It is telling that, apparently, state Rep. Nicole Collier is the only Democrat who refused to sign “a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.” So, count 'em, one Democrat had the courage to say no.
I find it more likely they drew straws. You only need one to do this to prove the point.
So only one person has to have integrity? Fuck that.
Yes but many is required to put up a fight. Illustrative of the failed dem strategy that rhetorically expedient is practically ineffective, and ultimately cedes power to the fascist right.
In other words, “I’m not owned! I’m not owned!” I continually insist as I cash in political points for fundraising emails and my constituency is quickly loaded onto busses bound for concentration camps
She’s safer in there than with the fucking cops.
Boo on using Nazi CBS as a source. They should be banned from the free web.
“I’m going home now.”
“Not without this police escort you’re not.”
Hey, can’t vote on anything if you’re dead?!
That’s fucking kidnapping.
faschy bastards are going to do faschy bastard things.
We’re running out of time. Soon violence will be inevitable.
Violence is not only inevitable, it has already started. Hopefully the defense starts soon
Yeah it is coming. I am buying MREs and bullets. Fuck man. I just wanted to retire in peace.
I just wanted to retire. I put 50/50 odds at subsistence farming and/or resisting being coopted by the local warlord in my sixties.
It’s really more a question of when than if at this point.
Technically it would be unlawful restraint and potentially false imprisonment.
It’s still bullshit no matter what you call it
The article does not mention what entity or law is compelling them to stay? Are we really at “might makes right” in the Texas Senate?
The Department of Public Safety, according to the article, at the behest of the Republicans
That doesn’t really paint a clear picture. Department of Public Safety is doing the detaining and “Republicans” is fairly nebulous. What law gives the Department of Public Safety the right to force Texas state representatives to accept a police escort? What about detaining them in the congressional building? Who said she could sleep in her office? On who’s authority?
Probably the worst thing about social Internets is how lazy they make people. “Find my answer so I can debate you about it!” Why not go out and get your answer and report back? (It doesn’t help that CBS was the cited source, which now is a known Nazi sympathizer.)
Texas is the redheaded stepchild of US states with all the Nazis moving in over the last decade to shift them from purple to red/Nazi. The governor is on a power trip and they really want to be the example of how to destroy America nationwide. Power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely and all.
If still too lazy to do the research, the short answer is Texas has a law that lets the state government send the Sergeant at Arms after congress members that won’t show up for quorum, (they also get fined $500/day) and that can include deputizing police/etc. and doesn’t really have guard rails on it to protect against asinine behavior. Members of their congress have used abandonment in previous decades as their only form of protest to stop unjust laws from being pushed through as that state speedruns rotting from the inside.
Hey I resemble that lazy remark!!!
Jokes aside sometimes I like getting to talk to people who are willing to give be there point of view and might have greater insight or experience IRL with the topic of choice.
Did not know that about CBS either. I appreciate you taking the time in replying though and helping educate this lazy person :)
It’s Texas. Why aren’t those lawmakers shooting already?
Haven’t been paying attention – did the rezoning get blocked or not?
They ran the clock out successfully for the legislative session, but another session starts tomorrow and that will start the attempt to pass it over again.
Collier and dozens of other House Democrats who returned to the Capitol on Monday received a Texas-sized welcome from their supporters as they walked from the rotunda into the House chamber minutes before the House session began around noon.
Sounds like she and her colleagues got what they wanted out of the situation so what’s the problem? They came back to give the Republicans the quorum that they need to pass the redistricting after putting on a good show to keep up the kayfabe. If she really wanted out she could just pull the fire alarm or have one of her aides let her out.
Why did you quote that part, it says literally nothing.
The session is scheduled for Wednesday, if you had read the article, so maybe stop throwing your hands up in defeat before anything has even fucking happened.
I quoted the part where it says they came back to the capitol on Monday for the next ‘special session’ that starts Wendesday.
I did read the whole article, so im not sure what you think I missed. Dems say this is “phase two” where they try to block things in Texas courts, the very same courts Republicans bring every national issue to because judges side with them 100% of the time?
Why stop “phase one” since it actually accomplished something by preventing the vote? Now they’ll pass the vote, redraw the district lines, and dems will expect an “attaboy” for pretending like they actually accomplished something when their cases get thrown out of court making this whole exercise entirely pointless. Did they think Republicans would just forget all about this if they delayed it for a week until just after the redistricting passed the Texas senate? Please.
This is just more kayfabe. They’re putting on a show for all of us while they work together to pass this garbage both in Texas and the rest of the nation. It’s interesting that you want to pick an attitude with me to defend the people robbing you of your nation and its future. Maybe you should redirect that anger toward the people who keep ‘losing’ to Republicans on purpose.
Using kayfabe as a metaphor is saying you underestimate the seriousness of the situation.
It’s quite the opposite which is why I’m speaking out about it. In what way are you taking it seriously by wasting your time trying to police my language and give cover to these corrupt assholes who are helping to further cement their control over our nation?
