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If only we’d had a leader who wasn’t powerless to stop their evil pandemic, cough cough. The pandemic was real, and handled really poorly. All of Trump’s supporters felt like he deserved another term for Operation Warpspeed before they became anti-vaxxers.

Somebody else already posted (and apologized for) posting this nonsense. You realize that for these numbers to be accurate, every single person who voted for anyone other than Cornyn or Paxton would have to vote Paxton, and more than 10% of the people who voted for Cornyn less than three weeks ago would also have to switch their votes to Paxton do this to be mathematically possible. Blind allegiance over commons sense again, eh?

Agreed… and based on how well it went last time, I’m not very optimistic.

Shakes fist: “THAT’S NOT MUSIC!!!!”

Stocks closed at $45,577 today… a little over a month ago it was over 50k, gas was $1/gallon cheaper, and we weren’t trying to borrow $200 billion to fund a war in Iran to prevent an imminent attack with their imaginary weapons. So much winning.

Who? Trump was a horrible candidate and an even worse president. Who here thinks that the world is in better place than it was in January of 2025 the instant Trump took office? Economically, politically, militarily, etc…. By every measurable criteria other than “I’m just happy my Orange Daddy won,” Trump has been a disaster for the planet of Earth. But if you go back, the same thing happened last time (minus the wars, sex trafficking coverup, and demolition of the east wing for a ballroom). Job losses, stock market failing, debt exploding. CB tried to warn y’all, and he was right. It all came true.

Who was the elite coach that won at Allen, then didn’t do so hot at Barbers Hill? Did he forget how to coach on one of those long trips down I45?

Even if every single hunt vote goes to Paxton, he still wouldn’t have 57%. Your poll was a bunch of maga blowhards voting for Paxton over and over like it was American Idol. My opinion is that most hunt voters want change, but don’t want it bad enough to vote Paxton, even though they knew that Paxton actually had a chance to beat Cornyn. Like I said. The math doesn’t lie. If hunt voters stay home, Cornyn wins. If hunt voters break 50/50, Cornyn wins. Paxton has to dramatically outperform Cornyn among hunt voters to have a shot, and my opinion is that he won’t win that many votes from Hunt.

Smalley is a good coach… not elite in my book at this point. To answer AAW, Joseph is elite and will be considered as such for a long time, even without a return trip to Dallas. Hickman from WOS is apparently a better coach then I expected, and a few more seasons like last year will have him moving into the elite category with Joseph. I don’t even know who’s in newton these days, but they aren’t elite. Barbray and Johnston weren’t either, but that’s a completely different subject.

It’s also important to note that your poll is trash. The final results earlier this month were Cornyn 41.9, Paxton 40.7, and Hunt at 13.5, then the others. According to your poll, people who voted for Cornyn are now deciding to vote Paxton in the runoff. With Cornyn “dropping” from 41.9% to 37%… a ten percent decrease in the number of people who’ve already voted Cornyn in the primary. Like I said… If I were you, I’d edit my post to remove an obvious trash poll and either a) pretend it was a joke or b) apologize to the board for getting tricked by a fake poll.

I think you’ll see something like Ashby/Ward in Texas SD 3, where “we the people” (who are actually something like 8% of the total population) will find themselves befuddled that their candidate just isn’t likable and doesn’t win.

And by his handling, do you mean Trump being involved in human trafficking and raping underage girls, or him allowing too much information to be released about him being involved in human trafficking and raping underage girls? JK, jk…. I think that his handling gives the appearance of a coverup, when there’s obviously a lot of false allegations in there that hurt a lot of people. I can get why he’d want to move on, even if he’s done nothing wrong… but the country just wasn’t having it. Good answer.

I’m sure that I’ve talked about plenty of things that Trump has done that I consider to be good… just not so many this term, and I don’t like the things that he’s focusing on. Ballrooms, coins with his likeness, lawsuit after lawsuit, overthrowing governments left and right, etc. Conservatives on the Supreme Court was a good thing. I like tax cuts when we can afford them, but we can’t right now. I like the easing of regulations, typically, and I’m anxious to see if American automakers can make good on making new vehicles more dependable as a result of easing emissions requirements. He used to be funny, if you have that sense of humor. I loved when he strolled over into North Korea… that was epic. I don’t hate LSU, I can’t stand their fans. I feel the same way about people who are team Trump, all the way, no matter what he says or does. When I KNOW they’d be screaming at the top of their lungs if Biden had attacked Iran, but today they’re like “just give it a few more weeks.”

I asked Reagan the other day to post just a single instance in which he felt like Trump had made a mistake. For once he was silent. Not a single time has Trump been mistaken, lol.

I posted this on another thread on accident. The national debt cruised by 39 trillion last week. It hit 38 Trillion back in October. In January of 2017, Trump took office vowing to “erase the debt” with tax cuts, to the cheers of what Dr Sam Parigi called “the great unwashed.” The debt was 19.9 trillion at that moment. Do you see a problem? [Hidden Content]-

The national debt cruised by 39 trillion last week. It hit 38 Trillion back in October. In January of 2017, Trump took office vowing to “erase the debt” with tax cuts, to the cheers of what Dr Sam Parigi called “the great unwashed.” The debt was 19.9 trillion at that moment. Do you see a problem? [Hidden Content]

Ummm… why would they buy oil from us, but also pay us again “to refill it?” Oil has a global market, subject to the laws of supply and demand. When supply contracts demand is increased, driving up prices. It’s Eco 101, my man. Chanting “USA” doesn’t affect what other nations are willing to pay for our oil.

Honestly, if we’re experiencing a shortage of oil, is there a better way to drive up demand than to artificially cut the price of gas?

We passed $39 trillion in debt this week. One of every three dollars the federal govt spends is borrowed, and interest rates can’t come down right now. Trump gave big tax cut last year and promised to offset the cost with tariffs, but they were proven illegal, refunds are pending…. But we already slashed tax revenue. We quite simply put, can’t afford to cut any tax revenue right now. It makes even less sense then Doge checks.

My guess is that you’re not talking about Jesus, you’re talking about Trump. Okay… serious question. I’ve seen probably a thousand of your posts praising Trump. Has there ever been a time when you felt that his decision-making wasn’t impeccable? I doubt it, but if so, please enlighten us.

No, he just had an opinion that didn’t match Trump’s, and he wasn’t a sheep. It’s the same old playbook. Trump hires someone with a questionable rep, and everybody gets castigated by MAGA for saying “hey, this guy has problems.” Soon enough, the problems come to light and the person leaves in a cloud of smoke… then Trump and his weasels come out swinging “Traitor. Weak on security. Not very smart.” And trumps brainless drones hop in line. “Oh, he was leaking info. That’s why he quit.” A person who isn’t in love with MAGA would first question “why does every person who leaves Trump’s employment suddenly the biggest piece of crap that ever lived?” Secondly they’d ask “ if they are really pieces of crap, what does that say about the rapist who apparently only knows how to hire pieces of crap?” It’s the highest level of stupidity that’s immediately apparent to anyone who isn’t MAGA.

You’re just now noticing this?

You can also cut taxes by eliminating the jobs at which people earn paychecks. If you squint, it’s actually giving people a break on their income taxes.

I was talking with somebody earlier about how Operation Epstein’s Fury was going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars and they corrected me, saying that the cost was nowhere near that. [Hidden Content] You, sir, have been corrected.

And oil is trading at $114/barrel this morning.