Texas

[fooferdoggie]

Even if the shooter’s threat assessment seems justified to the shooting to some people, I guarantee if the BLM protester shot the other guy in an equal assessment he’d still be sitting in prison with no pardon in sight. Right wing political violence will be rewarded or forgiven by Republicans whenever possible.

of course t he parole board was all appointed by abbot.

 

[Yoused]

he’d still be sitting in prison with no pardon in sight

No, IIRC, Texas has capital punishment.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

A nice summary of events posted on The Bulwark about the man Abbott just pardoned.

"In the summer of 2020, a Texas man named Daniel Perry was watching the Black Lives Matter protests unfolding across the country with a sense of deep rage. “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters,” he texted one friend. “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work they are rioting outside my apartment complex,” he wrote to another. “No protesters go near me or my car.”

A few weeks later, Perry drove his car into a crowd of people at a Black Lives Matter march in Austin, Texas, running a red light with tires screeching, leaning on his horn, and nearly hitting several. As several protesters angrily punched the car that had nearly hit them, another marcher, Garrett Foster, walked up to Perry’s car window to speak with him. Foster was legally carrying a rifle. Perry shot him five times."

 

[GermanSuplex]

Republicans are heading towards this civil war they keep talking about, but I think its going to be amongst themselves. None of what they're doing is shaping up well for them. None of it. Their investigations in congress, the officials who comprise the party, their agendas, their never-ending groveling to Trump... its all bad, getting worse.

A nice summary of events posted on The Bulwark about the man Abbott just pardoned.

"In the summer of 2020, a Texas man named Daniel Perry was watching the Black Lives Matter protests unfolding across the country with a sense of deep rage. “I might go to Dallas to shoot looters,” he texted one friend. “I might have to kill a few people on my way to work they are rioting outside my apartment complex,” he wrote to another. “No protesters go near me or my car.”

A few weeks later, Perry drove his car into a crowd of people at a Black Lives Matter march in Austin, Texas, running a red light with tires screeching, leaning on his horn, and nearly hitting several. As several protesters angrily punched the car that had nearly hit them, another marcher, Garrett Foster, walked up to Perry’s car window to speak with him. Foster was legally carrying a rifle. Perry shot him five times."

Literally got away with murder. Man, the family of the victim, it’s like spitting in their face.

Unfortunately, I’m sure this racist Wild West lunatic probably imagined shooting a black person, but he was willing to get his fix however. It’s why I’m not a gun nut - I put my chances at 50/50 whether I’m armed or not. So I’ll let the lunatics do what they do and try to stay out of the melee.

This stuff is good for nobody, including the gun nuts or anti-BLM racists, even if they view it as a victory.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office

The platform was voted on Saturday, with tallies expected next week. Other planks call abortion homicide and gender-transition care “child abuse.”

www.texastribune.org

 

[Eric]

Texas "California is a Liberal hellscape overrun with bureaucracy"

Also Texas:

 

[Yoused]

Texas "California is a Liberal hellscape overrun with bureaucracy"

Also Texas:

The function of that is revenue generation.

"FINES DOUBLE IN WORK ZONES"

The best part is, I remember one time on a road in texas, we came to the sign that said "end of construction" and then, about a furlong later we came to the sign that said "end of work zone".

It's a trap!

 

[fooferdoggie]

The Republican Party of Texas is considering a platform that appears to endorse the death penalty for abortion providers and patients.
Texas delegates voted on a 2024 platform at the state’s GOP Convention on Saturday and aim to tally the votes by Wednesday to finalize their platform for the coming year. The proposal called for new legislation to solidify fetal personhood ideology into law, define abortion care as homicide and criminalize in vitro fertilization, first reported by feminist writer Jessica Valenti.

Texas GOP Appears To Put Death Penalty For Abortion Patients On 2024 Wish List

The Republican Party of Texas is considering a platform this week that would define abortion as homicide.

www.huffpost.com

 

[GermanSuplex]

The Republican Party of Texas is considering a platform that appears to endorse the death penalty for abortion providers and patients.
Texas delegates voted on a 2024 platform at the state’s GOP Convention on Saturday and aim to tally the votes by Wednesday to finalize their platform for the coming year. The proposal called for new legislation to solidify fetal personhood ideology into law, define abortion care as homicide and criminalize in vitro fertilization, first reported by feminist writer Jessica Valenti.

Texas GOP Appears To Put Death Penalty For Abortion Patients On 2024 Wish List

The Republican Party of Texas is considering a platform this week that would define abortion as homicide.

www.huffpost.com

These idiots are obsessed with death and the unborn.

Let’s make adultery punishable by death and I’ll co-sign this, enough Christian conservatives would be sentenced in the first six months to turn the state blue.

 

[fooferdoggie]

 

[GermanSuplex]

*Wrong thread

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Texas sues to unmask women who get abortions out of state

Texas is suing to block a new rule that protects the privacy of women who travel over state lines to receive an abortion. Attorney General Ken Paxton wants to know…

boingboing.net

This guy has top tier mommy issues.

 

[fooferdoggie]

as usual Republicans show they don't care about children.​

Texas Governor Threatens To Pull Hospital Funding Over Doctor's Viral TikTok​

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) threatened to pull funding from Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine after a doctor said on TikTok that patients don’t have to disclose their immigration status.
“Hey Texas Children’s Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine, this doctor is putting your Medicaid and Medicare funding at risk,” Abbott wrote on X on Nov. 24. “You better think twice & have crystal clear records. There will be consequences for failing to follow the law in the Executive Order.”

Texas Governor Threatens To Pull Hospital Funding Over Doctor's Viral TikTok

Texas Children's Hospital said it "fully supports" Gov. Greg Abbott.

www.huffpost.com

 

[GermanSuplex]

They voted for this stuff. Sucks that there will be collateral damage, but these people are huffing Trump diaper fumes if they think it won’t affect conservative women. And men, for that matter, when their asses are drug to court for child support, or jail for non-payment. And hospital bills, funeral bills, death, etc.

Good luck rednecks.

 

[Eric]

MAGA heads are surely exploding over the confusion.

Bible removed from Texas school district due to law banning 'sexually explicit' content

The head of a Texas school district says the Bible had to be removed from school libraries because of a new state law prohibiting explicit books

www.christianpost.com

Bible removed from Texas school district due to law banning 'sexually explicit' content​

Parent calls it 'absurd' to throw out 'Good Book with bad books'​

 

[fooferdoggie]

Parent calls it 'absurd' to throw out 'Good Book with bad books'​

the so-called good book has brought more evil than any other book in history I bet.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

MAGA heads are surely exploding over the confusion.

Bible removed from Texas school district due to law banning 'sexually explicit' content

The head of a Texas school district says the Bible had to be removed from school libraries because of a new state law prohibiting explicit books

www.christianpost.com

Bible removed from Texas school district due to law banning 'sexually explicit' content​

Parent calls it 'absurd' to throw out 'Good Book with bad books'​

I can almost guarantee any parents upset about this treat the Bible like an EULA and just clicked "I agree" without reading it.

 

[Yoused]

Missing for the past half year, Congresscritter Kay Granger (TX-12th – Fort Worth and western suburbs, including TCU) most recently cast a vote in July. In an apparently safe seat, she was re-elected in November despite being completely out of view. A reporter searched diligently for her and at last turned her up in a memory-care assisted living facility. The R majority in the House is becoming razor-thin, as it is not clear whether she can take the oath of office.

 

[Herdfan]

She is 81 and we need an age limit or something. Anything. Ridiculous that this can happen.

 

[Alli]

She is 81 and we need an age limit or something. Anything. Ridiculous that this can happen.

If we had an age limit, Felon wouldn't be president elect.