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Swede

(40,413 posts)
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:08 AM Sunday

If Texans are so easily manipulated by thinly disguised misogyny and homophobia, then it's even more backasswards there

It are.

Is this the kind of thing that will actually change opinions and votes in Texas? If Texans are so easily manipulated by thinly disguised misogyny and homophobia, then it's even more backasswards there than I had previously thought. I don't want to know people who would fall for this.

Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) 2026-06-13T19:29:26.150Z

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tanyev

(49,874 posts)
1. "I mean, nobody really likes Ken Paxton, but you got to respect an ugly SOB
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:13 AM
Sunday

who manages to nail one beautiful mistress after another."


*Unuttered subtext

hatrack

(65,308 posts)
2. The idea that accusing someone of *GASP* being a vegetarian could sway voters neatly gauges the fucked-upness of TX
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:15 AM
Sunday

The Wizard

(13,922 posts)
3. The same state that
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:24 AM
Sunday

raised the idea of making teaching critical thinking illegal. Do you need to know more about the Republic of Texas? Who loves the poorly educated?

walkingman

(11,256 posts)
4. It will be interesting to see what happens. There is a segment of Texans that aren't like that
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:44 AM
Sunday

but the lunatic asylum is full at the local and state level. I prefer to segregate myself from that genre, but it is not easy when many glamorize that mentality on TV series like in Yellowstone and Landman.

If Talarico cannot win in a State like Texas where there is a mix of Bible Belt and Shitkicker mentality then there is no hope.

I try and take myself back to the early 70s in Austin and I know there are a lot of good folks around before all of these misfits moved in from elsewhere and turned it into Gilead.

What's next a wrestling match or a chicken fight at the State Capital in Austin?

Oneironaut

(6,361 posts)
5. Likely the same people who think they're a rancher despite growing up in a DFW middle class suburb. lol
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 09:47 AM
Sunday

And also, drive a supercharged enormous truck and wear a cowboy hat to show everyone how rugged they are. That type

mwmisses4289

(5,015 posts)
6. Trust me, living here can be...interesting...to say the least.
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 11:03 AM
Sunday

The repuke politicians are...uniformed...to put it kindly, and are worse than little kids hiding under the covers to protect themselves from monsters under the bed. They don't seem happy unless they can find more and more things to be afraid of.
There are pockets of light, but the repukes down here are trying their damndest to snuff them out.

ananda

(35,706 posts)
7. I've lived here in Texas all my life...
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 11:09 AM
Sunday

and it's always been sexist and homophobic.

My own family is a good example of this..

dclarston13

(451 posts)
8. It comes from the Cowboys in movies
Sun Jun 14, 2026, 11:46 AM
Sunday

As a Texam for 30+ years but born in raised in Brooklyn here's how I see it. Texans were/are particularly brainwashed by the cowboy tough guy mentality. Because so many westerns use Texas as their location. In the movies, cowboys eat steak not vegetables, Cowboys kill their enemies. Cowboys save poor defenseless women. I live in a predominately Hispanic area and I would that hispanic men also have similar traits. Texans historically fell for carpet baggers quite a bit. And what do have running the country now? A modern carpet bagger.

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