It's an easy mistake to make, assuming Republicans are rational and reasonable
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)- just another member of the Congressional Looney Tunes Caucus
Once upon a time, I suspected that maybe Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) might be one of the “reasonable” Republicans, which only goes to prove
how horribly and ridiculously naïve I can be sometimes,
how little I actually knew about said Congresscritter,
that maybe I was high at the time?
Because, as it turns out, Rep. Roy has the intellectual agility of your average post turtle. Not only that, he sincerely believes that because he’s from Texas, he’s an expert on immigration and border security. Well, hot damn, y’all…I’m from Minnesota, but that hardly makes me an expert on lefse and lutefisk.
Now he’s claiming that the Biden Administration is “flooding the zone” with foreigners. Right…and the next thing you know, Rep. Roy will be telling us that Joe Biden is sex trafficking children from the basement of a Washington pizzeria (that has no basement) and drinks the blood of small children.
Because, of course, he does. How else could he retain his youthful vigor?
Rep. Chip Roy appeared on a recent Convention of States broadcast to discuss, among other issues, immigration and border security. During the discussion, the Texas congressman once again spread the racist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory which alleges that there is an intentional effort underway to replace white Christian Americans with non-white, non-Christians from other nations as part of a widespread plot to undermine Western civilization.
“All of this is being done purposefully,” Roy said. “We all know what’s going on. The numbers are astounding. It’s all purposeful.”
Yes, indeed; it’s a plot to replace Kid Rock and Ted Nugent with musicians with actual, honest-to-God talent.
As for replacing White Conservative Christian Cisgender Heterosexuals with godless heathen non-Whites from “shit hole” countries, some might say that could be an upgrade, if you know what I mean.
“50 million of our American population are foreign born,” Roy continued. “That puts it at roughly 16ish percent … They all have about 20 to 25 million kids. That puts that number well up into the 20 percent of the overall population. Now, why do I bring that up? Well, because that’s the highest level we’ve ever had. … So now we have a massive percentage at a moment where we’re not teaching our children that America is great, we’re not teaching our children that God exists, we’re not teaching our children the values of the Constitution or Western civilization.”
Are we not teaching our children that America is great? What’s wrong with not imbuing younger generations with the arrogant belief that America is #1 when other countries have surpassed us in many areas?
Don’t get me wrong; America is still pretty damned good, but to teach kids that it’s the greatest country in the world is more than a little bit misleading.
As for not teaching children that God exists, that’s the job of churches, not schools. And for a growing number of Americans, God DOESN’T exist. That’s not a bad thing. It’s not a sign of moral decline. It just means that many more Americans don’t believe in a deity they believe to be imaginary, nor do they believe that one must believe in God to be a moral being.
Welcome to my world.
“Here’s another startling statistic that’s related,” Roy added. “In 2007, 17 percent of Americans checked the box ‘unchurched.’ Today, 28 percent check that box. You do the math.”
I can, and that number is irrelevant. Whether one goes to church or not does not indicate one’s morality. In fact, given the state of Christianity in America today, being “unchurched” might be a more positive reflection of the state of one’s morality.
And it’s not as if Rep. Roy has the market on morality. As
tells us,Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced the Let Injured Americans Be Legally Empowered (LIABLE) Act. The LIABLE Act would dissolve ALL federal immunity and protections for manufactures of ‘COVID-19 vaccines’ and will be retroactive once passed.
Chip Roy’s LIABLE Act will:
“Prohibit any Federal law from making the manufacturer of a COVID– 19 vaccine immune from suit or liability, or limiting the liability of such a manufacturer, with respect to claims for loss caused by, arising out of, relating to, or resulting from the administration to or the use by an individual of a COVID–19 vaccine, and for other purposes.”
Thank you Representative Chip Roy. Godspeed and God bless!
NOTE: This bill is not needed to sue or criminally prosecute Pfizer. Pfizer violated numerous laws outside of the EUA. Pfizer is not protected from charges of committing attempted battery, assault, and murder with a toxic agent and/or weapon (device), nor is the Pharma giant protected from defrauding the American people by engaging in a lying spree and a malicious propaganda campaign. (Lying isn’t a covered activity under the EUA laws.) I do think it is important to “clean up the legislative books” though.
Exodus 18:21
Yeah, Karen Kingston LOVES Rep. Roy’s bill, but perhaps she’d do well to remember that Pfizer’s vaccines almost certainly saved millions of lives during the pandemic. I count mine among them, having as I currently do SIX Pfizer shots in my arms…and if it were time for a seventh, I’d be first in line.
If people like Chip Roy and Karen Kingston had been successful early in the pandemic, thousands more Americans would be dead. Is that what they were after?
Is Pfizer’s vaccine 110% perfect? Of course not; what is perfect in this life? Ms. Kingston's cheering on Rep. Roy in his efforts to strip Pfizer of its liability protection is unconscionable. Someone should remind Ms. Kingston that Exodus 18:21 didn’t save a single person from COVID-19.
Among other things, Rep. Roy believes he has the right to pick and choose which laws and court orders are worthy of his obedience. As
reports, Rep. Roy, in January, advised the State of Texas to ignore a ruling from the Supreme Court:Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) is publicly urging Texas to ignore the Supreme Court. In previously unreported comments, Roy explained that he feared his position would push the country into "a post-constitutional world." But, Roy said, the Supreme Court is "pushing our hand" by issuing a ruling related to the southern border that he opposes, and the Supreme Court needs to "feel the pressure."
Major law firms and numerous prominent corporations are financially backing Roy's reelection campaign, according to a Popular Information analysis of federal campaign finance filings.
Roy's ire stems from litigation initiated by Texas regarding Shelby Park, a municipal park in Eagle Pass, Texas, that abuts the Rio Grande River. Texas has seized control of the park, enclosing the entire 47 acres in razor wire and denying entry to the U.S. Border Patrol. Access to Shelby Park is important to federal authorities because it is used as a "staging area for policing and interdiction operations along the Rio Grande." According to the federal government, the razor wire puts federal personnel and migrants in danger. Texas sued to prevent the federal government from removing the wire.
Texas won a temporary injunction from the Fifth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals, which prohibited the federal government from disturbing the razor wire. But on January 22, in a brief order, the Supreme Court sided with the federal government and lifted the injunction.
In response, Roy posted that the Supreme Court's decision was "unconscionable" and that Texas "should ignore it."
Rep. Roy is certainly free to his opinion. He can call the Supremes’ decision whatever name he wants to, but finding it “unconscionable” doesn’t give him the right to advise Texas that they “should ignore it.”
The next day, Roy told Fox News that Texas should "tell the court to go to hell."
On January 24, in a little-noticed interview with right-wing conspiracy theorist Charlie Kirk, Roy expanded on his thinking. Roy explained his position pushes the country to a "post-constitutional world." But Roy said he was willing to take that risk because he believed the threat of a Constitutional crisis would pressure the Supreme Court to issue more favorable rulings in the future.
I say this respectfully. I say it with the fear of what I’m saying. I do not want to live in a post-constitutional world, but this Court is pushing our hand, and the Court needs to know that… I want them to feel the pressure, because if they’re political animals, they need to know it. We were out there defending Amy Coney Barrett when her house was being protested, we said that the law should be enforced to protect her. Where is she when the people of Texas need to be protected? Totally M.I.A.
Rep. Roy may believe himself to be correct, but that doesn’t make him right, as disappointed as he may be by that reality.
I say this respectfully, but his opinion is not the law of the land, nor does it supersede the highest court in the land.
Roy also said that his "first duty" as Congressman was not to comply with the Constitution, which establishes the Supreme Court as the ultimate legal authority. Rather, Roy believes he should take whatever actions are necessary, in his own mind, to "make sure our people are protected and secure and safe."
I want to preserve and protect the Republican form of government that our country is built upon, and I want a strong America standing in front of the American flag. But my first duty as an elected official is, yes to the Constitution, but my first duty is to make sure that I’m protecting and following my job to make sure our people are protected and secure and safe. That’s what leaders of a state, of a sovereign entity, have to be concerned about, and so, that’s what we’re up against.
I seem to remember that, on the first day of each Congress, members take an oath in which they swear to protect and defend the Constitution. Whether or not Rep. Roy cares to admit it, that IS his “first duty” as a Congressman.
As a Congressman, Rep. Roy is bound by the Constitution, as is every American citizen. When he says his “first duty is to make sure I’m protecting and following my job to make sure our people are protected and secure and safe,” he’s supposed to do it by protecting and defending the Constitution.
A large part of the problem is that there are people like
who thinks that Rep. Chip Roy is a hero.Then again, I have to question the judgment of anyone who believes that Chip Roy and Rep. Marjorie Trailer Greene (R-GA) are anything faintly redolent of admirable.
And yet Kirsch has her and Rep. Roy on his list of what he calls “The Magnificent Seven. These people are as heroic, in my view, as the originals.”
“Heroic”…as in Make America Grotesque Again….
It was all I could do not to spew my morning coffee over my MacBook’s keyboard when I read Kirsch’s newsletter.
My mistake was assuming Substack was for reasoned, rational discussion…not for celebrating irrational, blithering idiots.
Sadly, Chip Roy appears almost reasonable and rational compared to Tucker Carlson and MTG, but it’s a sad state of affairs when those two wackjobs are your points of reference.
A Congressman can’t tell his state to ignore a Supreme Court ruling. It’s not just that Americans don’t get to ignore rulings they dislike; it’s also what Rep. Roy stands for as an elected member of Congress. His position (and the oath he’s taken) is about upholding the rule of law.
Then there’s the truly and profoundly hypocritical nature of his advocating for Texas to ignore the Supreme Court. Imagine if a Democrat had suggested the same thing. How long would it take Rep. Roy to demand that said Democrat be hoisted by his testicles in the well of the House and then expelled from Congress? I’d submit that he’d be apoplectic with rage even before the Democrat in question was finished with his suggestion and that the expulsion vote would already be scheduled by the time he finished speaking.
Chip Roy had an opportunity to make a difference. He could’ve helped steer the GOP toward being a party of substance and gravitas. Instead, he’s thrown his lot in with the other clowns and crazies in the GOP Looney Tunes Caucus. They’ve helped ensure that Congress has accomplished virtually nothing of substance this term…unless you count raising Hell as “substance.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of the inmates running the asylum. It’s time we allowed intelligent and SANE people to retake the reigns of government.
Unless, of course, you enjoy insanity and stupidity.
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Aren’t all those rapists, murderers and drug traffickers coming over the Mexican border 90% Christians? He should be happy. 😇