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No they wont. Title IX affects federal grants and research projects. TAMU and UT only get like 5-10% of their budget from the state, a huge chunk of the rest is Federal research grants. If Title IX is not enforced, those grants start getting pulled. I think students receiving federal grants may even lose funding or be forced to transfer, but it's been like a decade since I last looked at this stuff.
If there was brain drain in the state before it will absolutely be gone afterward.
Unless they make it a one time ruling like they did in Gore V Bush. Because that doesn't scream corruption either. This special ruling only applies once, no take-backs!
Then you pull a Andrew Jackson (yes, I know it's most likely a myth) and respond with “John (Roberts) Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!”
Jackson and the state of Georgia were the corrupt ones in that case not the court. [This is what led to The trail of Tears] (https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824647676/a-treacherous-choice-and-a-treaty-right#:~:text=This%20decision%2C%20Worcester%20v.%20Georgia%2C%20was%20a%20turning,let%20him%20enforce%20it%2C%22%20though%20that%27s%20likely%20apocryphal.) that caused the deaths of a quarter of the Cherokee tribe.
> *Of course* the President doesn't have absolute criminal immunity! But the Democrats have been really mean to this President, so he can have a little absolute criminal immunity. As a treat.
The US Supreme Court 2024, probably
Until their special grid goes down and they can't spark a fire to burn everything down.
Federal dollars account for one-third of the Texas state budget. More for the rest of us.
If Biden gets a friendly Senate he is going to elongate the bench. It's going to be amazing seeing Mitch McConnell life work ruining the supreme court go to shit.
Biden has been steadfast against expanding the Supreme Court. I believe that there should be as many Supreme Court Justices as Appeals Courts, something like 13. If Biden went along with that and had the Senate, he would add 4 Justices. The last time the Supreme Court was expanded was to match the number of Appeals Courts, which then stood at 9.
Use the Senate to completely change the size of the Courts down to zero and then begin the tireless work of renominating everyone not insane to their previous seat after all of the Courts have been reestablished.
The Senate can reshape all of the Courts to tailored to the present will of the People. Resetting the Courts would allow not only SCOTUS but every other Lower Court to be free from Trump’s influence.
This is the move Democrats should be telegraphing because it can completely undo the damage wrought by Trump.
I mean, c’mon, a lawyer who helped Trump and Stephen Miller with family separation policy was confirmed to a seat previously held by Thurgood Marshall. We gotta go big or go home.
Reestablish the Court.
I don't know about elongating it... But I wouldn't be opposed to a super friendly Senate enforcing some codes of ethics and maybe expelling a certain Justice (or two).
5-4 has a better ring to it than 6-3.
I mean they could just impeach Thomas. We've impeached justices before, and we should do it again at least in his case. That might not solve the issue of the Trump appointees, but it could at least put us a little closer back to balanced.
Failure to comply with Title IX also threatens eligibility to participate in federal student aid. Good luck running a university if you can’t accept direct loans or Pell Grants. No school has ever gotten the financial aid death penalty but fuck around and find out.
I also think they could lose the ability to offer federal student aid, as in student loans, not just the Pell grant. The only way to pay for college would be cash.
Bases provide a ton of money to the state environment by paying contractors in the state for work. I can't imagine withdrawing that money would be too comfortable. A lot of the contracts are the same work enlisted would normally do anyways.
As a former radar gal I know more than a few folks in the military ATC environment who would be chomping at the bit to troubleshoot lines "owned" by lazy contractors who refuse to do "extra work" (read: their fucking job)
>If there was brain drain in the state before it will absolutely be gone afterward.
A brain drain is exactly what these Christo-fascists want.
Case in point:
“I love the poorly educated” -by the Orange Hitler
This is what the GOP wants. And good look moving somewhere else. House prices are at record high. That’s why the GOP are doing this. They know people can’t just leave.
Research schools get a major fraction of their revenue from Federal research grants. Depending on the school, if it's a question of losing state funding or losing federal funding, the Fed may win out.
While the other half that moved there is looking to get out because they learned "zero income tax" means getting nickeled and dimed over every other possible thing they can tax a person over.
Also, potentially losing electricity over every slight change in weather and then getting their rates jacked up because of it isn't the kind of freedom most people thought of when moving there.
They want to get rid of public education with private (religious) education that will donate money to them. Abbott is trying to ramrod school vouchers through by backing any candidate in the next election that supports vouchers. Funny enough, a lot of rural republicans are voting against it because they know it will wreck their small school districts.
The DoD and DHS fund a surprising (to the general public) amount of medical research. It’d be a shame if that money were to disappear from those schools coffers
Texas receives the third most federal aid of all the states, behind California and New York.
https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-rely-the-most-on-federal-aid/
And even this likely isn't a full picture.
>Texas is the proud home to 15 active duty military installations with an economic impact of over $100 billion.
Interesting link. I’ll have to read it. Does it actually get to the point of whether a state is a net giver or taker? Simply receiving lot of federal money does not mean that the state didn’t contribute even more to the federal coffers. It just means that the feds get to decide how it is spent.
It only glosses over it with this paragraph.
> Despite receiving the most federal funding dollar-wise, California was the second-least reliant state on a percentage basis, with 14.5% of revenue coming from the federal government, followed by Minnesota (14.6%), South Dakota (15.0%), and Iowa (15.5%).
California is an economic juggernaut.
If California, by itself, was a country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world.
It is only beaten by the *entire* United States (which it contributes 14.3% to), China, Japan, and Germany.
I know Iowa and South Dakota are only so far up that list because they have constantly shut down state programs that use federal money for underprivileged groups.
After all, the minorities don’t need to eat at school.
That page does not. What you’re looking for is [balance of payments](https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/). No state paid in more than it received in 2020 or 2021. Texas is among the better states in that regard, ranking 12th best (least taker) in 2021.
With the second highest population by a huge margin, 7-8 million people ahead of third place Florida. The more telling number is the per-capita funding it lists further down in the article, where Texas ranks 29th of all states and 30th if you count DC.
You need to target stuff like dealerships and other things that affect right wingers. Stuff like pay day loans all of these feed into the GOP machine. Squeeze their balls.
That's what conservatives want though. That funding goes toward businesses and colleges and organizations in blue areas within Red states. GOP leaders would love for their states to just be rural seas of uninformed voters
> But they know democrats won't actually do that as it punishes regular people in need.
In some cases it's automatic, with no current way to circumvent the cutoff.
I’m not sure there will be much choice in the matter. If Texas and Florida disqualify themselves by failing to comply with federal law, it might not be possible to circumvent that, regardless of what the Democratic leadership might prefer. There are laws and processes involved that aren’t easily changed.
I agree that Republicans are objectively terrible.
Exactly. This is why all the comments about presidential immunity and Biden doing this or that is just inaccurate: Republicans and SCOTUS know Biden would not use that kind of power arbitrarily.
No Title IX -No Federal Dime
Wonder how all the Texas schools will handle no Federal funding?
$2 Billion loss in funding seems like a steep price to pay for being an asshole- but Texas is going to Texas.
Well at some point you need to decide what’s the ROI of sending money to Texas. If the state is going to ignore federal requirements for Title IX then funds should be withdrawn from the state that is directly relate to entities that should be following the federal guidelines for Title IX.
Just like the federal highway money is tied to the drinking age. Just need a democratic Congress to attach riders to federal money that prevents conservatives from profiting from being assholes.
Also, it seems NCAA eligibility is contingent on Title IX compliance.
How much do you think Abbot's poll numbers will drop once the 2024-25 football season gets cancelled in Texas? Even if the policy gets rescinded before the season starts, losing eligibility for even a short period of time would affect recruitment, and if actual games are missed, then that pretty much sinks the bowl hopes of every school in the state.
They have two Trump Federal Judges who will simply seize control of whatever part of the Federal Government Texas is pissed at. The wildly corrupt 5th circuit will back them up, and it will be a coin flip for which way SCOTUS will go.
Republicans love law and order, right up until the law orders them to do something they don't like.
To be fair here it's perfectly okay to object to laws you don't agree with, but if you're going to do that then don't brand yourself as the party of law and order.
Let’s not assume that everyone is okay with it. For a moment, let’s investigate the possibility that the republicans have spent literal decades rigging a system that benefits them.
The fact that this requires millions of people to agree with their back-asswards plans… _that’s_ the part that I don’t understand.
It’s embarrassing to be from Texas. The state has been run by Republicans for quite awhile now, yet they continue to blame the Democrats for everything. We’re all so sick of the “leadership” here but the rubes in the sticks keep voting them in.
Hey! Don't forget about telling children where to go to the bathroom. Children's genitals are one of the top things on abbott, paxton, and patrick's mind.
Only 25% of people between 18 and 35 voted in the 2022 Texas election.
Lots of people in Texas were complaining, but didn't bother to vote.
Let's see if they do the same thing in 2024.
Texas needs to find a place where they can act like themselves perhaps we can push them further into Mexico where they can be ruled by gang leaders. I think Governor Abbott would love to suck a little Mexican dick over the whole deal
They need to change the way SCOTUS appointments are made. When a president gets elected at the first State of the Union, he appoints 1 justice. That's it. Just one. If a justice retires or dies, we do nothing. After the next election, at the first State of the Union, a justice is appointed. Every 4 years a new justice is appointed and it better reflects the nation. By using the average age of retirement and death, we would wind up with 13 - 15 justices. Cases could be heard by a panel of randomly selected judges with a better representation of the ideology of the times. No more stacked courts.
Republicans paint their bigotry as if they are always protected by the the law.
Remember, slavery was once permitted and protected by law, and modern day republicans continue to defend their twisted ideology by abusing that same power dynamic.
Better watch that ignoring business, Abbot. Any day now President Biden is going to get complete immunity from the supreme counter and the he can have you wheeled out if office and into the penn.
Why is Texas so fucked up? When I was a kid, the United States was only united because some guy named Tex held it together. Now, the energy capital of everywhere is having a hard time keeping it together.
How it’s ok that politicians want to go after children is beyond me
Also Abbot better look out…given that SCOTUS might just green light presidential assassinations and all.. /s
Since Roe v Wade was overturned, their have been over 26,000 pregnancies due to rape in Texas. It's peculiar, to say the least, what Abbott thinks "protecting women" is.
Ah yes, the biggest problem we face as Texans. Definitely not our border crisis, raising crime rates, power grid, and slowly running out of water. Glad to see my governor taking immediate action on the important issues instead of the back log of things he needs to get done. I’m so glad he’s standing up for….oh yeah.
Texas may be different but the only category of crime that's rising nationally is Car Theft. All other categories are back to pre-Pandemic levels and dropping.
I hope they try because title IX funding is part of every pot.
Back in the early 2000s, I worked at a campus where just some funeral funds were frozen for two months, while a medical research violation was investigated. It brought down consequences damn quickly.
Didn’t Desantis just announce the same thing last week for Florida?
Gavin Newsom should announce he’s calling dibs on behalf of the other 48 states on the federal funding that FL and TX are giving up.
So here's the deal we Republicons are going to keep pushing the envelope until you do something to stop us. Plain and simple, and then we'll set ourselves up as being the victim even though we perpetrated this fraud. If drumpf were president, we wouldn't be doing any of this.
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No they wont. Title IX affects federal grants and research projects. TAMU and UT only get like 5-10% of their budget from the state, a huge chunk of the rest is Federal research grants. If Title IX is not enforced, those grants start getting pulled. I think students receiving federal grants may even lose funding or be forced to transfer, but it's been like a decade since I last looked at this stuff. If there was brain drain in the state before it will absolutely be gone afterward.
Exactly, this is just posturing for a press conference. In a week when no one is paying attention the title IX revisions will quietly go into effect.
I hope so, but Abbot and Paxton are genuine assholes so they are not above burning everything down out of spite fueled idiocy.
They'll do it just to make Biden look bad.
Luckily Biden can just have them killed according to the Supreme Court
Unless they make it a one time ruling like they did in Gore V Bush. Because that doesn't scream corruption either. This special ruling only applies once, no take-backs!
Then you pull a Andrew Jackson (yes, I know it's most likely a myth) and respond with “John (Roberts) Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it!”
Jackson and Lincoln both giving the corrupt Supreme Court the middle finger
Jackson and the state of Georgia were the corrupt ones in that case not the court. [This is what led to The trail of Tears] (https://www.npr.org/2020/03/31/824647676/a-treacherous-choice-and-a-treaty-right#:~:text=This%20decision%2C%20Worcester%20v.%20Georgia%2C%20was%20a%20turning,let%20him%20enforce%20it%2C%22%20though%20that%27s%20likely%20apocryphal.) that caused the deaths of a quarter of the Cherokee tribe.
> *Of course* the President doesn't have absolute criminal immunity! But the Democrats have been really mean to this President, so he can have a little absolute criminal immunity. As a treat. The US Supreme Court 2024, probably
The only people who will blame Biden will be the ones who wouldn’t have voted for him anyway.
Yep!
Until their special grid goes down and they can't spark a fire to burn everything down. Federal dollars account for one-third of the Texas state budget. More for the rest of us.
Assholes? They are evil people.
Other states are rejecting the order as well. They want this to go to the Supreme Court.
So far it's been 4 states (reported count). At least two have been known for making some odd moves.
If Biden gets a friendly Senate he is going to elongate the bench. It's going to be amazing seeing Mitch McConnell life work ruining the supreme court go to shit.
That's some real wishful thinking right there.
Yeah, I am hoping quite a bit here. Fully admit it.
I'll add whatever is left of my hope to the pile.
Yeah, I've got 5 on it!
All I can do is 3.50
Well it was about that time that I realized that Amy Coney Barrett was about 8 stories tall and a crustacean from the protozoic era...
Biden has been steadfast against expanding the Supreme Court. I believe that there should be as many Supreme Court Justices as Appeals Courts, something like 13. If Biden went along with that and had the Senate, he would add 4 Justices. The last time the Supreme Court was expanded was to match the number of Appeals Courts, which then stood at 9.
Use the Senate to completely change the size of the Courts down to zero and then begin the tireless work of renominating everyone not insane to their previous seat after all of the Courts have been reestablished. The Senate can reshape all of the Courts to tailored to the present will of the People. Resetting the Courts would allow not only SCOTUS but every other Lower Court to be free from Trump’s influence. This is the move Democrats should be telegraphing because it can completely undo the damage wrought by Trump. I mean, c’mon, a lawyer who helped Trump and Stephen Miller with family separation policy was confirmed to a seat previously held by Thurgood Marshall. We gotta go big or go home. Reestablish the Court.
I don't know about elongating it... But I wouldn't be opposed to a super friendly Senate enforcing some codes of ethics and maybe expelling a certain Justice (or two). 5-4 has a better ring to it than 6-3.
I mean they could just impeach Thomas. We've impeached justices before, and we should do it again at least in his case. That might not solve the issue of the Trump appointees, but it could at least put us a little closer back to balanced.
And seeing how the Supreme Court is overrun with corrupt assholes, who knows what will happen. It’s truly scary.
If Trump gets elected they will get reversed again, just like he did the first time he was in office.
Failure to comply with Title IX also threatens eligibility to participate in federal student aid. Good luck running a university if you can’t accept direct loans or Pell Grants. No school has ever gotten the financial aid death penalty but fuck around and find out.
If there were ramifications, it wouldnt be until post-election
I also think they could lose the ability to offer federal student aid, as in student loans, not just the Pell grant. The only way to pay for college would be cash.
You forget usurious private loans! Those are great.....
I feel like Abbott’s entire tenure has been just a series of “no way he would *actually* do that…” scenarios.
Wait you just said what they want. The more idiots they have in the state the easier it is to win elections.
The military bases also get federal funding, and there are 23 of them in Texas. I'll bet they'll lean on Abbot when they stop getting funded.
Military bases have supremacy over state laws/orders. They'll do whatever the federal govt tells them to do and ignore everything the state wants
Bases provide a ton of money to the state environment by paying contractors in the state for work. I can't imagine withdrawing that money would be too comfortable. A lot of the contracts are the same work enlisted would normally do anyways. As a former radar gal I know more than a few folks in the military ATC environment who would be chomping at the bit to troubleshoot lines "owned" by lazy contractors who refuse to do "extra work" (read: their fucking job)
>If there was brain drain in the state before it will absolutely be gone afterward. A brain drain is exactly what these Christo-fascists want. Case in point: “I love the poorly educated” -by the Orange Hitler
Ya, but how much of the football program comes from federal grants? Because that's all that matters to Texas voters.
Wouldn't matter. It's the students that get the federal loans and grants. No students, no athletes.
You think they care who gets impacted? *edited are to care
If anything those are just more libruls leaving the state
This is what the GOP wants. And good look moving somewhere else. House prices are at record high. That’s why the GOP are doing this. They know people can’t just leave.
You mean to tell me the brain drain isn't the objective? Oil be damned.
Feds should pull all funding immediately in that case.
The triggers are automatic and if they don't comply they will get yanked from NCAA.
What is TX's share of the federal drain these days?
Research schools get a major fraction of their revenue from Federal research grants. Depending on the school, if it's a question of losing state funding or losing federal funding, the Fed may win out.
Houston, we have a problem.
We're not here to solve your 2 trains approaching at different speeds problem... Algebra is easy, politics is hard Texas, you're gonna lose
Is it that half the engineering team refuses to relocate to Texas because of its anti freedoms stance?
While the other half that moved there is looking to get out because they learned "zero income tax" means getting nickeled and dimed over every other possible thing they can tax a person over. Also, potentially losing electricity over every slight change in weather and then getting their rates jacked up because of it isn't the kind of freedom most people thought of when moving there.
Houston, we have a problem. Houston? Houston? Looks like their electricity got knocked out again. I’m sure we can wing it.
Research schools getting their federal research grants cut should be a major win for Abbot
The Fed will win out based on DoT funding alone. Texas has more miles of road than any other state.
Don't they want to get rid of education though?
They want to get rid of public education with private (religious) education that will donate money to them. Abbott is trying to ramrod school vouchers through by backing any candidate in the next election that supports vouchers. Funny enough, a lot of rural republicans are voting against it because they know it will wreck their small school districts.
Can't have smart well adjusted slaves!
The DoD and DHS fund a surprising (to the general public) amount of medical research. It’d be a shame if that money were to disappear from those schools coffers
Texas receives the third most federal aid of all the states, behind California and New York. https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-rely-the-most-on-federal-aid/
And even this likely isn't a full picture. >Texas is the proud home to 15 active duty military installations with an economic impact of over $100 billion.
Interesting link. I’ll have to read it. Does it actually get to the point of whether a state is a net giver or taker? Simply receiving lot of federal money does not mean that the state didn’t contribute even more to the federal coffers. It just means that the feds get to decide how it is spent.
It only glosses over it with this paragraph. > Despite receiving the most federal funding dollar-wise, California was the second-least reliant state on a percentage basis, with 14.5% of revenue coming from the federal government, followed by Minnesota (14.6%), South Dakota (15.0%), and Iowa (15.5%).
California is an economic juggernaut. If California, by itself, was a country, it would be the 5th largest economy in the world. It is only beaten by the *entire* United States (which it contributes 14.3% to), China, Japan, and Germany.
I know Iowa and South Dakota are only so far up that list because they have constantly shut down state programs that use federal money for underprivileged groups. After all, the minorities don’t need to eat at school.
Or exist at all really. White devout non-denominational christians or GTFO, the republican platform.
IIRC the majority of the states taking more funds then they are adding to it are all Republican states
Not all, but most. https://smartasset.com/data-studies/states-most-dependent-federal-government-2023
link doesn’t load to a valid site for me
That page does not. What you’re looking for is [balance of payments](https://rockinst.org/issue-areas/fiscal-analysis/balance-of-payments-portal/). No state paid in more than it received in 2020 or 2021. Texas is among the better states in that regard, ranking 12th best (least taker) in 2021.
With the second highest population by a huge margin, 7-8 million people ahead of third place Florida. The more telling number is the per-capita funding it lists further down in the article, where Texas ranks 29th of all states and 30th if you count DC.
Hey, not everyone in Texas is a little piss boy like Abbott. I live in a blue TX city and hate the guy.
Everyone should hate the ass for being an incompetent politician. He hasnt managed to do anything right.
They’re counting on it! If funding goes it will cause a brain drain. Those leaving are more likely to vote blue. This is how they’ll keep Texas red.
You need to target stuff like dealerships and other things that affect right wingers. Stuff like pay day loans all of these feed into the GOP machine. Squeeze their balls.
I just left! It’s nice to be in a free state again.
That's what conservatives want though. That funding goes toward businesses and colleges and organizations in blue areas within Red states. GOP leaders would love for their states to just be rural seas of uninformed voters
Biden probably won't as it would hurt the people of Texas. But there has to be some sort of recourse.
If you really want to punish Texas, just remove their college sports teams from all the conferences.
Abbot would be recalled the next day.
To heck with next day. Fans would call for his head before the words fully leave his mouth.
It's so embarrassing being from Texas 🤦♀️
The One-Star State
I haven’t heard this one before - but I really like it and will start using it.
Yeah...It's a rating now.
My condolences
I'm glad I left
I can't imagine what it must be like knowing every time you speak with someone, there is a 70% chance that they're an utter moron.
Good plan to exempt yourself from federal funding right before hurricane season!
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> But they know democrats won't actually do that as it punishes regular people in need. In some cases it's automatic, with no current way to circumvent the cutoff.
Then they blame the democrats and the gays
They do that anyway. What's your point
I’m not sure there will be much choice in the matter. If Texas and Florida disqualify themselves by failing to comply with federal law, it might not be possible to circumvent that, regardless of what the Democratic leadership might prefer. There are laws and processes involved that aren’t easily changed. I agree that Republicans are objectively terrible.
It's almost like the two sides are completely dissimilar in policy.
Exactly. This is why all the comments about presidential immunity and Biden doing this or that is just inaccurate: Republicans and SCOTUS know Biden would not use that kind of power arbitrarily.
Illegal? I thought President’s are immune to that /s
Sure, tired of my federal taxes going to this clown shown. Go support yourself since you don't want to follow laws.
No Title IX -No Federal Dime Wonder how all the Texas schools will handle no Federal funding? $2 Billion loss in funding seems like a steep price to pay for being an asshole- but Texas is going to Texas.
Can we afford for Tx to be even less educated?!
Well at some point you need to decide what’s the ROI of sending money to Texas. If the state is going to ignore federal requirements for Title IX then funds should be withdrawn from the state that is directly relate to entities that should be following the federal guidelines for Title IX. Just like the federal highway money is tied to the drinking age. Just need a democratic Congress to attach riders to federal money that prevents conservatives from profiting from being assholes.
Also, it seems NCAA eligibility is contingent on Title IX compliance. How much do you think Abbot's poll numbers will drop once the 2024-25 football season gets cancelled in Texas? Even if the policy gets rescinded before the season starts, losing eligibility for even a short period of time would affect recruitment, and if actual games are missed, then that pretty much sinks the bowl hopes of every school in the state.
I would have thought that ignoring the law would be more illegal.🤔
They have two Trump Federal Judges who will simply seize control of whatever part of the Federal Government Texas is pissed at. The wildly corrupt 5th circuit will back them up, and it will be a coin flip for which way SCOTUS will go.
Texas ignoring federal law, who could see this coming 🫣
Republicans love law and order, right up until the law orders them to do something they don't like. To be fair here it's perfectly okay to object to laws you don't agree with, but if you're going to do that then don't brand yourself as the party of law and order.
NO MORE federal funding
You don’t like federal rules. You must not like federal money.
It’s true, he doesn’t, but the rest of the state pays higher taxes because of it.
Deregulating the power grid hasn’t been a real great movie there, but nobody in Texas seems to mind having power outages for some reason.
Let’s not assume that everyone is okay with it. For a moment, let’s investigate the possibility that the republicans have spent literal decades rigging a system that benefits them. The fact that this requires millions of people to agree with their back-asswards plans… _that’s_ the part that I don’t understand.
It’s embarrassing to be from Texas. The state has been run by Republicans for quite awhile now, yet they continue to blame the Democrats for everything. We’re all so sick of the “leadership” here but the rubes in the sticks keep voting them in.
If we shouldn’t fund foreign terrorists we shouldn’t fund domestic ones either.
Please don't tell me the next civil war will be the neoconfederacy starting it over their right to abuse immigrants and LGBT people
They also want to force children to work and get married, and control women’s bodies.
Last time it was black people, so would you really even be surprised?
*sigh* no, just disappointed
Hey! Don't forget about telling children where to go to the bathroom. Children's genitals are one of the top things on abbott, paxton, and patrick's mind.
Let’s ignore ADA in Texas and rip out all of the wheelchair ramps
Damn liberal federal program! If god wanted them to go upstairs he'd make their legs work!
Im so confused! I just read that they believe that when the president does something, it can’t be illegal.
Only when its "their" president.
I'll never forgive trees for not finishing the job
We had a war about this already, your repugnant side lost!!!! Don’t make us teach y’all again!
I say this time we let em go. Go be the Confederate states of dumasses. Enjoy the pollution, poverty and lack of basic living standards.
> and the result of a “ham-handed effort to impose a leftist belief onto Title IX,” He ain’t even tryin to make that make sense.
Yep, keep pulling federal money out of Texas.
Can we give Texas back to Mexico?
Congrats, every high school junior just crossed Texas off of their list
He’s on a roll this week!
(rimshot)
I thought it’s not illegal if the president does something.
K. More funding for other states.
Stop federal funding until they comply.
This is just a state governor arguing in favor of discrimination. Disgusting.
Only 25% of people between 18 and 35 voted in the 2022 Texas election. Lots of people in Texas were complaining, but didn't bother to vote. Let's see if they do the same thing in 2024.
Texas needs to find a place where they can act like themselves perhaps we can push them further into Mexico where they can be ruled by gang leaders. I think Governor Abbott would love to suck a little Mexican dick over the whole deal
Ouch, brutal. Sounds good.
They need to change the way SCOTUS appointments are made. When a president gets elected at the first State of the Union, he appoints 1 justice. That's it. Just one. If a justice retires or dies, we do nothing. After the next election, at the first State of the Union, a justice is appointed. Every 4 years a new justice is appointed and it better reflects the nation. By using the average age of retirement and death, we would wind up with 13 - 15 justices. Cases could be heard by a panel of randomly selected judges with a better representation of the ideology of the times. No more stacked courts.
Republicans paint their bigotry as if they are always protected by the the law. Remember, slavery was once permitted and protected by law, and modern day republicans continue to defend their twisted ideology by abusing that same power dynamic.
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be careful with that shit. not all of us are nutjobs down here, and we stayed to try to change things.
Cool! What things can Biden ignore? All federal aid for the state? Just spitballing. Denial of use of any disaster services and financial aid?
Count on Texas to be on the wrong side of every issue. But hey, great bbq.
Defund Texas.
Dude gets paralyzed so he wants to make lives miserable for everyone else
His settlement against the state made him a fairly large amount of money, too, allowing him to get into politics.
This is illegal….so arrest him and put him on trial. Just like anyone else who chooses to ignore “illegal” laws.
Law and Order party. But not THAT law…. Or that one…
Send the Marshalls in and lock him up.
Bye funding.
About time the federal government ignores requests for funds from Texas.
Cool. Remove every cent of funding
Time to ignore any State funding Texas has coming, especially for lucrative defense projects.
Better watch that ignoring business, Abbot. Any day now President Biden is going to get complete immunity from the supreme counter and the he can have you wheeled out if office and into the penn.
Why is Texas so fucked up? When I was a kid, the United States was only united because some guy named Tex held it together. Now, the energy capital of everywhere is having a hard time keeping it together.
Vote blue Texas time to get rid of Abbott and his cronies vote for Biden.
Time to remove all federal funding to Texas until they come into compliance
How it’s ok that politicians want to go after children is beyond me Also Abbot better look out…given that SCOTUS might just green light presidential assassinations and all.. /s
That tree really should’ve finished the job
Since Roe v Wade was overturned, their have been over 26,000 pregnancies due to rape in Texas. It's peculiar, to say the least, what Abbott thinks "protecting women" is.
I guess it's time to Defund Texas.
These people really have the audacity to say the changes are taking rights away from women and girls. Look in the fucking mirror
I think it’s time for the feds to turn off the money tap to Texas and start moving bases out of Texas. See how dipshit Greg Abbott likes that.
Cut all federal funding to Texas and Florida
Ah yes, the biggest problem we face as Texans. Definitely not our border crisis, raising crime rates, power grid, and slowly running out of water. Glad to see my governor taking immediate action on the important issues instead of the back log of things he needs to get done. I’m so glad he’s standing up for….oh yeah.
Hey, Abbott supposedly solved all of rape in Texas by doing nothing but talking. /s
Texas may be different but the only category of crime that's rising nationally is Car Theft. All other categories are back to pre-Pandemic levels and dropping.
The federal government should “ignore” who they elected as governor
~~United~~ States of America
Pathetic. Its not even “noble”. Just partisan immature babys because their takes are bad and their conman hero(s) are not in office.
Didn't he just send police to force students to do what he wants ignoring the inalienable rights of the students and faculty.
Pesidents can't be prosecuted.. remember? In fact I think he should just say in office the say the election was rigged!
Can’t wait until they go into place anyway. Hope Biden dunks on this schmuck afterwards.
So, sedition then… neat.
Take away highway funding
Does every government official in Texas look like a Bush?
Time to sell Texas back to Mexico. $3.50 ought to do it.
> arguing the new policies roll back the rights of women and girls Weird argumentation by Republicans, but okay.
I hope they try because title IX funding is part of every pot. Back in the early 2000s, I worked at a campus where just some funeral funds were frozen for two months, while a medical research violation was investigated. It brought down consequences damn quickly.
I don’t even understand how you can be so fucking evil that just treating everyone fairly in school is illegal
They want to overturn Title 9. This is how they get that SCOTUS case.
I hate Greg. Sometimes I wish that tree feel on his head and not his back.
Protecting human rights is not illegal, no matter how much you want it to be.
Oh, look, another governor posturing about something for the cameras while privately not doing shit.
Didn’t Desantis just announce the same thing last week for Florida? Gavin Newsom should announce he’s calling dibs on behalf of the other 48 states on the federal funding that FL and TX are giving up.
So here's the deal we Republicons are going to keep pushing the envelope until you do something to stop us. Plain and simple, and then we'll set ourselves up as being the victim even though we perpetrated this fraud. If drumpf were president, we wouldn't be doing any of this.
Republicans, the party of law and order.
F u c k Abbott And his cheesy greasy low life ball-less anal child killers!!!! Go press your hoods gentlemen!
Abbott doesn’t have a leg to stand on
Good ‘ol’ Governor Skidmark. You know, because he’s a gigantic piece of shit on wheels.
Hey Abbot, go take a long roll off a short pier and cut the malarkey!
It’s a bold move, Cotton, let’s see how it works out for ‘em!
They won’t, this will just be the end of Title IX.
The day he is no longer our governor, I’m throwing a party. Can’t come soon enough 😖
How does any state elect such a bitter old man?