Jonathan Bernstein: “Indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) may not be the worst elected official in the US, but he’s perhaps the most embarrassing one.” “He clobbered state Land Commissioner George P. Bush in a runoff Tuesday by a two-to-one margin. Really, Texas Republicans? Paxton’s been under indictment for years, and that’s for a different alleged crime from the one he’s currently under investigation for — that’s the one that drove much of his own staff to resign in protest of what they considered flat-out corruption.” “There must be hundreds, maybe thousands, of extremely conservative lawyers in the state, perfectly capable of suing Democratic presidents and otherwise fighting for the Republican policy agenda, but who can also plausibly stand for the rule of law in the Alamo State. Why don’t Texas Republicans choose one of those?”
Judge sentences former reality TV star Josh Duggar to more than 12 years in prison for child pornography conviction
Ohio U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance (R) told Crisis magazine that pornography should be banned because it’s stopping Americans from getting married and starting families. Said Vance: “I think the combination of porn, abortion have basically created a lonely, isolated generation that isn’t getting married, they’re not having families, and they’re actually not even totally sure how to interact with each other,”
Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) blamed abortion for gun violence in a radio interview. Said Long: “When I was growing up in Springfield, you had one or two murders a year. Now we have two, three, four a week in Springfield, Missouri, so something has happened to our society and I go back to abortion.” He added: “When we decided it was okay to murder kids in their mother’s wombs, life has no value to a lot of these folks.”
Pastor Dillon Awes delivered a sermon saying that all gay people should be killed, LGBTQ Nation reports. Said Awes: “Every single homosexual in our country should be charged with the crime, the abomination of homosexuality, that they have. They should be convicted in a lawful trial. They should be sentenced with death.” He added: “They should be lined up against the wall and shot in the back of the head! That’s what God teaches. That’s what the Bible says. You don’t like it? You don’t like God’s Word, because that is what God says.”
So this guy is convinced God said shoot gay people in the back of the head lol.... And they wonder why we think the conservative Christian right is beyond cult status...
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) suggested that he might urge the state’s child protective services to investigate parents who take their children to drag shows, NBC News reports. Said DeSantis: “It used to be kids would be off-limits. Used to be everybody agreed with that. Now it just seems like there’s a concerted effort to be exposing kids more and more to things that are not age appropriate.”
NC Senators help write bill that would benefit veterans from Camp Lejeune exposed to toxic chemicals in the base's water for nearly three decades. So how do YOU think they voted on it? Difficulty: Both Republicans