• Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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    Everyone in Texas that I know is furious about this (except for my dad, who stuck his head in the sand at about the same time my parents ended their physical subscription to the Dallas Morning News; he insists that both parties bad, though I can’t imagine he actually still believes that, I think he’s just coping). However we’re too locked into the republican party at this point to really be able to do anything. Thanks to federal judges for ruling that gerrymandering is legal when it only affects party voters, our districts are fucked.

    The Republicans have realized that our laws, our constitution and it’s amendments, and our treaties, are all just pieces of paper. They archive historical agreements which we’ve decided to abide by, but they have no power themselves. As such, they stop being a problem if you just ignore them.

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      Sadly nature gets to vote on the future of Texas, and while I’m sure Jerrell can be enshrined as the F5 limit in Texas law, how does San Antonio sound as a counter offer.

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      The surprise was that it was his own party that started impeachment proceedings.

      They backed off once they realized that it had national attention.

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    Corruption is a core trait of a conservative politician. Condemning him for corruption would have been the same as condemning him for being a conservative.

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    Sounds vile. It was surprising they even brought charges against him. Maybe how he individually threatened lawmakers about their reelection (or who knows what else) helped him. Or perhaps whatever persuaded the woman who had the affair to not testify (could it be witness intimidation perhaps?).

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    Republicans brought charges just to acquit, because he can’t face trial again due to double jeopardy.

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    I wonder how many cocks Paxton sucked to get the acquittal.

    Getting a feeling this impeachment trial was a signal to other GOP incumbents — do not fuck with our O&G masters.

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    historic to no one but the clown circus that is the texas legislature. seriously people look it up, the rules are bonkers. im surprised entire state functions as ‘well’ as it does.