#republicants

1. He said lgbqt should be stoned to death

2. He said George Floyd (who was a petty criminal) got what he deserved

3. while at the same time he said a guy who assaulted and had intent to kill the pelosi family should be free

(so apparently punishment was based on if kirk agreed with their views, not the crimes. Petty theft=deserved death, intent to kill democrat= walk free).

4. He wanted public executions and said those that made trump follow the laws and constitution should be publicly executed.

5. He said children should be forced to watch said execution.

And someone who disagreed with his view (see 1, 2 & 3) publicly executed him (4) while his kids watched (5).

By any reasonable standard, the disaster in Texas, as winter storms break the backbone of basic utility services and leave millions to suffer, should be the death knell for conservative ideology. It's evidence of how wrong Republicans are on two of their most important beliefs: That climate change is a hoax best ignored and that government disinvestment and deregulation will magically lead to better services as the private sector fills in the gaps. And as many progressive analysts, energy experts, climate scientists, and Democratic politicians have been pointing out, the catastrophe in Texas proves that the U.S. government needs to move swiftly on two fronts that Republicans hate, climate change mitigation and public sector investment in infrastructure.

To add to the political humiliation of Republicans this week, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas made a spectacle of himself by abandoning his frozen state to fly to Cancun, Mexico for a vacation. Aided by Cruz's own unique loathsomeness as a human being, the story spiraled as a crystalline illustration of Republican neglect and even malice towards the people they're elected to represent. The gleeful dunking on Cruz got to the point where even the dog his family left behind, aptly named Snowflake, became a meme for balefully gazing out a window at a New York magazine photographer.