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Perry has been given a license to kill, just like James Bond… Sorry, I couldn't resist that. I am hoping that the democrats and any other sane people will rise up and elect someone like Wendy Davis or Beto O'Rourke as governor, and return our state to sanity, if that's possible.

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I'm not sure there are enough Democrats and other sane people yet in Texas to beat the angry white racists that populate so much of the rural part of the state.

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True, but one has to hope in order to survive. Maybe if we somehow kill the fossil fuel industry?

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Before it kills us all...

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How does one kill the blob? Sorry but I’m beginning to see the probability of successfully fighting big business is low.

Nevertheless, with the help of Sancho Panza I’ll continue to charge windmills—oil rigs—and dream the impossible dream.

Here is a thought. Sometimes activist promote boycotts but they never work. How about the caring people organize a campaign of 5% reduction in consumption.

Eat less food-get healthy

Drive less, walk Joe—get healthy and happy

Don’t care about fashion—who cares.

Save your money, consume less by only 5% and then re-evaluate after a year.

The problem is, this campaign will not be supported by either Repugnants or Dems because both worship at the altar of the great Capitalist God.

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I agree that the probability successfully fighting big business is low. I think, perhaps because we are old, we are already doing what you suggest. We don't need or want as much food. We do all our own cooking, and definitely eat healthy. We don't care about fashion. I'm not up for walking 1.2 miles to the grocery store and lugging all my heavy bags back (and I refuse to be one of the people like some around me who brings the grocery cart home and leaves it somewhere obnoxious), but I do walk every day, to help keep my sanity. Most of our driving is to doctor appointments and the grocery store, and it's way down from what it was before the pandemic. We've gone from buying gas twice a month to once every two months (approximately). Life is better that way. What makes our current lifestyle easily possible is being long retired.. I am much happier this way, and I wish others could get off the hamster wheel they're on.

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Great. You and I are of like minds as I’ve driving less than 5000 miles per year over the four years. Keep up good work a hopefully others you know will follow your example.

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Thank you, Jim!

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Not just Perry. ALL the like-minded murderous fuckers have a license to kill...as long as they kill people who are perceived as liberals or progressives. And minorities. And foreigners.

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Seniors Too!! The GQP Is Coming For Your Social Security, Medicare, and Cutting Food Stamps, which as a senior, I need.

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Agreed. That's why open carry and military style weapons are legal in Texas. As the daughter of an immigrant, I believe that foreigners, as well as minorities, contribute greatly to our society. IMHO, what offends them (the murderous Abbott allies) is a combination of sanity and intelligence.

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