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I just saw this story about that Texas mayor having to resign. Here's what he said about Texans currently freezing to death, amongst other things....
Colorado City, TX mayor Tim Boyd (R) said that “he had already resigned after he was widely condemned for writing on Facebook that people suffering in the cold without power shouldn’t look to their local governments for help,” the Dallas Morning News reports.
Boyd wrote in his typo-ridden post that “no one owes you are your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING!”
Boyd continued, saying that he was “sick and tired” of people looking for handouts and that the current situation is “sadly a product of a socialist government.”
He concluded: “Only the strong will survive and the weak will perish.”
He's a parasitic piece of shit.
People have to stop voting for these sociopaths. Yes both sides suck but it's time for Texas to try the other side for awhile. They can't possibly do any worse.
Ted Cruz went on vacation to Mexico while the plebs freeze and starve. He won't even bother pretending to give a shit about his constituents.
His defenders(how does he have any?) claim there's nothing he can do because he's a senator. BULLSHIT.
There's a ton of shit he can do, starting with...
Leading. Other than the governor, he's the most famous/influential politician in the state. He can use his influence to pull resources together and get things moving quicker. He can use his celebrity power and bring in donations. He can lead by example and get down in the trenches with the plebs and hand out blankets, serve at a shelter, go to the stores whose shelves are mostly empty and draw attention to it. List goes on and on.
He doesn't do any of this.
Why?
Because he doesn't give the tiniest of shits about anyone but himself and his corporate donors.
He's currently being shamed because AOC just raised a million dollars for Texas.
He's being outshined by a representative from NY.
I initially thought he should resign over the Jan. 6th fiasco.
He should resign over this. When trillion dollar tax cuts for billionaires aren't in play, he's a worthless piece of shit.
The past few years have shown that the majority of our politicians are not capable of actually governing....and they're even worse during a crisis.
Our country is in the early stages of collapse and our future depends on getting these types out of office.
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Same thing with Cuomo. The arrogance is off the charts.
Absolutely.
I'm starting to wonder if Cuomo should be in jail.
His handling of Covid verging on criminal yet the media spent all of 2020 praising Cuomo, blaming Trump for NY deaths, and pushing Cuomo as a future presidential candidate.
It was all propaganda and spin.
Now people are finding out how Cuomo really handled the pandemic.
Both sides need to take out the trash. A good first step for Dems is removing Cuomo, make senile Feinstein resign, and take Pelosi out of the speaker position.
First step for Republicans....
Force Cruz and Hawley to resign. Start phasing out McConnell by picking a new minority leader.
It could energize both sides of the aisle. It would also bring some confidence and dare I say respect back to DC.
There has to be changes of some sort. The path we're on leads to disaster and then collapse.
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There is nothing wrong with Pelosi. She's actually moves forward legislation etc. You can disagree with her philsophcally, but she's nowhere near Feinstein.
Cruz is like literally the worst and most pathethic senator. That dumbass is blaming his kids. And he booked a trip that was supposed to return on Saturday. I mean, at least act like you give a shit during this time of need when your fellows citizens, whom YOU REPRESENT. I mean O'Rourke whom he defeated a few years ago acts more like a Senator than he does.
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There is nothing wrong with Pelosi
Yes there is.
She is the left side of the aisle's McConnell. Only difference is she blocks shit in the house while he does it in the Senate.
She should've been forced to resign or at least step down as speaker a couple months ago when it came out she was preventing stimulus being passed in the leadup to the election because it would help Trump.
Someone....on either side....who would do that cares absolutely nothing about the American people. Zilch. Nada
She bitched about CA residents complaining about them wanting to go out and do frivolous things such as getting a haircut during the pandemic. She's then caught going to a salon.
She's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. She's almost 80. She is completely out of touch with her constituents. How many more years does she need to suck up to her corporate donors and reaping the rewards?
She needs to exit stage left. Now.
she's nowhere near Feinstein.
What's happening with Feinstein should be a scandal yet they all keep quiet about it. In a nutshell it shows how truly broken our system is under the surface.
She can't remember meetings she goes to and she just sits there like a statue. The country (and the system itself) depends on this person having to make decisions and crucial votes.... especially in 50-50 split.
This is unacceptable and should be the top news story every day until she is removed.
I mean O'Rourke whom he defeated a few years ago acts more like a Senator than he does.
I don't really like him although credit where it's due....he stepped up to the plate during this crisis.
I believe he's controlled opposition. He had a legit shot at Cruz two years ago until he started mouthing off about taking everyone's guns and the religious digs.
Anyone who wants to win in Texas... whether it's dog catcher or Senate....knows not to threaten to take guns away from Texans. It's a miracle he didn't lose by more than he did.
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The timing of all this is pretty ironic. Texas was seriously contemplating succession or at least floating it out there. They have done this many times and don't mean it. But now they're asking for federal help.
Cruz isn't up for re-election for 3 years. That's an eternity. There's plenty of time for him to do more nothing.
I'd gladly trade Pelosi and whoever else likes to engage in gridlock on the Dem side so that we can move forward but I'm just not sure it's that simple.
The fights that are currently occurring over the census and the gerrymandering by Republicans is such a turn off...and it couldn't be any more obvious that the current iteration of the Republican party doesn't have the votes. So that strategy switches from policy to voter suppression. The politicians pick the voters and that's how they want it.
Republicans will never win the national popular vote again. When you can deny a 7 million vote lead it only emboldens them to continue to pursue this strategy.
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The timing of all this is pretty ironic. Texas was seriously contemplating succession or at least floating it out there. They have done this many times and don't mean it. But now they're asking for federal help.
The talk of succession from any state is beyond idiotic.
If I happened to be president and Texas politicians started mouthing off about succession, I'd immediately have them placed under arrest, address the nation regarding the seriousness of their desire, and have execution on the table as punishment.
Succession means instant war until the state is back in the Union. It's serious shit. It NEVER should've been allowed to become a partisan talking point or something to whine about between elections.
I say this periodically but we need another Teddy Roosevelt to save the country before we go over the cliff. Our current politicians on both sides are nothing but spineless, incompetent cowards who grovel at the altar of corporations and billionaires and are less than worthless in the event of a crisis.
The handling of Covid....yes by both sides....is inexcusable and unforgivable. Imagine these clowns in power during one or several of these scenarios....
- Major terrorist attack such as a chemical/biological/nuclear attack on NY, Chicago, or Miami
- The complete collapse of the dollar
-An Ebola pandemic spreading through the air
- Russian invasion of Europe or Chinese invasion of Taiwan and strikes at Guam, South Korea, and Japan
- A climate disaster such as Antarctic ice sheet collapse into the ocean, Yellowstone exploding, Hawaii blown to smithereens
- The "Big One" in Cali
The thought of these people in control during any of those crises is absolutely frightening.
We need change.....REAL change.
I'd gladly trade Pelosi and whoever else likes to engage in gridlock on the Dem side so that we can move forward but I'm just not sure it's that simple
While highly unlikely, one scenario I'd like to see play out this year is a few moderate Republicans jump sides, put country over party, and caucus with the Dems. For starters it would prevent one specific politician from having too much influence over legislation. The next two years are critical in taking a few baby steps to get us back on track.
We aren't going to survive with more of the same partisan gridlock while pretending to care about the plebs while licking corporate ass.
If we don't see change and see it soon.... we're going to see a scenario start to take shape that leads to a 2024 election of The Rock vs Ivanka.
Republicans will never win the national popular vote again. When you can deny a 7 million vote lead it only emboldens them to continue to pursue this strategy.
While things certainly look bleak at the moment, every few years we hear about the imminent death of the Republican party.
I remember after Obama won, various experts were saying that a republican would never win the presidency again in our lifetimes.
Funny how that worked out.
This country is broken. If we don't get on the right path, we're going to get another celebrity president to help send us deeper into the abyss....and there's a 50/50 chance it's a republican.
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No state is serious about secession. It wasn't long ago people seriously believed California would go back to Mexico by the year 2000. Yeah...
Cruz's plans to run for president again are dead. No one likes Cruz, even the people who voted for him.
If Beto were a Republican the media would absolutely destroy him, especially with His personal history. His arguments are so easily torn apart he folds in any kind of setting where he's confronted or debated. Which is why he only goes on friendly shows like Anderson Cooper.
Trump's political value is torched. The environment that put him in office has changed and was a weird, once in a lifetime moment. No one took him serious and he won't have a Hillary to run against. He has his little cult, but that's it. The media keeps pointing to Republican polls (mostly because they really need Trump back in the political field for ratings) but people are actually voting on who they think would win the nomination now based on name recognition. Don't listen to polls.
Matt Gaetz is laying the groundwork to run for President and is desperate to get the Trump vote. That will be a hilarious mess!
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Matt Gaetz is a moron.
If this Trump Republicans vs traditional Republicans war lives up to the hype, it’ll be fun watching trump destroy his enablers. Can’t say there weren’t warning signs or a pattern of him doing stuff like this all his life.
It’ll be fun to watch them destroy each other. They had a chance greatly limit the amount of damage Trump could do post presidency and they didn’t take it.
They created a monster and now the monster has turned on them.
