worlds with books and movies is something sinister, but I don't. I'd much rather someone go to work writing books and movies than a host of things that cause a lot of harm. But she started it all with "the Jews who own Hollywood..." Anybody who would say something like that is obviously too dumb to be in Congress. What she said was like saying "the rednecks who live in trailers."

She's one of these "poor me" "I'm a victim".... then when John Lira withdrew his endorsement she said John was a victim of colonization. She's one of "those types". God, I hope she loses the runoff. Between her and the nutjob running for my state rep, I think I'm going nuts.

I've got the convicted cop turned social justice warrior, Trump wanna be, running for state rep. (So far no anti-semitism from that one because I don't think she knows that there is such a thing as Jewish people..yeah, she's dumb)

The long-term result will be to fracture the left and keep the right in power.

It really is a horseshoe shape.

DSA and other supposed grass-roots lefty organizations got huge influxes of funding just as Putin attacked Crimea and put his puppet Trump up for president.

We saw it in miniature here on DU as many were urged to join a little group called Jackpine Radicals that pushed falsehoods about Hillary Clinton in 2015. I think that was replicated throughout the nation and helped hand the White House to Trump.

We saw it happen again leading up to the 2024 election - a splintering of Democratic support for Kamala Harris due to sustained propaganda against her and Biden coming from both the left and right.

There are good reasons for voters to be frustrated with the status quo. The propagandists use that to reel people in and push falsehoods. The goal is to elect MAGA politicians who are owned by Russia and other billionaires.

The propaganda taps into racist bigotry on the right and antisemitism on the left.

Its here. It's obvious. It's blatant.

She might not know it. I suspect that a lot of these candidates don't even know that the money buying their ads comes from Putin, China, and a handful of other billionaires.

Shut down and goes back to Sex Therapy.

We have Enough Creeps in Congress.. We're working on Less Not More.

If she wins the runoff, the Republican will win.

🤞🤞

Sad, but true.

Politics there are weird. Who is running on the Republican side, and who is now in that office. I don't follow Texas politics.

Most of the voters are currently represented by Henry Cuellar, Tony Gonzales (R -resigned) and Monica de la Cruz (R)

Cuellar's district was moved down to Laredo, so he no longer has a presence in the area and who knows where de la Cruz's district is?

The two Rs are in a runoff also. The seat was created by the GOP last summer for John Lujan, who is a GOP state rep for suburban Bexar County. Although not a moderate, Democrats crossed parties to vote for Lujan...(ugh). I guess you could say he's fairly likeable. He's a firefighter, involved with little league and stuff like that, if you know what I mean....

However, Lujan is in a runoff with a MAGA guy.

You can see by who currently represents the district, they aren't going to go for a "space laser" in a general election.

supporting them for ?

She's in one of those new GOP districts that Abbott drew. It was progressive, but now it's red-blue-dog. Greg Casar represents the old district. It's those from the old district that support her. She also lives in Greg Casar's district.

Our primaries are plagued by people who vote for latina women without regard for any other candidate.
Maureen is not Latina, but voters don't know that.
We lost of lot of good black judges because they had latinas running against them.

We had very high turnout because of Trump. But voters were not informed.

The good news: runoffs tend to have more informed voters than primaries.

HEB pretty much has a monopoly here, but shoppers are very loyal. She was bashing HEB because their owner is a billionaire.

HEB is a "brand" that is basically San Antonio and all the towns surrounding it. (This is a fairly rural district). She's envisioning everyone starting 70's style food co-ops and ordering from services like "imperfect foods". Voters would have to be very dedicated to start and be involved in co-ops.

She won't win the general election. This is rural Bexar, Wilson, Karnes and Guadalupe Counties.

It's a flavor of propaganda designed to tap into the emotions and feelings of progressive Boomers. Normally we are reliable Democratic voters so it makes sense that billionaires intent on taking over the world (the literal truth, unfortunately) would figure out ways to get our votes.

We're seeing a very strategic multi-pronged propaganda campaign aimed at various voting blocs in the U.S.:

- rural whites: Targeting began decades ago so they now hate and fear the "Demoncrat" Party. Easy to keep them fooled via right wing churches (who get their share of the take), hate radio, Fox News, and podcasters, websites, etc. Strategy: appeal to their racism, class resentment, xenophobia.

- progressive whites and Asians: Targeting began in early 2010s, catapulting off the 2008 crash, using Occupy and other youth-oriented movements to pull in disenchanted youth and progressives of all ages. Strategy: Increasingly focused on antisemitic feelings fueled by Israel's policies and actions. Builds on longtime skepticism of authority and institutions. Propaganda worked very well in 2024; handed the WH back to Trump.

I could go on. Latinos were targeted successfully in 2024.

The only voting bloc immune to the propaganda so far are Black voters, especially women. They're holding the front line of our democracy. Those ladies are literally saving our democracy and they're getting pretty sick and tired of the stupidity of the rest of us.

on that last line. There are various factors, groups, committees, PACs who are and HAVE been hard at work trying to divide those on the left by accusing us of that which Trump & Co. are always given a pass on.

Just like the 'genocide Joe-ers' who sat s-face silent after Trump told Bibi to "finish it." No protests then either.

Meanwhile, MAGAS hang out with neo Nazis and parade with swastikas yet try to make US out to be antisemites. And the agreement sometimes comes from surprising quarters.

And yes, we're tired of the stupidity.

That being said, YES, Maureen Galindo IS an antisemite. Yes she IS being funded by MAGAS. And we need wack-jobs like her like we need holes in our heads.

I do shop at HEB occasionally - they have expanded in Texas

Is sacrilege...LOL

HEB does alot of community service. Food Bank, Haven for Hope, the whole bit.

Plus they're a local tradition, if you know what I mean....

If you're gonna bash a business, pick on Amazon or something from "out of state"......not local

even thought their stores are pretty LOUD and OMG those shelves are HIGH - I can't bring myself to tote one of those old lady grabber things so I rely on the good graces of tall shoppers I encounter.....luckily, they are very nice folk

Someday, I'm gonna fall....

We only have two affordable grocery stores in town: HEB and WalMart.

We do have Sprouts, but they're niche and only one location.
And I can't afford Whole Paycheck and Trader Joes (Plus there are only like two or three in town)

Whole Foods is just ridiculous

To get to the closest one, I would have to drive 10 miles and get on the I-10 access road. It's just not convenient. I've never been. It's in a recently closed Bed Bath and Beyond. Next to an Old Navy and Men's Wearhouse, the Outback and a bunch of other shops. I don't think they have carry out at Trader's Joes.

HEB is "around the corner" and in my neighborhood.

Other parts of Texas have other grocery store chains, San Antonio does not. We used to have Kroger, Albertson's and Handy Andy but HEB drove them out in the early 90s.

I think we have a few odd-ball stores such as La Fiesta, (they were like a Piggy Wiggly) but most have closed.
Smaller convenience chains like La Michoacana and dollar stores have forced most of them to close.

San Antonio has 1.5 million people, so yeah just because there is a Trader's Joe doesn't mean it's close and not subject to traffic jams.

hell, I used to do all my grocery shopping at 02:00 before the pandemic

hey I was in San Antonio for a short time - for boot camp! I remember when they let us loose on the town I loved it immediately, very unique - great food, and the locals tolerated us very well, they were nice

I also took my English brother there to look around, he loved it too

I also used to do my shopping in the wee hours. Nothing like Walmart at 3 AM. I used to love all of the people who shopped at that time. The freaks come out at night!

I loved it - I fit right in

HEB is a religious shrine for Texans. My RWNJ brother, who lives outside Austin, couldn't wait to take us there when we visited a few years ago.

I couldn't believe how excited they got here when an HEB opened - I think it was here seven months before my first visit

And what's sickening is people are defending her!

They're in cahoots with that Party for Socialism and Liberation. One of her staunchest defenders lists herself as a anarcho-communist. I really think that's what Maureen is.

It's very disturbing that people are defending her. I'm afraid she's gonna win this runoff. That party is responsible for Kamala losing.
If she does, it's going to be a total embarassement. The DNC needs to have "Come to Jesus" (no pun intended) meeting about these issues.

The word Zionist, Zionism should not be used on the campaign trail. (Internet discussions are different, but candidates should refrain from it. ). But there also needs to be a consensus within the party about Israel/Palestine issue. The Democratic Muslims and Jews need to get together and make some decisions.

However, the Democratic Party cannot allow another political party to control our narrative. The Party for Socialism and Liberation is nothing but a ratfucking, burn it all down communist party. They are pervasive and everywhere. I see too many people here on DU supporting their tactics. The DNC needs to call them out and call them out hard and keep hammering away at them. They are just as bad as Republicans.