All Dan. All The Time.
Y’all, I would like to apologize for our Lt. Governor Dan Patrick being a damn fool.
Our legislative session starts in January every two years. Tragically, 2017 is one of those years. The Lt. Governor oversees the Texas Senate.
We have a few minor problems in Texas. We are next to last in education. We are first in uninsured children. Our maternal death rate has doubled, making it twice what it is in Turkey and Chile. Our roads and bridges are crumbling. A quarter of Texas children live in poverty.
And what is Dan Patrick concerned about?
There ya go. This man is burning rocket fuel to Crazyville.
You can write this on the barn with waterproof paint: Dan Patrick thinks about sex waaaaay too much.
Rethuglican priorities are historically fudged up.
1Patrick is the latest in a long line of fools.
God help the people of Texas.
I know of an excellent psychologist. When i called her to talk to her about this I got a recorded message wishing the world well from her retirement party. Sigh. She was a God send. Can’t blame her, though. Wonder if there are any Dan Patricks in Nassau?
2Maggie … I think there are Dan Patrick’s all around the world!!
3Republicans do NOT believe (1) being last in education, (2) doubling of maternal mortality rates, (3) crumbling infrastructure, (4) high uninsured rates, etc…are a problem.
Imposing the Republican view of reality on the cosmos is their priority.
4I know there are wonderful, compassionate people in Texas; WHY do the a**hats like Cruz, Abbott, etc., continue to be elected?
5One thing about Dan Patrick: he’s consistent. I listened to his AM hate radio spews years and years ago; he was a sex-obsessed theocrat back then, and he remains so, to this very day. The thought of that fascist-inclined pustule waltzing into the governor’s office makes my stomach turn. You think it’s impossible to make Greg Abbott look good by comparison? Allow Patrick a crack at it, then brace yourselves for non-stop years of mortification of the State Of Texas.
6One phrase that always escapes the snacilbupeR rants: consenting adults.
7Dan Patrick. What must it feel like to be Dan and wake up in the morning sober and know it ain’t gonna get one damn bit better all day long!?
8No problem Dan. Got your solution right here… ya listenin’? Put signs on the doors! There ya go!*
*And I think you’ll find the only man still sticking his nose into Ladies Rooms is YOU!
9Tell me Dan Patrick, where in the Bible does God talk about men in the Ladies Room? Eleventh Commandment? Leviticus? WWJD?
10Words are difficult to find. Well not all words. Texas, your rethuglican politicians are a collection of asshats with a negative IQ. But whilst they make piles of money, the women and children suffer. Why are those evil people elected and re elected when there are great people like Wendy Davis?
11Dan knows a couple of things. One, the idea of big ol’ men in the Little Girls Room gets the rubes all worked up. And Two, bloviating about it costs nothing, unlike fixing the real Texas problems. Being from the Free Lunch Party, Dan isn’t about to pay for anything beyond the perks of his office.
12WA Skeptic: Believe it or not, a lot of it is the creative redistricting that repugnantcans have done. Rick: That commandment resides in the secret, hidden book that only the Christian Identity folks have access to. Acts. Acts of the Apostates.
13JAKvirginia, I’m sure Patrick is also sticking his nose into ladies’ WOMBS where it also doesn’t belong.
Maybe this is another reason to elect more women. We’re rarely as sex-obsessed as these men, or at least more rational about it. Or maybe I just haven’t seen as many crazy GOP women as crazy GOP men running around spouting.
14Not to put too fine a point on this, but in Oregon this guy would rank below the guy claiming Elvis was a space alien wanting to take over the world.
15So yeah. If a Dan Patrick-like perv wants to get into the Ladies bathroom, putting a sign on the door will absolutely stop that Dan Patrick perv clone in his tracks. It’s guarandamnteed to work!
Now that that’s fixed, maybe one of the Big Three – Education, uninsured children, maternal death rate – is next? Nah. Abortionprayerinschoolsreligiousfreedomgetthegays is probably next on his agenda.
16Wingnuts have had total control of Texas for over 20 years and they make it worse. Just like in Kansas, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Michigan, Chokelahoma, Arizona, Ala-damn -bama, Mississippi, Louisiana. Florida, Georgia, Both Carollinas, etc.
17SteveTheReturned: anybody who isn’t braced already after the Bush/Perry years is in deep doodoo.
18I’m reminded of two quotes by Molly Ivins (god rest her soul):
In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor’s] office; it’s mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose. (I’d include the lt. governor, if simply by association with the governor).
And…
Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins. (I’m sure Dan Patrick was somewhere on the ballot. Several times.)
19Patrick’s ability to avoid thinking about real problems, and make up problems to file legislation on is…well, it would be unbelievable except that we’ve seen him do it before.
Nearly every home has unisex bathrooms (though some rich people put their girls in one bedroom, with its own bathroom and their boys in another, with its own bathroom, most people manage to share bathrooms with the opposite sex on a daily basis…at home and in the small establishments that have only one for customers, but do have a lock on the door. I used to go to a BBQ place in Austin that had just the one-holer for everyone, staff and customers. No problem: close the door, latch it. I have shared a (church) bathroom with at least one trans woman (and maybe more, for all I know–) and they never peeked through the crack between door and frame. I have visited a home where a trans woman was visiting and each of us used that house’s bathroom without bothering the other.
And also Dan Patrick’s hot to enforce the law that he insists is against playing Fantasy Football. Really? We’ve got real-world problems and he’s against Fantasy Football (I don’t get the attraction myself, but for those who enjoy it, why the heck not?) Prosecuting guys who play it is more important than getting Texas kids educated and disabled kids their needed therapy? Making sure women get the health care they need to cut down on maternal mortality? Repairing the damn bridges?
And he’s still a criminal.
20It hardly keeps men out of ladies’ rooms if you legally require transsexuals who have fully transitioned into men to use ladies’ rooms.
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