Abbott orders arrest of Democrats who fled Texas

So it's OK to gerrymander the fuck out of your state in order to disenfranchise people, but it's not OK to protest such anti-democratic acts. Got it.

What do you expect in a democracy. Democracy?
- Democracy TM
- well tbf it isn't really a democracy in the first place

As a foreigner, sometimes it feels like the entirety of US politics is based on loopholes.

I'd rather say it's based on "loopy a-holes"
We started finding out with the first run of Trump that our government still operates on gentlemen's agreements and the pony express being cutting edge technology.
This is true. Most loopholes are in the tax codes.
Always has been
At this point, yes. At the beginning of the 1st Trump term I swore he must have had a secret phalanx of lawyers dedicated to finding every little edge case and loophole in the law. Before trump you at least had more people pretending to respect the spirit of the law and avoid partisanship. And before maybe the 90s I think the majority were sincere. Opposite parties could put politics aside and socialize with each other and be friends. But this seems impossible now.
Yep. That's also how our "justice" system works too.
common law failures in full display
Shenanigans
- That was super entertaining to watch!
Blessed be the fruit loops.
The sentence that literally founded the United States: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The people who wrote that sentence owned slaves. It’s always been loopholes.

Pulling quorum is an ancient tactic. Republicans in OR were doing it last year to block climate change legislation so voters passed a law saying that anyone who's missed more than X sessions is ineligible for re-election. 10 I think?

So it's worth noting that Rs do this more often, for bad causes, and when they do Ds respond within the bounds of the law, rather than with blatantly illegal moves.

Its how it always is.
X thing is always important and useful, as long as Republicans can use it against society, the second Democrats use it against Republicans suddenly its vile evil that should never be permitted.
- See: Reagan's stance on gun control as governor of California

What's stopping from you doing it yourself?
- Recognizing the need for force, and having the skillset to actually carry it out are two very, very different animals.
  Idk why people are always so quick to tell folks to DIY this shit when another poster acknowledges the necessity.
  If I find my living space is suddenly infested with roaches, I need an exterminator, not a how-to guide. I can look into correcting the conditions that originally attracted them after they're dead.
Since magic is not real and cannot be used as proof of intent; you are perfectly clear to wish as such and openly!
Direct violence isn't a great solution. I think Paul Rudd has had the answer for a while now, let nature decide.
- They sell biodegradable 12ga shells
- Nature dropped a tree on Abbott.
*Every republican

Abbot and Paxton are criminals.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, easy there buddy!
Don't forget that piece of shit Lt Gov., Dan Patrick.

Arrest based on what? Like, what are the charges? Serious replies only plz

what are the charges? Serious replies only plz
That's just cruel. Succulently cruel.
But in seriousness the charges are irrelevant, the fascists are long past pretending to care about the rule of law.
FTA:
Paxton in 2021 won a state Supreme Court ruling allowing the arrest of legislators — Democrats by definition of the state’s partisan mix — who broke quorum.
- Tx, couldn't be bothered to read the article. You have saved 175,293kWH of electricity by summarizing the article instead of AI
  j/k, i wouldn't ask AI, but tx :-D
Probably obstruction of governmental process or however they phrase it there. It won't stick after appeal but seems pretty likely to be a kangaroo court type dealio to get them out real quick.
Even weirder they're civil so probably some policy violation they're trying to make a felony but trying to charge civilly which isn't how anything works and anytime who's seen schoolhouse rock should probably be aware of it.

Go f&@k yourself!

Quote from Stephen Colbert.

Jon Stewart, unless I missed Colbert saying it too.
- You must have missed it. Colbert said it during a show after they announced his show would be ending.
  EDIT: Found the clip. Around the 5 minute mark - https://youtu.be/VIZegLAvK8o

Abbott is a piece of shit who pardoned a white supremacist convicted murderer for political gain, probably has ties to the kkk.

Never really struck me as much of a stand up guy, this Abbott.
- he looks and sounds far too similar to that creepy TV demon pastor
- Isn't he a piss baby?

It’d be pretty cool if the host state governments provided tactical team protection to those politicians. Designate VIP; protect.

As a Bostonian, I’d fully back using the MA NG, staties (the unusually flagrantly corrupt embezzling fucks they are), BPD, or whatever else, under state authority, to protect political refugees from a hostile US State.

Not to mention the Texas Rangers don't have jurisdiction anywhere outside of Texas. They'd be essentially coming in and acting as vigilantes. No other states should be ok with that kind of usurping of power on their soil or it's a really fucking slippery slope.
- This is a Rubicon Trump will eventually cross though. He will send federal agent in to enforce Texas laws sooner or later, if only because it's more dictator shit that gets his tiny dick hard.

What's sad is, you dont see Texas MAGA out in force on this. Why? This is in your face crushing democracy for a washed up reality TV star. Why isn't the whole state up in arms?

MAGA can spit anything they want, but if it benefits them, they will turn their head to just about anything.

Pedophiles? It's ok on my team. - MAGA Government corruption? Fine when we have power. Cut funding for our MAGA elders? Sure, if it hurts the left, I'll die watching it.

True cancer is the MAGA movement and everything it stands for. History will show that MAGA moved the US into a failed state.

Dark. Very dark.

All that needs to be done is have a governor of a state that these lawmakers flee to say “if the texas rangers enter our state, they will be executed without trial.”

Good luck, fucker

You know, something that didn't occur to me until now is that what happens to me if the Union fractures?

I was definitely not born in a blue state, and I am definitely in a blue state now.

Am I then a refugee of the red state? Am I a citizen of the blue state?

Am I stateless? Does this have any actual implications at all? Do I really even need to worry about it because I have to first survive the fuckery that is how they're trying to kill 258,000,000 Americans?

Oh! Oh! Oh! Now's my time for the spotlight! Hey Abbott, from Illinois, go fuck yourself! 🖕🏼😂 Come pry them from our blue sanctuary state hands.

Every day I am glad I moved out of that sweltering shitheap of a state

Molon labe removed

Too late to break Abbott's legs, pity.

Better late than never.