In a game that is only played in one country... (well two if this genius is successful)
“The independence of Texas is good for humanity as a whole,”
I doubt it is possible be more narcissistic and self centred.
Personally, If Texas ever declared and the USA allowed them to leave I have a feeling they would be begging the US to readmit them to the union in a very short time.
These people fail to realise that so much of what they benefit from being in Texas is because it is part of the USA.
What happens when NASA and the DOD remove all their facilities and staff?
What happens when they have to defend themselves?
Sign trade agreements with the rest of the world?
What happens when the USA slaps tariffs on their oil to protect US interests?
Etc
etc
etc
etc.
It reminds me of children talking about how cool it will be when they are adults and don't have to listen to mom and dad.
God, I wish they could just do it in exchange for them accepting all the fucking yahoos who think Christo-fascism is a good idea in the other 49, and in exchange for evacuating everyone with an ounce of sense in Texas.
While serving time for an unrelated assault in 2002, Gonzales confessed to the rape and murder of Bridget Townsend in Medina County, west of San Antonio, and guided police to her remains.
In a statement on Monday, Gonzales’ attorneys, Thea Posel and Raoul Schonemann, called their client “a man who today is, in almost every sense, a different person than he was when he killed Bridget Townsend in 2001.”
A pleading filed this month by Gonzales’ legal team challenging his death sentence asserted that he didn’t receive effective counsel during his post-conviction review.
Gonzales’ pleading this month cited research about his childhood conducted by Kate Porterfield, a clinical psychologist who studies the impact of trauma on children.
The failure to properly investigate and present this evidence during Gonzales’ initial habeas petition showed that his lawyer was ineffective, his current legal team argued while asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to reconsider its dismissal.
They cited multiple studies and medical or legal associations that have proposed raising the age for death penalty eligibility from 18 to 21, based on brain development.
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If you're in a red district, call your rep and tell them you'll donate to Joe Biden if they support these theofascists. Maybe they'll get the message.
Even if you're a Christian, remember that they don't want Christianity in power, they want only their version of Christianity in power, with them in the inner circle.
An influential grassroots group with close ties to Texas Republican lawmakers is hosting a conference next month that encourages its attendees to embrace Christian nationalism and resist a Democratic campaign “to rid the earth of the white race.”
Speakers include retired U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert, two prominent Christian nationalist authors, and Paul Gottfried, a far-right writer who has for years collaborated with white supremacists and mentored neo-Nazis such as Richard Spencer.
Formerly known as the NE Tarrant Tea Party, True Texas Project was integral to the rise of the state’s ultraconservative movement throughout the 2010s, but rebranded after its founder, Julie McCarty, wrote on social media that she sympathized with the gunman who murdered 23 Hispanic people at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 — one of many mass shooters who have been motivated by a belief in Great Replacement Theory.
The conference was announced as Republicans continue to embrace once-fringe ideologies such as Great Replacement Theory and Christian nationalism, which claims that America’s founding was God-ordained and that its laws and institutions should therefore be dictated by their fundamentalist religious views.
In an email exchange this week, the speaker for that session, Wade Miller, pushed back against claims that Great Replacement Theory is inherently antisemitic or racist, and said that he is “pretty vocal” in his “support for Israel and the right of Jews to defend themselves from terrorists and violent hate.”
In an email to the Tribune this week, Gottfried downplayed concerns about the conference, its embrace of Great Replacement Theory and the comments by True Texas Project’s leaders in the wake of the El Paso WalMart massacre.
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Lest you forget, cruelty is the point, no matter what they say.
They don't care about taxes "being used correctly," because they are sitting on one of the biggest slush funds in the entire US, and they couldn't possibly be bothered to actually use it to better the lives of Texans. /s
ETA: These kinds of guaranteed income programs always work, no matter where they're deployed. $500/mo isn't enough for anyone to just grift off the system for long at all, and most want to be self-sufficient anyway. If the point or effect of poverty programs isn't to pull people out of poverty, then you're doing it wrong (or in the case of Conservatives, the system is working as intended).
The aid was part of San Antonio’s Two-Year Fund, a so-called guaranteed income program that gave money to low-income households with no strings attached.
Whereas other welfare funds like food stamps and housing vouchers provide assistance for specific expenses, guaranteed income programs allow recipients to decide how they spend the money.
Financed by a combination of federal, local and philanthropic funds, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso County have collectively issued about $9 million in payments to roughly 1,500 households since 2020.
The Urban Institute found that people who participated in Austin’s pilot program, which ran from 2022 to 2023, spent 58% of the money on rent and the rest mostly on basic needs and utilities.
Anti-poverty initiatives traditionally have specific objectives, such as increasing house ownership or providing workforce development, but guaranteed income programs enable households to decide what’s the best way for them to build wealth, said Jesús Gerena, CEO of UpTogether.
Bogle pointed to research that shows increases in household income improve future employment opportunities for children, which helps break the cycle of welfare.
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Why does it matter where they're located. Trading is online and there's really no reason, aside from tradition, to have people on a floor trading securities.
In a vacuum I could see this being a very positive endeavor. However judging from the listed backers of this scheme and their explicitly stated goals I can't see it being anything but a horror show.
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