West Texas Answers East Texas and Louie Gohmert with Charles Perry
Charles Perry got himself elected to the Texas Senate in a special election last month and gave his first speech.
A recently elected West Texas state senator on Tuesday compared what he called a “spiritual battle” against religion in the United States to the Holocaust.
Apparently, Charles does not know the meaning of the word hyperbole, and a whole lot of other words, either.
He’s obviously going to start off slow-witted and then taper off.
He carefully describes the execution of 10,000 Jews and then says, “Is it not the same than when our government continues to perpetuate laws that lead citizens away from God?”
Well, no. Not exactly.
He’s going to Austin to fight a “spiritual battle.” Good luck, dude. You’re gonna find Republicans hogs wallowing in dirty money and it’s gonna take a 20 buggy prayer meeting to set them straight. Oh wait, you didn’t mean dirty Republicans? My bad.
Thanks to David for the heads up.
JJ, please start the counter on Charles Perry so we can clock how long it takes for his first scandal to surface.
Those “persecuted Christian” politicians might as well wear a neon sign.
1Make that 6 million Jews and several million French, English, Czechs,Poles, Russians, Belgians, gypsies, mentally and physically handicapped and Catholics. I don’t know how anyone who is Jewish could be a Republican today, just as I find it inexplicable that women and minorities support them.
2If his spiritual battle isn’t successful in Austin, he can continue east and try his crusade in Jerusalem next.
3My sainted mother always ranted about the spiritual battle going on here on terra firm tween God/Jesus and Satan. As a teen, I’d be headed out the door Saturday night and she’d remind me of the pitched battle going on “out there”. She passed before I every watched Kill Bill for the first time. Now I could show her my little pocket knife and paraphrase Hattori Hanzo to her “If I should encounter them fighting, Momma, someone will get cut.” Just to annoy her of course.
4Another bushwa artist.
5East Texas! West Texas! Lighter, less filling Texas! Gee, Texas, now you have stereophonic stoopid. Lucky you!
6There are rational people. Somewhere. Then there are rationalizers. This bozo is an irrationalizer.
7Old Mayfly …. 3, 2, 1 and expecting this righteous Talibanista to come tumbling out of the closet soon.
Lacking Gaydar, I couldn’t spot two homosexuals at random, unless they wanted to be spotted. But these evangelicals sure have a “look” that outs them before they are out to themselves.
8When will he be proposing legislation making the charging of interest on loans illegal? The Bible frowns on that sort of thing…
9What in hell is a “spiritual battle” anyway? This sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. Sort of like Republican intelligence.
10I hate to argue with your numbers, JJ but wiki says:
Taking into account all of the victims of Nazi persecution, they systematically killed an estimated 6 million Jews and mass murdered an additional 11 million people during the war. Donald Niewyk suggests that the broadest definition, including Soviet civilian deaths would produce a death toll of 17 million.[4]
11If he wants to be Biblical, he’d better make a whole lot of things illegal, including shellfish, pork, clothes made of two different fabrics, and divorce. Maybe some of that he can say was in the Old Testament and doesn’t apply any more, but Jesus said that divorce and remarriage was the same as adultery. Jesus also said no to public prayers, and especially to being rich.
12It’s always risky for West Texas *philosophes* to roll out the reductio ad Hitlerum argument.
It usually ends in a thought-terminating cliché.
13maryelle and Brian E, Perry was talking about a specific incident during the Holocaust. He’s still an idiot, but at least he’s not a Holocaust denier.
14Let’s see: The current lame-duck, lame-brain governor’s last name is Perry. This new lame-brain state senator’s last name is … Naw. Couldn’t be a case of “Cousin Rickie meet Cousin Chuckie” could it? Fate couldn’t be that cruel to Texas, could it?
15The crazies in Lubbock sent a religious zealot to Austin to turn Texas into a theocracy ruled by the adherents of Christian Dominionism. We are so screwed!
16Well, I don’t have time for phony Xtians and their phony spiritual battles. It’s new year, and as part of my celebration, I read ‘Mendoza the Jew,’ a history book in the form of a graphic novel, about an 18th c. London boxer. There was plenty of source material; Daniel Mendoza wrote two books (one on the art of boxing, the other a memoir), and frequently wrote letters to the newspapers. Fascinating stuff, unlike TX Senate malapropisms and disinformation.
My Mac is in the shop (again), so I’m working on a loaner. If I make any spelling errors, it’s because I didn’t catch up with autocorrect.
17Angelo_Frank, wait for it. “It” being Loopy Louie demanding to know who this other Perry interloper is encroaching on his god given crazy Texas turf. Louie has asparagus to defend, count on it.
3.2.1 ? Loopy Louie sure has been quiet. Expect a major eruption.
18Re: Polite Kool Marxist
I’ll be waiting my friend.
19Does he have someone following him around reminding him to breathe?
20@Mary R.: I thought the same. But according to the news story I read they just have the misfortune of sharing the same last name.
Given pRick’s political legacy, such as it is, I recommend Chuckie invest 5 or 600 dollars with a good attorney for a name change. Say “Schicklgruber”. It’s a fine Austrian name and will stand Chuck well in the coming years, as well as remove all doubt about where he stands politically.
21The GOP has officially become the VICTIMP.
22Micr — Great idea! Much less confusion!
23When listing the people who were slaughtered in the Holocaust, don’t forget the black triangles- lesbians, and the pink triangles- gays. Also bisexuals, transgenders, etc.
24To: Senator Perry:
I have studied your religion, and a few others. Frankly, I think the whole concept of God is nonsense. I am not being led away from God by government.
But if someone did want to lead me away from God, would that be a bad thing? Since when are Christians the only ones who get to influence peoples’ opinions?
25This is the result of Lubbock, Texas being “the most boring city in America”. Those people start imagining being persecuted.
26http://www.chron.com/homes/article/Texas-town-named-most-boring-city-in-America-5789043.php
My example today of a spiritual battle is about the battle between the Koch brothers and the rest of us who feel overwhelmed. David and Goliath, anyone?
27Marge,
28As is often the case, you have summarized our picadilo quite succinctly. Are you, too, practicing with your sling? The current
Rolling Stone has an in depth article on the Koch Bothers that makes for a fine target.
“A bullet through the neck”? Germany wouldn’t (and didn’t and couldn’t) spend that many bullets. How did he go through any holocaust site and come away with this misinformation?
I can not imagine living in Lubbock as I once did and sending this idiot to represent me and my friends. OMG
29TXn AZ: It was the voters in Lubbock who did it. Even in Tom Green county, which includes the City of San Angelo, the voters didn’t go for Perry.
30That’s ok. I live in Pennsylvania, the home state of Santorum.
He just said that if a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, she should be thankful. The baby is a gift from God. I have lived 71 years and must not have been educated. I never knew that God was a rapist until Dippy Ricky told us that.
So I guess there is a lot of crazy going around. Do you think that the chemical cocktail in frackying might be the cause?
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