We take a break from our regularly scheduled programming to take a look at a couple of commercials from the Texas governor’s race between Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke. As it stands, I only hear pro-Abbott commercials. Three things have struck me from these ads.

Beto O’Rourke is for defunding the police

All Democrats and progressives please read the following sentence carefully. For the love of everything good and holy, please stop doing this. You come up with these slogans you think are winning slogans, but the other side just uses them against you.

Most people don’t understand nuance. I know you don’t literally want to eliminate police departments. I know you are not literally for anarchy. The average voter doesn’t understand the idea of spreading resources around to other agencies that would be in a better position to handle certain issues. They just see a hoard of criminals coming to your door.

Of course, Abbott has to throw in a reference to Black Lives Matter. Again, they have successfully linked BLM with crime and anarchy. Is it fair? Of course it isn’t. Are most of them lawless thugs? Of course they aren’t. People don’t stick around long enough for a lengthy explanation. So, being for BLM and being for police reform means you are pro-crime and for the forces that are bringing crime to our neighborhoods.

Beto is for Open Borders

Clearly he isn’t. He has said this multiple times. What he is for is streamlining our immigration policy and process so that people can enter the country safely and we can identify the bad guys quicker. He has talked about tearing down the wall because most experts agree the wall is virtually useless. Of course, most people only hear the first half of that particular statement.

So, this argument came down to two statements. First, hoards of drug dealers and mules are bringing over fentanyl. That’s oddly specific. That statement is both true and misleading. China actually produces the most fentanyl, but Mexico is seeing an increase. The one that got me was that the border between Mexico and the United States is the most dangerous border in the world. I almost pulled off the road into a ditch laughing. It is the most dangerous border in North America.

Beto is too dangerous for Texas

As we teach our students, pathos (emotion) is the most effectively logical appeal there is. To hell with facts or credibility. We just want you to believe that Beto O’Rourke would somehow kill thousands because he’s inherently dangerous. What happens if you are dangerously incompetent or reckless? A simple Google search on COVID showed that over 90,000 Texans have died from COVID since March of 2020. Most of those came in the first year when our beloved governor decided to lift protocols and keep local governments from imposing their own.

Remember the great freeze? You know the one where our grid virtually shut down statewide because we were in a hurry to deregulate everything that moves. Yeah, this is the one they still haven’t fixed and came close to having more blackouts this past summer. Yeah, THAT freeze cost 246 Texans their lives.

If you count the period when Greg Abbott was attorney general in Texas, we have had a rash of mass shootings in Texas. Take a look at the timeline. Most happened under his watch as governor. Yet, he and the legislature have hurdled head first into policies that would virtually give anyone unfettered access to any weapon they might want. Yet, we cannot predict or control what might happen at our schools and are just dumbfounded when these shootings happen. So tell me, isn’t Greg Abbott too dangerous for Texas?

Okay, it’s double humiliating when an aging Boomer has severed all ties to anything that happened after 1980.

Yeah, Newt has raised his goofy damn head.

 

Okay, I know who Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails are, but I didn’t know that’s who wrote it.  However, I did know that Johnny Cash covered it in one of the last songs he did and it damn near breaks your heart.  It’s one of the achingly saddest songs ever sang by Cash.

Newt Gingrich’s lack of knowledge about the world outside the Gingrich family hair, continues to entertain.

He don’t  know crap and continues to.

 

Do you want to know what really scares me?

U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney said she would do “whatever it takes” to make sure former President Donald Trump is not the GOP presidential nominee during the 2024 elections.

Do you know who her father is?  He shoots people in the damn face and then makes them apologize for it. Like, you know, I’m so sorry my face got in the way of your great shot. Hell, according to my Uncle Frankie, her daddy got the Saudis to crash airplanes into tall buildings so Halliburton could make a gatrillion dollars off a war that wasn’t even in Saudi. He stole a man’s heart and the damn thing is still beating. He left office in 2009 and hasn’t been seen in daylight since then. Havana syndrome? That’s his old heart in a garbage can somewhere beating, beating, beating.

Look, I do not like Liz Cheney but I do not taunt her. Oh no. I think she is as pure evil as her daddy and if not, she’s at least got his phone number.

When Liz Cheney says she’ll do whatever it takes, that means she has backup plans that would make Stephen King shake.

 

By Gawd, when all this is over and the prison keys have been counted, I’m starting to think that Mark Meadows may win the dumb throw down.

 

And I’m betting you  buck twenty five cash American money that it was his phone trotting down rioters on the House floor.

On the other hand, I read somewhere that TFG said the main reason he wanted to get the election overturned and stay in office was so he could still have all his secret rich friends. Secret? That’s pretty damn dumb.

(BTW, sorry I’ve been out of the box for a while.  We just went through a week of heat wave with dangerous ozone levels all week. We’re coming out the other side tomorrow.)

 

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