[insert title here] 2025-26 Election Cycle Thread

[Raptorpat]

It was the global covid eco penalty combined with the biden-too-old. Just enough people stayed home.

[katt_goddess]

9 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

It’s stupid to lean in on that. WI already had voter ID laws anyway. That’s probably why it won. 

Pretty much this.

All it did was put into the state constitution something that had been in action without any issues for like 10 years. 

This is the equivalent of voting that yes, water is wet. 

[1pooh4u]

That didn’t take long

 

[1pooh4u]

But the FL races were fine?  WI was fine in Nov of 2024 though, right?!?

GUYS, CMON ALREADY! GET NEW PLAYS IN YOUR PLAYBOOK 

[Insipid]

18 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

But the FL races were fine?  WI was fine in Nov of 2024 though, right?!?

GUYS, CMON ALREADY! GET NEW PLAYS IN YOUR PLAYBOOK 

I mean the Republican opponent officially conceded and dismissed rigging . . . so that's something, I guess.

[1pooh4u]

19 minutes ago, Insipid said:

I mean the Republican opponent officially conceded and dismissed rigging . . . so that's something, I guess.

Absolutely it’s just so tiring and old to keep saying “it’s rigged” every time they lose. With them every accusation is really a confession. Makes me think every election Trump participated in was rigged. That’s why he’s still insisting he won in 2020. 

[1pooh4u]

[tsar4]

[tsar4]

[1pooh4u]

A lot of people showed up for the empty chair town hall. Place was overflowing 

[1pooh4u]

Fuckin MalliNOtakis knew that the town hall was happening. She chose to go to a little league game and hand children an award for some presidential essay contest. She’s a coward 

[Raptorpat]

 

[discolé monade]

he's perfect

In 2015, Paxton was indicted on state securities fraud charges relating to activities prior to taking office; he has pleaded not guilty. In March 2024, prosecutors agreed to drop the securities fraud charges against him under the terms of a pretrial agreement. In October 2020, several high-level assistants in Paxton's office accused him of "bribery, abuse of office and other crimes."^[11][12] In May 2023 Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives by a vote of 121–23, leading to his suspension.^[13] The articles of impeachment included allegations that Paxton gave preferential treatment to a political donor who bribed him, misapplied public resources and made false statements against whistleblowers, obstructed justice in the securities fraud trial against him, and made false statements regarding his financial interests.^[17] In September 2023, the Texas Senate voted 16–14 to acquit Paxton of all articles of impeachment, ending his suspension from office.^[18][19] Paxton is separately being investigated by federal prosecutors for the same legal issues on coinciding federal statutes.^[20]

[Raptorpat]

iirc he ran a scorched earth campaign against any elected or judge or DA who worked on his case or the impeachment, and he got a few knocked out in their primaries

[_lost_username_]

2 hours ago, discolé monade said:

he's perfect

In 2015, Paxton was indicted on state securities fraud charges relating to activities prior to taking office; he has pleaded not guilty. In March 2024, prosecutors agreed to drop the securities fraud charges against him under the terms of a pretrial agreement. In October 2020, several high-level assistants in Paxton's office accused him of "bribery, abuse of office and other crimes."^[11][12] In May 2023 Paxton was impeached by the Texas House of Representatives by a vote of 121–23, leading to his suspension.^[13] The articles of impeachment included allegations that Paxton gave preferential treatment to a political donor who bribed him, misapplied public resources and made false statements against whistleblowers, obstructed justice in the securities fraud trial against him, and made false statements regarding his financial interests.^[17] In September 2023, the Texas Senate voted 16–14 to acquit Paxton of all articles of impeachment, ending his suspension from office.^[18][19] Paxton is separately being investigated by federal prosecutors for the same legal issues on coinciding federal statutes.^[20]

I remember in 2008 when Joe Horn shot and killed two fleeing unarmed burglars who were no threat to him and got off scott free. At the time, I knew a veteran guy who moved from Missouri to Texas for college. When it happened, he said he wasn't totally surprised after living there for less than a year. Of Texas he said "people are a special kind of mean down here" when it came to the character of people thought the moral option was killing two guys instead of just letting them run away with a TV. 

When I hear of pieces of shit like Abbot and Paxton, I think back to that moment because it pretty much what really led me to think of Texans as on a level of badness that no other state was even close to ... until Florida started making a name for itself over similar shit less than a decade later.