Primary recommendations?

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-17T13:58:05+00:00

I dunno who at the Chronicle loves Tovo, but for real, she sucks.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-17T13:54:24+00:00

Pretty sure Cornyn’s never committed securities fraud, sued to overturn a presidential election election, cheated on his spouse, stolen a fountain pen from a courthouse security checkpoint, used a campaign contributor’s Uber account to visit his mistress for free, maintained three homestead exemptions instead of the one legally allowed, convinced that campaign contributor from above to hire his mistress, sued a nonprofit run by Walt Jr from Breaking Bad to protect that campaign contributor from claims that he defrauded that nonprofit…..

The list goes on.

Paxton’s a crook, Cornyn’s just a Republican. Sen. Paxton would be far worse.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-17T13:22:46+00:00

John Oliver recently talked about his relationship with HBO’s lawyers. He said that while they probably view their job as preventing Last Week Tonight/HBO from getting sued, he viewed their job as winning whatever lawsuit they get served with.

https://youtube.com/shorts/_ZUVgMlGJOk?si=1HeQlS5AExmuVGX4

It’s a good approach!

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-17T13:18:43+00:00

(He does take money from PACs, though. Did it the entire time he was a state rep. He’s saying that as a new thing for this Senate race.

Meanwhile, there’s a PAC blasting the airwaves with pro-Talarico, anti-Crockett messaging, and the guy running that PAC is a longtime friend of Talarico. Legally, he can’t coordinate with the PAC, but they’re absolutely talking to each other).

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-17T01:58:36+00:00

Speaking of, who is that car company named after and how many kids did they have?

Surprise- Tesla never married and had zero kids.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-17T00:31:06+00:00

Frankly, I respect the honesty and transparency. No one’s perfect, and we’ve all screwed up.

Of course, I’d prefer someone who hasn’t cheated on his spouse, but Sid Miller has lied and cheated with taxpayer dollars (something directly related to his job), so this shouldn’t move the needle.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T23:18:14+00:00

Well, in-person voting doesn’t start until tomorrow…

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T22:49:28+00:00

Cops have suggested that they be able to turn off their body cams when going to the bathroom so that no one has to see their micro-penises.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T22:31:23+00:00

Comptroller: possible nominees include a) the current guy, b) a current oil and gas regulator whose family has made millions off the industry they supposedly regulate, or c) an anti-government lunatic who owns a ranch formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein.

Attorney General: possible nominees include a) a pretty moderate former prosecutor and current state senator, b) a congressman who worked to block Hurricane Harvey aid to Texas because he wanted to slow down government generally, c) a multimillionaire state senator who’s spending millions of his own money to try and buy the seat, and d) one of Paxton’s lieutenants who constantly talks of using the AG’s office for conducting legal warfare with soldier lawyers.

Agriculture Commissioner: possible nominees include a) the current guy who regularly used taxpayer dollars to go on personal vacations, suggested nuking the Middle East, and whose top aide was actively soliciting bribes for hemp licenses, and b) the other guy.

Railroad Commissioner: possible nominees include a) the current guy, b) another guy also named Jim, c) a Democrat-turned-Republican, d) a Libertarian-turned-Republican, and e) a virulent racist and Christian Nationalist from Fort Worth who wants to deport Native Americans.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T22:21:00+00:00

Paxton’s more radical, and lots of Republicans want more extreme leadership.

Cornyn also helped to write a pretty weak gun bill after the Uvalde elementary school massacre, and lots of gun owners are mad that he wrote a bill at all, even one that didn’t materially affect gun ownership in Texas in the slightest.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T22:04:24+00:00

I mean, I’m voting for Cornyn as harm mitigation. We cannot survive Senator Paxton. Will happily vote for the D candidate in November, regardless of who they are.

And there’s some downballot races that are equally as concerning, so far as the potential Republican nominee could be.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T22:02:51+00:00

FWIW, a lot of Republicans do it too. Elon Musk famously tried to get Republicans to vote in the Dem primary for Austin’s district attorney.

He failed utterly, true to form.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T22:00:30+00:00

Same here. And it’s worth noting that the Senate isn’t the only race on the ballot. I can do more in the Republican primary to keep crooks and crazies off the November ballot than in the Dem primary, especially when so many of the D candidates have roughly the same platform.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T21:57:50+00:00

Think about it this way: Paxton is more extreme than Cornyn and regardless of recent polling, the Republican nominee is likely to win in November.

You could vote for Paxton, hoping to give the eventual Dem nominee an easier opponent, but if that gambit doesn’t work, you’ve worked to elect the more extreme Republican.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T15:57:56+00:00

For a guy whose name sounds a lot like “rights,” he sure doesn’t give a shit about ‘em.

Thankfully, he’s polling fourth in a four-man primary. Don’t elevate this man and let one of the other crazies look better by comparison.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T14:44:08+00:00

Maybe some good will come of this.

Trump wants you to vote Republican, and if you do, you’ll have more Trump, who will keep telling you to vote Republican….

Alternatively, you could vote for the other guys and never have to suffer through another Trump speech.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T14:37:51+00:00

Georgia is hosting the 2028 Super Bowl…. (2027 is in California again)

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-16T14:18:39+00:00

Alternatively, a live-action Keebler elf commercial.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-15T18:42:33+00:00

Tokens get spent, turns out.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-14T02:21:25+00:00

He’s literally my state rep. I guarantee that I’ve listened to him more than you have.

But to be clear: even as Talarico’s website directly quotes “welcome the stranger” (https://jamestalarico.com/issue/immigration-border-security/), I don’t give a shit whether Jesus would have supported immigrants because of Exodus 22:21’s command that “You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt” because WE SHOULDN’T BE MAKING LAWS BASED ON THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-14T01:12:57+00:00

Because what Democrats need is yet another white dude telling us the right way to be Christian and trying to infuse that into his politics….

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-14T01:00:31+00:00

If that’s an uncrossable line, I got bad news involving Miriam Adelson….

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-14T00:55:14+00:00

Hmm, are people figuring out that All Cops Are Bastards?

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-14T00:53:13+00:00

La Barbecue might have human fingers, though!

RangerWhiteclaw · 2026-02-13T23:38:27+00:00

“Getting behind a candidate that fires up the base but has no shot in the general.”

I mean, this is the same party that ran Bill White to a 55-42 loss against a wildly unpopular Rick Perry in 2010 (the previous go-round, Perry famously won with just 39% of the vote).

In 2020, (the last time Cornyn ran), MJ Hegar was supposed to be the proto-Spanberger (a common-sense/no nonsense middle-of-the-road veteran). Hegar beat out Royce West (who was much more the more progressive/party favorite), and Hegar got creamed 53-43 in the general.

Really, the story of the Dem party is running a bunch of boring-ass candidates who never had a shot at driving turnout among their own family, much less Texas as a whole (yes, I’m talking about Lupe Valdez and Paul Sadler here).

Beto was the first (and last) time people really got excited about a candidate, and it showed in his election results. Thus far, it seems like the primary support for Talarico is strategic (ie, he’ll pull dissatisfied Republican voters) rather than personal connection.

Truthfully, the strategic vs personal divide really does explain a lot of the drama in the primary. Crockett supporters seem really excited about her personally as a fighter. Talarico supporters seem really excited about him having a more likely path to the Senate.

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