Trump Drips
So now that Trump has been president, movie stars and teevee personalities think they all can be president, too.
Pondering running for retiring @senrobportman seat in United States Senate. #GoBuckeyes
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) March 10, 2021
He’s 77 years old and has been been married 5 times so he’s perfectly qualified, not even counting that whole Al Capone’s safe thing.
Alright, alright, alright. Matthew McConaughey is seriously considering running for governor of Texas. His life motto: “Just Keep Living” certainly offers deep philosophical guidelines for us all. Aside from starting a sentence in Dallas and finishing it somewhere on Venus, he is certainly easy on the eyes and can find most major cities in Texas on a map.
However, you gotta look favorably on any person who got arrested for playing the bongo drums barefoot all over and toasted in the picture window of his house. And yes, it did draw a crowd.
Now, if Willie Nelson runs, he’s got my vote.
In 2006, Kinky Friedman ran for Governor of Texas as an Independent, which caused Little Bubba to approach him in public, hand him a Democratic lapel button and ask into a microphone to a crowd, “So the party of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy isn’t good enough for you?” Kinky took his cigar out of his mouth long enough to smile and say, “smartass.” He got 12% of the vote.
Geraldo is just one name on a long list of people who (whom?)
I once respected. But as time went on they just turned out to be creeps, hypocrites and narcissists with zero self awareness.
Rudy is the among the biggest flame-outs in this group but I think the boomer generation seems to have a problem letting go- recognizing that it’s time to retire and let the next generation have ago.
On local blogs I notice lawyers complain that judges retire but come back as “Senior Judges” – a fancy phrase for high paid contract worker -. This is the likely the most lucrative version of double dipping, a judges pension plus a per-diem.
Cops do it too. Retire from a 20-years-and-out agency and then go work for another department with full benefits and salary.
I’m sure other fields have similar issues with getting the boomers to retire and/or go away. I can’t wait to retire, but
1I’m at the tail end of this generation. These folks are my older siblings demographic.
I lived in he Austin area when the Statesman gave a very detailed description of the bongo incident! He doesn’t need to run for anything. And I shook hands with Kinky Friedman once, he has softer hands than a three year old. I hope the Dems. Can find a real candidate and that everyone remembers this last year and shows up in 2022!
2Ms. JJ does Mr. Bankston the Younger have any political ambitions? He’s a natural. ROFL with “So the party of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy isn’t good enough for you?”
And, Kinky’s response, “smartass.”
Yes, Kinky, Mark Bankston is smart, and also the kind of smartass Texas needs in the Governor’s mansion. Someone with Ann Richards’ kind of smarts.
3Well, sure, they look at trump and Mad Marge and Tommy Tupperware and think, “How hard can this politics stuff be? Americans will vote for anybody they’ve seen on the teevee box.” They’re not wrong.
4Little Bubba has no political ambitions whatsoever. His wife might. She’s the smart one.
5I’m just waiting for the GOP’s Lifetime Unachievement Award which features stacks of cobweb covered House bills on top of Moscow Mitch’s filing cabinet being brought to the gala to be scattered with a leaf blower all over the stage by Susan Collins.
6I have never forgiven Kinky for that run, and never will. In my opinion he kept Chris Bell from being our governor. I’ve also never forgiven Jim Hightower for being an advisor to Kinky.
7Elections of former football coaches, athletes, actors, and moguls seems slightly more likely among Republicans, but there are instances for Democrats and other parties, too.
Primaries would be smaller if they required evidence of paid public service or extensive involvement in legislative activity for state-wide and federal offices.
8megasoid @6: “visions” of SoSo Collins adding a box of her sternly worded letters to the pile, then dropping a match to ‘assist’ with global warming.
Ms. Juanita Jean Herownself @5, so much the better for Texas – a Bankston and a woman governor.
9What Vic said @7.
Kinky had a gathering close to our house so we went just out of curiosity. I couldn’t count 25 people and some were his hangers on. The people I knew from the community were hard line conservatives cheering him on. But I knew damn well they would not be voting for him.
10When will gone looney james woods and read my lips eastwood throw their hats in the ring? There are plenty of equally unqualified trumpf loving teevee personalities with narcissistic personality disorders out there.
11JJ – we all know little Bubba is busy doing God’s work inside the court room, cookies notwithstanding.
Of note: everyone’s least favorite “investigator,” Geraldo is running for office in Ohio, but is filing his tweets and running his “campaign,” from FLORIDA.
Republicans, they don’t even know how to turn off their location services on Twitter, much less run a country.
12Geraldo Rivera? Just another in the long, long line of people that the United States does NOT need anywhere in government. Too bad so many of them are already there. Let’s not make it worse.
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