As you know, many Texas Democrats fled to Illinois and New York (on private chartered jets -- apparently the era of climate change concern is over) in another attempt to "save democracy" by not doing their jobs:
PRIVATE JET DEMOCRATS: Dems in the Texas House spent weeks plotting a walkout meant to block their Republican counterparts from passing a new congressional map before finally launching it on Sunday.
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) August 5, 2025
If the opening 24 hours were anything to go off of, they should have spent more… pic.twitter.com/zNUkoJXXO3
Wearing "let the people vote" shirts while preventing the people's representatives in government from voting on issues is peak Democrat.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued the following warning to the runaway Dems:
🚨BREAKING: I will seek judicial orders declaring that runaway Democrats who fail to appear by the Speaker’s deadline have vacated their office.
— Attorney General Ken Paxton (@KenPaxtonTX) August 5, 2025
The people of Texas elected lawmakers, not jet-setting runaways looking for headlines. If you don’t show up to work, you get fired. pic.twitter.com/yyPWavY38P
Former President Barack Obama's ex DOJ "wingman" Eric Holder has said that democracy is in peril unless the Texas Democrats can successfully stop the democratic process from playing out:
Obama’s Wingman: Texas congressional redistricting is different than the countless other times it’s been done, because this time it’s a Threat To Our Democracy™️. pic.twitter.com/UokrxUqnKg
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) August 3, 2025
Not to be oudone, Obama had this to say about the situation that "undermines our democracy," but only when Republicans do it:
We can’t lose focus on what matters – right now, Republicans in Texas are trying to gerrymander district lines to unfairly win five seats in next year’s midterm elections. This is a power grab that undermines our democracy. https://t.co/lBGo5aNbyp
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 5, 2025
The level of hypocrisy is perhaps at its highest when Obama says those kinds of things considering he got his national political aspiration launched because of -- you guessed it -- gerrymandering:
Obama's entire national political career got launched because of gerrymandering, so now of course it's something that "undermines our democracy." https://t.co/9W8blzXLow pic.twitter.com/VMA4oYzDif
— Doug Powers (@ThePowersThatBe) August 6, 2025
That's from a 2012 article in The New Yorker:
In 1996, during his first run for office, in the Illinois State Senate, Obama defeated his former political mentor Alice Palmer by successfully challenging her nominating petitions and forcing her off the ballot, effectively ending her career. A few years later, Illinois Democrats, after toiling in the minority in the Senate, gerrymandered the state to produce a Democratic majority. While drafting the new political map, Obama helped redraw his own district northward to include some of Chicago’s wealthiest citizens, making the district a powerful financial and political base that he used to win his U.S. Senate seat, a few years later.
If Obama does any interviews in the coming days or weeks a grand total of ZERO "journalists" will mention things like this to him and confront the hypocrisy, but we're used to that.
Obama doesn't have any problem with this one though:
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) August 5, 2025
"It's OK for me but not for thee" has a familiar ring to it with many things Obama and the Democrats have said and done in the past.
For the Texas Dems, their FA phase is over and it's time for the FO part to kick in.
