Here in Tarrant County i don't even know what Democracty looks like....I try to explain to my friends in Big D what a totalitarian county looks like....they can't grasp the idea, they have a govt that largely reflects who Dallas is......Tarrant does not
i heard a rumor that the now Chair quit the Chair in 2023 because the then wanna-be Chair's people asked her too or pressured her too....and when that wanna be Chair got tired of being Chair , she quit and gave it back to the quitter Chair, so the quitter who gave her chair over to the next quitter is now the Chair.....In fact we have had 3 administrations run by people who have quit mid-term.....Sounds a little "whose on 1st" for those who know that joke
A little known secret, but a special election for Chair is not a democratic event because only insiders get to chose....and u get on the short list cause the insiders know u already.....So in Tarrant county for 10 years the Chair has essentially been traded amongst a select few......with disastrous results for Texas and national Democracy
The net result and what every one cares about.....We Tarrant Dems never talk to voters..So busy are we with our poltical machinations we neglect actual voters. ....We ignore everybody so nobody but nobody votes.....
If TC is red, Texas stays red.
Texas is gonna be red for a long time to come if Tarrant doesn't talk to the Majority of its voters and non-voters ,,,,,aka Hispanics
Scudder knowingly or unknowingly played into that hand with his visits to TC....
some juciy quote from an excellent explication of why....for progs ...which i take all of us here to be...
'Centrist moderates are the conservative core of the party and they’ve become fossils dating back to the ‘Compromisian Era’
"Overtime, political innovators get replaced with administrators, "
'I’ve also never thought it ‘progressive’ to do the right thing."
"The connotation of ‘radical’ that’s been smeared over ‘progressive’, has sprung from messaging efforts by policy makers on both sides,"
"The DNC has a history of trimming alternatives to its centrist platform by maneuvering to control the party ticket and then demanding unity from those they sideline. They’re also adept at making it look like progressive policies cannot be sold in the ‘big tent’ of the Democratic base "
my favorite line which applies to Kendoll...."While the pain of defeat was still cutting deeply and begged for balm, the first sign of recovery on their part came in the form of loathsome fundraising appeals, arriving faster than vultures smelling carrion. "
and this one is for u Colin Never-Reddy......as we marvel how adept u are at shape shifting yourself into something that resembles a candiate
"Centrists have become so jaded by their ‘skill’ of moving us around the chessboard of political malfeasance, they still don’t seem to see that we’ve started to move ourselves, preemptively to ‘take the game’.
After all ‘independence’ is what No-Kings-Day was all about."
its men v. women, that is all men v. all women in Texas
"The worst person you know just filed the worst abortion lawsuit in Texas" - DK
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/24/2334862/-Infamous-Texas-lawyer-launches-another-gross-attack-on-abortion-rights?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_5&pm_medium=web
national party politics seems quaint here in the the lone star state of subjugation ....but is an interesting discussion....are nat Dems gaslighting US?.....https://www.unchartedblue.com/democratic-leaders-need-to-stop-gaslighting-voters-with-ridiculous-distraction-claims/
Here in Tarrant County i don't even know what Democracty looks like....I try to explain to my friends in Big D what a totalitarian county looks like....they can't grasp the idea, they have a govt that largely reflects who Dallas is......Tarrant does not
i heard a rumor that the now Chair quit the Chair in 2023 because the then wanna-be Chair's people asked her too or pressured her too....and when that wanna be Chair got tired of being Chair , she quit and gave it back to the quitter Chair, so the quitter who gave her chair over to the next quitter is now the Chair.....In fact we have had 3 administrations run by people who have quit mid-term.....Sounds a little "whose on 1st" for those who know that joke
A little known secret, but a special election for Chair is not a democratic event because only insiders get to chose....and u get on the short list cause the insiders know u already.....So in Tarrant county for 10 years the Chair has essentially been traded amongst a select few......with disastrous results for Texas and national Democracy
The net result and what every one cares about.....We Tarrant Dems never talk to voters..So busy are we with our poltical machinations we neglect actual voters. ....We ignore everybody so nobody but nobody votes.....
If TC is red, Texas stays red.
Texas is gonna be red for a long time to come if Tarrant doesn't talk to the Majority of its voters and non-voters ,,,,,aka Hispanics
Scudder knowingly or unknowingly played into that hand with his visits to TC....
some juciy quote from an excellent explication of why....for progs ...which i take all of us here to be...
'Centrist moderates are the conservative core of the party and they’ve become fossils dating back to the ‘Compromisian Era’
"Overtime, political innovators get replaced with administrators, "
'I’ve also never thought it ‘progressive’ to do the right thing."
"The connotation of ‘radical’ that’s been smeared over ‘progressive’, has sprung from messaging efforts by policy makers on both sides,"
"The DNC has a history of trimming alternatives to its centrist platform by maneuvering to control the party ticket and then demanding unity from those they sideline. They’re also adept at making it look like progressive policies cannot be sold in the ‘big tent’ of the Democratic base "
more...much more
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/24/2334952/-Good-cop-bad-cop-R-we-being-played-by-the-DNC-Buynot-the-game-amp-fund-progressives-directly-NBF?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
my favorite line which applies to Kendoll...."While the pain of defeat was still cutting deeply and begged for balm, the first sign of recovery on their part came in the form of loathsome fundraising appeals, arriving faster than vultures smelling carrion. "
and this one is for u Colin Never-Reddy......as we marvel how adept u are at shape shifting yourself into something that resembles a candiate
"Centrists have become so jaded by their ‘skill’ of moving us around the chessboard of political malfeasance, they still don’t seem to see that we’ve started to move ourselves, preemptively to ‘take the game’.
After all ‘independence’ is what No-Kings-Day was all about."
and the money shot: "Where the ‘old guard’ see ‘others’, their replacements see ‘us’ … fellow passengers on a ‘mote of dust’."
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