Texas State Senator Angela Paxton is married to AG Ken Paxton, who’s about to be impeached. She refuses to recuse herself from the Senate trial because “my constituents deserve it.” Her husband, who fought to overturn Biden’s win, has protested that impeaching him would go against the sacred will of the voters.
Sen. Josh Hawley marks Juneteenth by claiming the US is where “slavery came to die,” ignoring that nations from England to Mexico ended it sooner. In the same spirit, Republican propagandist Charlie Kirk declares that celebrating the end of slavery gives the middle finger to July 4.
Wisconsin Republican Robin Vos says if not for abortion “how many Americans today would be alive in our workforce, doing all the things that helped make America great,” As Shakezula says at the link, “Consciously or not, Vos was riffing on the old anti-liberty message that if girls and women aren’t forced to carry unwanted pregnancies to term, it could deprive the world of the one person who would eventually grow up to cure cancer. (A message I’m convinced was created after they figured out that the signs that asked people to consider what would have happened if Jesus had been aborted were a tad blasphemous.) In that narrower case, no one is concerned that the inability to get an abortion might keep a living girl or woman from finding the cure. Science and medicine are for boys.”
Florida Republican Randy Fine can’t stand anyone disagreeing with him.
Florida Man Ron DeSantis continues accusing his enemies of being groomers. He also plans to transform the Department of Justice if elected, presumably renaming it something like Ron’s Gestapo. DeSantis is also happy to protect the car dealership industry. Or maybe that’s the job of his new state guard.
On the plus side of Florida, a judge has pushed back against DeSantis’ anti-trans campaign. Scientific American says DeSantis is not fit to be president.
Back when NC State Rep. Tricia Cotham was a pro-choice Democrat, she talked about having had an abortion. Now that she’s a forced-birth Republican, she claims she didn’t.
North Carolina Republicans have joined in hating on diversity in business. More here.
Robert F. Kennedy: Republican in all but name.
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts’ dream of undoing racial equality continues to bear fruit. As the NYT says, the current SCOTUS deserves some contempt. And more contempt. So do some of our past justices.
Republican conservative preacher Kenneth Copeland says this entire nation should follow George Washington’s religious views … which Copeland gets wrong.
New York Republican Elise Stefanik is raising money for herself off Trump’s indictment.
Oklahoma has just funded the first religious charter school financed by secular tax dollars.
But hey, Democrats can be bad too, like a Florida Democrat arguing for a DeSantis presidency even if he gets “the culture wars wrong.” Which makes it sound like DeSantis accidentally used the wrong pronouns rather than an organized anti-gay campaign and protecting sexual harassers.
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