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The state is making a list of transgender Texans. It’s using driver’s licenses to help
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When martial law is declared in October, they will be rounded up. Get out of Texas while you still can.
Texas elections are far too locked down for this shit to matter. Look at the municipal results in 2025. Virginia was +15 D. New Jersey was +12 D. The Texas ballot initiatives were - if anything - more conservative than expected. The anti-bail, anti-tax, and anti-transgender measures passed in a landslide.
Anyone predicting a Blue Wave in 2026 for the Gulf Coast is just setting themselves up for another round of Beto O'Rourke sponsored disappointment. Abbott and his cronies are simply too good at bulk disenfranchisement, voter intimidation, and fear-mongering mass media campaigns.
Why would anyone live in Texas to begin with?
It's too hot most of the year. God's retribution for being assholes in that nature sets up the scorchiest weather in the country there, as the "global warming" that the Texas government ignores, settles in.
Fuck that place. Get out and head towards the coastal states.
The weather and the people are nicer.
Good jobs, cheap houses.
Just don't be "alternative", do go to church, look conformist and white, have 2.5 children and you'll be fine.
Blecch.
"Why can't we flip red states?"
Obedience and ignorance is just so ingrained in their culture.
I remember driving through Houston and seeing billboards for Joel Osteen and ones saying that The Epoch Times is the most reliable news.
Buccees not only exists, but uses styrofoam cups still.
It's a different world, man.
I mean, most of the billboards in Houston are just ads for plaintiffs attorneys doing truck wreck cases. It isn't as though we took a popular vote on Joel Osteen. I've actually been to one of his services and its amazing how empty that stadium is when its not Christmas. Besides, Osteen's a self-help guru on the liberal end of the American political spectrum. He's preaching business friendly egalitarianism, where everyone's invited to put money in the collection plate. I only wish Houston was fully Osteen pilled. He's the MLP of Texas Evangelicals.
If you want the fire-breathing fascist preacher, go down to Second Baptist Church on Woodway Drive and listen to Ed Young's son spit froth into the mic as he denounces everything from Transgender Athletics to Muslim Illegals to Pokemon Cards. You can shoulder up in between the Cruz clan and Ole Eyepatch Crewnshaw as Texas's O&G tycoons compete to write the Youngs an indulgence check big enough to guarantee them Hummers in Heaven.
You'll find the same shit out in California or New York, just in different proportions. Gavin Newsom and Kristen Gillibrand are no less evil than Greg Abbott and John Cornyn. They just ptich for a different team.
Yaah, the teams are nowhere near the same on actual social justice and expanding rights for the public.
Abbot and Cornyn and their side are somewhat retrograde in that aspect. Oh, for it to be 1957 again, when women and minorities knew their "place".. right?
Pffft!
This line is repeated as nauseum as civil liberties are chipped away, year in and year out.
Conservatives make things worse. Liberals throw up their hands helplessly when they have the chance to make things better.
But see? It's two different pieces to the same machine. If everyone in American simply agrees not to turn the ratchet...
Oh, no. You still get the Clinton Crime Bill, the Obama drone strikes, and the LBJ Vietnam War escalation...
We live in a Brave New World where MTG and Lauren Bohbert can fill the roles of Strom Thurmond and George Wallace.
Oh for sure the Democrats have gone closet fascist.. An American "liberal" politician is a centerist by EU standards.. but we have to work with the system and monkeywrench it as best we can until it breaks.
Just saying the two party system is rigged (Yeah, know that) offers no real solution. Saying "don't vote" is how we ended up in this place as too many sit out.
I for one can't wait until the current crop of Democrats - gastly old bats like Nancy Pelosi, and the Chuck Schumers of the party - leave. The party is tied as long as the voters keep re-electing fossils.
Thing is, I AM a registered Republican that voted straight Democratic ticket for the last three elections, and I stay on the GOP rolls to get the press for the new candidates locally. I'm seeing exactly ZERO new GOP candidates that offer anything of value to the public, I see more coming from the new wave of Democrats.
Yes, you are 1,000% correct on the point at the federal level. The issue is money in the big elections and until the push happens to overturn Citizen's United, things won't change.
Personally I've been agitating for a general boycott and consumer strike for years - which could really sting the government - but getting the conformist, consumerist public on board with that is unlikely to happen until there is no more middle class.
Go fuck yourself, both sidesing texas to any other fucking state.
You have to in order to round them up and set them on fire.
Forgive my lack of knowledge, but what happens in October that leads to martial law?
midterms
Ohhh. Using martial law to retain power into and through midterms. I get it. Thank you.
Right. The Republicans are concerned about a midterm flip. The Supreme Court recently casually mentioned Trump could the insurrection act. I think that he will try to play the martial law card regardless of using the insurrection act beforehand but… If he does use it, it’s a guarantee that he will declare martial law.
So, don’t be here in October at the latest.