Having A Normal One

Lindsey Graham: Trump owns the Republican Party… This is the party of Donald Trump. If you think otherwise, you’re in for a rude awakening pic.twitter.com/49Kw2k7idX

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 18, 2021

Whenever my stats fall below a level which pleases me, I’m being silenced!

“We’re being silenced!” Matt Gaetz cries in a public speech, recorded by a hundred iPhones, already up on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram.

Ok snowflake. https://t.co/YWlBQ2FeUN

— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) July 18, 2021

You say “thuggish,” I say “rational concern about public safety and use of public resources.” Yeah, I know it’s a fine line; but it’s not that fine.

Between this and the Biden administration I’m seriously unimpressed with the level of message discipline being used by politicos. The most charitable interpretation is that it’s arrogant and sloppy; the alternative is that it’s thuggish. https://t.co/VP3dh3Ry5w

— HatIsNotIntoCoups (@Popehat) July 17, 2021

Especially when this is the message:

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— Modeka (@modeka) July 18, 2021

Besides, they still got to speak to the people who were going to listen. Pardon me if I don’t think a principle has been besmirched.

Just as the Founders intended... https://t.co/K7ND8i4pWi

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 18, 2021

The silencing continues.

The families of two unvaccinated men who had to undergo major lung surgery after contracting the coronavirus are speaking out, encouraging others to get the shot and reevaluating their own vaccine hesitancy. https://t.co/oGliqBYzDB

— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 17, 2021

Did we not all just watch this movie?

Republican governor of Utah says anti-vaccine rhetoric is “killing people” and denounces “propaganda” https://t.co/F2PYh9gz2Q

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 17, 2021

RINO.

We are neither prepared to slow down climate change nor live with the climate we have already changed https://t.co/QuCDbfaQNu

— Somini Sengupta🥭 (@SominiSengupta) July 17, 2021

In case you were at risk of feeling better about things.

And the parting lesson:

If only he had any idea what he was talking about.

Under Texas law, the only offense like “obstructing an official proceeding” is “hindering proceedings by disorderly conduct,” which requires, you know, disorderly conduct.https://t.co/PhBHuDySHi pic.twitter.com/RGqavhLjtz

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) July 17, 2021

As I noted the other day, the fact that Texas legislators can be compelled to attend a legislative session if they’re inside the state of Texas doesn’t mean that their refusal to attend from outside is unlawful; it isn’t: https://t.co/Be4qqlwqJO

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) July 17, 2021

And the ability to compel attendance lies solely with the House, and and extends in time solely for the term of the session.

If you don’t know anything about the law, don’t pretend that you do. You look like a damned fool.