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Mar 2, 2026 6:44 PM
GwensBackOnHerBS
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cgt9803
Because Freedom
slopwizard
Sorry, just wanted to check, these are the same people who were gnashing their teeth about masks and vaccines? Shrieking until they were blue in the face that the government was making medical decisions for them?
ViolentlyJaded
How is he not in jail? Isn't he a literal criminal?
CambreathdTheSecound
ah yes the lets torture them till they change is truly an example of the land of the free.. So much Freedom. The freedom to kill the disadvantaged for profit.
Cosmicbacklash
Fun story: I was recently caring for a trans child who is now neurologically devastated because she hung herself. Even as a now vegetable the parents continue to deadname her, and I really just wanted to ask them if they realized why their daughter attempted what she did. Of course, I have no way of knowing for sure, but I feel safe enough to put money on it. This was naturally in Texas. My state can F off.
BJWTech
So awful.
veronicablood
MAKE TEXAS BLUE AGAIN!
DrSchlepenstein
Paxton needs to be Kirk'd.
ChiLLeCheeze
It's pronounced "ghhrk". You have to hold your throat and then slump afterwords while saying his name.
SqueezitTheClown
okkehel
How many steps do you think are you away from locking trans up in concentrationcamps? 1 or 2?
GwensBackOnHerBS
I was hoping we'd make it to the midterms before that.
I figure if the Republicans pull off enough voter subversion to keep the house of Representatives... I have to leave the country.
PennysWorthOfTea
In the red states, probably 1 or 2. Everywhere else, maybe around 3 or 4.
ABrokenThing
People are monsters, Republicans are shit.
AyatollahBahloni
It's not fair to tar all the members of a group with the same brush, but when it comes to Republicans and MAGA, just point the way to La Brea.
SergeyPrkl
Well, why not? It is pointless to lay hopes on the good ones if they aren't willing or able to do something about it. At the moment, in america, it seems to be an will issue, not ability.
CookieRunner20XD6
Wait WHAT? You can't go and claim something is a mental health issue on one hand and then deny mental health treatment in the other.
I mean, hypocrites can.
Oh...... I see now. They ARE hypocrites!
CookieRunner20XD6
Just clarifying - I didn't -just- have an epiphany. It's common knowledge the majority of politicians are hipocrites.
StellarJay77
It's more that trans people are incapable of being good in their minds. They are not human. Only humans get metal health care for mental health issues. Choosing to be okay with remaining trans means a person's choosing to remain evil to them so the only way to becoming good is to not be trans.
CookieRunner20XD6
The hypocrisy builds! See many MAGA use evangelical Christian beliefs as a foundation (scapegoat) for their actions. One of the fundamental tenants of Christianity is that no one is good and we've all fallen short of Gods law - thus needing a savior to redeem us. He loves all of us and we have value as we are created in Gods image. But if they do not view trans as humans then they are again hypocrites to their own (claimed) belief system.
StellarJay77
What's saying to them that trans people aren't just demons and therefore "not human"? Therefore they are not subject to the redemption of the saviour. That's just how they work, it's not hypocrisy in their mind it's about two separate sets of rules. Rules for them, who are good and righteous, and rules for everyone else, who are evil and malicious.
CookieRunner20XD6
I still hope they see sense and repent all the same.
Picdump2508
Republicans are committing trans genocide.
expectnothingstillletdown
they sure are trying to. And the Dems don't seem particularly motivated to stop them.
levelor
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Muppetman18
duffman3335
Land of the free...
L4dead2
Funny how they kept asking what rights are people losing? We foresaw this happening
PapaJoeNH
More bullshit that will be overturned. And that asshole knows it. He demands suffering
Bryllyg
We'll have to take it to federal court though because Paxton runs all of his nonsense through Collin County judges, some of the most conservative in the state. It will take years.
DaffydeDick
Paxton and Republicans are guided by religious extremism.
wherethehorriblethingsare
Ken Paxton needs to try on a woodchipper for size.
Baconlovesyoutoo
One size fits all, he can just slip in to it.
quietwalker
Yes, thank you.
AnonOmis1000
Feet first
michiyl
As long as he gets in, the result should be okay for us, right?
CerisCinderwolf
"The cruelty and suffering is the point" party deserve nothing less than what they reap.
Blunderwriter
lol...you're gonna get an email...lol...though I do concur. Him and the guv.
wherethehorriblethingsare
I am allowed to wish him harm, just not plan to enact it.
Blunderwriter
I wished the wheelchair bound arsehole harm...got an email...unfortunately it was to the email my wife can also read...and she was none too pleased. That was years ago and she STILL doesn't trust me on "forums"... Shrug. Perhaps I need to work on kindness...which unfortunately is lost on "these people" so I lose hope in kindness if it's to be shown to assholes. No time for it. Save it for people who deserve it.
robpaschal
How can an AG do this? Why does this office have this power?
GwensBackOnHerBS
It is doing it by the Republican power of "Fuck you, stop me if you can."
TeddyMoment
How the fuck can an AG declare what is or isn't legal? Did the legislature pass this as a law or is he just making shit up?
WaxedApple
No one will stop him. Laws arent real, you can do anything you can't be stopped from doing. No one will stop Paxton because there is no opposition.
whereismymind86
He can’t, not really, but he can issue something akin to an executive order asking the state legislature to put that into place
idiotsonfire
He's a Republican. Republicans are authoritarian Nazis. All of them. They all lust for the centralization of power into a monarchy again.
Iaimtomisbehave
Yes he makes shit up and he's running for John Cornyn's senate seat. If he gets it he'll be an even bigger national problem.
NeverDownvoteMelBrooks
That thought makes me queasy. With him and Cruz as our faces in the Senate it'd be a 24/7 loop of out-of-tune dueling banjos, but crueler.
NKato
The upside is that he's no longer AG in that case and you guys could have a shot at fixing the state.
wooliebooger
I’m cautiously optimistic. The guys is corrupt to the core and I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone who likes him, but the same is true for Cruz so we’re probably still fucked.
Iaimtomisbehave
There's a lot of people running for that seat. Crockett or Talarico gets it we'll damn sure have better representation.
monkeyfly
The US has been anti health for the population for a while now. Sick people are desperate. Desperate people are willing to make concessions. This is their culture.
MechKelly
Search his hard drive for the love of god. Publish his search history. Guarantee he's up to some shady shit.
NKato
Time to intentionally miscode all mental trans mental health visits as "conversion" therapy.
Sooner70
Sounds like the mental health care industry in Texas needs to rebrand itself as a religion. It's still legal for clergy to "counsel" people who need help, after all. The churches don't even seem to mind taking money for it. Insurance is an issue though.
appleporpoise
The Satanic Temple has its own reproductive health care clinics, next up therapy with satan :)
wejustdontknow
This is the kind of rebellion I can get behind.
StarscreamAndHutch
Just take the copay as payment. $20 an hour to do the lord’s work? Sounds like win win to me.
IceWeaselX
No way this would work if they stuck to copayment equivalents. Copays are the deductible for the insurance premium, and insurance companies certainly won't cover them if they do this.
SOME medical workers would be willing (free clinics exist), but the majority of them would refuse to lose those insurance payments.
HiddenSanity
A lot of the insurance cost in the US these days is to allow for infinite profits for the insurance industry, tho
IceWeaselX
Truth. And it sucks. Our insurance system grossly obfuscates the actual monetary value of necessary services, and exploits that to inflate profits.
StarscreamAndHutch
They should be working for free as a servant to the lord. 20 bucks is 20 bucks.
Grimlinnan
Nazi
Chilichunks
So they love to call it a mental illness and then not allow mental health treatment for it? Man, it almost makes me think that maybe the cruelty is the point. /s
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Paxton should be in jail for securities fraud but the Republicans in Texas realized if they punished him they would all be fucked so they just dropped the investigation.
nothingtolurkhere
Don't forget the Mont Blanc pen he stole, too.
cytherians
Texas is a political cesspool.
https://imgur.com/A4AEedR
threepotatoesinatrenchcoat
Yep. Looking forward to voting tomorrow
shitheadtookmyname
It's just a primary. Are you a Republican?
threepotatoesinatrenchcoat
Absolutely not. That said, in Texas, where I live, there's a lot to be said for voting in the Republican primary. There are two strategies: 1. You vote for the least electable Republican, to give the Democrat a better chance at winning, or vote for the last disgusting Republican, because even though Texas is a people state in reality, the people who actually turn up to vote here tend to be conservative. I'm still doing the Democratic primary, though, negate I'm passionate about two candidates.
shitheadtookmyname
It was a federal investigation. The Republicans in Texas refused to impeach him. The securities fraud tardiness is on Trump AND BIDEN AND GARLAND who didn't do shit for four fucking years
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
Yeah you are right and that's somehow worse.
shitheadtookmyname
Securities fraud is federal crime not state
taez555
When's the last time, other than when they screwed over one of their own financially, has the GOP in any state or federally held one of their own accountable?
ChelVanin
Nixon? It’s been a while.
taez555
RAJrios
Republican Gerald Ford gave Nixon a full and unconditional presidential pardon less than a month after he was sworn into office.
ChelVanin
True. Still, you can’t say there was zero accountability when he was forced into resignation.
RAJrios
The last semblance of dignity to come out of the party.
RenaissanceFaireMan
An AG doesn't set law or policy.
RetroHorse
So dumb and hurtful. Can't a Trans person just keep it on the down-low and just sign up for therapy, go to therapy and talk about their mental health and their sessions are protected under Dr -Patient confidentiality rules?
bamblebimble
Dr patient confidentiality gets broken when you are going to harm yourself or others. They probably consider it to be harming yourself since "you are only what you're born as" in Texas. Fucking pieces of shit Texas government
ilikepot8os
The problem is the Doctor will risk losing their license and going to jail. Sure, some may be willing to risk it but it's a hell of a thing to ask.