 So I know that I'm a little bit late to the party on this particular story But I couldn't pass it up because it's just that good So we're gonna talk about Texas Republican lawmaker Brian Slayton He is one of the party's loudest crusaders against LGBTQ plus people especially drag Queens Because he claims that they pose a danger to children. In fact in March He announced new legislation banning all family friendly drag shows calling the performances quote erotic while saying The state has a duty to protect kids from being sexually exploited and the HB 4129 That's his bill is the most comprehensive bill to stop the sexualization of kids by these performances Now that bill was a blanket ban on all family friendly drag shows It didn't matter what the context was it didn't matter if the parents say that my kids can watch these drag shows drag Queen story Error he wanted to unilaterally dictate what was and wasn't appropriate for all families under the pretense of Protecting kids in Texas now That wasn't the first time that he spoke out against drag shows because back in last June He reacted to the drag your kids to Pride Day event in Dallas Where a bunch of right-wingers were up in arms over that show where drag performers walk down the catwalk and they danced And they played musical chairs and ate ice cream But there was a sign that said it's not gonna lick itself and that led to allegations Especially that this was a grooming event by drag Queens come to find out however that the venue paid for cauldron ice cream to cater The event whose catchphrase is you guessed it It's not gonna lick itself and even after right-wingers were told that this was the catchphrase of an ice cream parlor Well, they didn't acknowledge it and still claimed that this was a grooming event because why Let the truth get in the way of a good narrative But Slayton thought that that event was beyond the pale and in response to that drag show in particular He announced his intentions to pen a bill that he ended up doing by the way in March of this year that banned all drag shows saying Drag shows are no place for a child and he added the events of this past weekend were horrifying and show a disturbing trend in which Perverted adults are obsessed with sexualizing young children now in that same thread He even agreed that there should be a national ban on family-friendly drag shows and we're not even scratching the surface here He also wanted to give tax cuts specifically to heterosexual couples while excluding Same-sex couples if these heterosexual couples had kids They would get a particular tax break that homosexual couples even if they had kids Wouldn't be allowed access to which is weird on top of that He wants to punish women who get abortions with the death penalty So this is somebody who likes to purport to be family values and very very conservative. He's a trad con Now the background here is very important We need to learn about him because I think that there is a particular trend that we're seeing here the loudest most vociferous ostensibly family values Republicans who claim to care deeply about kids and protecting young people who are vulnerable always turn out to be The bad guys here and that's because my friends every single accusation is a confession I've said this once I'll say it again those who scream the loudest usually have some skeletons in their closet of their own and This guy is no different because this LGBTQ nation reports an internal complaint last month filed with the Texas Legislature's House General Investigating Committee alleges that slain contacted an unnamed aide after 10 p.m. On Friday March 31st to invite her to his condo in Austin Blaine allegedly drank alcohol with the 19 year old aide giving her a large rum and coke and refilling it twice in Texas providing alcohol to a minor is a misdemeanor punishable by a $4,000 maximum fine and up to a year in jail The report said that the aide was so drunk that she couldn't effectively consent to intercourse and could not indicate whether it was Welcome or unwelcome he and the aide had unprotected sex and he drove her home after midnight She got plan B at a drugstore to prevent pregnancy a medication that slain opposes after the meet-up slain allegedly showed the aide Fake emails which purported to no details of their late night meeting These emails were a sort of loyalty test the complaint said and slain allegedly told the aide not to discuss What happened with anyone so this man who accused all drag queens of being predators who preyed on children Is a predator himself? Do you think that he didn't realize what he was doing when he gave this teenager so much alcohol that she couldn't possibly consent? I mean this is Disgusting behavior. This is predatory He knows what he's doing This is a 45 year old man getting a 19 year old drunk a teenager drunk to where he can get her in a position to where She's vulnerable and he could take advantage advantage of her and yet he's saying that LGBTQ plus people drag queens in particular. Well, they are they're the ones who we should be worried about Yeah, this isn't an isolated incident by the way because there's also reports that he gave that same aide alcohol before and He also gave alcohol to another person who's under the age of 21 And on top of that the Texas Tribune reports that there were other complaints about his conduct by three capital employees and Four representatives, that's a lot of people who are saying this man very clearly is Inappropriate his conduct is bad He shouldn't be here now to add insult to injury the bipartisan committee that investigated him it contained three Republicans and two Democrats They also accused him of obstructing their investigation because he was trying to allegedly intimidate the witnesses. That's their words They said intimidation Now this man is very clearly a danger not just to young people, but his peers as well But thankfully the story has a happy ending because it all culminated in this the Texas House Unanimously voted to expel Brian Slayton on Tuesday one day after the Roy City Republican submitted his resignation After an internal investigation determined that he had sex with the 19-year-old aide after getting her drunk after a solemn Sometimes angry and tearful recounting of Slayton's graphic and offensive behavior the House voted 147 to 0 for expulsion making Slayton the first member of the Texas legislature to be removed from office since 1927 you love to see it now this story is surprising not necessarily because of these allegations I mean this is not the first trad con to be accused of grooming or sexual impropriety after you know going on this Crusade against queer people. What's surprising is that Republicans actually held one of their own Accountable that to me is honestly shocking and he was expelled Unanimously, but maybe he made it easier for them by resigning a day before But I do want to play a portion of Democratic representative and Johnson's speech This was what she said before they made the vote because I think that she really put it best It is important for us to make sure that the young adults who found themselves in his apartment at Brian Slayton making You never were and are not the problem he is our Report shows that Brian Slayton violated various provisions of our house rules and various Texas laws and Now we have seen Brian Slayton's resignation letter We can see where the machine will go next He's not gonna play the reformed man who's atoning for his sins He's all of a sudden remembered that he has that young family back at home He doesn't even acknowledge the teenage staffer exist Now that the report has been released and it has become public. She is of no benefit to him She goes from special to discard it In my legal work, I have spent years working on behalf of victims of sexual abuse and exploitation We fear that dark alley The idea of the perpetrator there with a gun or a knife, but it is this type of man that steals innocence It is this man Not worthy of the position of trust much less power This is the man that stains the institution so many of us honor and This is the man that has left us with no choice to take the vote that we have to take today Very well said. I mean this man is a fucking monster as he's demonizing LGBTQ plus people and accusing them of predatory behavior praying on children. He himself is Praying on young girls Getting them drunk enough to take advantage of them so that way they can't even consent. They're so drunk That is what predatory behavior looks like that is what grooming looks like It's a form of deflection I guess where they are super loud about queer people when that's just them Hoping that we all don't look at them, right? That's them saying hey look over here over there not over here I mean those that scream the loudest about LGBTQ plus people they usually do have skeletons in their closets So there's really not much left to say about this story because I think that the details speak for itself But I'll end by restating the very important point that I've made multiple times already throughout this video But I'm gonna say it again because it's that crucial every accusation is a confession never forget that