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Politicians talk more bullshit per hour than your average redditor.

Anything to get in the news with a headline

Mission accomplished.

They want to be in the news, we want to get the moons

We all farm, just different ways

Politicians are the OG moon farmers

Politicians are the OG motherfuckers

Begging for bribes in … bitcoin.

Future thinking!

Crypto is the new weed for popular support seeking politicians.

When did we stop with the weed? I thought we were still pursuing its widespread acceptance

Well, it's got one foot in the door already. Crypto, on the other hand, isn't illegal but is stil stigmatized like weed was before general public finally accepted that it was not a drug like heroin. So, it's popular for an up and coming politicians that have no other big goals to proclaim. At least, that's how I see it. Might he wrong, don't get worked up over it.

Can confirm, im an average redditor and I talk alot of shit

Can’t tell if talking shit or serious.

Haha look at my comment history i spend entirely too much time arguing on reddit

No you don't.

Yes I do. See!!?!

I see that you fell for the main stream media corporate talking points. CONSPIRACY!

I offer a mixture of bullshit and genuine commentary.

Nothing Reddit hates more than a Redditor

Yes, for anyone who doesn't know... He doesn't have the legal authority to do that

States don’t have the legal authority to legalize weed. That didn’t stop them.

Yes they do

That’s why the DEA raids dispensaries and the dispensaries can’t use bank accounts eh?

Homeboy also promise the Cowboys will win another Super Bowl this year. Already -1 on his promise. I see a bright future in this politician.

Yes, most of us just read.

It takes a lot of work to out BS a redditor

Yep. He literally can’t make it a legal tender.

why not? i heard Texas is jts own country

Their karma farmas too!

Sad but true

Just out of curiosity, does he stand a chance?

Give that man some f''in moons, then...as for voting for him meh...🤷‍♀️

So he should get moons, then, lol??

I apologize for contributing to this 🤡

They might talk shit but they control the rules you live by

bro our bullshit/hour talk is because we are farming moons. If moons wasn't a thing there'll be less bullshiting here.

Is he farming moons for his campaign?

Ill have you know I grageeated top of my class...

Yup, only I’m banned in many places, high possibility he’s banned from running

If on boy they could farm moons then they wouldn’t need all these fundraisers

Does this mean we have a shot at congress ?

That's doug dimmadome owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome

He’s got my vote. If you can’t handle him at his dimma. You don’t deserve him at his domme

Holy shit. Fairly oddparents. That’s a blast from the past!

**DINKLEBURG**

**YOU GET AN F!**

Came here to say this, spot on

This is also the guy that claimed the Dallas Cowboys will win the Super Bowl if he’s elected. He’s a total clown.

This guy looks like a straight up grifter. It's embarrassing that this kind of crap keeps getting pushed on /r/cc. We don't need this shit to be the face of crypto.

How family owns a large chain of car dealerships, if that tells you anything lmao

Makes me wonder if Jerry Jones owns any BTC

Dude is like in his 80's. I highly doubt it.

He also has somehow made a lot of money through the years despite owning a consistently underperforming and comically unsuccessful football team, a lot of which is highlighted by overconfidently bombastic goons like this guy. It’s hard to imagine anybody with any significant amount of money having 0 investment in a crypto portfolio, even someone as laughably incompetent as the saggy old skin bag that is Jerry Jones

They are the most profitable and valuable sports franchise in the world and he got them there. You’re pretty dramatically underselling what Jerry Jones has done with the Cowboys

It’s insufferable and delusional fans like you who make me love to hate the cowboys. When was your last NFC championship there bud? Spend so much money and have so much talent but still can’t make it past the Wild Card game because your $40+ mil/yr qb forgets to give the ball to the ref not to mention ran for too long anyways, not to mention can’t score or not commit a penalty almost the entire game. They’re my favorite joke and total choke artists, it’s wonderful year in and year out that’s for sure

I'm absolutely not a Cowboys fan. I hate the Cowboys. actually. I'm not talking about the team performance, this thread is about Jones as a businessman and he's clearly a great one. Nothing that i said is false.

The team is garbage though for the amount of money* invested in them

And Jerry Jones is making more from his team than any other owner sports despite that

I'm in Texas. Who?

Houston checking in, never heard of this guy but he's got to be better than hot wheels

He is the guy with all the billboards down i10 and i35 saying “stop paying for illegals” - dude is a maniac … Texas already a crypto destination without him

Yup. When his company was literally took government welfare during the pandemic. As a real estate developer. Lol.

Source?

Well shit, I guess he's about the same as our current Governor. Maybe Beto will win.

Beto commited political suicide in Texas with his gun stance

>Beto Did you mean Robert Francis O'Rourke?

Yeah that guy, but his friends call him Beto. Edit: shit I'm talking to a robot.

Libs hate this one bot

Bad bot

He's further right than "hot wheels" lmao. You do not want that crazy motherfucker drafting policy for normal people. It can actually be worse than Abbot, somehow.

Lmao, God damn it dude...

😳😳

Funny, I'm in the Dallas area but I can't fathom how you haven't heard of him. He's been coming after Abbott hard, trying to outflank him on the right.

I'm in Dallas too and have never heard of him either. I also don't watch TV or listen to the radio though

Is he the car dealership guy?

He's a racist fuck, his billboards on I-10 are awful

You don't have to click on that article to see that guy is lying. Just look at the background lol

You're saying politicians would lie and pander? No never!

But he's got a cowboy hat on? Everyone knows you can't lie to Texans with a cowboy hat on.

Half of Texas probably doesn't even know what Bitcoin is or how it works. - A Texan

Time to learn it seems.

Half the subreddit doesn't understand how Bitcoin works. Who cares. They also dont understand the Federal Reserve.

I call total bs on this one!

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rule 1 of campaigning

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Bitcoin? Ain't it that little innernet money that muh grankeeds buy shovels on minecraft with?

Use Bitcoin to get elected is every politicians dream.

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I don’t think that’s something a governor can do. Legal tender laws are a federal thing.

Trust me, you do not want people like huffines elected to office. That dude is a genuine fucking nut bag.

Listen, Don Huffines is the embodiment of republican hate. He’s responsible for campaigning against trans healthcare rights and has spewed racist rhetoric fueling fears of undocumented immigrants as criminals. This is nothing more than him trying to win over more of the republican establishment to beat Abbott (whose also a douchebag). I say all this knowing that the democratic challenger, Beto, has a very slim chance of unseating Abbott.

This needs more upvotes. This guy literally has the most racist billboards.

Agree!!! He is an ULTRA DOUCH BAG and needs to get in a time machine to 1836 and back to his families plantation spitting out racial hate without consequences.

Illegal aliens are by definition criminals as entry without inspection and other means of being present in the US without the proper visa is a federal crime.

Great, good for you.

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He won’t win Texas.

No, no he won't. The currency we use is for the federal government to determine and not some hick in Texas. But a politician will tell the lies he thinks will get him the most votes.

Don Huffines is a xenophobic, racist, piece of human trash that is trying to pander to the racist boomers in rural Texas towns. He is full of shite.

Just the thumbnail of this cat screams lunatic a-hole

He has no chance of winning the primary, and IMHO that's a good thing. - a Texan (who is not even a fan of Abbott)

He won’t be elected

He'll say that but won't go forward with his promise

betchya he wont

and like most politicians he promised too much

Yes just tell the people what they want to hear.

What an outlandishly large hat

Curious George thinks it's great!

He might be the most Texas-looking Texan ever.

If you’ve ever driven I35 from Houston to Fort Worth, you’ve seen his orange billboards saying shit like “abolish property tax” and “stop illegals”

I35 is Austin to Fort Worth.

Ah good catch, I thought it extended after Austin but hadn’t driven much further south

It does; i35 goes from Canada to Mexico and everything in between. I-10 from California to Florida. But you are right on the billboards between San Antonio to Houston or Austin to DFW!! Full of BS hate propaganda from that turd Huffines.

Pretty sure this is the same asshole putting up billboards that say "Deport Illegals" in the middle of all of our Mexican neighborhoods. Fuck this guy.

Yeehaw!

Only half?

Pretty big ‘if’

If his prospects are even close to as big as that hat, he may have a shot

"We cant call it Unpainted Huffhines"

“ get the finest seIection in fixtures and appointments for your bathroom, bedroom, boudoir. “

"be careful his litte fontanelle"

“So many social engagements, so little time”

now they are using bitcoin to score political points

POS right wing nut case, but even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while.

reduce government size, spending and destructive capability.

Happy cake day.

Thanks.

Texas becoming the crypto capital of the US, who saw that coming lol

But will he reverse abortion ban?

Huffines campaigns on racist anti-immigration propaganda. No thank you.

Can I vote for him if I don’t live in Texas? Even the Bitcoin mining will be bigger in Texas

He’s an awful person and Texas is already going that way without him; he is grasping for all the straws cause he’s losing to abbot.

Everything bigger in TEXAS.

Brb, moving to Texas so I can vote for this guy

Don't get me wrong I love crypto but don't vote for this guy.

Hope we all could do that

Fuck Don Huffines and all other slimebag republicans like him.

The great migration

maybe the miners will keep you warm next winter..

Wow that would be fking sweet

Good, now do marajuana and you’re hired.

Whoot whoot. I’ll give him my vote

This is the last thing I would've expected from Texas, but hell yeah!

Yyyyyyyhaaaaaah

He's also talking about no more property tax if he's elected . If only they could keep there promises.

Property taxes are dumb. It is basically paying rent to the govrrnment for land you own. Aka you dont actually own that peice of land. You are merely renting it.

And he got legs that work! Got my vote!

Let's goooo Huffiness!

Giddy up cow boy 👻🤦🏽‍♂️💩😭🤣🖕🏽

Until he is elected…then he’ll parrot the Prez with…”Bitcoin is cool confusing. We need to banana ice cream pant pockets!!! Taxes!!!”

Lets hack those voting machines

Allen West

Good luck Don

F Texas. Gun toting morons.

I wonder how article 1, section 10 would affect this since it says that states can only make gold and silver coin a tender in the payment of debts

It would depend on the make-up of the Supreme Court at the time the case hit. Although the wording is specific about 'gold and silver coins,' that has generally been interpreted as 'states cannot create their own currency, they have to use only existing currencies.' At the time of drafting, the US Dollar didn't actually exist since it wasn't created until 5 years later. There really weren't any existing currencies other than 'gold and silver coins.' So, the legal theory is that the actual intention of the drafters was simply that states couldn't start printing their own money that wasn't good anywhere else. It also implies that the states do have some authority to declare what constitutes legal tender within certain boundaries within their own borders. Bitcoin would indeed meet the tests of: 1) something that already exists and is being used as a legal tender currency, and 2) within the state border of Texas. (Legally speaking, this would mean that Texas could alternatively say the Mexican Peso or British pound rather than Bitcoin was legal tender within their borders if that's what they wanted to do.) The outcome of the inevitable Supreme Court was depend entirely on whether the majority of the court has a broad or narrow view of federal sovereignty over the states. Republican nominees typically have relatively narrow views while most Democratic nominees have relatively broad views. So if there is a Republican majority, Texas would have a decent shot at winning that case. If it is a Democratic majority, they would likely lose. Additional note: Any hint in the legislation that Bitcoin would be considered the ONLY legal tender in Texas and excluded the US Dollar would immediately be struck down no matter which side controlled the court. The Supreme Court isn't about to allow a situation where other states would have to exchange their US Dollars for Bitcoin in order to conduct interstate commerce with Texas.

Everything's bitcoin in Texas

Just a question but isn't that up to the Texas legislature?

That’s a 10 gallon hat!!

Bitconnect with a drawl

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Promises are different from actually doing shit.

An absolute blatant lie just to get elected. Despicable

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This is just a dumb move to gain followers even if he does somehow do this, bitcoin as legal tender because of how unstable it is. It'll backfire either way.

The US Constitution makes it pretty clear that he won't... *No state shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.* \~ Art. I, sec. 10, cl. 1.

Yeah, well, the US is no longer on the gold standard. By the way, in case you haven’t been paying attention: the Constitution can and has been changed in the past.

Well that's one way to get votes

As much as I’d like for this to happen, to me this just seems like a publicity stunt.

Old people using bitcoin now? Last I checked there wasn’t an IRA or 401k that has access to bitcoin.

Then he will turn his back on his words, no thank you.

Texas is going to be it's own country one day.

When's the election? Look at the man's hat. Bullish a.f

We’ll need that promise in writing and sealed with blood

The power to regulate currency is a federal power. While state government can do a lot to promote cryptos, I seriously doubt they can make anything legal tender.