CardinalBacker

This is a sports site, so I'll use a sports analogy. Let's assume there's a football team. They're a rotten football team. They lose all of their games. You would be a fan of that sorry team, but blaming the other fans because there's nobody in the stadium to close out their season. You are literally like a diehard New York fan arguing that the New York Giants FANS, not the team, are the reason that there was nobody in their stands last week. Trump should have won walking away, but he got his cheeks clapped by an imbecile and his whorish sidekick. That's a tough pill to swallow, I guess, so you just have to blame everybody else.

And they'll have flags on their trucks that read "Trump 2024" (if they don't already have them) and be yelling "let's go brandon." Because as bad as Trump was, his supporters did a lot to motivate people to come out and vote for "anybody but Trump again." You're blaming the wrong people as always.

Don't take my word for it.... take your daddy's. [Hidden Content] And for what it's worth, Trump is only out for Trump. He gets ahead by saying "America First" and people like you that eat it up.... it's actually Trump 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.... you're just a vehicle he needs to arrive at more power. Kinda like being Pro-life unless it's a really messy situation that he's personally involved in.

[Hidden Content] The only illusion is yours when you say it didn't happen.

That man will do anything to avoid playing Silsbee.

So let me get this straight... You say "baby killers will never get my vote" which is a pretty strong statement with zero wiggle room, but then when pressed on the fact that Trump avoided the direct question on whether or not he'd actually paid for one, you stammer "if...if....if...... if he did then it's wrong, but I don't know that." That, my friend, is a cuck move.

So by your argument, undercover cops buying drugs from drug dealers is now evil on the part of the cops? Stop making excuses for your Klan buddies. Trump's followers are fools.

But Trump personally paid for at least eight abortions of his own children!!!!!

Y’all are some idiots. When you storm the House Chamber with intentions of halting the transfer of power and assassinating the Vice President, you should expect that getting shot in the face is a likely (and deserved) outcome.

Fixed it for you.

I think being two-faced is a criterion for being a politician. Just like when the Republican Senate didn't want to approve Obama's pick for the Supreme Court with a looming presidential election in 2016, but turned around and crammed Trump's pick through in 2020 without even blushing. The answer is "well, the other side would have done the same thing given the opportunity" and they're not wrong. The Republicans would have done away with the filibuster when it suited their purposes. You can't be too mad if the Dems try to do away with it when it suits THEIR purposes. It's all semantics.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! Well, I guess you guys can look up from between Trump's thighs and appreciate what just happened. [Hidden Content] How's that for "Why hasn't anybody been charged with insurrection?" I'm satisfied with seditious conspiracy. Have fun in prison.

Lol... but he somehow managed to beat the brakes off of your Orange God. Too funny.

It's gonna get better as soon as we get all of this racism under control.

No, it was 81 million decent people who weren't willing to ignore the blatant evil that Trump presented on a daily basis. Unlike most "Christian" and "conservative" people that I know... they were all willing to overlook all of his misdeeds and vote Trump anyways. But somehow it's the decent people who are now being blamed. Christians and conservatives had a chance to denounce Trump's Godless behaviors and nominate a morally decent candidate, but they didn't. That's who's to blame for the current mess... People like you who blindly ignored Trump's garbage.

This part I'm not sure about. The idea that in some places you should pay 3% of what your home is worth annually just to continue to own it is preposterous. Those old days of owning a rental property and calculating 10x the monthly rent as your gross income and allowing the other two months to cover your taxes/insurance are long gone. A house that rents for $1500/month in mid county would likely carry a $4000 + annual tax bill. That's just not feasible, but somebody has to feed the pigs, I guess. Your best bet when dealing with the CAD is to fight them within the confines of their framework. Protest, Arbitration, etc.... The people who don't fight them are subject to random/huge increases. Mine bounced from $140k to $240k this year... I protested and got it down to $210k, but with the tax ceiling this year it's held to somewhere in the 170s... but it will go up 10% a year until it hits the $210k. The thing is this... my place is worth every bit of that. Those old days of owning a $125k dollar house and paying taxes on a $75k dollar house are gone. If your new actual market value is $200k, you pay taxes on that entire $200k. Which is how it should have been all along. The unfortunate part of rising real estate prices is that while your property is worth more, you don't realize that increase in value unless you sell... but you're taxed on that increased value every year until then.

For what it's worth, that's not the tax assessor, that's a appraiser from the Appraisal District that's looking at your place. They'll just do it by satellite. Or they hit you with a notice of appraised value high enough to make you protest. If you don't like the values they come up with, you'll let them do their job. Or you can just pay that bill that's created using an artificially high value because of your dogs/gates. Or you can refuse to pay and they'll sell it somebody who will pay the taxes on it. You don't HAVE to pay property taxes. The tax system isn't the problem. It's local politicians wanting to grow their empires that keep your taxes on the increase. I find it laughable that people who cry about the lack of athletic facilities in our area (compared to higher tax areas in NE Texas) and the sad state of coaches' pay in our area turn around and complain about their taxes being too high. My opinion is that local taxes (county/school/cities) are out of control. But the solution isn't to do away with the property tax system... You're still gonna pay the same amount, just in some other form. What would you like to pay an additional $4k dollars (or whatever your property tax bill is) for this year? Your income? A 25% sales tax rate? How much will that add to the price of your already inflated new car that you have to buy? The problem is the fleet of new vehicles around every government facility. When the legislature locked counties/cities/ESDs to a 3.5% limit on new tax dollars generated (without an election) a few years back, they almost revolted.... because they were used to being "limited" to an 8% growth on new tax dollars generated. Unfortunately SB2 didn't do anything to curb out of control school spending, and that's where the bulk of your tax bill goes. We had about a thousand kids in the school where I graduated. A principal, Asst principal, and two counselors. Do you know how many administrators most schools have these days?

I just assumed it was a male teacher trying to make up ground with female students. Both of these educators were female... It's not what I expected.

I'm just angling for that first Cardinal win, baby!

How many signatures were on that petition?

Well, first you have to accept that crime is not the fault of the criminal committing it... it's the fault of society. It's poverty, a racist criminal justice system, systemic racism, oppression, the lingering affects of slavery, etc.... but it will never, ever, be the fault of the black kid shooting another black kid over a half ounce of weed or the color of his sneakers. Ever. You shouldn't be concerned with crime... you should be concerned with the causes of that crime that I've listed above. Any other concern is rooted in racism... such as your concern for your own well-being. Honestly, I lived south of 73 off of Memorial in PAT while I was in college. It's not as bad as it sounds. Don't stop at redlights, and if you have to, stop far enough back to get out of line if you have to move. Don't buy gas in Port Arthur. Period. It's too dangerous at the pumps. Don't look like a victim... look like the kind of guy that probably carries. For God's sake, don't buy your weed local. Steer clear of young black dudes, 16-24-ish. That's where your problems come in. There's a "we're all in this together" mentality among the people that live there. Be aware of your surrounding and you'll be fine.

You can look forward to another violent crime wave around 2040.... when all of those kids being born to mothers who couldn't get an abortion due to Texas's new abortion restriction finally get felonious. I called it first.

I just assumed that it was that one weird computer science teacher or coach giving the booze to underage girls. Now i'm confused.

The only problem is that the left only supports the "most" oppressed. Face it, trans people have it worse than women on the official scale of inequities used by the left. Kinda like Blacks are way more important than hispanics, and Asians get no love at all... despite all being "people of color."

I think back to 2020 when the outrage over branding/packaging of products down at the Walmart was proven to be inherently racist. No more Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, or that Squaw on the Lands of Lake Butter products. As a result, today you have only white faces on products at the store. Mr. Clean, Chef Boyardee, Cap'n Crunch, Little Debby.... Well done, lefties. Great Success! Lol.