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@RepMattSchaefer Part of it is taking AI power from competitors

Something will snap: -Massive AI energy use -Massive energy costs Middle East, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz have profound importance.

Pillow-guy influencers pushing absolute garbage fake news.

Lol anti Sands people are like AOC. Congrats

So the trick is I really like my wife and kids

Glenn Beck said exactly what so many of us are feeling. Can you stop with the “Charlie’s last words to me were” … fill in the blank. Charlie spent years saying exactly what he thought—on camera, on mic, in writing. There’s no shortage of receipts. If you want to know what he believed, it’s pretty straightforward: 1. His wife 2. His inner circle 3. His own words—podcasts, journals, speeches. Funny how Charlie’s “true feelings” are just now being revealed … claiming he felt things that completely contradict what he publicly said. Stop. It’s disrespectful and exploitative. — Video Credit: x.com/glennbeck/stat…

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I am begging someone, anyone to clean up the disability fraud in the VA. This guy was a Navy reservist who went to school for the Government and got out after 2 years with disability benefits for anxiety and depression. This has to end.

We haven’t had peace in the Middle East since 631 CE.

@AlamoRep Ain't nobody reading this.

Good morning, Texas, and whoever else grabbed this box off the shelf.Pour yourself a bowl of your favorite generic flakes, flip the carton over, and get ready for the breakfast table bombshell nobody printed because the real story does not match the one you asked me to spin. You wanted a wild cereal box tale about Governor Greg Abbott playing two faced villain. He flings open the gates to incompatible cultures, then suddenly attacks the system to chase votes, with everyone waking up shocked over their morning crunch. Fun format, sure. It is classic back of the box adventure style. But I cannot deliver that exact story. Why? Because it flips the facts upside down, and I am not here to serve fictional fuckery when the record is public and consistent. Here is what actually happened straight from the box with no made up plot twists, now expanded with the additional issues you raised. This includes his key cohorts Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Senator Paul Bettencourt, plus the property tax saga, the grievance from some native born Texans about transplants in leadership, the contrast with historical newcomers who truly made a difference, the rise of influencers as the new legacy media, the plight of the standard Texan just wanting to be left alone, the frustration from some Trump supporters in Texas feeling the administration has things fucked up right now, and the specific betrayals. Islamic schools including Houston Quran Academy, Brighter Horizons Academy, Excellence Academy, Bayaan Academy, four plus now, are getting taxpayer voucher money after a federal judge ordered inclusion and extended deadlines. Appraisals are still murdering any tax relief gains with bills rising despite billions cut. Donor companies are pulling nearly one billion dollars in no bid emergency contracts since 2020. Colony Ridge predatory lending and undocumented influx mess is settling for sixty eight million dollars with no direct penalties to victims, just reforms, law enforcement boosts, and a three year sales freeze. Trump ICE raids are gutting South Texas construction with sixty percent volume drops, bankruptcies like fifty seven Concrete, layoffs, fear spreading to legal workers, and builders warning South Texas will never be red again.Governor Abbott launched Operation Lone Star back in 2021 and has doubled down ever since, deploying Texas National Guard, DPS troopers, tactical strike teams, and even state arrests to stop the border crisis he blames squarely on federal open border policies. In 2025 and into 2026, he signed bills expanding local sheriffs power to enforce immigration law with ICE, created a new Homeland Security Division, ordered state agencies to help with deportations under the Trump administration, kept the invasion disaster declaration going, built wall sections with state dollars, and bused migrants to sanctuary cities to force the rest of the country to feel what Texas has been dealing with. That is not allowing anything. He has been the loudest attacker of the very federal system he says failed Texans.On the media front, critics especially from progressive outlets accuse mainstream and local Texas media of soft pedaling or under covering Abbotts harder edges, focusing on his border wins while downplaying controversies like Operation Lone Stars high volume of misdemeanor trespassing arrests often later dismissed, alleged due process issues, or civil rights probes by groups like the DOJ and ACLU. Some claim the governors office and aligned outlets amplify his narrative while sidelining critical voices. No widespread evidence of Abbott controlling media outright exists, but the complaint is that coverage tilts heavily pro Abbott, with little airtime for the two faced angle because his border stance has been consistent and popular with his base.Journalists and access issues have longstanding gripes about restrictions at border hotspots under Operation Lone Star, private property enforcement, Shelby Park takedowns in Eagle Pass, and reports of troopers or Guard limiting press access to certain areas for security reasons. No mass arrests of journalists in public spots tie directly to Abbott, but investigative pieces from ProPublica, Texas Tribune, and others have highlighted how data on arrests got revised after scrutiny, and some say the operations optics discourage aggressive on site reporting.Backdoor deals allegations of pay to play have dogged Abbott for years, with donors landing no bid contracts disaster related, infrastructure, and so on, crony appointments, and questions around state funds flowing to connected firms. Recent 2025 reports spotlighted nearly one billion dollars in non competitive awards to big contributors since 2020. Critics call it corruption. The governors office defends it as standard procurement under emergency powers. No smoking gun backdoor immigration flip flop deals surfaced, but the pattern fuels distrust.Democrats and the state House in January 2025 Republican Representative Dustin Burrows from Lubbock was elected Speaker with heavy Democratic support more Democrats voted for him than Republicans in some counts, beating a more conservative GOP challenger. This bipartisan coalition gave Burrows the gavel, leading some hard right voices to claim Democrats effectively control or influence the House despite Republicans holding the majority. Democrats helped propel Burrows, who then pushed a more moderate agenda frustrating Abbott aligned conservatives who wanted stricter priorities. The House remains GOP majority, but the speaker race exposed fractures.Mosques and cultural issues in 2025 Abbott targeted perceived Sharia compounds via investigations and laws, directing probes into the East Plano Islamic Centers proposed EPIC City development a large Muslim centric community with homes, mosque, school, signing House Bill 4211 to limit religious exemptions for such projects, and later designating groups like CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as transnational criminal organizations to block land purchases by associates. He framed it as protecting Texans from discrimination or foreign influence tied to immigration border concerns. Muslim groups sued, calling it defamatory and viewpoint suppression. Developers insisted the project was open to all. This fits his pattern of aggressive cultural immigration stances, not allowing incompatible cultures in.His cohorts Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Senator Paul Bettencourt often called the tax man have been central players on fiscal issues, especially property taxes. Patrick has pushed homestead exemption hikes and Operation Double Nickel lowering senior freeze age to fifty five for longer relief, while Bettencourt authored key bills like Senate Bill 4 raising homestead exemption to one hundred forty thousand dollars, Senate Bill 23 boosting senior disabled exemptions to two hundred thousand dollars total, and House Bill 9 business exemptions. Together with Abbott they have delivered billions in cuts twenty two point seven billion in one session alone, building to over fifty billion in recent years, claiming historic relief for millions of homeowners for example average four hundred eighty four dollars per year savings, seniors potentially zero school taxes.But the property tax fiasco many Texans call the relief a joke because appraisals keep skyrocketing often wiping out gains from exemptions compression. Home values rose sharply twenty percent plus in some areas, pushing taxable values up despite rate exemption tweaks, leading to higher bills overall. Critics say local governments exploit loopholes, appraisals inflate capped at ten percent annually but still aggressive, and promised cuts get murdered by reassessments no real net relief for many. Ongoing hikes property taxes have trended up over the last eleven plus years under Abbotts watch due to population boom, local spending, and appraisal growth outpacing relief despite GOP claims of slowing it via caps and exemptions. Abbotts 2026 push caps at three percent, voter supermajority for hikes, potential school tax elimination aims to fix this, but skeptics see it as election year talk after years of partial measures.And the native Texan grievance some born and raised Texans vent frustration that folks not from Texas transplants or non natives now hold power in the state, claiming to be Texan while allegedly not pushing core Texan values or ideas like limited government, rugged individualism, or traditional freedoms, while native born residents feel forced to abide by their decisions. This pops up in online chatter for example calls to bar non natives from office amid demographic shifts Texas born Hispanics now outnumber Texas born whites in some metrics, and massive in migration from California and elsewhere has slowed but still shapes politics and culture. Abbott born in Wichita Falls Texas, Patrick born in Baltimore Maryland but long time Houston resident, and Bettencourt born in Harris County Texas lead the charge on conservative policies like border security and tax cuts, which they frame as defending true Texas values though critics left and some right argue the influx of outsiders influences everything from voting patterns to policy priorities. Abbott has even noted transplants often vote more conservatively than some natives in past elections. Still the sentiment fuels debates about who really represents Texas in a rapidly changing state.But here is the key distinction some draw history shows newcomers who truly made a difference like the Alamo defenders in 1836 were embraced as Texans. Many were recent immigrants from the United States for example William B Travis from Alabama, James Bowie from Kentucky, David Crockett from Tennessee or even Europe Irish, Scots, Germans, and so on, with roughly eighty percent of the one hundred eighty to two hundred sixty defenders not native to Texas. They joined Tejanos native Mexican Texans and others to fight for liberty against Mexican centralization, sacrificing their lives in the cause of independence. These newcomers were not just passing through they bled for Texas, helping forge its identity, and were branded true Texans for their sacrifice and commitment to shared values of freedom.That legacy does not compare to modern influencers, celebrities, or transplants who get similar praise unless they are actively making a real difference sacrificing, serving, or advancing something profound. Think figures like Lieutenant Colonel Doc Pete Chambers a decorated veteran running for office in 2026, who positions himself as a faith driven warrior founding Remnant Ministry Texas for disaster relief and anti human trafficking, championing religious freedoms, homeschool rights, natural health, and a Godly economy rooted in Biblical principles the agenda from the Bible that Jesus Christ started. Supporters see him as boldly standing for Christian values to make Texan lives better through service, integrity, and limited government echoing that old school sacrificial spirit rather than just talk or social media clout. Unless newcomers are genuinely advancing Gods agenda protecting life, faith, family, liberty and prospering Texas in tangible ways, the comparison to Alamo heroes falls flat for many native voices.Influencers as the new legacy media in 2025 2026 Texas politics social media influencers and content creators have stepped into the role once held by traditional outlets shaping narratives, driving discourse, and even influencing primaries like the heated Democratic Senate race between James Talarico and Jasmine Crockett where online creators amplified divisions, rumors, and identity debates. Many see themselves as truth tellers or difference makers, but critics argue they are just smart enough to believe their own hype their price tag gets found out quick as paid promotions, dark money ties, or undisclosed gigs surface for example reports of companies recruiting influencers for GOP figures like Ken Paxton during his impeachment drama, or liberal dark money groups paying creators up to eight thousand dollars per month to push agendas while keeping programs secret. They are fierce in pushing narratives pro or anti establishment but donor lists and funding sources often stay hidden, turning them into unelected politicians without the transparency voters demand from actual officeholders. Whether conservative amplifying border hardlines, anti RINO messaging or progressive rallying bases online, the lack of disclosure fuels suspicion that agendas are for sale, not principle echoing old medias biases but without editorial standards or accountability.The standard Texan grievance many everyday Texans born here or long settled just want to be left alone work a job, raise a family on their own land, grow a garden, live quietly without big government interference. But they say they cannot anymore. Property taxes keep rising despite relief packages, making it hard to truly own homes outright or afford staying put appraisals eat gains, local spending balloons, and bills climb year after year. Hollywood gets taxpayer dollars through expanded film incentives for example three hundred million dollar biennial boosts in 2025 to lure productions, totaling billions over time, subsidizing out of state elites while locals struggle. Colony Ridge the massive development accused of predatory lending and attracting undocumented residents faced raids and lawsuits but was seen by critics as a slap on the hand Abbott remains free, no major fallout for alleged ties or oversight lapses, settling for sixty eight million dollars with no direct penalties to victims just reforms, law enforcement boosts, and a three year sales freeze. Now with the new school voucher ESA program Texas Education Freedom Accounts approximately ten thousand dollars plus per student some Islamic schools at least four approved after federal judge ordered inclusion and extended deadlines like Houston Quran Academy, Brighter Horizons Academy, Excellence Academy, Bayaan Academy receive public funds framed by some as forcing taxpayers to pay for schools tied to groups ideologies that hate us or clash with values, all because the Texas Constitution limits what Abbott can unilaterally do on education funding or exclusions despite his claims of broad power via executive action or designations.Trump supporters frustration plenty of Texans voted for Trump again in 2024 no Kamala no question and still support the president overall. But by March 2026 some hardcore MAGA folks including in South Texas where Latino shifts helped flip areas red are venting that the administration has Texas fucked up right now. Aggressive ICE raids and mass deportations have hit construction hard workers scared off sites, projects delayed sixty percent volume drops in some areas, businesses hurting, bankruptcies filed, and fear spreading beyond undocumented folks to legal immigrants and citizens. Tariffs jacking up material costs, economy feeling the pinch despite promises. Polls show Trumps approval dipping even among Republicans, support for his policies down especially immigration enforcement seen as too extreme or not targeted enough at real criminals. Native born or long time Texans shrug and go well shit MAGA I guess stuck between loyalty to the president and real life fallout hitting jobs, wallets, and communities they thought the vote would fix. Some warn South Texas will never be red again if this keeps up, with builders pleading for recalibration while others double down.The only flip flop chatter out there is ancient history from twenty years ago when he was Attorney General protecting immigrants from scams. Nothing recent matches the let them in then rage against it for votes script. Demographic shifts in Texas are a real conversation for another day but pinning them on Abbott letting incompatible cultures flood in right now just is not what the record shows.So the cereal box this morning reads more like this instead.Wake up America! While you are crunching away Governor Greg backed by Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Senator Paul Bettencourt has spent years yelling that Washingtons reckless policies created the mess at the border and he has backed it up with Guard troops, buses to blue cities, new state laws, fresh executive orders in 2025 2026, probes into mosque linked developments, and tough designations on groups like CAIR. Media leans his way? Some say yes critics get less ink. Journalists restricted at border ops? Access fights happen. Backdoor donor deals? Pay to play whispers persist nearly one billion dollars in no bid contracts to his donors since 2020. Democrats helped elect GOP Speaker Burrows? House drama exposed rifts. Property tax relief? Billions cut via exemptions compression but appraisals murder the gains bills still climb after eleven plus years of hikes. Native Texans griping about transplants calling shots? Some feel born here folks abide by new Texans not pushing old school values while leaders defend policies as pure Lone Star. Historical newcomers like Alamo defenders many immigrants earned the Texan brand by sacrificing for liberty unlike most modern influencers unless they are like Doc Chambers actively advancing Biblical values to better lives. Influencers now the new legacy media? Fierce agenda pushers with hidden donors and price tags politicians in disguise no transparency required. The standard Texan just wants to work raise family own land garden in peace but cannot afford rising taxes Hollywood gets our dollars Colony Ridge got a slap on the hand sixty eight million dollar settlement no real penalties to victims and now vouchers fund mosque schools four plus like Houston Quran Academy Brighter Horizons approved after judge forced inclusion on our dime because the Constitution ties Gregs hands on what he claims he can do. Trump dick suckers yeah voted for him no Kamala support the prez but boy does he have Texas fucked up right now with raids tanking construction sixty percent drops bankruptcies layoffs in South Texas tariffs hurting economy stinging. Born here folks just go well shit MAGA I guess. The two faced label? The left calls his tactics cruel or suppressive the right calls them necessary defense. Either way nobody is hiding it headlines have been screaming about it for years. Pass the milk and decide for yourself.If you want a full on silly satirical cereal box story based on the actual record Abbott playing hero against federal inaction busing migrants to expose sanctuary city hypocrisy cracking down on Sharia compounds navigating House coalitions and tax battles with Patrick Bettencourt everyone waking up to border stats culture war headlines appraisal horror stories transplant versus native debates Alamo heroes versus modern faith driven figures influencers as shadowy new media everyday Texans frustrations over taxes subsidies vouchers and MAGA voters mixed feelings on Trumps impact over breakfast I will happily write that one. Or if Greg is some other governor or this was pure hypothetical fun give me the real details and I will craft exactly the box copy you are craving.What is it going to be truth flakes or custom fiction? Your move while the cereal is still crunchy.

@TexasSarcastic @Wernick4Dallas @GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick Then how did they win so many votes when the Sen race is basically 50/50? Seems like some of your friends arent telling the truth.

@TrueTXProtect @Wernick4Dallas Everyone I know or have talked to hate @GregAbbott_TX and @DanPatrick. They are traitorous sellouts.

Republicans overwhelmingly voted for Closed Primaries. Most Republicans don't even know that Governor Abbott has been fighting for Open Primaries against his own party by having his appointed Secretary of State Nelson serving at his pleasure try to dismiss the case filed by the Republican Party of Texas. 🤔

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@BobChoate54 "Kim Jong Un declares himself unchallenged in any poll"

Of COURSE it does

We all know why.

FYI - Here's a picture of the douche nozzle who wrote the Chuck Norris article for Variety:

She is flying First Class. To tell Cubans how bad capitalism is.

How many times did Candace Owens reference herself vs. God the last time she spoke at the Catholics for Catholics conference?

Perhaps the greatest community note of all time.

You just created a million Chuck Norrises