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16 Wacky Ideas In The Texas Republican Party’s New Platform
1) Pornography Should Be Treated Just Like Cocaine
2) Social Security Should Be Phased Out
3) Texas Should Veto Federal Laws
4) Americans Should Not Be Allowed To Choose Their Own Senators
5) The Problem With America’s Schools Is That They Have Too Much Money
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6) All Federal Agencies Should Be Rendered Impotent
7) Climate Change Is A Myth
8) Congress Must Act Now To Prevent America From Becoming A Muslim Caliphate
9) God Hates Gay People, And Their Bosses Should Be Allowed To Fire Them For Being Gay
10) Gayness Can Be Cured
11) The Voting Rights Act Should Be Repealed
16 Wacky Ideas In The Texas Republican Party’s New Platform
The Silliest, Most Terrifying Things in the Republican Platform
We condemn the hate campaigns, threats of violence, and vandalism by proponents of same-sex marriage against advocates of traditional marriage and call for a federal investigation into attempts to deny religious believers their civil rights.
I wonder if Republican operatives have a name for the tactic where they accuse other people of doing exactly what they themselves are doing. It’s pretty much their go-to move—here, they take the decades of oppression and hate gay people have suffered and turn it around so that forcing people to grant equal rights to homosexuals is akin to denying civil rights. If you feel a twinge of conscience writing this stuff, you’re not ready to be a Republican operative. If you feel bile rising in your throat reading it, you're not ready to read the rest of this platform.
Conservation is a conservative value. […] Congress should reconsider whether parts of the federal government’s enormous landholdings and control of water in the West could be better used for ranching, mining, or forestry through private ownership.
Opening national parks and public land to logging and mining is the opposite of conservation. So that’s probably just a typo.
By uniting our government and our citizens, our foreign policy will secure freedom, keep America safe, and ensure that we remain the “last best hope on Earth.”
That last bit is in quotes because it’s a line from a message Abraham Lincoln sent to Congress before signing the Emancipation Proclamation. But I think in context here, “last best hope on Earth” means that the Republicans want to make sure that in the event of an alien invasion, the US military is humanity’s best hope for survival. Pretty badass of them to put that in the platform.
As a matter of principle, we oppose the creation of any new race-based governments within the United States.
Um, is the GOP coming out against weird racially homogenous enclaves that govern themselves? Like a commune of Filipinos that rejects US law and murders non-Filipinos who trespass on their territory? I guess that sort of thing should be stopped, if it’s happening—but maybe the word “new” means that they’re cool with the currently-existing race-based governments in the US, but there’s not room for one more.
The effectiveness of our foreign aid has been limited by the cultural agenda of the current Administration, attempting to impose on foreign countries, especially the peoples of Africa, legalized abortion and the homosexual rights agenda.
Another one that is just straight-up confusing. We’re exporting “homosexual rights” to Africa?
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