I'm not even gonna bother to give a link. Find your favorite source, they are likely covering it.
I'm so tired.
Virgin Johnny Reb:
- drab grey uniform with no shoes
- pa's musket
- too poor to own slaves, but desperately wants to be seen as better than black people
- Getting cheated on back home by his cousin-girlfriend with a rich plantation heir
Chad Billy Yank:
- Immaculate blue uniform makes all the Southern Belle's swoon on campaign
- State of the art Remington repeater
- Family is part of the Underground Railroad
- Writes romantic love letters to the darling fiance faithfully awaiting his return
To be fair, that's pretty standard Texas GOP "policy", this isn't the first time they've suggested secession. I'm much more concerned about feeling the need to state "homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice". Kids pretty much anywhere on the gender-fluid spectrum are already being denied healthcare by the state of Texas. Talking about or acknowledging the existence of homosexuality is now pedo-grooming, and don't worry, we're working on our own "Don't say gay" law. I'm gonna say gay a LOT more, I think. Like out in public, loudly telling a story to a friend over dinner: Off-topic (the five-minute attempt at comedy was super relevant) but some of this shit dropping in the J6 hearings is both almost beyond belief and entirely predictable. The best is Trump still routinely performing witness intimidation and defamation of the people testifying to Congress. Even better, at an evangelical political event last weekend, Trump said that he's considering pardons for anyone implicated in his J6 scheme once he's prez again. There's no way DoJ would suffer an acquittal on prosecutions of some of the higher-ups trying to overturn the election, but I doubt they get many sentencings done before January, 2025. And then, sorry, but anyone who thinks there is a world that Trump doesn't somehow get himself installed back into the White House is delusional. The "alarmism" is appropriate. He'll do anything. He's currently doing quite a bit of it. Meanwhile: "We, the select committee, opted not to subpoena the president or vice president because we have testimony from their close aides." Fuck that, ya shoulda hauled Trump-Pence in for a live hearing and made them plead the fifth under oath a hundred times. I'm sure the GOP-led congress makes all kinds of folks testify live on TV about Hunter's laptop or whatever in like 3 years. Nazi punks, all of them. A huge portion of America. Nazi punks. Fuck off."So there was this gay guy, aaaaand.. he was gay. Lived with and married to another dude. The other guy, obviously, also gay, because he's married to the first guy, right? So these two gay guys... and, remember, both are gay... they don't really like women, and that's probably my #1 personality trait, is really liking to only GO FOR IT with women. So it's just, gay people, well, gay guys, it's gonna be tough to connect. But lesbians? I like to go to gay clubs, and pull up porn on my phone to share with the lesbians on their way out of the restroom. Works every time. But anyway. The gay guys, now, they're also at the club, which is gay, that is.... I mean to say, a gay club. I think, actually, they're not there looking for other guys (other gay guys, I mean), because they're married. In a gay marriage. At the bar, I walked up and asked them if they were gay, and they said 'yep'. I said 'Both of you, gay?', and they said 'yep'. They were gay, and they told me so. I ran off right after that, but I imagine both of the guys, the gay guys, they're still out there somewhere. Still gay. Probably gay married, still, too. Two gay dudes. So."
Texas secessionism was, indeed, something we viewed with dreary regularity at least as far back as the '80s. We're talking a Texas that prided itself on being the setting of Dallas, that elected Ann Richards governor - if you are Texan, you have a truck, and you like to go skiing, you will tell anyone and everyone that the Republic of Texas is ready to go it alone at the drop of a hat and you have done since the invasion of Grenada or before. The difference now is every news source is at "ZOMG THEY MIGHT DO IT" because while we have to be fair and balanced, and also teach the controversy, and both-sides every issue, we're also scared to fucking death of crazy right-wing republicans. I, myself, grow more sanguine every day. It has become apparent to me that the J6 committee intends to slow-walk the country through the entire affair, get all the juicy shit in unimpeachable public testimony, and then let the AG wrap it up with whatever is polling the best. The country at large is pretty firmly at "let's not do this again." 60% of Americans polled want to see Trump charged with a crime. That's an important distinction - that doesn't mean 40% think he's innocent, that means that 40% want to move on, at a bare minimum. Raffensberger said an interesting thing yesterday: he pointed out that at the end of the day, 30,000 more people voted for Republican senatorial candidates than for Republican presidential candidates. That's a small city's worth of Republicans - in GEORGIA - that couldn't hold their noses long enough to vote the party line. And the party line was short and unequivocal: Out here in normie world things are really clear: you're for democracy or you're for fascism. Us left-wingers have known shades of this since Reagan or before but much of the country is pretty much at holy-shit-Hitler. I think it's much muddier in the party: I doubt Liz Cheney and I agree much on policy but at a bare minimum, she's lawful evil. I know for damn sure Mitch McConnell and I agree on absolutely nothing but he's lawful evil, too. For the longest time, the Republican Party has been at "we, as a group, give no fucks about anyone but this group" and now they're in a feedback loop where "group" has become "Trump." RINO-hunting license? That's a witch hunt, man. That right there says if you don't sign your name to this entire, heaping pile of shit, you're not one of us. Evil-for-all or Evil-for-one are the two wolves within the Republican Party right now and here we are, five months before the midterms, and it's looking a long way from settled. Mathematically, is Trump's influence going to advance or decay in the following five months? Who has a better parliamentary ground game, the skullduggers or the populists? Trump seems to be limited clown shows and off-brand memos while, for once, the skullduggers are seizing the media. I think the real battle is whether the old-school Republicans can peel the party back from the populists. I don't think it'll make them better people? I don't think it'll make them care about the environment? I don't think they'll suddenly see the light on abortion? But I do think the coup against the United States has failed while the coup against the Republican Party succeeded beyond the Russians' wildest imaginations. And I think the Republicans in charge know that they either shut this bullshit down or they accept their fortunes are in the hands of a venal madman who's only an election or two from senility.