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This is sickening. I know it's wrong, but one almost wishes the state would secede (not to mention a few others). Or at least hope the GOP will eat itself from the inside out.

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As a Texan, this saddens me deeply.

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Several years ago a friend watched “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre “ and was shocked that it was so violent. When we pointed out that the violence was right there in the title: “Chainsaw” and “Massacre “, his 12 year old daughter added “and Texas “

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My fifty years as a licensed psychologist has taught me that there are consequences for trying to appease ignorant and bigoted beliefs. And once you have started to explain or argue, you have lost.

The idea of Texas seceding may actually be a wake up call for other states who think they can go it alone.

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This is absolutely terrifying. This is where we are in 2022? 100 steps backwards. This isn't all that they voted on correct? I read something about also removing all gun laws, teaching life at conception and putting Christianity back in schools in an article Heather Cox Richardson wrote. I have to wonder what century these people are living in. If this is who Texas wants to be, let them go. They are like teenagers who don't want to live by their parent's rules so let's just see how they do out in the world all by themselves.

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Let 'em secede... it gets Ted Cruz out of the Senate, they'll be on their own next hurricane (no aid from FEMA or US government because they're not a state or territory), get huge concessions to readmit them to the Union.

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Eeeeep! The argument the Republicans presented about federal overreach infringing on states rights may have some legitimacy but the motivation behind the challenge does not have much of a basis in a democracy under the rule of law but how they feel about how that may impact them.

That would seem to be the problem here. Elsewhere, in Otero County NM, a deeply Republican bastion in an largely Democrat controlled state, the County Commissioners were refusing to certify the votes on a recent primary election. The reason? It wasn't because they had any evidence of any voting irregularities nor was there even any particular partisan concern over the outcome but simply that they 'felt there may be some problems with the vote count and the voting machines'.

The State's Attorney had to threaten them with legal action to get them to simply do the job they signed on to.

See https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/17/politics/new-mexico-primary-results-otero-county-certification/index.html

This little microcosm in Otero Co underscores what's apparently at the heart of this movement in the Republican party - a rejection of the democratic process and rule of law based solely on 'how they feel about it'.

When people haven't much of an education, how they feel about things can certainly get to be all they've got to work with.

Ouch.

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I don't even know what to say...no one can get threw to these people. Not even TFG - we all remember what they did to him when he told them to get vaccinated a while back. If not even him can get through to them, we are doomed.

The violence to whoever goes against their beliefs is what worries me the most.

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Well said. And terrifying.

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It’s going to be crucial to see how business & corporations feel about investing their stockholders & their own $ in a state threatening to succeed, along w so much of their other seriously crazy planks. Texas can’t even keep their electrical grid on line, though I’m certain they’d use their fossil fuel, refineries, port, NASA & world class hospitals as bargaining chips. But certainly it wouldn’t take many natural (or unnatural as in their grid) disasters to force their hand in some fashion.

I fear if Beto & Garza (Dem AG candidate) lose, we’re fixing to find out how this plays out. Yet another must-win gubernatorial & AG race. Frightening.

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Well, it seems to me that the one thing that would shock Texans clean down to their boots would be for the rest of the USA, to decide that the State no longer wishes to be a part of the Union, and to expel it, cleanly and completely.

All my life I’ve felt like Cassandra must have, I have always been very good at predicting future events, not because of telepathy or anything strange, but awareness of events, history and the human condition. But not being believed. What I see is that USA has stage 5 metastasizing cancer, and if something extreme and dramatic is not done to excise it, your Union, Republic and democracy will be gone in less than 4 years!

And if history is a good example, it is far easier to become a Neo Fascist regime, than it is to stop being one.

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Scary stuff.

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GOP has become a festering wound on the political landscape of the USA. A pox on Democracy that requires urgent attention, lest these red necks crap in their own nest.

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Doesn't what they are doing violate the Constitution, or at least federal law somehow? It is too bad that there isn't a law against insanity. There is only one way to stop this nonsense. Eliminate them. Seriously. Remove them from the USA. They do not deserve to live here. Or simply move trump's wall north, and separate texas from the rest of the the USA.

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I've never been violent before, but a political party calling me "abnormal" triggers violent feelings. Totally unrelated: gun laws are very lax these days.

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What is wrong with this country. All I can think of is what Hitler did to Europe. We are heading toward a country of hate and lies.

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