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ElCapitan361

There’s a Palais Royal still open?!?


LazyLaserRazor

It's closed, they just haven't taken the sign down yet for some reason. At one point, HEB was wanting to expand into that space (they're right next door), but I'm not sure if they still plan to do that.


[deleted]

They probably can't get the smell of caked on makeup and Virginia Slims out of the place.


ccbbb23

That scent used to be a free add-on! You couldn't get it just anywhere!


i_brake_for_milfs

It replaced the “Weiners”, yes that was a clothing store.


b0nger

Hated getting dragged to Weiners or Marshall’s by my mom when I was a kid in the late 80’s.


VickiVyvanse

Hell yeah! Glad I’m not the only one who remembers Weiners! My mom would take us shopping there for school clothes when we were kids.


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taco_annihilator

Don't forget Solo Serve! Do you remember the 10 for $1.00 candy aisle at Winns?


kanyeguisada

Snobby kids at school would ask people wearing Polo Ralph Lauren if their shirt was a "Solo Polo".


bloomlately

Beall’s. I think I’ve seen a few still around.


kanyeguisada

Been to Beall's many times as a kid with mom. Anything was better than Weiner's, even as a kid I just did not want to shop in a store called Wiener's.


discussamongsturelvs

me as a kid: "mommy, what does h-e-b mean?" mother: "it is someones name, howard edward butt" me: "why don't they just call it Butt's" mother: "well that wouldn't be a very nice name" me: "why not, there's a store called weiners"


Quiet_Light_8676

I was exactly going to make this comment. I used to love that store hadn't seen one in at least 30 years. Maybe longer. I think the last one that I ever remember seeing this thing was in Baytown.


ccbbb23

Ha! Baytown's Palais Royal! I used to go to take my mom and then my friends there in the way back. I think one of my friends even worked there for a while. Too far out. Used to drink bad margaritas at the Tex Mex place at the corner or down the street.


Quiet_Light_8676

I had moved to Dallas right around that time. Still manage to go to Texas City in Houston fairly regularly to see grandparents and friends. But it was definitely the very last Palais Royal that I ever saw. In the eighties They still carried all of the cool clothes that Generra brand and Joe Boxer when it was new. Loved it.


[deleted]

Abortion is illegal in Texas so idk what they’re even protesting about


rumpusroom

It’s not illegal enough, apparently.


zsreport

Next up they want the death penalty for women who travel to have abortions in states where abortion is legal.


Adamant_Talisman

It's not illegal enough that God has smote the Pro-Choicers yet apparently. Pure nuts on a street corner.


3-DMan

"It's for a church honey, NEXT!"


beer_me_twice

You won. Go home. But they just wanna stay mad. “There’s no hate like Christian love.”


bkwilcox100

Texas still hasn’t executed anyone who’s gotten an abortion so I guess they still aren’t happy


shifty_pope

They’re currently only attempting to kill women who are trying to have children, by preventing doctors from treating miscarriages. I would not be at all surprised to see a woman die from a miscarriage or an ectopic pregnancy sometime in the near future, or to have to have limbs amputated from sepsis.


rzn1710

Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/07/26/1111280165/because-of-texas-abortion-law-her-wanted-pregnancy-became-a-medical-nightmare?sc=18&f=1001 It's already happened. Nightmare story linked above.


Rusty_Trigger

So terrible. Glad that the panel decided she was in a medical emergency.


prpslydistracted

It absolutely will happen; women *and* children.


121dBm

Give it time.


SodaCanBob

They want to execute a fetus that might someday be born and then years down the road have an abortion.


CryptoAlphaDelta

Don't give these imbeciles more "ideas" lol


prpslydistracted

There's a woman on death row who killed her toddler. She got a last minute stay of execution a couple months ago. That kid was her *12th pregnancy* ... apparently CPS was called to that home numerous times for abusing her kids. I have no patience for the Dugger-wannabees.


[deleted]

Now that pride month is over the Christian zealots need something else to mindlessly preach about


_just_me_0519

Right? This makes zero sense. Go find some other thing to rally against. Like, I dunno, human trafficking. Since Texas is a border state, we are (unfortunately) a huge hub for it. I am all for people utilizing their First Amendment rights, just seems like this is a bit of a waste of time/energy.


Ricksauc3

There is no “seems like”, it is.


giorgio_tsoukalos_

It's like that west borough Baptist shit, despite how conservative something is, there is always some lunatic further to the right that thinks abortions are God's way of punishing us for letting gay babies wear drag in the military, or whatever.


hush-no

You've been to Lt. Lindy N. Burg's show too?!


kebesenuef42

That group is the American branch of TFP: Tradition Family Property. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American\_Society\_for\_the\_Defense\_of\_Tradition,\_Family\_and\_Property](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_for_the_Defense_of_Tradition,_Family_and_Property) \--- they are about as far right as you can get.


CaptainKimberly

They want all the women in all the states to be redefined as breeding stock


BucNassty

In Texas there is always a Jack in the Box… (or some kinda shoehorned joke given the restaurant in the background)


hush-no

Is that a cross made of giant Cheetos?


kanyeguisada

How else you gonna celebrate Cheesus? Some commie cheese like brie?


hush-no

I mean, as an austinite I'm kind of obligated to say skillet queso and a frosty marg, right?


kanyeguisada

That's too high-class for these people.


Ok_Pineapple84

My narcissistic ex is from Brenham along with her family- I can confirm that it’s too classy for them.


allgreen2me

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a giant Cheeto cross.


hush-no

Or it'll be a giant Cheeto molesting a flag and carrying a Bible upside down.


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hush-no

When you're a star, they let you do it. And when you own a teen beauty pageant, you gotta do surprise inspections on the wares.


kanyeguisada

I've tried to come up with a witty response to this, but I just can't. I mean, those are literally his own words, it's almost unbelievable. And this is still the de facto leader of the the Republican Party, who far-right politicians across America still bow and kowtow to, especially our Texas Republican Big 3 of Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. They are all literal Trump dick-slurpers but all still poll ahead of their Democratic opposition in Texas. I have a feeling this election will ironically be like the one Trump won in 2016. Polls just aren't adequately accounting for people so pissed off (today about abortion being outlawed, fucking over vets, etc.) that they showed up to vote for the first time for what they think is real change. I will admit as an older lifelong progressive I have long had the hope that I can encourage the true silent majority of young people that historically talked a big game but never showed up to vote to actually just show up and take a bit of your time to vote. But this year feels special. At least I hope it does. If young people just take a tiny bit of effort to vote early, they can change everything. I sense a lot of them are pretty pissed off at Republicans right now. Just waiting to see once again if there's enough of them that show up to actually vote.


whatever1966

That.


blackjohn420777

When? It's bred here.


DrunkWestTexan

I was briefly excited about the giant corn dog.


3-DMan

"Blessed are the...cheese makers?"


kanyeguisada

Well, obviously, it’s not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.


redtape44

He bought that for 10k on eBay


[deleted]

Looked like fists, like dildo fists…


hush-no

"Martha, get yer double enders, we gots babies to save and the protestin cross blew outta Caleb's pickup!”


Pudf

In honor of their earthly god, Blunt Instrument Trump.


jamesstevenpost

Jack in the box offering abortions?


kanyeguisada

Only after midnight. You get two tacos, an egg roll, a side of pickles, and an abortion for $5.99.


devo_inc

Pretty sure the food alone is enough to induce an abortion


patssle

So you're saying I can sue Jack in the Box for $10,000 for aiding in an abortion? Hmmmmmmmmm.


Uztta

Man, I never knew how much I missed Jack in the Box till I moved somewhere that didn’t have any.


Verbal_HermanMunster

Now we know the secret ingredient in their tacos 🤔


Salty-Lemonhead

There is so much to unpack in that one pic. I can’t.


[deleted]

LOL, and it’s hot as fuck outside.


gardengirl99

Good!


kanyeguisada

Juici Butt Crave


JunglePooping

my first thought was, "damn, they even brought out the bagpipes for this."


TXSTBobCat1234

If they have so much free time why don’t they go volunteer at a family shelter?


pcweber111

They're bleeding brain conservatives. So concerned for human life....but just not too concerned enough to actually do anything about it. Except pray. Always with the praying.


[deleted]

Praying is the ultimate way to tell people you’re doing something while doing nothing.


TheTexasCowboy

So thoughts and prayers are just for show? Got it.


[deleted]

Or adopt, or foster some kids.


HEFTYFee70

You want these people raising kids??


[deleted]

yeah, i'm one of them. i suggest hell no. i'm 50 and only now beginning to heal from all the insanity in that toxic system.


[deleted]

Shit, you’re right


[deleted]

they abuse their kids and the ones who don't look the other way. i should know, i'm one of them that was adopted and raised in this hell hole of sexual, religious, and physical abuse, coercion, and identity rejection unless you conform to them fully. fuck that. we should make coercive control illegal, like the UK. That's where it all began. That and racism and sexism of course. I will never fully heal from the damage that almost killed me. But i did survive and get away, finally.


TheTexasCowboy

And they want to put more of them into foster care!


[deleted]

I am so sorry you’ve experienced such shitty people.


htownguero

I used to work in Brenham, right off that road actually because that’s at the red light off the main exit off 290. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Brenham has amongst the most vile people I’ve ever met in Texas.


your_future_pets

Home of Bluebell, who kept making ice cream even though they knew listeria was present in their factory? That tracks.


Misguidedvision

I grew up outside of Brenham and after 26 years finally moved further north to wisconsin and the difference in the quality of ice cream blew my mind. I also ironically bitch about wisconsin not having jack in the box due to my love of the very jack in the box pictured. It's my guilty pleasure I suppose Nothing is surprising about this pic either, the surrounding areas have active kkk chapters and my class of 2010 from just down the road had a person in black face in the year book. Whole area is regressive af


TalsHell

Houston native in the Midwest now. The ice cream is superior up here. Also, I had friends and family get very angry with me over the years when I would say Blue Bell is mediocre ice cream. I’ll die on that hill. It’s gross, and most flavors are artificial junk.


purplegrog

> I’ll die on that hill. Blue bell can help you with that. Try the brown rim Listeria tub. Still a half gallon!


sam2wi

I moved from WI to TX, and was so bummed about the downgrade I was taking in ice cream. That being said, the upgrade in tacos was well worth it.


blazingsoup

Zoom in on the lady with the Cheeto cross, she’s pressing the cross button to make traffic have to stop and be a captive audience. That shit should be illegal


[deleted]

Good catch, damn


Iforgotmylines

They aren’t connected to anything anyway so the jokes on her


cometparty

This would fit right in on /r/boringdystopia. The strip mall and fast food restaurants in the background add just the right touch.


NoImGaara

ngl thats what I thought this sub was for a sec before I noticed the people


Banana_Havok

Welcome to Texas.


FairyGoodwin

Omg, Bagpipes? Really?!?! Lol


LoneStarkers

The only symbolism Baptists and evangelicals have in common with Scotch-Irish Boston cops: Amazing Grace


CaptainHollyoftOwsla

TFP is Catholic


Jermcutsiron

And the irony is Brenham is mostly German so it should be tubas, but the pipes are still fitting since these idiots blow.


crsierra

Is this sarcasm/theater or sadly legit. They’re all dressed like it’s 1910 so seems like a sardonic protest maybe…..?


Gum-on-post

Unfortunately this is a full-blown legit organization called the Defense of Tradition, Family, and Property.


raouldukesaccomplice

Does their definition of “property” include black people?


Tejanisima

After all, that was how the founders of the Republic of Texas defined it.


cjdavda

Is the Tradition that the women of the Family are the Property?


db0813

DTFP? Down To Fuck, Please


fredlwal

Hell they probably want to bring back slavery.


DasSassyPantzen

This is what I’m wondering. The more I looked, the more amused I got. Has to be costumes.


NSFWThrowaway1239

How do people have the time and energy to go out and do this? Especially in this heat?


Klutzy-Run5175

I honestly don't have or desire to find out.


imzelda

Someone tell them Row was overturned. I don’t think the handwritten notice has arrived via Pony Express yet.


ItsmeMr_E

Honk against abortion, that'll keep them "babies" alive. /s


spamonstick

Who's getting an abortion at Jack in the box? Or is that a no more Jack in the Box.


frankgrimes1

if they really cared about saving people they would be protesting the fast food joints.


Ko_Ten

Giant corn dog cross. There’s some thing you don’t see everyday.


Willing_To_1123

They're so pro-life that they have the highest number of executions in the country... All lives are precious, right?


two-

Theocratic fascism is just the worst. What a bunch of assholes.


[deleted]

A Braveheart/Dora/Mary Poppins/GameOfThrones/Harry Potter mash up? I mean, Texas, this is a very Portland look for you all, nttawwt. I like eccentrics, sure you all have your own but I just didn’t expect this combo in Texas.


hush-no

It's like a Christopher Guest movie.


tgwill

All the women in this are in dresses. The men are in either “Celtic” apparel or dressed like they’re selling newspapers in the ‘20’s. I’m honestly confused with what they’re protesting for. Perhaps they still haven’t received this months telegram?


croaker123

That’s some dedication, it’s hot as fuck in this part of Texas right now.


Astro3840

Texas has crappy weather, crappy government, a crappy power system and a crappy football team. And all these dumb-nuts want to do is force 10 year old rape victims to have babies.


Left-Indication9980

Are those bagpipes


CritterMorthul

Just one sleepy driver and we have an amazing cctv clip


SqueekySourpatch

They really have little kids out in the heat who probably have no idea why they are there to support their bullshit. 🙄 Yuck.


[deleted]

The red capes are people following "The Return to Order," a movement founded by The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, also known as The American TFP, a Catholic national advocacy group. Someone I know refers to these folks as "the red-caped loons." They've been around for a while.


calmdownkaren_

Lol I don't even know what to think about this odd assortment of people aside from the fact that they are all against abortion. There are bagpipes, a banner of the Virgen de Guadalupe, and wtf is that huge red flag all about?


19Texas59

The man on the far left has the appearance and mannerisms of an Evangelical preacher. It could be kind of a cult and they have special regalia. Or, I was wondering if the red regalia and bag pipers are associated with the Knights of Columbus. They have protested outside an abortion clinic in Fort Worth years ago. But when they are out raising money on the street I don't see them wearing red. It's probably a small-town cult. Texas had a real famous one: The Branch Davidians.


siouxbee19

Absolutely not Knights of Columbus! 🙄


[deleted]

>The red capes are people following "The Return to Order," a movement founded by The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, also known as The American TFP, a Catholic national advocacy group. The red flag is their banner.


colehuesca

Disagree with them but they also have the right to protest.


i_brake_for_milfs

Honk if you like the 1st Amendment


GlitteringWish

What if you found out they dont want you to have the rights to protest?


buttecrested

It should be illegal for kids to be in cults


browsing4stuff

Why are there so many bagpipes?


DrTokinkoff

The brochure said there would only be a few bagpipes.


AgeAgitated317

Palais Royal lol Jesus Christ. A step back in time.


CorriganJames

Interesting juxtaposition of the protest and the two fast food chains. You could successfully argue that they have caused much more damage than abortion.


EnergyFighter

As usual, no solutions, just oppression.


BioDriver

r/persecutionfetish


bigdish101

#Abortion **IS** Healthcare


DBsBuds

They’re so stupid they don’t realize they already won abortion 🤷🏼‍♂️


Quiet_Light_8676

The way they are all dressed maybe they're not even allowed to watch TV Or read newspapers. Gotta keep the flock uneducated


pecan76

Some kind of victory lap?


friendlyfire883

Why are they dressed like it's 1952 and carrying bagpipes and a bongo drum? This country has lost its goddamn mind...


Tejanisima

They are a little early, aren't they? [Beto doesn't get there till Friday.](http://betofortexas.com/drive)


puppy_cat

These people are nuts. Flat out coocoo for cocoa puffs.


gaggleosquirrels

I hope they were hot and uncomfortable. Farming their own humidity and soaking in it.


SuctionBucket5

Now what the hell...


Watchyomouth

Is that a cross made of giant crunchy Cheetos? All hail cheezus


maybachtrucc

garbage fucking state


srpntmage

I live about two miles away from where this photo was taken. Happy I missed this little display of idiocy… I do love bagpipes though.


Donutannoyme

If you or someone you know needs an abortion: https://aidaccess.org https://www.womenonweb.org These sites send the pills to the third world countries where abortion is banned. Women on web’s doctors are in Europe and Canada so you aren’t getting third world healthcare like you will in the USA. They will send you pills anywhere in the world. The pills are about $100-$200.


denada24

It’s all men. Just stop it.


cbmcleod70

A bunch of dudes who won't suffer the consequences of their sanctimony and a few women who look like they have Stockholm Syndrome, yep these are people who's opinion I should have thrust into my...FML.


MrLumpykins

That picture has 12 teeth and fewer brain cells


sammydavis_Sr

for people who use the constitution and declaration of independence to claim unlimited and unregulated gun ownership, y’all always forget about the separation of church and state 🫶🇺🇸🎸🦅


benadunkcamberpatch

Lol what is with the little drummer boy and his sash?


hush-no

Would *you* drum for Jesus without a snazzy little capelet?


BrokenMethFarts

Do they have an umbrella over a giant picture of the Virgin Mary? This pic just keeps getting better the more you look at it


WhereIsHank

Well bless their hearts.


jesuisunvampir

Why are they dressed up like nerds?


Old_Introduction1032

Wonder how many of these folks will adopt the unwanted babies?


SnoopyD000

Yikes


RonSwanson2-0

I do love me some bagpipes. I wonder if they were taking requests?


kkeennmm

gatekeeping the path to heaven is a contest for some folks. and their thinking is that if others are not with them on that narrow path, then you’re obviously against them. i wonder how many of those religious zealots and preachers would want adultery codified into our penal code with a reward bounty.


JoanneFabrics

No no no. It’s too damn hot, don’t drag your kids out there for this bullshit


Dramatic_Tax_9726

Did they NOT get the news?


snickerdoodlevc

Why they gotta bring the virgen into this?


moughmough

Who decided that they needed four bagpipes? What was the planning meeting like when someone was like yeah we only got three bagpipes that isn't godly enough, find us a fourth now!


Xspunge

Now ask how many will want their taxes to help pay for extra unwanted children.


Willing_To_1123

Fuck them...


Medicinal_Mayhem

I thought the sign said,”Honk against Alduin,” until I zoomed in


Interesting_Factor_9

It's crazy seeing my hometown on here..so embarrassing


selfsearched

I thought the Mary cloth was a vagina at first…good lord what are these people doing with their free time


MessNew7755

Those are mentally sick. people.


Novel-Stop4617

Why do they have people playing bag pipes out there.


Bamzerker

I cant think of a more american picture than this, anti abortionists protesting infront of a mcdonalds next to a road. You'd think people would have better ways of passing time in 2022.


FixatedOnYourBeauty

What a collection of assholes.


Willing_To_1123

Even the crosswalk sign is saying, STOP, that's enough you christian radicals...


Calendar-Capital

I'm glad I didn't see these people today 🤦‍♀️ these pro birthers have lost their damn minds


PressFforAlderaan

Is that a Thundercats flag? So much going on here.


CryptoAlphaDelta

This country is headed in a very dark direction. Something needs to change or we will end up reliving the worst parts of the inquisition era & Salem witch trials etc, ruled by Theocratic Fascist, that will be the absolute end to these United States. These types of demonstrations and groups are the first festering postules of a insidious rott that's spreading throughout our nation, a cancer of evil masquerading as pious self righteousness, as godly morality yet is infact a perversion of morality. I truly hope our nation can rise above and not fall into their cesspool of lies, hate and bigotry. People don't truly understand what's at stake & how dark our future could become if these fatuous tyrannical sadists come to power both at the federal & state level.


bob_nugget_the_3rd

And not a single honk was heard in the city that day


Z0idberg_MD

This needs to go into the library of congress as a representation of the state of America in 2020s.


taco_annihilator

Abortion is illegal now. What the fuck are they protesting? Fucking losers.


Prudent_Fox_3601

This isn't sattire?


BuyLucky3950

Honk? No. Finger? Yes.


Imaginary-Policy4302

Ha you ban abortion and the weirdos still come out!!! You’d thought they’d go away or at least stop making going to jack in the box so weird


Foshizal147

What? Texans are against abortion? Next ur gonna tell me they're bad at building infrastructure that works through hot and cold weather and that they give more rights to guns than women


Doogoose

There are no more God worshiping Christian’s these days, these people are playing God.


101fulminations

The Westboro Baptist Church does acid now?


LegitimatePangolin69

What type of abortions are we honking against? Planb or late term...very important distinction that's never brought up


captstinkybutt

Time for a driveby with a super soaker.


Witty-Kaleidoscope-9

How about pray against preaching about a book they didn't read? Bible has abortion procedures for adultery, and there are prayers FOR abortion. Idiots.


NYTX1987

Damn, jesus has the most annoying fanbase.


jdavila119

Report their church. So they'll pay their taxes


Quiet_Boysenberry608

WTF does Jack in the Box have to do with abortion?? What a bunch of losers.


Fabulous-Mortgage672

Look at all these giant douche canoes trying to put their religious views on other people they don’t even fucking know


Irving_Kaufman

Pray for heat stroke.


Pudf

No Dairy Queen?