Tag: Texas
-
Texas Panic
There was a special election for a state Senate seat, in Texas, last Saturday. Texas is a reliable red state which has shown signs of turning a bit purple. Donald Trump, in the federal election, in 2024, won this district by 17 points. So this should’ve been an easy win for Texas state Republicans. Funny…
-
Gerrymandering
OK class, today we will learn about gerrymandering. The Oxford dictionary defines gerrymandering as follows, manipulate the boundaries of (an electoral constituency) so as to favor one party or class. The word, gerrymander, originated back in 1812, when governor Elbridge Jerry signed a bill, redrawing Senate districts in Massachusetts, which would favour his party. One of the districts…
-
Pro-Life Small Government BS
This is Kate Cox. A Texas mother of two. Texas has one of the strictest abortion bans in the country. Cox had requested the Court to put in place a temporary restraining order in the abortion ban. The grounds, supported by a number of physicians was that her unborn baby had a fatal genetic condition…
-
Reactions
Attribution to J Dimas This is another chirp where my description of what people said does not do justice. These are quotes relating to the latest gun massacre in Allen, Texas. There have now been over 200 mass shooting the US this year and we are only into May. A number of these shootings have…
-
True Deplorable
Attribution to J Dimas This is Greg Abbott, the Governor of Texas. Yesterday’s chirp covered the execution style murder, Friday night, of five people, in Cleveland, Texas, including an eight-year-old child. Abbott’s first tweet, Saturday morning, was of a cute dog, with the caption, “all smiles for the weekend” Pretty insensitive tweet, given what happened…
-
It Is Too Late
Source CNN Website – Family Photo The following are excerpts from Texas legislation on guns. As of 2021, people who qualify under the law can carry a handgun in a public place in Texas without a license to carry (LTC). Texas law does not specifically put restrictions on who can carry a long gun such…
-
Beyond Belief
Sourced from CNN – Jay Jenner/Austin American Statesman/USA Today Network The man in the centre is Daniel Perry. On July 25, 2020, Perry drove into a crowd of BLM protesters. The protest was related to the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota. Perry was a US Army Sergeant, at the time He ran through a…