Tag: politics

How do you feel about Beto now? He spent $20/vote and still lost

I still support him? what do you expect me to say? i hate him and now support cruz?

do you know how expensive campaigns are? they’re not cheap. the average cost of a winning Senate candidate from 2016 was $10.4 million. Million.

Cruz had PACs/super PACs and special interest groups pouring millions into his campaign. Beto’s came from the people. i still support him, and I will continue to support him.

EDIT: so, i got another ask from someone (probably the same person) about how he wouldn’t give money to other dem candidates, so screw beto.

Campaign finance law limits Campaign-to-Campaign donations to $2000

let’s do the math here. there were a total of 33 seats up for grabs in the senate. Subtract one to account for Beto himself. So now there are 32 senate seats up for grabs. If Beto’s campaign (his campaign, not him. He himself does not hold the money, it does not go into his pocket) donated to all 32 candidates, that would be $64,000.

Take it to the House. All 435 seats were running this time around. If the campaign had donated to them as well, that would come out to $870,000.

He can’t just freely give other candidates money. He is limited by federal law how much he can donate.

Im just sorry the election didnt turn out better for u guys. I know a lot of good came from it for america compared to what it has been, but Its still pretty scary for us in the rest of the world on the outside looking in.

I know that it definitely looks scary looking outside in. take it from me, this is major progress. i’m gonna speak from a texas perspective again lol, but texas was effectively purple for this election, which is huge.

still angry, but i have hope that things will get better. I think enough people are pissed off that they are getting ready to fight for change.

So, I know I’ve been bitching these past two days about the election results, specifically what happened in Texas. While I’m still undeniably angry and I’m probably gonna turn this anger into action, I wanted to take a moment to thank y’all. Y’all have put up with me for the past ~month as I pretty much spammed y’all with Beto posts. You guys reblogged my posts and helped how you could when it came to spreading the word.

So to those who dealt with my constant Beto posts and my constan politics, thank you.

I won’t stop with political posts, not now, not ever. But still, thank you.

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Linked article URLs, in order of appearance:

1. Exploiting harassment claims

2. Bob Livingston admits claim is true

3. Truth about false allegations

4. Coming forward is traumatic

5. Accusational statistics

6. Assault victims’ memory reliability

7. Truck stop killer

8. Not worth the book deal

9. Percentage of women who have experienced sexual harassment.

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a lot of people i’ve interacted with still think the whole chiquita death squads thing was only a rumor so I wanted to point out that they owned up to it and got fined.

https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2007/March/07_nsd_161.html

so a corporation literally funded right wing terrorists to kill innocent people and only got fined. $25 million. chiquita has annual revenues of $3 billion. that should really have been a wake up call to anyone thinking corporations are treated unfairly, but it wasn’t. this is capitalism.

Pepsi is also directly responsible for the coup of Allende. Allende was actually supposed to win the 1963 election, but was unable to bc corporations like Pepsi poured millions into his opponent’s campaign. In return, his opponent promised to protect their investments. In 1970, when Allende finally won, the CEO of PepsiCo explicitly demanded President Nixon stage a coup against Allende bc as a socialist, he would threaten Pepsi’s and other foreign investments. Pressured by these corporations, Nixon eventually took action https://www.theguardian.com/business/1998/nov/08/observerbusiness.theobserver

Y’all should be paying attention to the midterms.

running for a senate seat in Texas is the zodaic killer himself ted cruz and new comer to the senate beto o rourke.

now lemme tell you about my man

Beto O’ Rourke

he’s a democrat, something texas desperately needs. Texas hasn’t had a democratic senator in over 25 years. Beto:

also notable: unlike cruz, beto would not have voted to confirm kavanaugh.

beto being elected would be huge for texas. as someone from there, lemme tell you, he’s someone the state sorely needs. texas is in desperate need of a democrat and Beto is our best bet. in recent polls, cruz was shown to be ahead, but not by much. cruz. cannot. win.

there are ways you can help! if you live in Texas, you can sign up to volunteer. you can volunteer to do things such as send texts, emails, knock on doors. typical campaign stuff.

if you don’t live in Texas, you can donate. you don’t have to live in the state to donate. donating is one of the best ways you can support him because it funds his campaign! as mentioned above, he doesn’t take PAC money. he is 100% grassroots campaign, funded by people, for people.

i’m going to reiterate this. any us citizen* can donate. any. doesn’t matter where you live in the united states. so, I urge. if you don’t live in texas, donate. the average donation amount is $35, but any amount will help.

*if you don’t live in the united states/aren’t a citizen, legally you cannot donate. i don’t make the rules guys.

if you can’t donate, please reblog this so others can see it. people can’t vote in midterms if they don’t know who their nominees are.

this midterm election is crucial. getting Beto into the senate is crucial. reblog or donate!

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