Republican-controlled states are sealing the cracks in their anti-abortion regimes through legislation that removes the power of, or seeks to punish, Democratic prosecutors who decline to charge people for abortion-related crimes.
What ever happened to the quaint Republican notion that the best government was the government closest to the people?
More cost of unlimited money in politics - unlimited bad-faith gambits.
They are a whole industry throwing out POSs.
Or, as I like to call it, the “Make Texas Blue Faster” project is galloping along, gathering speed as it goes.
“Fascism is a cancer that spreads rapidly, and its return is threatening us: is it too much to ask that we oppose it from the start?” ― Primo Levi, The Complete Works of Primo Levi
From ruby red Lubbock County: can confirm.
Remember kids: In politics, it’s about rich and powerful people who agree with you, not the poor bastards who don’t.
We used to call shit like that repression. Totalitarianism. Now we call it freedom.
They say: “don’t mess with Texas” …fuck that: “Texas don’t mess with the rest of us”…
ALL laws must be enforced?
What about Red Flag laws?
Federal immigration policy?
But Govs CuteBoots can still traffic undocumented illigrants across state lines as if he’s not kidnapping or committing hardly any fraud, right?
If you can’t win playing by the rules, change the rules.
I hope so.
Imagine if blue states started removing local DAs who didn’t address discrimination or sexual assault cases.
So much for the rule of law. Fascism is going to win in this country because it has no other option.
Oh they’re close to the people, if by “people” you mean the network of right-wing billionaires who supply their marching orders.
What rules?
“Rules are what I say they are.”
…shades of the Red Queen and Earl Butz.
You left out an adjectival phrase-- your right-wing billionaires are apparently pretty out-of-touch with what the people seem to want. That’s one way that revolutions are created: witness the Colonial Revolution of 1776, the French Revolution of 1789, the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Algerian Revolution of 1954, the Indochinese Revolution of 1946, etc. (Why are the French so good at pissing people off to foment revolutions?)
A second American Revolution is likely to more closely resemble the French or Russian revolutions than the Revolutionary War of 1776 because the oppressors are living here, rather than being across the Atlantic.
Fuckers better wake up and smell the coffee while they still can.
My dad was a cabinetmaker.
I occasionally watch woodworking videos on YouTube: I love to watch a skilled cabinetmaker building cabinets or furniture. One guy I used to like to watch, but will watch no longer was building a cherry floating nightstand.
He lost me once he’d completed the cabinet, and then said, “I’ll bet you’re wondering how I’m going to secure this to the wall to make a floating nightstand. I’m going to use something I call a ‘Freedom Cleat.’”
And I’m like, “WTF is a freedom cleat?” and so he got my undivided attention as he made a simple cherry French cleat and secured the carcase to his shop wall. (The client wouldn’t allow him to film in the bedroom where it would be permanently mounted.)
It’s a French cleat. It was a French cleat before and it’s a French cleat now. You didn’t invent it, you copied it. And once I remembered where I’d heard that nonsense before (anyone else recall “Freedom Fries” [which are really Belgian rather than French, but I digress]) I unsubscribed and I won’t give him any more views.
Texas governor Greg Abbot is in contention for the title of ‘Most Twisted, Cruel and Evil Politician in America …’
May you long live in French from such bigots.