White Privilege
There were over 1,000 cars in a Trump Train in Houston yesterday that shut down traffic on the 610 Loop. The Loop surrounds downtown Houston. At some points, the trainees (isn’t that what you call people who form trains?) got out and danced on the freeway. That’s not a big deal, you can do that on most workdays.
You haven’t seen that much blonde hair bleach and Aqua Net outside of Las Vegas since the 1950’s.
It doesn’t bother me because I was doing a phone bank yesterday and making walk lists. And my friends were doing canvassing so we didn’t have time to make life uncomfortable and difficult for everyone else who was trying to do stuff. We spent our time getting voters. And come Wednesday, they will wonder why they lost. Emma Sue will say, “But there were a thousand of us at the parade and that’s a lot of people.” Yeah, Emma Sue, but there were 2,000 of us getting voters for Tuesday.
But here’s the serious part. I am sick of Trump’s butt. I am also sick of his supporter’s butts. But, they keep waving their ample asses in my face. They insist on it.
For just a minute, pretend that was black people doing a train and shutting down a major freeway.
Yeah.
All the white people would be up in arms, clutching their pearls and running around their front yards waving loaded guns with mustard on their shirts.
Oh, or say it was Muslims. Oh be still my heart! A thousand Muslims shutting down a major freeway on a Sunday afternoon? All the Trump supporters wud be checking their bunker supplies.
That, that right there, that is white privilege.
Well, Black Lives Matters protesters did slow or completely shut down traffic over the summer in Minneapolis, Seattle, Boston, and other cities. The MN legislature responded by stiffening fines for doing so. Not sure what other cities did.
1I’m frightened. It isn’t a fear of losing. It’s a fear of winning and then haven’t it nullified. So much of our system is based on faith. It is based on the faith that both sides will mind their manners and accept the will of the people. That faith has been blown this time around. Our best hope is a result so overwhelming that it cannot be contested.
2The domestic terrorists have been busy little vermin in Harris County:
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/02/texas-2020-elections-update/
“The headquarters of the Harris County Democratic Party was vandalized on Monday, the party said in a news release.
“Election No, Revolution Yes,” was spray-painted onto the party’s office windows along with a sickle and hammer, a symbol first used during the communist Russian Revolution.
3The building’s locks were also filled with super glue, according to the release, preventing officials from entering the office.
“This is what happens when Republicans are losing,” said Lillie Schechter, Harris County Democratic Party Chair, in a statement. “They use scare tactics and intimidation to scare voters.””
I hope to dog that the mainstream media will come to realize that it does them no good to believe (or pretend) that the NSGOP operates in good faith. They do not. They shut down part of the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey yesterday.
These ‘Trump Trains’ are giving us a small taste what they have in mind for the rest of us if – no, when – Combover Crime Lord loses.
4But Black folks marching to vote were pepper sprayed.
5I’ve taken a break from social media because the trumpistas are total aholes. One of their BIG gripes about the peaceful protests were the highway shutdowns. Beginning with Ferguson, they whined incessantly about how they should be allowed to drive over or through the protestors to end the blockades. I’m betting that they would be all over this latest trumper development like white on rice bragging about how they owned the libs. These idiots need to be put back in their place. Back under their rock with their dunce hoods on.
6saw my first dj flag today
a triple
dj 2020flag
us flag
no more bullshit flag
at least they didn’t desecrate the Texas flag
it was at a Family Dollar just down the road from me
gosh I’m blessed
7The double standard of our two tiered justice and LE has spiraled out of control under DOJ with Billy Blob Barr as head squirrel Donnie demands.
Two years ago when our junior Senator was elected, we sent her a congratulations and an apology for the indignities of working with Moscow Mitch.
Remembering the mess Obama/Biden had following Dubya cannot begin to list all that will face Biden/Harris. We’re really hoping for a solid Democratic Congress to help them.
8It’s like public highway NASCAR in a giant pickup truck. Drive in big circles, end up back to where you started, and don’t forget yer guns on a rack and bleached wifey in the passenger seat.
Well, at least after enough dermal absorption that bleach will kill the Coronavirus, right?
9I sure hope James Carville’s prediction today comes true- that it will be such a blowout, we’ll know by 10pm ET tomorrow. But I’m still having flashbacks from 2016, and my superstitious self won’t allow me to believe it. I’d love to see Trumpf’s victory party blown up (figuratively of course), though.
10When I was a Houston householder my backyard touched the 610. Blocked is better than listening to motorcycles doing 120 at 2 a.m., followed occasionally by sounds of grinding metal.
But I wouldn’t have been surprised of somebody decided to shoot a pathway through.
11Too bad that LE doesn’t take auto tag numbers, impound the vehicles involved and invalidate the drivers licenses of offenders for a year. But I guess I’d be dreaming for that to happen.
12The BLM and antifa protesters blocked roads with their bodies, not with 1-3 tons of metal. That is a major difference, putting your own life on the line for what you believe in.
And while there may be 1000 car/truck/SUV owners in Houston who are slobbering Trump supporters, there are over 2.3 million others in Houston. The blocking of the highway in NJ had fewer than 12 vehicles involved, although that number was not reported, I gleaned it from photos of the “event”.
Mainstream media wants to push the exciting controversy picture of this election. But that’s to make money. We are the majority, and most of us have a lick of sense.
So: go vote tomorrow if you have not already done so. Help get others to the polls – again, we are in the majority and so that means Democrats will win. Then go home, play with your dog or children or both, turn off the TV, and go to bed without worry. The mainstream media and antisocial media want to stir up conflict and angst for their own short-term profit. Ignore them.
Then let’s rebuild the political and social constructs of the USA that have gotten us through many wars, depressions, and insane politics. Don’t let anyone slack off for the election of 2022, the way that we lost 2010 to Tea Part nutcases. Let’s work on electorally purging the jackasses that have led us to this.
13So much for the “law and order” claims the GOP makes. They don’t want law and order—they won’t obey the laws–they just want their Order.
14In Iowa City September 3rd and College students and community members were walking peacefully to interstate I-80 as part of thr Black Lives Matter protest. The Iowa State Police had already closed the interstate but ordered the Iowa City police to fire Flash bombs and teargas at people chanting and singing. The damn-fool ICPD who are supposed to be our friends and neighbors followed that order. WTF.
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