Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden's recent fall by pledging to "never ever ride a bicycle".
On June 17, delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party approved platform planks:
• Rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”;
• Requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization;
• Treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”;
• Getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes;
• Abolishing the Federal Reserve;
• Rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment;
• Returning Christianity to schools and government;
• Ending all gun safety measures;
• Abolishing the Department of Education;
• Arming teachers;
• Requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”;
• Defending capital punishment;
• Dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered;
• Protecting Confederate monuments;
• Ending gay marriage;
• Withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and
• Calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.” -—Posted by Heather Cox Richardson, June 19, via Grenville Whitman
2 comments:
Great again?
In reading the Texas 2022 GOP Party Platform, it seems the State of Texas wants a ‘simpler’ world. Not that Texas politicians are ‘simple’, just possibly not very imaginative and less accepting of anything “new”. And, quite possibly the recent heat waves have taken their toll. Whatever the reason, these Lone Star politicians appear envious of those early days in our country’s existence when ‘men were men, and women were too’; when, if you ever heard of a ‘god’ it was ‘christian’ and not some heretical ‘foreign-sounding’ hog-wash that made no sense; when it was considered nothing more than a faux pas to dispatch a ‘minority’ to a better world (a faux pas may not be as acceptable by the GOP now, possibly because it is ‘French’); when barter, free from government interference and taxes could sustain; when people married women, or hung out with people like Miss Kitty (Gunsmoke); when ‘abortion’ wasn’t an issue as women could always ride a horse around the fields a while, or reprieved due to high childhood mortality; and where maintaining our sovereignty was less an issue than the stampede to militarily take land from others.
I think secession would be a good idea. The ruling class of Texas is fascist, not having them in Congress would be a relief.
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