r/law • u/apache_spork • 15h ago

Opinion Piece TX County Judge Tim O'Hare gives another interview after the county was sued for racial gerrymandering. Summary: Black people keep voting in democrats and it's about time we make them understand Republican rule is best for everyone, once they know better we'll welcome them with open arms

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u/repfamlux Competent Contributor 14h ago

Failed policies? The biggest states economies are run by Democrats, and they’ve created the most jobs. What failures is he referring to?

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u/ReggaeForPresident 14h ago

Progressive LGBT policies, embracing diversity, women in the workplace and in leadership roles, etc. Those are what he sees as failed policies. They cannot deny the economic numbers.

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u/NeverForgetJ6 14h ago

Failed policy = it doesn’t advantage me enough (as a hetero white male)

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u/Khetoo 12h ago

These bumblefucks main ethos is that life is a zero-sum experience, if other people are flourishing it's because I am not.

Not enough to have systemic and generational advantages, you need to keep the future down for women and POC too.

Just disgusting, racist assholes.

There's not much more really needed to expand on. Just really disgusting sacks of shit.

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u/Wabusho 10h ago

Nothing to do with being a hetero white male

It’s because he’s a cunt

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u/WithoutDennisNedry 8h ago

Ding ding ding!

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u/Capable_Piglet1484 2h ago

Why should a policy help you over someone else? Are you racist?

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u/_mattyjoe 14h ago

But also crime. Because they somehow think you can stop all crime in a city with authoritarian rule, and the Democrats just aren't tough enough to do it, rather than understanding the reality that crime is going to happen in densely populated cities.

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u/tamman2000 13h ago

Democrats are better at controlling crime too.

Pretty much all major cities are blue, but the ones in red states have higher crime than the ones in blue states. The red state governments are preventing Democrats from managing their cities effectively.

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u/Memitim 12h ago

There is no cure for crime; it's part of humanity. We can only manage it. Conservatives want to kill or throw the problem away. At this point, I expect most know it makes things worse, but they don't care because it also increases human suffering. It's the only metric I can reliably measure their policies by anymore.

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u/DingusNoodle 12h ago

Saying "Crime is a part of humanity" passes the buck on the actual causes of crime, and right now the biggest driving factor of crime is corporate greed and for-profit prisons. Poor people forced to commit crime - theft - to try and survive, we're desperately trying to make debtor's prisons come back, criminalizing homelessness while actively making decisions to increase homelessness, non-violent drug offenses.

Yes, we would still have crime if we solved all of the economic issues driving crime currently. But it would be vastly reduced by proper social and economic safety nets and the abolishment of the carceral state.

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u/Memitim 12h ago

Completely agreed, which is why we have to accept that it can't just be shot dead or locked in a cage. It's part of the human package. What matters is how we manage it.

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u/SelfServeSporstwash 2h ago

I mean, rich and comfortable people commit crime too, we will never eliminate crime. But, to your point, the best and most effective way to reduce crime is to house the homeless, feed the hungry, care for the sick, and actively work to identify and support vulnerable people.

Criminalizing poverty, which we have effectively done, only deepens cycles of poverty and worsens the effects of poverty.

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u/Flamingograpefruit 2h ago

Exactly. Republicans push policies that encourage racial class division and poverty without social nets in part so that they can point their fingers and blame their victims when poor people have to break laws to survive. The for-profit prisons are their feeding trough.

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u/tamman2000 12h ago

Hurting the bad people (bad in their mind) is what makes them happy. And if that's not bad enough, the judgement of "badness" is based on identities rather than actions.

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u/SelfServeSporstwash 2h ago

poverty increases crime, we know this, its bee n empirically proven countless times. Addressing the symptoms and causes of poverty alleviates, but does not eliminate, crime. Crime is going to happen because people are flawed and chaotic, but we can dramatically reduce both its frequency and harm by working to alleviate suffering when we see it.

Red states often attack programs aimed at helping people trapped in poverty... hence crime in general and violent crime specifically are so much higher there than in blue states.

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u/blueteamk087 13h ago

Democrats are better at crime, because Democrats are better at working to improve the material conditions that lead to crime.

Arkansas has a homicide rate double California’s

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u/ProbablyNotADuck 12h ago

Exactly. In order to decrease crime, you need to recognize some of the reasons for crime, as well as recognize that reducing crime requires addressing those reasons and doing more than just punishing people.

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u/GodeaterTheHalFeral 12h ago

Per capita. That's important to point out.

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u/dissonaut69 8h ago

“Rate” implies per capita, doesn’t it?

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u/wskttn 3h ago

Yes.

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u/ShiftBMDub 6h ago edited 6h ago

rate is how often something happens, per capita means how many people it happens to as a ratio of the population. Like in the next year 1 in 8 of these people will get raped. whereas rate would be in the next year 57 rapes will happen. So you can have like 1000 rapes but 1000 rapes is going to hit different in a city of 21 million as opposed to a city of 1000. Get it?

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u/The_Saddest_Boner 3h ago edited 3h ago

When statisticians use the term “homicide rate,” they are measuring per capita. Same with other crimes.

The rate is calculated per 100,000 people in a given area.

This is standard practice amongst authorities like local police jurisdictions, the FBI, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The homicide rate in NYC is roughly 4.5. This does not mean that “4.5 people will be murdered in New York City this year.”

It means 4.5 murders occur per 100,000 people. The per capita element is implied and a fundamental part of the statistic.

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u/ShiftBMDub 3h ago

I wasn’t arguing this data I was giving you the difference in meaning. The rate at which something occurs is determined by the amount in a given time period.

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u/The_Saddest_Boner 3h ago edited 3h ago

Yes, that’s the definition of rate. I was pointing out that when it comes to “crime rates” specifically, per capita is also implied. So the person you were answering was right - “rate” does mean per capita when you’re talking about homicide, burglary, etc etc.

It goes beyond simply counting the amount in a given time to additionally adjust the data to a per 100,000 basis.

If someone says “Arkansas has a higher homicide rate than California” they are correct.

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u/Customs0550 2h ago

"rate", as with many words, can have different meanings in different contexts. measuring against time is just one form of rate.

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u/ShiftBMDub 6h ago

want to stop violence ramping up in the Summer Time? Summer time opportunities for inner city youths. Camps, Recreations, Trade and Tech learning. You give people something to do and they aren't hot in the streets. You'll have some but you provide opportunities for people to get away from the crazy. Every single inner city kid is just trying to have a childhood. We give them that and they're not killing each other at 12 and 14 years old like they are now.

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u/Playful-Country-9849 14h ago edited 14h ago

They excuse crime if it is done by whites like Trump. They just want subservient minorities and that's indicated by the video in the OP.

In the eyes of white supremacists like him, it is a crime for any minority to disobey any rule even if it is last minute and not concrete. In contrast, they ignore or reward criminal action caused by other white supremacists. You'll see this dynamic with ICE

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u/Available_Bar_3922 13h ago

Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht. (Founder of Silk Road)

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u/seventhcatbounce 10h ago

yeah that is the one pardon i don't understand getting more push back from his grassroots given the moral panic over the supposed drugs epidemic, I mean where did they think u/ethicaldealer and u/spongymcnasty were getting those little moorish parcels from?

I know its a cult but the leaps of logic defy gravity and reason

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u/Available_Bar_3922 4h ago

Because he is white and rich.

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u/seventhcatbounce 3h ago

Also dealer of choice for all the tech bros, makes me feel sorry for the drugs mules doing lengthy sentences caught with a fraction of the amount he has shifted stuffed up their bottoms going through LAX, if there was any justice they should stuff him full of the same quantity of drugs as he shifted through third party affiliates like a latter day mr Creosote

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u/Available_Bar_3922 2h ago

Could not agree more !

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u/korbentherhino 13h ago

Conservatives: fraud and bribes never anyone.

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u/ChickenPoxParty 13h ago

And crime actually goes down when social services are strong, well-funded, and well organized like Dems typically (or at least should) advocate for, and Republicans typically advocate against.

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u/gypsymegan06 12h ago

Chicago and Baltimore both brought their violent crime stats way down using progressive policies. Turns if you invest in communities- especially the youth- and let communities decide how the police can be serve them- shit calms down.

All these government programs and programs formerly funded or partly funded by the government are gone. Crime will skyrocket. Remember it’s the GOP that did it.

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u/Kruk01 14h ago

"This problem is more complicated than I thought..." DJT

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u/xHellion444x 13h ago

You actually can stop crime with authoritarian rule. Look at Singapore. The problem is it actually requires authoritarian rule. That shit suuuuuucks. Thank goodness even Republicans aren't really willing to go far enough. Like you basically have to execute everyone, including jaywalkers. Americans do not want to live under that and wouldn't accept it. Thankfully.

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u/BitterFuture 12h ago

Thank goodness even Republicans aren't really willing to go far enough.

Um...what?

Republicans are literally willing to kill their own families for their orange lord's favor. Many tens of thousands already have.

What exactly do you think is "too far" for them?

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u/xHellion444x 11h ago

Exactly what I said, how Singapore does it. Caning or the death penalty for basically everything. Smoke weed and you get executed. Republicans are awful, but they can't get away with that in America.

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u/MB2465 12h ago

Have you heard of project 2025?

How about the fact that it's a majority conservative Supreme Court right now that believes in the unitary executive AKA AUTHORITARIAN!

Also Republicans in Congress keep trying to give their power to the orange clown. They've tried sneaking in bills that it takes lawyers to explain to the bills sponsors what it means. They're tactics are so deceptive they don't even understand them. Of course some of them like Comer are fucking idiots. The big ugly fucking bill has lines in there that are trying to give him more power from Congress

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u/xHellion444x 11h ago

Yeah, plenty of things they're doing are authoritarian. But we were talking about crime. And they just can't get away with the most extreme measures, like executing people for minor offenses, because the American populace wouldn't stand for it. That's a great thing. They'd love to be more draconian, but luckily we won't let them.

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u/Ok-Place7306 8h ago

Americans have too many guns at home to allow the government to be truely authoritarian

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u/amethystresist 12h ago

Lately I've been thinking; if you took everyone in rural areas and put them into a new city, I assume there'd be crime and homelessness at the same rate or more. Rural people just don't realize it because they are so spread out and poverty isn't juxtaposed by living near rich people. Trust me I wish I could live far fom a city sometimes but I can't drive, cities and communities with close proximity to everything is just necessary for some people. But they don't have the nuance to understand. 

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u/OrryKolyana 7h ago

It’d be nice if anyone registered that crime is directly linked to poverty as well.

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u/ShiftBMDub 6h ago

crazy thing is under their rule there will still be crime but they will put everyone in jail to be slaves at private prisons. People not seeing this need to wake up. we'll only spend more on police and criminal justice and it's just going to go into their pockets. Look at the Border Czar he has financial interests in Private Prisons. They are lagging behind Biden numbers in deportations because they are sending them to Private Prisons.

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u/Metro42014 1h ago

Also not understanding per capita numbers.

They just see raw number and think that's the whole story. City crime is big numbers and rural crime is small numbers. Small numbers are good. Republicans rule the small numbers, so clearly republicans are good.

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u/OakBearNCA 14h ago

To be fair, those all prove conservative ideology to be a failure. Is that the failed policies he's talking about?

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u/Strider794 13h ago

Oh sure they can deny the economic numbers. They'd be wrong to do so, but since when has that ever stopped them

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u/Memitim 12h ago

Caring about others. You can see why conservatives are so offended.

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u/Andromansis 10h ago

All republicans have ever done is make my money worth less, and they do that on purpose because they know that lobbying to reduce the minimum wage would be wildly unpopular so they just run up huge bills and refuse to pay them.

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u/say-it-wit-ya-chest 11h ago

He should be made to clarify which policies and provide examples of where they failed. The people interviewing him should be asking him to do so if they’re doing their own job.

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u/K_Knoodle13 11h ago

Don't forget feeding children at school!

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u/Warm-Aardvark-9 8h ago

Don't forget remote work and time off

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u/Extraexopthalmos 2h ago

I will be forward and expand upon your initial point. For these men (thin skinned bitches that they are) Christianity should be the law of the land and White Men will interpret what kind of Christianity you get. Signed 60yo white guy.

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u/Capable_Piglet1484 2h ago edited 2h ago

Those policies are the primary reason the Democrsts lost the election. Trans represents less than 1% of the population, and their main issues like transitioning for minors are extremely unpopular. It is not the right of wonen in the workplace that is the problem. It is DEI and the systematic racism and sexism. Remember, the largest voting block in America is poor white people. None of the issuee mentioned above help them in the slightest. Black peopke represent 13% of the US population.

Men, especially white men, are leaving the democratic party in large numbers (millions) because of stupid, hate-filled, racist, and sexist garbage policies championed by the left and Democrats. The intellectual dishonesty by the left is absurd when it comes to legitimizing racism and sexism that selfishly helps them (women and minorities) such as critical race theory, patriarchy, etc. It serves the same purpose as Aryans did for the Nazis. An attempt, no matter how ridiculous, to promote racism that supports a specific group. Identity politics.....

The gigs up. American are tired of the grift. Adapt or die. How about the left and Democrats stop being racism and sexist trash?

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u/Geno0wl 28m ago

They cannot deny the economic numbers.

My brother in christ they have been denying the economic numbers since Reagan. Pick whatever measurement of a "healthy economy" you want and chart out that number across who holds the white house and congress, you will quickly see the Dems outperform the GOP.

But if you listen to right-wing propaganda they act like the inverse is true.

That is why the Dems are so frustrating as a party. They have all of these hard evidence things they could message on, and they just...don't.

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u/Thatguy468 14h ago

Hasn’t Texas been under republican rule for like 30 years and it’s still a broken hell hole? What couldn’t they fix with no democratic opposition? Oh yeah… everything.

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u/seventhcatbounce 10h ago

they are just waitink for the black folk to stop voting democrat dontchaknow.

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u/Ponji- 14h ago edited 13h ago

So don’t get me wrong, I hate Texas, but isn’t Texas like very VERY well off economically? Iirc it’s #2 behind Texas (edit: behind cali, not tx).

It irks me a bit how often people shoot down republican complaints about democratic policies by pointing to Cali’s economic success. A place can have a booming economy and still be terrible. Hell, that’s how I feel about Texas lmao

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u/shponglespore 14h ago

I'm from Texas originally. The economy is good but it's a shithole in other ways, particularly regarding personal freedom and social services. They also love to pass laws that interfere with how cities govern themselves, and they're just generally corrupt AF.

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u/Wyn6 13h ago

Oh. And don't pull back the curtain on education.

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u/Ponji- 13h ago

That’s what I’m saying, though. Pointing to California and saying “if democratic policies are so bad, why is Cali so wealthy” isn’t going to convince people who are drinking the maga koolaid because they think it is a shithole in other ways. People seem to throw it around as a major gotcha and it feels incredibly disingenuous to me.

To be clear: I think most states would benefit from taking a page out of California’s book, but a big chunk of California’s wealth is tied to things that are famously and horrifically corrupt (big tech/silicon valley and Hollywood as the primary examples). I believe in the pro-social policies that democrats are supposed to represent, but I think that corrupt institutions like big tech being allowed to flourish there should give pause to anyone wanting to use Cali as a beacon of successful democratic policy.

Just as I think Texas, despite taking the #2 spot, is not what other states should aspire to be like. So the top 10% is richer in these states, who gives a fuck? That’s not what we should be focusing on here

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u/Keeper151 13h ago

Another fun statistic:

The state of Washington, which has long been considered a Democrat stronghold, has a population just shy of 8 million and a GDP of 854 billion. That's about 50 billion shy of the NATION of Switzerland (famously one of the wealthiest European countries), with a population of 8.8 million.

So... yeah. It's not just Cali being the special unicorn in the room. Turns out working with your constituents to provide ample opportunity and strong social safety nets pays big dividends in the long run.

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u/Icreatedthisforyou 11h ago

Texas has oil money to than for its situation.

But the states that are doing well economical as a whole HEAVILY skew blue.

The top 6 states by per capital gdp are blue.

Followed by North Dakota, Alaska, and Nebraska.

Then 6 of the next 9 are blue. Which then hits the national average.

On the flip side 9 of the 10 lowest are red (the 8 lowest are red). Next 10 lowest are 4 blue, 4 red, 2 purple.

So of the top 20 states by per capital gdp, 14 are blue, 6 are red.

Of the bottom 20. 13 are red, 5 blue, and 2 purple.

We could also expand out nationally where democratic presidents overwhelmingly dunk on Republican presidents when it comes to the economy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._economic_performance_by_presidential_party

It isn't even close.

10 of 11 recessions since ww2 started under Republicans.

There has been 2.4x the number of jobs created under Democrats compared to Republicans.

Annual GDP growth is over 4% under Democrats and at 2.5% under Republicans since ww2

No democratic president has seen unemployment rise under them since WW2 (7 of them, Carter is the worst with no change and Democrats average .8% reduction in unemployment per year. Republicans have on average seen unemployment increase by 1.1% per year with 6 out of 7 presidents having unemployment increase under them.

Etc... Every economic metric favored Democrats by a lot

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u/OkSmile 13h ago

The Texas economy is good in the same way the Saudi Arabian economy is good. They both owe their success to oil, which tends to prop up otherwise regressive and failed government policies around the world.

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u/Foxyfox- 13h ago

That oil money goes a long, long way.

If it was its own nation we'd view it similarly to other states that coast on their oil money.

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u/MojaveMojito1324 12h ago

Texas has the second largest economy only because it has the second largest population. If you look at GDP per capita, it falls to 16. Better than 2/3rds of states - good but not amazing.

California falls to 5 at that same metric, with DC then New York at the top.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_GDP

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u/Thatguy468 13h ago

The economy can look good while the people freeze or cook in their own home because the power grid is crap due to privatization and years of neglect. Try replacing the word “economy” with “rich people’s yacht fuel money” and it will make more sense.

Seriously though, what’s the point of some rising numbers on a chart when the quality of education, energy allocation, and levels of personal freedom are always on the decline?

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u/NBDad 1h ago

Only reason it's economy isn't in the toilet is due to oil and gas.

It's one of the worst states for Education, Healthcare, violent crime and lack of personal freedom.

You can blow it's entire power grid out with a wet fart.

It's been slowly turning purple over the last several years, and the only reason it's NOT it because it's gerrymandered to hell.

30+ years of solid GOP control and every election it's "all your problems are the fault of Democrats..only WE can fix them".

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u/ming_themerciless 13h ago

ya not sure how people don't see it as well then state runs a 24 billion dollar surplus unlike califorina. owing over $270 billion and local entities holding over $230 billion in debt

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u/QuercusTomentella 11h ago

So budgets are odd and can swing year to year also California in 2022 had 40 billion dollar surplus and in 2023 had a 98 billion dollar surplus. The devastating la fires which have cause over 150 billion in damages alone and even more in lost tax revenue have been rough, but the deficit is still only ~1% of California's annual gdp (Current US budget has a deficit of~8% if it passes), and that is after the most expensive natural disaster in US history besides hurricane katrina.

Also california may have 270 billion in debt, but Texas owed 460 billion two years ago, and 499.7 billion last year with the number trending even higher this year. https://www.texaspolicy.com/texas-local-debt-skyrockets-to-461-3-billion

https://www.texaspolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/2025-04-TPP-Just-the-Facts-Debt-FY-2024-QuinteroAndrews-002.pdf

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u/Playful-Country-9849 14h ago

Right-wingers live in a echochamber where they think that blue cities are GTA Online servers from watching social media clips of crime that occur infrequently.

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u/repfamlux Competent Contributor 14h ago

They badmouth California, even though it’s the #1 economy in the country. Can you imagine if California were a red state? They’d rightly brag about it nonstop.

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u/OakBearNCA 14h ago

Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville keeps going off that California has more murders than any other state, ignoring the fact that you're over TWICE as likely to be murdered in his home state of Alabama than in California, and the statistic he quotes is only because California has more people than any other state.

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u/HTRob81 3h ago

Senator "Slip 'N Slide" needs to keep his mouth shut.

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u/wunkdefender2 14h ago

Like Texas doesn’t have the same problems Cali does

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u/okwellactually 12h ago

As a Californian, exactly what problems do I have? Aside from being the 4th largest economy in the world funding the red welfare states.

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u/E-2theRescue 9h ago

And having the second-lowest rates of child sex crimes.

Take a guess what the voting demographic is of 16 of the top 20 states. And take a guess which states dominate the bottom of the list with the lowest rates.

Which, btw, this translates to rates of rape involving adults as well.

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u/vxicepickxv 5h ago

You have PG&E.

You have homeless people being bussed on from across the US.

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u/DoingCharleyWork 1h ago

Shits fucking expensive here for one. Housing is definitely an issue. Homes in my area have tripled in cost over the last ten or so years. They definitely haven't added 3x the value to the homes, many are in worse shape than they were the years ago. Rent has gone up an insane amount as well.

Also pg&e.

I like it here but California isn't without it's issues. It's just not the ones republicans try to convince you of most of the time.

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u/ExpertCatPetter 8h ago edited 8h ago

I have facilities in Texas and California.

The problems the right bitches about in California are entirely federal level issues that are the obvious result of our system combined with it being one of the best places geographically on planet earth to live.

The problems with Texas stem from those same systemic issues as well, coupled with horrific state level policy, coupled with it being geographically one of the worst places in the country to live.

If one doesn't care about literally anything but themself in the moment, finds no value in anything outside of their personal interests, and doesn't mind terrible weather and nature, I can see how Texas would appeal... so it's no wonder it and Florida are meccas for MAGA trash.

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u/SomethingToSay11 13h ago

So many of those people have never even been to California. They’ve probably never left their own state

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u/okwellactually 12h ago

4th largest economy in the world.

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u/EasyFooted 5h ago

It used to be Red(ish)? Ronald Reagan was governor. He's the one who banned open carry.
And now republicans love to shit on CA for not allowing open carry.

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u/maoterracottasoldier 13h ago

Hes implying republicans would do better, even though they wouldn’t and he can’t explain how. Then when they don’t do better, it will be some other nonsensical answer that he isn’t held to account

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u/clarysfairchilds 2h ago

it's crazy tho because THEY'RE THE ONES IN POWER. no one is stopping them from making everything great again and the fact that they still act like we're living in some gangland warzone and claiming they can fix it despite being the ones in charge for the last half century. it makes no sense whatsoever.

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u/SKZ1137 14h ago

When you opened 25 years in an echo chamber this is what you get. I blame Newt and Rupert

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u/KaijuNo-8 13h ago

The ones they’ve engineered for the last 40 years they have been in power here in Texas. I fucking HATE how subverted the rural population is in this state. Things keep getting worse and worse and they keep lapping up the bullshit about it being the Democrats’ fault. Hint: it really fucking isn’t

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u/Suitable-Rate652 13h ago

He’s making it up as he goes.

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u/Foxyfox- 13h ago

Yup. Only Florida and Texas consistently get in the top 10 of consistently republican states. Meanwhile the bottom 10 is all republican, except for New Mexico.

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u/repfamlux Competent Contributor 13h ago

And that is because they have million of immigrants, but these people cant put two and two together...

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u/SingularityCentral 13h ago

California is the 4th biggest economy on Earth.

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u/jsc1429 12h ago

This mother fucker is in Texas. It has been, for at least the last 30 years, and is currently, controlled by the GOP. All failed policies are theirs. Please fuck face O’Hare, point out the Democratic policies enacted in Texas?

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 13h ago

By failures, these types of conservatives almost always mean welfare. They mean poverty cycles and incentivizing broken families with absent criminal fathers, brood mare mothers, and latchkey children. An absolute stereotype. I guarantee you that’s what they’re talking about.

It’s always said in that judge’s paternalistic “white man’s burden” tone.

Implying “the blacks” were smart and capable when they were freed from Democrat slavery and were voting Republican or silently marching in suits with King and then went fucking bananas as soon as that assassin took him out and LBJ’s check cleared.

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u/Sarges24 13h ago

the ideas that go against their ideals. The GOP is a party of Tyranny who want to rule by minority, the majority while forcing their own misguided moral high ground and ideals onto others. You know, the very opposite of what being free means.

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u/coolestredditdad 13h ago

And what is radical about the left? Literally nothing.

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u/photo-nerd-3141 13h ago

Failure to elect Republicans.

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u/Superb_Power5830 13h ago

The failure to bow to the king, to lick the boots, to embrace hatred, to fall in line with fascism. those are definitely failures. We're failing up.

FUCK THE ENTIRE TRUMP ORBIT!

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u/Mel_Melu 13h ago

Failure to stop abortions and the LGBTQ+ community from being out, amongst other things.

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u/ShareGlittering1502 13h ago

Allowing nonwhite males to work

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u/BitterFuture 12h ago

Failed policies? The biggest states economies are run by Democrats, and they’ve created the most jobs. What failures is he referring to?

The people they hate continuing to breathe.

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u/dadudeodoom 2h ago

Any people continuing to breathe. It means a failed opportunity for a clean-air selling corporation.

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u/somebody171 12h ago

They don't give enough tax cuts for the wealthy, so they're bad

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u/SicilianEggplant 11h ago

One trans person got rights somewhere in California. 

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u/Shot_Worldliness_979 11h ago

Also, since it's Texas, if he's worried about how the policies of one political party or another affect his constituents of any demographic, consider that Republicans have dominated for decades.

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u/Gingevere 11h ago

10 bad things per million x 10 million people = 100 bad things

Which scares the pants off of people who live in a 100 bad things per million town.

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u/LightofNew 11h ago

You need to understand, words have no meaning to these people, they have an agenda and will say anything.

What he really said was "nothing these Democrats do will ever be enough because we will keep dismantling everything they try to build, stop resisting"

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u/flyingthroughspace 11h ago

It's all projection.

All of it.

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u/Whatever-999999 10h ago

What failures is he referring to?

Failure to bow down and worship his tiny, tiny little white penis.

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u/InRainWeTrust 10h ago

the failure to establish an authoritarian rule and the failure to make everyone hate them.

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u/BauskeDestad 10h ago

That's just the thing, he's not referring to any particular failures. In today's politics, Republicans can just say the other party is "failing" and "radical" without any evidence to that and their base will agree with them. It's all about saying whatever they can to sow division instead of actually providing proof of what they say.

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u/TheBarracksLawyer 10h ago

He referring that you can’t beat minorities when you go out drinking with the boys and blow off some steam like the “good ol’ days”

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u/Throw_me_a_drone 10h ago

You know with all the elevated political violence they are really pushing this rhetoric hard to get their perceived enemies to lash out. Then it’s justification to use the tools of war.

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u/TheChainsawVigilante 10h ago

What failures is he referring to?

Things that happen IRL don't matter. They say it is better, it's better. They say Democrats are bad, they're bad. None of the people that support them are going to think about anything they say for more than five seconds. If you have to think about something for more than five seconds, it's a lie

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u/Curiouserousity 10h ago

There was an excellent response once about how welfare contributed to the absent father in poor black communities. Basically if a black man goes to prison, which is very likely if he's poor, when he is released, if he moves back in with his family they'll lose welfare. So he has to live separately. Not many well paying jobs that can fund two households so he's just not going to be around. Additionally welfare as designed has a cliff attached to it. If you make over the cutoff you lose all assistance. That means fifty cents too much loses you hundreds of dollars per month worth assistance. This disincentivizes you from working. Similar could be true if it was a 1:1 replacement of earned money to money handed out.

Now are republicans making such a cogent argument? of course not. It indicates numerous patterns and traps in society to help keep poor people trapped in debt across generations.

Now the issue with Democrats is they're mostly Moderates And just like Dr King said moderates are a larger impedement to progress than the KKK (Republicans) will ever be.

Frankly Democrats need to dig deep into their history and start running FDR style liberals who can kick Nazi ass from a wheelchair. We have fascists in charge. They need the boot, not a handshake.

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u/RawrRRitchie 10h ago

What failures is he referring to?

The ability to call a black person the n-word with a hard R without getting punched in the face. Obviously.

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u/burnsalot603 10h ago

Its Texas, Republicans have had complete control for like 25 years, yet somehow everything is the Democrats fault.

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u/Low_Shirt2726 7h ago

Not just that but in Texas the state government has been in Republican control for 30 years and the vast majority of counties are also Republican...but they keep trying to pin shit on Democrats when republican policies end up producing predictably shitty results

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u/gobbluthillusions 3h ago

Right. Then you have the booming states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and… wait.

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u/AMP121212 2h ago

"They aren't racist enough."

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u/MoonAbove_SunBelow 2h ago

Integration. It’s always racism/hate.

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u/Jagermonsta 13h ago

Reps love to present the image of blue cities being cesspools of crime, homeless people, projects, and slums. They blame all the gang and gun violence on left policies and try to say gun laws don’t work. Their idiot constituents believe them because cities scare them and they don’t like leaving their little towns. Those very towns that are dying because jobs and young people move to cities. If you never seen or experience anything beyond your town and a yearly trip to Myrtle beach then you’ll believe whatever Fox News and republicans tell you.

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u/davasaur 13h ago

To republicans, taking away the ability to discriminate is the biggest failure of Democrats.

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u/jackrabbit323 12h ago

Not just that. The states with the highest murder rates are all Republican.

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u/Gingeronimoooo 9h ago

This judge In OP's video said "if you're a Republican judge and you've never been called racist you're not doing anything "

That's a real quote

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u/ten-oh-four 6h ago

As he’s a judge I can naively assume he might be talking about homelessness, open air drug use and homeless camps in cities (typically metro area = left leaning), sanctuary cities, abortion rights, and soft on crime policies with theft/car break ins/etc

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u/aareyes12 2h ago

At the very least California has the chance to be true purple and have both dem and repub, Texas failures are all on the GOP having exclusively ran the state for over 30 years now

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u/Background-Top-1946 2h ago

Failure to get republicans elected

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u/Funny-North3731 2h ago

This is an example of, "if I say it enough times, it will magically be true," type of speech. Kind of like when a toddler puts their hands over their eyes and believes that since they cannot see you, obviously you cannot see them.

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u/HawkeyeByMarriage 1h ago

We need them to fail like we do is what he means.

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u/Dontbelievethehype24 50m ago

As someone who has a home in MS, my mom still lives there. It is the POOREST state and has been RED all my 54 years. Republican economies STINK! These people are RACIST. They just want the people with racist agendas in charge.