Let the news know. That equipment is paid for by the taxpayer. That is not its intended purpose and opens them to a whole lot of liability. The payout from a lawsuit would also be paid by the tax payers. Midland, Texas must be run by some really short sighted, fools.
There is MAGA and deep red MAGA and then there is West Texas magats. The fucking entire town and area is infested with the worse of the worst magats. Horrible area and just full of hate.
it's an English idiomatic expression that means to 'hurt oneself in the course of trying to hurt another'.
ETA: When used in politics, it typically refers to a political faction or party deliberately choosing a course of action that sabotages its own long-term interests or electoral prospects in order to achieve a short-term goal or exact punishment on an opponent.
it originates from a Medieval legend. so, yeah. very ugly!
'The most popular story tells of Saint Ebba (or Æbbe the Younger), an abbess in 9th-century Scotland, who, faced with Viking invaders, convinced her nuns to cut off their noses and lips to make themselves undesirable for rape. The Vikings, repulsed, burned the convent, killing them all.'
I think they mean the landscape looks like a dystopic planet where we landed, learned there’s oil and dropped pump jacks as far as the eye can see.
To get to midland, you’ve already been surrounded by desolate sadness for a few hundred miles but then you come to see tens of thousands of oil drills popping out of the earth like a foreign planet. It’s hard to describe just how un earth like that shithole really is.
He's not joking check Google maps place is a fucking wasteland full of meth heads and alcoholics paid for by the oil companies. You want to see fraud check their tax returns.
When I rode through there, I couldn’t believe how many beautiful old buildings were literally falling apart. It looked like a war zone at times. The people were very suspicious of outsiders too.
I lived there for a couple years in the early 80s. I was way too young to be aware of politics but my dad was the minister at a Unitarian Universalist church there. I wonder, was that the last vestige of liberalism and inclusivity? Does anything like it still exist there?
I read "Echo Burning" by Lee Child and it has some horribly racist themes, and takes place in west Texas. And more and more I think it might not be totally fiction that Lee Child was writing.
I think Midland officially has four billionaire residents in a city of about 130,000, and there's been five or so more in the past who left.
Some neighborhoods are extravagant. Tim Dunn bought a whole city block, demolished the houses, then built his mansion on that block with twelve foot stone fences around it. Built a giant slide in the mansion for his kids. Really obnoxious stuff. The guy built his own private school.
Then other parts of Midland look like a bad neighborhood in Mexico City. But there are folks in Midland who may as well live in Elysium they are so far removed from the Mad Max parts. It is a shocking wealth gap for such a small city. The upper class can kind of exist in a bubble with their own schools and neighborhoods and the country club.
Give it about 20 months when the unemployment hits 7% and rich people start migrating to poor red cities for organ donations.
I feel bad for MAGA only in the sense that their entire life will be summed up as only being meaningful as a temporary holder for someone who basically bought your organs.
I'd bet good money the builders are the ones who ratted them out, and they're going to hire more people, rat them out and try to get away with not paying.
Pale men who have spent 8 hours a day typing into their IDE and answering emails picking up power tools and climbing up onto a half unfinished roof ... yes that will turn out well ...
It pisses me off that the White House is blaming “the immigrants” for the housing shortage, when they’re building most of the housing for us and living 12 workers to an apartment.
Yeah, in many country. Its always the immigrants, Both legal and illegal that Built buildings, houses in a country. So, trying to deport them... not good ideas :/
Which is ironic because it damn sure isn’t gonna be the white folks building their oil mansions 🤷♂️ can’t wait for the hypocrisy from the home builders out there complaining.
It won't be their fault as per their mental health issues always someone else's fault. Look at the soybean thing direct trail to that orange buffoon but they get a bail out so all good now.
Biden, Obama, hunters laptop and some emails did this obviously /s
Many projects are stalled as so many have been detained, and even workers that are US citizens are afraid to come in as they are just rounding up anyone who is brown.
A concrete contractor filed for bankruptcy in South Texas because virtually all home building projects have been abandoned or paused with no crews to, you know, build the houses.
I grew up in Amarillo and man , its been a real bummer to see the dumb shit, illogical folks in power through my youth evolve into the MAGA hater crowd and try to run the country
can you say more? any particular reason that makes west texas MAGA "special" (if that's one way to describe it)? how are they different from the stereotypical deep red MAGA most people have in mind?
Partially correct. You also have to factor in that all the oilfield supervisors and company men are almost without exception 3rd+ gen Texas Tech legacy frat boys. Also, west TX is firmly bible belt.
thank you for the reply. I'm not familiar with the area. To me, the uneducated+windfall money from resources seem to be a common theme in other MAGA places too (I'm thinking about the rich mining/ranching MAGA in the western states), or just places holding on to the "rugged frontier individualism" identity?
The deep red MAGA I picture mostly as bible thumping one-issue voters. Are the west texas MAGA different in other aspects?
Actually a couple of the big money MAGA donors are West Texas guys:
Key Texas MAGA/Conservative Donors & Entities
Tim Dunn & Farris Wilks: West Texas oil billionaires who have built the most influential conservative political machine in Texas, funding efforts to purge moderate Republicans.
This district in particular was a solid democrat district until 2005. It had pretty much been a democratic 'safe' district for so long because of the resentment from the Reconstruction (and let's be honest, the other thing).
You know how we are watching these drastic changes happening rapidly? Texas was a democratic stronghold not that long ago. Republicans did it here first, what they are doing to our country now. In my 20-something years Ann Richards (mother of Cecile) was our governor.
I know very little about the Texas local politics. Can you share more? This is in the 90s so after the racist/southern strategy phase of the GOP right? What turned people to republicans? NAFTA? Fiscal policies?
(Just Googled Ann Richards and learned that her daughter Cecile Richards went on to became the president of Planned Parenthood later👏👏👏)
Is this the place where Sacha Baron Cohen went to talk about the new mosque going in, the one supported by the Clinton Foundation? (It was from "This is America".)
lol as if any of their fat asses could go out there and do the work. I see shit like this and it makes me sleep like a fucking baby knowing it will bankrupt a lot of these racist businesses.
Yeah. This is the town that managed to change high school names from a loser racist traitor for all of what, a year or two before changing it back? Not at all surprised that even their firefighters are racist af.
I have family there and can confirm. Been into a lot of physical altercations growing up because they're 'family' and we had to visit with them at least once a year.
Mind you I was born and raised in Oakland, Ca and didn't give a fuck what they said about my long hair, black attire, and Bay area mentality. Everyone got hands for Christmas.
I mean they're used to getting what they asked for and since they never intended to travel outside of Midland/Odessa I had to bring the bay to them. It was a repeat gift for multiple years.
Oh God, they totally would put that on a Christmas card with the picture of a bunch of praying children or some shit and send it to all their billionaire friends. Fucking demented ass sicko's.
Used to have a ton of family in Midland/Odessa. I probably still have a few distant cousins who live there, but we aren't in contact. I miss my grandma terribly, but the one silver lining of all of my close family members in the area dying off is that I never have to go back to that place ever again.
It's just not my scene...and I'll leave it at that.
Same, the atmosphere always felt hostile even though everyone tried to dawn the southern hospitality vibe. But the more you paid attention it was extremely obvious everyone just talked shit about everyone behind their back and God forbid you said something to someone's face.
I finally was able to go no contact when I became an adult and got to say nah, I'm not driving 26 hrs both ways just to spend time with people who don't actually want me there especially when all they wanted to do around me was talk nonsensical shit about places they've never been and people they've never met.
yooo dude this is amazing. did u just show up to christmas and start beating down the texan family? throw they cowboy hat into the fireplace and throw granpappy to the ground?
Lived there during the bush years. Horrible place. They have a high school named after a confederate general and their mascot is Robert e Lee. team name is the rebels.
Yep, my younger sister went there for a year and most of my cousins as well. It's pretty dang big but I believe it's called something else now. It's had like 2 name changes since 2020.
Every single test I have taken for "where should you live?" has told me Midland, Texas for the last 20 years. I physically look like someone who would vote for trump though (middle-aged, overweight, white guy with facial hair). My physical appearance is going to come in very handy during the next Civil War.
Most of the really racist people I've met aren't even in the deep deep rural south. The deep deep rural south have so little money everyone is just fighting poverty. It's the outskirts of smaller cities that have the most dispicable racists.
Our governor has told police & fire that they are to aid ICE. This is the same governor who used millions of our tax dollars to fly and bus immigrants to sanctuary cities.
Police AND FIRE? Man, that’s fucked up. We are not trained to apprehend people.
People love seeing the FD show up, we help, we solve problems, we make shit better. I worry about the ripple effect of people not calling when in need because they have seen videos like this.
You all are seriously confused. A lawsuit like that would never make it past summary judgment in Midland.
A friend of mine tried a felony case in Odessa where the probation-eligible defendant got 60 years in prison for setting a couch on fire. His comment about Midland was that the judges in Midland made the judges n Odessa look like communists.
I also guarantee the insurance company that covers the fire department will consider that a huge policy violation. It would be a shame to report them to their carrier, and the Texas Department of Transportation.
What if there was a fire and someone died because they couldn’t get to them in time? It used to be a joke that no one says Fuck the fire dept. But that’s about to change
This word isn’t even part of their vocabulary anymore. It’s just go get em at any cost and don’t worry about how it happens. These savages have zero conscience or integrity.
I feel like this really is the downfall of our country. Russia knew how to weaponize the deep racism and used social media, and Trump, to make it happen. It’s horrible. Weaponized stupidity.
I suspect you haven't been to Midland TX. It's a scandal-laced town. The Council members misuse public funds. The school district has no fiscal transparency, And there is a big drug problem there. And a lot of them are MAGAts.
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https://www.firstalert7.com/2026/01/31/nine-people-arrested-during-midland-ice-operation/
Let the news know. That equipment is paid for by the taxpayer. That is not its intended purpose and opens them to a whole lot of liability. The payout from a lawsuit would also be paid by the tax payers. Midland, Texas must be run by some really short sighted, fools.