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OMG. And it's true check the news. Death penalty. (Original Post) Murphyb849 Sep 2021 OP
i would love to say that has no prayer of surviving an 8th amendment challenge... Takket Sep 2021 #1
IF that's the case , any congress people lie, take'm out back & shoot'm for perjury! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #28
It didn't even get a committee hearing...sine die...session was over May 30th. LeftInTX Sep 2021 #36
I think they've gone too far. louis-t Sep 2021 #2
I think you're right. ShazzieB Sep 2021 #11
The tweet is from March This did not make it into the final bill yellowdogintexas Sep 2021 #39
I have no problem getting ugly on this issue NJCher Sep 2021 #14
Right? GRRRRRRRR!!!!! ShazzieB Sep 2021 #18
with ya '100% monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #29
How "pro life" of him. happybird Sep 2021 #3
THIS. nt crickets Sep 2021 #10
When we start killing people for doing exactly what nature has done for 10's of thousands of years.. OAITW r.2.0 Sep 2021 #4
You have a potential chilling point there FirefighterJo Sep 2021 #54
GOP is really expanding that base. Executioners are a huge lobby? nt Baked Potato Sep 2021 #5
Please proceed? ecstatic Sep 2021 #6
OK that is something every dem can use in their campaigns Bev54 Sep 2021 #7
keep pushing it assholes... bahboo Sep 2021 #8
they think dem's are pussy's -bad move ! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #31
Of course... Mike Nelson Sep 2021 #9
Politically, this is a total gift to our side Tom Rinaldo Sep 2021 #12
I wouldn't even propose the death penalty for that dog Bin Laden, much less... VarryOn Sep 2021 #13
March 12th? Make7 Sep 2021 #15
Can't become law LeftInTX Sep 2021 #33
Watch doctors flee the state Johonny Sep 2021 #16
What's the penalty for insurrection and treason? C_U_L8R Sep 2021 #17
The campaign ads for the Dems will write themselves.... Sogo Sep 2021 #19
Appealing to the sociopath voters? I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2021 #20
That tweet is from March 12th Marius25 Sep 2021 #21
Yes..as was pointed out..but Deuxcents Sep 2021 #26
The session ended on May 30th LeftInTX Sep 2021 #37
Counting the days to retirement when we will get the fuck Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2021 #22
feel sorry for ya ' ! i BAIL'D IN 014 ! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #34
To where? I want to live in a blue place!!! Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2021 #41
me & my wife live live in Arkansas & it is totally different than weird texas ! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #44
I like Little Rock! Laura PourMeADrink Sep 2021 #46
bad move ! we live the ozark mountains ! monkeyman1 Sep 2021 #48
Arkansas is redder than Texas LeftInTX Sep 2021 #50
Do you want civil war? Because that's how you get civil war. Initech Sep 2021 #23
Wait until the Rethugs get control of Congress and POTUS and Celerity Sep 2021 #24
Over playing the hand Turbineguy Sep 2021 #25
GQP Hamurabi's code America aeromanKC Sep 2021 #27
and they were fearful of sharia law onetexan Sep 2021 #45
Smite the Spite czarjak Sep 2021 #30
I bet you all the tea in China that he has a history of abortion with a former girlfriend. flying_wahini Sep 2021 #32
Maybe, but his bio reads like a typical closeted homophobe..He has a beautiful wife LeftInTX Sep 2021 #40
It would be really easy to jam up his little biz with some reviews... littlemissmartypants Sep 2021 #51
I think his dad owns that business, not him. LeftInTX Sep 2021 #53
They're going off the cliff. mountain grammy Sep 2021 #35
Some rouge crazy-ass first term representative files a crazy bill LeftInTX Sep 2021 #38
Of course he did. Assh*le. In my mind I see him littlemissmartypants Sep 2021 #42
They can offer a bill saying that the Earth is flat left-of-center2012 Sep 2021 #43
Bill filed in March. Session ended May 30th. Bill never got a committee hearing LeftInTX Sep 2021 #49
This bill has always been the logical extension of the anti-choice Eyeball_Kid Sep 2021 #47
Right. Stone the woman in the public square. Behead medical provider likewise. That'll show 'em. Hekate Sep 2021 #52
Bill died. Slayton was the only sponsor. Not even this guy supported it. LeftInTX Sep 2021 #55

Takket

(21,528 posts)
1. i would love to say that has no prayer of surviving an 8th amendment challenge...
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:23 PM
Sep 2021

but with this SCOTUS?

louis-t

(23,267 posts)
2. I think they've gone too far.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:23 PM
Sep 2021

The outrage is building. It's gonna get ugly, but in the end I think this will all be reversed.

ShazzieB

(16,273 posts)
11. I think you're right.
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:39 PM
Sep 2021

At least I really, really hope you're right!

The outrage is definitely going to be over the top this time. Everyone in this country with a pro-choice bone in their body is already pissed off over the last piece of Texas anti-abortion fuckery. This would be a hugely unpopular thing to do at any time, but to introduce a bill like this right now is just plain stupid!

Cut it out, Texas! Just PLEASE cut it the fuck OUT!!!!-

OAITW r.2.0

(24,287 posts)
4. When we start killing people for doing exactly what nature has done for 10's of thousands of years..
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:32 PM
Sep 2021

you have to ask, why is God/Nature the #1 abortion provider in this world? And if God says you will miscarry, should you enact laws against God's will?

FirefighterJo

(190 posts)
54. You have a potential chilling point there
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 03:55 AM
Sep 2021

What will happen with a woman who endures a miscarriage from natural causes ? Will she be snitched upon and how will that work out ?

Bev54

(10,039 posts)
7. OK that is something every dem can use in their campaigns
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:34 PM
Sep 2021

both federal and state. This is exactly who these evil morons are.

Mike Nelson

(9,944 posts)
9. Of course...
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:35 PM
Sep 2021

... this man is deplorable. But, at least he's being honest. If they consider abortion to be the murder of a baby, and they are for capital punishment, then they would like to execute the woman and her doctor(s).

Tom Rinaldo

(22,911 posts)
12. Politically, this is a total gift to our side
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:39 PM
Sep 2021

And we were concerned that "Defund the police" scared off some voters. The death penalty for abortion is not a concept very many Republicans running for office want to be associated with.

 

VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
13. I wouldn't even propose the death penalty for that dog Bin Laden, much less...
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:41 PM
Sep 2021

For a woman who got pregnant unintentionally.

Make7

(8,543 posts)
15. March 12th?
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:46 PM
Sep 2021

This bill sounds like a campaign ad:

https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/HB03326I.pdf


There is zero chance of that being deemed constitutional (in the extremely unlikely event it became a law).

LeftInTX

(25,126 posts)
33. Can't become law
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 12:14 AM
Sep 2021

That session ended on May 30th, but it didn't even get a committee hearing.

We have weird people filing all sorts of weird bills in Texas, but many of them never see the light of day.
They know the bill won't go anywhere and they do it for publicity
It's just a weird thing about this place. Like Florida Man.

Kyle Biedermann's bill to secede never got a committee hearing. Everyone on DU was hoping it "would happen"...I knew it wouldn't.

Sogo

(4,986 posts)
19. The campaign ads for the Dems will write themselves....
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 10:52 PM
Sep 2021

Hey, America, do you want the entire country to be like Texas????

Deuxcents

(16,085 posts)
26. Yes..as was pointed out..but
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 11:46 PM
Sep 2021

Plenty of time to plot. Devious people do devious things. This has gone too far

 

monkeyman1

(5,109 posts)
44. me & my wife live live in Arkansas & it is totally different than weird texas !
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 01:04 AM
Sep 2021

ya got your redneck's & thing's , everybody just kind of leaves alone . plus , been here for close to 5 yrs & their super nice & treat ya with respect ! i call it here red & blue . not a real crap ol'a political shit bag all over . we are retired & about 75 % cheaper than texas .

Celerity

(43,102 posts)
24. Wait until the Rethugs get control of Congress and POTUS and
Sun Sep 5, 2021, 11:29 PM
Sep 2021

then attempt to nationalise the outlawing of abortion, backed up by the threat of federal force.

That exact scenario was been part of many posts I have done about the undoing of the Union of the States by 2040 at the latest, perhaps earlier. I have went into more detail in many, and it is certainly not just abortion law dependent.

Too many people suffer from normalcy bias and assume the Union, the nation, the very constitutional superstructure is infallible, indestructible, I have even seen the descriptive (the height of hubris) eternal used.

The United States is so young, a blip in time. The average empire lasts, in the past 12,000 years of modern human history, 250 years or so. If you count the full implementation of the new federal government operating under the purview of the US Constitution as the starting point, then 250 years is up in March 4, 2039.

If I went back to September 2014 (I pick then for the coming viscous Red Wave in the 2014 midterms, that started the electoral descent), and told people the fresh hells that would transpire over over the next 7 years, they would call me insane, or at least some OTT conspiracy theorist. Normalcy bias is a strong force indeed.

LeftInTX

(25,126 posts)
40. Maybe, but his bio reads like a typical closeted homophobe..He has a beautiful wife
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 12:35 AM
Sep 2021



Born in Mineola, Texas, Bryan Slaton is a proud East Texan with values and principles that resemble(represent) the great people of East Texas. These values were formed as he grew up regularly participating in church and family gatherings. Bryan attended Ouachita Baptist University, where he earned a double major in Youth Ministry / Speech Communication. He then attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and earned a Masters of Divinity with Biblical Languages. He served in the ministry as a Youth and Family Minister for 13 years.

Continuing his education, Bryan graduated from The University of North Texas, where he earned a Bachelor degree in Business Administration Accounting. Bryan now works at his family-owned company, Slaton Financial Services. He understands what it takes to balance a budget and cut wasteful spending, no matter the scale.

He opposed taxes being raised and land being taken away from private citizens in order to build toll roads. Bryan Slaton is passionate to help the people in East Texas obtain and maintain a Government that they not only deserve but for which they are calling. Bryan and his wife, Sharmen, have been married for 3 years. They have a son, Maximus, and attend Fellowship Church in Royse City.

******************

I wonder if he will be caught in a bathroom somewhere???

LeftInTX

(25,126 posts)
53. I think his dad owns that business, not him.
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 02:46 AM
Sep 2021

The owner is 72. This guy is only 44. He apparently is a manager there. Wish I could find out more about the business.

Bryan has a traffic ticket from 2006 for "Failing to maintain financial responsibility"..LOL Never heard of that before...

LeftInTX

(25,126 posts)
38. Some rouge crazy-ass first term representative files a crazy bill
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 12:28 AM
Sep 2021

No one else sponsored it with him. Not even freak'n Brisco Cain. And if Briscoe Cain didn't co-author it, then it must be beyond nuts.
It died and never had a hearing.

Man he's fat and looks older than 44...

littlemissmartypants

(22,569 posts)
42. Of course he did. Assh*le. In my mind I see him
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 12:57 AM
Sep 2021

And all his cronies, laughing and smoking cigars in some back room of their social club.

All he did was put all target on his own back. We're going to take out these fools one at the time. It may take some time, but we're stealthy and infuriated and they're outnumbered.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
43. They can offer a bill saying that the Earth is flat
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 12:59 AM
Sep 2021

Doesn't mean it will get anywhere.

We may want to hold back on the panic and wait for the facts.

LeftInTX

(25,126 posts)
49. Bill filed in March. Session ended May 30th. Bill never got a committee hearing
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 01:26 AM
Sep 2021

No one else sponsored it. Not even freak'n Briscoe Cain got on board with this one.

First term, crazy-ass guy.....

There were two special sessions, but they're also both over....

The only one left is redistricting. The state is a bit strict about special session agendas.

After redistricting, there will not be another session until 2023. The Texas lege meets for 140 days every two years. That's why crazy stuff gets filed. They know there isn't enough time to hear all of it. You should read the thousands upon thousands of crazy bills filed each regular session.

Eyeball_Kid

(7,429 posts)
47. This bill has always been the logical extension of the anti-choice
Mon Sep 6, 2021, 01:22 AM
Sep 2021

position.

If abortion is "murder" then there must be murders. And if "murder" isn't a metaphor, then it's an allegation. We should be somewhat relieved that what the anti-choice movement has been promoting in private is now openly public.

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