In 1957, George Tames photographed Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson (left) as he pressured Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green (right), into accepting President Eisenhower’s Mideast plan.
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With a vision in mind, Johnson would master the details.
During the Presidential Leadership Scholarship meeting in Austin, Bill Moyers noted that Johnson regularly told his team, “Your judgment is only as good as your facts.”
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President Johnson towering over Justice Abe Fortas, smiling and invading his space as the jurist uncomfortably leans back and clinches his arms to his chest.
Johnson knew that vision and purpose are foundational to persuasion.
The Johnson Technique: An incredible, potent mixture of persuasion, badgering, flattery, threats, reminders of past favors and future advantages.
Omar is a public official with an outsized responsibility for her behavior and the effect of that in both media and public perception. You’re welcome to punch the next racist that comes along in your life. No one’s stopping you.
Chris, you know we can all see you giggling along with Ben Smith, right?
Oh for fucks sake. Omar squared up and came incredibly close to cleaning a dudes clock during a town hall attack. She’ll be alright, man. Go rescue a stray or something.
A thousand percent.
It’s very specific issues that allow something like that to happen despite someone’s record, and for him it landed on his incessant gun control messaging. The Texan opposition to that is well documented and you instantly become unelectable.
Except maybe one thing. I’m of the opinion campaigns in Texas should completely disregard the presidential election and continue the relentless work of recentering city councils in every county.
We agree. I wouldn’t argue with anything you’ve said here, completely accurate.
In Texas or Pittsburgh?
There wouldn’t be a split if the party campaigned for the working class.
Hey creep. Did you come here for Texas history lessons?
John Fetterman turned me ableist.
He’s canceling appearances. Oh shit was that Trumps last rally yesterday? 2hr SOTU cooked his ass
You ever been stalked by a billionaire? Ask Stormy Daniels how it goes.
Totally unreasonable.
It’s a conservative state and any hopes of it becoming progressive by way of election is a failure in logic. Your own assumptions about how Texas politics plays across the country is the problem. Texas Democrats, the ones who vote, aren’t becoming reliably progressive.
They’re getting it right now. Tarrant County just got it with Rehmet. Are we still talking State politics? Texas Hispanics didn’t go MAGA. They went for economy as an entire bloc.
Border Patrol doesn’t leave the state in Texas. They’re always there. I’m not talking about traditional culture war issues. I’m talking about traditionally conservative value voters who vote economy since 2020. They’re looking for an economic power house for the working class. They don’t give a shit
The unifying Democratic cause is healthcare. It’s been healthcare, it’ll always be healthcare until the end of time. Any candidate that isn’t working on the healthcare project isn’t serious about obtaining power and should get absolutely shit on immediately. Every Dem candidate in every state.
Texas border precincts swung to Republicans in 2020, 2018 is a million years ago.
Beto irritated everybody in TX he’d employed by behaving like a gullible prima-donna and abandoning the state for a wasted presidential run. Political instincts, he has none. You don’t come back from that.
Once again, 44% of Texas population is Hispanic and assumed conservative. If anyone could remember this while talking shop about Texas politics I’d be grateful.
Ticket splitting with a protest vote, or single issue spoiler is an age old game designed by Libertarians camped out on both sides of the aisle.
But there was a unifying, electoral choice to be made, and it was Ukraine. Influencers got clicks on Gaza, and they cashed out.
Wake me up when we start talking about how crypto is linked to the fentanyl manufacturing and distribution racket
Let’s put the blame exactly where it belongs. Right here, right now. Foreign policy ignorant online influencers with genocide heavy content influenced votes and that’s just the disgusting truth of it. <Marketing the protest vote> made a lot of people a lot of money
Did you memory hole Beto?
Yea, here we go. If you’re not analyzing by precincts, you’re not working with the right information. It’s a big state with 33 million people. Your 5mill are farts in the wind. Trump still won the state with a historic pull in 2024.
Tesla, Inc. got into the medical manufacturing industry, you didn’t know?
Additionally, Abbott is up for re-election. Assume the state will stay locked down for a Republican Governor given the current candidates in position. The psychology of the Texas Republican and their votes remains unchanged.
Unless you get real with yourselves about border politics. Low chance.
