And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[frankfrank]

Abbot is such a fucking venal liar. He blames mental health but won't even push for absolutely basic mental care to be covered by insurance.

The fact is they don't care about dead children, they care about cash.

Just responded to this in #1380, but it came up again...and anything contributing to better mental health care in this country has been barren, underfunded, and relatively primitive in this country! I am EXTREMELY fortunate that I got SPLENDID mental health care when I needed it, especially considering that was 1960-61 when, by and large, such care was almost universally barbaric, and most mental institutions were Snake Pits.

who can forget that creepy fuck?

Hmmmm - VERY interesting that he would mention "13" years old so SPECIFICALLY. Is he telling us that NAMBLA is wonderful, and that he's banging a 13-year-old boy? I think so.

As someone appropriately posted. . .is he going after Hooters next?

They'll actually give Hooters a tax break from the state, if Hooters begins selling guns in addition to having those scantily-dressed woman to Titillate the gonads of white heterosexual Christian Republican men. (Wanna bet that a scientific survey at Hooter's would find relatively few Democrats/liberals? That whole place is set up to appeal to "rednecks.")

Interesting that the word TITillate exists with its meaning, considering that I'm sure the word TIT doesn't in any way come from the same etymological roots. Now I piqued my own curiosity enough to go check, lol.

^^ As the summer progresses toward the November election, we are going to see more and more Brownshirt violence directed at minorities, and anyone who does not support the Fascist takeover agenda. The fall of Roe v Wade will justify, in their minds, that violence works. If the [STRIKE]republicans[/STRIKE] fascists take over Congress, the Brownshirts will effectively have been given "permission" and will organize further into more cohesive, violent, and dangerous paramilitary units. Legislative insurrections are already taking place in 28 states in the form of voter suppression and vote nullification. The same Nazi deception patterns as occurred in Germany in the 1930s, are happening here. The next two years will be the planning and propaganda ramp-up to the next insurrection and coup, whether that coup be done through vote manipulation without firing a shot, or another violent Capital attack if the Nazi party loses.

The Fascist Apocalypse has already begun...but most people ignore it, just like they did in Germany.

I've been saying, since the 2020 election results, that "we" are probably fucked in 2025. I've been saying that year in particular, because the fourth (out of the four) pillars will have fallen with a Republican president in charge. President, both chambers of Congress, Supreme Court. I knew well before 2020 that they would be rigging elections entirely before then, as soon as I started seeing Voter ID laws being passed and then some of those states "conveniently" closing DMV's (and similar places to get photo ID's) especially in black counties making it much harder for those very people to GET the required ID's. (Alabama comes to mind quickly.)

I hate the fact that there are so many people dear to me in the Southern USA, but the best thing that could ever happen would be to have a mass secession again like a little over a sesquicentennial ago - THAT, SOMEHOW, ENDS UP BEING BLOODLESS. Fat chance. Slim chance. Why do both mean the SAME thing?

Were all the marches, the deaths and injuries on the Pettis Bridge, the sit-ins, etc. IN VAIN?

 

[cityboy-stl]

...and just in case anyone was still under any illusions.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=1dd50292f20e4da39dbc78f4bbcf8603

Save yourselves. Get involved NOW!

So apparently Texas Fascists have quite a bit on their agenda in addition to not recognizing the President and being gay is abnormal.
I'm surprised they aren't calling for putting a swastika on the state flag.

https://sheilakennedy.net/2022/06/republicans-do-have-an-agenda/

Formatted for readability

Delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”;

requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization;

treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”;

locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9;

getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes;

abolishing the Federal Reserve;

rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment;

returning Christianity to schools and government;

ending all gun safety measures;

abolishing the Department of Education;

arming teachers;

requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”;

defending capital punishment;

dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered;

protecting Confederate monuments;

ending gay marriage;

withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization;

calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”

 

[rareboy]

I think it would be a blessing if Texas left the union. Florida too.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I think it would be a blessing if Texas left the union. Florida too.

If they secede, it's going to be funny watching them when they suddenly realize they are no longer U.S. citizens and their passports are invalid, and now they need a Texas passport to travel anywhere outside of Texas...like Oklahoma. They're idiots.

 

[gsdx]

If they secede, it's going to be funny watching them when they suddenly realize they are no longer U.S. citizens and their passports are invalid, and now they need a Texas passport to travel anywhere outside of Texas...like Oklahoma. They're idiots.

I remember years ago when Quebec wanted to separate from Canada, they wanted to keep Canadian money, Canadian postage stamps, Canadian passports, etc. etc. Canada said 'No'.

I wonder what Texans will think when the US disconnects them from the grid on the day they pack their bags? No electricity, no money, no postal service, no passports...

Let the games begin!!

 

[TX-Beau]

If they secede, it's going to be funny watching them when they suddenly realize they are no longer U.S. citizens and their passports are invalid, and now they need a Texas passport to travel anywhere outside of Texas...like Oklahoma. They're idiots.

Our Lord and Master ExxonMobil will NEVER let that happen. There is zero chance of secession. Zero.

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I think it would be a blessing if Texas left the union. Florida too.

Florida is not going anywhere either.

 

[TX-Beau]

And they care about fetuses, but of course it's OK for children to be slaughtered, because they've been born.

Pro-lifers care from fertilization to birth, at which point they become entirely expendable.

They don't give a shit about fetuses either, they care about punishing slutty whores who've left their God given masters without pie.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Do you think inciting, glorifying, condoning, normalizing, and accepted violence isn't the [STRIKE]republican[/STRIKE] fascist objective? Look at this ad from Eric Greitens in Missouri. This piece of shit is a psychopath, and he is leading in the polls, by the way. The thing is, all the nutso, wannabe, Brownshirt Nazis, are going to eat his shit up. He'll go up in the primary polls because of it, and this ad will have the effect he wants. They're already inflamed all over social media because of the ad.

Gun-wielding Greitens releases violent ad targeting other Republicans [STL Post-Dispatch]

We are sick and tired of the Republicans in Name Only surrendering to Joe Biden & the radical Left.

“Today, we’re going RINO hunting” "Join the MAGA crew, get a RINO hunting permit,” Greitens announces inside the smoke-filled house.
“There’s no bagging limit, no tagging limit, and it doesn’t expire until we save our country.”

He's literally inviting murder, and it won't stop at just "RINO's".

 

[KaraBulut]

...I wonder what Texans will think when the US disconnects them from the grid on the day they pack their bags? No electricity, no money, no postal service, no passports...

Let the games begin!!

Detail of interest...

Texas isn't on the US grid. Except for the western most edge of the State (adjacent to New Mexico), Texas is isolated on their own electrical grid. They didn't like Big Guv'ment coming in with regulations, so they said they'll try things on their own.

Didn't go so well last year.

Texas governor says ‘no one can guarantee’ there won’t be power outages in winter storm [WaPo]

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) said “no one can guarantee” there won’t be power outages in the state during a winter storm expected to hit a wide swath of the nation starting Wednesday, despite his promise months ago to the millions affected by last year’s freeze that the lights would stay on this year...

this week’s storm is not expected to be a repeat of the deadly freeze of 2021, the warnings are bringing back memories of what the state went through last February when freezing weather crippled Texas. At least 246 people died in what was one of the worst natural disasters in the state’s history, according to a Dec. 31 report from the Texas Department of State Health Services. Nearly two-thirds of the deaths attributed to the storm were due to hypothermia, data shows.

2022 Bum Steer of the Year: Greg Abbott [Texas Monthly]

...Big, substantive issues seemed to slide to the periphery, and in 2021 the chickens came home to roost. In his sixth year as governor—the twenty-sixth consecutive year his party has held the office—Texas, the energy capital of America, couldn’t even keep the lights on...

The rolling catastrophes started with the blackout in February, which is estimated to have killed hundreds of Texans. No other state that experienced the same blast of cold air was affected the way Texas was—our grid turned out to be uniquely fragile. Who was the responsible party? Two days into the crisis, Abbott took the time to appear on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show and blame renewable energy—a field in which Texas has been a leader, thanks in large part to his Republican predecessors—even though the blackout was caused mostly by problems with the distribution of natural gas. For his in-state audience, Abbott directed fire at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which oversees the grid. Accountability would be had, he vowed.

But Abbott handpicks the members of the Public Utilities Commission, which has oversight of ERCOT, and they’re not likely to stray far from his administration’s wishes. He, not ERCOT’s technicians, was ultimately responsible for the debacle. The governor and his appointees were quite familiar with the warnings, following a similar freeze and power interruption in 2011, that a failure of this type was likely. And they had done nothing to prepare us.

The storm provided some oil and gas executives with a windfall of biblical proportions—according to Bloomberg, more than $11 billion in five days...

 

[smokeshadow]

trying to have their cake and eat it too

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmoveme...ely-played-a-role-in-causing-the-jan-6-riots/

 

[TX-Beau]

Miss Maddy is a limp dick... er ... lame duck... at this point and can go hump all the cousins she wants.

The other two are pretty much just liars who thought the toad was going to get the blame, so they turned on him then they about faced when that was in the wind,

No honesty.

No ethics.

No spine.

I do hope Madge goes down for the fucking traitor she is.

 

[rareboy]

Kellyanne Conway.

Her book has been a MAJOR dud, selling a pitiful 42,273 books since it was published in late May.

Fucking pathetic POS.

 

[KaraBulut]

Kellyanne Conway.

Her book has been a MAJOR dud, selling a pitiful 42,273 books since it was published in late May.

Fucking pathetic POS.

And note that George Conway has been a visible pundit on CNN commenting on the Jan 6th hearings. That marriage may be over.

 

[TX-Beau]

And note that George Conway has been a visible pundit on CNN commenting on the Jan 6th hearings. That marriage may be over.

I figured that was more of a demonic possession.

Perhaps I'm just petty, but it was amusing when she got kneecapped online by her own daughter.

 

[TX-Beau]

The acting chairman of the Log Cabin Republicans of Texas resigned days after telling KXAN the state’s GOP convention was attended by a bunch of “crazy people.” The stinging rebuke of members of his own party came in response to a new state party platform that called homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice.”..

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=269c51afae0248b387792b3834f21dba

Black, Gay, Republican is shocked, Shocked, SHOCKED! That the trogs are vile racist homophobes!


Poor dear, she's so confused, but has "great" relationships with them.

 

[TX-Beau]

...Brooks, who was once a champion of Trump's post-2020 election fraud lies, slammed the former president for having "no loyalty" and not being a "man of his word." The lawmaker told Beavers that Trump won't do anything unless it "enhances his wallet or his ego..."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...sedgntp&cvid=881876bee0554205a23288f84dad9ac6


Little bit of sore anus there Mo?

AWWWWWW! Mo is low, and butt.......................hurt. Plus he knew all along what he was dealing with, and begged for the assfucking anyway.

Next time Mo, bring your own lube.

 

[cityboy-stl]

And note that George Conway has been a visible pundit on CNN commenting on the Jan 6th hearings. That marriage may be over.

I've been surprised to see Chris Wallace on the panel commenting on the hearings.

 

[rareboy]

 

[KaraBulut]

Thoughts and prayers for Lauren Boebert, who lost her lease.

Is It Last Call for Lauren Boebert’s Gun Restaurant? [Daily Beast]

As it stands, the landlord has told Boebert he will revoke the restaurant’s lease at the end of August, and send Shooters packing. The rest is up in the air.

Boebert told The Daily Beast that she and her husband, Jayson Boebert, had been surprised to receive the notice last week announcing that their lease would not be renewed. The building’s ownership changed hands last month, she said, and now Shooters would either have to find new digs or shut down for good.

But the day after that notice arrived, an anti-Boebert political group somehow got word that the timeline was even tighter than that—two weeks, the group said, putting the possible ouster just days before Republicans hit the polls for primary day.

Her employees hadn’t heard that yet, so Boebert scrambled to quash that rumor, which she characterized to The Daily Beast as rank misinformation. Still, the truth stood: The restaurant she and her husband founded eight years ago was on the brink of closing.

 

[KaraBulut]

Ginni Thomas' "best friend":

He means gay marriage, contraception...