Texas Tribune said:
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Texas gets dangerously close to going purple in 2020 so they try to change the laws to shut the Democrats out. Not even remotely surprised.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.”
And as someone who has sisters going to school here and may wanna get married and raise a family here, that scares me. I’ll forever vote against them to minimize their harm. Too much at stake not to
Just sucks that Republicans' goal is to make votes not matter.
lol well no state has a monopoly on far right Christian nationalism. Folk forget that California has more Republicans than any other state within the country. As someone who doesn’t wanna live in a country dominated by religion and cede even more power to the wealthy and powerful, like how my family’s country is, yeah, I kinda can’t just hold my nose and not vote
Yeah after a lifetime of feeling like it's not worth it to get involved the Trump years finally pushed both me and my dad over a tipping point and we both registered and have voted in every election since. Even the special off-season one where they tried to recall our governor for being too liberal (even though he's a massive corporatist who is actively working to remove state regulations on big businesses). People in the area still have signs up for the recall and promoting the candidates who ran against him, even though it's been three damn years.
Yeah, seeing Americans actually willing to vote for the likes of Trump and other anti-intellectual and cruel for cruel sakes candidates, I began to pay a bit more attention to whom is elected to office
I was actually visiting with a friend and her parents the other day, and her dad was telling me how baffled he is that while he's always considered himself a moderate conservative and although his viewpoints on things have not changed over the decades people are now telling him those same views make him a radical extreme-left socialist. It felt weird describing to a friend's parents the concept of the Overton window.
I get the feeling he has a fair shot. My dad likes him, which tells me he has a good chance at bridging the gap to the moderates, but I personally (perhaps realistically) would hope for a Democrat who's less corporate. I have friends who are gung-ho for AOC to run but I have doubts about her chances at winning, ironically for the exact reasons I like her.
It honestly is something else. Like I get called a liberal socialist (not a real thing) for not being anti-vax and and knowing that quality affordable education is one of the best ways to reduce poverty. These are all views I’ve always had, even when I was conservative as a teenagerI was actually visiting with a friend and her parents the other day, and her dad was telling me how baffled he is that while he's always considered himself a moderate conservative and although his viewpoints on things have not changed over the decades people are now telling him those same views make him a radical extreme-left socialist. It felt weird describing to a friend's parents the concept of the Overton window.
I like AOC but, yeah, America is too right wing for someone like her to have a proper shot. You kinda need someone who’s a little more moderate to win the general election, although it does help that the party has been getting pushed to the left over the past decade so that center has been slowly shifted
That’s a more than fair fear to have but I get the feeling that the reason why that’ll be hard to get through the primaries is that it’s not quite as appealing as the loud brash and idiotic ravings that Trump does. There’s a reason why no one else in the party seems to be able to replicate him. Not to say someone can’t but it’ll be tough and it’s honestly what prevents a more moderate presenting candidate from being their nominee. If it does happen, yeah, America will happily vote for them. I don’t have much faith in my countrymen
Considering that Trump thinks Elon is a scam artist and a joke, this is honestly hilarious
Trump probably thinks most people he works with are scam artists, it's just that he wants them to scam on his behalf
lol there is that. That might also be why he projects Democrats as being the true scammers, liars, etc. out thereTrump probably thinks most people he works with are scam artists, it's just that he wants them to scam on his behalf
Yep. If you aren't on his side then you're every type of bad because he's infallible. Had a boss like that for a while, he would compliment me in front of clients and coworkers and brag about my work, but then when he sold the business and opened a new one and I didn't follow him (most of us didn't actually), suddenly my work was shit and I was ignorant and was totally gonna be a failure, etc. As soon as I wasn't on his team anymore it was like a switch flipped and all the praise went away.
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To be fair, Democrats are also mostly scammers, liars, ect.
Oh in many ways they are but it’s never in the ways the far rights says they are. I mean, when you’re calling somewhat socially liberal neo-liberals far left communists…
I’ll never understand folk who are that fickle. I guess they just get deeply wounded at any perceived injustice
I’m hoping that the 2024 general election allows for enough seats to be flipped to prevent all thatI highly doubt it will happen, but I wish the Texas state Legislature would flip, just to screw over Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton's revenge tour, especially since Abbott is already doing a victory lap on school vouchers for the state after the primary runoffs on Tuesday.
But that's an out there wish with the best case scenario of Republicans losing enough seats to not get anything done.
Gov. Greg Abbott says he has enough votes after election to pass school voucher program
Gov. Greg Abbott says the state has enough votes to pass a controversial school voucher program he's been pushing for years after Tuesday's election swept out multiple lawmakers who opposed the policy last fall.
pretty sure he'll be able to bc the sentence was from a state which lets him vote as a felon
Sounds like the convention is changing venue
I doubt Trump will see the inside of a cell. He’s too rich for that and a former president. At most, assuming he isn’t re-elected, is maybe house arrest? Biden is the Democrat nominee, that’s more or less set at this point. We’re not seeing a new Democrat nominee till 2028
Nah, you’re thinking of voting. You can still run for president as a felon
Oh damn. That seems kind of backwards, honsetly
At least he can't vote for himself... in some states I think?
lol it is. In all honesty, I don’t think either should be prevented if you’re a felon, unless it’s very serious stuff, like murder or rape or messing with classified documents
Biden is the Democratic nominee. Nobody is going to oppose the incumbent at this point. Trump is unlikely to go to jail, but even if he did he can still run.
Felons should be allowed to vote. We’ve made it too easy to take away people’s right to vote. And preventing felon from being president would encourage presidents to lock up their rivals so they couldn’t run.
