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“Seeing what happened in Colorado makes me think—except we believe in democracy in Texas—maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing eight million people to cross the border since he’s been president disrupting our state,” Patrick said.

Texas and Florida have been bussing people out of states. They already have a solution in place for this called "Dump your troubles onto someone else."

The last time they actually put this into practice, Florida's construction, agriculture, real estate, and education labor force all dropped. DeSantis had to repeal his own law and give raises just to get migrant workers back.

The problem isn't that migrants are crossing the boarder, the problem is that the republican solution is outdated. We need a more managed and modern way of controlling immigration.

Sorry, Texas, your State election laws forbids it.

Texas Political Party Nomination

A presidential candidate nominated by a political party may be placed on the general election ballot. Political parties must certify the names of the candidates for president and vice-president and the names of the presidential electors before the later of the 71st day before the presidential election, or the first business day after the date of final adjournment of a party’s national nominating convention. A political party that is authorized or required to nominate candidates by primary election is entitled to have its nominee for president placed on the general election ballot. A political party is authorized to nominate by primary if the party’s nominee for governor in the most recent gubernatorial general election received at least 2% of the total number of votes received by all candidates for governor in the election; a political party is required to nominate by primary if that candidate received more than 20% of the vote. A political party that nominates candidates by convention is entitled to have its nominee for president placed on the general election ballot if the party had a nominee for statewide office at the last general election receive a number of votes equal to at least 5% of the total number of voters received by all candidates for that office.

A political party that nominates by convention may also qualify to place a presidential candidate on the general election ballot if the party files with the secretary of state no later than the 75th day after precinct conventions a list convention participants indicating that the number of participants equals at least 1% of the total number of votes received by all candidates for governor in the most recent gubernatorial general election. If the number of convention participants is fewer than the number required, the party may qualify for ballot access at the general election by filing a petition with secretary of state containing a number of signatures that when added to the number of convention participants on the list equals at least 1% of the total number of voters received by all candidates for governor in the most recent gubernatorial election.

Petition

An independent presidential candidate may obtain ballot access for the general election by filing with the secretary of state no later than the 2nd Monday in May an application and a petition containing the number of signatures equal to at least 1% of the total vote received in the state by all candidates for president in the most recent presidential election. The application must include the names of the presidential electors.

Write-In

A write-in candidate for president must file a declaration of write-in candidacy and the names of the presidential electors with the secretary of state no later than the 78th day before the election. (Tex. Elections Code Ann. §§ 146.023, 146.025, 172.002, 181.005, 181.006, 192.003, 192.032, 192.033)

Do it! Do it!

I want all the money drained out of there.

Gotta love the whataboutism:

“Sure, Trump committed several actual crimes, but Biden farted once, so that makes it ok!”

Hey my kids do the same shit when one won't give up a toy the other likes. Republicans are children, "Hmm! You took my guy off the ballot? Well now I'm taking your's-"

Me: "I want Bernie."

Reactionary fascist is Big Mad, news @ 11.

Texas "We don't need federal government tellin us what to do" Texas "We're rugged and independent, we got our own grid do screw off" Texas "Feds are inept and useless. Well do it on own own"

Also Texas "Feds! Halp us w our borders that we can't fix!! Heeelllp!"

The party of childish vindictiveness

I think what we need to do to help alleviate some of the immigration issues is not to build a wall and keep them completely out, but to build a better gate. Our immigration system is broken and terribly understaffed, a lot of it is by design because people would rather have an issue to complain about rather thannsolve the problem.

We need immigrant labor and a lot of folks need jobs, so we rework the system to provide more temporary work permits to begin with. There is a system to do this already, it is just woefully inadequate.

Second, we set up a system where people aren't necessarily instantly rejected for asylum at the border. That would keep a lot of people from having to cross the border illegally just to try to claim asylum (which is unfortunately the current process). At the border, anyone claiming asylum could be processed, a background check run and a preliminary determination before a judge. At that point, it could be determined if the person has family or some support system in the US and they can possibly be released with an ankle bracelet to that support, confined until the asylum verdict, or deported immediately if they fail a background check.

This sort of process does three things.

Allows tracking for more immigrants that are going through the asylum process legitimately.

Allows legitimate migrant workers to be here legally which allows us to better track their whereabouts and deport them if needed. It also protects them from being abused by people who currently bring them over illegally. Keep in mind, lots of migrants like this just come here for a few months to work and then are happy to go back home.

Cuts down on who is actually crossing the border illegally. If you provide mechanisms for people to work here legitimately, apply for asylum without illegally crossing the border, then the people who do illegally cross are going to be fewer and much more likely to be the people you really want to keep out.

Oh noes! Now Biden might not win Texas!

Think before you speak, dumbass.

Edit to clarify, said dumbass is the Lt. Gov, not OP, OP is cool.

There are small children who chase people Aroundvwith poop on a stick, who are more mature than the GOP.

Oh, fuck off Dan Patrick you fragile little snowflake.

this is how a country falls apart

Just reading the article it's pretty clear he doesn't actually threaten to do this. He makes it clear they because they "believe in democracy" they wouldn't do it. It was clearly a rhetorical device and not an actual threat. The title is garbage.

Just a repeat of the "Impeach Biden" thing. No cause, no evidence, but go for it.

GOP = Grumpy Outdated Projectors.

Taking Biden off the ballot in Texas (like taking Trump off the ballot in Colorado) will almost certainly be irrelevant to the outcome of the presidential election, but it will contribute to an environment where approximately half the country considers the outcome of the 2024 election illegitimate no matter who wins.

Even keeping Trump on the ballot everywhere would not lead to him conceding quietly if he lost, but taking him off the ballot is going to make things much worse. Like it or not, he really could shoot someone in the middle of Fifth Avenue and still have the support of Republican voters, and they (like anybody else) will not be content to have the court system tell them that they can't vote for him.

Did the Nazi Cunt throw up her right arm in celebration?

Texans don't deserve Joe, you bunch of ignorant assholes.. you can have Trump and Elon if you want them, they're yours..