I think I’m going to make it my life’s mission to find every person that voted for Dan Patrick and punch them.
Jesus Fucking Christ that guy is a moron.
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Not funny, Neil.
Dan Patrick is a fucking idiot.
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These are interesting times. It’s like there’s been a paradigm shift, but some people, out of habit, hubris or stupidity, just don’t get it. I think most people are now seeing through the braying and bluster, but braying and bluster is the only play certain politicians know.
Trump is the most obvious offender. For example, days after his church photo op, he was bragging about what a badass he was for that stunt. It was so off-note, but he couldn’t see it as he’s stuck in that old paradigm. Witness his love for Confederate heroes as well. Patrick is another example: already outed for his idiodic die-for-the-economy tirade, he doubles down, figuring if he is just angrier, and stupider, he’ll be heard and respected. That style is so tired and ineffective, but people like Patrick don’t realize that times have changed and the audience for that shtick is disappearing.
What a complete fucking douchebag.
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Stoking irrational fear among people who have it pretty good has been a winning electoral strategy for Republicans for decades. It worked because the targets didn’t have more serious things about which to be scared. That’s not true currently.
Holy shit!
The deaths and the positive test rate put the damning lie to the claim that it’s just more testing that generating more cases (which is stupid on face value anyway).
Case in point:
Voters in deep-red Oklahoma approve Medicaid expansion under Obamacare
Oklahoma voters decided Tuesday that the deep-red state should expand Medicaid to low-income residents.
The ballot initiative, which began long before the coronavirus pandemic but took on increased urgency amid the outbreak, passed narrowly with a majority of 50.5%, a margin of about 1 percentage point.
It calls for enshrining Medicaid expansion in the state constitution. The goal is to prevent legislators from enacting rules that could make it more difficult to qualify for coverage, such as work requirements – a tool favored by President Donald Trump and many Republicans to shrink the program.
Nearly 200,000 low-income adult residents are expected to gain health insurance. Expansion is also estimated to bring a little more than $1 billion additional federal funds annually to Oklahoma, said Amber England, the initiative’s campaign manager. The state will have to pick up 10% of the cost.
Oklahoma becomes the fifth state run by Republicans to approve expansion, a provision of the Affordable Care Act, at the ballot box. Maine was the first, in 2017, followed by Nebraska, Utah and Idaho a year later.
So, while Trump is trying to disintegrate Obamacare - with no replacement plan of any kind - red states are voting to fully embrace the parts of it that were denied to them by their petulant and partisan Republican leaders.
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He doesn’t have that excuse.
Yeah, it’s more likely that he’s just an idiot.
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Im old enough to remember when W was mocked as dumb, rather than remembered as the smarted GOP leader in recent Texas history.
Hell, I remember when Rick Perry seems like the dumb one.
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Will Hurd was a smart guy. I guess that was why he quit.
He was. I miss him. If ever I had to testify and he was on the dias, I had to be very well prepared and ready for good, solid, transparency-producing questions.
I heard Hurd speak to a small group a couple of months before he dropped out. He said that the Republican Party had two electoral issues in 2020; that this was the first election where more than a third of voters would be millennials, and that they had managed to lose 20% of their educated suburban women in 2016. He said the party was doing poorly with the young and had done nothing to recapture women–this was about the time of the Louisiana/Missouri abortion legislation. I don’t know that I particularly agree with most of Hurd’s positions, but he’s a smart guy, and I think a good guy, and he may be the future of whatever’s left of the Republican Party after the next election.
In a way, Hurd is about the worst of them all. Sure, he’s smart, smart enough to know that the current Republican mindset is a road to nowhere and that Trump is a lying coward who cares nothing about our national security. But, every time he had a chance to take a stance or be a leader on those issues, he was either crickets, a contortionist or a Susan Collins. His political future was more important than his values, assuming he had any.
Bottom line, he’s a huge disappointment to me. Just another politician who cares way more about his future than his country. I really hope there is no future for any Republicans who didn’t drop out of office during the Trump years, with the exception of Mitt.
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I heard the exact same thing said by a Democratic member of the Houston delegation, when I told her how well Hurd came off in our meeting. I’ll give Hurd the benefit of the doubt though. He is very conservative, but I think in a less divided Congress he could do good work.
The fact that she won a carefully gerrymandered district designed to keep disgusting subhumans like Culberson in perpetual power makes me smile every time I think about it.
And yeah, fuck Hurd. He is absolutely a more reprehensible case than the (many) who are too fucking stupid and crazy to have any way to know better.
GREAT NEWS! The President announced today that the coronavirus was “going to sort of just disappear.”
I’m off to the nearest bar to celebrate!
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The percentage of Millennials peaked in 2016. Their percentage is going down, and they will account for about 27% of the electorate, slightly less than Boomers (28%) and slightly more than Gen X (25%). Those older than Boomers and younger than Millennials are about 10% each.
I’ve got some slightly disappointing news for you…
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I’m probably being more literal with millennials than Hurd was. What I recall the sense of what he was saying was that Republicans were losing the advantage they had with older voters because they did so poorly with younger voters, and those voters were voting.