Save Us Brandon
Much has been written about the “Let’s go Brandon” phenomenon. In the show “The Simpsons” there was an episode where Homer joined a barbershop quartet. They wanted to come up with a name that would be hilarious at first and then lose its edge with each passing mention. They came up with the B Sharps.
Let’s Go Brandon is the political equivalent. It’s absolutely juvenile on any number of levels and demonstrates a kind of lack of respect that we have come to expect from conservatives. Leave it our state’s leadership to join in on the fun.
Abbott is now playing the role of the prodigal son. Of course, that would only be true if Abbott, Dan Patrick, and the rest of the Texas leadership were a little more respectable. At least the prodigal son from the Bible didn’t punch his father in the face or knee him in the crotch on his way out the door the first time.
See, we didn’t need any of these mask mandates, quarantine rules, rapid testing supplies, or anything like that. We are big, rugged Texans that love being on our own figuratively and literally. We have our own electricity grid. We have our own science when it comes to the pandemic. Just stay the hell out Brandon and let us live our own lives.
Oh wait a minute. Not so fast Brandon. Did I say I wanted you to get the hell out of Texas? I meant that we needed you to come save us from ourselves. It seems Abbott has come back and asked Brandon to save us. Sadly this wasn’t the first time and if he is reelected in 2022 it likely won’t be the last. Hell, if we have another winter storm like we had last year we might be going back to the well again.
In fact, Texas leadership did little to nothing to prevent that from happening. Thus, we see the pattern with Abbott’s leadership style. Insult everyone around you, do nothing to avert disaster, and then come crawling back when times of desperate. Except Abbott is incapable of crawling whether we are being literal or metaphorical. He seems too obtuse to realize the predicament he has put himself in.
This time it is in regards to Omicron variant of the corona virus. We didn’t need to be careful with this stuff. It was always a hoax until it wasn’t. So thanks for your help Brandon. I’ll stop insulting you long enough to accept it and then we will go right back to insulting you. I think I’d rather hear the B Sharps in concert.
There should be some federal guidelines which prioritize COVID funding for those states with aggressive policies on masks and vaccinations. Help the states active in fighting COVID first.
1The point would be that he hasn’t put himself in a predicament at all. He gets to eat his cake (let the rest of the people suffer…..he won’t) and then still have it with federal bailouts.
And the people who vote for him will continue to blame Democrats in Washington, rather than the real source of their pain.
2Targeted aid isn’t as easy as it sounds. Not everyone in a “red” state is a Qcumber as demonstrated by the fine folks of the WMDBS. Nor is everyone in a “blue” state liberal as evidenced by the John Birch Society pockets in Cali and the FLDS Bundy sorts roaming Nevaduh. While it makes us cringe, both Presidents Obama and Biden were and are correct. We’re in this together.
As much as we would like to nail a few governors to their policies the people suffering under their lack of ‘leadership’ deserve better. “If only” the conservative voters would punish those miscreants and STOP voting against their own interests.
3Didn’t Abbot recently shift state money to “build the wall” on the border? And pack off state police and the state terrorist militia (AKA Texas Rangers) to do … something … on the border as well?
One point from Nick that I’d like to contest:
“It’s absolutely juvenile on any number of levels and demonstrates a kind of lack of respect that we have come to expect from conservatives”.
I thoroughly enjoy being juvenile, and wallow in pointing and laughing at far right-wing nutcases. So please, Nick, lemme have my fun! Although unlike the conservatives, I don’t let it affect policy, or trying to do good for the largest number of people.
4Hey, you be juvenile all you like Surly. The point isn’t so much about them laughing at someone else’s expense, but with coming up with something stupid and thinking they are clever.
As for Biden’s response, I think he is doing good to stay above it all. No one needs to needlessly suffer and there has been no cosmic force (be it fate, religion, flying spaghetti monster) that has ever managed to smite only those that deserve smiting. So, assistance is unfortunately necessary. We can only pray enough people in Texas are paying attention.
5I wish the news, when it reports COVID hospitalizations or deaths, would note the percentage that were unvaxxed versus vaxxed/boosted. Then we would have fact from which to form an opinion and not some politician’s yammering!
6Read most of the Twitter comments about Abbutt’s “let’s go brandon” tweet. Most saw him for what he is. I’m not a twitterer but I might have said “get schmecked abbutt”. Does that make me as despicable as him? Oh well.
7I’m with Grandma Ada (#6) on this: If people are anti-vax for political reasons, maybe the additional evidence of the percentage of hospitalized vaxxed vs unvaxxed patients would give anti-vaxxers pause. Even if it didn’t, it would give the vaxxed people another bit of evidence to point to.
8Grandma Ada and that otherjean….That’s how positives are reported here, by vaccination status. But I also wish hospitalizations & deaths were reported the same way.
9Grandma Ada (#6) — Colorado has the statistics of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated up on their COVID website, and several sources work it into their presentations. From the Governor, to members of the COVID task force, to public health officials and academics talking about the COVID surge. It doesn’t make it into every news story — but the 80% of hospitalized and nearly 90% of deaths being among the unvaccinated does get quite a bit of coverage.
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