Blogger Michelle H. Davis watched the Texas GOP convention so others wouldn’t have to. What happens there tends to leech into the national GOP, at least its most extreme elements. This is part 2 of her coverage.
She writes:
We’re on day four of the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) 2024 Convention, and it hasn’t gotten any less deranged. Today, the General Session began and featured speeches from Dan Patrick, Ken Paxton, Sid Miller, and your regular cast of degenerates. If you’re interested in watching, you can find it here.
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick chose to spend his time on stage licking Trump’s boots. He told the audience how he went to New York to show his allegiance to Mango Mussolini during his criminal trial and complained about how rundown the courthouse was. He shouted on stage that Trump was innocent, and there were no facts or evidence showing otherwise.
Baltimore-Dan also spoke heavily about the legislative process and how he changed the Senate rules to ensure Democrats had no voice. Then, he claimed that any bills from the House and a majority of Democrats voting on them would wind up in the trash. Because who cares about what’s doing best for Texans? It’s all partisan politics for them.
One Republican woman is becoming famous for all the wrong reasons.
I posted this same video on Twitter, and it’s currently going viral. The video shows a Republican woman/precinct chair pushing back against the Republican’s “abolish abortion” plank and comparing the Republican Party of Texas to the Taliban. Near the end of the video, she’s confronted by two wombless men who seem to be disgusted with her position.
The GOP is obsessed with preventing abortion, no exceptions. Here is their language:
The legislative priorities committee gave an explanation for each one of their priorities, which you can see here. It’s important to point out what their reason is for the “abolish abortion” priority.
The Republicans plan on going after abortion pills and websites like Plan C Pills and Hey Jane. They also want the legislature to make laws to go after abortion clinics in other states legally. It’s important to note that their language in this explanation includes “the moment of fertilization.” That’s going to be their excuse to ban IVF and certain forms of birth control, perhaps all forms of birth control.
No exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother, or the ago of the female. A 10-year-old who was by her father must deliver the baby! A woman whose life is endangered must prepare to die!
The Republican Party of Texas’ 2024 platform is going to be bat-shit crazy.
I’m still watching the platform committee videos. The Texas GOP’s platform is just as nuts as it was in 2022, if not more. It’ll give content creators something to talk about for months. They will vote on the final platform tomorrow or Saturday. A political party’s platform is essential because it tells us what a party believes and works toward.
For example, the RPT’s platform calls for banning all forms of sex education in Texas, and they call for an end to any mental health counseling in public schools.
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Sometimes people use words like “Deranged” so frequently that we get used to it. Too used to it. But since our Sentry On The Wall Senses are on full alert. We know how very very dangerous these GOPee’s really are. This goes way beyond their Platform. Which is both a performance piece and a pathological PSA. Their deep evil flows somewhere underneath all of that. And that is exactly where our attention should remain.
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I use the word deranged frequently only because Trump so frequently comes up in conversation.
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The Gullible Old Party
There was an Old Woman who swallowed a horse,
but pugs can swallow much more, of course.
Democracy’s fading; can we retrieve it?
There’s nothing so crazy that pugs won’t believe it.
In Texas and elsewhere there is no relief
from crazy Republican fundy belief.
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Texas Tourism used to have an ad with the motto: “Texas. It’s like a whole ‘nother country!”
I have always been in favor of that, since it could lead to deportation.
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Build a wall!
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Insanity is infectious in a cult
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Trump, who used to brag about putting Justasses on the Extreme Court who would overturn Roe now is trying to distance himself from the antiabortion crowd. The evil, lying [rhymes with truck].
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They have to go for birth control now, since they got what they wanted with the overturning of Roe. The Republicans only win by demanding ever more extreme solutions to imagined problems. So when they win, they loose if they don’t get more extreme.
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