Texas Republicans go uber right wing

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Here's a link to the text of the platform on the Texas GOP's website.

Some highlights:

"We believe in self-sufficient families, founded on the traditional marriage of a natural man and a natural woman."

"We oppose all efforts to classify carbon dioxide as a pollutant."

"We oppose environmentalism that obstructs legitimate business interests and private property use, including the regulatory taking of property by government agencies."

"We support the defunding of 'climate justice' initiatives, the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the repeal of the Endangered Species Act."

"We believe the Minimum Wage Act should be repealed."

"We oppose all efforts to regulate the internet in the United States or internationally."
Then, literally the very next point:
"[We] call on our Congressional Delegation to push for
reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to limit the ability of online social media platforms to censor the speech of citizens in the new digital town square which they control."
(Regulating the internet is evil! Anyway, it is important we regulate the internet by doing this.)

"Government should not be able to force businesses to require face coverings."

"We support a change to the 14th Amendment . . . [to grant] citizenship only to those who have at least one biological parent who is a US citizen."

"We support the affirmation of traditional Judeo-Christian family values and oppose the continued assault on those values."

"We call for the eventual abolishment of Child Protective Services."

"We demand the State Legislature pass a law prohibiting the teaching of sex education, sexual health, or sexual choice or identity in any public school or grade level whatsoever. . ."

"The official position of Texas schools shall be that there are two genders. . . We oppose transgender curriculum and pronoun use."

"English, and only English, shall appear on any ballot in any election in the United States and the State of Texas."

Both sides! Both sides, guys!

I use one of them new fangled weather sticks.
https://www.farmersalmanac.com/how-do-w ... work-21769

Humidity levels at most can tell you there is a greater chance of bad weather. It can not tell you what type or how bad the weather will be. It can not “predict” beyond the short term.

A weather stick would catch on fire in the Texas heat anyhow.
They will need to do it the old fashioned way, how dark is the bull frogs skin or if the ants are banking up soil around their nests, are the leaves turning their undersides up,are the spiders packing their webs up etc…
There is one that is never wrong,
All signs fail during a drought.

Well, it would be incredibly stupid, bad for environmental efforts, bad for working class people, women, poc, and lgtbtq+s.
It will open up the place for polluting industry, tax evasion, and hey, texas can have its own stock exchange.
So it would be great for some people who already are billionaires.


So my guess is this will happen, it's as unlikely as Brexit, but the if there's enough prospect of profit, there will be invesent in the project.
I heard Elon "free speech" Musk is a Texan now - it will be interesting how twitter will handle the disinformation campaigns.
What a time to be alive!

I don’t like rednecks (the present-day definition) all that much.

But I don’t believe most are into lynching.

The more the central power moves away from the culture & views of the regions the more likely succession of those areas. We saw this in Ukraine in 2014 & Spain with Catalonia.

The most relevant is the UK. When Tony Blair came to power in 1997 he created a Scottish / Welsh Parliament, the independence movements back then in those regions were marginalised and not a big movement.

Over the following two decades all investment in the UK went to the south and hardly anything to the regions. Now depending on what poll you listen to about half of Scottish people now want independence and the Independence party there in the parliament -The Scottish Nationalist Party is the largest & most popular. In Wales its a bit less but the Independence seeking Welsh Nationalist Party are still one of the largest & most popular in wales.

Meanwhile in N Ireland the once banned United Ireland Independence seeking party Sinn Fein is the largest in power after winning an election a few weeks ago.

Its not an over exaggeration to state the UK in its present form is unlikely to exist in a few years, in fact its no 1 in the world right now for most likely to break up peacefully.