(01-09-2021, 05:06 PM)SilverFang01 Wrote:(01-09-2021, 09:12 AM)Black Aeronaut Wrote: I doubt it will happen. He's every bit in love with himself as Trump is. And besides,there's just so many more Red voting districts here than Blue that even if we managed to enact a vote to recall his sorry ass, it won't succeed. He'd have to do something to offend not only the rank and file Republicans in Texas, but all the fucking Trumpeters as well.
Georgia was considered a red bastion as well. Texas may be as red as it is due to voter suppression and the assist handed by the Robert’s Court messing with the voting rights act. The right person putting the work in? It’s possible that Texas may turn purple or outright blue.
Still, leaving Cruz without some sort of punishment may send the message that Texas voters stand with the insurrectionists. Can the local GOP afford that?
Please remember that this is the very same State Government that called out the State Militia (not the Texas National Guard - the fucking Militia) in response to a military training exercise under Obama's presidency, and that many of the Republicans here saw nothing wrong with that.
There are a lot of people here that may not be waving Confederate flags, and depictions of Confederate generals may be vanishingly few and rare here, but the sentiment is still very much the same. (Keep in mind, something that tends to get glossed over in the history lessons is that it is highly likely that the reason Mexico reneged on the tax deal for the Texian (White) Settlers in the first place was because the Texians didn't want to give up their slave holder rights. This is also part of why there is a demarcated difference between a Texian and a Tejano, though Texians simply refer to themselves as Texans these days.)