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    So it’s OK to gerrymander the fuck out of your state in order to disenfranchise people, but it’s not OK to protest such anti-democratic acts. Got it.

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      Probably obstruction of governmental process or however they phrase it there. It won’t stick after appeal but seems pretty likely to be a kangaroo court type dealio to get them out real quick.

      Even weirder they’re civil so probably some policy violation they’re trying to make a felony but trying to charge civilly which isn’t how anything works and anytime who’s seen schoolhouse rock should probably be aware of it.

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    What’s sad is, you dont see Texas MAGA out in force on this. Why? This is in your face crushing democracy for a washed up reality TV star. Why isn’t the whole state up in arms?

    MAGA can spit anything they want, but if it benefits them, they will turn their head to just about anything.

    Pedophiles? It’s ok on my team. - MAGA Government corruption? Fine when we have power. Cut funding for our MAGA elders? Sure, if it hurts the left, I’ll die watching it.

    True cancer is the MAGA movement and everything it stands for. History will show that MAGA moved the US into a failed state.

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    It’d be pretty cool if the host state governments provided tactical team protection to those politicians. Designate VIP; protect.

    As a Bostonian, I’d fully back using the MA NG, staties (the unusually flagrantly corrupt embezzling fucks they are), BPD, or whatever else, under state authority, to protect political refugees from a hostile US State.

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    All that needs to be done is have a governor of a state that these lawmakers flee to say “if the texas rangers enter our state, they will be executed without trial.”