Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn over gun talks

[Nevilledog]

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The new Texas Republican party platform calls homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” says President Biden "was not legitimately elected," and says Texas students should “learn about the Humanity of the Preborn Child.”

People stand up and boo U.S. Sen. John Cornyn while he speaks about potential gun legislation during the Republican Party of Texas 2022 convention in the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on Friday, June 17, 2022.
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Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes …
Some 5,500 delegates approved a party platform that also calls for ending the federal income tax, requiring education about fetal gestation and limiting the Legislature’s right to regulate guns.
3:02 PM · Jun 18, 2022

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/18/republican-party-texas-convention-cornyn/


HOUSTON — Meeting at their first in-person convention since 2018, Texas Republicans on Saturday acted on a raft of resolutions and proposed platform changes to move their party even further to the right, including declaring that President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected” and voting on whether to update the party platform to say that homosexuality is “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and that Texas schoolchildren should be taught “to learn about the Humanity of the Preborn Child.”

They also formally rebuked their state’s senior senator, John Cornyn, for leading bipartisan legislation on gun safety in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde.

The actions capped a convention that highlighted how adamantly opposed the party’s most active and vocal members are to compromising with Democrats or moderating on social positions, even as the state has grown more diverse and Republicans’ margins in statewide elections have shrunk slightly in recent years.

Votes on the platform were collected at the end of the party's three-day convention in which party activists moved to add multiple items to their official platform. As the convention closed, two separate sets of ballots — one allowing delegates to choose eight of 15 legislative priorities and another allowing delegates to vote on the 275 platform planks — were gathered. Those will now need to be tallied and certified in Austin, but it is rare for a plank to be rejected, according to party spokesman James Wesolek.

The convention reinforced the extent to which former President Donald J. Trump’s unfounded claims of a stolen election continue to resound among the party faithful — even though his claims have repeatedly been debunked, including by many of his own former aides, and after a week of televised hearings about the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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Crazy motherfuckers.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

1. It's like the 1850s...

down in that MoFo.

Disgusting!

[Butterflylady]

2. No way would I ever call them human beings.

They are in every way maggots.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

4. They are humans...much as the Germans were humans, somehow evil found a pathway to power.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

3. Fascism is really ugly, isn't it? Cant hide that level of ugly from voters, so ofc must hate voting.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. just as the man child lost and hillary lost to the man childs cheating.

[ck4829]

6. Maybe they should denounce the Uvalde police before anything else

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

17. The Uvalde police are heros, didn't you know?

It's hard to keep your uniform from getting blood-stained and dirty when students and teachers are getting slaughtered all around you. If only those kids had owned AR-15s they would have been alive today.

F*ck the Texas mind-dead GQP.

[relayerbob]

7. All hail Putin! God-king of the Grand Q Party

He thanks you all for your merciless assult on the United States of America.

[gratuitous]

8. This whole convention has been a naked display of Republican id

Every lunatic ranting, every grievance (real or imagined) from the past two years, every ridiculous utterance from their stone-stupid supporters, is getting a full airing and adoption. Is this really what a majority of Texans think and endorse?

[colsohlibgal]

9. We Are In A Precarious Place

There are way more of us than them. However of course the game is of course rigged against us.

In our “ Democracy” you can get less votes than your opponent and still win...as Fat Donnie did. Add in the makeup of the Senate and the deck is totally stacked against Democrats.

And here we are on Life Support.

[Cosmocat]

13. Yes we are

Not optimistic.

[LastDemocratInSC]

10. How about teaching the inhumanity of poverty and homelessness?

Nope. Talking about a fetus doesn't require action. It's a low overhead throw-away talking point. Poverty and homelessness requires looking less fortunate people in the eye and extending your hand to help.

[NCLefty]

12. "those under 21 are 'most likely to need to defend themselves' and may need to quickly buy guns..."

From the article:

Meanwhile, the party platform vote on Saturday by roughly 5,100 convention delegates would argue that those under 21 are “most likely to need to defend themselves” and may need to quickly buy guns “in emergencies such as riots.” It also would say that red flag laws violate the due process rights of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime.

[NCLefty]

14. "Treating homosexuality as 'an abnormal lifestyle choice" that was not included in 2018/2020 platfm"

So they brought that back special. Fuckers.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Texas republican party is full of RWNJa

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[Nevilledog]

16. From the platform

[Ilsa]

18. This crap is all they care about. I bet they compete

over who can come up with the most batshit-crazy ideas that solve zero problems.

[DFW]

19. I wonder if someone pointed out to them that one of thier biggest funders is abnormal.

Peter Theil is rich enough not to care, but if they continue to call him a freak, I wonder if he'll still be cool with tossing his millions to Texas Republicans for the rest of his natural life?