"Fake and gay" describes the performative left so well. Everything they do is fake, and everything they do is trivial, but they claim it's monumental. In a word: gay.

So their plan is this: They will return to the Texas capital after the current special legislative session ends. The session ending is no big deal, because Governor Abbott will immediately call a new special session and they'll vote on the redistricting map then.

But the Democrats say: If we don't come back until you've dismissed the current special session, we can say that we kept our promise to our fellow lunatic communists, that we would not return until you agreed to end the special session.

See? Fake and gay. Fake and gay, fake and gay, fake and gay. They want to pretend this is a victory.

With Texas expected to end its first special legislative session Friday and immediately begin a new one, the dozens of Democratic legislators who fled the state to block Republicans' redistricting proposal are hammering out a plan for their return home.

Texas Democrats met late into the night Tuesday then again Wednesday, including breaking into smaller groups, to discuss their next steps and what their ultimate exit strategy looked like after spending the last 10 days out of the state, according to four sources close to the talks.

But those sources said the lawmakers do not yet have full consensus on an exit plan. "It's hard to get folks on the same page," said one of the sources, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about internal party strategy.

Still, there does appear to be agreement on one point: The Democrats won't come back to Austin until Republicans officially bring the first special session to a close. They're beginning to describe their ability to block Republicans from passing their new map that could net the party as many as five seats in the U.S. House during the first special session as proof of victory.

Fake and gay fake and gay fake and gay.

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Wu said they would not finalize their next steps until there was "consensus among our membership." But he noted Democrats have other avenues to push back against the GOP's redistricting effort in the courts, through the legislative process and with other states, like California, countering with new congressional maps.

Fake.

But also: Gay.

"We can fight this fight for as long as we can do it. But we have other strategies, other methods of fighting it," Wu said. "It does not have to be just a quorum break, it does not have to be just one thing or the other. We can throw everything at this."

We can throw all kinds of artificial disco dance moves at this. Fake and gay dance moves.

Republican leaders in Texas have promised to call "special session after special session," and they need just a handful of Democrats to relent in order to achieve a quorum so they can move forward with their redistricting plan. In a sign of Democrats' limited options, the GOP-led state Senate was still able to pass the plan this week because Senate Democrats couldn't get their entire 11-member delegation to break quorum.

So while it appears likely that Democrats will succeed in delaying the process enough to force a second special session, there is an acknowledgement among the caucus that their protest will need to come to an end some point soon.

"From the get-go, they knew they were never going to stay out of Texas forever. People didn't expect them to. The goal that the smartest among them set was: We need to bring national attention to this issue so other states are ready to counter if Republicans really do this," one aide to a Texas House Democrat breaking quorum told NBC News.

Ah. "It was all worth it if we made a lot of noise before failing."

Telegram!

This here message from Western Union says right here that you are "Fake."

Wait, there's more.

It also says you're gay.