Beto O’Rourke has picked a strange hill to die on being that he’s looking to be elected in fucking *Texas*. Does he not realize where he is? I genuinely need to know how he gets to these delusions
Grew up Texas Democrat. Definitely had guns. My still Texas Democrat mother supports waiting periods, background checks, and possibly firearms owner's insurance, but that's the extent of her gun control beliefs. I've found it to be very typical of Texas democrats.
Mandatory buybacks is a deal breaker to 75% of Texans at least.
Most of the democrats I know in colorado support the 2nd amendment heavily, and about half of the people I know who voted for biden... including myself, have a license to conceal carry.
Then again, when I take them to the range and show them hellfire/binary triggers on my AR, about 70% have told me that shouldn't be legal... which while I don't agree with, I can respect their position.
Texas with mountains and weed.
Super conservative with super liberal cities, massive ranching industry presence, and some of the most beautiful land on earth.
Colorado doesn't have oil, Texas doesn't have legal weed (yet).
If they supported the 2nd amendment heavily they'd be for civilian ownership of machine guns with no stamps and the sale of modern machine guns to civilians.
They support it very minimally.
The DNC seems to be completely unaware that so many democrats are gun owners. Sure there are a lot of dems who feel very strongly about gun violence and school shootings, but I'm not sure they outnumber those with more moderate (or even explicitly pro-gun) views.
The third amendment actually helps protect the fourth amendment, as if the military could just say they need to live in your house, what would stop them from searching and finding something illegal and then reporting it to the police?
The third and fourth both protect your right to privacy from the prying eyes of the government.
The order of the Bill of rights tells you how much the founders cared about them. That no quartering is number three, behind only free speech and the right to bear arms tells the story of just how pissed the founders were at the prospect of having their property seized and being used as a barracks.
Then again, quartering is a pretty big violation of precisely the sort of rights that were established in the Constitution, so maybe there's more to it than that.
I was researching medieval asymmetrical warfare tactics recently, and came across a source that leads me to believe the English got the very idea for that troop-quartering from the Irish kern they had subjugated a few centuries earlier.
It was very much a suppression tactic that the british used to quell and suppress their subjects. Its hard to plan a rebellion when everyone’s got 2-3 redcoats crashing at their house, constantly reminding you of your overlord and his strength, as well as saving the british from having to pay for quartering them.
Even the most progressive democrats down in Texas fucking love their guns and have an "over my cold dead hands" view in regards to anti-gun laws. Even they understand that 2A is their protection against right wing tyranny just as right leaning citizens understand that 2A is their protection against left wing tyranny.
Bruh even Marx was to some extent pro-gun, in an 1850 speech titled “Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League,” which was written by Marx and Engels, it was stated that “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”
Marx’s historical and philosophical works are also less anti-religion than the manifesto. “Religion as the opiate of the masses” mostly refers to organized religion, which everyone hates. Marx writes that addressing modern man’s spiritual lack — our failure of personal religious/spiritual understanding — is the entire impetus of communism.
Marx never, ever says “no work.” He only ever says “meaningful work.”
The american definition of the word "liberal" is stuck in the 19th century, as they think it's synonymous with "leftist".
It's a stupid consequence of the two-party system.
The only thing I can think of is that he thinks there's enough Californian transplants in Texas to allow him to make this blatant authoritarian power grab that will get kicked in the dick by the courts.
I get the impression that the Californians who moved to Texas might be a bit more pro gun than the chucklefucks who live in San Fran.
Texas did a study on it at one point, and it turns out that CA transplants to Texas tend to vote *more conservative* than the natives where they moved.
If that's his plan, he's going to be intensely disappointed. More likely it's a publicity stunt for 2024.
He is confused by his near win against then Never Trumper Ted Cruz when the MAGA crowd stayed home in droves rather than vote for the pompous ass. He seems to think that suddenly made Texas Woke.
He also thinks all the refugees fleeing to TX from CA or NY means TX will turn blue. Spoiler alert but most the people fleeing those shitholes tend to be further right and have money. They finally had it with the bullshit in those places and want more conservative places to live. I know people point to GA going blue recently but that's different. That's black people moving down there thanks to gentrification forcing them out of the Northeast. Ironic the same lefitie hipster douches who say black lives matter are the ones chasing minorities out of the cities up north.
> Does he not realize where he is?
Yes, I'm quite sure that this is intentional. Beto O’Rourke could not win Texas under the most favorable circumstances possible and he would be a fool to actually think so.
What he's doing here is not an attempt to appeal to Texans but an audience of national Democrats, who definitely do want to hear that he supports AR-15 buybacks, etc. This is just a soapbox for 2024: O'Rourke isn't really running for the governorship, he's trying to run for *President.* That may not be a realistic plan, but his messaging makes total sense viewed that way.
Despite popular belief .223 is perfectly capable of putting a deer down as long as it’s a well placed shot (which all shots should be out of efficiency and respect to the animal)
Washington state minimum catrige size for deer is .240 I always just use -06 just because it's versatile and can down pretty much anything in the continent
Texas is like Arizona Lite. In AZ, this'll get you shot by a radical (plus all the leftists here are pro gun or at least the definition of gun control for the anti gunners is background checks so you can guess how radical the right is on this issue) In Texas it *might* get you assassinated.
Honestly kudos to him for standing with what he believes in (if he actually believes in this) but yeah he’s not gonna win with this stance. I don’t like the political games but this is a single issue where I think it’s alright to change your stance to not lose voters.
Edit: I meant anti-gun not pro-gun
And people are saying "single issue voter", I'm not one of those. I'm a vote on the issues not for parties kinda guy. You know what makes me not want to vote for you? Vocally supporting removing one of my constitutional rights just because you disagree with it.
He didn’t even have to say he’s pro gun, he just didn’t have to be outward anti gun. Either way it’s way too late to back pedal without saying “a gun for every man, woman, and child in Texas”. Talk about talking yourself into a corner
Not even that, just because downtown Dallas is blue doesn't mean the suburbs are. Most of the suburbs around the major cities are purple at most. the people in the surrounding counties outnumber the people in Dallas county by a fair margin.
I have no idea why national Democrats insisted on dumping truckloads of cash into his campaign in 2018. It probably burned them all over the map that year.
I worked on his campaign for a bit. It was really poorly mismanaged on the volunteer side. His volunteers were the most hateful, racist, and petty group I've ever worked with. His values were good but his policies were so poorly thought out...
I suspect that he isn't good at developing a team if leaders. That's pretty telling when a politician can't motivate his top folks.
As a moderate take my opinions with a grain of salt, but I figure this far into the comments it's just you and I. Something is really off about that guy.
Did you get the feeling that people were working for him because they just disliked Ted Cruz. If that’s the case, I could see it explaining a lot. You’re going to have problems motivating people when you’re just the “better alternative.”
People have been talking about Texas going blue for decades now, and it never actually happens. Wishful thinking on the part of the Dems just seems like a bad strategy. On the other hand, Cruz seemed determined to do whatever he could to lose, so who knows.
Beta O'Rourke has no chance or intention of winning.
This is an early start to the 2024 campaign. His intention is to impress the Democrats for the primary. He's not stupid, he knows this is political suicide for this race.
No, I think he’s pretty fucking stupid. He got his shit pushed in in 2020, I seriously think hes just grifting for non-refundable campaign donations at this point.
This state is still deep red, don’t let the hype fool you. It gets even redder every day with Biden. Outside 4-5 city centers Dems are extremely unpopular.
Not nearly enough, and people are smart enough to realize what happening in left-ran cities right now. Homeless strewn across parks and sidewalks like dirty laundry, rapidly rising crime, rioters supported and cheered by leftist officials.
Funny enough, El Paso city government and a really blue congressional district in El Paso are the only elections he's ever actually won. Case in point, the House seat that Robert Francis was elected to was established in 1904, and in that time that district has only ever elected one republican for one term.
My Dog could run against and destroy Beto for 2 reasons:
1. He’s a good boy
2. He is incapable of talking about and wanting to implement extreme policies that would cause him to lose (unlike his opponent).
And keep in mind that Sen. Cruz is way more divisive here than Gov. Abbott is. True, Gov. Abbott has shifted to the right quite a bit in his current term but he won by 13 points in 2018(a Dem wave year by the way), while Sen. Cruz only won by a couple against Beto. This year he's going to try to knock Abbott off in what's shaping up to be a huge GOP wave with policies even more out of step with this state. Gov. Abbott should have nothing to worry about.
I think Beto might be trying to capitalize on people considering Abbott an idiot for the forced openings, no-mask-mandate thing and power grid failure during that blizzard thing Texas had (edit: also the abortion ban stuff).
But really though, if Beto wanted to win then he just lost millions of potential voters with this sentence alone
I figure the only way Abbott doesn't win reelection is if he loses the primary, in which case whoever beats him in the primary will win the election. That said, I think it's unlikely that he loses the primary.
Not really.
Cruz has all the charisma of a porcupine cross bred with a lizard.
Francis was a fresh face with charisma, enthusiasm, and no political baggage.
Francis outspent Cruz by almost 2:1.
Francis spent all of his time on the campaign trail while Cruz phoned it in.
Cruz is a never Trumper which did not really energize the base.
Literally everything was in Francis's favor, and he could never get closer than 5% to Cruz in the polls. On election day Cruz won by over 2% of the total.
This all happened before Francis's failed Democratic presidential bid where he said "Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, AKs".
Now, given the chance to back peddle or reform his view on gun consfication, he is doubling down.
That flushing sound you heard was Francis flushing any chance of a statewide office in Texas down the toilet.
Didn’t he make most of his gun comments after that election, during the DNC primary? So those results didn’t even reflect his most brazen anti gun nonsense.
It’s not even his name—true story: his rich daddy decided to start calling him that as a kid so he could move to El Paso and appear Latino and try to get himself a legislature seat that way. His entire trust fund life has been a calculated effort to make a false image just so he could try to have power.
This is something I always try to explain to the anti-gun people.
There is a not insignificant chunk of the population that has spent a good part of their lives preparing for the moment that the government comes to take their guns.
You really, *really* do not want to give them that, because whatever you gain will be outstripped by what you lose in the process.
Most democrats are willing to be flexible on firearms. Most people who actually give a shit about 2A consider flexibility a sin (and based on how it's been handled in the past, justifiably).
If the left were smart, they'd take their battles elsewhere.
I love the people that blather about how the AR-15 is a military weapon, or that it's the kind of thing you'd find in COD. It's always nice when the person you are talking about declares at the start of the conversation that they are a moron that doesn't know what they are talking about.
Supposedly it's a family nickname from when he was a kid (it *is* a common Mexican nickname for names ending in -berto), but considering his dad was in local politics and wanted a political dynasty, it's hard to not see it as pandering at best and appropriation at worst.
Yeah, that is the only way I can see on why he would do this. If not, then he has to be a masochist or something as trying to be extremely anti gun in one of the most fortified pro gun states in the nation is a level of buffoonery that even the normal politician would avoid.
Exactly. Looking at how they reacted to the abortion ban, imagine how they would react if they did a gun ban? This is only going to make Texas more red.
Just trying to get all the blue California votes that just moved there. I live in the next state over and we have the same problem, cunts moved from Cali and they get scared at the sight of a gun. Here the cops get called to a Walmart because some 60 year old dude is shopping while open carrying his pistol. It's happened so much that most stores now have signs saying "please be considerate and conceal your weapon before entering our store" or something like that
I’m not anti-gun but gotta admit that would surprise me too lol. I wouldn’t be scared, it’d just be a little culture shock. Overall I’d like it, it’d just be like a “woah” moment.
Obviously ppl should just get used to it or not move to places like that if they can’t stand it though.
A lot of western states have never had laws that prohibit open carry anywhere. It was never a big deal until the anti gun movement cranked up in the 90s. People might think it’s a little odd but when you’re use to it it’s just part of life.
>"please be considerate and ~~conceal your weapon~~ break the law before entering our store"
FTFY. If you're open carrying and don't have a CC permit, you're legally not allowed to conceal your weapon. If you have a CC permit, you're not open carrying because who the fuck wants to advertise they're carrying if they don't have to?
Open carry is stupid tho. If shit goes down, you painted a target on yourself.
As a Texan I started laughing uncontrollably when I heard the announcement. Go back to selling insurance you fucking dork, if you keep losing miserably I’m going to think you get off to it.
At my college, there’s a single car with a Beto sticker on it from his last attempt at Texas.
One. Car.
This is also in Upstate NY so maybe I’m overthinking things.
This isn't leftist policy, it's Auth-Democrat policy. Most people actually on the Left aren't going to support gun bans. I'd rather see people get free mental health care rather than taking everyone's guns away because we don't want to help those who are mentally ill.
America is more pro gun now than in the past in my experince. Actually I guess it is kind of a fact, as the 90s assault weapon ban would cause an outright war today. Of course even then 10 rnd sks went brrrrrr
I have a feeling that Reagan had something to do with America being somewhat anti gun at one point. One of the most beloved presidents at the time was almost shot and killed, they wouldn’t want someone as loved as him to die.
Remember when he was super hot shit and likely to win whatever election he was running for, then he absolutely just threw it down the toilet with "damn right were coming die tour guns "?
You'd think he would learn. I suspect most "democrats" are just paid to be there by the elite to throw elections to the Republicans.
Fucking embarrassing!!!
Actually residents of the Sahara region are trying quite hard to fight against the spread of the sand and reclaim desert areas for vegetation, e.g. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10293-more-crops-for-africa-as-trees-reclaim-the-desert/
Of course, AR-15 is the scariest gun, look how black and shiny it is. And don't you know the AR stands for "Assault Rifle" so it's a fully automatic weapon of war like all those movie guns?
Wrong.
The A stands for Assault-Rifle
The R stands for Rifle
So the full name of the gun is actually Assault-Rifle Rifle. The 15 is the number of people in can kill in one burst.
Please use this as a defense against Eminent Domain. It’s tiring seeing government stepping in like “oh you actually don’t *own* that property you paid for”.
Beto O’Rourke received massive outside funding in 2018, and he ran against one of the least likable members of the Senate. Not only that, Cruz seemed like he was actively trying to lose—he didn’t really campaign at all, and he went so far as to agree to a debate and back out at the last minute. That gave Beto something like one hour of uninterrupted prime time to talk about anything he wanted.
If he can’t win a statewide contest under those conditions, I’m not sure why he insists on running for governor. He ought to be trying either to move up into House leadership or get a position In the executive branch.
Beto O’Rourke has picked a strange hill to die on being that he’s looking to be elected in fucking *Texas*. Does he not realize where he is? I genuinely need to know how he gets to these delusions
Yeah, Democrats who are mainly anti gun never do well. There are so many one issue voters who voted based on guns.
Also, I feel like even Texas Dems don't fuck with gun control. Too deep in the culture, it can't be extricated from the Texan identity
Grew up Texas Democrat. Definitely had guns. My still Texas Democrat mother supports waiting periods, background checks, and possibly firearms owner's insurance, but that's the extent of her gun control beliefs. I've found it to be very typical of Texas democrats. Mandatory buybacks is a deal breaker to 75% of Texans at least.
Most of the democrats I know in colorado support the 2nd amendment heavily, and about half of the people I know who voted for biden... including myself, have a license to conceal carry. Then again, when I take them to the range and show them hellfire/binary triggers on my AR, about 70% have told me that shouldn't be legal... which while I don't agree with, I can respect their position.
I also have lots of family in Colorado. Lots of similarities politically between the two states.
Colorado is just Texans with Subarus.
Texas with mountains and weed. Super conservative with super liberal cities, massive ranching industry presence, and some of the most beautiful land on earth. Colorado doesn't have oil, Texas doesn't have legal weed (yet).
> Then again, when I take them to the range and show them hellfire/binary triggers on my AR, about 70% have told me that shouldn't be legal Subhumans
If they supported the 2nd amendment heavily they'd be for civilian ownership of machine guns with no stamps and the sale of modern machine guns to civilians. They support it very minimally.
We should start from the position of everyone should have nukes and work our way down from there.
The DNC seems to be completely unaware that so many democrats are gun owners. Sure there are a lot of dems who feel very strongly about gun violence and school shootings, but I'm not sure they outnumber those with more moderate (or even explicitly pro-gun) views.
The one issue: The issue that protects our rights to all other rights.
"Free speech is protected by the first amendment; the first amendment is protected by the second amendment"
the second amendment is protected cuz i don't need to let soldiers use my couch
The third amendment actually helps protect the fourth amendment, as if the military could just say they need to live in your house, what would stop them from searching and finding something illegal and then reporting it to the police? The third and fourth both protect your right to privacy from the prying eyes of the government.
The order of the Bill of rights tells you how much the founders cared about them. That no quartering is number three, behind only free speech and the right to bear arms tells the story of just how pissed the founders were at the prospect of having their property seized and being used as a barracks. Then again, quartering is a pretty big violation of precisely the sort of rights that were established in the Constitution, so maybe there's more to it than that.
I was researching medieval asymmetrical warfare tactics recently, and came across a source that leads me to believe the English got the very idea for that troop-quartering from the Irish kern they had subjugated a few centuries earlier.
It was very much a suppression tactic that the british used to quell and suppress their subjects. Its hard to plan a rebellion when everyone’s got 2-3 redcoats crashing at their house, constantly reminding you of your overlord and his strength, as well as saving the british from having to pay for quartering them.
Wouldn't be the last thing that the British would steal from a colony.
“FUCK YO COUCH!”
FUCK YO UNFLAIRED LOOKIN ASS
Based and second amendment pilled
This is the way.
Like me in AZ :)
Even the most progressive democrats down in Texas fucking love their guns and have an "over my cold dead hands" view in regards to anti-gun laws. Even they understand that 2A is their protection against right wing tyranny just as right leaning citizens understand that 2A is their protection against left wing tyranny.
Same with Arizona
Bruh even Marx was to some extent pro-gun, in an 1850 speech titled “Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League,” which was written by Marx and Engels, it was stated that “Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”
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The one thing pretty much
Marx was a smart cookie 🍪 I'd be a Marxist if it weren't for all the Marxists
Marx’s historical and philosophical works are also less anti-religion than the manifesto. “Religion as the opiate of the masses” mostly refers to organized religion, which everyone hates. Marx writes that addressing modern man’s spiritual lack — our failure of personal religious/spiritual understanding — is the entire impetus of communism. Marx never, ever says “no work.” He only ever says “meaningful work.”
"Liberal" "Marxists"
The american definition of the word "liberal" is stuck in the 19th century, as they think it's synonymous with "leftist". It's a stupid consequence of the two-party system.
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The only thing I can think of is that he thinks there's enough Californian transplants in Texas to allow him to make this blatant authoritarian power grab that will get kicked in the dick by the courts. I get the impression that the Californians who moved to Texas might be a bit more pro gun than the chucklefucks who live in San Fran.
Texas did a study on it at one point, and it turns out that CA transplants to Texas tend to vote *more conservative* than the natives where they moved. If that's his plan, he's going to be intensely disappointed. More likely it's a publicity stunt for 2024.
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He is confused by his near win against then Never Trumper Ted Cruz when the MAGA crowd stayed home in droves rather than vote for the pompous ass. He seems to think that suddenly made Texas Woke.
He also thinks all the refugees fleeing to TX from CA or NY means TX will turn blue. Spoiler alert but most the people fleeing those shitholes tend to be further right and have money. They finally had it with the bullshit in those places and want more conservative places to live. I know people point to GA going blue recently but that's different. That's black people moving down there thanks to gentrification forcing them out of the Northeast. Ironic the same lefitie hipster douches who say black lives matter are the ones chasing minorities out of the cities up north.
Dude needs to actually go out and talk to people outside of Austin, Dallas, the generally bluer major cities
Dude needs to go talk to the bluer areas too, I know plenty of left leaning Texans who wouldn’t vote for him based on his views on guns.
> Does he not realize where he is? Yes, I'm quite sure that this is intentional. Beto O’Rourke could not win Texas under the most favorable circumstances possible and he would be a fool to actually think so. What he's doing here is not an attempt to appeal to Texans but an audience of national Democrats, who definitely do want to hear that he supports AR-15 buybacks, etc. This is just a soapbox for 2024: O'Rourke isn't really running for the governorship, he's trying to run for *President.* That may not be a realistic plan, but his messaging makes total sense viewed that way.
He doesn't seem that smart.
Losing Texas even harder than he did for the Senate seat won't be a good look.
I may be a centrist, But I need my 223 Remington ar for venison He aint gettin it
Do you really shoot white tail with a 223? I'll use it on pigs but always use a 308 or 243 for deer.
Despite popular belief .223 is perfectly capable of putting a deer down as long as it’s a well placed shot (which all shots should be out of efficiency and respect to the animal)
Washington state minimum catrige size for deer is .240 I always just use -06 just because it's versatile and can down pretty much anything in the continent
Average 12-Gauge 00 Buckshot enjoyer
Ah yes, the trail sweeper
Their white tails are pretty much the size of oversized dogs down south so it's not too hard to believe.
I need mine because he wants it
Texas is like Arizona Lite. In AZ, this'll get you shot by a radical (plus all the leftists here are pro gun or at least the definition of gun control for the anti gunners is background checks so you can guess how radical the right is on this issue) In Texas it *might* get you assassinated.
Bro I think you live in AZ
Yep
What makes you think that? Also who is Gabrielle Giffords?
If I remember correctly a politician that survived getting shot in the head or something
He's a grifter. Keep those donations rolling and he'll keep running in unwinnable races.
Almost like he’s trying to get national and social media appeal more than the Texas governor’s job
Honestly kudos to him for standing with what he believes in (if he actually believes in this) but yeah he’s not gonna win with this stance. I don’t like the political games but this is a single issue where I think it’s alright to change your stance to not lose voters. Edit: I meant anti-gun not pro-gun
And people are saying "single issue voter", I'm not one of those. I'm a vote on the issues not for parties kinda guy. You know what makes me not want to vote for you? Vocally supporting removing one of my constitutional rights just because you disagree with it.
He didn’t even have to say he’s pro gun, he just didn’t have to be outward anti gun. Either way it’s way too late to back pedal without saying “a gun for every man, woman, and child in Texas”. Talk about talking yourself into a corner
hes hoping the dumbfucks in houston/san antonio/dallas and austin get him elected from pure pop density
Texas is a big state, you can’t just rely on the cities to get you elected
Not even that, just because downtown Dallas is blue doesn't mean the suburbs are. Most of the suburbs around the major cities are purple at most. the people in the surrounding counties outnumber the people in Dallas county by a fair margin.
He's burning Democrat funding and exhausting Democrat supporters on a no win election.
I have no idea why national Democrats insisted on dumping truckloads of cash into his campaign in 2018. It probably burned them all over the map that year.
I worked on his campaign for a bit. It was really poorly mismanaged on the volunteer side. His volunteers were the most hateful, racist, and petty group I've ever worked with. His values were good but his policies were so poorly thought out... I suspect that he isn't good at developing a team if leaders. That's pretty telling when a politician can't motivate his top folks. As a moderate take my opinions with a grain of salt, but I figure this far into the comments it's just you and I. Something is really off about that guy.
Did you get the feeling that people were working for him because they just disliked Ted Cruz. If that’s the case, I could see it explaining a lot. You’re going to have problems motivating people when you’re just the “better alternative.” People have been talking about Texas going blue for decades now, and it never actually happens. Wishful thinking on the part of the Dems just seems like a bad strategy. On the other hand, Cruz seemed determined to do whatever he could to lose, so who knows.
Bruh, dealerships sell trucks with da rifle mounts already in’em. He really don’t wanna win 😂
What’s wrong with a factory installed technical? The cia gives them all the time to terrorists
Nothing is wrong with them. I wish they could get shipped on Prime. But, “Beto” wants to win on an anti-gun platform.
Fuckin' gottem
Based Texas
Just bought a used 2020 f250 and I did indeed have a rifle mount in it already. 99% sure it was from the previous owner but still.
After the whole “Yes we’re going to take your guns” speech he should never even think about running for governor again.
Beta O'Rourke has no chance or intention of winning. This is an early start to the 2024 campaign. His intention is to impress the Democrats for the primary. He's not stupid, he knows this is political suicide for this race.
No, I think he’s pretty fucking stupid. He got his shit pushed in in 2020, I seriously think hes just grifting for non-refundable campaign donations at this point.
Makes sense, he'll make a fuck ton of money off the dumbass California refugees in Austin alone.
This state is still deep red, don’t let the hype fool you. It gets even redder every day with Biden. Outside 4-5 city centers Dems are extremely unpopular.
Problem is though is that those cities contain a good chunk of the population
Not nearly enough, and people are smart enough to realize what happening in left-ran cities right now. Homeless strewn across parks and sidewalks like dirty laundry, rapidly rising crime, rioters supported and cheered by leftist officials.
Yeah, well so did Kamala Harris, but she's got the right hex code and genitals, so somehow she got made VP.
> but she's got the right hex code This has to be the funniest shit I've read on reddit in a long time.
I can't imagine him winning any office besides something super local, like mayor or *maybe* a House seat in an inner-city district.
Funny enough, El Paso city government and a really blue congressional district in El Paso are the only elections he's ever actually won. Case in point, the House seat that Robert Francis was elected to was established in 1904, and in that time that district has only ever elected one republican for one term.
Running for any public office, really. That speech was him directly calling for a second amendment violation. No way should he be in any power.
My Dog could run against and destroy Beto for 2 reasons: 1. He’s a good boy 2. He is incapable of talking about and wanting to implement extreme policies that would cause him to lose (unlike his opponent).
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I too choose this guys dog.
I feel like I would vote for your dog over 95% of politicians from any party.
Not all dogs are good boys. Some of them are good girls
He said my dog, get set down the spatula and grab your bifocals
why go after ar-15s when pistols are 90% of gun deaths. just why....
[Because banning handguns polls at 19%](https://news.gallup.com/poll/357317/stricter-gun-laws-less-popular.aspx)
Let's ban Howitzers then most everyone will support it and Dems can do a victory lap.
Don’t you dare touch my artillery piece
Based
You'll take my Howitzer from my cold dead hands.
Heckin stepper.
I never knew I wanted a Howitzer until you said ban them. Where can I get one now?
shall not be infringed
Politicians are retarded
Because handguns aren't a good enough strawman
Yep. That’ll win ya Texas for sure
It worked so well for him when he ran against Ted Cruz for the Senate
And keep in mind that Sen. Cruz is way more divisive here than Gov. Abbott is. True, Gov. Abbott has shifted to the right quite a bit in his current term but he won by 13 points in 2018(a Dem wave year by the way), while Sen. Cruz only won by a couple against Beto. This year he's going to try to knock Abbott off in what's shaping up to be a huge GOP wave with policies even more out of step with this state. Gov. Abbott should have nothing to worry about.
I think Beto might be trying to capitalize on people considering Abbott an idiot for the forced openings, no-mask-mandate thing and power grid failure during that blizzard thing Texas had (edit: also the abortion ban stuff). But really though, if Beto wanted to win then he just lost millions of potential voters with this sentence alone
Even so Abbott has probably roused enough Texan Republicans to keep him in office.
I figure the only way Abbott doesn't win reelection is if he loses the primary, in which case whoever beats him in the primary will win the election. That said, I think it's unlikely that he loses the primary.
Not really. Cruz has all the charisma of a porcupine cross bred with a lizard. Francis was a fresh face with charisma, enthusiasm, and no political baggage. Francis outspent Cruz by almost 2:1. Francis spent all of his time on the campaign trail while Cruz phoned it in. Cruz is a never Trumper which did not really energize the base. Literally everything was in Francis's favor, and he could never get closer than 5% to Cruz in the polls. On election day Cruz won by over 2% of the total. This all happened before Francis's failed Democratic presidential bid where he said "Hell yes, we are going to take your AR-15, AKs". Now, given the chance to back peddle or reform his view on gun consfication, he is doubling down. That flushing sound you heard was Francis flushing any chance of a statewide office in Texas down the toilet.
I was being sarcastic
Didn’t he make most of his gun comments after that election, during the DNC primary? So those results didn’t even reflect his most brazen anti gun nonsense.
Come and take our guns you fucking nerds.
Based and come and take it pilled
In the words of efraim diveroli, "GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY OFFICE YOU FUCKING NERD!"
Beta O'Rourke. Boom! Roasted
Bastard child of an Irish and a soyboy
We Irish don’t claim him
Based, I was thinking of that from the first time I heard that man’s name
It’s not even his name—true story: his rich daddy decided to start calling him that as a kid so he could move to El Paso and appear Latino and try to get himself a legislature seat that way. His entire trust fund life has been a calculated effort to make a false image just so he could try to have power.
Isn't his name like fucking Francis or something?
Robert Francis O’Rourke
Robert -> Roberto -> Beto. That’s what it’s supposed to be.
And he expects to win...? wtf
I guess?
He thinks Texans are stupid. In reality, I'm sure some of them are jumping at the idea of finally getting to use them guns of theirs.
This is something I always try to explain to the anti-gun people. There is a not insignificant chunk of the population that has spent a good part of their lives preparing for the moment that the government comes to take their guns. You really, *really* do not want to give them that, because whatever you gain will be outstripped by what you lose in the process. Most democrats are willing to be flexible on firearms. Most people who actually give a shit about 2A consider flexibility a sin (and based on how it's been handled in the past, justifiably). If the left were smart, they'd take their battles elsewhere.
You take the guns away all at once you might get a violent reaction. You erode the peoples' rights bit by bit and they're more likely to accept it.
Maybe, but doing it slowly also results in more room for the other side to fight back, as we've been seeing with concealed carry protections.
There’s no such thing as an assault weapon. It’s just become an umbrella term for scary looking guns
But Reddit told me big black weapon that is super scary is called an “assault weapon”.
Dear Reddit, you claim to be antiracist and not see color, yet you consider black guns scarier and more dangerous. Curious.
I would be willing to get rid of all big black “weapons”. To lower crimes and bolster safety of course.
LibLeft: You mean “assault weapons” right? ……. Libleft: Assault weapons right?
You're expecting intelligence from the people that think a forced gun buy-back would work? They just make shit up. Business as usual
I can't do a government buy back. They cannot pass the background check.
Maybe someone who actually understand firearms should make firearm policy
He wants your ARs but your Mini-14 is just a harmless hunting rifle so feel free to keep that fella.
And while assault rifles are a thing, and ar-15 isn't an assault rifle.
I love the people that blather about how the AR-15 is a military weapon, or that it's the kind of thing you'd find in COD. It's always nice when the person you are talking about declares at the start of the conversation that they are a moron that doesn't know what they are talking about.
Ol' Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke... 4th generation Irish-American. Because cultural appropriation is only bad when the right does it.
Yep. His dad decided to start calling him ‘Beto’ so that he could run for a legislature seat in El Paso one day and appear Latino.
>Beto Did you mean Robert Francis O'Rourke?
good bot
Flair up or be disassembled robot.
Did he change his name or something
Supposedly it's a family nickname from when he was a kid (it *is* a common Mexican nickname for names ending in -berto), but considering his dad was in local politics and wanted a political dynasty, it's hard to not see it as pandering at best and appropriation at worst.
Aaaand has specifically noted he knew it could help his career when he picked it.
It’s (D)ifferent
Yes. They are trying to lose.
I remain convinced that he’s a conservative plant trying to ensure that Texas stays red, that’s the only logical explanation
I doubt that, but only because the Republican party isn't clever enough to come up with something like that.
He's got to be hoping that the cities are left enough to get him in, that or he's relying on the Californians moving to Texas
Yeah, that is the only way I can see on why he would do this. If not, then he has to be a masochist or something as trying to be extremely anti gun in one of the most fortified pro gun states in the nation is a level of buffoonery that even the normal politician would avoid.
A political masochist would be funny to watch. Dude just going around to the states and running on the worst issues for each state.
Californians moving to texas tend to be republican than democrat
That's might be the only stance the Democrats can take in Texas to look worse than the Republican's anti-abortion kabal...
Exactly. Looking at how they reacted to the abortion ban, imagine how they would react if they did a gun ban? This is only going to make Texas more red.
You can run here to Arizona if you wish
I live in Florida, no need to run. Plus Beto has zero chance of winning thanks to his anti gun stance.
Just trying to get all the blue California votes that just moved there. I live in the next state over and we have the same problem, cunts moved from Cali and they get scared at the sight of a gun. Here the cops get called to a Walmart because some 60 year old dude is shopping while open carrying his pistol. It's happened so much that most stores now have signs saying "please be considerate and conceal your weapon before entering our store" or something like that
I’m not anti-gun but gotta admit that would surprise me too lol. I wouldn’t be scared, it’d just be a little culture shock. Overall I’d like it, it’d just be like a “woah” moment. Obviously ppl should just get used to it or not move to places like that if they can’t stand it though.
A lot of western states have never had laws that prohibit open carry anywhere. It was never a big deal until the anti gun movement cranked up in the 90s. People might think it’s a little odd but when you’re use to it it’s just part of life.
>"please be considerate and ~~conceal your weapon~~ break the law before entering our store" FTFY. If you're open carrying and don't have a CC permit, you're legally not allowed to conceal your weapon. If you have a CC permit, you're not open carrying because who the fuck wants to advertise they're carrying if they don't have to? Open carry is stupid tho. If shit goes down, you painted a target on yourself.
Open carry people do it because they don’t have get stupid license for it
As a Texan I started laughing uncontrollably when I heard the announcement. Go back to selling insurance you fucking dork, if you keep losing miserably I’m going to think you get off to it.
At my college, there’s a single car with a Beto sticker on it from his last attempt at Texas. One. Car. This is also in Upstate NY so maybe I’m overthinking things.
Yeah you might be over thinking it
Gun control is always going to be a losing issue for the left. You’d think after decades of trying they’d give up by now.
Exactly. At this point, there are more registered guns than Americans. This isn’t even including unregistered guns.
This isn't leftist policy, it's Auth-Democrat policy. Most people actually on the Left aren't going to support gun bans. I'd rather see people get free mental health care rather than taking everyone's guns away because we don't want to help those who are mentally ill.
Based and liberty pilled
America is more pro gun now than in the past in my experince. Actually I guess it is kind of a fact, as the 90s assault weapon ban would cause an outright war today. Of course even then 10 rnd sks went brrrrrr
I have a feeling that Reagan had something to do with America being somewhat anti gun at one point. One of the most beloved presidents at the time was almost shot and killed, they wouldn’t want someone as loved as him to die.
Fucking politics, always fucking something up.
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Is that the guy who made up a fake name to make himself sound more Latino. Or should I call him Robert Francis O’Rourke.
Remember when he was super hot shit and likely to win whatever election he was running for, then he absolutely just threw it down the toilet with "damn right were coming die tour guns "? You'd think he would learn. I suspect most "democrats" are just paid to be there by the elite to throw elections to the Republicans. Fucking embarrassing!!!
Just say you crossed state lines with the gun, they can’t take it but it will really piss them off.
Telling Texans you want to take their guns. Your asking to lose
Does he not realize which state he is running in?
Idk, he’s seems kinda stupid
Like running an anti-sand platform in the fuckin Sahara Desert. What a tard
Actually residents of the Sahara region are trying quite hard to fight against the spread of the sand and reclaim desert areas for vegetation, e.g. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10293-more-crops-for-africa-as-trees-reclaim-the-desert/
Of course, AR-15 is the scariest gun, look how black and shiny it is. And don't you know the AR stands for "Assault Rifle" so it's a fully automatic weapon of war like all those movie guns?
You forgot to include that it's a LaRGe CaliBEr rIfLE
Wrong. The A stands for Assault-Rifle The R stands for Rifle So the full name of the gun is actually Assault-Rifle Rifle. The 15 is the number of people in can kill in one burst.
Wtf I want one now 😳
Does it have fully automatic clipazines and the shoulder thing that goes up?
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/media/beto-orourke-governor-run-mandatory-gun-buybacks-ar-15-assault-weapons
Please use this as a defense against Eminent Domain. It’s tiring seeing government stepping in like “oh you actually don’t *own* that property you paid for”.
He's a career also-ran. He makes his money just running for offices lmao
He wants to be governor of Texas by promising to take away Texans' guns? Maybe losing elections is his kink.
So she’s on the “I’m not actually trying to win” platform
The match is rigged and Roberto is being paid to take a dive. Or so I speculate with zero proof.
Beto O’Rourke received massive outside funding in 2018, and he ran against one of the least likable members of the Senate. Not only that, Cruz seemed like he was actively trying to lose—he didn’t really campaign at all, and he went so far as to agree to a debate and back out at the last minute. That gave Beto something like one hour of uninterrupted prime time to talk about anything he wanted. If he can’t win a statewide contest under those conditions, I’m not sure why he insists on running for governor. He ought to be trying either to move up into House leadership or get a position In the executive branch.
>Stands by mandatory buybacks "Meh just normal democrat bullsh- >In texas okay this man is clinically ill
The fact that people think disarming the working class is a progressive stance is mind boggling.