My adopted state had been making news in a negative way as it often does. As the saying goes, Austin is a great city that’s unfortunately surrounded by Texas.
Anyway, all of the statewide offices are held by Republicans and Dixiecrats who didn’t get the news about how the (American) Civil War ended. Even if Biden didn’t take the lead in the initial vote counting here, the Jim Crow 2.0 laws were already in the works since gerrymandering isn’t enough. It’s so laughable to hear a Republican use the word “integrity” in any sentence. This is an adjective they haven’t been associated with since President Grant. Before you bring up the NeoConfederate Revisionism of him being a drunk, etc. Think again. That’s Southern bullshit to get even over him sending the Army to fight the KKK.
Back to the point.
The Democratic minority in the Texas House had no other recourse but to replay what they did in 2003 to slow down the GOP gerrymandering…they bailed to prevent a quorum and have the clock run out. Therefore, Gov. Shitbag will call a “special session” to push the Jim Crow bills again. It’s not enough to let every yahoo ammosexual have a gun without a license or minimal training. It’s not enough to sweep the 400+ deaths from the “free market” electric grid’s failure during Snowmageddon. It’s not enough to go back to the policy of pissing away millions to sue the Federal Gubmint because there’s a Democratic POTUS, again; there’s eight years we won’t get back. Nope, the brown people didn’t vote for their backward-ass agenda led by Girth Vader, a moron who makes St. Reagan and Dubious look brilliant. And when the brown people vote for the party who will try harder to help them, the Republicans (formerly Dixiecrats) find it easier to disenfranchise them instead of evolving with the majority.
For now, the regressive moves already made law in other states is on pause here. I can only hope the lawsuits in motion against Florida, Georgia and the rest of MAGAtLand make progress in dismantling their future steals. It’s pretty bold of them to continue the lie about 2020 being stolen when they used SCOTUS to succeed in stealing 2000.
We sadly have to depend upon the courts. The Democrats in Texas still haven’t found any candidates capable of defeating Shitbag, Lt. Gov. Cryptkeeper and the latest inbred Bush, the creepy stalker son of JEB has his sights on Attorney General. I for one will always bring up his family’s criminal past. The stalker charges which got conveniently dropped, his junkie sister and his rapist younger brother. Come 2022, the gloves come off.