When people use the modifier "cis", they are implicitly stating that there are women who are "cis" and those who are not. It's a redefinition of "woman" that is being attempted by the speaker, and should be rejected out of hand. All women are "cis" or they are not women.

"Not a zombie" is exactly what I'd expect a zombie to say.

Sure. Socialist programs always cost exactly what the statist pushing the new programs predicts.

This is all true, and if you could name another national leader, or make a good argument for why the Dems would have done a better job, this litany of sins would be valuable in picking a president in 2024. But sadly, the Dems wanted to be MORE militant about COVID than Trump.

Generally, you have to bring that sort of counterclaim during the suit or you waive it. Appeal is his only answer, and the only way he wins is if the people of Canada rise up and make a stink. Courts DO respond to public opinion.

The dictionary definition of woman has always been an adult female. Males who dress as women and wish they were women suffer from mental illness; we can have empathy for them without affirming their delusion, as we do with anorexia, where skinny girls think they are fat.

For me, it's not hate, but sadness for the child, who will inevitably wonder who her real mother is someday, but people around her will try to pretend that she doesn't have a mother, but she does have two fathers...neither of which is true.

SB 2 - I am convinced that no GOP legislator should vote for this horrible tripe, and the only reason they will is because they fear @GovAbbott. I would try to offer amendments to SB2 so it would be a good ESA/voucher plan, but I fear that it would be a waste of time. Abbott wants a vendor-based system that distrusts parents and blows up education all over the state all at once, and will inevitably make private schools' tuition go up, irrespective of whether they take the voucher or not (because economics is a thing). GOP lawmakers could fix it, if they wanted to, but they are too busy trashing critics who make good points, rather than arguing on the merits.

Dear SB3/HB2 Proponent, This is not my normal semi-fun post. This is a more serious post designed to ask my fellow GOPers in Texas to calm the rhetoric. If HB3 proponents want to call someone a Democrat for refusing to swallow the lies being told to us about this cycle’s pathetic, budget-busting, government-growing voucher proposals, I don’t care. It shows the paucity of your argument. BUT, if you want to say that a good Republican, such as Mary Lowe, Lynn Davenport, Alice Linahan (or me), are actually *taking money* from a Democrat group, such as the AFT, then I will: 1) send you a letter which demands to take the post down; 2) demand that you retract your statement and apologize; and 3) if you don’t take it down, then I will, on behalf of the defamed person, sue you. NOTE: Merely taking the post down will not be enough; if you don’t actually retract, you will get a lawsuit. It is over the line to smear good Republicans by overt lies just because you aren’t a mature enough Christian to get that such actions are a violation of the Ninth Commandment. (As a reminder, it’s “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”) But wait, there’s more! During the discovery phase of the suit, I will seek information about your own activist work and find out if you are part of the astroturf efforts. Folks who are spending a lot of time lying about people just might be exposed as working with other slimy people. Maybe we’ll find out who is actually getting paid to be a professional stooge. I can promise you that “our” side is not afraid of exposure. But if it is as I suspect, we’ll get a claim of conspiracy, and your entire operation just may be exposed for the entire world to see! You guys could have put a good bill together, but you were satisfied with one that is so pathetically bad that it deserves the trash heap. You can do better next cycle. And in the meantime, remember that most of us in this discussion are all good Republicans. Activists should be mature enough to fight without resorting to lying about each other or using fake virtue-claiming names. One last thing – the contention by proponents that the Texas legislature will protect private schools” is laughable. This is the same Texas Legislature that requires ISDs to file an asbestos report every three years with Austin, which no one reads. (Where is the Texas DOGE?) And it was not too long ago that public schools had to spend huge dollars on security after the school shooting, which gave *some* money to the ISDs and charters, BUT required the schools to spend three times the amount given. Following the first voucher-school scandal, the Texas legislature will immediately have “must pass” legislation that requires voucher schools to tighten up in one way or another. Anyone stating otherwise is either a political neophyte or is deliberately ignoring Texas history.

You're watching too much bad comedy. Name one Republican who wants that. No one is cancelling Disney, but they are taking away some of their big gov't subsidies and special rules. Isn't that a good thing?

The nation of India had ivermectin in the hands of everyone. They have four times our population, and 40% of our cases. It is clear that ivermectin, used early, was pretty effective. All the studies reporting otherwise were biased, administering it too late to do anything.

What degree did I buy for you? Not a degree in logic, I presume, as the NRA does not collect money from me by pointing guns at me....the federal gov't does that, but not the NRA.

The way that you guys try to shoehorn every tragedy into a reason to regulate something that had nothing to do with the tragedy is amazing. We fought a war to ensure we could always revolt. Lexington and Concord were fought over the colonists right to keep CANNON.

I'm intrigued. What must a person believe to think that "wealth equality" should be a goal, and what means should be employed to obtain that goal?

So you are good with Planet Fitness's support of cosplaying men in your daughter's locker room?

Awesome time with @TuckerCarlson today with Tarrant County GOP.

Enforcing the border is actually one of the real jobs of the federal government, whereas paying for kindergarten is a local decision and duty. You should learn to distinguish between different levels of gov't and what each is supposed to be doing.

But when we pass a law that protects social media from defamation suits based on the idea that they are mere publishers of others' content, they can't then start acting like editors - it has to be either/or. They started as publishers, but now act as editors.

IF YOU LIKE YOUR PRIVATE SCHOOL, YOU CAN KEEP YOUR PRIVATE SCHOOL? That statement should remind you of Obamacare, and what HB3 proponents are saying. And in both cases, it’s garbage. Obamacare did not make my high-deductible plan illegal – it simply cratered the market for my plan, which was eliminated by BCBS shortly after Obamacare went into effect. The law had waivers and exceptions that I navigated for a while, but eventually, I had to get a more expensive plan that pleases me much less. I was not able to “keep my doctor” because that option when away, due 100% to government mismanagement and overregulation. Of course, this was also 100% predictable, as we all knew and said would happen. Every conservative knew this and it was easy to see. But all of these folks have “forgotten” this lesson, or are deliberately ignoring this reality when they say that those who don’t want to be voucher recipients can keep their private school. Anyone saying this is telling you that he doesn’t understand basic economics, or is lying to you. Now, if a proponent is willing to admit that private schools will have raised costs and many will be forced to close, or even that the damage of HB3 to private schools is worth it, that’s a different question, but anyone who is unwilling to admit that the reality should be discounted as an honest player. And yes, that means many of my friends are fooling themselves. The natural second-level question is what I’d support, since I’m a known voucher supporter and also against HB3. Good question. For me, it’s about getting better value. That means a combination of spending fewer tax dollars and getting a better education. And “better education” is based on parents making that decision, and not a new government agency. So the answer is to not add new tax dollars. If we use the same number of tax dollars or fewer, then we are just adjusting the perversion of the private schools AND public schools in marginal ways, and not making the problem worse. If we add all the private and public money to education and asked, “How can we make education better without adding new money?” then we see that we can use vouchers in badly performing ISDs, giving parents a portion of the money the ISD has received, give the remainder to the ISD so it has more money per capita on the remaining students, and everyone wins…except the ISD administrators who lose the power to distribute bad educations. Yes, this still impacts private schools, but they are already being impacted by the ISDs, so the overall impact is one of marginal benefit to the system of education, and not making things worse. In the dozens of conversations that I’ve had, the third-level question is then an admission by the HB3 proponent who says we can’t get the bill passed unless we buyoff the ISDs. First, that’s baloney – you aren’t trying a proposal like that. You’re trying to establish a new system based on the false belief that new government agencies will be completely different from all other government agencies, making things more complex with a completely second system of education, and trying to dodge being accused of unconstitutional programming by continuing the lackluster funding of the ISDs. Second, a more humble system impacting only the poor performers won’t hit the rural areas at all, since those ISDs tend to operate like small overfunded private schools now. The administrators who are fighting against vouchers because they’ll defund their schools have a valid point – you’re taking their best students and marginally increasing their costs because they will be left with the less-healthy students. But in the program I’ve described, you could leave 25% of the funds with the ISD. You could even force failing ISDs to administer the whole thing, so you don’t need new agencies to manage it. (If you don’t trust the ISDs to do this, then you could use the ESCs.) In such a system, you have a MUCH better chance of not destroying all private schools, because the number of public dollars is not going up, and the money is more equitably distributed, and it won’t be some monstrous program impacting the entire state all at once. So if you want to say that you saw through Obama’s “if you want to keep your doctor” line, you have to explain how Abbott’s line that those who don’t accept vouchers won’t be impacted. Because to me, it’s a pretty facile line designed to placate ignorant GOP activists.

Do you affirm dyslexia and affirm skinny girls who say that are fat? Or tell alcoholics that they are just fine?

Good on ya. The ABA occasionally has an IP section event that might be helpful, but I can never participate because I can't get past the outrage I feel when the ABA does anything. It's always wrong, or so painfully obvious that it's not a help.

Close one eye when getting up at night and you have to turn on the light to preserve your night vision when you turn the light back off.

"Climate justice" is a phrase used to describe programs which take money from productive people and giving it to others who are politically favored.

Just like the Inflation Reduction Act was about green socialism, this bill was about creating legal options to open the border wider. Your side lies whenever possible.

Honored to represent John Sabal in this effort!

I got a TRO to require BS&W to give Ivermectin to a client, and it ignored the TRO and transferred him to the VA hospital in Dallas so he would die there.

I thought you wanted to get rid of systemic racism? Every DEI program is nothing but.

I agree on the covid response, but I just don't know of very many politicians who would have gotten it right. Most GOPers would fail, and all Dems would as well. Kennedy might get that one issue right, but he's sipwr wrong on many other things. The rest of your list is rot.

You wrote "stopping child abuse based on narcistic bad parents" incorrectly. And good luck with the law suit.

Lol...okay, I was assuming we were speaking of categories of human. My mistake - a woman is an adult human female. We are in agreement that this was the dictionary definition until a few days ago?

I thought you guys wanted systemic racism shut down?

Except that they are not. They are both religious...just two different religions. One is Christian, and the other is Satanic/Secular. And "secular" is just a way to describe values which are established by oneself or the state, rather than a faith. It's religion, all the time.

I have been to hundreds of political rallies at all levels of government, and two national conventions. Trump's rallies are next-level best political entertainment that this country has seen since Reagan.

The Northwest Ordinance says something different...you secularists live to take statements like that and run with it, applying it on ways it was never expected by the writer. Merry Christmas!

HOW REPORTERS LIE. (Warning: I am not as fun in this post as I usually am.) @thecatdominguez makes up stories for newspapers. She's written at least two articles for the Houston Chronicles regarding the ongoing saga of the Montgomery County Republican Party, where Bryan Christ (its GOP county chair) and one third of the precinct chairs are ignoring its rules to ignore the other two-thirds of the precinct chairs. As you might guess, I represent the majority of the precinct chairs in their efforts to restore the rule of law in the Montgomery County GOP. Back when this all started, Ms. Dominguez contacted me, and I gave her at least 20 minutes of time to explain the whole thing. Then she used what I gave her to write an article that quoted the other side and supported it, and ignored our perspective. Then Ms. Dominguez wrote another piece last week after the Texas Supreme Court decided not to act on the issue. Her article quotes and supports the lawless Christ and his side. AFTER the piece was up for more than an hour, she contacted me and asked if I wanted to give her feedback. Knowing that she was not going to use anything I stated in a positive way, I told her that I would not be giving her anything more, which she was happy to read, so her failure to contact me as she was writing her trash could be excused. So when you read something in the Houston Chronicle, or any piece by Catherine Dominguez, just recognize that neutral reporting is not a priority in her writing, or at least it was not in the two articles by her that I've read. I'd give a link to the Houston Chronicle article, which is also in the Conroe Courier (and probably a bunch of other dying newspapers), but I don't want to give them the traffic. I'm writing this just so that folks can see how this game is played. And contrary to the article, this fight is not over. Lol.

*fewer

No. It would make us subservient to federal regulations that we escape now. How about we stop playing games with so-called green energy and just make power? Then, no problems.

Here's the order for #shelleyluther. #Hero

I wonder if we could get an update on the medical situation of our pilot, and demand that he has survived at least six months after his last booster.

Is it? No, what we have is changing ideas of what constitutes mental illness. That's all. If you want a new word to describe mentally ill people who want to cut off perfectly good body parts, that's fine. But normal people won't join your delusion, and you can't force them.

If you think that people should have differing treatments from gov't entities based on the color of their skin, then you are a racist. If you get a job based on DEI, then you are getting the job on something other than your qualifications....hence, you didn't earn it.

Every big city dominates its county, and every big city is run by Democrats, and every big city is dependent on gov't subsidies more than smaller cities and counties, which tend to the GOP. I'd LOVE for you to at least try to back up your assertions. #Nonsense

If Trump has a health issue, watch how fast DeSantis's compaign becomes unsuspended. #SpareTireCampaign

You have equated "giving the middle finger" to "applying the Constitution as written".

Any Beto sticker, or one of those co-exist bumper stickers, especially when a male is driving.

I defy every statist to explain what part of the Constitution supports federal support of politically favored "science".

Regulatory restrictions on use of hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 is murder by state government.

This suit is humming right along.

Weekend at Bernie's, Granger style. I guess it is all the rage, as our president is about the same.

I wish that were true, but it's usually not. Once in office, it takes everything to remove an incumbent. It took everything and everyone, including Abbott's help, to get Mike Olcott over Glenn Rogers, as an example. And all incumbents are going to be supported by Abbott in the next primary because they all voted for his voucher expansion. So they will all have money and his backing. The GOP activist vote is probably 30% or less of the primary vote, and half of them are still tools of the establishment, crawling all over each other to lick the boots of whoever is already in power, and making excuses for the errors.

No, you would not. You would simply not acknowledge good points. He's been playing True Scotsman with libertarians for a long time, and you aren't much different. Eventually, if not immediately, you call him a sell-out and declare victory, irrespective of reality.

You are just demonstrating before the whole world that you don't know what it takes to buy a gun. I can understand why you will be a Democrat forever. You are a perfect representative of the group.

Is there any reason for the Olympic ceremony to trash any religion at all? Isn't there something beautiful that could be shared, instead of a deliberate decision to mock?

That's not true. Bernie has managed to become a millionaire purely by working for the state while condemning people who earn money from people who willingly give it. That level of hypocrisy is difficult to manage, but he's up to the task.

That's silly. Trump's team does what it says it will do. He may not be an actual ideologue, but he is the accidental constitutionalist, based purely on his four years (minus his COVID response, which is substantial, but everyone would have failed that one).

This is absolutely spot on analysis. As others have said, we're not choosing a spouse when we vote, but making a move in a chess game.

Hmmm, I'd correct that statement to say that required masking *exposed* the lack of critical thinking by the masses, rather than causing it. And now we know who would have worn the brown shirts in Germany a hundred years ago.

So here's a major problem. This guy doesn't know how I'm very pro-school choice I am, but rather than engage me with details, it's ad hominem attack and assume the worst, though he and I are allied. These people are so unable to defend SB2 that they won't engage. Inexcusable.

I'm sympathetic to one who wants to come, learn English, and live the American dream. Many are more American than natives. BUT, when one comes here carrying another country's flag and talking about taking the country back and demanding free stuff....that's an invasion.

Rich = employed, right? It's not possible to give a tax break to anyone other than those who are productive and spend money in the open market. All tax breaks favor the employed. Poor people who earn nothing and spend only tax dollars given to them don't need a tax break.

Excited to announce the engagement of my youngest son, @Solomonnorred and @tylershelbyy!

I hope they can find an attorney for that pretty blatant unreasonable content restriction...

Thomas Massie is the best representative and most accurate comparer of governors in the entire United States House of Representatives. #JustSayin

Yep. All these people showed their colors during the covid era, and we now know who can be trusted...and who cannot.

Eliminating it will efficiently return money into more productive activities with a greater return to society than giving it to the Texas state government to blow.

Zero Republicans are voting for Allred over Cruz. Zero.

I'm a veteran and I absolutely oppose both the smaller war and the broader war.

A failing legal system will encourage vigilantism.

Congrats to @Bo_French_TX on winning the @tcgop chair's position. Let's get to work!

Everything that is good should have a federal law that forces innocent taxpayers into paying for an unlimited amount of it; everything that is bad should be prohibited by the federal government. Unlimited federal power making everything required or prohibited. Is that it?

Ross, tell me how adding $1B to ed spending doesn't make every private school tuition go up by thousands. Tell me how ISDs make bond payments after enrollment drops, and how the state avoids paying it. Tell me how it all doesn't grow uncontrollably with a straight face.

So you want the most productive to pay more? And give the stolen money to those who choose not to work, right? Or fund the war machine? Or the out-of-control EPA? What, exactly, do you think justifies making productive people pay higher taxes than the less productive?

"So...it appears I was ahead of my time. I could have been even far more evil than I was and gotten away with it."

If you are taking a quart of blood from my leg, and decide that is too painful, it doesn't help to take from my other leg. If the Leg took less money, the "how" would matter less. Less spending and unfunded mandates (which are just disguised tax hikes) is the right answer.

Don't know if I've responded to this here or not, but worthy of a second posting...

For speaking out loud what we all know?

"My country sucks" is not a proper reason to grant asylum.

Ah, the sweet smell of liberal tolerance.

COVID water boarding - eventually you'll give up and get the jab rather than deal with the interruptions.

It is the cowardice and laziness of normal people which allows this abhorrent behavior.

Had a good time on Stew Peters show to discuss John Sabal's defamation case against the ADL.

Too many GOP reps are more interested in proving their loyalty to Abbott than proving that they are true Republicans, and would rather prove their loyalty to big money donors and Abbott by supporting a bad voucher proposal that blows the budget and grows gov't.

And still there will be no apologies from any of my friends who smugly denigrated ivermectin.

Texas Pravda, doing what it does, and doing so on the taxpayer's dime. Gross.

Undiscerning charity is rarely successful. And billionaires give away money all the time. An observation that there are still poor people who suffer does not lead to any conclusions regarding the billionaires, though it might lead to envy, which is, by the way, a sin.

That's the kind of thing that a person says when he wants to dodge accountability from critics. It's true that you can sometimes win with only your lobbyists' assistance, but not always. On the margins, activists matter.

Every activist Republican knew about Ken Paxton's issues during the primary; his opponents talked about it all. Texas Senators pretending to be thoughtful about impeachment are just doing it for show, whitewashing their primary endorsement, clutching fake pearls for effect.

If we continue, this is the end result.

Yeah, the lower chance of war and out-of-control prices will be tough to handle.

Learn math and science, read the classics, and watch for opportunities.

One of the first great cancelation attempts - it is good that people saw through her lies.

Is sadness an option?