What's wrong with Texas?

[frank ryan]

nobody wants emo or goth kids in their school.

But ppl like this are so cool.

[BlueK]

The Texas secessionist movement is claiming victory from the election, saying that the election of some dozen or so new members of the legislature who support their cause means they'll be able to move some secession related legislation forward.

They seem nuts to me, but my other perception is that this wasn't even remotely a campaign issue in the state, not even on the primaries, and that the voters were just voting for a Republican. At the end of the article it says who these legislative candidates are and one of them is going to represent my district. It's hard to get reliable information about local candidates, but I skim through the ads they send out and the one who will be representing me definitely said nothing about Texas secession in anything I saw.

It will be interesting to see how loud this gets. I assume there will be a backlash here if they get annoying.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-seces...esults-1982559

[frank ryan]

The Texas secessionist movement is claiming victory from the election, saying that the election of some dozen or so new members of the legislature who support their cause means they'll be able to move some secession related legislation forward.

They seem nuts to me, but my other perception is that this wasn't even remotely a campaign issue in the state, not even on the primaries, and that the voters were just voting for a Republican. At the end of the article it says who these legislative candidates are and one of them is going to represent my district. It's hard to get reliable information about local candidates, but I skim through the ads they send out and the one who will be representing me definitely said nothing about Texas secession in anything I saw.

It will be interesting to see how loud this gets. I assume there will be a backlash here if they get annoying.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-seces...esults-1982559

Don't ignore it. It's one of those issues that's also had foreign financial and intelligence backing too.

Paxton is as corrupt as they come

[Uncle Ted]

Don't ignore it. It's one of those issues that's also had foreign financial and intelligence backing too.

Paxton is as corrupt as they come

Yeah, I don't really trust Paxton and voted against him the last time he was on the ballot.

[Green Monstah]

Gutted. Selfishly, I was relieved not to know anyone impacted by the hill country flooding. Just saw an article about two lawyers who lost their twins at Camp Mystic. I took
dozens of depositions with the dad in 2023-2024, and I worked at the same firm as the mom my first three years of practice.

https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2025...20250707230410

[Bo Diddley]

Gutted. Selfishly, I was relieved not to know anyone impacted by the hill country flooding. Just saw an article about two lawyers who lost their twins at Camp Mystic. I took
dozens of depositions with the dad in 2023-2024, and I worked at the same firm as the mom my first three years of practice.

https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2025...20250707230410

Absolutely horrific. My heart goes out to all affected from this tragedy.

Also ugly some the jeering responses from people.

[BigPiney]

This whole thing is a nightmare. How terrible.

[Moliere]

Gutted. Selfishly, I was relieved not to know anyone impacted by the hill country flooding. Just saw an article about two lawyers who lost their twins at Camp Mystic. I took
dozens of depositions with the dad in 2023-2024, and I worked at the same firm as the mom my first three years of practice.

https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2025...20250707230410

It’s a real tragedy. Three people at my work have been impacted through distant relatives. One guy that works for me has a brother in law whose niece’s body hasn’t been found yet.

[Northwestcoug]

Absolutely horrific. My heart goes out to all affected from this tragedy.

Also ugly some the jeering responses from people.

Yeah, the 'you voted for this' is fine in an abstract argument about government policies. But when innocent children die? GTFO.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yeah, the 'you voted for this' is fine in an abstract argument about government policies. But when innocent children die? GTFO.

Yeah, anyone politicizing this right now is a ghoul.

The cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service have impacted me and many people I know. But that had nothing to do with this tragedy. The forecast system was still in place and the forecasts were reasonably accurate. The problem was how rapidly it happened, the time of day, and the remoteness of many of the campsites, etc. Getting the word out to everyone on the ground is a local problem and sometimes you just get a horrible combination of circumstances.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yes indeed. What the hell is wrong with Texas?

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[Northwestcoug]

Ye-ikes.

She doesn't seem well.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Paxton vs Talarico race in Texas will be interesting to watch. Talarico cracks me up. Wears a mask everywhere and does stuff like this:

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[Green Monstah]

Dude needs to realize that what makes him a threat is his ability to capture the center. Stupid shit like this alienates the “hold my nose and vote for MAGA” crowd.

[BlueK]

Dude needs to realize that what makes him a threat is his ability to capture the center. Stupid shit like this alienates the “hold my nose and vote for MAGA” crowd.

He actually said this four years ago talking about his state legislature campaign in a slam dunk dem district. He's not saying the fringe stuff anymore. We'll see if he can overcome some of the weird comments from 4-6 years ago.