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Transcript for Podcast: "I Feel Snitty," Episode 200: "Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including Dumbassery," is now available!

Podcast: I Feel Snitty Episode 200: Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including Dumbassery Premiere Date: 6/22/2022 Length: 43:59 (6,704 words) Link: https://ifeelsnitty.podbean.com/e/everything-is-bigger-in-texas-including-dumbassery/ Transcript:  Welcome to I Feel Snitty , episode 200, entitled, “Everything Is Bigger in Texas, Including Dumbassery.” I’m your host, Craig Rozniecki.   The Republican Party of Texas held its state convention in Houston this past weekend, for the first time in four years, and adopted a new 40-page resolution in the process. I decided to take a gander at this resolution to see just how close it came to Mike Judge’s satirical vision in Idiocracy , and with that, to provide my snarkometer with a field day.   The resolution starts with a hilariously unintentionally ironic preamble, which I will quote in full:   “Affirming our belief in God, we still hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they a...