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RE: 2026 Midterm Elections Thread
(11-04-2026 05:39 PM)Houston Owl 2 Wrote:  It will be interesting to see the effect on attempts to legalize casino gambling in Texas. Patrick has almost single-handedly prevented any casinos in Texas resulting in billions of tax dollars being diverted to Louisiana and Oklahoma. Take a visit any Saturday to Lake Charles and see that 90% of the cars in the parking lots have Texas plates. This next legislative session may be interesting.

And…..

Instead of having pot weighing the size of a travel size toothpaste being up to a 2 year felony trip,

Or instead of a single pot brownie baked in your kitchen or 4 vape pen cartridges being up to 20 years

Or instead of a tray of those same brownies being up to 99 years,

Texas might consider allowing under Texas law personal consumption for small amounts.
11-04-2026 07:51 PM
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I hated when President Trump kept saying 'we're the hottest country with the hottest economy in the world' over and over.

American voters voted over the issue of “affordability”- and tragically, just made everything far worse and more expensive.

President Trump did 1,000 great things for the economy. In many ways, the economy is booming. But only for wealthy Americans. Not for the middle class. But the average American isn’t a major stock investor, or “crypto bro.”

The average American is hurting. They don’t see much difference between this Trump economy and the Biden economy. Like it, or not, that’s the bitter truth.

The rate of inflation is low- President Trump is right. But the American people don’t see that. They only see high prices. There is a difference. President Trump needed to explain that to the American people. And explain what he was doing to bring those prices down. That never happened.
To the average American, all that matters is gas prices, groceries, restaurant prices, health insurance, car insurance, home insurance and electric bills. All of those bills are sky-high. Average Americans are struggling. That’s all they see, and feel, and understand.

They elected you to solve that problem. They threw Joe Biden out because he made it all much worse. They feel that you did nothing to make it better.

You lost your focus on “America First.” That was the point- first, before anything else, give the middle class back their quality of life. Make those prices go down. Make middle-class America livable again.

And speak directly to the people every week. Tell them exactly what you’re doing to make their lives better. Give people hope.

But if you ignore the people, keep them in the dark, and they don’t see any difference in the prices, they will vote you out.

Unfortunately, Americans have become spoiled by endless big-government overtaxation and giveaways while ignoring corruption and waste.

Americans have been trained to desire cheap s#it from China and other enemy countries and don't want to wean themselves off it. Americans forget that it was Republicans as who helped close American factories and ship jobs and manufacturing base overseas, and that was wrong.

Democrats and Republicans wanted cheap foreign illegals here for cheap labor, landscaping and lawn services and nannies that wouldn't talk back...until there were too many tens of millions of them here that it greatly skewed the economy.

President Trump didn't have the stomach to pursue the difficult truth that in order to right the economy and help the lower and middle classes that originally voted for him in 2016 and 2024, he would have to bite the bullet and do two things to come clean: Let the real estate market tank in order to bring housing and especially rental prices down to natural levels instead of the artificially inflated values Democrats and RINOs drive them up to, which is but a facade, on the back of the middle and lower classes, and level with the people that illegals were the ones driving up housing costs by squatting here illegally and chain migrating their families here to boot. This was a simple message that low information citizen voters could understand and support. Instead it was 'hottest country' every week. Who gives a crap when a Wendy's single burger is over 7 to 10 dollars just for the sandwich?

And pass legislation to stop government and banks from charging usurious additional fees, especially on rentals occupied by working American Citizens. Stop allowing illegals to send their children to public schools. Stop illegals from being able to get free hospital care. Allow providers to turn away non-citizens for any reason if they wish. Take away the freebies and the economy will right itself. Stop the artificial influx of costs to American Citizens and markets for the enrichment of a few. When the hoteliers came to the White House and asked him not to deport their illegal workers, he should have told the hotel owners they had 30 days to fire them all or they were going to be under arrest.

And lastly, if you're going to fight in the Middle East, you don't half-a$$ it. You either go all in or don't go. These are not Venezuelans, who have been Christianized. These are insane people and no 'deals' are going to be made with them. Ever. And don't tell us every week they want to make a deal. More than half their economy is run black market. They don't care a lick about their own people, and the leader's kids are all living inn Europe and the US and own real estate and drive sports cars and wear short shorts and Gucci handbags. They are liars and hypocrits and are not to be trusted or dealt with.

As to the Democrats that control the Congress: Really curious to see how raising taxes and spending ungodly amounts of money on idiocies like socialized medicine and green new deal stuff is going to male anything more 'affordable'. Y'all were the ones that drove up the prices in the first place and caused this ungodly mess to America's finances. Your only ideas were "Trump sux" and We love illegals, trannies and crazies from s#ithole cuntries and we want to import all those sicknesses here even more than during the Biden and Obissmal miserable years.

Seems those 'ideas' will only make a bad situation worse for the middle classes who got suckered into voting you in because they are hurting. It was bad, and looks like it's about to get far worse for most people. But hey, maybe printing money endlessly and taking away freedoms and socilaizing everything will work as well as Social Security does as a 'retirement' plan. Oh, and Health 'Insurance' IS NOT HEALTHCARE and never will be. It is a cash grab from the lower and middle classes to finance a bankrupt government and fund illegals and slush funds run by unelected officials. But we knew that already.

Have fun with the six genders in Texas government. Even Ann Richards would have been revolted by these freaks.
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(11-04-2026 11:40 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  And lastly, if you're going to fight in the Middle East, you don't half-a$$ it. You either go all in or don't go. These are not Venezuelans, who have been Christianized. These are insane people and no 'deals' are going to be made with them. Ever. And don't tell us every week they want to make a deal. More than half their economy is run black market. They don't care a lick about their own people, and the leader's kids are all living inn Europe and the US and own real estate and drive sports cars and wear short shorts and Gucci handbags. They are liars and hypocrits and are not to be trusted or dealt with.

I think Trump didn't realize that religious fanatics don't make rational dercisions, and then gave them respites in the form of cease-fires, enabling them to last until their fellow Trump-haters could get in power.
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(11-05-2026 05:53 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  
(11-04-2026 11:40 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  And lastly, if you're going to fight in the Middle East, you don't half-a$$ it. You either go all in or don't go. These are not Venezuelans, who have been Christianized. These are insane people and no 'deals' are going to be made with them. Ever. And don't tell us every week they want to make a deal. More than half their economy is run black market. They don't care a lick about their own people, and the leader's kids are all living inn Europe and the US and own real estate and drive sports cars and wear short shorts and Gucci handbags. They are liars and hypocrits and are not to be trusted or dealt with.

I think Trump didn't realize that religious fanatics don't make rational dercisions, and then gave them respites in the form of cease-fires, enabling them to last until their fellow Trump-haters could get in power.

When fighting insane, ignorant people, you don't give quarter. You go all-in. It appears the cease-fire was a mistake.
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(11-06-2026 12:09 AM)GoodOwl Wrote:  
(11-05-2026 05:53 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  
(11-04-2026 11:40 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  And lastly, if you're going to fight in the Middle East, you don't half-a$$ it. You either go all in or don't go. These are not Venezuelans, who have been Christianized. These are insane people and no 'deals' are going to be made with them. Ever. And don't tell us every week they want to make a deal. More than half their economy is run black market. They don't care a lick about their own people, and the leader's kids are all living inn Europe and the US and own real estate and drive sports cars and wear short shorts and Gucci handbags. They are liars and hypocrits and are not to be trusted or dealt with.

I think Trump didn't realize that religious fanatics don't make rational dercisions, and then gave them respites in the form of cease-fires, enabling them to last until their fellow Trump-haters could get in power.

When fighting insane, ignorant people, you don't give quarter. You go all-in. It appears the cease-fire was a mistake.

Agree. It appears to me that he was trying to give the Iranian people a break, but the IRGC would have none of it, since their duty was to Allah, not the Iranian people. His humanitarian impulse came back to bite him.

So the Democrats and IRGC celebrate.
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