The issue here is not that Texas is going “woke“ — whatever nonsense Paul might mean by that term — no, the issue is that Texans are sick to death of Abbott / Paxson MAGA / GOP corruption culture (one party rule), with its brown people demonization — and no real affordable health care — on top of runaway, wildly-expensive electricity — because GOP oligarchs (have since ENRON controlled, and still) control the monopoly electric grid (disconnected from all other states) for private profit — not universal access.
That is primarily (see what I did there?!) what explains “new” Democrats winning in Texas’s formerly ruby red districts.
Paul mentions “gun-boat diplomacy” — as though it is a vestige of the late 19th Century — and in the same breath, talks Venezuela (wildly claiming that it was… not). INSANE. Trump took out the head of state, and is trying to control a ruling junta — NO ELECTIONS — not “just” floating gun-boats by the harbors.
This theory is much worse than gun-boat diplomacy.
Paul must have missed that he said, on successive days, no less — that the guys he wanted to lead in Iran, post war… were all killed by him — and Bibi.
Then just a day later, he said the bombing “won’t end” until every last Iranian puts down their guns and walks away. “Total unconditional surrender” he called it. The man is… senile. And banal. As all evil ever is.
How will he and Bibi know that every last soldier is done fighting?! This is why you leave the head of state, so that they might enforce a “surrender” of the Iranian troops.
This is what the majority of the American electorate sees: Trump is a nine-year old, leaning over an ant hill, on a sunny day — with a magnifying glass to burn everything that comes out of the hole.
Not even one thought ahead — for what comes next.
That’s the issue, Paul — and the midterm results will prove it.
Powerline Lies... 
This is one of Paul’s more troublingly stupid and dishonest posts. I can’t count the number of falsehoods and fallacies, but here are two that stood out:
Paul conveniently elides the fact that individuals and families have been ruined, driven into bankruptcy and destitution, by crushing medical debt, a problem that exists only in our country in all of the Western world.
He also seems to have forgotten that the country flourished—flourished—from the New Deal to Reagan due to socialistic government programs and policies that kept the rich in check and provided support for the people who most needed it. It’s how we built the most successful and prosperous middle class in the history of the world. Then came Reagan, deregulation, and ruin. How’s that working out? For CEOs and shareholders, pretty great, actually. For everybody else, not so much.
Then there’s this:
Well, no. It’s a private company that has decided how its product can be used. Anthropic isn’t insisting that the government use its software. It accepted the loss of its government contract, and the financial hit that entailed, without complaint. The government is free to develop its own software or to make an arrangement with another company. This is free speech and the free market at its finest, something Paul should celebrate.
Also, Paul’s dismissal of the potential dangers of using AI for mass surveillance or to control lethal weapons systems with no oversight is either staggeringly dumb or staggeringly dishonest.
Or both.
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