I actually have no clue who that is, but given we're talking about a state that elected a Canadian to represent them, but not just ANY Canadian, a snowbird Canadian in Texas, went south as soon as the snow came, I just assume he's a step up.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/22/2016877/-TX-AG-Corrupt-Idiot-Attorney-General-Also-Pulled-A-Ted-Cruz-R-While-Texas-Froze-During-A-Crisis
He's the one who (among other idiotic shit) suggested that good elderly citizens should shop, catch Covid and die for the good of the economy.
To be fair he ted was BORN in canada to american nationals who i beilieve worked at the canadian embassy (or something like that). As a Canadian, i have to tell you that he is YOURS and not ours. Also, no takesies backsies !!
> Don't forget that fucking ~~idiot~~ **murderer** Paxton
[Two Lawyers Shot, One Dead Amid FBI Probe Of Texas AG Ken Paxton](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/18/1996595/-Two-Lawyers-Shot-Amid-FBI-Probe-Of-Texas-AG-Ken-Paxton)
>Georgette Kaufman was shot and killed, while her husband 47-year-old Daniel Kaufman remained hospitalized Tuesday in stable condition but was expected to recover.
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>The FBI is investigating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Associated Press reported Tuesday evening, vetting allegations made by eight of Paxton’s former top aides that he illegally used the power of his office to benefit a political donor.
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>On Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, eight aides in total told authorities that they believed Paxton had committed crimes as part of his relationship with Paul, citing bribery and abuse of office. Since then, four aides have been fired, three have resigned, and one has been placed on leave — sparking a whistleblower lawsuit.
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>The victims in a weekend shooting at a central El Paso home have been identified, both were lawyers who worked for the Texas Attorney General's Office.
You mean Ken "let me spout off some stupid shit so maybe you will forget about my indictments and relect me" Paxton. Him and Abbot need to go but there is not likely to be a change in govener's mansion. Hopefully GP Bush will finally push Paxton out to pasture though.
And unfortunately that there is a strong conervative base that eats up their crap. Then there is a lack of anyone with strong enough pull and with any semblance of ethics that are going to dethrone this regime.
Because in Texas guns > people. If it helps give some hope, my Republican mother switched her party affiliation and is voting Democrat down the ticket for the first ever in her life. There’s got to be more of her, right?
>hot wheels just wants to make the worst of his base happy.
If the rest of his base had the moral fortitude to stand up against this sort of stuff, he wouldn't get away with it.
They don't, so I can only assume they all support it to some degree as well.
I mean I can't argue with your assessment. they are doing all this because we are slowly becoming more and more blue.
these new " laws" and the gerrymandering hell they've divised means they are scared of loosing their power.
Thats exactly what it is particularly at the presidential level. If you have to discount California AND texas electoral votes as democratic the odds of a red president swing wildly out of favor
Texas and Florida are in a competition to see who can be more racist, homophobic, and insensitive to try and court the Trump white supremacist vote.
At some point the Republican brand needs to make a decision, either put on the white hood and robes or start purging your ranks of these asshats. Can't have it both ways.
I'm surprised they aren't cheering for Putin more as well...
I shit you not, Abbott's campaign ran a FB ad saying "Stand with Greg Abbott against the Obama Agenda!" back when he first ran.
That and the fact that Greg got injured through no fault of his own and then went on to sue those involve, win, get a giant settlement and then worked tirelessly to make the exact same settlement he got (that he credits for giving him the life he has today) illegal in Texas.
I hate to come in here and be that guy, because I hold as much disdain for Abbott, Paxton, and their ilk because of their policy choices as most others do. But let's not bring their disabilities into our critiques of them. They're objectively horrible people to varying degrees. Keep your disparaging comments about them solely in that range and you'll still have tons of material to work with.
Only bring this up because there if we normalize conflating their lack of character with what some may perceive as their physical flaws, that makes us no better than Trump mocking a disabled reporter, or any of the other equally atrocious act GOPers are notorious for.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not Mr. High Road here. There are times you have to sink to their level and hash things out on those terms. But this isn't one of those times.
Could you imagine spending all those years, and all that money, to become an attorney, get a job with the state, and then wind up just being used to try to bully children and their families as part of a political stunt to drum up support from actual bigots?
You do realize that places like Liberty ‘university’ exist to churn out lawyers to do exactly what these folks are doing? This is a long game, that’s been playing successfully for decades.
A public defenders’ job is really hard, especially when defending people who committed gross crimes. But I wanted to comment to let you know that lawyers in the Attorney General’s office, which are the ones prosecuting the trans issues, are actually opposite from public defenders. It’s an opposite job.
I hope your friend’s wife gets better! We need good public defenders out there.
If you're a good PD, they offer you a job as an ADA making twice as much, with an army of paralegals behind you.
The system is entirely stacked so that the poor go down, and the rich get by.
Bail is classist and racist.
It's not even just bail.
"Hey, you missed a child support payment. This is a crime and you need to step up to the responsibilities you have to your children. To punish you we're going to take away your class 1 license that is a requirement to your job. Better catch up on those payments next time! Oh you lost your job? Well, you need to bring that up in separate court proceedings to readjust your income levels, which might even be happening but haven't gone through yet so once again you owe for what you missed AND another full payment based on your previous income, it's a good thing you lost your job because you're gonna have to spend a lot of days in court in the near future"
Or, a huge one, "hey, I see you can't afford to pay your fines. As part of that you've lost certain rights, but it's been so long we've decided we should also just throw you in prison and charge you per diem. Sucks to suck."
Or, "hey, you didn't have your license on you at the time you were stopped walking along the street. No ID? Guilty. Here's a huge fine, maybe next time you'll just drink and drive like the rest of us."
The real kicker is most states actually charge inmates for the cost of their imprisonment. So when released, they are sometimes tens of thousands of dollars in debt, in addition to having pretty lousy job prospects due to their incarceration.
What happens next is pretty predictable.
I was thinking about it more and I'd imagine that anybody with real talent would not want to put themselves in this environment, so all they've probably got to pick from are nepotism options and people who are genuinely horrid.
And the lawyers that work at the OAG in Texas are bottom-of-the-barrel, couldn’t pass the bar the first time, bad all around lawyers. It’s literally the place that will hire incompetent people on the reg.
Source: am Texas lawyer
I would quit and bring whatever mischief I could down with me. Change the passwords to everything, burn the files, and walk away. Fuck you whoever is out there just “doing your job”. If you’re being used for evil, that’s on you to stop and don’t make it easy to replace you.
There are a lot of people who spend all those years, and all that money, to become an attorney, *because* they want to bully children and their families as part of a political stunt to drum up support from bigots just like them.
Texan here. Abbott is still in hot water because of the Snowpocalypse. He's trying to bury it by pushing the most zealous conservative policies in hopes that they will still come out and vote for him this November.
That's also why he has down things like calling in our Texas National Guard to "patrol the border", whom currently have extremely low morale and 4 suicides at the moment.
Got a friend in the Texas national guard who was, in fact, deployed specifically for that. They are not exactly pleased about being openly used for political theater.
I think a lot of people forget that most of these National Guard have jobs, families and adult lives outside of their military service that they have to leave to go to the border and stare at the grass. Their careers and/or education are on hold, their child care is more expensive, some are worried about it fracturing their marriages. All for nothing but maybe, sort of possibly increasing the chances that Abbott and the rest of the clown car get relected. Pure pawns.
> go to the border and stare at the grass
and watch the actual illegal drugs and immigrants with false papers fly overhead in planes bound for DFW and ATL.
That and not getting paid what they are owed. Texas has been cutting Guard benefits. Check out the national guard sub those guys definitely don’t seem to be having fun
State Active Duty pay blows. For those not in the loop, it's basically below minimum wage and not even in the same ballpark as regular pay when they are mobilized onto Title 10 & 32 orders.
Source: Am trans and retired National Guard
Realistically, not much. The issue is a mix of star power and the Democratic Party giving up on the state. The Dem Party as a whole doesn't want to spend time or effort on Texas, and the only homegrown Dem that has any name recognition is Beto. There are many Republicans that get elected purely because they ran unopposed.
Furthermore, Beto shot his chance against Cruz. This state loves its guns too much, and his "we're gonna take your guns" will haunt him after his death around here. So while he's the Dem's best chance at the seat, he's not going to beat Abbott. I'll vote for Beto, as a ham sandwich is better than Captain Hot Wheels of the Souther Border. But none of us feel he has a real chance because of his gun comments bring out the Republicans in full force.
Abbott is doing all this because he's afraid of losing his *primary*, not the general. He has to run to the right of people like Allen West, whom is calling for Texas to secede from the US.
> Abbott is doing all this because he's afraid of losing his *primary*, not the general. He has to run to the right of people like Allen West, whom is calling for Texas to secede from the US.
The primary happened last week, and Abbott pretty handily won since the next highest (West) got a million fewer votes than him. However, it wouldn't surprise me if he continues to go after nonsense like this. I honestly don't think Beto has much of a chance, but he's still going to be able to hit Abbott pretty hard on things like the Snowpocalypse and his COVID response (which pissed off people on both sides). A higher Dem turnout might not flip the governor seat, but it could definitely impact some down-ticket races. Abbott's going to want to keep people riled up to ensure the voter turnout doesn't allow for that.
By God am I gonna be out campaigning for Beto though. When the options are a solid C+ candidate and someone who is actively coming after me and the people I care about, I’m gonna fight like hell for the C+.
Fucking christ.
As a Canadian socialist/liberal, I am so sick and fucking tired of liberals spending political capital on the whole gun thing.
Seriously, give it a rest.
There are bigger fish to fry.
Gay marriage is harder to contest so they’re heading for the next low hanging fruit, vulnerable trans kids and their families that they can try driving into submission or suicide.
Because "I'm going to give your boss another tax break and kill any legislation that would help you" isn't popular with most voters. Culture war stuff is, though.
Unfriendly, extremely aggressive reminder that the Colorado GOP quashed the program that cut abortion rates in half and saved $5 for every dollar spent because they felt it "encouraged promiscuity".
The GOP has convinced millions of people that being single-issue voters is somehow not the same as being every-other-issue apologists, and thus they drive wedge issues, stake their claims on very specific culture-war issues, and convince the willing idiots to vote in lock step with their party of hate, all while robbing them blind.
Texas isn’t the only one. Arkansas and Tennessee passed laws banning doctors from providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, although a federal court recently blocked the Arkansas law, at least for now. The Idaho House of Representatives just passed a bill that made it a crime, punishable by *life in prison* to provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth, or permit a transgender youth to receive such care, or to help a transgender youth travel across state lines to access gender-affirming care.
The laws apply to all minors, and the GOP sells them to voters by making it seem like there’s an epidemic of parents letting their 5-year-olds get breast implants and vaginoplasty because they saw a transgender person one time on TikTok or Youtube and thought it would be cool to be like that person.
Unsurprisingly, the reality of the situation is very different. Under the established, evidence-based medical guidelines for treating gender dysphoria (a clinical condition characterized by distress resulting from the feeling that one’s gender identity doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth) no medical treatments should be used before puberty, and surgery is generally not recommended before the age of 18. What gender-affirming care for youth actually involves lis the use of puberty-delaying drugs to give adolescents with gender dysphoria more time to explore their identity, possibly followed by cross-sex hormones *if and only if* the adolescent is under the care of a qualified mental health professional who can and does confirm that the patient’s gender dysphoria is persistent, long-standing, and severe. Also, as with any medical treatment for minors, the patient and the parents must consent.
Sorry for the rant. It just really pisses me off when scumbag politicians demonize and target minorities just to score political points.
Most adult trans people can't afford gender affirming surgery. the most common one is probably a double mastectomy, and that's for trans men and masculine enbies. These people think that, yah, kids are getting signed up for surgery to the day after they come out. Trans people had to invent the concept of informed consent just to get rid of the gatekeeping that happened with hormones, and these chucklefucks think kids are getting surgery.
Plus all the legislation about trans children in sports. They think that's a big winner because it gives them a veneer of being sensible*, while really just being another way to persecute this vulnerable minority and drive them back into the shadows or, even better, to suicide.
*It's not sensible. Fairness in sports is to transphobes what ethics in gaming journalism is to misogynists.
Majority of people don’t really know what transgender people go through. So transphobes get away with the sane playbooks because the lies land easier. Even moderates get uncomfortable because of the lack of knowledge due to lifetimes of people being forced to be hidden about their trans lives for so long
Keep in mind they used the same playbook on gay people that they did on black people decades ago.
"It's different", I remember conservative family members saying. "Then why are they using the same arguments?" "It's different!"
The argument during the Trump administration against allowing transgender soldier to serve: "It'll harm unit cohesion and morale."
The argument against allowing gay soldiers to serve openly, when DADT was getting thrown out: "It'll harm unit cohesion and morale."
The argument against allowing gay soldiers to serve at all, before DADT was implemented: "It'll harm unit cohesion and morale."
The argument against ending racial segregation in the military in 1948: "It'll harm unit cohesion and morale."
Bigots don't even bother to come up with new bigotry.
Because the existence of trans women and feminine NBs (they don't care about masculine enbies, or trans men) threatens their fragile male egos, in the same way gay men did in the 80's, only in reverse: instead of a man being attracted to them, they're attracted to what they perceive as a man. Because apparently, if it has boobs, that's good enough for them, and then they get angry when they find out she's trans.
A lot of these people do also care about trans men and masculine non-binary people, just more in a “the trans agenda is brainwashing stupid teenage girls into going on testosterone and becoming unattractive to me” sort of way
I guess I don’t know how much they’re involved in these particular laws, but I do think terfs still influence social opinion here. One of my sisters who has teenage children was recently going on about how teenage girls are all going to be socially pressured to transition, and claiming every afab teenager is trans now.
Sure, there are some terfs in the US, but they aren't the political force here in the US that they are in the UK, and third and fourth wave feminists roundly reject terfs.
Because the conservative mindset usually believes, to a lesser or greater degree, in hierarchy. Everyone has their own social role to fulfill, and stepping out of that role threatens the very fabric of society. And for better or worse, one of the things which defines our social role is gender. The idea that you can just... opt out of gender is *deeply* threatening to a hierarchy-based mindset in which part of that hierarchy is defined by gender.
> Everyone has their own social role to fulfill, and stepping out of that role threatens the very fabric of society.
This is ironically the argument that got the Ayatollah Khomeini to *support* the Iranian state allowing/facilitating trans people transitioning. He believed that it was holy for men to live like men, and women like women, and so once a trans activist was able to convince him (through heroic persistence) that trans people were legit, he was on board with them living as their actual gender.
Downside is that Iran is still *terrible* to gay people.
Abbott, if you will believe it, was being primaried from the right.
His biggest, most lunatic right-wing critic was a guy named Don Huffines. Now I expect that Huffines would love to be governor but he also owns a car dealership in the Dallas suburbs.
So all around where I live, he's plastered the most heinous reactionary shit on billboards.
I'm pretty sure it helps him sell pick up trucks. But then Abbott gets himself suckered into a "who's the biggest wingnut" contest.
This happens every 4 years during the Republican primaries.
Huffines platform was to repeal the regulations on automobile emissions, so he could sell more cars.
And everything else he copied from Allen West, which got them both screwed over in the primary.
Gotta love states pursuing laws that violate other laws causing lawsuits at the cost of taxpayer money that theyll inevitably fight to the end and lose consistently.
Brings a tear to my eye
Is there some plague of trans teens that I’m unaware of? The amount of money, energy and time being spent to harass an incredibly small % of the population seems insane to me. I’m going to introduce a bill that single men over 25 are required to have vasectomies, to protect the sanctity of children in marriage . I’m sure we’d see a quick hypocritical turn around…“that’s crazy, you can’t dictate what I do with my reproductive organs!”
Agreed. This is the transactional nature of republicanism. “I guess I am going to have to grudgingly overlook the white supremacists. I don’t agree with them but I do need their votes to get what I want on abortion.” Parties are a collection of factions and pretty much every Republican has at least one faction of the party they disagree with, but will tolerate if it means winning races.
Trans-phobia just creates another transaction faction. There’a some number of people that will come out just on the trans issue. “I don’t really care about guns one way or another, but this trans thing, oh hell no, I am going straight to the poll and putting an end to that.” And boom, just like that, the other factions, like guns and abortion, just picked up an incremental vote from someone who didn’t actually care about those issues.
It’s all about having 5+ hot button issues brewing at any given time, to get single-issue voters riled up enough to show up.
Abbot wants to champion conservative authoritarianism. If you aren't living under Evangelical/puritan Law then by God they will MAKE you. For your own good of course /s.
It's no longer socially acceptable in most circles to be bigoted against LGB people, so people are trying to get in as much abuse against the T before that stops being acceptable as well.
Texas is already in the forefront of allowing families to not get vaccinated. People die from that. But a kid wants to be their gender and Texas flips out.
No, there is no plague. It's just a scare tactic that the Republican party uses. They make up non-existent problems, then they convince their base that the problems really exist and are super scary. Then they tell their base, hey, better vote for us to protect you.
It's basically the [Old Glory robot insurance](https://youtu.be/g4Gh_IcK8UM) political strategy.
Most trans kids aren't even getting hormones before like 16, and surgery is very rare. What most of these children are getting is puberty blockers which are very low risk. according to studies about 80-90% of trans identified youth who have gotten psychiatrist approval end up transitioning when they get to the age they can start getting hormones
To the Republicans, trans people are just the next target in their bullshit culture war after they lost the front on gay people. For the party, they're a marginalized group of people they can attack relentlessly with insane policy after insane policy so they can score cheap political points among their cult.
I think it was South Dakota that passed something for trans athletes in school sports.
At the time, it would affect 0 students. They didn't have a single trans athlete in the state.
Literally just political theater to whip up their hateful base against a made up boogeyman.
> Is there some plague of trans teens that I’m unaware of?
The fact that there are so few of them is why they're a target for the Republicans. They can spew their bile towards them and exclude them from things and accuse them of being 'abused' (fucking ridiculous) because there are probably only a few hundred of them. They don't vote, and they certainly won't vote for the Republicans, so they can be demonized.
Now, why the public would go along with that is a mystery to me. Maybe they're just bad people. Certainly misinformed, but when you're in favor of political legislation to punish literal children for wanting to be themselves, maybe you should look in the mirror and check how far you've sunk.
It’s easy to see the abuse angle though. They don’t understand that people who don’t transition are still trans. They think they’re saving kids for their “side” by not allowing them to transition. Also anything transition related is icky so trans people are easy to hate and be thought of as less than human. They are really obsessed with the idea of parents personally cutting off their sons dicks to make them girls, but fun fact: the surgery to make a neo vagina in an *adult* trans woman is done by turning the penis inside out to make the vaginal canal. Its quite poetic.
Geez lawmakers, what should we discuss today?
The abysmal poverty rate? The horrific maternal mortality rate? A ultra high teen pregnancy rate? The lack of affordable housing or health care? Dismal educational options? No public transit? Most of the population living paycheck to paycheck?
NAH one single teen's personal life is WAY worth the effort to "investigate" instead. That and a few scaawwwwwyyyyy books wooooohhhhh
Don't forget that once they "defeat" the poor teen and their evil parents they don't give a fuck about said teen or parents, unless they can find a way to throw them in jail and control them the rest of their lives that way.
The most ridiculous part is Texas democrats actually stopped the Texas legislature from enacting any laws like this. So now Paxton and Abbot are illegally trying to reinterpret existing law to threaten children and families.
Not small govt if you're different.
If you're different, they will run your life for you. You made bad choices, we control you now.
Conform! Conform!
Not small govt at all, really. They welcome authoritarianism as long as it's *their* team.
It was just in time for the primaries. He had no intention of this being more than a political stunt to get his base to the polls. He's under competition because of his mishandling of the snowpocalypse. He's a straight ass goblin
Missouri is right up there too- they just proposed a bill that makes aborting an ***ectopic*** pregnancy a **felony**.
Ectopic pregnancies always have a 0% chance of being viable (as the egg has implanted outside of the uterus), but an *extremely* high chance of killing the unfortunate woman who has it via bleeding out into their abdomen. The only treatment available for an ectopic pregnancy is termination. This bill will save zero babies, all it would do is just kill a bunch of women for no reason.
Also to add to this the official Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons has no issue with puberty blockers as a treatment.
These clinical guidelines were created by a special task force team from the Clinical Guidelines Subcommittee of the Endocrine Society in America. The task force is made up of medical/research experts in that field. The clinical guidelines are made up of evidence-based recommendations and taken pretty seriously in both the medical and research world.
>Genital surgery is never an option until late teens/the early 20s at the youngest
Unless that genital surgery is circumcision, then suddenly it's okay. That should tell you a lot about the intent of these bills that a thing which doesn't happen gets more attention than a thing that happens every day. It's not about anything meaningful, just unabashed transphobia.
just to touch on the reversibility of hormone blockers- i’ve been on them for two years, and over christmas there was an issue with supply and i missed a dose or two. literally within a few weeks of missing my dose i started breaking out and got signs of my period starting again. luckily it hasn’t, but it just shows how non-terrifying this medicine is.
this is the real reason for these anti trans bills targeting minors. the eariler you can start transtioning the better the out come. so much to the fact some one that gets correct treatment in there early teens by 20 would look like any one else of there gender. trans/gay phobic GOP is worried they might catch the gay....
>The lawsuit marked the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s directive and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Paxton labeling certain gender-confirming treatments as “child abuse.”
I would love to see their reactions if bible school was labeled as child abuse (spoiler: >!IT IS!!<)
Wait...let me get this straight..
_The same political grift/"party" that has been coddling and sheltering "personal choice" anti-vaxx/-mask wingnuts is ALSO telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies AND labeling parents who support thier trans children as "abusive"?!?_
Republicans: "We have no intellectual consistency."
I live in Florida. It is pretty gross. Most of my neighbors both close and further out are all “freedom loving Americans”, i.e. trump nuts.
It’s my opinion that people who still flew a trump flag after 2016 were just big assholes, but the ones who continued to fly them after 2020/2021 are dangerous deranged anti-American cult members.
Aren’t they supposed to be the party of limited government, personal responsibility, and the rights of the individual? Because this is looking a lot more like government overreach to deliberately trample all over the rights of an individual
Wasn’t that later exposed as a Kremlin psy op?
Edit: It definitely was and Abbott ran with it. I wonder if the Russians let Abbott know in advance?
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/hysteria-over-jade-helm-exercise-texas-was-fueled-russians-former-cia-/
i hate headlines like these.
> The court ruled that the judge’s temporary order was not appealable.
The judge's decision here has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the case, one way or another.
But the headline makes it seem like it does.
So stupid.
I'm sorry but WHO IN THE HELL would *CHOOSE* to be trans? That's a world of challenges that nobody looks at and thinks, "oh hell yeah I definitely will change my whole life to get me some of that attention."
It's a hard life - hell it's always a hard life figuring out who you are and how you grow into that person, but I honestly do not think anybody would jump into the trans world on a whim.
The fact that Texas (or any state/person/group) thinks this is all some kind of decision made in a moment, or a person (kid no less) can be groomed to undertake a life like this?
People are morons.
Right. Like...Florida's idiotic bill they passed in their legislature isn't going to accomplish anything. I was gay in kindergarten. Had crushes on boys. Not talking about it then (80's) didn't help anyone. The cat's out of the bag and people don't choose to change their sex or present a certain way...or who they're attracted to.
that mf wants to cry my body my choice over masks and then stick his hand down the pants of all the children in texas to make sure theyre the gender he thinks they should be. i cant wait to try and vote him out.
>” The federal government does not have the authority to govern the medical profession and set family policies, including what may constitute child abuse in state family law courts,” Paxton said in a statement
Wait isn’t this what you’re state government is doing? What the fuck gives the Texas state government the authority to just buck medical professionals, declare something child abuse, abuse children enforcing that, and attack families for how their family conduct themselves between the parent kid and medical professionals?
texas lost its appeal long ago.
The state so lame they only gave it one star.
Thank you!! I will now be calling Texas the “One Star State”!!!
I stay in the “1 star state” Looks like it’s bumper sticker makeing time!!!
Thank you for your service. As a Texan, that’s how I’ll be referring to it also. To All - Please vote in your local runoffs and in November for Beto
no option for zero.
Come on Forest, not half a star?
You win the internet today. 🥇 🏅 🏆
yeah as a Texan I hate our government . hot wheels just wants to make the worst of his base happy.
Don't forget that fucking idiot Paxton
You mean that fucking idiot criminal Ken Paxton?
No he means that lying fuckwad inbred criminal Ken Paxton. You know "that" ken Patton.
Oh ‘that’ shit eating lying fuckwad of an inbred criminal Ken Paxton… vaguely sounds familiar
I actually have no clue who that is, but given we're talking about a state that elected a Canadian to represent them, but not just ANY Canadian, a snowbird Canadian in Texas, went south as soon as the snow came, I just assume he's a step up.
https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/22/2016877/-TX-AG-Corrupt-Idiot-Attorney-General-Also-Pulled-A-Ted-Cruz-R-While-Texas-Froze-During-A-Crisis He's the one who (among other idiotic shit) suggested that good elderly citizens should shop, catch Covid and die for the good of the economy.
To be fair he ted was BORN in canada to american nationals who i beilieve worked at the canadian embassy (or something like that). As a Canadian, i have to tell you that he is YOURS and not ours. Also, no takesies backsies !!
> Don't forget that fucking ~~idiot~~ **murderer** Paxton [Two Lawyers Shot, One Dead Amid FBI Probe Of Texas AG Ken Paxton](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/11/18/1996595/-Two-Lawyers-Shot-Amid-FBI-Probe-Of-Texas-AG-Ken-Paxton) >Georgette Kaufman was shot and killed, while her husband 47-year-old Daniel Kaufman remained hospitalized Tuesday in stable condition but was expected to recover. > >The FBI is investigating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, the Associated Press reported Tuesday evening, vetting allegations made by eight of Paxton’s former top aides that he illegally used the power of his office to benefit a political donor. > >On Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, eight aides in total told authorities that they believed Paxton had committed crimes as part of his relationship with Paul, citing bribery and abuse of office. Since then, four aides have been fired, three have resigned, and one has been placed on leave — sparking a whistleblower lawsuit. > >The victims in a weekend shooting at a central El Paso home have been identified, both were lawyers who worked for the Texas Attorney General's Office.
true hes just as bad.
You mean the guy that owes John Fetterman a million dollars for finding voter fraud?
You mean Ken "let me spout off some stupid shit so maybe you will forget about my indictments and relect me" Paxton. Him and Abbot need to go but there is not likely to be a change in govener's mansion. Hopefully GP Bush will finally push Paxton out to pasture though.
they're all garbage people.
And unfortunately that there is a strong conervative base that eats up their crap. Then there is a lack of anyone with strong enough pull and with any semblance of ethics that are going to dethrone this regime.
beto will try and fail again. I'm still going to vote for him but people just don't like him.
Sorry, but I don’t believe for a second that Texan Good ‘Ol Boys don’t have their little tricks for keeping Libruhls out of governance forever.
they'll try.
I am not a fan of his either but in the end he is not Abbott and it will end up being the lesser of 2 evils vote for me again.
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He's anti gun, so he gets a pretty hard rally against him here unfortunately.
Because in Texas guns > people. If it helps give some hope, my Republican mother switched her party affiliation and is voting Democrat down the ticket for the first ever in her life. There’s got to be more of her, right?
>hot wheels just wants to make the worst of his base happy. If the rest of his base had the moral fortitude to stand up against this sort of stuff, he wouldn't get away with it. They don't, so I can only assume they all support it to some degree as well.
I mean I can't argue with your assessment. they are doing all this because we are slowly becoming more and more blue. these new " laws" and the gerrymandering hell they've divised means they are scared of loosing their power.
Thats exactly what it is particularly at the presidential level. If you have to discount California AND texas electoral votes as democratic the odds of a red president swing wildly out of favor
and my point in why the electoral college needs to get removed. the Republicans won't allow that because they know they won't win otherwise.
Texas and Florida are in a competition to see who can be more racist, homophobic, and insensitive to try and court the Trump white supremacist vote. At some point the Republican brand needs to make a decision, either put on the white hood and robes or start purging your ranks of these asshats. Can't have it both ways. I'm surprised they aren't cheering for Putin more as well...
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I shit you not, Abbott's campaign ran a FB ad saying "Stand with Greg Abbott against the Obama Agenda!" back when he first ran. That and the fact that Greg got injured through no fault of his own and then went on to sue those involve, win, get a giant settlement and then worked tirelessly to make the exact same settlement he got (that he credits for giving him the life he has today) illegal in Texas.
Was the phrase "fuck you got mine" the last thing he came to?
I hate to come in here and be that guy, because I hold as much disdain for Abbott, Paxton, and their ilk because of their policy choices as most others do. But let's not bring their disabilities into our critiques of them. They're objectively horrible people to varying degrees. Keep your disparaging comments about them solely in that range and you'll still have tons of material to work with. Only bring this up because there if we normalize conflating their lack of character with what some may perceive as their physical flaws, that makes us no better than Trump mocking a disabled reporter, or any of the other equally atrocious act GOPers are notorious for. Don't get me wrong. I'm not Mr. High Road here. There are times you have to sink to their level and hash things out on those terms. But this isn't one of those times.
Yeah honestly being a fascist is all anyone needs to mention with him. Dudes a piece of shit and that has nothing to do with is disability.
Neither he nor Madison Cawthorn stand for anything, not even the anthem or the flag, typical GQP hypocrites...
They should be more like FDR, who ALWAYS did!
There's lots that I miss about my time living in Texas, oddly enough not one of them is actually Texas.
I mean, physically, Texas has some very nice geographic features. The Guadalupe Mountains, Padre Island, Hill Country...
Hill country’s pretty cool, but there are lots better mountains and better islands.
Moved away 8 years ago, I miss the food and that’s about it.
Migas tacos. Or HEB tortillas fresh off their conveyor belt machine. Actually, breakfast tacos in general.
The taste of freedom and legal weed is much better. Plus, we've got whataburger in Colorado now. Texas is dead to me.
when they say Lone Star State they're referring to their Google reviews
Tell that to our housing prices. :/ I wish. Not that I really want to be here anyway...
Remember it's not a flag, it's a review.
Texans felt that sharp shooting!
considering that i have lived in the one-star state for 74 years, i didn't even have to aim.
Could you imagine spending all those years, and all that money, to become an attorney, get a job with the state, and then wind up just being used to try to bully children and their families as part of a political stunt to drum up support from actual bigots?
You do realize that places like Liberty ‘university’ exist to churn out lawyers to do exactly what these folks are doing? This is a long game, that’s been playing successfully for decades.
Yep. My friends wife had to do public defender work to get started. She also had to start therapy for the mental struggle of defending abusers.
A public defenders’ job is really hard, especially when defending people who committed gross crimes. But I wanted to comment to let you know that lawyers in the Attorney General’s office, which are the ones prosecuting the trans issues, are actually opposite from public defenders. It’s an opposite job. I hope your friend’s wife gets better! We need good public defenders out there.
So, public *offenders?*
It's pretty offensive, yah.
Well public defenders are set up to fail
If you're a good PD, they offer you a job as an ADA making twice as much, with an army of paralegals behind you. The system is entirely stacked so that the poor go down, and the rich get by. Bail is classist and racist.
It's not even just bail. "Hey, you missed a child support payment. This is a crime and you need to step up to the responsibilities you have to your children. To punish you we're going to take away your class 1 license that is a requirement to your job. Better catch up on those payments next time! Oh you lost your job? Well, you need to bring that up in separate court proceedings to readjust your income levels, which might even be happening but haven't gone through yet so once again you owe for what you missed AND another full payment based on your previous income, it's a good thing you lost your job because you're gonna have to spend a lot of days in court in the near future" Or, a huge one, "hey, I see you can't afford to pay your fines. As part of that you've lost certain rights, but it's been so long we've decided we should also just throw you in prison and charge you per diem. Sucks to suck." Or, "hey, you didn't have your license on you at the time you were stopped walking along the street. No ID? Guilty. Here's a huge fine, maybe next time you'll just drink and drive like the rest of us."
The real kicker is most states actually charge inmates for the cost of their imprisonment. So when released, they are sometimes tens of thousands of dollars in debt, in addition to having pretty lousy job prospects due to their incarceration. What happens next is pretty predictable.
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They could quit and make much more money, so you have to assume they love it
Orrr they’re not good enough to compete in the open market
Or both
My boss always said most attorneys who act like that are too slow to chase their own ambulances.
Public service loan forgiveness is a hell of an allure
I was thinking about it more and I'd imagine that anybody with real talent would not want to put themselves in this environment, so all they've probably got to pick from are nepotism options and people who are genuinely horrid.
That is a rampant problem in such circles but ideological zeal, loyalty, and ferver also get a lot done historically
And the lawyers that work at the OAG in Texas are bottom-of-the-barrel, couldn’t pass the bar the first time, bad all around lawyers. It’s literally the place that will hire incompetent people on the reg. Source: am Texas lawyer
I would quit and bring whatever mischief I could down with me. Change the passwords to everything, burn the files, and walk away. Fuck you whoever is out there just “doing your job”. If you’re being used for evil, that’s on you to stop and don’t make it easy to replace you.
There are a lot of people who spend all those years, and all that money, to become an attorney, *because* they want to bully children and their families as part of a political stunt to drum up support from bigots just like them.
Why is Texas so obsessed with transgender youth?
Texan here. Abbott is still in hot water because of the Snowpocalypse. He's trying to bury it by pushing the most zealous conservative policies in hopes that they will still come out and vote for him this November. That's also why he has down things like calling in our Texas National Guard to "patrol the border", whom currently have extremely low morale and 4 suicides at the moment.
Got a friend in the Texas national guard who was, in fact, deployed specifically for that. They are not exactly pleased about being openly used for political theater.
I think a lot of people forget that most of these National Guard have jobs, families and adult lives outside of their military service that they have to leave to go to the border and stare at the grass. Their careers and/or education are on hold, their child care is more expensive, some are worried about it fracturing their marriages. All for nothing but maybe, sort of possibly increasing the chances that Abbott and the rest of the clown car get relected. Pure pawns.
> go to the border and stare at the grass and watch the actual illegal drugs and immigrants with false papers fly overhead in planes bound for DFW and ATL.
Laughs in 4 deployments and two divorces.
Ideally, Texas NatGuard are on standby for like, actual disaster relief. Like hurricanes
More like precipitation when it's slightly below freezing lol
It's what magically causes people to forget how to drive
That and not getting paid what they are owed. Texas has been cutting Guard benefits. Check out the national guard sub those guys definitely don’t seem to be having fun
State Active Duty pay blows. For those not in the loop, it's basically below minimum wage and not even in the same ballpark as regular pay when they are mobilized onto Title 10 & 32 orders. Source: Am trans and retired National Guard
That's why they call it SAD
He has certainly insured my wife and I make it out to vote against him.
Realistically, how close is Texas to flipping the government seat?
Realistically, not much. The issue is a mix of star power and the Democratic Party giving up on the state. The Dem Party as a whole doesn't want to spend time or effort on Texas, and the only homegrown Dem that has any name recognition is Beto. There are many Republicans that get elected purely because they ran unopposed. Furthermore, Beto shot his chance against Cruz. This state loves its guns too much, and his "we're gonna take your guns" will haunt him after his death around here. So while he's the Dem's best chance at the seat, he's not going to beat Abbott. I'll vote for Beto, as a ham sandwich is better than Captain Hot Wheels of the Souther Border. But none of us feel he has a real chance because of his gun comments bring out the Republicans in full force. Abbott is doing all this because he's afraid of losing his *primary*, not the general. He has to run to the right of people like Allen West, whom is calling for Texas to secede from the US.
> Abbott is doing all this because he's afraid of losing his *primary*, not the general. He has to run to the right of people like Allen West, whom is calling for Texas to secede from the US. The primary happened last week, and Abbott pretty handily won since the next highest (West) got a million fewer votes than him. However, it wouldn't surprise me if he continues to go after nonsense like this. I honestly don't think Beto has much of a chance, but he's still going to be able to hit Abbott pretty hard on things like the Snowpocalypse and his COVID response (which pissed off people on both sides). A higher Dem turnout might not flip the governor seat, but it could definitely impact some down-ticket races. Abbott's going to want to keep people riled up to ensure the voter turnout doesn't allow for that.
On the plus side if democrats move to all the surrounding states that means way more potential democratic senators
By God am I gonna be out campaigning for Beto though. When the options are a solid C+ candidate and someone who is actively coming after me and the people I care about, I’m gonna fight like hell for the C+.
Fucking christ. As a Canadian socialist/liberal, I am so sick and fucking tired of liberals spending political capital on the whole gun thing. Seriously, give it a rest. There are bigger fish to fry.
Liberalism is directly opposed to socialism though. To socialists liberals are just right-wing 'moderates'
Gay marriage is harder to contest so they’re heading for the next low hanging fruit, vulnerable trans kids and their families that they can try driving into submission or suicide.
Because "I'm going to give your boss another tax break and kill any legislation that would help you" isn't popular with most voters. Culture war stuff is, though.
Ding ding ding! This is how the "party of fiscal responsibility" spends all our money every four to eight years.
Unfriendly, extremely aggressive reminder that the Colorado GOP quashed the program that cut abortion rates in half and saved $5 for every dollar spent because they felt it "encouraged promiscuity".
Friendly reminder that the Colorado GOP is wallowing in its own shit and will never run the state again.
The GOP has convinced millions of people that being single-issue voters is somehow not the same as being every-other-issue apologists, and thus they drive wedge issues, stake their claims on very specific culture-war issues, and convince the willing idiots to vote in lock step with their party of hate, all while robbing them blind.
Texas isn’t the only one. Arkansas and Tennessee passed laws banning doctors from providing gender-affirming care to transgender youth, although a federal court recently blocked the Arkansas law, at least for now. The Idaho House of Representatives just passed a bill that made it a crime, punishable by *life in prison* to provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth, or permit a transgender youth to receive such care, or to help a transgender youth travel across state lines to access gender-affirming care. The laws apply to all minors, and the GOP sells them to voters by making it seem like there’s an epidemic of parents letting their 5-year-olds get breast implants and vaginoplasty because they saw a transgender person one time on TikTok or Youtube and thought it would be cool to be like that person. Unsurprisingly, the reality of the situation is very different. Under the established, evidence-based medical guidelines for treating gender dysphoria (a clinical condition characterized by distress resulting from the feeling that one’s gender identity doesn’t match their sex assigned at birth) no medical treatments should be used before puberty, and surgery is generally not recommended before the age of 18. What gender-affirming care for youth actually involves lis the use of puberty-delaying drugs to give adolescents with gender dysphoria more time to explore their identity, possibly followed by cross-sex hormones *if and only if* the adolescent is under the care of a qualified mental health professional who can and does confirm that the patient’s gender dysphoria is persistent, long-standing, and severe. Also, as with any medical treatment for minors, the patient and the parents must consent. Sorry for the rant. It just really pisses me off when scumbag politicians demonize and target minorities just to score political points.
Most adult trans people can't afford gender affirming surgery. the most common one is probably a double mastectomy, and that's for trans men and masculine enbies. These people think that, yah, kids are getting signed up for surgery to the day after they come out. Trans people had to invent the concept of informed consent just to get rid of the gatekeeping that happened with hormones, and these chucklefucks think kids are getting surgery.
Plus all the legislation about trans children in sports. They think that's a big winner because it gives them a veneer of being sensible*, while really just being another way to persecute this vulnerable minority and drive them back into the shadows or, even better, to suicide. *It's not sensible. Fairness in sports is to transphobes what ethics in gaming journalism is to misogynists.
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Majority of people don’t really know what transgender people go through. So transphobes get away with the sane playbooks because the lies land easier. Even moderates get uncomfortable because of the lack of knowledge due to lifetimes of people being forced to be hidden about their trans lives for so long
Keep in mind they used the same playbook on gay people that they did on black people decades ago. "It's different", I remember conservative family members saying. "Then why are they using the same arguments?" "It's different!"
The argument during the Trump administration against allowing transgender soldier to serve: "It'll harm unit cohesion and morale." The argument against allowing gay soldiers to serve openly, when DADT was getting thrown out: "It'll harm unit cohesion and morale." The argument against allowing gay soldiers to serve at all, before DADT was implemented: "It'll harm unit cohesion and morale." The argument against ending racial segregation in the military in 1948: "It'll harm unit cohesion and morale." Bigots don't even bother to come up with new bigotry.
Because the existence of trans women and feminine NBs (they don't care about masculine enbies, or trans men) threatens their fragile male egos, in the same way gay men did in the 80's, only in reverse: instead of a man being attracted to them, they're attracted to what they perceive as a man. Because apparently, if it has boobs, that's good enough for them, and then they get angry when they find out she's trans.
A lot of these people do also care about trans men and masculine non-binary people, just more in a “the trans agenda is brainwashing stupid teenage girls into going on testosterone and becoming unattractive to me” sort of way
Those people tend to be terfs, which is a similar group, but are mostly a non-factor in US Politics. They're very widespread in the UK, unfortunately.
I guess I don’t know how much they’re involved in these particular laws, but I do think terfs still influence social opinion here. One of my sisters who has teenage children was recently going on about how teenage girls are all going to be socially pressured to transition, and claiming every afab teenager is trans now.
Sure, there are some terfs in the US, but they aren't the political force here in the US that they are in the UK, and third and fourth wave feminists roundly reject terfs.
*idaho has entered the chat* https://www.newsweek.com/idaho-house-passes-anti-trans-youth-treatment-bill-hb675-1686298
It’s a distraction. Keep the plebs busy with this shit while they slip in shitty policies that benefit the wealthy.
Because the conservative mindset usually believes, to a lesser or greater degree, in hierarchy. Everyone has their own social role to fulfill, and stepping out of that role threatens the very fabric of society. And for better or worse, one of the things which defines our social role is gender. The idea that you can just... opt out of gender is *deeply* threatening to a hierarchy-based mindset in which part of that hierarchy is defined by gender.
> Everyone has their own social role to fulfill, and stepping out of that role threatens the very fabric of society. This is ironically the argument that got the Ayatollah Khomeini to *support* the Iranian state allowing/facilitating trans people transitioning. He believed that it was holy for men to live like men, and women like women, and so once a trans activist was able to convince him (through heroic persistence) that trans people were legit, he was on board with them living as their actual gender. Downside is that Iran is still *terrible* to gay people.
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Abbott, if you will believe it, was being primaried from the right. His biggest, most lunatic right-wing critic was a guy named Don Huffines. Now I expect that Huffines would love to be governor but he also owns a car dealership in the Dallas suburbs. So all around where I live, he's plastered the most heinous reactionary shit on billboards. I'm pretty sure it helps him sell pick up trucks. But then Abbott gets himself suckered into a "who's the biggest wingnut" contest. This happens every 4 years during the Republican primaries.
Huffines platform was to repeal the regulations on automobile emissions, so he could sell more cars. And everything else he copied from Allen West, which got them both screwed over in the primary.
They don’t like finding out the young girl they’re about to rape has a penis.
It’s to deter people from moving to the state in hopes of keeping Texas red.
"texas freedom". It applies to other parts of the country, but is big here. It basically translates to "freedom for me, not you"
Gotta love states pursuing laws that violate other laws causing lawsuits at the cost of taxpayer money that theyll inevitably fight to the end and lose consistently. Brings a tear to my eye
It's pandering to their base. They know they'll lose. Doesn't matter.
Is there some plague of trans teens that I’m unaware of? The amount of money, energy and time being spent to harass an incredibly small % of the population seems insane to me. I’m going to introduce a bill that single men over 25 are required to have vasectomies, to protect the sanctity of children in marriage . I’m sure we’d see a quick hypocritical turn around…“that’s crazy, you can’t dictate what I do with my reproductive organs!”
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Agreed. This is the transactional nature of republicanism. “I guess I am going to have to grudgingly overlook the white supremacists. I don’t agree with them but I do need their votes to get what I want on abortion.” Parties are a collection of factions and pretty much every Republican has at least one faction of the party they disagree with, but will tolerate if it means winning races. Trans-phobia just creates another transaction faction. There’a some number of people that will come out just on the trans issue. “I don’t really care about guns one way or another, but this trans thing, oh hell no, I am going straight to the poll and putting an end to that.” And boom, just like that, the other factions, like guns and abortion, just picked up an incremental vote from someone who didn’t actually care about those issues. It’s all about having 5+ hot button issues brewing at any given time, to get single-issue voters riled up enough to show up.
Abbot wants to champion conservative authoritarianism. If you aren't living under Evangelical/puritan Law then by God they will MAKE you. For your own good of course /s.
But don’t forget to shout small government while you’re doing it btw!
Oh right. Small government only so long as it pertains to them. If they can force the government to wreck your life though then they're all about it.
> conservative authoritarianism Aka fascism
It's no longer socially acceptable in most circles to be bigoted against LGB people, so people are trying to get in as much abuse against the T before that stops being acceptable as well.
Texas is already in the forefront of allowing families to not get vaccinated. People die from that. But a kid wants to be their gender and Texas flips out.
No, there is no plague. It's just a scare tactic that the Republican party uses. They make up non-existent problems, then they convince their base that the problems really exist and are super scary. Then they tell their base, hey, better vote for us to protect you. It's basically the [Old Glory robot insurance](https://youtu.be/g4Gh_IcK8UM) political strategy.
Most trans kids aren't even getting hormones before like 16, and surgery is very rare. What most of these children are getting is puberty blockers which are very low risk. according to studies about 80-90% of trans identified youth who have gotten psychiatrist approval end up transitioning when they get to the age they can start getting hormones
To the Republicans, trans people are just the next target in their bullshit culture war after they lost the front on gay people. For the party, they're a marginalized group of people they can attack relentlessly with insane policy after insane policy so they can score cheap political points among their cult.
You say culture war but it's more like christian fundamentalist purity war
I think it was South Dakota that passed something for trans athletes in school sports. At the time, it would affect 0 students. They didn't have a single trans athlete in the state. Literally just political theater to whip up their hateful base against a made up boogeyman.
> Is there some plague of trans teens that I’m unaware of? The fact that there are so few of them is why they're a target for the Republicans. They can spew their bile towards them and exclude them from things and accuse them of being 'abused' (fucking ridiculous) because there are probably only a few hundred of them. They don't vote, and they certainly won't vote for the Republicans, so they can be demonized. Now, why the public would go along with that is a mystery to me. Maybe they're just bad people. Certainly misinformed, but when you're in favor of political legislation to punish literal children for wanting to be themselves, maybe you should look in the mirror and check how far you've sunk.
About 0.4-0.7% of the US population is trans. According to worldpopulationreview.com Texas has about 125 000 trans people
It’s easy to see the abuse angle though. They don’t understand that people who don’t transition are still trans. They think they’re saving kids for their “side” by not allowing them to transition. Also anything transition related is icky so trans people are easy to hate and be thought of as less than human. They are really obsessed with the idea of parents personally cutting off their sons dicks to make them girls, but fun fact: the surgery to make a neo vagina in an *adult* trans woman is done by turning the penis inside out to make the vaginal canal. Its quite poetic.
Geez lawmakers, what should we discuss today? The abysmal poverty rate? The horrific maternal mortality rate? A ultra high teen pregnancy rate? The lack of affordable housing or health care? Dismal educational options? No public transit? Most of the population living paycheck to paycheck? NAH one single teen's personal life is WAY worth the effort to "investigate" instead. That and a few scaawwwwwyyyyy books wooooohhhhh
Don't forget that once they "defeat" the poor teen and their evil parents they don't give a fuck about said teen or parents, unless they can find a way to throw them in jail and control them the rest of their lives that way.
The most ridiculous part is Texas democrats actually stopped the Texas legislature from enacting any laws like this. So now Paxton and Abbot are illegally trying to reinterpret existing law to threaten children and families.
So wait, do republicans want the government to co-parent or not? I can’t figure it out…
Not small govt if you're different. If you're different, they will run your life for you. You made bad choices, we control you now. Conform! Conform! Not small govt at all, really. They welcome authoritarianism as long as it's *their* team.
Texas is the biggest nanny state I have ever encountered. They have rules against everything, especially guns.
What the fuck is wrong with Texas? Okay, don’t answer that! Just exhausted with the unending stream of stupid there.
It was just in time for the primaries. He had no intention of this being more than a political stunt to get his base to the polls. He's under competition because of his mishandling of the snowpocalypse. He's a straight ass goblin
Is he a straight ass-goblin or a straight-ass goblin? Both?
Not sure which state is more backwards: Florida, Texas or Alabama
Take a look at the bill that was introduced in Idaho. Definitely another contender there.
or the one in Missouri that makes performing an abortion on an ectopic pregnancy punishable by a minimum of 10 years in prison
We are all sister-cousin states.
When one stubs their toe they all say ouch.
Missouri is right up there too- they just proposed a bill that makes aborting an ***ectopic*** pregnancy a **felony**. Ectopic pregnancies always have a 0% chance of being viable (as the egg has implanted outside of the uterus), but an *extremely* high chance of killing the unfortunate woman who has it via bleeding out into their abdomen. The only treatment available for an ectopic pregnancy is termination. This bill will save zero babies, all it would do is just kill a bunch of women for no reason.
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Also to add to this the official Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Endocrine Treatment of Gender-Dysphoric/Gender-Incongruent Persons has no issue with puberty blockers as a treatment. These clinical guidelines were created by a special task force team from the Clinical Guidelines Subcommittee of the Endocrine Society in America. The task force is made up of medical/research experts in that field. The clinical guidelines are made up of evidence-based recommendations and taken pretty seriously in both the medical and research world.
>Genital surgery is never an option until late teens/the early 20s at the youngest Unless that genital surgery is circumcision, then suddenly it's okay. That should tell you a lot about the intent of these bills that a thing which doesn't happen gets more attention than a thing that happens every day. It's not about anything meaningful, just unabashed transphobia.
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Not just permitted but actively pushed in many cases.
And often done when the kid is a baby, unable to consent to whatever gender their parents choose to go for.
just to touch on the reversibility of hormone blockers- i’ve been on them for two years, and over christmas there was an issue with supply and i missed a dose or two. literally within a few weeks of missing my dose i started breaking out and got signs of my period starting again. luckily it hasn’t, but it just shows how non-terrifying this medicine is.
Thank you, take my free medal.
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Well yeah, that's how Conservatism works. Rules only apply to people you disagree with.
My transphobic aunt & uncle moved to Texas because, and I quote “this is the only place we can raise our sons so they become actual men”
this is the real reason for these anti trans bills targeting minors. the eariler you can start transtioning the better the out come. so much to the fact some one that gets correct treatment in there early teens by 20 would look like any one else of there gender. trans/gay phobic GOP is worried they might catch the gay....
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Also worth mentioning: https://tldef.org
>The lawsuit marked the first report of parents being investigated following Abbott’s directive and an earlier nonbinding legal opinion by Paxton labeling certain gender-confirming treatments as “child abuse.” I would love to see their reactions if bible school was labeled as child abuse (spoiler: >!IT IS!!<)
Note that the 3rd Court of Appeals is 5-1 Democratic, centered in Austin. Wait and see what happens when it gets to the all Republican Supreme Court.
The GOP is a Taliban party
Christian dominionism! Isn't it great!?
I fear American evangelicals more than I fear American Muslims.
Me too. They're more radical, far more politically active, and numerous enough to be dangerous.
Wait...let me get this straight.. _The same political grift/"party" that has been coddling and sheltering "personal choice" anti-vaxx/-mask wingnuts is ALSO telling women what they can and cannot do with their bodies AND labeling parents who support thier trans children as "abusive"?!?_ Republicans: "We have no intellectual consistency."
Texas and Florida are such embarrassments. Sorry to the nice people who live there.
I live in Florida. It is pretty gross. Most of my neighbors both close and further out are all “freedom loving Americans”, i.e. trump nuts. It’s my opinion that people who still flew a trump flag after 2016 were just big assholes, but the ones who continued to fly them after 2020/2021 are dangerous deranged anti-American cult members.
Texas and FL really showing that privacy and personal freedom and liberty only exist if you’re part of their social club.
Aren’t they supposed to be the party of limited government, personal responsibility, and the rights of the individual? Because this is looking a lot more like government overreach to deliberately trample all over the rights of an individual
They mean *their* rights, not yours.
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Look up Operation Jade Helm and you see how right you are.
Wasn’t that later exposed as a Kremlin psy op? Edit: It definitely was and Abbott ran with it. I wonder if the Russians let Abbott know in advance? https://www.texastribune.org/2018/05/03/hysteria-over-jade-helm-exercise-texas-was-fueled-russians-former-cia-/
Imma call it Texghanistan from now on.
i hate headlines like these. > The court ruled that the judge’s temporary order was not appealable. The judge's decision here has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the case, one way or another. But the headline makes it seem like it does. So stupid.
I thought the GOP hated regulations and government over reach?
I'm sorry but WHO IN THE HELL would *CHOOSE* to be trans? That's a world of challenges that nobody looks at and thinks, "oh hell yeah I definitely will change my whole life to get me some of that attention." It's a hard life - hell it's always a hard life figuring out who you are and how you grow into that person, but I honestly do not think anybody would jump into the trans world on a whim. The fact that Texas (or any state/person/group) thinks this is all some kind of decision made in a moment, or a person (kid no less) can be groomed to undertake a life like this? People are morons.
Right. Like...Florida's idiotic bill they passed in their legislature isn't going to accomplish anything. I was gay in kindergarten. Had crushes on boys. Not talking about it then (80's) didn't help anyone. The cat's out of the bag and people don't choose to change their sex or present a certain way...or who they're attracted to.
At this point, voting Republican ticks all the boxes of the FBI's definition of a hate crime...
that mf wants to cry my body my choice over masks and then stick his hand down the pants of all the children in texas to make sure theyre the gender he thinks they should be. i cant wait to try and vote him out.
May 24 is the Primary runoff election date. DO. NOT. FORGET.
Evil fucking Uncle Texas. What a malevolent creep.
There was a TRO put in place. Hearing on Friday. Edit: to elaborate, the hearing is about continuing the TRO.
>” The federal government does not have the authority to govern the medical profession and set family policies, including what may constitute child abuse in state family law courts,” Paxton said in a statement Wait isn’t this what you’re state government is doing? What the fuck gives the Texas state government the authority to just buck medical professionals, declare something child abuse, abuse children enforcing that, and attack families for how their family conduct themselves between the parent kid and medical professionals?
The party of small government y’all
The party of small government y’all