That’s also what paradoxically makes Texas more of a winnable state with Joe, it really is a very classic LBJ dynamic and displacement happening here. TX is officially NOT defendable by $ or Trump Klan appearances, any of the above sends TX more blue b/c it exacerbates the shame.
Trump and the GOP already maximized the fullest extent of the raw data Klan vote (not to say they don’t still have the Russian hack option) plus the ‘18 midterm and ‘20 polling already show that he’s hugely slipping in the burbs’ as the disaster gets worse every day. Lame Donald.
Not only that, but I don’t care whether you have an R or D after your name, if you fuck up J. R. Ewing’s “AWL” 💵 it really just fucking DOES have to be over for you b/c Texas’ whole economy requires a steady hand (or at least a Bush that loves oil and war) on the tiller. Toast.
Also apart from the oil/money/economy piece, there really is just a fascinating reverse realignment in progress with Joe as the nominee that I think is harkening back to an era in the White Texan over age 65+ bloc’s mind frame and evolving them *into* Dixiecrats again. Marinate..
Oh and ICYMI this is the movement in TX I’m referencing, Ds usually lose TX by ~9-10% as a status quo, so for Joe to already be ahead 1 in this pretty solid poll, that really does mean we’re in the driver’s seat now with #VoteByMail secured. All we need is KDH @ VP + #BETOGOTDV
Here’s why Amash is bad news for the GOP everywhere in America. There will always be a contingent of Confederate Rs who just racist-philosophically can’t vote D at all, even to save their lives. Some of them are *still* not insane enough to vote for a sociopath/traitor AGAIN.
In Texas, the issue really is centered on REDUCING the overall raw GOP vote total for Trump. Hillary lost to Trump by what amounted to ~800K votes, so it doesn’t really take that much R slippage if we counter on the D side with massive D base and R/I crossover voter turnout. 
Receipts on #VoteByMailTexas since folk STILL don’t wanna believe we aren’t playing around with these fucking traitors and fascists. #DontMessWithTexas #ExpectUs #ReturnMAGAToSender2020 ✉️🔥
No. Abbott nor the rest of the TXGOP has ANY vested interest left in keeping DT there, none whatsoever. It helps them more to have a stable Democratic economy at the national level, plus Greg isn’t on the ballot again until 2022, so this is literally their ONLY chance to #DumpDT
Also to expand on that answer @mike_calamari, TX already has the most draconian Jim Crow voter suppression in the country and its main weapon was reduced polling locations, which becomes a dud if the Rona vote by mail loophole provides our major workaround plus Kamala/Beto GOTDV.
I really can’t stress enough how much harder the TX primary/general elections are to understand without a working knowledge of the dichotomy between Federal vs. States’ rights and the *extremely heavy deference* to the latter in the “former Confederacy”. Here’s a primer:
When you look at the US map of states that don’t register by party and/or allow open voting in D primaries, you’ll see a good chunk of them in the “former Confederacy”. Non-Southerners often see this as a door to sabotage, but it’s also an *escape hatch*. businessinsider.com/which-states-h…
While the MSM, MAGAts, Berners and 🤖 were SO damn busy planting those obviously contrived stories about MAGAts for Bernie “ratfucking” the primary against Joe (aka being a Libertarian or estranged Republican), TX Never Trumpers were serious as HELL about @JoeBiden in the booth.
The reason this harkens back to what people think is the “ancient” history of the Civil War, slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow is open state primaries have always been the 4th layer of check & balance between slavery economy power and all other economic power. It’s a seesaw.
Right now in the seesaw equation, the Texas & National GOP have gone too far in the direction of getting too high/reckless and falling off. They’ve officially fallen off, actually. So that’s where “secretly” tipping the scales to the “enemy” for 4-8 years to regroup makes sense.
I mean, we ALL know by now that the GOP literally can’t actually govern worth a fucking damn, so it actually serves their fundraising and voter enthusiasm goals to be carnival barkers and obstruct forward progress from the minority chambers. They need a post-DT rebrand anyway.
Beto. Believe. It. Baby. 🔥💣😈 #FlipItBlueTX #UniteVoteWin #DivideAndConquerTooThough #OperationVoteLikeYouWantToWin
Actually, this is a very, very bad take. Apart from the fact that Joe literally landslided Bernie out of the race *from his living room in Delaware this WHOLE TIME* 🥴, no SANE person needs to see anyone at any rally in person to know better than to NOT vote for fascism. Stop.
Let’s phrase it another way for folk who are getting confused by Bro/Berner misdirection on the Amash story. Amash is to Trump what Bernie was to Hillary, an attempt to *siphon* White “moderate” votes away from Trump, thereby “covertly” assisting us in thwarting the R nominee. 💡
As such, the Bros/Berners/bots are attempting a misdirection of “zomg let’s be nervous that a sane Republican (w/MICROSCOPIC national recognition outside the Twitterverse) finally wants to challenge the sociopath 😱!” So nervous that we “get scared out of wanting Kamala for VP”.
Once again, y’all are nervous about White people White peopling™️, which again is further proof that the LAST people you need to be taking cues from are the folk who are NOT going to show up in the booth to help marginalized people end this disaster, also known as THE OPPRESSOR.
I’ve been mulling this thought over in my mind since last night’s podcast, Rick asked both me and @sarahkendzior what his rebuttals should be to whatever the choice sound bite the RW echo chamber throws at White men is. The propaganda is a function of *proximity* to White men.
He was posing the question to me in the form of a letter he received from a listener who says he “thinks she’s great but wants to know why she doesn’t hit Joe for all the stuff she hits Trump for?! 🤷” Uhhhhh.... b/c I’m NOT a fucking MAGAt. 🤦🏾♀️
It dawned on me that the only time I ever hear what kind of nonsense is swirling around on Fox and AM radio is when I talk to a White man who works in politics radio. It’s such a night/day contrast to the political conversations I have with POC. Distraction now is expensive af.
Maybe 6 or even 4 years ago I’d have had some degree of appetite left to waste neurons on crafting witty retorts to GOP 🥩, but ultimately it means *nothing to them anyway* and their power is just a BIG macroaggression saying “what you care about doesn’t even register to me”.
Like, literally I don’t know anyone who cares about this shit and everyone I talk to, L and R has been saying Trump is an embarrassing disaster *together* ever since the 2018 midterms. Beto has an avenger movement in the burbs that folk outside TX can’t see/feel. That’s MY CUE.
I really don’t give a SHIT what excuses people who’ve voted R for the last ~56 YEARS by default of chronic hatred/stupidity/greed are gonna give themselves to repeat it, NONE of that is breaking news to me. I’m not gonna ignore real data to chase Putin’s Puppets into the 🦊 hole.
“There’s no story that's going to keep us from voting for Joe Biden. That's why many of us are backing Kamala Harris for VP. Put somebody on the ticket that excites us like Obama did. Kamala came to TX in March 2019, Beto & Kamala built the TX coalition.” podbean.com/ei/pb-dqic3-da…
Ok, but can you imagine (brace yourself) Joe/Obama/Kamala/Beto/HRC all together pumping out the same chemistry all at the same time? Then combine that foundation with the Pete/Amy/Mike/Liz/Julian/Corey/Yang coalitions. Hell, Beto probably delivered Tulsi’s Joe endorsement too.
Gentle reminder that these are the folk the Berners think we should be trying to placate with Joe’s VP slot, instead of sticking with the #SoulOfTheNation and seeking purple pastures in the South where enough of us down here know how bad this can get and are trying to STOP IT. 💅🏾
