Fascism in Texas

[BluesLegend]

Apparently Democrats FEAR allowing the people's representatives to vote on things. So much for the democracy BS.

 

[Foolardi]

Idiocy.

Gee Louis ... don't bother to waste time or words explainin' yer
juvenile Fauntleroy absurdity.
Like watching a version of - Do the Right Thing - { 1989 }
And ... " The Power ".

 

[yidnar]

Texas Republicans have decided that Democrats must agree to be followed around by a police officer 24/7, or they cannot leave the Capitol.

Try telling me this isn't fascism. And watch the excuses, whataboutisms, and false equivalences flow.

Texas Democrat locked inside Capitol after refusing to sign slip for mandatory escort​

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The escorts for all House Democrats who left the state of Texas last month — preventing a vote on a GOP-led redistricting effort — are meant as a guarantee that they will return to the House by 10 a.m. Wednesday for the next special session.

CBS News Texas spoke with Collier via Zoom on Monday, and she said the situation is wrong — just like the new Congressional maps she and other Democrats have tried to block from being passed. She also said that, according to DPS, she must stay in the House chambers or inside her office at the Capitol.

CBS News Texas has reached out to DPS for comment.

In a statement, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said the police escorts were the "latest Republican tactic to monitor and control Democratic lawmakers following their successful quorum break."

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.

MSN

scream commie scream ! its music to our ears !

 

[IM2]

scream commie scream ! its music to our ears !

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I don't live in Texas, fascist. And you will be screaming next year.

 

[yidnar]

I don't live in Texas, fascist. And you will be screaming next year.

 

[IM2]

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People laughed at Noah years before the flood.

Then it began to rain.

 

[IM2]

Gee Louis ... don't bother to waste time or words explainin' yer
juvenile Fauntleroy absurdity.
Like watching a version of - Do the Right Thing - { 1989 }
And ... " The Power ".

No need to. That word said everything.

 

[candycorn]

Apparently Democrats FEAR allowing the people's representatives to vote on things. So much for the democracy BS.

Are republicans offering to put their new map up to a binding public referendum?

 

[struth]

Texas Republicans have decided that Democrats must agree to be followed around by a police officer 24/7, or they cannot leave the Capitol.

Try telling me this isn't fascism. And watch the excuses, whataboutisms, and false equivalences flow.

Texas Democrat locked inside Capitol after refusing to sign slip for mandatory escort​

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The escorts for all House Democrats who left the state of Texas last month — preventing a vote on a GOP-led redistricting effort — are meant as a guarantee that they will return to the House by 10 a.m. Wednesday for the next special session.

CBS News Texas spoke with Collier via Zoom on Monday, and she said the situation is wrong — just like the new Congressional maps she and other Democrats have tried to block from being passed. She also said that, according to DPS, she must stay in the House chambers or inside her office at the Capitol.

CBS News Texas has reached out to DPS for comment.

In a statement, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said the police escorts were the "latest Republican tactic to monitor and control Democratic lawmakers following their successful quorum break."

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.

MSN

Police escorts aren’t uncommon for people that violate the law

 

[Monoculturalist]

Are republicans offering to put their new map up to a binding public referendum?

That's not a bad idea for every state.... like California, Illinois, etc....

 

[candycorn]

That's not a bad idea for every state.... like California, Illinois, etc....

A better idea would be this:

Use the census data like the way the Post Office does. They divide the people up by ZIP codes and staffing levels are then dictated by how many residents are in a particular zip code. 10036 (Manhattan) will have more letter carriers than 79928 (El Paso).

Except in the census, you also have other demographics. One such use is income. Income often means wealth. The wants and desires of the wealthy are often different than those of us who are not as wealthy. When you're wealthy...you worry about smooth streets and parks... when you're less wealthy you worry more about public schools and health clinics.

Anyway, take the number of districts in your state--for the ease of math lets say there is 10--then divide the population up by 10 using nothing but income. The "lines" we currently have will disappear and be replaced by ZIP codes and whatever lines the post office has drawn. Again, the post office draws the lines using nothing but population data...no preference is given to whether the mail recipient is black, white, Hispanic, rich, poor, male, female, etc... It will vary by state but put your highest earners--state wide--into Group A. The next highest earners in Group B. All the way to Group J. The key is to make the income bands so wide that you end up with roughly the same amount of people in each group.

So you have a population of lets say 5,000,000 divided into 10 groups of 500,000 more or less. Then you simply start assigning ZIP codes to each district via lottery. District 1 gets a ZIP code out of group A, the next one goes to group B, then the next one to C, etc... until they are all gone. Then you start with group B. What you end up with is 10 districts that have roughly the same amount of people in them but you're no longer drawing districts...the ZIP codes have done that for you.

The end result is that each elected official ends up with a mix of rich and poor which, I think most people would agree, is the primary dividing criteria that drives everything else. You get rid of "safe" seats since the demographics of any district are a completely random event. Thus you have more responsive politicians who really have to worry about re-election.

 

[BluesLegend]

Are republicans offering to put their new map up to a binding public referendum?

Are you slow or something? The people sent their representatives to the state house. The people's representatives are ready to vote only asshole Democrats fled the state to DENY DEMOCRACY.

 

[candycorn]

Are you slow or something? The people sent their representatives to the state house. The people's representatives are ready to vote only asshole Democrats fled the state to DENY DEMOCRACY.

So the answer is "no" that the GOP isn't willing to let the voters decide. Got it.

 

[luiza]

At minimum ,dangerous dogs must be puzzled .
So what price for not muzzling dangerous Mutants .

Would you even consider letting someone as unstable and Obsessional as IQ-2.0 anywhere near your family and friends ?

Of course not .

 

[berg80]

Why does the House have the power to issue arrest warrants if that capacity is not to be used for situations like this?

Do you really think the legislators who originally authorized that power intended it to be used for a purpose like this? A spectacularly transparent abuse of power at the direction of a corrupt prez in order to subvert the will of the people. You must be ******* insane.

 

[berg80]

That's not a bad idea for every state.... like California, Illinois, etc....

CA will have a question on the ballot this Nov. for voters to approve the extraordinary step of redistricting outside of the normal 10 year cycle after a census. Dem's already have a 14-3 majority in IL so creating a Dem seat there is unlikely.

 

[Hafar1014]

Texas Republicans have decided that Democrats must agree to be followed around by a police officer 24/7, or they cannot leave the Capitol.

Try telling me this isn't fascism. And watch the excuses, whataboutisms, and false equivalences flow.

Texas Democrat locked inside Capitol after refusing to sign slip for mandatory escort​

Democratic state Rep. Nicole Collier from Fort Worth returned to the Texas Capitol on Monday but says she remains locked inside the Capitol because she wouldn't sign a permission slip to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The escorts for all House Democrats who left the state of Texas last month — preventing a vote on a GOP-led redistricting effort — are meant as a guarantee that they will return to the House by 10 a.m. Wednesday for the next special session.

CBS News Texas spoke with Collier via Zoom on Monday, and she said the situation is wrong — just like the new Congressional maps she and other Democrats have tried to block from being passed. She also said that, according to DPS, she must stay in the House chambers or inside her office at the Capitol.

CBS News Texas has reached out to DPS for comment.

In a statement, the Texas House Democratic Caucus said the police escorts were the "latest Republican tactic to monitor and control Democratic lawmakers following their successful quorum break."

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.

MSN

When democrats use the word fascism they have no idea what it means because its a better description of what they are.

 

[Harry Dresden]

A better idea would be this:

Use the census data like the way the Post Office does. They divide the people up by ZIP codes and staffing levels are then dictated by how many residents are in a particular zip code. 10036 (Manhattan) will have more letter carriers than 79928 (El Paso).

Except in the census, you also have other demographics. One such use is income. Income often means wealth. The wants and desires of the wealthy are often different than those of us who are not as wealthy. When you're wealthy...you worry about smooth streets and parks... when you're less wealthy you worry more about public schools and health clinics.

Anyway, take the number of districts in your state--for the ease of math lets say there is 10--then divide the population up by 10 using nothing but income. The "lines" we currently have will disappear and be replaced by ZIP codes and whatever lines the post office has drawn. Again, the post office draws the lines using nothing but population data...no preference is given to whether the mail recipient is black, white, Hispanic, rich, poor, male, female, etc... It will vary by state but put your highest earners--state wide--into Group A. The next highest earners in Group B. All the way to Group J. The key is to make the income bands so wide that you end up with roughly the same amount of people in each group.

So you have a population of lets say 5,000,000 divided into 10 groups of 500,000 more or less. Then you simply start assigning ZIP codes to each district via lottery. District 1 gets a ZIP code out of group A, the next one goes to group B, then the next one to C, etc... until they are all gone. Then you start with group B. What you end up with is 10 districts that have roughly the same amount of people in them but you're no longer drawing districts...the ZIP codes have done that for you.

The end result is that each elected official ends up with a mix of rich and poor which, I think most people would agree, is the primary dividing criteria that drives everything else. You get rid of "safe" seats since the demographics of any district are a completely random event. Thus you have more responsive politicians who really have to worry about re-election.

Use the census data like the way the Post Office does.
the PO does not use the census data.....they determine route size by how many deliveries one would have and how long it takes to deliver said route....they go by addresses not population...during route checks all that matters is how many deliveries and the time it takes to deliver the route,doesnt matter how many live on a route....The USPS assigns ZIP Code ranges to regional post offices, which in turn assign ZIP Codes to delivery routes Each delivery route is composed of street networks, and/or individual units with high mail volumes, such as high-rise buildings or individual business locations......mail volume and the amount of deliveries and the time it takes to deliver the route is all that matters...population doesnt matter at all....

 

[Chuz Life]

Do you really think the legislators who originally authorized that power intended it to be used for a purpose like this? A spectacularly transparent abuse of power at the direction of a corrupt prez in order to subvert the will of the people. You must be ******* insane.

You talk as though you are not aware that this response was ever used or promised to be used, before now. However, it has been. Nothing was done about it before (by the courts) and I doubt anyone will do anything more than whine about it now.

 

[jc456]

Excuse number 1.

you really are unaware.