Texas Republicans
You know, I imagine that weirder things have happened at 3:00 a.m., but you’d be hard pressed to come up with many to rival this one.
The Texas Republican Party Convention Extravaganza was not what anyone would call “organized,” or “productive,” or even “geared for adults.” Whether or not this mess was done on purpose or just another blooper of the Trump era Republican Party is unknown, but, Honey, a small tactical nuclear weapon would have done less damage.
They finally, in the wee hours of the morning, got electors elected, but even now some people claim that the votes were screwed up and people who weren’t delegates voted and some delegates were locked out. They are being told to shut up because without electors, Trump doesn’t get Texas electoral votes even if he wins.
But the big prize of the night is that former Florida congressman Allen West was elected chairman of the Republican Party of Texas.
Yep, that guy.
He’s a war criminal.
West served in the U.S. Army but was “stripped of his command” in 2003 after he pleaded “guilty to assaulting an Iraqi detainee during interrogation,” according to The Boston Globe. Gen. James Mattis, President Donald Trump’s former secretary of defense, reportedly criticized West as a “commander who has lost his moral balance or has watched too many Hollywood movies.”
He’s called President Obama a racist and claimed that “dozens” of members of the Democratic congressional delegation were “members of the communist Party.”
He once claimed that Trump had chosen Gen. Mathis as his defense secretary to “exterminate Muslims.”
This, my friends, is what is left of the Texas Republican Party under Donald Trump. This is what is meant by “smoking embers.”
And they want to reconvene to finish “the business” of the Party. Oh hell, yes. They can use my backyard, for free. I’ll even throw in a case of water and some folding lawn chairs. I really want to see this.
Is this common, to elect a state chair who is not a resident of the state? Or were all the Texas candidates such nut cases that West looked sane and reasonable? Surely Tarrant County …. oh, never mind.
JJ, don’t let them in your backyard. They’ll be maskless and shouting, spreading the Trump plague everywhere. The entertainment value just isn’t worth us losing our favorite salon artist.
1Amen, Prof!
2JJ do not let those vermin on your street! Honey, you do not know where their mouths or hands have been.
Stay safe, Blue Texans
Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself, The Surly Professor is correct. You don’t want those people that close to your home. We would happily volunteer our ‘backyard,’ or more accurately the pasture furthest from our house where the Republicons could wallow in the same substance they throw around as policy. Such a perfect location for them that no doubt they would attract Devine Nunes as a guest speaker. How many hours left? Need to be sure there’s a coyote committee to greet them, too.
3Based on his history and Gen Mattis’ description of his military career, he checks all the boxes to be a “leader” in the repugnantican party anywhere. Sounds like cabinet secretary or even vp material.
4So, if it’s a thinktank some thoughts should have come out by now. I’d give a purty to see them.
5West was the out-of-state candidate who stood for the Rs against Obama in Illinois when Obama was elected to the Senate.
West got 27% of the vote, which led John Rogers, blogging as kung-fu monkey, to identify that as the “crazification factor”, the percentage of the electorate who would ALWAYS vote Republican, even if the Republican in question was a batshit-insane war criminal black man from out of state.
6In view of Marco Rubio’s tweet yesterday, is it possible they confused Allen West with Kanye West?
7Not cool language Sandridge @5
8@ Sandridge, #5: “Republican thinktank”? Isn’t that an oxymoron, especially in Texas? C’mon, Texas—vote Blue and throw the crazies out of office. You can do it!
9Joel Hanes @7, that was Alan Keyes not Alan West. Equally nuts, but not the same guy.
10Why was Sandridge’s comment passed through moderation? The n-word is not OK.
11Sounds like a perfect fit – but like others Miss JJ, Don’t get to close!
12Harry Eagar @6, You can examine that RWNJ thinktank at the link[s] below.
It went belly-up a couple years after Allen W became CEO, so he’s another prominent Rethug with that ‘Reverse-Midas-Touch’, like youknowwho. AKA- ETTTD, or ETTTTTS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Policy_Analysis
“The National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) was a non-profit American think tank[3] whose goals were to develop and promote private alternatives to government regulation and control. Topics it addressed include reforms in health care, taxes, Social Security, welfare, education, and environmental regulation.
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An NCPA website is being maintained by a former board member at NCPAThinkTank.org,[6] where publications have been archived.[7]”
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13joel hanes @7, I like that “27% crazification factor”, it fits almost exactly what we see in polls and real life ‘whackjob factor’.
The tRumpian Rethug ‘base’ gets down around 33-35% pf ‘Muricans, with a ~27% rock solid batshitcrazy core that is wholly unreachable.
What remains of the Rep party is disintegrating fast here in the red part of CT as well. The 2018 Congressional candidate just quit the race because he didn’t want to wear a suit and stop guzzling beer in public. The 2020 candidate is a Q follower. No wonder the town’s only Trump sign was painted over and then taken down.
14https://www.theday.com/article/20200628/OP04/200629541
I just deleted it. Thank you.
15Falling Uplifted Into Evil ~ Another episode of:
psycho-proctologist – Apr 19, 2020
Jeremy Sherman, PhD. I do non-partisan research into the nature of absolutists, regardless of what they pretend to believe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=151&v=lR0U0LBpvFc&feature=emb_logo
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16Homestead – Jeremy Sherman (Lynne Publishing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7lpKcLUzME
Sandridge @ #17–you have been told that civilized people do not insult others of different ethnic backgrounds. If you can’t abide by those ideals, please go somewhere else to post.
17Sorry, I missed the comment number; it is #16
18I agree, WA Skeptic. I deleted the comment and took him off automatic approval.
19And the Vice Chair is Cat Parks from Hamilton County — my home. Her one claim to fame is that she is married to Kay Bailey Hutchison’s first ex-husband. I believe he is 34 years her senior. When she made some people mad around here, there were shirts around town that said “Cat, you ain’t no Kay.” This should be fun.
20For the record, and not to extend controversy, I am opposed generally to forbidden words and specifically to making the N-word unspeakable.
It’s a word, usable in various contexts. If it cannot be used,within a few years younger people will be confused about what exactly the unspeakable word is and how or why it should only be used (in my view) as part of political or historic discussions, not in active discourse. I am not imagining this; it the Blatimore Sun it has already happened.
21Sign me up please!
22A friend shared this with me.
I don’t want to pretend I’m a historian or expert on the use of terms like the n-word. I see few times it should be used that aren’t offensive. If a reputable publication uses it, they should qualify it and add a footnote.
23My first experience was over 60 years ago when I was visiting my grandparents in Arkansas. We went to a grocery store and as we entered, white men were in the process of throwing a black man out the door on his face. I can’t be sure they used the n-word or the more acceptable “negro” in saying you’re not allowed in here. I was astonished and I’ve never forgotten. Either way, either word, it was racist and the context doesn’t really matter.. Unfortunately I have relatives that see no problem in the action even today. Makes me sick.
So we can debate the words, but as it was used with Roger Stone, it’s downright full on racist.
@Harry Eagar, I agree with you. As an example, I think Huck Finn is one of the best American novels ever written. Though the n-word is used liberally throughout, that’s no reason to ban the book or censor the word. It’s too much a part of the book and its historical time period.
24el lagarto @ 10
You are of course correct, and I was completely mistaken. I suspect I’ve been conflating those two for a long time.
I regret the error.
Thanks for catching it and correcting me.
25The Rs are great at picking candidates. The guy they chose to run in GA for John Lewis’ seat was part of a large auto theft ring. Convicted but pardoned by Orange45.
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