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Republicans are going to try and raise the voting age to 40 based off the gen z turnout
Considering the only seats they can flip these days are from states they gerrymander'ed the shit out of I would not at all be surprised if they did. The only way they've clung to power this long is through grifting, gee'ing people up emotionally then lying to them, and stacking the deck in their favor so the fact there's a generation that sees through it and is starting to call them on their shit probably terrifies them.
Between this, Elon now selling 4 bil of the shares he said he wouldn't sell to fund his twitter takeover that's going super smoothly, and the crypto scams starting to fall apart it must be a bad day to be a dipshit.
It’s weird that no one running against the Texas GOP ever (effectively) points out that they’ve been in power for 25 years, so all of Texas’s problems are because of them and they aren’t going to be fixing them anytime soon.
Still have to wait for LA mayor to be decided this week. Considering everyone in LA county gets sent mail-in ballots, was surprised to see so many people on IG go out in the rain to vote.
What problems does Texas have that any other large, high-population state doesn't? It has one of the largest state economies in the country (second highest GDP behind California), and if Texas was a country it'd have something like the 10th highest GDP in the world. People and major corporations keep moving there for a reason (third-highest population growth in the US, behind Utah and Idaho). Can hardly go a day without meeting someone who just moved from California. Texas is the second-most diverse state demographically too, which I think a lot of people outside of the state don't consider. A lot of people also don't consider just how conservative large parts of our Hispanic population is. Yeah, the state has problems, like any other nation-sized (in terms of land mass, population and GDP) state/nation experiences, but it's growing like crazy because people actually want to live there because they can make a good living, own property and prosper.
Problems? Your fucking power grid for starters.
I was certain that would be someone's go-to example. The big freeze sucked, I personally lived through it, but it was a once-in-a-100-years freak storm causing a one-off grid failure. The other 99.99% of the time the grid works just fine. And it's not like Texas is unique in that experience, other regions have had natural disaster related grid failures too that don't get near the scrutiny. We have problems like any state, but that's a lazy example.
Considering the Western US is run on one grid, eastern us is run on another, and Texas runs on their own, I’d say your power grid failure was uniquely your own problem.
Also, I don’t say there are problems with Texas, the politicians run on platforms that say there are problems. But the irony is, if there are problems but you’ve been the ruling party for 25 years, those problems are your fault
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