It Must Be a Texas Thing
George P. Bush, son of Jeb, nephew of Dubya, and grandson of the late George P. Bush, is currently the Land Commissioner in Texas. He’s going to primary the felony indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. You know, the dude who went to Dee Cee on January 6th to stand beside Trump at the rally and beg for a pardon. He didn’t get it.
Trump endorsed George P. and joins Ted Cruz in the category of men who threw their families under the bus for Trump. Check out his campaign announcement released two days ago – his family is not mentioned, but if ya wanna keep your beer cold, they had this swag.
I missed out on the @georgepbush swag yesterday: The koozie says "this is the only Bush that likes me. This is the Bush that got it right. I like him" – Donald Trump #txlege pic.twitter.com/pFTzQCmoRG
— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) June 3, 2021
That’s cold, Little Guy. Remember when you were 18 and tried to break into your ex-girlfriend’s window at her parents’ home?
He proceeded to break into the house via the woman’s bedroom window, and then began arguing with his ex’s father. Bush, then a Rice University student, soon fled the scene. But he returned 20 minutes later to drive his Ford Explorer across the home’s front lawn, leaving wide swaths of burned grass in his wake. Young Bush avoided arrest when the victims declined to press charges. (3 pages)
Where was Trump then to get you out of trouble?
The Bush Family was then and continues to be politically powerful. Wise move to avoid making them angry…
1Sure those aren’t miniature Pee whoopie cushions?
2But, but… what about Hunter Biden’s laptop?
When Ernest Hemingway said the very rich were different from you and me, I don’t doubt that he was referring to their sense of privilege. The sense exists because the privilege is a real thing and explains why Combover Crime Lord and his family will never see the inside of a prison cell except on a guided tour.
3It wasn’t Hemingway.
“Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.”
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
4I would hope Tejanos would see through this fool, but he was duly elected as Land Commissioner, so I’m not holding my breath. The voters of Texas seem to have rather drastically deteriorated since the day of LBJ, Ralph Yarborough, and Sam Rayburn. The current crowd isn’t worthy of picking up after their dogs.
5Michael Allen @4
there was a noted exchange on “the rich” between Fizgerald and Hemingway.
But years later, Ernest Hemingway, who had a sometimes-warm, sometimes-acrimonious relationship with Fitzgerald, decided to mock those lines from “The Rich Boy” in his short story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro.”
Hemingway’s original version of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” was printed in the August 1936 issue of Esquire magazine. In a passage in that original version, Hemingway wrote:
“The rich were dull and they drank too much, or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Scott Fitzgerald and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ‘The very rich are different from you and me.’ And how some one had said to Scott, Yes, they have more money. But that was not humorous to Scott. He thought they were a special glamorous race and when he found they weren’t it wrecked him as much as any other thing that wrecked him.”
6The question of where was orange Donald 27 years ago? Pretty easy to answer- he was doing what he does, sexually assaulting someone when he wasn’t lying, cheating and swindling. Pretty easy to guess.
7And pee bush being the only bush liked by him, what a great basis for a campaign. Texas repugnanticans have such a great choice between two despicables.
The stories I’ve heard about Shrub when he lived here and was hard drinking are similar to this about Twig. They all need to heed Barbara’s words that we’ve had enough Bushes!
8What I imagine Trump is really thinking in that sketch on the cozy:
“A General? Of attorneys? What’s in it for them? Loser.”
9Good to see some Hemingway fans here, he’s always been my favorite author, got a whole shelf of his books [I’ve even fished some of the places he’s written about].
And a tie-in– Been doing some Wiki browsing about beverages [see below, heheh]:
There’s a Daiquiri variant called the “Hemingway Special”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemingway_Special
Looks mighty tasty, might like it even more than my fav, the “Painkiller” [I’m partial to rum].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painkiller_(cocktail)
Which leads to an earthshaking thing that I just discovered a couple of days ago:
10FYI, listen up–
You can effing order various alcoholic beverages online from Walmart! Hot Damn! Delivered in a couple of days.
Beer, wine, even hard liquors. Decent selection listed even, but many are ‘out of stock’, so somewhat limited attm.
I already get much of my household basics online, mostly from Wally, so convenient nowadays.
Been running out of rum and whisky lately [a few bottles that were gifted long ago from my kids], since I drink very little [lost some of one of the best single malt scotches to simple evaporation from a closed bottle, ouch].
So this here webshopping might get serious… already picked out a few whiskys, rum and beer after extensive browsing… Order going in soon [if there’s no damned glitches, like some stupid Texas prohibition on online alcoholic bevs].
BarbinDC: as an ex-Texan, I gotta warn you. “Tejanos” are the original native American inhabitants of Texas, plus the mixed Mexican-Indian descendents. All us lily-white (or sunburnt red) Anglos can be referred to as “Texians”, which is what the generation of Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, William Travis, et al called themselves.
Or, if referring to Texans who voted for Cruz and Paxton, “Dipshits” is suitable.
11Just ran across this. Not only sucking up to Trump, but taking credit for suppressing enough votes to let Trump carry Texas:
https://www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-texas-voter-suppression/
12Washington Post from a few days ago said Trump was still uncommitted:
Asked on Fox whether Trump would endorse him, Bush said “we had a great conversation a few days ago.”
“He sent me his best,” Bush said. “He had great words of encouragement.”
Trump recently told CNN that he plans to make an endorsement in the race and likes both Paxton and Bush “very much.”
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