Lina Hidalgo Trolled the NRA, and it was Pitch Perfect
Don’t know if y’all saw it yesterday, but the NRA announced on Twitter that it has cancelled its 2021 annual meeting to be held in Houston out of uncharacteristic concern for the health of its members who would be exposed to COVID. As we all are painfully aware, we’re now experiencing a 4th wave of infections due to the callous incompetence and indifference of Abbott and his supporters.
Harris County Judge, Lina Hidalgo responded to the NRA’s tweet with this:
Sending thoughts and prayers. https://t.co/fkSBLnk4oR
— Lina Hidalgo (@LinaHidalgoTX) August 24, 2021
Now THAT is some serious shade, mocking the NRA for their normal response to massive gun violence. They most certainly deserved what Lina dished out, but we’re certainly glad that for once the NRA has done the right thing.
I wonder if their coffers are getting a bit bare?
1@Katherine: I think you’ve hit the nail on the head.
2I certainly would hesitate to say this publicly but I have long felt that the NRA is a terrorist organization. In fact, when I was a young child and first heard about the IRA’s activities I just assumed it stood for the International Rifle Association.
3Although I’m glad this pseudo-terrorist organization isn’t convening here, I’m concerned for our convention business. This wave of infections is quite serious.
4Similar topic is that the gun happy rePUKEians do not allow guns in any of the meetings!!!
5Me, sitting here snickering in contempt of the NRA. Once upon a golden time there HQ was located in D.C. on a well known street. However, they eventually pulled out for a spot in Fairfax County over the river citing safety measures. It seems they found D.C.’s crime rate scary as hell. D.C. also has some really high taxes. Fairfax County does as well. Now they are contemplating another physical relocation! Seems as if Wayne LaPierre did a really remarkable job of pilfering the treasury. This is actually the beast who kills itself by eating its own intestines. Pity ain’t possible here. Just hope that nothing rises from such ashes to replace the critter.
6One of my deep regrets at getting older than dirt is that I’m unlikely to ever get a chance to vote for Lina Hidalgo. Well, that plus I’m unlikely to move to the Houston area – we called it the armpit of Texas (hot, humid, and stinky) back when I lived in Fort Worth several decades ago.
Those of you in precints that can vote for her, please keep her in office!
7I’m going to grit my teeth and thank the NRA…for making Houston a better city.
8A bit off-topic, but I’m disappointed in Sandridge. A news story from a paper in his neck of the woods, and he hasn’t shared it with us:
https://www.expressnews.com/politics/texas/article/Embattled-Texas-AG-Ken-Paxton-releases-anonymous-16408398.php
Texas AG Ken Paxton has investigated himself, and found no evidence of bribery and corruption. Plus “whoever in Paxton’s office wrote this report was not willing to put their name on it.” Obviously it was written by a new hire named Pen Kaxton. Strangely enough, this crushing blow to Paxton’s critics has not caused the FBI to stop their investigation of him.
9Yea, changing the issue. What up with AG Ken Paxton pardoning Ken Paxton from his crimes against the people.
10The Surly Professor @9, I saw a short summary about that Paxturd CYA over on DK, but it hardly seemed notable, he’s been artfully dodging a serious criminal securities indictment for 5-6 years now.
The best writeup of Paxturd’s latest crap is on the Texas Tribune:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/24/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-bribery-report/
Plus I almost never go to most media websites. Even reasonably well protected from internet intrusions, they are what I guess is ‘sticky’; those sites usually are full of trackers and ads, etc., my Opera browser blocks most of it but they load slow while all the crap gets timed-out [anyone not having strong internet defenses is taking risks and eating up data bandwidth, particularly if you’re on a capped plan].
11Sandridge, you’re right. The Texas Tribune has been doing a good job of political reporting for the past 2-3 years, and maybe longer than that – I only ran across them in 2019.
Apparently 2 Republicans are going against the AG in the primary. And instead of the usual “I’m more of a Trumpoid than you are” campaign, they’re trying “I’m not as corrupt as Paxton” instead.
BTW, the reason I’ve been looking at Texas newspapers is because I’ve wanted to move back there and only the Trump Plague has kept me from doing so. Some friends and ex-students are living in San Antonio, so I’ve been checking housing, politics, shootings, universities, and numbers of red Magat hats there and a few other places.
12The Surly Professor @12, The Trib is excellent, check out The San Antonio Report too [https://sanantonioreport.org ] for very good area info and reporting.
If you get down this way be ready for the hellacious heat and humidity [maybe not as bad as FL, LA, Houston, but still enough, although I think the worst overall was St Louis in summer on a tdy]
Keep in mind that real estate never took a hit here in ’08-12 like most other places, so bring $$$$, market is very tight; both rent and own. And RE values have been increasing 8-18% per year for years.
Lots of jobs, including uni teaching [5-6 unis around, up to San Marcos], employers getting desperate.
Politics, crime, maggots, not much different than other big cities, but nowhere near as liberal as some think; leave the city and it’s mostly maggotville.. Check out Corpus Christi to Rockport-Fulton if you favor coastal, or the Valley if you can handle the culture shock. Have a look at Laredo… [ /s urk heheh].
Questions, just ask, I’ve been in, ‘lived in’, most So/Cent TX places.
Oh yeah, in six days near any damned fool can strap on a six-shooter, or 33rd semi-auto, and boldly strut around most anyplace in Texass, including bars, etc. So mebbe git yoursef some body armor before coming down.
See these for some local pol sanity: https://www.ksat.com/video/news/2021/08/25/ksat-qa-mayor-ron-nirenberg-says-despite-lower-covid-19-positivity-rate-hospitalizations-still-high-in-san-antonio-/
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2021/08/25/texas-governor-bans-local-governments-from-issuing-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-despite-fda-approval/
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13May all the MAGAot’s hats end up like this [wish we could directly post images here]:
https://images.dailykos.com/images/979952/large/MorgueMAGAhats.jpg
Amazingly, American Mensa is holding their Annual Gathering in Houston this week. I never thought I’d see the day when the NRA is smarter than Mensans.
14As for Abutt, what he’s doing is neither incompetent nor indifferent. It’s malevolent. He’s so afraid of being called a RINO by Huffines and West that he’s hellbent on showing he’s as loony as they are.
As for his presidential prospects against DeathSantis, D is busily taking himself out of the contest with his ‘personal responsibility’ depravity. Then again, they’ll run against each other in 2024’s NSGOP primaries, so I guess all bets are off. The good thing is that there will be a lot fewer MAGAt voters next time around.
15Grandma Ada, during the first wave of covid last year Republican governors and some businesses opposed shutdown because it would be bad for business. So instead of being under control covid is in its second? third? wave and it’s still bad for business. Shocking, isn’t it?
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