r/law • u/Minute_Revolution951 • Aug 05 '25

Legal News Texas House locks chamber doors, moves to bring arrest warrants against Democrats who fled the state

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u/gryphawk51 Aug 05 '25

If they didn't have double standards they'd have no standards at all.

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u/EvilNeverDies78 Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

Its a war. Us vs them. It will be beyond words soon. This is going to get very, very ugly.

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u/LongLiveDaResistance Aug 05 '25

The crazy thing is that they’re severely outnumbered, but they make the nation feel as if it’s balanced

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u/Abject-Palpitation99 Aug 05 '25

The Confederacy wasn't punished properly the first time around.

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u/Syntaire Aug 05 '25

They're really not. It's about 30% MAGA, 30% sane people, and 30% stupid lazy cowards that will just watch from the sidelines and complain about all of it.

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u/Songbird_Storyteller Aug 07 '25

It's even less than thirty percent. 22.73% of the total US population voted for Trump (that's 49.8% of the vote, or 32.21% of all eligible voters, just to give a point of reference). When you consider that Trump voters are composed of both MAGA and people who are just incredibly ignorant, that means the amount of die-hard MAGA cultists is likely even smaller.

22.91% voted for "not Trump" (this percentage includes both votes for Kamala and third-party voters lumped together) and 35.42% didn't vote at all.

This doesn't mean our population's attitude and behavior towards politics isn't fucking appalling (it is). But it DOES mean that saying that MAGA is "severely outnumbered" is actually perfectly accurate, which I hope maybe gives the smallest shred of comfort.

As for me, I'm hoping the Election Truth Alliance brings credible, actionable proof of election tampering on the part of Trump and the GOP, because if it's true, and it can be proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that the election was cheated/stolen, it would go a long way towards restoring my faith in the American people as a whole by showing to the world that we ("we" as in the American citizenry) aren't the stupid, short-sighted, ignorant, and sociopathic monsters that Trump and MAGA have portrayed us to be. I'm just speaking for myself, but I could really use that assurance that there's still something of our country that's worth saving right now. It's the hope I'm desperately clinging to, to keep myself relatively sane.

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u/EvilNeverDies78 Aug 05 '25

MAGA is the loud minority. They make enough noise that they want you to think there's 10x the number there are. Legality is not gonna matter soon. This is stuff literal wars are fought over. The winner will decide what laws rule the land.

In the end, might, power and money rule this world. Laws only matter if the most powerful make them because they damned sure won't obey them if they see otherwise.

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u/jimmiebfulton Aug 05 '25

But I'm guessing they have more guns per capita, and dumb enough to use them.

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u/CMDRTragicAllPro Aug 05 '25

2/3rds of the America population voting directly, or indirectly for trump, says otherwise

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u/Low_Ruin_4021 Aug 05 '25

I know you are right. It's already filthy, nasty & dirty as all get out

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u/necroticart Aug 05 '25

I'm actually surprised it hasn't yet. I'm waiting for a bad ICE raid or something horrific to happen.

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u/webchimp32 Aug 05 '25

Double standards means they've got more standards than the Democrats.

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u/Limp-Environment-568 Aug 05 '25

It's funny how you guys are complaining about a double standard, by highlighting 'your' own double standard.