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progree

(10,918 posts)
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 03:06 PM Jun 2022

Texas Republicans pass resolution denying Biden won 2020 election

Source: CBS News by way of MSN

The Texas Republican Party officially rejected the results of the 2020 presidential election over the weekend, passing a resolution in its platform that falsely blames election fraud in five battleground states for President Joe Biden's victory over former President Donald Trump. The resolution refers to Mr. Biden as "acting" president.

...

It claims that the elections in five states violated Articles 1 and 2 of the Constitution because "various secretaries of state illegally circumvented their state legislatures in conducting their elections in multiple ways, including by allowing ballots to be received after November 3, 2020."

Reviews of the vote tallies and various recounts did not change the outcome of any state's election. Officials including Attorney General William Barr have repeatedly rejected claims that there was widespread election fraud. The president and his allies waged dozens of unsuccessful legal battles and looked to the Supreme Court to help deliver Mr. Trump a second term in the White House after Mr. Biden was declared the winner, asking the justices to take up numerous disputes that sought to halt the certification of election results from key battleground states.

But the Supreme Court appeared not to have an appetite to wade into the disputes -- it rejected requests to fast-track cases that took aim at the election results in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and Pennsylvania and spurned other challenges to the outcome of the election in those four states.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/texas-republicans-pass-resolution-denying-biden-won-2020-election/ar-AAYFEFt?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=3fae966f50fd44e589d32b75677bf22a



I don't know how much of this nuttiness I can take, but unfortunately, I'm sure there is plenty more coming down the pike.

There is also a lot of stuff about a gun resolution in the article, but I barely skimmed it, as I can't take any more of this.

People who read LBN have probably seen this one --

Texas Could Vote to Secede From U.S. in 2023 as GOP Pushes for Referendum
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142932106
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Texas Republicans pass resolution denying Biden won 2020 election (Original Post) progree Jun 2022 OP
I'm sure their next step is to reject any further dealings with an "illegal" federal government. . . Journeyman Jun 2022 #1
LOL! n/t EndlessWire Jun 2022 #4
"Their Lone Star is their Yelp rating" - ROFLMAO n/t VWolf Jun 2022 #10
Perhaps, the only honorable thing to do is for all Republican politicians in Texas to resign. Magoo48 Jun 2022 #27
So zero then! n/t aggiesal Jun 2022 #31
I'm stealing this, if you don't mind ... aggiesal Jun 2022 #32
while we are at it, lets close nasa there and bunch of military outfits . o and AllaN01Bear Jun 2022 #2
+1 !!! TeamProg Jun 2022 #23
Gee thanks. Texas Dems are just collateral damage I guess. Dustlawyer Jun 2022 #24
Is this for real? EndlessWire Jun 2022 #3
"the J6 hearings are unhinging the Repub party, otherwise known as the TP"........ MyOwnPeace Jun 2022 #18
Yep. EndlessWire Jun 2022 #19
Texas Republicans have ceased to be a positive factor in just about all aspects of life in Texas. DFW Jun 2022 #5
AGREE with everything here! I'd change ONE word tho in yourheading! bluestarone Jun 2022 #33
Good, opt out of Social Security and Medicare too MiniMe Jun 2022 #6
They also agreed to put their fingers in their ears Canoe52 Jun 2022 #7
I feel bad for all my Dem friends who live in Texas (as well as those here on DU). Terrible. C Moon Jun 2022 #8
+1 appalachiablue Jun 2022 #17
I really appreciate what you just posted. I want to leave Texas so badly. texasfiddler Jun 2022 #37
Yeah. Got a lib friend, and her lib daughter. My friend has a Trumpist husband... electric_blue68 Jun 2022 #38
They're now trying to grab news cycles by seeing how looney they can be BumRushDaShow Jun 2022 #9
THIS IS CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, ORGANIZED TO THREATEN CIVIL ORDER. NOT SIMPLE PARTISANSHIP. ancianita Jun 2022 #11
+1 bucolic_frolic Jun 2022 #12
Yes. The party in Texas are now only making the aiders & abetters in Congress look more guilty. ancianita Jun 2022 #15
Thanks 😂. I used the word "nuttiness" in the OP, but it is much more serious and consequential progree Jun 2022 #14
Maybe the Dems should pass a resolution SharonClark Jun 2022 #13
Scientists can predict this. As we age our hormones return to that when we were babies ffr Jun 2022 #16
It's like a whole 'nother country! n/t Harker Jun 2022 #20
Next is a resolution that Mexico did not win at the Alamo. keithbvadu2 Jun 2022 #21
A bit off-topic, but. . . Lil Liberal Laura Jun 2022 #22
We used to call them Colombia's team in the 90's n/t aggiesal Jun 2022 #35
What the Holy Hell YoshidaYui Jun 2022 #25
Next up on the Texas Legislature docket: A bill do completely deny reality. nt Javaman Jun 2022 #26
Isn't that the platform they just pasted? n/t aggiesal Jun 2022 #36
Gawd, does this stick like South Carolina (December 20, 1860) packman Jun 2022 #28
Kick for all to see...no text Stuart G Jun 2022 #29
Couldn't this backfire on them in the mid-terms? C Moon Jun 2022 #30
Two words: Bye Bye! calimary Jun 2022 #34
" DON'T MESS WITH TEXASS - THEY ARE THE MESS" cloudboy07 Jun 2022 #39
I am going to start a gofundme to build a wall. The Jungle 1 Jun 2022 #40
Thank You for Posting This..& Republicans again prove That they are: "STUPID BEYOND BELIEF" Stuart G Jun 2022 #41

Journeyman

(15,038 posts)
1. I'm sure their next step is to reject any further dealings with an "illegal" federal government. . .
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 03:11 PM
Jun 2022

and to spurn any "tainted" money it may seek to send to their way.

That would be the "honorable" thing to do.




Hard to deny it: Their Lone Star is their Yelp rating.

AllaN01Bear

(18,384 posts)
2. while we are at it, lets close nasa there and bunch of military outfits . o and
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 03:21 PM
Jun 2022

also have them issue passports for all their citizens. also no more money when a big storm or cold snap heads their way.

EndlessWire

(6,565 posts)
3. Is this for real?
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 03:21 PM
Jun 2022

Wow, the J6 hearings are unhinging the Repub party, otherwise known as the TP. This is just one more attempt to minimize the obvious criminality of Trump and his followers. They still think that just making a declaration undoes the reality of the election. They think that declaring the election to be untrue will save them from the consequences of their actions.

When are the rank and file GOP voters going to see this for what it is? These people don't give a damn about them. They are busy trying to save their own skins. They aren't Patriots; moreover, they didn't have a Party platform before. What a sad thing to think that they have crafted a worthless platform just for their own benefit, and not for the People. What a mess.

MyOwnPeace

(16,937 posts)
18. "the J6 hearings are unhinging the Repub party, otherwise known as the TP"........
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 04:20 PM
Jun 2022

I'm not sure, but that "TP" stands for "Toilet Paper" - right?

After all, they certainly are proving themselves to be ass wipes........

DFW

(54,436 posts)
5. Texas Republicans have ceased to be a positive factor in just about all aspects of life in Texas.
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 03:31 PM
Jun 2022

Their grasp on reality has been fragile for a long time. But one thing they always seem to get: Washington sends Texas back more money than Texas pays in. Now THAT bit they somehow don't find objectionable at all!

bluestarone

(17,030 posts)
33. AGREE with everything here! I'd change ONE word tho in yourheading!
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 07:49 PM
Jun 2022

"Texas Republicans have ceased to be positive factor in just about all aspects of life in Texas" I change the LAST word to AMERICA!

Canoe52

(2,949 posts)
7. They also agreed to put their fingers in their ears
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 03:35 PM
Jun 2022

and chant na na na na na 🎶 whenever a school shooting occurs.

texasfiddler

(1,990 posts)
37. I really appreciate what you just posted. I want to leave Texas so badly.
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 08:36 PM
Jun 2022

I helped Ann Richards get elected Governor. I was part of John Sharp's Democratic run for Lt. Governor. The hatred and stupidity have become so prevalent in Texas that I don't recognize it anymore. My elderly parents (both old Texas Democrats) are the only reasons I stay. Once they pass away, I want to sell my ranch and downsize to some blue area in the U.S. This sucks!!

electric_blue68

(14,933 posts)
38. Yeah. Got a lib friend, and her lib daughter. My friend has a Trumpist husband...
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 09:32 PM
Jun 2022

I feel bad for y'all! 😔

BumRushDaShow

(129,440 posts)
9. They're now trying to grab news cycles by seeing how looney they can be
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 03:50 PM
Jun 2022


Hopefully Beto can take all their nonsensical legislative efforts and distill it into an ad that highlights the complete juvenility of the GOP idiots in the state government.

I did see this, which is interesting -

Texas Republicans warn divisions could hand the governor’s seat to Beto O’Rourke


Jeremy Wallace, Austin Bureau
June 18, 2022 | Updated: June 18, 2022 5:31 p.m.
Comments



The political winds are at the backs of Texas Republicans as they head to the midterm elections later this year, but some of the biggest names in GOP politics are warning that trouble is looming on the horizon if they cannot iron out their internal divisions. For most of the six-day state Republican Party convention that closed in Houston on Saturday, the GOP faithful heard pep rally-like optimism in speeches from politicians about how, thanks to President Joe Biden’s poor approval ratings, they are going to take back the majorities in the U.S. House and Senate and send liberal politicians packing.

While Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick had some of the same feel in his speech, the Houston Republican spent a large portion of his address to the more than 8,000 delegates imploring them to get over past political divisions — particularly in the governor’s race — because infighting could hand a win to Democrat Beto O’Rourke. “We cannot take November for granted in Texas,” he said. More specifically, Patrick addressed a pervasive concern in the party that some of the base, upset with the primary results, might skip the election or not vote at all, giving O’Rourke a chance to capitalize in the governor’s race.

“We have to beat the Democrats and we can’t stay home because our candidate that we voted for didn’t win,” Patrick said. “We can not have Beto O’Rourke win.” Although Abbott won his primary with 66 percent of the vote, he’s had trouble with some of the leadership within the GOP for how he’s handled the pandemic and other legislative issues. Allen West, the former chairman of the party, ran against him in the Republican primary in March. Matt Rinaldi, the current chair who was elected to a two-year term during the convention this week, had endorsed former state Sen. Don Huffines over Abbott in the primary initially before later rescinding that to appear neutral in the race.

It led to an odd dynamic this week, with Abbott skipping out on speaking at the official convention meetings for the first time during his two terms as governor. The governor held an informal reception nearby and hasn’t had advertising around the convention like he did at past conventions. Huffines, who was more of a presence at the convention, is adding to the concern among Republicans that some could skip the race. In an interview, he refused to say he’s voting for Abbott in the fall. “We’re tired of having to hold our nose to vote for people who don’t do what we want,” Huffines said. In the Republican primary, Huffines and West each got about 12 percent of the vote. During his speech, Patrick warned that if O’Rourke wins, it has a down-ballot effect that could knock out other statewide Republicans on the ballot.

(snip)

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-Republicans-warn-divisions-could-hand-the-17251136.php

ancianita

(36,133 posts)
11. THIS IS CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, ORGANIZED TO THREATEN CIVIL ORDER. NOT SIMPLE PARTISANSHIP.
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 03:57 PM
Jun 2022
The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that the United States Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree. When a nation is at war, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that their utterance will not be endured so long as men fight, and that no Court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right...

Restrictions on free speech are permissible only when the speech at issue is likely to produce a clear and present danger of a serious substantive evil that rises far above public inconvenience, annoyance, or unrest.[23] Justice William O. Douglas wrote for the Court that "a function of free speech under our system is to invite dispute. It may indeed best serve its high purpose when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger."[24]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_and_present_danger

For instance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a threat was knowingly made if the speaker comprehended the meaning of the words uttered by him or her. It was willingly made if, in addition to comprehending the words' meaning, the speaker voluntarily and intentionally uttered them as a declaration of apparent determination to carry them into execution.[11] According to the 2018 U.S. Attorney's Manual, "Of the individuals who come to the Secret Service's attention as creating a possible danger to one of their protectees, approximately 75 percent are mentally ill."[12]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threatening_the_president_of_the_United_States



bucolic_frolic

(43,281 posts)
12. +1
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 04:01 PM
Jun 2022

Lies like this Texas GOP resolution are fomenting a national emergency. There are limitations on free speech.

ancianita

(36,133 posts)
15. Yes. The party in Texas are now only making the aiders & abetters in Congress look more guilty.
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 04:04 PM
Jun 2022

This is yelling "fire" in the public political theater, and it should not be protected.

It's a call to VOTER NULLIFICATION in the middle of congressional hearings about a coup.

progree

(10,918 posts)
14. Thanks 😂. I used the word "nuttiness" in the OP, but it is much more serious and consequential
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 04:02 PM
Jun 2022

than that, as you indicate. It's downright scary.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
13. Maybe the Dems should pass a resolution
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 04:01 PM
Jun 2022

encouraging the GQPers in TX to remove themselves but leave all the good people and property behind.

ffr

(22,671 posts)
16. Scientists can predict this. As we age our hormones return to that when we were babies
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 04:06 PM
Jun 2022

We become whiny, sometimes have outbursts of crying for no apparent reason whatsoever, like when we don't get what we want.

But it's just age and hormones.


Probably why babies aren't allowed to own guns or vote.

keithbvadu2

(36,906 posts)
21. Next is a resolution that Mexico did not win at the Alamo.
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 04:40 PM
Jun 2022

Next is a resolution that Mexico did not win at the Alamo.

Then a bill to Mexico for Abbot's wall.

.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
28. Gawd, does this stick like South Carolina (December 20, 1860)
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 05:57 PM
Jun 2022

Has the same tempo , same feeling - First Texas, then Florida, then the rest of the red states denying Biden's win

C Moon

(12,221 posts)
30. Couldn't this backfire on them in the mid-terms?
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 07:09 PM
Jun 2022

It's obvious that the gop's #1 goal is to hand President Biden an awful economy and country.

calimary

(81,466 posts)
34. Two words: Bye Bye!
Mon Jun 20, 2022, 07:51 PM
Jun 2022

ONE if you hyphenate! (Bye-Bye!)

So we show Texas the door, and grant statehood to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. So we'll come out ahead! If you just include one of 'em, the fifty-state flag still works.

 

cloudboy07

(351 posts)
39. " DON'T MESS WITH TEXASS - THEY ARE THE MESS"
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 03:35 AM
Jun 2022

please avoid texas , they are having mental health problems, as per Wheel's Abbott! could be contagious! no vaccine's available for this out break of mental health! one congress critter think's it leaked from China ? that's the theory!

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
40. I am going to start a gofundme to build a wall.
Tue Jun 21, 2022, 08:21 AM
Jun 2022

I will be rich and I won't have to really build a wall. I am just making America great.

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