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Erin Molan is the real deal Bill-- and I say this as a YUGE fan of Megyn

I don't have a dog in this fight. It's California, and California voters will determine the outcome of their elections. But honestly at this point in time anything which stifles MAGA in a win for America, even if the process appears at times troubled.

Impeach Trump, remove him from office, and replace him with a president who doesn't completely have an addled brain.

Once refusing passage through the Strait of Hormuz became the New Normal, and once it became Trump and Bibi vs the Sane World, the war became unwinnable for the "good guys."

So if Candace, MTG, Megyn, Tucker et al represent the "crazy" wing of the GOP, then what is the Trump & Paxton wing called? Deranged, delirious, psychotic?

Closing Time by Semisonic. Very repetitious and annoying

What difference will all these social media histrionics make on the outcome of the election? Zero. It won't dissuade Texas Democrats, most Texas independents and a sizable aliquot of Texas Republicans from voting for Texas's first elected Democratic senator since Lloyd Bentsen in 1988.

Y'all need to try to make your miserable nominee presentable for the general election.

@ Auburn is a spectacular environment for college football, but a hostile one. Never been to a game @ Tennessee

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Try harder next time

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Let me rephrase that-- the visible white component is STEAM. Whether you call it water vapor or steam, it's a greenhouse gas, heating the planet.

Bottom line-- don't burn coal. It's not nice

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They're pretty good

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They were pretty good, until this week's mass exodus

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Nobody gives a shite

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I give at least ~3.49 shites.

This year's election isn't focused on Talarico; I don't know how adamantly I have to reinforce that fact. It's a referendum on Trump, and how he's mismanaged his presidential duties this term. And for Texans it's focused directly on the corrupt Ken Paxton. Of course he'll get about 74% (according to polls) of his hardcore right-wing base support, but polls consistently suggest that more than one in four Texas Republican primary voters are not, under any condition, voting for Paxton in the general, and may consider voting for Talarico.

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Paxton's policies are worse

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Paxton as a candidate is immeasurably worse the progressive Talarico. And his performance as Texas Attorney General is loathsome: he recommended a misdemeanor plea bargain for a man in McLennon County accused of multiple acts of child r*pe-- a first-degree felony in Texas. Instead of a certain life sentence to be imposed upon conviction, the man served less than 3 months in the county jail!

Ken Paxton is a detestable human being and should be nowhere near Washington in a policy making capacity. It's estimated that nearly one-third of Texas REPUBLICANS may cross the aisle and cast a ballot for Talarico in November. And before you exult too much over Paxton's big primary runoff win, look at the numbers statewide cast in the primaries-- there were substantially many more ballots cast for Democrats than for Republicans in carnelian-red Texas. In Starr County, on the border, a county which Trump won 55%-44% in 2024, only 211 votes were cast this cycle for Republicans, as opposed to nearly 7000 for Democrats.

Enthusiasm is through the roof this year to put an end to Texas's red hegemony, and the Democrats have th ideal candidate to do just that-- in Ken Paxton!