Texas' Ted Cruz says protests outside Supreme Court justice's homes worse than Jan 6 insurrection

[danimagoo]

Yeah, something like that. Guess I don’t have to write it, now.

[Kii]

No doubt the state is gerrymandered into a pile of pretzels, but that has little direct bearing on a US Senate election. Those are state wide. Now, there are less direct effects of the gerrymandering, like who gets elected elections commissioners. Those are the people deciding polling locations and hours. Which can affect who gets to vote

[Mangochin]

They clearly aren’t but if anyone is up for erecting a gallows outside Brett Kavanaugh’s home, I’m game.

[DurhamO]

@Papasan

Ted Cruz, a boil on the ass of humanity. Good job Ted…

Yeah, but you can lance a boil …

I shudder to think of what might drain from ol’ Teddy if we lanced him.

[Papasan]

Oh, yucky poo.

[nick_warr]

I’m thinking a large wooden toilet with the sign “<= get in” might be less likely to gain you police attention.

[Gyrofrog]

@Orbital

The proposition of Conservatism: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
– Frank Wilhoit

I’m thinking this could/should be a corollary (or something):

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

– Jean Giraudoux

@Shuck

We’ve seen frequent - and sometimes quite invasive - protests outside the homes of Democratic lawmakers in recent years, and here in California (and I’m pretty sure we’re not the only ones) there have been huge problems with right-wingers, sometimes armed, showing up and protesting on the front lawns of public health officials over their covid advice, without Republicans having an issue with any of it

Weren’t/aren’t they also doing this to election officials? Possibly school board members, as well as any number of hitherto-mundane elected officials and even unelected public employees?

ETA:

@DurhamO

I shudder to think of what might drain from ol’ Teddy if we lanced him.

Brimstone

[Shuck]

@Gyrofrog

Weren’t/aren’t they also doing this to election officials? Possibly school board members

Not so much (or at all, maybe) in California, but yeah, I was forgetting about that - the protests (and threats) hitting election officials and especially school board members were really bad in a lot of states… The protests of public health officials really struck me, as it’s not like they’re elected officials or have any kind of power, all they could do was offer advice that elected officials could ignore. The protests served no purpose other than to scare people from staying in those jobs.

[MerelyGifted]

[ficuswhisperer]

Susan Collins Called 911 Over A Chalk Drawing Asking Her To "Please" Support...

Polite message written in chalk on the sidewalk outside your house? Time to call the cops!

[RickMycroft]

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦

A march or parade is okay according to the Supreme Court, especially on the public sidewalk.

[snigs]

Not allowing Merrick Garland to have a confirmation hearing was much worse than protests outside the homes of people who shouldn’t fucking be Supreme Court Justices.

[IronEdithKidd]

She’s one delicate snowflake, eh?

[MerelyGifted]

[jimp]

What seems oddly funny is Texas’ main piece of pride is an attempt to overthrow their lawful government (Mexico) back in the day.

(Mostly to protect their slave owning class no matter what they may claim.)

[ficuswhisperer]

@jimp

Texas’ main piece of pride is an attempt to overthrow their lawful government

And pretty much every election cycle there’s a ballot measure to secede from the Union. And the deeply problematic worship of the Alamo that’s primarily based on ret-conned and inaccurate history.

[chenille]

Sam Houston said to remember the Alamo, and so Texans follow that order to this day, but unfortunately didn’t specify what to remember about it.