Kansas Crimson

Fake Mexican Soyboy still lost despite all of the “grassroots” funding from Hollywood. Restores some of my faith in humanity.

Got a kick out of the CNN circle jerk when 2% of the votes had come in. Cruz was getting crushed.
Never-mind the other 98% of the votes that were yet to be counted.

Well, Hollywood pumped $65 million into his campaign. Game over.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:31 am Well, Hollywood pumped $65 million into his campaign. Game over.

Bullshit

Cruz won by 16 pints last time and by 2 this one, against a candidate whose name wasn’t even known to voters and who isn’t from a large population base. Who also helped a lot down ticket to flip seats.

It’s sad but predictable that those who are unable to compete elsewhere and want the nation to subsidize them and their dying small towns voted against the future and for the politics of 1968.

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:26 am

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:31 am Well, Hollywood pumped $65 million into his campaign. Game over.

Bullshit

Figures as of July, including origin of money. Still looking for final figures.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/p ... 066862.php

seahawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:59 am Cruz won by 16 pints last time and by 2 this one, against a candidate whose name wasn’t even known to voters and who isn’t from a large population base. Who also helped a lot down ticket to flip seats.

It’s sad but predictable that those who are unable to compete elsewhere and want the nation to subsidize them and their dying small towns voted against the future and for the politics of 1968.

Was Cruz's margin of victory this time around larger or smaller than Nelson's?

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:11 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:26 am

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 7:31 am Well, Hollywood pumped $65 million into his campaign. Game over.

Bullshit

Figures as of July, including origin of money. Still looking for final figures.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/p ... 066862.php

Hmmmm....I see no mention that your total $65 million came from Hollywood specifically.
Your Trump is showing a bit.

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:33 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 12:11 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 11:26 am

Bullshit

Figures as of July, including origin of money. Still looking for final figures.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/p ... 066862.php

Hmmmm....I see no mention that your total $65 million came from Hollywood specifically.
Your Trump is showing a bit.

Figure came from a Breitbart article, which would have elicited a predictable response. I was trying to backtrack the sources in the article to pull together the figure, but have been in and out of class.

Taking into account the audience, I think I will just not bother. Too much work; no payoff.

ted cruz is a jackoff. I would have been fine with it had he lost last night. The guy is a prototypical carbon copy washington swamp ratphucque.

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:46 pm ted cruz is a jackoff. I would have been fine with it had he lost last night. The guy is a prototypical carbon copy washington swamp ratphucque.

Still prefer that to a Beta male soyboy who panders to an entire ethnic group with a mocked-up nickname. Almost as bad as Dowdy claiming that she carries hot sauce everywhere in her purse and doing the whole "I ain't in nowise tahrd" bit to appeal to the Black demographic.

Say what you will, but you won't ever see Trump wearing a grille and sagging pants to win votes.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:53 pm

MICHHAWK wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 1:46 pm ted cruz is a jackoff. I would have been fine with it had he lost last night. The guy is a prototypical carbon copy washington swamp ratphucque.

Still prefer that to a Beta male soyboy who panders to an entire ethnic group with a mocked-up nickname. Almost as bad as Dowdy claiming that she carries hot sauce everywhere in her purse and doing the who "I ain't in nowise tahrd" bit to appeal to the Black demographic.

Say what you will, but you won't ever see Trump wearing a grille and sagging pants to win votes.

JFC

O'Rourke raised 69+ million, the majority of which (38 million) came from "large" individual donations.

He participated in and attended several fundraisers in Hollywood. 20 million was raised "out of state," 2 million from the Los Angeles metro (behind Houston, Austin, Dallas, and NYC as his biggest fundraising areas).

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of- ... cycle=2018

Ok, using your numbers:
Beto
Small contributions <$200 45.48%
Large contributors 38.39%
PAC .11%
OTHER -1.42%

Ted
Small 30.86%
Large 41.04%
PAC 3.49% ($1,400,000)
OTHER 24.62% ($9,875,427)

Looks like O'Rourke was pretty spot on about where his money came from.

OTHER accounts for $9,875,905 for Ted Cruz. Where did that money come from?

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:38 pm Ok, using your numbers:
Beto
Small contributions <$200 45.48%
Large contributors 38.39%
PAC .11%
OTHER -1.42%

Ted
Small 30.86%
Large 41.04%
PAC 3.49% ($1,400,000)
OTHER 24.62% ($9,875,427)

Looks like O'Rourke was pretty spot on about where his money came from.

OTHER accounts for $9,875,905 for Ted Cruz. Where did that money come from?

Nazis, misogynists, and various other miscreants, no doubt.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:43 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:38 pm Ok, using your numbers:
Beto
Small contributions <$200 45.48%
Large contributors 38.39%
PAC .11%
OTHER -1.42%

Ted
Small 30.86%
Large 41.04%
PAC 3.49% ($1,400,000)
OTHER 24.62% ($9,875,427)

Looks like O'Rourke was pretty spot on about where his money came from.

OTHER accounts for $9,875,905 for Ted Cruz. Where did that money come from?

Nazis, misogynists, and various other miscreants, no doubt.

You were the one trying to throw shade over where Beto got his money from.
You don't have the same concern for the guy that he ran against?

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:44 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:43 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:38 pm Ok, using your numbers:
Beto
Small contributions <$200 45.48%
Large contributors 38.39%
PAC .11%
OTHER -1.42%

Ted
Small 30.86%
Large 41.04%
PAC 3.49% ($1,400,000)
OTHER 24.62% ($9,875,427)

Looks like O'Rourke was pretty spot on about where his money came from.

OTHER accounts for $9,875,905 for Ted Cruz. Where did that money come from?

Nazis, misogynists, and various other miscreants, no doubt.

You were the one trying to throw shade over where Beto got his money from.
You don't have the same concern for the guy that he ran against?

Don't really care. Beto is the kid of guy I just naturally want to punch in the mouth. I'm glad he lost and I'm glad the libs who stumped for him and poured money into his campaign are upset today.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:47 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:44 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:43 pm

Nazis, misogynists, and various other miscreants, no doubt.

You were the one trying to throw shade over where Beto got his money from.
You don't have the same concern for the guy that he ran against?

Don't really care. Beto is the kid of guy I just naturally want to punch in the mouth. I'm glad he lost and I'm glad the libs who stumped for him and poured money into his campaign are upset today.

Wow, it is really easy to get the "punch in the mouth" response. I guess you and Donny share that mid set. Are you, like Donny, all talk in that regard?

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:51 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:47 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:44 pm

You were the one trying to throw shade over where Beto got his money from.
You don't have the same concern for the guy that he ran against?

Don't really care. Beto is the kid of guy I just naturally want to punch in the mouth. I'm glad he lost and I'm glad the libs who stumped for him and poured money into his campaign are upset today.

Wow, it is really easy to get the "punch in the mouth" response. I guess you and Donny share that mid set. Are you, like Donny, all talk in that regard?

Meh. Feeling like it and doing it are two very different things. And I probably overstate my animosity toward him.

He reminds me of an attorney friend I have. Ultra-liberal, sandal-wearing, full of high ideals, lots of money and lots of ideas about how we all should live our lives. We get along great as long as we don't talk about politics.

He just can't comprehend that not everyone has vacation homes and full-funded IRA's or who work three jobs just to afford one house that's nowhere near as nice as his, much less how someone in that situation wouldn't be thrilled to death to pay more taxes or agree to economic policies that might cost them one of their jobs.

He lives on a large corner lot in a gated community, but can't for the life of him figure out why others wouldn't want low income housing built across the street from their homes and why they would worry about their property value being driven down.

He is genuinely nice and well-intentioned, but he can't think on a practical level because he has never suffered, been lonely, wondered how he would pay his bills, or anything of that sort. Life has been easy, so he assumes all of life's answers are easy.

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 3:02 pm

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:51 pm

HouseDivided wrote: ↑Wed Nov 07, 2018 2:47 pm

Don't really care. Beto is the kid of guy I just naturally want to punch in the mouth. I'm glad he lost and I'm glad the libs who stumped for him and poured money into his campaign are upset today.

Wow, it is really easy to get the "punch in the mouth" response. I guess you and Donny share that mid set. Are you, like Donny, all talk in that regard?

He is genuinely nice and well-intentioned, but he can't think on a practical level because he has never suffered, been lonely, wondered how he would pay his bills, or anything of that sort. Life has been easy, so he assumes all of life's answers are easy.

You don't have a clue what he has or hasn't been through.