I’m Gonna Try To Be Delicate About This

June 30, 2022 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

I don’t think he knows what that word means, y’all.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton doesn’t think striking down women’s health care is enough. He’s going balls to the wall, Honey.

Sixteen states have laws on the books outlawing sodomy and, of course, one of those states is Texas. Those laws aren’t enforced in Texas, kinda like how laws against felony securities fraud against Attorney Generals aren’t enforced.

I’m trying to be delicate here. And ladylike. In 2003, the Supremes ruled that sanctions of criminal punishment for those who commit sodomy are unconstitutional.

Yesterday, Paxton announced that if the Supreme Court revisits sodomy laws, he will enforce them in Texas. He did it with his chest kinda puffed-out, like he’s been waiting for this his whole life.

But, I just gotta wonder if he knows what sodomy means. Let’s just check out Georgia.

 

There’s gonna be some hell to pay, y’all.

 

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0 Comments to “I’m Gonna Try To Be Delicate About This”


  1. BarbinDC says:
    June 30, 2022 at 12:00 pm

    What the heck is in your water down there? He wants to punish people for oral sex????

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  2. Steve from Beaverton says:
    June 30, 2022 at 12:14 pm

    I’m guessing he had a bad experience involving the subject matter here and is going to make people pay. I’ll leave it to the readers to speculate what happened to him.

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  3. Julie B says:
    June 30, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    Steve from Beaverton, his bad experience was/is nobody wants to have — of any kind with him.

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  4. Michael says:
    June 30, 2022 at 12:29 pm

    Which brings to mind this Moll Ivins classic: http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/molly-ivins.html

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  5. joel hanes says:
    June 30, 2022 at 12:47 pm

    As with all laws, selective enforcement by LEOs and prosecutors will ensure that it only binds outgroups: LBGQT, people of color, people who don’t speak English, people who aren’t reactionary Christianists, Democrats and the people who vote for them.

    see Wilhoit’s Law

    Here it is, in context:

    Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

    There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

    There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.

    For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual.

    As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence.

    So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

    https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

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  6. Papa says:
    June 30, 2022 at 1:03 pm

    So, Abbott is going to mandate cameras installed in our bedrooms and a sex posse to witness what people do, to arrest them if they’re doing the rumpy pumpy wrong? Like, that’s not going to happen.

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  7. Papa says:
    June 30, 2022 at 1:07 pm

    Michael @ 4,

    Damn, I miss Molly Ivins.

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  8. Sandridge says:
    June 30, 2022 at 1:16 pm

    Don’t the damned Rethugs realize that virtually all Texass GQP officeholders will be indictable under a law like this?
    They’ve been BOHICA’n everyone in this damned state for years…

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  9. Steve from Beaverton says:
    June 30, 2022 at 1:36 pm

    Julie B- think you’re right, and/or maybe he tried and failed every time?

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  10. Star says:
    June 30, 2022 at 1:53 pm

    I still think that people should immediately bring up something that IS mentioned in the bible and outlaw it: masturbation by men.

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  11. Halster says:
    June 30, 2022 at 3:05 pm

    Michael @ 4 and Papa @ 7

    I miss Molly Ivins too. She was a national treasure.

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  12. G Foresight says:
    June 30, 2022 at 4:15 pm

    Paxton, “What if you’re in Texas and you want to stick a gun in your butt?” asked Chris Stein.

    https://twitter.com/chrissteinplays/status/1542141769214738437?cxt=HHwWioCytZfx5OYqAAAA

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  13. john in denver says:
    June 30, 2022 at 10:47 pm

    I know there isn’t a great deal of sex education in Texas, but gosh … seems like he may be overlooking a few things.

    At his next press conference, can a journalist in attendance PLEASE ask if he will be willing to turn himself in … or indicting his CURRENT crop of junior attorneys … it it could be shown that he/she/they have violated such a prohibition?

    And Juanita Jean … I read your description [“He did it with his chest kinda puffed-out, like he’s been waiting for this his whole life.”]. Is it possible that his posture had more to do with trying to suck in his gut and display some other part of his anatomy?

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  14. L.Long says:
    July 1, 2022 at 7:20 am

    christANALs…they do not even have to try to make rocks look smart.
    Their own Big Book of BS FairyTales states what the sin of Sodom was and it has nothing to do with how the word is used today. The definition was changed because most xtians violate that. And I am will to bet my favorite toy that walk the street and ask christANALs what was Sodom’s sin was they would mostly be dead brained wrong.

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  15. The Surly Professor says:
    July 1, 2022 at 9:47 am

    Folks, you gotta go read that short Molly Ivins piece that Michael linked. Especially for the reason the Speaker had to chastize the legislative dwarf at the end.

    Ah, the good old days when Molly had a column in my local paper, the Fort Worth Startle-Gram.

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  16. Oldymoldy says:
    July 1, 2022 at 1:11 pm

    That is one creepy looking mfer!

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  17. UmptyDump says:
    July 1, 2022 at 2:35 pm

    Remember former Gov. Perry’s overnight jaunts with a young male staffer? Be afraid, Rick … be very afraid.

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  18. Fran seyer says:
    July 1, 2022 at 5:38 pm

    We are lucky to have Juanita Jean to carry on the mantle of Molly Ivins……every home of a state leg needs a good person of humor to dissect the nonsense spewed by these blowhearts. Indiana has little bragging rights.

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  19. The Surly Professor says:
    July 2, 2022 at 9:47 am

    Fran, you’re dead right about JJ carrying on Molly’s torch. I also saw that there’s a book about Ann Richards also out now – she’s another one of Those Texas Women that made life more bearable for many years (I’m partial to her also because she sponsored an old friend of mine in AA, giving my friend two decades of life that she otherwise would not have had).

    We also need another H. L. Mencken. For your holiday enjoyment, here’s some of his quotes that are still apropos:

    1. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

    2. In the world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

    3. At the Baltimore Sun talking with someone in his office, he suddenly looked out the window and said “The sons of bitches are gaining on us!” and started typing frantically.

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  20. Old Fart says:
    July 2, 2022 at 10:43 am

    I could be crass about how nobody will pry my wife’s beauty from my cold dead kiss, but that would be too…

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  21. Craig says:
    July 3, 2022 at 7:53 pm

    I’m surprised he’s opposed to sodomy –

    After all, it’s what he does to the people of Texas whenever he acts as AG.

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