Cocaine? Oh, Really?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has played Greg-in-the-Box, jumping up and shouting about anything he can think of, to distract from his incompetence during the polar vortex.
His first distraction was to suddenly and unexpectedly “open” Texas by erasing mandatory masks, social distancing at restaurants and bars, and threatening local authorities who felt like it was way too soon.
Well, when he did that his base was happy, but nobody else was. Even the state’s conservative newspapers shook their finger at him.
And, the attacks on Biden were falling flat. Biden is a nice guy who can talk in complete sentences even though he stutters, so making fun of him seems almost cruel. And I think they finally figured out that Obama and Hillary aren’t coming to take their guns, so now the enemy is “the Democrats.”
This Sunday, Abbott went on Fox News and asserted loudly and talking all fast, that Democrats were going to steal votes with cocaine. Cocaine. Is that still a thing? Maybe it is among Republicans but Democrats can’t afford it.
Now, I’m gonna give you his exact words but when you read it, you have to talk so fast that little spittle things form at the edges of your mouth and occasionally fly off to make a life of their own, and loud. Be loud.
Describing his time as Texas attorney general, the governor then recalled an “amazing story” about vote-buying. “It was Barack Obama himself who knew about the dangers of ballot harvesting in the state of Texas,” he told a credulous Bartiromo. “Because under his administration, he sent his U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas as well as the FBI to south Texas to arrest and to prosecute people who were involved in ballot harvesting that were using cocaine to buy votes through the ballot harvesting process in the state of Texas. It is a way to commit voter fraud and it cannot be allowed.”
Bartiromo exclaimed in response: “This is absolutely extraordinary, governor!”
No, that’s not extraordinary. It’s caca del toro, that’s what it is.
Never happened. He just made it up because it sounds bad.
I don’t think he’s gonna get much better. Keep your eye on that sucker because he’s gonna try to holler his way to the White House.
Full disclosure, all I know about it is from what I’ve just read here. But it sure sounds to me that in his attempt to associate vote fraudsters with “those people” was the omission of the word crack in front of the word cocaine.
1He might want to study the video of the anti-masker in Houston who pleaded for approval from other customers and was ridiculed.
2So, Obama sent resources to arrest those who were using cocaine to buy & harvest ballots? Is Abbott opposed to the effort? Were some of the Republican operations involved?
Seems like someone ought to follow up on this. Asking the US Attorney(s) for the Southern District might be a solid start. Checking in with law enforcement leaders would be another.
And I hope someone asks why, if this was a problem, was the Texas Attorney General not doing anything about it?
3The repugnantican party is in a good place when they’re on the far right “news” “entertainment” shows because they can say anything and that audience buys it hook, crook, crazy line and stinker. The list is long for “news” hosts/hostesses that elicit the most extraordinarily false statements from guests, but bartiromo is right up there. I mean down there.
4Sounds like the Governor may have been sampling the product himself there. (Really? Cocaine for votes? Who comes up with this goofy garbage?)
5P.P. @1, This particular Gregorian lunatic chant was set in the Valley region and South Texas.
The ‘black’ inference you’re making [about crack cocaine = black] is almost non-exsistant down here, blacks make up a very, very tiny percentage of the population [~0.3%], unlike the rest of Texas. My youngest kids were 6 or 7 before they got totally surprised at their first time seeing some black people at the Harlingen mall one Xmas.
Abbott was down in the Valley last week for yet another major attempt at deflection from the storm power outages, it didn’t seem to get much media coverage.
But he really laid on the bullshit heavy, and made repeated attacks on President Biden and Democrats over the border issues, trying to whip the MAGAots into a frenzy. The only thing I didn’t recall was him raving about hordes of “caravans” coming, as is usual.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/03/09/texas-border-immigration-greg-abbott/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Valley
6Judging from his blithering, he’s projecting about using cocaine.
7I think Obama needs to take a page out of Dominion’s playbook and sue the bastard for defamation. That oughta get his attention.
8He be koo-koo!
9Sandridge, I’m not doubting your population stats in the slightest. Or how that reality would effect the veracity of the narrative I think is being pushed.
10If the intended audience (magas and prospective magas) was inclined to care. To them, IMHO those kinda pesky tidbits are just annoying.
And linking voter suppression to minorities might seem counterproductive, given how much repugnantcans have sworn that it’s got nothing to do with disenfranchising anybody. Just security. Integrity.
But I believe we’re past all that. Their efforts are so blatant and widespread now that denying their true intentions isn’t worth the effort.
They’re not trying to deny the racism anymore. They’ve just moved on to justifying it. To as many people as possible.
The inference I made about crack cocaine is not one I believe. But I’ll go to my grave believing that repugnantcans have pushed it hard for 35 years. And now it’s just one way they’ll try to justify stripping voting rights away from folks (“that don’t deserve them”) when they can no longer deny doing it.
And being called out for how obviously racist it is, is STILL preferable to Abbott than facing the music for the power grid criminality.
In his eyes it’s win/win.
I would hope that, by the time the next presidential election season starts, even the people of Texas have their caca-del-toro detectors petty finely tuned. They’ll have lots of time to practice tuning, with the continued rants of Governor Abbott.
11Was Dubya sniffing around?
12People are saying…
13Republicans harvest votes with a 6 pack of Bud Light.
RepubAnon, low hanging fruit is that much better when everybody else just let it dangle there!
14“Holler (lie) his way to the White House.” He gonna hafta out lie /holler Cancun Cruz, who is stupid enough to wanna take on the top guy in the Marines to cover for his buddy Tucker from GI rage over Carlson’s attack on women in the service. Sen Tammy’s shot should have been enough. VoteVets is going to jump on this like crazy.
15I thought the vote harvester was a GOP JP in Hondo? Someone should ask him about that!
16Sandridge, I almost forgot. I don’t know if you’re a Python fan or not, but I can’t hear anything about monks chanting without flashing on
17https://youtu.be/YgYEuJ5u1K0
Greg in the box = Jerk in the box
18He doesn’t want anyone to notice that all those Trump parades and taco parties the GOP gave down in the Valley were what changed lots of Latino votes…so he’s upping the ante by claiming it was Dems with cocaine.
Which, considering my home county (and I’m ashamed of them) rolled over for Trump under the voting rights situation Abbott deplores, means either they’ve been buying votes with cocaine themselves (since they usually announce their actual or planned methods by accusing the Dems of doing it), or they’re afraid they’ll have to spend more to get the same result. As in everything else, they want to buy cheaper and keep more $$.
Whichever, Abbott’s a nasty little weasel with his tail caught under the rocking chair of Texas politics, and it’s a good time to swat him back with all his own wrongdoings in public. Remind Republicans as well as Democrats of those days they sat shivering in the cold, the cost to their towns of broken water mains, the deaths from cold and from icy roads, how he and others lied about it being the fault of wind generation when in reality the gas sector failed (as they do every time it gets cold enough) to deliver, and how maintenance wasn’t done because of Abbott’s encouragement for “less regulation” and how Abbott’s shilly-shallying about masks and shutdown made Texas great at killing people in the pandemic.
19Rick @ 13
When //i was a reporter in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1968, we reported that on the Southside of Virginia votes were openly bought for $5 or a pint of ‘shine.
Nobody cared.
20Interesting concept, “when is bribery not bribery?” Seriously. What would a national day off to vote be? To those of us who believe in democracy, that would be a benign effort to encourage people to vote. To the QOP, it’s heresy because the more who are eligible to vote that actually vote reduces their chances of ever holding elective office again.
Where their ‘reasoning’ falls apart is blaming voters. How about the QOP stops being the party of stupid and offer policies that work to attract voters? Bobby, j/k, fear and scapegoating are entrenched in your party’s DNA.
A-Butt 2024!???! Odds are the ***king moron won’t be around to personally shove Greg off the stage. But fear not. Cotton, Cruz and so many others will. Literally. The QOP 2024 field of hopeless crazies is shaping up to make 2016 look like a mere historical asterisk. Kasich? lol Yeah. He should ask Jeb how how narrow that ‘middle’ QOP lane is.
Donnie’s one “success” was making WH aspirations for the QOP beyond the ability of the Easter Bunny to deliver.
21It sounds like he was just trying to work “Obama” and “cocaine” into the same sentence. I wonder why.
22Plague Greg A. seems just part of the “voter fraud” chorus from the Texas GQP.
NBC reports: “”Texas AG Ken Paxton’s office spent 22,000 hours looking for voter fraud and uncovered just 16 cases of false addresses on registration forms….”
The NBC discussion thread is here:
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1371537760289447937
The Houston Chronicle also reports on this so-called “fraud” caper.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Ken-Paxton-s-beefed-up-2020-voter-fraud-unit-15820210.php
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