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Texas is the Future: Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State?
Harpers Magazine ^ | March 3, 2017 | Andrew Cockburn

Posted on 03/03/2017 8:30:47 AM PST by C19fan

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To: C19fan

What Texas needs is an upturn of the oil and gas industry and it will stay red for sure.


41 posted on 03/03/2017 10:02:16 AM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA FIRST.)
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To: BeadCounter

Texas Miracle, good for business, look at that economy! This is true but also, look what it brings in some ways. Business, Free Enterprise, conservative thinking. How odd life can be some time.


42 posted on 03/03/2017 10:07:56 AM PST by BeadCounter
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To: C19fan

: a crucial win in an age of Republican voter suppression.


They don’t even pretend at objective reporting anymore, do they?


43 posted on 03/03/2017 10:08:25 AM PST by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: Texas Fossil
The “race card” is invalid in Texas. And Texas will never be CA.

Haven't been to Houston lately I see.

44 posted on 03/03/2017 10:18:45 AM PST by itsahoot (Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
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To: GoldenPup
Not on their best day in a million effing years!!

Nope not in a million, but for sure it will be possible in 4.

45 posted on 03/03/2017 10:22:07 AM PST by itsahoot (Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
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To: alloysteel
at first they are just “quaint” folks with some different ways. Then they become established, not being confrontational, until their numbers reach a certain critical level (appears to be about some 10%

What Islam Isn't

By Dr. Peter Hammond

FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, April 21, 2008

The following is adapted from Dr. Peter Hammond's book: Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat:
Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.

Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called 'religious rights.'

When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to ‘the reasonable' Muslim demands for their 'religious rights,' they also get the other components under the table. Here's how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).

As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States - Muslim 1.0%
Australia - Muslim 1.5%
Canada - Muslim 1.9%
China - Muslim 1%-2%
Italy - Muslim 1.5%
Norway - Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark - Muslim 2%
Germany - Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom - Muslim 2.7%
Spain - Muslim 4%
Thailand - Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves - along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France - Muslim 8%
Philippines - Muslim 5%
Sweden - Muslim 5%
Switzerland - Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands - Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago - Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.

When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris –car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam - Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana - Muslim 10%
India - Muslim 13.4%
Israel - Muslim 16%
Kenya - Muslim 10%
Russia - Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:

Ethiopia - Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia - Muslim 40%
Chad - Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon - Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania - Muslim 70%
Malaysia - Muslim 60.4%
Qatar - Muslim 77.5%
Sudan - Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh - Muslim 83%
Egypt - Muslim 90%
Gaza - Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia - Muslim 86.1%
Iran - Muslim 98%
Iraq - Muslim 97%
Jordan - Muslim 92%
Morocco - Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan - Muslim 97%
Palestine - Muslim 99%
Syria - Muslim 90%
Tajikistan - Muslim 90%
Turkey - Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates - Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of 'Dar-es-Salaam' - the Islamic House of Peace - there's supposed to be peace because everybody is a Muslim:

Afghanistan - Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia - Muslim 100%
Somalia - Muslim 100%
Yemen - Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that's not the case. To satisfy their blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons.
Before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world and all of us against the infidel.
Leon Uris, 'The Haj'

It is good to remember that in many, many countries, such as France, the Muslim populations are centered around ghettos based on their ethnicity. Muslims do not integrate into the community at large. Therefore, they exercise more power than their national average would indicate.

46 posted on 03/03/2017 10:25:00 AM PST by itsahoot (Return the power to the people, and Mexico will pay for the wall, 100%)
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To: itsahoot

Yes, I know about Houston. And Austin.


47 posted on 03/03/2017 10:45:38 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: C19fan

See Tagline.


48 posted on 03/03/2017 10:57:19 AM PST by stillfree? (Don't let illegals turn your state into California.)
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To: gr8eman
"Don’t they have voter ID in TX?"

Yes, and it will remain in effect thanks to Jeff Sessions' Justice Department, which just withdrew their court challenge.

49 posted on 03/03/2017 11:17:32 AM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’m of the opinion that Trump can put the “dreamers” in his pocket if he plays his cards right. Brought as children, he and GOP could become their heroes. He does have to convince them that Democrats for decades have been just stringing them along, keeping them poor and mal-educated. If done right the Democrats could lose them for generations and Texas and the nation would get redder.


50 posted on 03/03/2017 12:05:07 PM PST by FiddlePig (Who needs Truth & facts when you have narrative?)
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To: FiddlePig

The only way to accomplish what you suggest is to amnesty not just the DACA, but their parents and aunts and uncles and cousins, etc.

And they would still vote Democrat.


51 posted on 03/03/2017 12:07:53 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GoldenPup
Can Democrats reconquer the Lone Star State? Not on their best day in a million effing years!!

And the Titanic is unsinkable. And Pearl Harbor can never be successfully attacked by air.

I'm not a Texan, so I can't really say how feasible a Dem takeover is or is not. But history teaches us to never say never.

52 posted on 03/03/2017 12:15:46 PM PST by bus man (Loose Lips Sink Ships)
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To: bus man

And the other thing history teaches us to plan ahead, and not to ignore clear warning signs...

There is a definite and active Latino presence in the Republican Party of Texas


53 posted on 03/03/2017 12:50:29 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: C19fan
Get this:

"The Democrats had also captured... the (Harris County - Houston) tax assessor’s office, which oversees voter registration: a crucial win in an age of Republican voter suppression."

Just keep telling yourselves that it was "Republican voter suppression" that kept your miserable candidate from winning, and it'll be decades before we see the next Dimocrat President!

54 posted on 03/03/2017 12:58:18 PM PST by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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To: C19fan

I just hope that some people will wake up and see that Liberals are NOT their friends. When liberals get in office permanently, the USA will be gone...


55 posted on 03/03/2017 7:51:44 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-)l)
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