Oops. On second thought, pass the tofu.
Oops. On second thought, pass the tofu.
tofu and dyed hair are the least of the problems in CA.
RCP Average: Cruz +4.4
RCP Ranking: Toss UP
Emerson 8/22 - 8/25 550 RV 4.4 39 38 Cruz +1
https://realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/senate/tx/texas_senate_cruz_vs_orourke-6310.html
To be in a tossup re-election—while Greg Abbott is favored to win by +10 or more—is bad.
A father told each of his 3 sons, as he sent them off to college, "I feel it's my duty to provide you with the best possible education, and you do not owe me anything for that. However, I want you to appreciate it. As a token, please each put $1,000 into my coffin when I die.”
And so it happened.
His sons became a doctor, a lawyer and a financial planner, each very successful financially.
When their father's time had come, and they saw their father in the coffin, they remembered.
First, the doctor put 10 newly printed crisp $100 bills onto the chest of the deceased.
Next, the financial planner also put $1,000 there in 20 newly printed crisp $50 bills.
Finally, it was the heartbroken lawyer's turn. He reached into his pocket, took out his checkbook, wrote a check for $3,000, put it into his father's coffin, and took the $2,000 cash.
The lawyer is now running for Congress in your district.
I like Ted Cruz, but this is dumb. Dyed hair? Seriously, Ted? (1) Who cares? (2) I kinda doubt that it’s less popular among Texans, the gals at least.
Something like...
Californians are welcome into our great state of Texas...
...however...
...please leave California rudeness, selfishness, socialism (and worse), anti Second Amendment, lazy entitlement (gimme, gimme dat) thinking, shallow (think Cher here), pro drug, unhappiness to the point of perpetual misery, political correctness to the point of misery, tolerance for crime and early release of criminals from prison and open border with mexico thinking at the State Line.
Thanks...y'all.
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I expect Trump can drag this guy across the finish line, but it is almost not worth it.
Ted, they already sell tofu and hair dye in Texas.
-PJ
Had tofu tacos the other. Mighty tasty!
The Fall of Texas and the One Party State
Link: https://wilderwealthywise.com/the-fall-of-texas-and-the-coming-one-party-state/
When I was a lad, I stumbled upon the book “The Ayes of Texas,” by Daniel da Cruz. In it, the wealthy Texas entrepreneur, who lives in Texas, funds work on the Battleship Texas (BB-35) to make it seaworthy again in time for Independence Day, 2000.
Alas, the sneaky USSR proposes a treaty to the United States: put your weapons up, and we’ll put ours up after you put yours up. And, led by East Coast leftists, we fell for it. Except for the Texans, who vote to secede from the Union, and fight it out alone against the USSR. Oh, and our entrepreneur, has secretly outfitted the Texas (BB-35) with nuclear reactors and particle beam weapons.
It’s a good yarn (it has the Battleship Texas surfing on a tsunami of liquid fire), and you can get a cheap copy on Amazon.
And it does, I think, highlight the lynchpin that Texas is in modern politics, and not the one where the Soviet Union is still a thing.
My consideration of this started in the hot tub. The hot tub is great – we sit and either relax quietly, or engage in conversation. And it was just this sort of conversation a few weeks ago about the Civil War (Civil War, Cool Maps, Censorship, and is Fort Sumter . . . Happening Now?) that led to The Boy saying:
“It all comes down to Texas.”
I was interested. “What do you mean?”
“Well,” he began, “From what I’ve read, Texas today looks a lot like California in 1980 or so. Look what California looked like then, it was prosperous. It was wealthy. It was a beacon for the country. Everyone wanted to move there.”
I remembered. Heck, I remembered one time when a family stopped at our house when I was young asking for a cup of flour so they could make gravy at a campsite. They were making their way from Oklahoma to California. California was a place where your economic dreams could come true.
“Now, that’s Texas. The economy is great there. They’re reliably Republican, and with that, there are all of the low tax, low government interference policies that lead to prosperity. People are streaming into Texas.
“And that’s the problem. The people streaming into Texas, well, they aren’t Texan. Over 300,000 Californians have made their way to Texas over the last five years, and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. They’re fleeing the highest poverty state in the nation, which coincidentally has the greatest wealth inequality in the nation.”
I responded: “Yeah, California is regulations-happy. I read that it was against the law for a homeowner to change a light switch – it had to be done by a licensed electrician. And one time I was talking to a friend on the phone a few years ago. His dog started barking. He was afraid he’d get fined again. Because dogs barking in California is . . . illegal. Sadly, when the Californians leave to go to another state, they want to bring those regulations with them, not realizing that those regulations were the cause of the economic problems they have now. Heck, Californians can’t figure out that their restrictions on housing cause house prices to go crazy faster than Elon Musk with a few minutes to kill and a connection to Twitter®.”
The Boy responded. “California used to be solidly Republican. At some point in the near future, a Republican might not even be on the ballot. Did you know that Ronald Reagan was governor there?”
It’s amusing when 18 year olds begin to discover the world.
“Yeah, now that you remind me of that, I remember it.” I smiled
“Well, California voted solidly Republican, at least until 1992. From then on, it became a lock for the Democrats. And it happened quickly – within a decade. Once Texas flips to voting Democrat, it’s over.”
Once it flips? Will it flip? The percentages voting Republican have dropped, and with the continual influx of Californians that are heavily collectivist as well as the rising proportion of Hispanic voters, which vote Democrat on a greater than two to one margin, it seems assured that as the Hispanic population rises in Texas, the flip to permanent Democrat control in Texas will be nearly inevitable.
Honestly, if Hispanic immigrants voted 2 to 1 in favor of Republicans, Democrats would have insisted on a 200 foot high wall topped with automatic machine guns.
Looking at the map, it’s theoretically possible for a Republican to win the White House without Texas, but it’s unlikely. Once Texas becomes Democratic the presidency will become, like California, permanently Democratic.
Dear Ted,
I support you in this race
BUT you are no Donald Trump, so knock off the Rodney Dangerfield/Don Rickles attempt at humor.
POTUS is coming to Texas for a rally, so let him handle this part.
Take it straight at your opponent and beat him (soundly) in the arena of Texan and American Ideals
Was told his opponent was arrested for armed robbery once and DUI twice Uses the name Beto instead of Robert to hide his Irish roots and appear more Hispanic. Any truth to it?
We are talking about a state where
one of districts thereof, is
represented by none other than
Sheila Jackson Lee.
Mexico lost Texas via immigration. Texas will fall in time again. Just as the South as a whole is slowing being bred out and imported in.
That he calls Totalitarian Socialist Fascist “Liberals’, tells me he’s Cruzing for a losin.
“Tofu & Dyed Hair” lol!
I like Ted, but sometimes he makes himself sound like Jed Clampett from that TV comedy. I know he’s trying to sound authentic. Just like others; “Gonna get me a Hunting License!”
I have to laugh sometimes at the Image my present state of California has to those in different states.
Don’t forget that a large number of us are not natives of this state. I chose to live here after leaving the Navy back in 1983. I could have gone back to either Michigan or Ohio.
As a conservative, I’ve learned to pick my battles, and not be too quick to take the bait when hearing an opposing view.
Well that’s the minor stuff. How about turning Texas into Venezuela!
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Cheap shot.
Ted should know about dyed hair.