Yes, you’re right that they aren’t afraid of banning it. I just don’t think they actually want to ban it. I think it’s probably better for them to have a patchwork of different laws in different states, and an open question about how the Court will decide the matter over time, so that they can leverage the issue as they have been doing.
KevinC
12421
Reading that tweet was like having someone hit me in the face with a brick of condensed stupid.
Goddamn Democrats comin’ for the wind now.
Timex
12423
I feel like if my deadly traps plan were allowed to be truly implemented, we wouldn’t need to deal with fucking tweets like that.
Scotten
12426
And yet he was the Sec’y of the Interior under Trump. I couldn’t remember him from Trump’s Parade of Losers and had to look him up: he’s a total grifter and idiot (even by Trump standards).
Timex
12427
We really need a “the GOP is dumb as shit” thread
No see the mug means Trump is a good Christian Patriot blocking the atheistic lie of Evolution!
I’m giving myself an aneurysm trying to parse that.
So either it represents Trump as the pinnacle of human evolution (and whoever made it apparently can’t read the speech bubble), or it’s like nth-level irony, like, “I find this point of view so wrongheaded that I’m going to put it on my mug without any context or interpretation, isn’t that ironic?”
Timex
12431
It’s that the people selling shit on Trump’s store are all about grifting idiots, and they give literally zero shits about what they are selling. They found some image with Trump in it, slapped it on a mug, and are selling it, with zero consideration to what it even is.
jpinard
12432
The GOP is a bottomless well of corruption.
Canuck
12433
Ok, what in the world is a “tag agent”? I think I made it through the entire article without seeing that term explained so it must be something super common in the US.
Pyperkub
12434
Texas is still deep red everywhere and will be at least until redistricting in 2030/31, unless Voting Rights changes things.
milo
12435
Seems to be related to automobile license plates or “tags”.
Scuzz
12436
I am in California and I was wondering the same thing.
Tortilla
12437
This kind of small time hustling by state reps is unfortunately common. I don’t think this is a valid condemnation of the GOP as much as it illustrates that the US has literally thousands of state reps/senators across 50 states and a certain percentage of them will be bad apples. State legislator, especially in red states, is a job that pays about poverty level wages. So it’s a job only for those independently wealthy or those with the political acumen to grift some favors along the way.
Thrag
12438
They really do love the poorly educated.
(I’m technically a college drop out but I wouldn’t recommend it to others)
