On the Republican side, Ken Paxton and John Cornyn were neck-and-neck and in position for a runoff, according to the poll from the University of Texas’ Texas Politics Project.
To me him being “reasonable” is my main issue with him. He’s doing the whole “if we just explain things to Republicans with reason and rationality they will change their minds.” These people didn’t use reason to get into the positions they are in, and reasoning has not and never will work to get them out of those positions. They are not true Christians as much as they use Christianity as a shield for their shitty behavior, and so reasoning using religion won’t work on them either.
Jasmine Crockett is imperfect, absolutely, but she brings the fight and the fire. She isn’t afraid to get down and stoop to their level and not hold back. They call names, she calls names, they talk shit, she talks shit. It’s not perfect, but it’s a way stronger way to fight back than this mealy-mouthed “we just need to explain it to them again” that the Democrats have been doing for my entire fucking lifetime of over forty years and has never worked once to make these people see reason.
Even reasonable religious people aren’t enough to change the narrative, and I thought his discussion with Boebert proved that. Because she would just agree with him at every step of the way, and he wouldn’t and didn’t call her out directly, instead allowed her to weasel out and act like it’s other people not living up to Godly standards. He didn’t call her out and say “how is vaping and mashing your boyfriends dick in public with your tits half hanging out Godly behavior, ma’am?” Crockett is willing to play that game and get down, mean, and real. She was one of the few people who seemed to have left Pam Bondi speechless during those hearings recently, because she brings the fire, she doesn’t back down, and she’s willing to get into the mud with them so to speak. On the other hand, Talarico let an easy target, Boebert, walk all over him and he left mountains of ammunition against her on the table and let her pretend she wasn’t exactly who he was talking about.
Talarico is just more milquetoast “reasoning” with unreasonable people. He’s right on the message, wrong on the delivery.
To me him being “reasonable” is my main issue with him. He’s doing the whole “if we just explain things to Republicans with reason and rationality they will change their minds.” These people didn’t use reason to get into the positions they are in, and reasoning has not and never will work to get them out of those positions. They are not true Christians as much as they use Christianity as a shield for their shitty behavior, and so reasoning using religion won’t work on them either.
Jasmine Crockett is imperfect, absolutely, but she brings the fight and the fire. She isn’t afraid to get down and stoop to their level and not hold back. They call names, she calls names, they talk shit, she talks shit. It’s not perfect, but it’s a way stronger way to fight back than this mealy-mouthed “we just need to explain it to them again” that the Democrats have been doing for my entire fucking lifetime of over forty years and has never worked once to make these people see reason.
Even reasonable religious people aren’t enough to change the narrative, and I thought his discussion with Boebert proved that. Because she would just agree with him at every step of the way, and he wouldn’t and didn’t call her out directly, instead allowed her to weasel out and act like it’s other people not living up to Godly standards. He didn’t call her out and say “how is vaping and mashing your boyfriends dick in public with your tits half hanging out Godly behavior, ma’am?” Crockett is willing to play that game and get down, mean, and real. She was one of the few people who seemed to have left Pam Bondi speechless during those hearings recently, because she brings the fire, she doesn’t back down, and she’s willing to get into the mud with them so to speak. On the other hand, Talarico let an easy target, Boebert, walk all over him and he left mountains of ammunition against her on the table and let her pretend she wasn’t exactly who he was talking about.
Talarico is just more milquetoast “reasoning” with unreasonable people. He’s right on the message, wrong on the delivery.
she’s a pistol. when she replied to MTG with “Bleach Blonde, Bad Built, Butch Body” she earned my vote.