Let me be the first to express a most considered Womp-Womp.
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Do I see a glimmer of purple??
Woot Houston!
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Sorry…but @j.dave beat you to it. 
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Hundreds of well-educated, law degree holding, GOP state legislators heave a giant sigh of relief that they won’t have to risk their lives for a senseless ritual.
Then they turn on their phones and tweet hysterical screeds about personal freedom and liberal censorship, decrying the Mayor of Houston’s perfidy and lack of patriotism.
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Mostly they want to see the concerts. But your point is valid.
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I’m sure as an alternative they can rent a dirt racetrack with wooden grandstands somewhere. Figure 8 track, of course.
Houston has been a liberal city for a long time.
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This. This is exactly right. They are all Ted Cruz clones. Well-educated, fucking hypocrites with no sense of community or social responsibility.
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RIP. Sorry your parents were trumpheads.
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Yeah and all the 4H kids who have spent a year raising a steer or bull from a calf just to sell it at the Livestock Show, are heartbroken.
No State Fair up here to show and sell them, no Livestock show down there.
Everything is on hold for a year - people will have to come to terms with that.
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Ah yes, this includes the Woodlands?
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Interesting to see if the Texas Rs look for another venue for their get-together, or whether they show the world that they have joined the Survival Caucus. Surely there is some venue in the great state that will throw itself under the wheels of the great god Juggernaut. If the convention doesn’t come off that could only be due to a lack of a similar willingness of these Texas Rs to sacrifice their mere lives for their leader.
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“I am the mayor of every single person in this city…"
Gosh, too bad there’s no one who’s the president of every single person in the country.
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See, that’s the great thing about the mayor’s proposed alternative of a virtual convention. All the manure would still be on display for everyone. With no challenger holding a bloc of seats to need horse-trading (for the VP slot, e.g.), and with no coherent faction pushing for campaign planks other than “whatever Donald wants”, there’s less reason than usual for the backroom negotiations that typically generate BS hidden from the public. The speeches themselves, every last one of them, will be the fecal matter.
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Yeah…but I still see this as a demonstration of growing Democratic power in Texas.
LET ME BELIEVE THAT. As a native Texan, it makes we happy.
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Bingo.
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Yee-fucking-Haw! to be exact.
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These church folk should stick with snake handling.
Cut and Shoot welcomes GOP.
Consider what happened on 12/7/41. The world flexed for the status quo in hours. Things changed and the country did as a whole. It imposed a hell of a mental adjustment across the entire spectrum. And it lasted longer than a year. Here is hoping that while everyone deals with the ups and downs of the situation, that there is also a reassessment of who we are both as individuals and as a culture. While everything is seemingly in pandemonium, I think that reassessment happening right now.
The Republicans are fronting for something old, archaic and septic with rot. They represent not only a political party, but a portion of our culture that is toxic. They originally could use the cover of a broader interest and inclusion, but it has narrowed by their own hand, so severely it is like a sore thumb sticking out. They have been giving it life support for decades. Their actions this last three years are a collective last hail Mary attempt to keep it going. But there are no longer any positive outcomes for them.
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