Heads Up
I’m babysitting a cute little boy for a couple of days but he’s busy with his Avengers sticker book and Sponge Bob coloring book right now so I have time to tell you a coupe of things.
I plan on doing this more often so just get your butt used to it.
First thing, an Assistant Attorney General in Texas just made an enormous nincompoop of himself.
WASHINGTON — A deputy Texas attorney general called Simone Biles a “selfish, childish national embarrassment” in a tweet as some Texas conservatives have piled on the Olympic gymnast for pulling herself out of events this week.
Okay, take a deep breath. Here’s a guy working for a man who is an indicted felon who is doing all he can to keep from going to trial because he’s guilty as thunder. And, his boss spent January 6th with Donald Trump, offering legal advice. And, earlier this year the entire upper management of the Texas Attorney General’s office walked off the job because Paxton continues to violate the law and the trust of the people of Texas to enrich himself and his friends.
And he’s going to call someone else a national embarrassment? Oh, that’s cute. It’s a game, Butthead. Biles is a young woman playing a game. Ken Paxton is a grownass man destroying people’s lives, and even gleefully watching them die. Get the hell off my internet, idiot.
Which bring us to … we had a special election in Texas to replace a dead congressman. He was the kind of congressman who most people never even noticed that he died.
Trump took great interest in race. When it started looking close in the runoff between two Republicans, Trump endorsed the congressman’s wife, Susan Wright. When it started looking like the race was going to be close, Trump dumped $350,000 into the race, most of it in the last week of the campaign, to win it.
Oops.
The unexpected loser in Tuesday’s special Texas congressional election was Susan Wright, the widow of the North Texas district’s previous Republican representative. But the bigger loser may have been former President Donald Trump.
At a time that Trump is pressuring Republicans to follow his leadership, the defeat of the candidate he strongly backed in a friendly Texas district raises questions about his political clout outside the GOP, in the broader electorate.
That was the Dallas Morning News.
I’m sure Trump will say that they stole it from him because that’s just the kind of loser ninnybaby he is.
how to find out if you are qualified to criticize Simone Biles: https://twitter.com/SarahSpain/status/1420474055384260610
1Apparently, moscow Mitch and some other repugnanticans are also worried about other trumpf endorsed candidates in red states:
POLITICO Playbook: McConnell’s Herschel Walker problem – POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2021/07/29/mcconnells-herschel-walker-problem-493773
As for paxton, yesterday he said HE was embarrassed by his deputy’s comments about Biles. Really, ken? You’re a self-righteous asshole and embarrassment but I guess that’s what Repugnanticans are looking for in Texas.
2I’m glad you get to spend some time with that redheaded cutie.
What no one seems to have said, or realized, is that if Biles had gone ahead and competed in the state she was in, she not only could have been injured; she could have also scored so low that the team would have been out of medal contention. That first vault told the story. By backing out, she gave the other girls the chance to step up to the plate and get a medal–which they did.
3To Second BarbinDC…Because for Biles, it’s ‘not all about me’, a thing the GQP does not understand. The silver lining is that she says she’s discovered she has worth as a person, not just a gymnastics score.
p.s. I second the statement about the red-headed cutie!!!
4You’re entitled to criticize Simone Biles, Mr. Deputy Attorney General, when you can do what she does. Until then, shut up.
Also, Trump can continue to dump money into the coffers of candidates all he wants, since Everything Trump Touches, Dies.
5He hasn’t lost his touch since losing his office, I see.
I want a Sponge Bob coloring book!
6Msb @ #1:
Excellent flow chart.
It does seem some who have criticized Simone Biles in the last few days are not only unqualified to judge her in any meaningful way, they themselves can’t recognize their own incompetence.
Rusted old pot, meet gold kettle.
7Look out ERCOT, Trump is also showing signs he is a power failure in Texas
8Why doesn’t El Doucho demand an audit of the election results?
9Once we have a new AG, I hope he or she assigns Asst AG Rietz to investigate the growing problem of people who let their dogs poop on sidewalks and don’t pick it up. He should be sent out to gather lots of evidence on site, catalogue it . . . As for the thumbs up from the Old Pretender – anyone who gets it has become a part of a crime family who will be pressed to do anything to put him back in office. I would love to see a report on how much money, by year, we (you and me) have paid him.
10Back in 1983 in Cambridge I saw a (upper-class Brit) father savaging his 11-12 year old son at the city swimming pool. While the boy was swimming laps, the father paced up and down the side of the pool shouting at him, complaining about the kid’s position, timing, coordination, etc. In the locker room while the kid was in tears, dad was spewing ” … I did not pay for swimming lessons just for you to thrash around in the pool” and “you’re an embarassment to me”. I intervened and pointed out that Dearest Father was doing a dandy job of embarassing himself, with no help needed from his son. (I really, really wanted dad to attack me, but he calmed down after sizing me up).
What struck me the most right then: the son might grow up to be a championship swimmer, or an Olympic class competitor. But never again would the kid take any pleasure or enjoyment in swimming, no matter how many decades he lived.
I’ve seen videos of Biles performing, and it was clear she was good. More importantly, she loved and took real joy in her work. I’d far rather see a young woman doing that, than for the US to haul back any number of Olympic medals.
11With regard to the Trump part, anything that might reduce TFG’s political influence is just dandy by me.
12I read somewhere that Democrats were voting in that election which makes it all the more amusing.
13Afternoon JJ.
Your buddy’s getting bigger every time we see him.
Professor, that douchebag in Cambridge sounds like the kinda guy the Pythons wrote their skit about, adjusted for the eighties.
https://youtu.be/zGxSM5y7Pfs
14Simone was having problems with her spatial orientation, likely caused by semi-circular canals being messed up. Had that problem myself, but I’m not doing elevated triple twists, where if you make a tiny mistake, you might die.
15Your deputy AG only had to be beaten up a few times before he
* deleted the original tweet,
* clarified it was his mistake and NOT the opinion of AG Paxton or the AG’s office and
* apologized. No mealy-mouthed half measures, just an apology for speaking on a matter he doesn’t know about. And then a compliment to Simone Biles as a “true patriot and one of the greatest gymnasts of our time.”
He obviously still has a remnant of a soul which has not been corrupted by exposure to the worst of the Republicans.
16The deputy AG was only trying to save his ass/job. That’s why he apologized to make ken paxton look better. No redeeming qualities, only poor judgement in the first place. Perfect to work for the Texas AG office.
17Lemme see here! A pasty old man who likely cannot even work a yo-yp has dissed iin public a smart very, very, very much younger dark woman who has been recognized as the greatest gymnast in the world. Hmmm. Now ask yerself, what the heII was he really doing? She did this for her team! And he’s a flat out racist idiot.
18I wonder how much attention these people pay to gymnastics when the Olympics are not going on.
Best advice for Biles’s critics: Suit up or shut up.
19Buttermilk Sky: Please, before you give her critics the choice of suiting up, consider the third of the Friday roundup of editorial cartoons here at the Salon:
https://juanitajean.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/IMG_0654-768×589.jpg
Let’s just give them the single option of shutting up!
20I just noticed the Dr. Who telephone booth/time machine thingamabob in the picture.
21So Avengers, SpongeBob, AND Dr. Who?
That’s one cool little dude.