Governor Abbott closed out his speech at the Texas GOP convention with a live elephant. It then peed on the floor as it left the room.
The perfect metaphor for the Texas Republican Party.
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Since taking office, Ken Paxton has become a multi-millionaire while our pay has stagnated.
He owns 11 homes while most Texans can’t afford one.
He trades favors with rich donors while blocking overtime pay for workers.
Paxton doesn’t serve us — he serves himself.
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
@TMZ@jacob_wass As a black man this woman makes me irrationally angry. This is the type of people who think they speak for us, this type of race baiting is just bad for the entire country.
@nypost Glad she’s not in the running for a representative position anymore, sick of her bs just trying to start more division. Not a true Texas leader.
If you thought Karmelo Anthony even had the slightest chance of being found not guilty, you crazy. His life was never in danger to stab someone in the chest. Let’s not make this a race thing 🤷🏾♀️
As I predicted, Karmelo Anthony was found guilty of murder. From the facts presented, this always appeared to be a straightforward case. It’s unfortunate that the discussion became centered on race when the core issue was that a person was killed without legal justification.
BREAKING: Karmelo Anthony is found guilty of murder in the stabbing death of a fellow high school student at a Texas track meet. https://t.co/zenolGvpQH
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There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."
A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.
Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.