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Great diversion! 🤣 I clearly ended with they all need to be reigned in. If you can’t comprehend that, they are all equally guilty. It also shows the disingenuous title of the debt “surges past $39T”. That surge must have started 5 years ago…. But we won’t count that, right? 😎

I merged identical topics.

SURGES PAST $39T!! Wow! But let’s do a quick Google/AI search. National Debt by year: 2020, the last full year Trump was in office. ND increased by $1.49T 2021 or Biden’s first year in office increases $2.45T in a single year or almost double Trump’s last year in office. 2022 it increased $2.24T. 2023 it increased $2.33T 2024 it increased $2T Now in the first year of Trump’s second term the ND increased $2,35T. So which year was this dramatic surge again? I think they all need to be reigned in but pointing out Trump seems disingenuous at best.

The House Democrats can’t block anything.

Neither of your follow ups addressed my comment. I made no prediction nor refuted any of the current polls posted this thread. I only noted that you apparently scour the internet trying to find another person’s comment that agrees with your own. You can post whatever but none of the claimed blowout of Cornyn has happened. Zero….. So yet again you are referring to someone else’s opinion or poll to back up your beliefs. It is having an opinion and then trying to find a comment that backs up your pre-determined beliefs. That’s okay. I will refer back to my comment a year ago that said it is tough to beat an incumbent no matter what the polls say. To date I have been correct…. you haven’t, not even once. Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. It is like a guy who predicts who will be in the Super Bowl and for 20 years has been wrong every time. Then after two decades of failure, his prediction is correct and he says, “See, I told you!!”. My only prediction to date is that it is tough to beat an incumbent. I gave the example of KBH whose early poll showed that she would annihilate Perry. I am fairly certain that anyone reading this thread would agree that Cornyn to date has been a tough opponent. Let me guess, you will again search the internet high and low to find another poll that has nothing to do with this comment. 😎 And for a side note, I voted early and for Paxton. I don’t think he will be the best choice to beat the Democrats. He carries too much baggage. I don’t believe politically slanted polls however. I also believe that the Democrats might come out to support Paxton in order to eliminate Cornyn. Anyone who didn’t vote in the Democrat primary is eligible to vote in the runoff.

You started this thread almost a year ago. The article that you led off with has one poll showing Paxton up as much as 40% and crushing Cornyn. A day later I said not so fast. It is hard to beat an incumbent. As an example I gave the gubernatorial race between Kay, Bailey Hutchison and Rick Perry. I think she was up about 25 points a year out, was a very popular US senator and had all the big names pushing for her. Perry beat her in the primary. Hutchison went from a 20+% point lead to a loss. A month later, you posted an article that said “Texas sized trouble for Cornyn”as a headlines and Paxton with a double digit lead A month later the article was Cornyn trounced by Paxton. We could go on but I believe the point has been made. All of the double digit leads completely went away and in truth, Cornyn beat Paxton in the primary. It was by only 1% but Paxton’s double digit lead (as much as 40%) evaporated and he edged into second place behind Cornyn. Now apparently, Paxton has already won. Yesterday you posted a poll that showed Cornyn lost support (42% to 41%) from the primary so none of the undecided and all of the votes for Hunt went to Paxton. The article that you posted now has Paxton with a 1% advantage if Cornyn got the Trump endorsement. The rumors are that Trump is about to endorse Cornyn. If that happens, by your article, it shows the race well within the margin of error. So for now, Cornyn has “already lost the run-off”. The bottom line is that nothing that you have posted for a year has been correct. Not only did Paxton not crush Cornyn, he lost to him in the primary. Yes it was by a mere percentage point but that’s a far cry from a 15% to 40% crushing loss by Cornyn. Paxton may very well gain the needed votes to win. I doubt that Cornyn will lose votes as the article you posted suggests however. Oddly, Paxton’s biggest ace in the hole could be the Democrat supporters not wishing to face Cornyn.

It should not be that hard to address the topic and not another member. It’s not like accidentally blurting something out in a conversation. It’s typing and you have time to go back and look at it. Not that my opinion matters but I am not a fan of calling people out with the @ symbol. If that person feels like responding he/she will. That person may not even want to read that thread. There is no need for @someone and @you and ask what do you think of YOUR guy now. Post your comment and if no one wants to answer, great. But, that’s just an opinion That is not the same as calling a mod/admin’s attention to something or asking another person an educational question like @bullets13 to ask about being a teacher and/or the rules they follow. It’s really not that hard.

There is almost no way that they reverse birthright citizenship. It is one of the few times that this court will use interest balancing to get away from any original context.

I am not sure how many people actually understand. The War Powers Act or the Constitution. That is especially true for the politicians who claim that it was unconstitutional to strike Iran. I would like to think that the politicians know that they’re lying to the public and just playing politics but the problem is that much of the public doesn’t know that they’re lying or maybe are actually that ignorant.

Tell me where I am wrong without your spin. Maybe you could Google an answer and see if someone else came up with something better than you did. How many times in five years has a president, has Trump fired someone and then created a new program just for that person to keep her in the loop?

Seriously, what does his comment have to do with the First Amendment?

Hardly fired. She wasn’t good on public statements or talking when confronted with questions she wasn’t expecting. Typically, when Trump fires someone, they leave immediately and usually with a bad statement from Trump, about how the person was not loyal, incompetent, etc. In this case Noem become the head of an entirely new program dealing with regional defense strategies. If I was to ever get fired in such a case, I would love it to be by going from the head of one program and being reassigned to the head of another program. Apparently Trump liked her political stance and opinions enough to placing her at the head of a program dealing with American defense.

Korea and Vietnam were wins, pure and simple. Of course some people love to ignore facts because for some reason it makes them feel good for some reason to say, well we lost one. In Gulf War I and II the enemy surrendered. How do you lose a war when the enemy surrenders?

We haven’t lost a war.

🤣🤣🤣 You have gone almost as far into the deep end of the pool as the TDS denizens.

Technically no but without a cooperating witness…..

What is the point and what is the governor’s duty to speak on religious locations in a community? A quick search shows that DFW is one of the fastest growing Jewish areas in the country and now has almost 50 synagogues. Should the governor be commenting on the rise of Judaism in the Metroplex?

Shocking!! An oil millionaire gives money to governor of largest oil state in the nation. First time for everything!! 🤣

Even more comedy. I didn’t bring up Trump, you did. To refresh our memory, this was your quote that I answered: Uhhh…yes. Trump has driven divisions that were incomprehensible 15 years ago. Never has such a liar occupied the Oval Office. Never has anyone in the Oval Office, including Nixon been so focused on themselves at the expense of the Constitution, and reason in general for that matter. He is consequential in a bad way. That is why my response was, this thread is about Paxton and Cornyn. Your comment that I answered never mentioned Paxton or Cornyn or anything to do with the topic of the thread. You only mentioned Trump, the Oval Office, Nixon and the Constitution. I understand that it might be hard for you to follow along. When you’re so eaten up with Trump that you completely go off topic and never mention the intent of the thread. It’s okay, what did Trump do this time? Did he hurt your feelings in the SoTU?

The old saying goes, it’s hard to judge a book by its cover. Maybe but not in this case.

This was weeks ago. Another thread on the topic in this forum was started on February 6 and had over 100 comments by February 7. It was locked because of some comments. There is no need to open up another thread after the original was locked.

….. and after they moved from Dallas to Irving.

What video?

Maybe they will decide to drop the name Bears. Indiana Indians? Indiana ICE?

I am guessing maybe Paxton with 43%, Cornyn with 34% and Hunt with the scraps around 20%. Paxton in the run off 54% to 46%.