Texas GOP delegates holding a state convention rebuked their own senator, Jon Cornyn, and 9 other GOP senators who’ve signed on for a watered-down gun bill in the wake of a slaughter of Texas school kids. They also adopted a series of positions against LGBQT people, including interfering in th[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bad States’
June 19th, 2022 - 4:19 pm § in Politics
Texas GOP convention votes for guns, against gays; assaults congressman
June 18th, 2022 - 1:46 am § in Misc.
Is Texas rugged, or just dysfunctional?
First no electricity, now no water. For centuries, Apaches and Comanches shrugged; they got along without both. Still do, by and large, on their reservations. (That’s because Texas doesn’t have any reservations to speak of.) Today’s non-reservation Texans, which is basically all Te[...]
Where “Liz Cheney” is a swear word
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) is the rioter in the video below. Now he wants to be “Sen. Mo Brooks (R-AL).” But first, he has to win a primary election. Meanwhile, Trump has endorsed his opponent, Katie Britt (“does this mean we’re not friends anymore?”). It was only last year[...]
June 6th, 2022 - 2:18 pm § in Politics
Representative democracy in Texas, mass shootings edition
In a representative democracy, you elect someone to represent you. Not in Texas. Following the 2019 mass shootings in El Paso and Santa Fe, and the 2022 school massacre in Uvalde, the GOP-controlled legislature has decided to study gun violence. The lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, has appointed a [...]
May 28th, 2022 - 12:49 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Texas school shooting response manual (nsfw)
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May 13th, 2022 - 6:53 pm § in Politics
Is there hope for GOP voters?
There’s not a lot of reason to believe there is. After all, they still support Trump despite his immorality, dishonesty, and total lack of character. Their own behavior leaves a lot to be desired (see, e.g., threats against election workers). And, in North Carolina, they elected Madison Cawtho[...]
May 11th, 2022 - 4:48 pm § in Law and Courts, Racism
He was innocent, but they didn’t execute him like Texas would have
Claude Garrett of Tennessee served 30 years of a life sentence before the state decided the fire that killed his girlfriend was an accident. But at least they didn’t kill him. After a judge ruled Garrett, now 65, demonstrated “actual innocence” he was released from prison on Tuesda[...]
Sorry you moved to a red state?
These people are. Shifting political sands are “jarring” liberal-minded young people and professionals who moved to blue enclaves in red states during the pandemic, either for a change of scenery or in pursuit of work opportunities, and now some are having second thoughts, NBC News says [...]
April 30th, 2022 - 2:27 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
The ugly face of Idaho Republicans
Former state Rep. Aaron von Ehlinger, shown below with armed supporters, had a gun when he sexually assaulted a legislative intern. After she reported the assault to police, he doxxed her and his supporters began harassing her. A fellow legislator “sought a copy of the police report and made inqui[...]
Why Florida’s attack on Disney is monstrous
Florida’s legislature, which is controlled by Republicans (specifics here), passed a bill requested by GOP Gov. DeSantis, which he signed, that repeals the special taxing district established in 1967 for Disney’s Florida theme parks (details here) to retaliate against Disney for criticiz[...]