Remember When?
Remember when Republicans used to be all Church Lady Methodist and then they turned against the church and became Onward Christian Soldiers?
So, they gave up religion pretty much altogether and bought themselves some military weapons and got all Majorie Taylor Green, who could name maybe three or four books of the Bible and thinks Leviticus Two is in the New Testament.
Remember when Republicans used to be on the side of big business against the government?
Oh, not so much. They just met Donald Trump with his hand up Greg Abbott hiney, talking and yakking.
Texas business groups come out in force against ban on vaccine mandates for private employers – AGC-TBB, NFIB, Texas REALTORS, Chemical Council, Texas Civil Justice League, CPAS, Hotels and Lodging, TMA, Texas Trucking Association, multiple Chambers, and many others urge lawmakers to vote no on anything like SB51 by Sen. Hughes.
So screw business. Republicans now have military weapons and anarchy.
Big Business responds thusly.
The thing is that these anti-vaxx (for you) guys are probably all vaccinated themselves.
1Wow! From JJ’s linked pdf document with a list of groups ‘concerned about this’, one of the Republican Party’s own tentacles has a special branch in Texas dedicated to keeping the addled MAGAots fired up and begging for more; the most aptly named:
2“Texas Alliance of Brain Injury Providers”
@ 2 Sandridge. And they are apparently a real entity:
The Texas Alliance of Brain Injury Providers filed as a Domestic Nonprofit Corporation in the State of Texas on Thursday, February 14, 2008 and is approximately thirteen years old, as recorded in documents filed with Texas Secretary of State.
Source: https://www.corporationwiki.com/Texas/Austin/texas-alliance-of-brain-injury-providers/38099091.aspx
3RepubAnon @3, Thanks for the link, going to use it for other lookups. The TABIP juxtaposition is funny, but I’m sure that they’re actually cranial specialist MDs, ‘providers’ in the medical sense; still, an odd name for the group.
4Brain damage ain’t no laughing matter, unless it’s in Trumpanzees and MAGAots, where it’s a prerequisite for the mad hatters.
So, all those entities would like to keep their customers and employees alive? Who knew???
Can we really contemplate Governor O’Rourke?
5Two things to reread: On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder and Goebbels Nineteen Points of Propaganda.
6Based on the full page plus part of another spread today on Dishonorable Hughes in the Dallas Morning News, we should be against absolutely anything he proposes as legislator. The guy appears to be a slimy as they come. But he so nice, the article said, that people keep voting for him.
It makes me happy that people are pushing back on the crap coming out of Austin. I was very happy that the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum and Nat. Ed. Assoc. and TX State Teachers Assoc. pushed back hard against the Carroll ISD administrator’s admonishment to teachers that they needed to provide opposing views to the Holocaust so they can be in compliance with new Texas law (championed by Hughes btw) dictating how teaching can present racism and slavery. The administrator and school district are busy apologizing. Because seriously, people, there are not 2 sides to the Holocaust.
The lunatic Repubs in Austin spearheaded by Hughes have been quite successful at making Texas a major topic of nationwide conversion, and not in a good way. Friends on Facebook who do not live in Texas are asking me if Texans really support all this stuff their legislators are turning into law. Well, they keep voting for these jackasses, so I guess so. Praying for the Dems to make some inroads in 22 and 24, but I don’t have much confidence.
7The only book of the bible that is pertinent is 2 Fallopians.
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