CardinalBacker

Just because you “have the votes” doesn’t mean you should do it. That’s what happened the first time that trump was impeached. Is Biden a terrible President? No doubt. Is he reasonably guilty of any “high crimes or misdemeanors?” Not by any evidence I’ve seen. Americans don’t want more of the same crap. They dont want more partisan rancor and endless hearings in the House. The worst thing that the Rs could do is to start some stupid Impeachment just because “they have the votes.” “But Trump could be the Speaker of the House.” It would never happen, even if it’s what Rudy, Marjorie, the Pillow Man, and a bunch of red-hatted fools get chubbies dreaming of.

Dumb crap like this is the reason that moderates won't vote Republican. If you really believe that Republicans can just usurp the election process and install whoever they want, you obviously weren't paying attention during Government class as a senior. I'll also guarantee that if by some stupid chance we DID have a Congress foolish enough to try, you'd have a civil war on your hands. The level of stupidity here is mind-blowing.

Maybe you ask the people at the NAACP (who were cool with the term “colored people”) or the fine folks at the United Negro College Fund. Not a lot of outcry over those two supposedly offensive names. Racism in America today exists only in the eyes of those who wish to be offended. READ THAT AGAIN. The literal push today is “you don’t even understand that you’re a racist, so let me explain it to you.” Racism by today’s extreme definition isn’t something you can see or touch, or even an activity… it’s something you don’t even know exists unless you use your imagination a little.

I think that the whole situation is sad. With all of the problems facing our Native American population, their leaders decide to put all of their efforts into this instead of poverty, drug addiction, violence, illiteracy, poor health, and any other of a host of ACTUAL PROBLEMS facing their community today. What has changed since the 1970s when the Cherokees were proud to be honored as the PNG mascot? Nothing in PNG.... they're still doing it the same way. The only difference is a embarrassing decline in leadership by the Cherokee Nation. BUT, I could see a time in the next five years where schools like PNG and Evadale will be banned from UIL participation if they don't change their mascots to accommodate the wishes of the far left. I'd bank on it.

I'm 97% certain that Faircloth made this complaint.

Nah… I just get tired of people crying because they don’t get paid like I do when they went to college to be a part time babysitter.

If their job was important, society would demand that they do it year ‘round. Do hospitals get to shut down for summer? No, they’re vital. Most businesses and jobs require constant inputs of work. Even daycares are open all year long because people actually NEED those.

Those guys really do, and the stipend is a joke compared to the extra time that they put in.

They say 75,600 minutes for the same reason that oil is produced and sold by the barrel, but every time a ship plows up on the rocks somewhere, it's spilling oil in gallons. A little quick math says that you average about 2000 hours per year at a full time job. Honestly it works out to be around 1920 hours if you get a couple of weeks of vacation and a couple of weeks of sick time. I'm being generous. Johnny Punchclock might not get two weeks of vacation and your sick time is necessarily used, but I'm just trying to be generous when I say 1920 hours for a typical American with a job that has nice benefits. If you take your 75,600 minutes of instruction time and divide that by 60 minutes, you end up with roughly 1280 hours of instructional time. Now, before you start yelling about grading papers, that instructional time students get actually INCLUDES a teachers conference period.... kids are instructed all through the day, even when the teacher is hanging out in the lounge flirting with the PE coach for a class period every day. It's a part time job. Stop letting teachers pretend that they have a full time job.

I wonder if Teachers will stop crying about the fact that they aren't paid salaries comparable to people with full time jobs? I doubt it. That 187 day calendar is about to drop down to about 140/365 instead of the 240-250/365 that most Americans work. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Educators collectively overestimate the value of their profession. Always have, always will.

Fixed it for you. Unless by "documented" you mean that the 10:00 o'clock news made some accusations. I don't remember Briles even being investigated criminally. I'm lazy... which year did one of Briles' teams clap y'all's cheeks?

It really sucks that we're all here because Trump would rather be mean on Twitter than be President.

The fact that you can't wrap your brain around the fact that people might (gasp) actually dislike Trump enough to vote against him shows how simple you are.

The fact that you swallowed Trump's lie despite a complete lack of evidence (which was repeatedly promised, yet never delivered) while ignoring U.S. Attorney General Barr, the Justice Department, the FBI, Homeland Security, state law enforcement, local law enforcement, local election officials, and 300 million cell phone cameras who all neglected to take a single photo or video of ANY impropriety..... means you believe in fairy tales. You're not just wrong, you're aggressively wrong. Kinda like Joe Biden.

The typical voter is uninformed. The typical hardliner is misinformed. The fact remains that one has to woo the uninformed or risk being right, but beaten. A candidate can't say "okay, I did all of these things to make myself unlikable to the uninformed, but when those people vote against me, it's because they're stupid." No, they voted against you because you were so freaking unlikable. The fact remains that roughly 77% of voting-age Texans are registered to vote. Then, take into account that right at 17% Registered voters (that's right, 17% OF 77%) bothered to vote in the Texas Primary Election last week. The general population IS uninformed. The fact that any of us even bother to talk politics online puts us in a very, very, VERY small percentage of the population. Face it... the gen pop (or the "Great Unwashed," as my economics professor used to say) ARE uninformed. What you can't have is a candidate that is so polarizing that he awakens the sleeping giant of uninformed voters to come out just to vote against him. None of what you've accomplished matters if you motivate the masses to vote against you.

You do understand that if Trump had managed to NOT alienate less than 4 million voters he'd still be President, right? Honestly that number is even lower when you factor in the Electoral College. Trump believed that bluster and hate would not hurt his chances to win because his followers kept heaping praise upon him. He was wrong, and we're all paying for it.

This is all I've been saying. I've been to actual Republican meetings over the last few months. Local leadership way is obviously way down on the Democrats, but equally nasty about "RINOs." You know, anybody that isn't goose-stepping along with every single item on the platform. Let's say that you're for lower taxes, support the police, a strong border, oppose abortion, believe in the second Amendment, but believe that we should explore legalization of Marijuana? You're a dirty RINO and they're going to do their best to silence you. You can say things like "I believe 100% of everything that you guys are fighting for.... but I've been waiting over a year for some actual proof that there was widespread voter fraud and I just don't see it" and Reagan and the rest of you will start all of the name-calling. Not following group think puts you on the outs with the loudest party voices... And we can't beat the other side if we're fighting each other in house.

You're exactly right... we needed him, or someone conservative. That's what makes the fact that he threw the election away to the worst dem duo in history so infuriating. He literally crapped the bed, and then he wants to phone down to the front desk and complain that his room has an odor... and you guys are chiming in to blame housekeeping.

The things that Abbott is "in trouble" for are transgressions against Rs.... not Ds. The lockdowns? Dems aren't mad about that.... Rs are. Higher property taxes? That doesn't bother a good liberal... but it'll get you an opponent in the primaries, apparently.

Which abhorrent behaviors on the part of Abbott can you show that would have alienated moderate/undecided voters and/or motivated democrats to go out and vote against him? I'll wait. BUT, the main difference is that Texas has a clear majority of Republicans who can re-elect Abbott if they turn out and vote... but the Rs CAN lose if "conservatives against Abbott" stay home. The US as a whole does not enjoy such a majority.... That was the infuriating part about Trump continuing to play to his base (who were already going to vote Trump) instead of trying to win over the middle... which you MUST HAVE if you're going to win the White House. You NEED moderates to go "R" if you want to win a nationwide contest. Abbot can win if he just gets the Rs to all vote for him.

You will.... I will, too. But in this era of scorched earth politics I'm confident that a large number of "conservative" voters won't because Abbott isn't their guy. It's this simple. People on the extreme see everything as a fight. It doesn't matter if they are a democrat (obviously an enemy) or just somebody who doesn't espouse every single far-right view point... they all get attacked. It's easy from our perspective how the far left is pushing everything that's going on with the Democrat party. It's a lot harder to recognize from the same perspective how the fringe on the right is hurting the Republican candidates. How did an incumbent like Abbot get three challengers? He's not crazy enough for those on the far right. Why didn't Trump get a challenger? It's not because he was the best, it's because the wackos on the far right supported him. I haven't forgotten the antics that the Tea Party was pushing a decade back... forcing candidates to sign pledges didn't end up so well for us at all, did it? That's the same energy being applied today. We need to keep Abbott in office. We won't like the alternative.

The guys who worship Trump are the same guys that hate Abbot because he's too moderate for them. The guys that they supported (Huffines, West, Prather) weren't electable.... even in the primary. But they'll sit home and pout in November instead of voting for Abbott and hand the thing to Beto.

No, because I think about him every morning when I examine my stool.

Good hire.

They’re in his sent box.