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Texas Republican Convention calls Biden win illegitimate and rebukes Cornyn over gun talks By Sewell Chan and Eric Neugeboren Texas Tribune
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"Billionaires Try to Shrink World's Population—Washington Post, 2009. The New York meeting of billionaires Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, Eli Broad, George Soros, Ted Turner, Oprah, Michael Bloomberg, and others was described by the Chronicle of Philanthropy as an informal gathering aimed at encouraging philanthropy. Just a few billionaires getting together for drinks and dinner and a friendly chat about how to promote charitable giving. There was no agenda, we were told. And no plan for a follow-up meeting. "Taking their cue from Gates they agreed that overpopulation was a priority," the article said, adding that "this could result in a challenge to some Third World politicians who believe contraception and female education weaken traditional values." Such a stand wouldn't be surprising. Gates, Buffett, and Turner have been quietly worrying about Malthusian population problems for years. Mr. Gates in February outlined a plan to try to cap the world's population at 8.3 billion people, rather than the projected 9.3 billion at which the population is expected to peak. But some right-leaning blogs have started attacking the billionaires as forming a kind of secret sterilization society or giant ATM to fund abortions. It fed into timehonored fears of the rich using their wealth to reshape mankind in its preferred image. Some are raising the specter of eugenics." https://www.wsj.com/ articles/BL-WHB-1322
HOUSTON — Meeting at their first in-person convention since 2018, Texas Republicans on Saturday acted on a raft of resolutions and proposed platform changes to move their party even further to the right. They approved measures declaring that President Joe Biden “was not legitimately elected” and rebuking Sen. John Cornyn for taking part in bipartisan gun talks. They also voted on a platform that declares homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and calls for Texas schoolchildren “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child.” The actions capped a convention that highlighted how adamantly opposed the party’s most active and vocal members are to compromising with Democrats or moderating on social positions, even as the state has grown more diverse and Republicans’ margins in statewide elections have shrunk slightly in recent years. Votes on the platform were collected at the end of the party's three-day convention in which party activists moved to add multiple items to the official Texas GOP platform. As the convention closed, two separate sets of ballots — one allowing delegates to choose eight of 15 legislative priorities and another allowing delegates to vote on the 275 platform planks — were gathered. Those will now need to be tallied and certified in Austin, but it is rare for a plank to be rejected, according to party spokesperson James Wesolek. The convention reinforced the extent to which former President Donald J. Trump’s unfounded claims of a stolen election continue to resound among the party faithful — even though his claims have repeatedly been debunked, including by many of his own former aides, and
after a week of televised hearings about the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The denunciation of Cornyn represented a remarkable rebuke to a Republican who has served in the Senate since 2002. The hall at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston filled with boos on Friday as he tried to explain the legislation, which would allow juvenile records to be incorporated into background checks for gun buyers younger than 21 and encourage “red flag” laws that would make it easier to remove guns from potentially dangerous people, along with more funding for school safety and mental health. Meanwhile, the party platform vote on Saturday by roughly 5,100 convention delegates would argue that those under 21 are “most likely to need to defend themselves” and may need to quickly buy guns “in emergencies such as riots.” It also would say that red flag laws violate the due process rights of people who haven’t been convicted of a crime. About 9,600 delegates and alternates were eligible to attend; organizers said turnout was a bit more than half that. The new platform would call for: *Requiring Texas students “to learn about the humanity of the preborn child,” including teaching that life begins at fertilization and requiring students to listen to live ultrasounds of gestating fetuses. *Amending the Texas Constitution to remove the Legislature’s power “to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.” *Treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice,” language that was not included in the 2018 or 2020 party platforms.
*Deeming gender identity disorder “a genuine and extremely rare mental health condition,” requiring official documents to adhere to “biological gender,” and allowing civil penalties and monetary compensation to “de-transitioners” who have received gender-affirming surgery, which the platform calls a form of medical malpractice. *Changing the U.S. Constitution to cement the number of Supreme Court justices at nine and repeal the 16th Amendment of 1913, which created the federal income tax. *Ensuring “freedom to travel” by opposing Biden’s Clean Energy Plan and “Californiastyle, anti-driver policies,” including efforts to turn traffic lanes over for use by pedestrians, cyclists and mass transit. *Declaring “all businesses and jobs as essential and a fundamental right,” a response to COVID-19 mandates by Texas cities that required customers to wear masks and limited business hours. *Abolishing the Federal Reserve, the nation’s central bank, and guaranteeing the right to use alternatives to cash, including cryptocurrencies. Not every far-right proposal was advanced. The party chair, Matt Rinaldi, ruled that a motion to defend the due process rights of those who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and to “reject the narrative” that the riot was an insurrection was out of order and could not be voted on. Taken together, the new provisions would represent a shift even further rightward for the Republican Party of Texas, once known as the party of Presidents George Bush and his son George W. Bush. Land Commissioner George P. Bush, a grandson and nephew of the two presidents, was (Continued on page 14)
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Trump demands equal time on TV networks to counter Jan. 6 hearings
By John Solomon JustTheNews.com Kept by congressional Democrats from putting on a defense, former President Donald Trump demanded Thursday that television networks airing the Jan. 6 committee hearings provide him equal time to present his side. "I DEMAND EQUAL TIME!!!" Trump said in a midday statement posted on his Truth Social media site, just before the Democrat-led panel began its third, televised hearing on the Capitol riots. "The Fake News Networks are perpetuating lies, falsehoods, and Russia, Russia, Russia-type disinformation (same sick people, here we go again!) by allowing the low rated but nevertheless one sided and slanderous Unselect Committee hearings to go endlessly and aimlessly on (and on and on!)," the 45th president also said. Democrats holding the Jan. 6 hearings have refused to let House Republicans put their own members on the committee and have openly
talked about the hearings being a vehicle to keep Trump from running again. "The point is that the constitutional purpose is clear, to keep people exactly like Donald Trump and other traitors to the union from holding public office," Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told ABC News earlier this year. Trump's statement appeared to appeal to the Federal Communications Commission's equal time provision that mandates U.S. radio and television broadcast stations provide an equivalent opportunity to any opposing political candidates who request it if their opponents has gotten it. Trump called the hearings "a one-sided, highly partisan Witch Hunt, the likes of which has never been seen in Congress before and that he deserved time on national TV to present his side of the case, including election irregularities and Democrat failures to secure Capitol." He also said: "I am hereby demanding EQUAL TIME to spell out the massive Voter Fraud & Dem Security Breach!"
World awakening A conservative Supreme Court Justice was almost assassinated in the middle of the week last week. Firebombings across the country at prolife centers by Jane’s Revenge cells. A crazy person drives into a Trump merchandise store in New Hampshire. But CNN was non-stop coverage on January 6. ***** Teenagers marched in front of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Bar-
rett’s home with bloody baby dolls in hand calling for abortion-ondemand. ***** 49 states order COVID injections for kids under five years old. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is the only one that will not facilitate the distribution for toddlers to be vaccinated. ***** An exuberant Marine Le Pen, who has handily won her northern France
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