Hey Texas, Get Lost.
The rest of us think you’ve gone crazy
Texans like to talk about seceding from the Union. It’s part of the Texan mythology, which is proving to really be about stupid politicians trying to circumvent the laws, guns, racism, inadequate energy systems, false paranoia about something called Critical Race Theory, even the fact that their beloved myth of the Alamo is completely untrue.
As far as I’m concerned, I say do it. Leave. Start your own country. Make Abbot king with absolute powers. Oh, and good luck with Covid because it’s killing the people who voted these knuckleheads in.
Seriously, this latest attempt to circumvent Roe v. Wade by making it impossible to take an appeal to the Supreme Court through a legal gimmick, bends my mind into pretzel knots. And the screaming about Critical Race Theory, which is disrupting local school board meetings across the country, is limiting those boards’ ability to function.
This is all about racism and the potential to become a blue state
Critical Race Theory is an obscure academic idea that is not taught anywhere as a curriculum. Virtually no one getting hysterical about it actually can describe what it is. I single out Texas because of the real story behind all this. Texas is rapidly becoming a…