Comment on Theft

givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Folstar@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Talarico signed up for three debates and said he’ll show up even if Paxton doesn’t.

  Yes. Get up there and laugh at am empty podium if you have to. It was beyond frustrating in 2024 when the Harris campaign was like “ok, I guess the debates are cancelled”. No! Make a show of it. Stand on stage for an hour and read everything wrong your opponent has every done. Dare them to show up next time. Do something.

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  • velma@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was beyond frustrating in 2024 when the Harris campaign was like “ok, I guess the debates are cancelled”.

    They really did run a terrible campaign.

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Especially the part where they didn’t have a primary and picked the VP of the unpopular incumbent.

      I fully believe if they had a primary the winner would be president

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      • NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        For those who have forgotten the 2020 primaries, she also had no rizz.

        I get it, they were afraid of losing the funds they had raised, but it stood to reason that everyone who wanted Biden to step down would see her as partly responsible too.

        I’m a tin hat wearer who doubts the veracity of some of the 2024 election results… So I’m on the fence of whether that would have been different with a more compelling Democratic candidate.

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They briefly got some actual traction when Walz was calling Republicans “weird,” but then some idiot strategist stepped in and told him to stop. The campaign fell back to being anodyne and uninspiring after that, and then they tried to bring Liz Cheney in and everything just felt like it was going through the motions and expecting to have the thing handed to them on a silver platter.

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    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Two things felt painfully obvious:

      1. They, being wealthy political class themselves, were completely detached from the people’s plight and motivations.

      2. They knew no matter how badly they threw the fight, they could still be chilling back, buying low and selling exponentially high through whatever easily avoidable economic crisis hit our (not their) country next.

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    • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      All part of the riches plan.

      If you think it was a coincidence that he beat two women and almost an old man, I have some ocean front property in South Dakota to give you.

      Democrats play good cop but they are still cops

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  • GroundedGator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    They should find someone to read Paxton’s platform from his own website and Talarico can debate the positions.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ken Paxton just keeps doing his best Rafael Cruz impression and running away from anyone who asks him a question…

  Greg Abbott pioneered the strategy of just ignoring your actual opponent and scream “The communists are coming to take your guns!” at rallies hosted by your billionaire friends. To date, it’s kinda-sorta worked. Republicans have a stranglehold on the state senate due to gerrymandered districts. All the statewide offices are reliably Republican, year in and year out. And the Republican base loves to see a candidate throwing out red meat far more than a candidate who treats liberal opponents as serious contenders for office.

  As long as Talarico doesn’t start talking about taking people’s guns, he’s got this in the bag.

  Anyone who thinks Democrats have a statewide office in a bright-red state in the bag because the Republican is ignoring them, is delusional.

  You’ll know Paxton is in trouble when he starts crying about the liberal media not giving him enough attention and demanding a dozen debates a week with Talarico straight through election day.

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Having lived in Texas for 39 years, I don’t think it’s delusional this time. Wendy Davis, Beto O’Rourke, Colin Allred…I wanted all of them to win but knew it was super unlikely.

    What’s different this time is that Paxton has such a lengthy, tainted history in Texas. He’s made lifelong enemies of so many Republicans in this state, and Talarico is so very, very palatable to them with his level of comfort framing all of this through Christianity. Obviously, nothing is in the bag, but I have confidence in this race for Talarico I never had for the other 3 candidates I mentioned

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  • Maeve@kbin.earth ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I believe it actually began with the Bolshevik revolution and only receded, occasionally, rather than ever having went away.

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  • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Time to start buying seats at their fundraising events and then debating them while they’re busy fluffing themselves. Get kicked out for this move? Run headlines: “Paxton just proved that he doesn’t care about his own voters or sponsors”

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• Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “And what’s your stance on gun violence?”

  My stance is that crime goes down when poverty goes down, so let’s work on making sure people can actually earn a decent living.

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As long as Talarico doesn’t start talking about taking people’s guns

  Knowing Texan Dems, he’ll probably announce a new proposed policy tomorrow, announcing his intention for door-to-door gun confiscating raids.

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