Since the Texas Constitution does not allow the governor to remove legislators from office, doing so amounts to a self-coup and the resulting illegal government would not be legitimate. This is a crisis that will spiral.
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aug 4, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
They should all tell Hot Wheels to go fuck off a cliff.
aug 4, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Why not remove Abbott.
aug 4, 2025, 9:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Effing fascist.
aug 5, 2025, 11:28 am • 0 0 • view
The democrats are doing the right thing. They care!
aug 4, 2025, 4:25 pm • 3 0 • view
The person enforcing the Texas Constitution is Ken Paxton. The people interpreting the Texas Constitution are the Texas Supreme Court, entirely composed of Republicans. Abbott has carte blanche.
aug 4, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
As I said. Illegitimate.
aug 4, 2025, 3:20 pm • 2 0 • view
CA should just go ahead and gerrymander the state. Ensure we have the House to save our country. The end justifies the means...
aug 6, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
It's possible that Texas will become its own dictatorship/country. It's already well on its way there. And no doubt Florida will do the same. And several other "red" states too. A lot of Broligarchs are moving to Texas for a reason. They're looking to be kings too. So much for the United States.
aug 4, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
I am a former Texan and all I have to say is Bye, Y’all!
aug 5, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Throw him into the river on the razor wire
aug 4, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
The U.S. army should take over to defend democracy.
aug 4, 2025, 4:49 pm • 0 0 • view
He's pussyfooting already by pushing the deadline back from this morning
aug 4, 2025, 2:52 pm • 7 0 • view
TACO, Abbott-style
aug 4, 2025, 3:15 pm • 3 0 • view
An Abbott Taco is oily beef, cheddar cheese, sour cream, and iceberg lettuce on Ortega hard shells
aug 4, 2025, 3:18 pm • 4 0 • view
American cheese!
aug 5, 2025, 3:40 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 4, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Get ready to start the lawsuits.
aug 4, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Republicans will do ANYTHING for trump. They'd suck his dick in public (instead of private like they do now) if he told them to.
aug 4, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 1 • view
It will spiral to the national level, as the House of Representatives can’t seat the fake TX reps without risking its own legitimacy, which it will do, and if the GOP retains control of the House because of a coup in Texas, there’s not much reason for anyone to treat the U.S. government as real.
aug 4, 2025, 1:15 pm • 85 11 • view
SCOTUS will say it's real though.
aug 4, 2025, 1:26 pm • 13 0 • view
They're more illegitimate than any of these institutions at this point.
aug 4, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course they will.
aug 4, 2025, 2:06 pm • 15 0 • view
Considering how many times SCOTUS has invented precedent to bend over backwards to allow the current administration to get away with pretty much anything they want, aren't we there already?
aug 4, 2025, 2:38 pm • 4 0 • view
This has to do with the Texas state house not US reps
aug 5, 2025, 8:40 am • 0 0 • view
Abbott doesn't have a leg to stand on
aug 5, 2025, 2:58 am • 2 0 • view
Don't back down. Let the gop make the mistakes.
aug 4, 2025, 3:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah... the whole point of democracy is to give governments popular legitimacy. If Abbott removes Hinojosa and replaces her with Mackowiak or whoever, why should I treat anything that House does as legal?
aug 4, 2025, 1:36 pm • 11 0 • view
I mean, they control the power of the state to wield violence. In that sense does it matter if you think it’s legal?
aug 6, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
The 2nd Big Blowhard.
aug 5, 2025, 5:24 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, WE know that, but does HE know that? If so, does he even care?!
aug 4, 2025, 3:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't worry, I'm sure SCOTUS will give him the power to remove elected officials he doesn't like. #GregAbbott
aug 4, 2025, 3:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Apparently the rule of law is for suckers and losers.
aug 5, 2025, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
if they can't be removed from office, how is this going to work? what is the status of the flood response?
aug 4, 2025, 1:06 pm • 4 0 • view
The plan is to make it work by having enough elected Republicans and law enforcement brute force it an pretend like it was real. Same as all coups.
aug 4, 2025, 1:09 pm • 19 0 • view
Flood response? Oh yeah, uh, God’s got that.
aug 4, 2025, 3:10 pm • 0 0 • view
There is not even a bill filed for flood response. This session was clearly not about that. It's only on the call so that Rs can accuse Ds (who all voted for HB13 about emergency services in the reg session - R Dan Patrick killed it). It's craven and we shouldn't fall into their narrative.
aug 4, 2025, 1:15 pm • 7 1 • view
Can Abbott even name replacements? All he can do is order special elections to fill vacated seats right? Is quorum set by total seats or current held seats?
aug 4, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
He says he can appoint replacements - no elections.
aug 5, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Reminds me of Girkin rounding Crimean legislators up to declare desirable outcome www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCq...
aug 5, 2025, 8:14 am • 1 1 • view
The tx Supreme Court doesn’t care, I’m sure they will green light it all.
aug 4, 2025, 2:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Correction - the TX Dems are not running from a fight - they are flying out of town from a rigged game.
aug 5, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
This is nuts. Even if he had the authority to remove(he doesn’t), there would have to be special elections. This takes a lot of time and money. I will not have appointed representation. #TX115
aug 5, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
GOP death spiral? Texas first? Ok.
aug 5, 2025, 2:30 am • 2 0 • view
Scotus will help Abbott, ca & IL can go ahead and step up
aug 5, 2025, 2:37 am • 2 0 • view
tis will be very interesting how the 2A crowd will behave
aug 4, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Probably terrorizing brown people and open-carrying in grocery stores, same as usual
aug 4, 2025, 4:58 pm • 6 0 • view
From fake electors to fake electeds
aug 4, 2025, 1:37 pm • 9 0 • view
Fascism is about power, not legitimacy or constitutions. There's no downside to this for the far-right. Preventing an illegal regime from doing whatever it wants to requires using force, and Dems (and liberals in general) refuse to even consider that option. Abbott has nothing to worry about.
aug 4, 2025, 3:09 pm • 14 4 • view
What is the force the Dems could wield? I’m thinking international. We have certainly helped the rest of the world all these years??? Perhaps masked volunteers in unmarked cars? We need to do something, free and fair midterms are not a reality now….
aug 5, 2025, 3:38 pm • 0 0 • view