Texas Democrats in the state legislature denied its speaker a legislative quorum Monday by leaving the state, forestalling plans proposed by the White House to redistrict Texas’s congressional lines to more greatly favor Republicans.
Democrats hold 62 of the 150 seats in the legislature’s lower chamber, so as long as at least 51 members remain out of Austin, the Texas legislature cannot move forward with any votes, including a plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps to give Republicans five more seats in Congress.
In an extraordinary escalation, the state’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, said he he had ordered the Texas department of public safety to “locate, arrest and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”
“Go arrest those lawmakers resisting fascistic takeover so we can continue fascistic takeovering or I’ll do something really bad! … SHUT UP YOU’RE CRYING!!!”
Every time we minimize the danger by infantilizing them, we just make ourselves less capable of addressing them directly.
This isn’t a child throwing a tantrum, this is a fascist autocrat coalescing his power base and the fact you treat it so flippantly is exactly the kind of thing that brought them to power.
Either take this shit seriously or step aside, these are not normal times.
Easy on the friendly fire there, hoss. I’ve been saying this is a fascist takeover and taking it very seriously since way before the election. It’s ok to blow off steam sometimes.
And yes, there is a bit of temper tantruming happening when the fascist pricks don’t get there way. Mock them when it happens, because mockery shows others that these people are not to be respected as rational adults.
Oh I just say your home instance, makes a lot of sense now.
Sure wish blocking your instance meant I didn’t have to deal with any of you fashy bots.
Guess I have to do it manually.
This…is not coherent.
Glad you’re taking the horrid shit seriously though. Thanks for that.