Let Them Eat Steak
The Texas GOP’s Recipe: Starve the people, serve the donors.
https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/let-them-eat-steak
The Texas House did something incredibly important yesterday. Even though one out of four children in Texas is hungry, millions don’t have access to healthcare, and our electric grid is just barely hanging on, their most important order of business was to give Texas an official state flag. That’s right; the tomahawk ribeye is now Texas’s official steak. Actually.
In a session marked by performative patriotism and willful ignorance of real problems, lawmakers took the time, your time, your tax dollars, to honor a piece of beef. At the same time, thousands of families face eviction, and underfunded schools crumble. It’s not that Texans don’t appreciate a good steak. We’d rather our leaders show the same enthusiasm for feeding hungry kids or keeping the lights on when it freezes.
This is what Republican governance gets you.
Also yesterday, Cody Harris broke the House gavel, it felt emblematic of a legislature breaking more than just wood, fracturing trust, priorities, and the very responsibilities they were elected to uphold.