OT: Trump in Austin Tuesday

[clob94]

Alert! This is not a political thread. It's an Austin thread! Act accordingly please.


So one of my buddies I'm close to (was a groomsman in his wedding) called me today and here's how the phone convo went :

(ring ring)
Me: what's up bud?
Him: dude, what are you doing tomorrow?
M: Eh, light day. I have a bid I'm working on. Nothing too heavy. Why? What's up?
H: Did you know that Trump will be in Austin tomorrow?
M: Ya, I saw that on the news.
H: It's been a while since I've mixed it up. I'm thinking about going down to the rally and just acting all neutral and seeing if one of those professional antagonist end up getting in my face.
M: Bro, why?
H: I don't know. So many people have been acting like d!ck heads lately and now that I'm old as sh!t, I keep wondering if I could still whip someone's a$$ at the drop of a hat. I'm not going down there to start sh!t, but you just know there's going to be p!seed off people everywhere looking for a fight. I look at it as giving them what they think they want.
M: Dude, you're 6'2 and weigh 225. You'd crush some poor fool.
H: I'm not going to start anything. But all this crap I see on tv looks like people bullying other people and I hate bullies.
M: Well you know I got your back bro. But it just seems like asking for trouble.
H: You know me, I'm cool. I've never started sh!t in my life. I just end it.

I love this dude like a brother. After both his kids were born, following him and his wife, I was the next person to hold his babies.

Question: Do I go and make sure my boy has cover (he doesn't need it) or do I pass?

 

[txn_in_wa]

pass

 

[cwillfromdatx]

Pass. Don't entertain no thoughts

 

[Belldozer1]

Alert! This is not a political thread. It's an Austin thread! Act accordingly please.


So one of my buddies I'm close to (was a groomsman in his wedding) called me today and here's how the phone convo went :

(ring ring)
Me: what's up bud?
Him: dude, what are you doing tomorrow?
M: Eh, light day. I have a bid I'm working on. Nothing too heavy. Why? What's up?
H: Did you know that Trump will be in Austin tomorrow?
M: Ya, I saw that on the news.
H: It's been a while since I've mixed it up. I'm thinking about going down to the rally and just acting all neutral and seeing if one of those professional antagonist end up getting in my face.
M: Bro, why?
H: I don't know. So many people have been acting like d!ck heads lately and now that I'm old as sh!t, I keep wondering if I could still whip someone's a$$ at the drop of a hat. I'm not going down there to start sh!t, but you just know there's going to be p!seed off people everywhere looking for a fight. I look at it as giving them what they think they want.
M: Dude, you're 6'2 and weigh 225. You'd crush some poor fool.
H: I'm not going to start anything. But all this crap I see on tv looks like people bullying other people and I hate bullies.
M: Well you know I got your back bro. But it just seems like asking for trouble.
H: You know me, I'm cool. I've never started sh!t in my life. I just end it.

I love this dude like a brother. After both his kids were born, following him and his wife, I was the next person to hold his babies.

Question: Do I go and make sure my boy has cover (he doesn't need it) or do I pass?

You gotta go, no question. No doubt it will be interesting.

 

[Longyac]

Why in the world is Trump wasting campaign time in a solidly red state?

 

[Belldozer1]

Why in the world is Trump wasting campaign time in a solidly red state?

He's positioning himself in anticipation of the other shoe dropping. Everyone knows at this point it's not a question of if, but when.

 

[Longyac]

He's positioning himself in anticipation of the other shoe dropping. Everyone knows at this point it's not a question of if, but when.

By campaigning in a state that hasn't voted for a Dem since LBJ?

 

[Belldozer1]

By campaigning in a state that hasn't voted for a Dem since LBJ?

I thought it was 1976? You may be right though. I'm sure the Texas tour is focused more on minority vote and Austin having a large gay community gives him an opportunity to sway those voters nationwide.

 

[Maverick1971]

I thought it was 1976? You may be right though. I'm sure the Texas tour is focused more on minority vote and Austin having a large gay community gives him an opportunity to sway those voters nationwide.

Carter was the last to win Texas in '76.

Texas will go red but there is still a lot of $$$ to be pulled in from the Lone Star State.

 

[lupar_horns]

You gotta go, no question. No doubt it will be interesting.

cool story racist piece of shit..i hope you go and get your ass beat, chump.

 

[lupar_horns]

Carter was the last to win Texas in '76.

Texas will go red but there is still a lot of $$$ to be pulled in from the Lone Star State.

Texas will be blue in a decade..

 

[lupar_horns]

He's positioning himself in anticipation of the other shoe dropping. Everyone knows at this point it's not a question of if, but when.

won't drop far enough to elect that ****tard trump, you and he deserve each other, racist..

 

[Belldozer1]

cool story racist piece of shit..i hope you go and get your ass beat, chump.

??Derp. What did I say that was racist?
MM the BLH is strong in this one?

 

[lupar_horns]

??Derp. What did I say that was racist?
MM the BLH is strong in this one?

do you support cheeto jesus, of course you do...duck

 

[Belldozer1]

do you support cheeto jesus, of course you do...duck

Oh I see. Upholding laws offends you. Yes, good luck with that.

 

[clob94]

Aaaaaaaaaaaand my thread has officially been hijacked.


Ducking for cover as I hear MM warming up the leather in the bullpen.

 

[Belldozer1]

Aaaaaaaaaaaand my thread has officially been hijacked.


Ducking for cover as I hear MM warming up the leather in the bullpen.

Are you going? Appears to start around 4 P.M.

 

[Scholz]

"I'm not going down there to start sh!t" I'm somewhat skeptical of your friend's claim.

That's like the white supremacists surrounding the NAACP office loaded for bear in Houston yesterday saying "we're not here to cause violence, only protect ourselves..."

 

[Maverick1971]

Texas will be blue in a decade..

Nope. I think this conversation is way above your pay grade.

The 2014 election results (Governor) show just how far away the Dems are:

On November 4, 2014, Abbott defeated Wendy Davis by 21 points. According to exit polls he received 44 percent of the Hispanic vote and 50 percent of Hispanic men, a majority (54 percent) of women voters, and 62 percent of the votes of married women (75% of women in Texas are married).

 

[lupar_horns]

Oh I see. Upholding laws offends you. Yes, good luck with that.

racist

 

[lupar_horns]

Nope. I think this conversation is way above your pay grade.

I get paid just fine.

Nope. I think this conversation is way above your pay grade.

The 2014 election results (Governor) show just how far away the Dems are:

On November 4, 2014, Abbott defeated Wendy Davis by 21 points. According to exit polls he received 44 percent of the Hispanic vote and 50 percent of Hispanic men, a majority (54 percent) of women voters, and 62 percent of the votes of married women (75% of women in Texas are married).

yup, by gerrymandering and passing laws to suppress minority voters...duck

 

[lupar_horns]

Are you going? Appears to start around 4 P.M.

make sure to bring your hood..or do you bring that out of the closet?

 

[Oldmanastro]

 

[Belldozer1]

make sure to bring your hood..or do you bring that out of the closet?

Good grief dude why do you claim I'm racist? You claim Trump is racist but until this election process, he hasn't been labeled or defined as racist? Quite the opposite actually?

 

[Maverick1971]

I get paid just fine.


yup, by gerrymandering and passing laws to suppress minority voters...duck

This argument would be ridiculous but worthy of discussion if you are referring to a congressional district election but we're not. The Governor's race is a statewide election and any alleged gerrymandering would have no merit. Based on your prior posts in this thread, this is just too far over your head to have a useful dialogue. Perhaps you could take a Civics course (that obviously wasn't part of your GED curriculum) and return at a later time to apply what you have learned.

 

[LongfellowDrew]

Aaaaaaaaaaaand my thread has officially been hijacked.


Ducking for cover as I hear MM warming up the leather in the bullpen.

Before this is locked anyone looking for trouble will get it so I say pass. 1 or 2 men cannot take on a bunch of angry protestors whether you're on one side or the other. Stay home and drink a beer with your bud and put some meat on the grill.

 

[oldschoolcat]

Sorry.....drawn offsides. This year's election is entertaining if nothing else.

Arrests will be swift I'm afraid.....tell your boy to go fishing instead.

 

[Scholz]

Good grief dude why do you claim I'm racist? You claim Trump is racist but until this election process, he hasn't been labeled or defined as racist? Quite the opposite actually?

You're kidding, right? Of course you aren't. My God you're dishonest. Or maybe you are this level of ignorant. Trump is a definite racist and it goes back a LONG way. He and his father had huge civil rights lawsuits against them by the DOJ for housing discrimination (i.e. not renting to minorities). He took a full page ad out in the NY Times asking for the death penalty against 5 black and hispanic kids accused of rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park (later found innocent btw and no apology). He was the birther in chief of that ridiculous Obama story because he's half black. Mexicans are drug smuggling rapists. His entire campaign has been based on racism and xenophobia and a wakening of white nationalism, of stoking fear and hate of minorities. He's been racist his entire adult life. His long time butler called for Obama to be murdered (no disavowing of that).

Those who still support him cannot claim he's not racist or that they don't know. It's too blatant.

 

[Bass Elder]

hold on Scholz...you're missing the point. He's here to prove his wife wasn't a lady of the night.

 

[lupar_horns]

This argument would be ridiculous but worthy of discussion if you are referring to a congressional district election but we're not. The Governor's race is a statewide election and any alleged gerrymandering would have no merit. Based on your prior posts in this thread, this is just too far over your head to have a useful dialogue. Perhaps you could take a Civics course (that obviously wasn't part of your GED curriculum) and return at a later time to apply what you have learned.

You brought up that texas is red, I said it is turning blue. You pointed to the gov. election which pointed to the state being red

You're kidding, right? Of course you aren't. My God you're dishonest. Or maybe you are this level of ignorant. Trump is a definite racist and it goes back a LONG way. He and his father had huge civil rights lawsuits against them by the DOJ for housing discrimination (i.e. not renting to minorities). He took a full page ad out in the NY Times asking for the death penalty against 5 black and hispanic kids accused of rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park (later found innocent btw and no apology). He was the birther in chief of that ridiculous Obama story because he's half black. Mexicans are drug smuggling rapists. His entire campaign has been based on racism and xenophobia and a wakening of white nationalism, of stoking fear and hate of minorities. He's been racist his entire adult life. His long time butler called for Obama to be murdered (no disavowing of that).

Those who still support him cannot claim he's not racist or that they don't know. It's too blatant.

/this...

 

[oldschoolcat]

The whole country is turning blue. Free candy wins every time.

 

[GuaranteedFresh!]

Clob, "I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was."
If you feel like bustin' knuckles be there. If you don't want to be in an editted viral video making you look like an ass, have a cold one close enough down the street for an emergency rescue if needed.

 

[HornsRuleU]

Good grief dude why do you claim I'm racist? You claim Trump is racist but until this election process, he hasn't been labeled or defined as racist? Quite the opposite actually?

That's far from the truth, if you've been paying any attention. Speaking about the demagogue, not the troll.

 

[Belldozer1]

You're kidding, right? Of course you aren't. My God you're dishonest. Or maybe you are this level of ignorant. Trump is a definite racist and it goes back a LONG way. He and his father had huge civil rights lawsuits against them by the DOJ for housing discrimination (i.e. not renting to minorities). He took a full page ad out in the NY Times asking for the death penalty against 5 black and hispanic kids accused of rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park (later found innocent btw and no apology). He was the birther in chief of that ridiculous Obama story because he's half black. Mexicans are drug smuggling rapists. His entire campaign has been based on racism and xenophobia and a wakening of white nationalism, of stoking fear and hate of minorities. He's been racist his entire adult life. His long time butler called for Obama to be murdered (no disavowing of that).

Those who still support him cannot claim he's not racist or that they don't know. It's too blatant.

All of this coming from the guy that adamantly proclaims that Obama is not a Muslim. Truly laughable.

You're kidding, right? Of course you aren't. My God you're dishonest. Or maybe you are this level of ignorant. Trump is a definite racist and it goes back a LONG way. He and his father had huge civil rights lawsuits against them by the DOJ for housing discrimination (i.e. not renting to minorities). He took a full page ad out in the NY Times asking for the death penalty against 5 black and hispanic kids accused of rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park (later found innocent btw and no apology). He was the birther in chief of that ridiculous Obama story because he's half black. Mexicans are drug smuggling rapists. His entire campaign has been based on racism and xenophobia and a wakening of white nationalism, of stoking fear and hate of minorities. He's been racist his entire adult life. His long time butler called for Obama to be murdered (no disavowing of that).

Those who still support him cannot claim he's not racist or that they don't know. It's too blatant.

Are we talking about Obama or Trump here?

 

[clob94]

"I'm not going down there to start sh!t" I'm somewhat skeptical of your friend's claim.

That's like the white supremacists surrounding the NAACP office loaded for bear in Houston yesterday saying "we're not here to cause violence, only protect ourselves..."

Easy scholz, he's black and you know his name. Ex player.
He grew up in a rough area and was bullied as a little kid and detests people bullying others in any shape, form or fashion.