"We adamantly oppose riots, encampments, and other activities intended to destroy property or endanger the safety of students and staff"
"we oppose the concept that the state is sovereign over the affairs of men, the family, or the church."
"any failing thereof authorizes the Governor of this State or the Legislature to declare an invasion, which shall be met with the full force of this State."
"Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto."
Texas: We Like The Constitution, Until We Don't, Not That We Have Read It Anyway, Shut Up.
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
My family and I moved to the Houston area two years ago because of a dream job scenario for my wife. What this state is capable of now and in the future, and my toddler-aged children having to grow up here, genuinely frightens me more than the perpetual threat of a hurricane wiping my house away or dying of heat exhaustion in a Whataburger parking lot.
You are a good man, Kyle! My spouse moved somewhere cold for me and years later it worked out to lead to HIS dream job so I hope you have the same luck.
Ha ha ha. He grew up in a cold place and I grew up in a hot place but he prefers nowhere cold, and had to give up a job in a nice temperate country doing what he loves and planned to do for life to live with me, where this job is impossible.
There were a lot of sacrifices he made in life. He gave up his whole trajectory and career. He has an absolutely awful job for years which could have been perfectly nice and enjoyable, but he worked with horrible people who made his life hell.
It actually took 8 years to find what he thought was his ideal job —then maybe 8 years after this he ended up becoming a private consultant doing what he loves, working from home, creating his own hours, making more money. It’s almost like he is paid to socialize, and talk about what he loves. It’s absolutely incredible. It’s crazy. We can’t believe it. It could all come crashing down someday but don’t give up hope!
Even knowing this is texas we're talking about, I'm kinda shocked by, if nothing else, the sheer audacity of it, the brazen self fuckery of these marble brained dipshits. I have to think they are all victims of some variety of brain eating parasite contracted while cornholing cows on the back forty.
To some degree it's already happening. At least regarding business. Many businesses have left Texas because of the stain it puts on their reputation. And many businesses that we're going to choose between Texas and another state have chosen the other state. But in a way I really wish they would secede. But they'd better the fuck not come begging for federal aid after the next hurricane decimates their state. I would love to be the motherfucker that just said no to them when they came begging
I fully understand this sentiment but I also have a really hard time with it. There are still good people in TX...I don't think they should be condemned along with the shitty people there.
Then they need to wake the fuck up and vote out the fascists. I say this as someone living in a red state myself. Collectively we will deserve what we get if we don't stand up to these fascists. I Know that there are more of us than there are of them Because if there weren't then the American experiment would have ended LONG ago. It's just that some of us are lazy Naval gazing disengaged citizens. Decent people Overall just not quite decent enough to pay fucking attention when so much is at stake. In other words I don't let myself or my state off the hook just because there are a lot of good people living here. I'm just sick to death of having to spend so much worry and attention on people who clearly don't fucking care enough to show up until the last minute. But we can't even count on them showing up then. It's so frustrating I almost have more respect for MAGA At least they are a known quantity and I can count them into the current math of where we stand come November. These coy opaque attention whores are drivin me NUTS!!!
Actually, no. People are free to leave the state or the nation, but they do not get to take the dirt with them. Love it or leave, but no one gets to take it.
I have a wise well-read friend who says, ‘Maybe it is time to just let the grass fire burn’ If Americans ‘think’ they want this then let them have it. The Civil War is then scheduled for 2028. Gives them time to pretend to enjoy, become disgruntled, regret and then become Left Wingers! Hahaha what goes around comes around
This won't happen. They have a domination and authoritarian outlook. It's baked in. Leftists are egalitarian. Rightists hate the weak. They're not going to change such a deep orientation merely because they are chumps who are being lied to.
They are also cowards that crawl back under the rocks they came from once the left is ascendant again. See "Germany 1946". The bluster goes away real fast when they are summarily crushed. If it takes violence to do that then I have no moral objection to it. My objection to violence at this point is a strategic objection not a moral one. Eventually if violence is strategically viable there may come a time that violence becomes a moral imperative.
This is an example of the difference between the two political parties.
With their open, giddy embrace of fascism, the Republicans are honestly dishonest about any claims to really care about anyone other than the racist super rich oligarchy ... or in Texas, the "oilygarchy".
Meanwhile, the Democrats are dishonestly dishonest with all their election season blather every two years about needs like healthcare, human rights, anti-war, climate action and living wages but then promptly go silent after the elections and do nothing to move any of the those issues into reality.
I respect the fact that Republicans are so shameless about their true nature that they lay it all out there for all to see, while the Democrats are completely dishonest about their true pro-corporate loyalties. Biden recently mumbled and burped to the graduating class at West Point about defending democracy while funding, arming and excusing the slaughter of innocents in Gaza and the West Bank.
So who is worse, Trump or Biden?
They're both corporate fascist turd balls and so are their parties.
"blather every two years about needs like healthcare, human rights, anti-war, climate action and living wages but then promptly go silent after the elections and do nothing to move any of the those issues into reality."
I just remember the Democratic party of not too long ago...totally feckless and useless...But here has been a MAJOR shift in party leadership in the past few years what with record breaking green initiatives and sustainable infrastructure legislation DESPITE garbage fires Manchin and Sinema ratfuking the complete package...And even Shawn Fain has said the the recent UAW strikes and wins were largely possible BECAUSE of having a POTUS that stands with unions and labor...The genocide in Gaza is the one major thorn in Biden's side but it bears mentioning that the US has been in an unholy relationship with israel since it's inception in 1947...Biden was NEVER going to go off script once this crisis opened up, which will be true of EVERY POTUS, republican OR democrat in the foreseeable future...Only a fool would have expected any other reaction from Biden...
The public face of the party has shifted from the Schumers, Pelosis and Durbans to the Raskins, AOCs, Crockett's...True power begins with PR and that is changing DRASTICALLY as it HAD to to run counter to the literal fascist coup that the centrists dems still haven't wrapped their heads around
Well the brutal truth is Biden and the Democrats could fulfill the progressive shopping list and provide quality single health plans, raise the minimum wage to a livable wage, reign in Wall Street etc and it would all be erased by continued arming, funding and excusing genocide. I mean, hell, Hitler built the Autobahn, put people back to work, rebuilt industry etc, but all of that was overshadowed and erased by genocide. As long as Biden and the Democrats -- hell a bunch of them just joined with the GOP in condemning the International Criminal Court -- actively follow orders from the Israelis and Zionist big money donors, nothing they do on any other matter outweighs that evil.
When it comes to decency and basic human rights, and the profiting off war, there is NO difference between the parties ... it's just a corporate uniparty and I won't vote for or support either.
The Nation magazine sent out a bookmark with a promotion recently featuring a quote from FDR:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Imagine -- just IMAGINE -- if the Democrats SINCERELY took such a stance. They wouldn't have to resort to all the silly "Ugly Orange Man Danger To Democracy" bullshit.
But will they? Nope. They are owned by the same oligarchs and big-money Zionists as Trump.
It’s true. I believe they should truly be the opposition, as FDR was. However, I don’t think they are deceiving us. We know they aren’t that.
At least PART of the problem is the state is in competition with capital just as it was in FDRs time, and the state has become very weak. There are complicated reasons for it. To some extent it was the result of shortsighted choices by different politicians. To some extent, it might be that the state was ALWAYS weaker and the great depression was just a fluke that weakened capital enough to give someone like FDR the power to tame it, slightly. Even for him, it wasn’t easy. There was a plot to kill him. It’s always an enormous struggle.
Of course, it’s very complicated. It IS hard to see the stupidity around many political things and not get very frustrated —but we just have to do as much as we can, on the ground, to defend the people. There’s no magic bullet available to us. This struggle is an ongoing thing.
Yes, but compare the success of the far right in taking over the GOP and getting most of their shopping list of legislative goals. Compare that to the "supposed" shopping list of the Dems, whose difference from the GOP is measured in subtle shading.
FDR and Dems of that era knew how to fight and while far from perfect, improved things dramatically for working and middle class families.
Count up the times today's Dems even mention FDR and what was achieved. The guy won four times despite being outspent 10-to1. The fact the Dems NEVER call upon the FDR memory and legacy tells you everything you need to know about today's Dems: they are the people and corrupt corporate forces FDR fought against.
True. The oligarchs know their audience and the audience knows who is handing out the free tickets ... champagne ... concert tickets ... post-congress 'consulting' gigs ...and hush-hush weekend flings.
I grew up in San Antonio, and can tell you that the Democrats who ran things until the 1970s were every bit as bonkers as the Republicans now. In fact, most of them became Republicans when Reagan came along. Look up Dolph Briscoe and Bill Clayton sometime.
The Texas Legislature has always been a clown show. Now, the Texas Democratic Party is so lame--Beto O'Rourke? Seriously?--I can't blame anyone for refusing to vote for them.
I'm not too worried about Texas. When Texans have had enough, they'll do something about it.
"the Democrats who ran things until the 1970s were every bit as bonkers as the Republicans now."
Textbook example of the wedge strategy that started in the mid 60s. The Democrats of Texas in the 60s and 70s were the Democrats of the slaveholding south. It doesn't even count considering that they all became Republicans
It is like the 1971 Lewis Powell Memo and the 1975 Trilateral Commission "The Crisis of Democracy" documents going main stream into a party platform with some crazy layered on.
Re: abolishing The Federal Reserve though; shouldn't Leftists be sympathetic to that one point? Don't we want to nationalize the banks and make them more democratic institutions? As I understand The Fed is a privately owned central bank with basically no democratic control. It is an institution that elite conservative oligarchs would actually like to keep; therefore it is very strange to see 'end The Fed' included in a Republican platform. I interpret it as a superficial placation to the growing populist wing of the party with no actual action intended in that direction. A state doesn't have any power over the Fed anyways.
Please share far and wide! Progressives should avoid Texas and the Deep South!!! If you are one of the millions who have fled to Texas in the last five years, leave now or the Nazis will get you!!! Eeek!
I don't live in the US. Is this a joke?
This is my favorite comment.
Thanks Hamilton. Good luck to you all and be safe.
No, just another day in 'Merica.
How I envy you, you've never met a Texan.
I have actually and in Texas. I lived in the US for 23yrs...too long.
Considering the number of left-leaning bloggers dumping on this today, nope, not a joke.
Take it from a Texan, no, this is not a joke.
"We adamantly oppose riots, encampments, and other activities intended to destroy property or endanger the safety of students and staff"
"we oppose the concept that the state is sovereign over the affairs of men, the family, or the church."
"any failing thereof authorizes the Governor of this State or the Legislature to declare an invasion, which shall be met with the full force of this State."
"Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto."
Texas: We Like The Constitution, Until We Don't, Not That We Have Read It Anyway, Shut Up.
I see their understanding of Vision Zero is as sound as their understanding of critical race theory.
Old Dwight was half right anyway:
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Have you been hacked?
My family and I moved to the Houston area two years ago because of a dream job scenario for my wife. What this state is capable of now and in the future, and my toddler-aged children having to grow up here, genuinely frightens me more than the perpetual threat of a hurricane wiping my house away or dying of heat exhaustion in a Whataburger parking lot.
There is no "dream job scenario" that includes Houston, TX. I firmly and unequivocally believe this.
As much as I don't enjoy it here, I promise it is a dream scenario for her. Long story, but it's not just a money thing.
You are a good man, Kyle! My spouse moved somewhere cold for me and years later it worked out to lead to HIS dream job so I hope you have the same luck.
I genuinely miss the cold!
Thank you. It hasn’t been an easy transition for me but who knows what could happen in the future.
Ha ha ha. He grew up in a cold place and I grew up in a hot place but he prefers nowhere cold, and had to give up a job in a nice temperate country doing what he loves and planned to do for life to live with me, where this job is impossible.
There were a lot of sacrifices he made in life. He gave up his whole trajectory and career. He has an absolutely awful job for years which could have been perfectly nice and enjoyable, but he worked with horrible people who made his life hell.
It actually took 8 years to find what he thought was his ideal job —then maybe 8 years after this he ended up becoming a private consultant doing what he loves, working from home, creating his own hours, making more money. It’s almost like he is paid to socialize, and talk about what he loves. It’s absolutely incredible. It’s crazy. We can’t believe it. It could all come crashing down someday but don’t give up hope!
Even knowing this is texas we're talking about, I'm kinda shocked by, if nothing else, the sheer audacity of it, the brazen self fuckery of these marble brained dipshits. I have to think they are all victims of some variety of brain eating parasite contracted while cornholing cows on the back forty.
The people supporting this shouldn't be allowed to live in any other state of the union. They should have to live in their own shit and filth
What's to stop the (relatively sane) states from severing all ties with Texas?
To some degree it's already happening. At least regarding business. Many businesses have left Texas because of the stain it puts on their reputation. And many businesses that we're going to choose between Texas and another state have chosen the other state. But in a way I really wish they would secede. But they'd better the fuck not come begging for federal aid after the next hurricane decimates their state. I would love to be the motherfucker that just said no to them when they came begging
I fully understand this sentiment but I also have a really hard time with it. There are still good people in TX...I don't think they should be condemned along with the shitty people there.
Then they need to wake the fuck up and vote out the fascists. I say this as someone living in a red state myself. Collectively we will deserve what we get if we don't stand up to these fascists. I Know that there are more of us than there are of them Because if there weren't then the American experiment would have ended LONG ago. It's just that some of us are lazy Naval gazing disengaged citizens. Decent people Overall just not quite decent enough to pay fucking attention when so much is at stake. In other words I don't let myself or my state off the hook just because there are a lot of good people living here. I'm just sick to death of having to spend so much worry and attention on people who clearly don't fucking care enough to show up until the last minute. But we can't even count on them showing up then. It's so frustrating I almost have more respect for MAGA At least they are a known quantity and I can count them into the current math of where we stand come November. These coy opaque attention whores are drivin me NUTS!!!
Yeah that's all definitely fair...I feel like I'm losing my mind myself!
Where is Molly Ivins when you need her?
/Stares at screen
//Stares at screen longer
Fuck!
Why secede? Just find another planet to live on and soon - you’re already there mentally.
I would think 'seceding' would be appropriate.
Actually, no. People are free to leave the state or the nation, but they do not get to take the dirt with them. Love it or leave, but no one gets to take it.
I have a wise well-read friend who says, ‘Maybe it is time to just let the grass fire burn’ If Americans ‘think’ they want this then let them have it. The Civil War is then scheduled for 2028. Gives them time to pretend to enjoy, become disgruntled, regret and then become Left Wingers! Hahaha what goes around comes around
This won't happen. They have a domination and authoritarian outlook. It's baked in. Leftists are egalitarian. Rightists hate the weak. They're not going to change such a deep orientation merely because they are chumps who are being lied to.
They are also cowards that crawl back under the rocks they came from once the left is ascendant again. See "Germany 1946". The bluster goes away real fast when they are summarily crushed. If it takes violence to do that then I have no moral objection to it. My objection to violence at this point is a strategic objection not a moral one. Eventually if violence is strategically viable there may come a time that violence becomes a moral imperative.
This is an example of the difference between the two political parties.
With their open, giddy embrace of fascism, the Republicans are honestly dishonest about any claims to really care about anyone other than the racist super rich oligarchy ... or in Texas, the "oilygarchy".
Meanwhile, the Democrats are dishonestly dishonest with all their election season blather every two years about needs like healthcare, human rights, anti-war, climate action and living wages but then promptly go silent after the elections and do nothing to move any of the those issues into reality.
I respect the fact that Republicans are so shameless about their true nature that they lay it all out there for all to see, while the Democrats are completely dishonest about their true pro-corporate loyalties. Biden recently mumbled and burped to the graduating class at West Point about defending democracy while funding, arming and excusing the slaughter of innocents in Gaza and the West Bank.
So who is worse, Trump or Biden?
They're both corporate fascist turd balls and so are their parties.
"blather every two years about needs like healthcare, human rights, anti-war, climate action and living wages but then promptly go silent after the elections and do nothing to move any of the those issues into reality."
Ummmm. Where you been dude?
Actively observing the reality of American uniparty politics.
You?
I just remember the Democratic party of not too long ago...totally feckless and useless...But here has been a MAJOR shift in party leadership in the past few years what with record breaking green initiatives and sustainable infrastructure legislation DESPITE garbage fires Manchin and Sinema ratfuking the complete package...And even Shawn Fain has said the the recent UAW strikes and wins were largely possible BECAUSE of having a POTUS that stands with unions and labor...The genocide in Gaza is the one major thorn in Biden's side but it bears mentioning that the US has been in an unholy relationship with israel since it's inception in 1947...Biden was NEVER going to go off script once this crisis opened up, which will be true of EVERY POTUS, republican OR democrat in the foreseeable future...Only a fool would have expected any other reaction from Biden...
The public face of the party has shifted from the Schumers, Pelosis and Durbans to the Raskins, AOCs, Crockett's...True power begins with PR and that is changing DRASTICALLY as it HAD to to run counter to the literal fascist coup that the centrists dems still haven't wrapped their heads around
Well the brutal truth is Biden and the Democrats could fulfill the progressive shopping list and provide quality single health plans, raise the minimum wage to a livable wage, reign in Wall Street etc and it would all be erased by continued arming, funding and excusing genocide. I mean, hell, Hitler built the Autobahn, put people back to work, rebuilt industry etc, but all of that was overshadowed and erased by genocide. As long as Biden and the Democrats -- hell a bunch of them just joined with the GOP in condemning the International Criminal Court -- actively follow orders from the Israelis and Zionist big money donors, nothing they do on any other matter outweighs that evil.
When it comes to decency and basic human rights, and the profiting off war, there is NO difference between the parties ... it's just a corporate uniparty and I won't vote for or support either.
I always know what I am getting with the Democrats--do they ever say they are in opposition to the corporations?
I never hear them claim to oppose corporations. Rather, they hold the government still has some power to regulate corporations. They do regulate them.
I believe they have the wrong priorities a lot of the time, but I don't think they ever deceived me--they're openly pro-business.
The Nation magazine sent out a bookmark with a promotion recently featuring a quote from FDR:
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
Imagine -- just IMAGINE -- if the Democrats SINCERELY took such a stance. They wouldn't have to resort to all the silly "Ugly Orange Man Danger To Democracy" bullshit.
But will they? Nope. They are owned by the same oligarchs and big-money Zionists as Trump.
It’s true. I believe they should truly be the opposition, as FDR was. However, I don’t think they are deceiving us. We know they aren’t that.
At least PART of the problem is the state is in competition with capital just as it was in FDRs time, and the state has become very weak. There are complicated reasons for it. To some extent it was the result of shortsighted choices by different politicians. To some extent, it might be that the state was ALWAYS weaker and the great depression was just a fluke that weakened capital enough to give someone like FDR the power to tame it, slightly. Even for him, it wasn’t easy. There was a plot to kill him. It’s always an enormous struggle.
Of course, it’s very complicated. It IS hard to see the stupidity around many political things and not get very frustrated —but we just have to do as much as we can, on the ground, to defend the people. There’s no magic bullet available to us. This struggle is an ongoing thing.
Yes, but compare the success of the far right in taking over the GOP and getting most of their shopping list of legislative goals. Compare that to the "supposed" shopping list of the Dems, whose difference from the GOP is measured in subtle shading.
FDR and Dems of that era knew how to fight and while far from perfect, improved things dramatically for working and middle class families.
Count up the times today's Dems even mention FDR and what was achieved. The guy won four times despite being outspent 10-to1. The fact the Dems NEVER call upon the FDR memory and legacy tells you everything you need to know about today's Dems: they are the people and corrupt corporate forces FDR fought against.
Obviously, it’s much easier if you are simply catering directly to oligarchs.
None of their legislative goals bother power even slightly.
True. The oligarchs know their audience and the audience knows who is handing out the free tickets ... champagne ... concert tickets ... post-congress 'consulting' gigs ...and hush-hush weekend flings.
All of them together, a disgusting lot.
Lol at this white guy wankery
I grew up in San Antonio, and can tell you that the Democrats who ran things until the 1970s were every bit as bonkers as the Republicans now. In fact, most of them became Republicans when Reagan came along. Look up Dolph Briscoe and Bill Clayton sometime.
The Texas Legislature has always been a clown show. Now, the Texas Democratic Party is so lame--Beto O'Rourke? Seriously?--I can't blame anyone for refusing to vote for them.
I'm not too worried about Texas. When Texans have had enough, they'll do something about it.
"the Democrats who ran things until the 1970s were every bit as bonkers as the Republicans now."
Textbook example of the wedge strategy that started in the mid 60s. The Democrats of Texas in the 60s and 70s were the Democrats of the slaveholding south. It doesn't even count considering that they all became Republicans
Most of those items seem obvious and very based. Was this post meant sarcastically or as a satire of Democrats?
It is like the 1971 Lewis Powell Memo and the 1975 Trilateral Commission "The Crisis of Democracy" documents going main stream into a party platform with some crazy layered on.
Re: abolishing The Federal Reserve though; shouldn't Leftists be sympathetic to that one point? Don't we want to nationalize the banks and make them more democratic institutions? As I understand The Fed is a privately owned central bank with basically no democratic control. It is an institution that elite conservative oligarchs would actually like to keep; therefore it is very strange to see 'end The Fed' included in a Republican platform. I interpret it as a superficial placation to the growing populist wing of the party with no actual action intended in that direction. A state doesn't have any power over the Fed anyways.
Please share far and wide! Progressives should avoid Texas and the Deep South!!! If you are one of the millions who have fled to Texas in the last five years, leave now or the Nazis will get you!!! Eeek!
Fuck the USA.
Only state to secede from two countries to keep slavery. Gotta hand it to em.*
* You do not under any circumstances 'gotta hand it to em'
I can't tell if you are joking or your password was stolen
I am confused...