Can’t believe everything ya read on that there web thingy.
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So you are saying that like Trump, Abbott only hires the best people.
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Back when I knew him, Abbott actually had some very good and competent people working for him. But of course, that was pre-MAGA. The Deplorables who presumably make up his staff these days are self-selecting for stupidity.
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I am going to see Santana this Saturday. Last time I saw him he said, “Fuck you Donald Trump”. I expect more of the same.
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If you’ve already booked your ticket I’m telling you it’s hard to get refunds. Just go and hope that some Republican women will oblige you.
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Hahahahaha!! No one even checked to see where (or rather if) that town exists?
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See, I’m thinking an Abbot/Cawthorne ticket…
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I see what you did there 
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When Vietnam veteran and triple amputee Max Cleland was running for his first term in the senate some foolish elected official in Georgia said that he didn’t have a leg to stand on.
Then there were the ugly attacks during his 2002 from Bush, Rove and the eventual winner “bad knee” Saxby Chambliss.
If Abbott ever got into the race you could expect the ugly out of Trumps mouth at his rallies. “The tree branch…”
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Two different songs.
Martha and the Vandellas hit was written in 1963 by the Motown team of Holland-Dozier-Holland.
Ella Fitzgerald’s song was written by Irving Berlin in 1933 for the Broadway show “As Thousands Cheer,” and was first introduced by Ethel Waters in that show. This recording was done in one take directly on a recording machine.
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These unfortunate women can never erase their faces from this ghastly photo. Even tattoos can be burned away, but they’re stuck with their ignominy forever. What a shame.
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I have just just a smidgen of sympathy for idiot staffer because not long after we moved here, my spouse was doing dispatch statewide for the initial lottery terminal installations, and I was working in a big mortgage company’s legal (i.e. foreclosures) office. Basically we’d come home and compare notes about correct pronunciation of cities and counties. Texas is big, y’all.
That said: What. Kind. Of. Idiot. takes even a cursory glance at that piece and doesn’t immediately see that it’s satire?
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I’m more than twice as old as any of those women, and I’d sneak into the sash room while they’re getting their hair and makeup done and use a red sharpie to pen an “S” at the beginning of each sash.
Then I (being an elderly and invisible woman) would run up to pin them on each “lady” and spin them around to face the door to the ballroom before the one who got past third grade could tell the others she didn’t know “trumpet” began with an “s” and they all got tangled up in their finery while they argued about spelling.
Then I’d hit the bar and do tequila shots while they all got their pictures taken. Yes. In my dreams, I would do that.
ETA:
“Just go and hope that some Republican women will oblige you.”
But you might wish that all they flashed were fake smiles.
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“Abbott Falls …” … naw, that’s too easy…
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That which pwns the libs is true. That which is true pwns the libs.
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“Slowly I turned…step by step…inch by inch…”
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I’m not much of a Garth Brooks fan, more of a traditional country and Americana person but from what I have read he’s a decent guy. It looks like Abbott is “roping the wind” with this attempt at faux outrage.
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being invisible is one of our super powers
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Think of how bad things would be in Texas if a competent moron was in charge…
Another? Like the Dixie Chicks? But back to the point at hand.
I mean Garth Brooks is pretty well known to be the decent guy who supports LBGTQ rights and goes ahead and serves Bud Light. He performed at Biden’s inauguration - in fact at every inauguration since GHWB. Except Trump, whose invitation he blew off.
He’s also got a history of chucking his career whenever it impinges on his personal life so I don’t think boycott threats would work that great with him anyway. Basically, his base is bigger than the MAGA base, which just reminds us that they’re not that big a slice of our population.
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