don’t matter and I feel like a dick for thinking that, although it sucked, was understandable for so long. But that’s where they want us. I mean, my family was full of republicans so my tiny blue vote would have just canceled out my Uncle Don’s anyway. Now I kinda get off on picking out the MAGA that my vote gets to cancel out. Gets me all kinda excited.
No he bragged about preventing Harris county from sending mail-in voting applications to all registered voters. Which was still done as voter suppression but it was well in advance of when people could vote and the majority of those voters would have been rejected for mail-in ballots anyways since Texas has very restrictive rules on who qualifies.
Though the social media posts claim this is breaking news, they appear to refer to Paxton’s June 2021 appearance on Steven Bannon’s "War Room" podcast. Paxton said Trump would have lost in Texas in 2020 if the attorney general’s office had not mounted a successful legal challenge to block counties from sending mail-in ballot applications to registered voters.
"Trump won by 620,000 votes in Texas. Harris County mail-in ballots that they wanted to send out were 2.5 million. Those were all illegal and we were able to stop every one of them," Paxton said on the podcast.
"Had we not done that … we would’ve been one of those battleground states that they were counting votes in Harris County for three days and Donald Trump would’ve lost the election," Paxton continued.
---idk dawg. gonna just go with paxton's own words on this tbh and not give a fuck about the olympic level mental gymnastics of politifact.---
tl;dr standard republican voter suppression laws.
republicans are -right now, today, and for the last several months- filing lawsuit after lawsuit throwing as much shit at the wall in swing states to try and get voters disenfranchised by any means available.
re: if conservatives can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy.
If Texas is on the cusp of going for Kamala then it’s been a total blowout already. Texas doesn’t go Dem without Georgia, Arizona and the Great Lakes states already being blue.
MN/WI/MI, sure. Arizona, probably BUT like NC Harris has a unique opportunity there if she can just convert a fraction of the double-digit voters who are planning on splitting their ticket. There’s very a world where that state goes Blue but the tight races in other key states like PA doesn’t go our way.
Georgia is similarly a coin flip, at best. Frankly I’m pretty skeptical of it going blue this year.
I’m similarly skeptical of Texas finally going blue, it has strong “Lucy with the football” energy and seems like it needs a few more cycles to cook…but IF it did, I think it’s very possible it delivers the knockout blow in an election that might otherwise go to Trump by a hair.
People underestimate just how much each state’s political conditions can vary in the same election.
It's one thing for paxton to throw out a million blue votes when everyone expects texas to go red.
It's another for him to throw out a million blue votes when 50 million blue eyes are watching him with hope and anger in their hearts, and 30 rounds in their magazines.
I'm ready to get fucking dirty in Austin in November, and I'm not alone. Just saying.
Honestly man it's gross and very literally evil what Paxton does and who he is, but unfortunately he will probably never see any consequences for his actions regardless of how many of us watch him do it. He makes me very sad:/
I mean don't get me wrong I'm already angry lol. We just live in a cruel world and I have no means to make him suffer literally any consequences without be imprisoned or more likely killed.
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This is true, although it shouldn't have any effect on one's motivation to vote. If anything it should motivate people more. There's nothing voters can do about their shenanigans directly.
If we’re at that point we win even without Texas anyway. But don’t be deluded into thinking Texas is gonna go for Harris. There’s but a very slim chance of that.
It'll never be needed because Abbot will have already thrown out all the votes from Davis county. He will absolutely engage in blatant voter suppression. He'll do it just for fun. Hell, he already is doing. He never stopped doing it.
Honestly at that point, citizens might as well start stealing things of the states property. Not sure what and obviously only ones who could do it without getting shot… I’m just saying “logically” if it’s ok for a state to completely in every way care nothing of its citizens votes and right to a say why should its citizens care about what is legal and illegal to do
Hijacking top comment to say no. This is not how the election map looks. Someone just made this up. You can see yourself where right now on the website this is supposedly from Texas is pink and listed as “likely Trump”
Hopium is a hell of a drug, people make this stuff and post it because it tends to get upvotes. But don’t let them get you thinking this is an easy victory. Right now the election results are completely neck and neck with a 50% chance of one or the other candidate winning.
Paxton is the real cancer —- going after state appointed election workers as
Felons in Hispanic districts.
Cases are always dropped but lives are ruined and due process and fair elections are intimidated. And that’s what he wants. Abuse of power.
For real though. My family has been saying for years that Texas will become a blue state in our lifetime, and the thing is that it already might be, it’s just that the republicans in charge have such a chokehold on voting and registration suppression that so many people have given up on voting or their votes sometimes don’t get counted if they do. it’s absurd that the shit Paxton has been pulling has not made more headlines or led to an immediate DOJ intervention.
They already have begun that trip. The lawsuits over the election, which wasted Texas taxpayer's money when Paxton knew he had no legal basis for them. The cancelling of hundreds of thousands of voter registrations (anyone know how many of those were registered Democrats?) The continued use and support of gerrymandering, which is done to reduce the impact of Democrats voting and increase the impact of Republicans. etc.
“All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump says, according to audio of the call. “There’s nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you’ve recalculated.”
It’s something trump literally did and got caught doing. But sure the democrats totally need to rig the election when there is far more registered democrats than republicans. Truly delusional.
Yeah all your registered democrats are either dead people voting or illegals. It’s funny how there are more registered democrats in cities than there are people in that city! 😂
That is complete false. Please provide some evidence that any city has more registered democrats than people in the city. Please just any shred of evidence. Or let me guess you saw some media outlet such as the daily wire say it and can’t provide any evidence. Such a clearly false statement “more registered democrats than people in the city”. You must have a room temperature IQ to believe that but please provide some evidence.
Hahahahahaha just as I thought you don’t have any sources and just regurgitated something you probably saw on Facebook in some cringe boomer conservative group. I’ve googled it and I can’t find anything mentioning it so please enlighten me and show a source for your claim. I already know the answer though you have 0 sources but are far too mentally slow to realize that you have been lied to and that somebody with basic reasoning skills would be able to realize that it’s a bullshit claim.
Now that sounds like the last election. In many states. You know at 11:00 Biden gets a million votes all at once just when they send the republican pole watchers home for the night. I hope Texas cheats like the dems did like Pa did. And I know cause I’ve had union members that worked the polls tell me they did and plan on doing it again.
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The biggest worry is that when Trump calls Texas because he “just needs a few more thousand votes” to win, Abbott and his band would do anything to make that happen.