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LEGISLATIVE TERRORISM

The 21 Worst Laws Red States Are Debating Right Now

Dash MacIntyre
4 min readMar 8, 2023
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  • The Mississippi legislature is currently debating a bill that would fine Mississippians $75 “every time they think gay thoughts.”
  • Oklahoma Republicans are trying to ban science and anthropology teachers in public schools from ever saying “Homo erectus.” Another proposed bill would legally change the scientific classification of “Homo erectus” to “Hetero penetratus.”
  • The Texas legislature is debating a bill that would fund an after-school program to send children into coal mines and oil fields to help stockpile fuel in case the Texan energy grid collapses again. “I’m up for trying anything to help our energy crisis in Texas except raising taxes on billionaires,” said Governor Abbott.
  • Several Republicans in the Idaho state legislature are sponsoring a bill that would force all the state’s school textbooks to say that female orgasms are a liberal hoax, and that the only “G-Spot” is in Heaven where God is.
  • Ohio Republicans are debating a bill that would force any high school kids who identify as gay or trans to sit in detention one hour a week to watch heterosexual pornography to try and make them cisgender and straight.
  • The North Carolina legislature is debating a bill that would mandate every…

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Dash MacIntyre
Dash MacIntyre

Written by Dash MacIntyre

Comedian, political satirist, and poet. Created The Halfway Post. Check out my comedy book Satire In The Trump Years, and my poetry book Cabaret No Stare.

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