Corruption is a core trait of a conservative politician. Condemning him for corruption would have been the same as condemning him for being a conservative.
Everyone in Texas that I know is furious about this (except for my dad, who stuck his head in the sand at about the same time my parents ended their physical subscription to the Dallas Morning News; he insists that both parties bad, though I can’t imagine he actually still believes that, I think he’s just coping). However we’re too locked into the republican party at this point to really be able to do anything. Thanks to federal judges for ruling that gerrymandering is legal when it only affects party voters, our districts are fucked.
The Republicans have realized that our laws, our constitution and it’s amendments, and our treaties, are all just pieces of paper. They archive historical agreements which we’ve decided to abide by, but they have no power themselves. As such, they stop being a problem if you just ignore them.
Sadly nature gets to vote on the future of Texas, and while I’m sure Jerrell can be enshrined as the F5 limit in Texas law, how does San Antonio sound as a counter offer.
We've got a pretty bad Nazi problem here in Austin, too. The fuckers keep putting up their racist stickers around parks where children play. Abso-fucking-lutely disgusting.
The mosquitos in portland are delightful. I lived there in high school and had one land on me, look around a bit, and fly off. I didn’t have the heart to kill it.
historic to no one but the clown circus that is the texas legislature. seriously people look it up, the rules are bonkers. im surprised entire state functions as 'well' as it does.
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