The system is corrupt and must be destroyed.
the system is working as intended and must be destroyed :)
I think they meant to title this "Why these eight lying scumbags need to be primaried to prevent continuing slide into fascism"
Unfortunately Cuellar and Gonzalez won their primaries.
Party leadership showed it preferred Cuellar over any progressive, and it's exactly because of votes like this.
Cuellar was pardoned by Trump and clearly captured. What the hell is wrong with his district in Texas?
What the hell is wrong with his district in Texas?
The party demonstrated that it will do whatever it takes to defeat progressive candidates, so they stopped running.
It also bans teachers from talking about trans people at all.
This should be an easy overturn, but we all know the "freedumb of speech" crowd got their puppet "justices" (misnomer if I ever heard one) on the SC to only interpret the phrase in a particular way.
Wait, how can they out the students if they can't talk about trans people?
Bigot bills rarely make sense.
Don't bother looking for logical consistency in right wing legislation. It isn't there, and drawing attention to their hypocrisy will drive you insane cuz none of them care.
The only thing that's ever consistent is the cruelty: the goal is always to hurt some out-group. Often at the cost of hurting themselves, but so long as the out-group is hurt too, they don't mind falling on their own sword to make it happen.
"Thank you for coming in, parents who are either so antagonistic to their child or so checked out of their life you don't know a fundamental aspect of their being before a teacher does.
I am required by law to tell you something about your child, but I am barred by the same law from saying what it is. Hopefully you go home and just feel bad about yourself rather than becoming violent with your child. I love that my poorly paid job now makes me complicit in this."
Let me guess, no such ban on talking about pedophiles?
Nah, that's fine just so long as they're not Republican ones.
ETA: Oh, wait... I guess there IS such a ban.
What a fucking ridiculous priority.
Let's just imagine for a minute that transgenderism is some kind of problem to prevent. It isn't, and what a reprehensible concept, but let's just imagine we are all dipshits and believe that for some reason.
Its 1% of people. Maybe a little bit more undisclosed. OH MY GOD CHANGE THE LAWS AND PUNISH THEM FOR BEING.
What a stupid country full of morons.
Amazing how theres always just enough democrats to pass this shit.
and its never the same democrats that voted to pass the last shit.
Are we allowed to say both sides are bad and the entire system needs to be replaced yet?
I don't know if we are allowed to speak the truth anymore.
Democrats are controlled opposition that roll over for Republicans. Been that way my entire life. Democrats support the Republican party and their concentration camps and have no problem othering trans people so they can join the brown people and dissidents already captured by their masters.
How long until they throw you under the bus as well?
Democrats are liberals, they are just doing what liberals do. They will side with whoever is strongest sounding to keep their positions and roles, however it always backfires and ends up with them being the scapegoat.
The Democratic Party could take a stand and denounce and bar members that do this shit. But they don’t. They don’t take principled stands in order to be a Big Tent party. And because of this Third Way strategy, they lose by dilution. Over and over and over.
And because of this Third Way strategy, they lose by dilution. Over and over and over.
It's certainly starting to look like that's the entire idea.
Okay, Cuellar was the free bingo space for being a shitbag but Vindman after what they did to him? Also Perez right between Portland and Seattle?? We need to primary everyone who did this
This is why I'll never understand the blind support for Dems with the VBNMW mindset. There are FAR too many rightwing Dems for people to just always support them.
Vote bloooooo
Let me guess, none of them are up for reelection this year?
Everyone in the House of Representatives is up for election every cycle.
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