This week was a huge let down in the intelligent, educated (ergo, Librul) parts of Texas. The twin specters of the entrenched Confederacy and lazy non-voters handed my adopted home another four yeas of tyranny under the Republicans. They don’t really govern here, they just sue Democrats, shit talk and push a regressive agenda embracing the “ideals” pre-Civil War America. The biggest heartbreak was Beto O’Rourke coming within a couple points of defeating the smug, pock-faced Turd Cruz for the senate seat. Beto shouldn’t give up, I think he ran a good campaign and he could unseat the other asshole who doesn’t represent real-people values, John Cornholio.
The bright spot is that Florida and Georgia will go down fighting. It’s pretty amazing how much the Republicans are acting like their Dixiecrat ancestors once SCOTUS defanged the Voting Rights Act. The other factor is the Democrats winning back the House despite the blatant gerrymandering numerous GOP operatives have set up as per the book Ratfucked. I personally think Pelosi will find a way to fumble again, losing the House to the GOP within four years. She, Diane Feinstein and Chuck Grassley are the poster children for why our government needs a mandatory retirement age. I have to “quit” working around 67, why are they allowed to cling to power well into their eighties? Other, real Western democracies have retirement caps and it seems to work. Case in point, they aren’t fleeing to live in America which continues to be the boogeyman on what not to do with healthcare, voting and immigration policy.
Well, I’ve rested enough to get back to the job of writing.