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Beto O'Rourke is on the road

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 00:14:55 +0000

Beto O'Rourke is on the road again, criss-crossing Texas and broadcasting his stops in small towns.

His efforts have been focused on the widespread power outages and fighting the pandemic.

It's igniting Democratic hopes that he'll run for governor.https://t.co/Yrc3Mwx9tY
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 6, 2021

Electricity companies are

artappraiser — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:01:43 +0000

In reply to Texas After the Storm

Electricity companies are billions of dollars short on the post-storm payments they now owe to Texas's power grid operator.

There's no clear path for how they will pay. https://t.co/o2rEDx519I axios
— Dr. Joseph Frusci (@JFrusci) March 5, 2021

Fox News just loves them some

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 22:41:51 +0000

In reply to Michael Moore is up there

Fox News just loves them some threats from libruls, they play it to the max-scroll ahead here to 2:00 where they play the tape they dug up of a Michigan rep

Michael Moore is up there

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:27:01 +0000

In reply to turns people like Yglesias

Michael Moore is up there with Kid Rock - what do I know.

turns people like Yglesias

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:19:42 +0000

In reply to 1) is Michael Moore dictator?

turns people like Yglesias off, turns people like me off, isn't that enough for you? that's it's bad messaging. Tweets are public messaging and can be retweeted.. (Yglesias retweeted it and countered just for that reason.) We don't want to be in a party where he's a member. He's bound and determined to be the poster boy for the intolerant liberal stereotype that does resound and turns moderates toward voting GOP downticket. Every reinforcement of the stereotype is soooo counter-productive politically. I really truly would like to be able to join a party where Michael Moore types are not a member, would jump at the chance.

1) is Michael Moore dictator?

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:52:18 +0000

In reply to Michael Moore into collective

1) is Michael Moore dictator? Will his tweet really matter to any Texas or US official?

2) when Texas kept threatening to secede, did we issue a bunch of PSAs explaining really this was only a few Texans, not the majority? When they bragged about voting for Trump and Cruz did we remind that it was only 60-65%?

No, we just said "Texans are dumber than rain water - let 'em secede, take Ted with you." Was that insensitive and offend nin-Yrumo voters and non-seceders? Who gives a shit - campaign harder so youre not shamed by your awful weird neighbors.

Michael Moore into collective

artappraiser — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 18:06:51 +0000

In reply to Texas After the Storm

Michael Moore into collective punishment, including possible death:

What the fuck is this? I’d like my father in law to get a vaccine. https://t.co/7iRtTzGCYR
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 3, 2021

Such an excellent way to win over swings NOT.

Nate Silver as always, thinks

artappraiser — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:20:58 +0000

In reply to David Plouffe calls what

Nate Silver as always, thinks to look up related facts on the matter:

What's kind of screwed up is that states like Texas and Florida that are eager to fully open up tend not to have made the vaccine available for essential workers yet, whereas the more "closed" states (though nowhere is truly closed) largely have.https://t.co/KzISbdaYKE pic.twitter.com/jG0oKCxLQD
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 2, 2021

just curious to see if Elon

artappraiser — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:09:24 +0000

In reply to David Plouffe calls what

just curious to see if Elon Musk had anything to say on the matter, looks like he's just not into that, tweeted this 45 min. ago, basically planning on his own free state with its own gummint anyhow?

Creating the city of Starbase, Texas
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 2, 2021

David Plouffe calls what

artappraiser — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:03:31 +0000

In reply to "RIP Texas" is trending on

David Plouffe calls what Abbott is doing an "abomination":

Trying to distract from one crisis by exacerbating another. An abomination. Now we need a wall to keep Texans in Texas. https://t.co/lkYehCmUnc
— David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) March 2, 2021

edit to add Bill Kristol:

Gov. Abbott is going to be responsible for more avoidable COVID hospitalizations and deaths than all the undocumented immigrants coming across the Texas border put together. https://t.co/dSsdQQ6sxp
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) March 2, 2021