That’s one chimp’s kink, not a trend.

Also, I did not expect to write that sentence.

Somewhere in there there’s a step “come up with the most sociopathic business plan possible.”

Well, yeah.

But also maternity leave isn’t even in the law here in the US anyway (maybe some states have it for all I know, but even if so I doubt Texas is among them), so it’s equal-opportunity shittiness and the clause I cited doesn’t really apply.

This is sexist against fathers and therefore unconstitutional.

Bill text:

Sec. 545.429. USE OF HIGH OCCUPANCY VEHICLE LANE BY CERTAIN OPERATORS. (a) Subject to Subsection (b), a female operator of a motor vehicle who is pregnant or is a parent or legal guardian of another person is entitled to use any high occupancy vehicle lane in this state regardless of the number of occupants in the motor vehicle.

Texas Constitution:

ARTICLE 1. BILL OF RIGHTS

Sec. 3a. EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW. Equality under the law shall not be denied or abridged because of sex, race, color, creed, or national origin. This amendment is self-operative.

What this would actually do (once the test case ruled that it would have to apply to fathers too) is destroy HOV lanes entirely by making everybody able to use them, since the state would have the burden of proof to show that the driver has never had children.

If he’s been convicted, he shouldn’t have a choice about that.

The article doesn’t mention this rapist’s name, though.

Bernie and AOC are the new direction. Biden wants back in to stop them. Fuck Biden!

Make no mistake:

This is not “help.” This is the neoliberal fascist collaborator backlash against help.

opposing individual reforms.

WTF are you taking about?

No, they really didn’t. “Public option healthcare” barely scratches the surface of the reforms that were needed, and hardly any Democrats except Elizabeth Warren were even trying to get them done. Hell, the main reason Bernie Sanders is an independent is that Democrats refuse to support those economic reforms!

So no. The Democrats didn’t try to fix shit. Not really, not in the way it needed to get fixed.

I read that in Leslie Nielson’s voice.

In theory he’s not wrong, except for that part where neither the optics nor (especially) the software come anywhere close to matching the performance of human eyes and brains and won’t for the foreseeable future.

He will not unless we the people – not Congress, not the courts, not any other sorts of ‘checks and balances’ – make it happen by doing it ourselves.

Spiraling wealth inequality that even the Democrats refused to acknowledge or fix, let alone the Republicans.

Every person in charge of an agency was literally selected for the express purpose of destroying that agency. It’s not incompetence, and it’s not an accident. It is deliberate sabotage and treason.

A car is “totaled” when it’s damaged enough that the cost to completely repair it obviously exceeds its value. It doesn’t matter if can drive or not. I mean, sure, you could often just cut the roof off a rolled-over vehicle and pretend it’s a convertible now and keep driving it, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t totaled. It just means you chose not to repair it properly. Damage from a rollover is typically very extensive, so it’s pretty much a given for lots of cars that if they roll over, you can assume they’re totaled.

Also, the more poorly the vehicle is designed for repairability, and the more expensive replacement parts are, the easier it is to total. And we know cybertrucks are close to a worst-case scenario for both of those things.

I mean… I question any Republican’s fitness for office. This guy might be even denser than normal, but it’s not as if he’s that far from the GOP average.

No he didn’t:

…and arguing that they don’t represent Republican views.

He’s still in fucking denial.