I would love to waste some time being on a debate show so I can point out how fucking stupid pundits and “journalists” are. I’m not necessarily smarter or the type who does their own research, believe me, I have made many mistakes and can be tricked no matter how I try (voting for Obummer and Slick Willie for their first terms). I am just tired of the trust-fund babies who think they belong to the fourth estate when they bloviate about how the Republicans being openly Fascists began with Orange Foolius. It blossomed under him because you dickheads were too busy kissing asses at Beltway cocktail parties and did not pay attention to all the fertilizer via the Tea Baggers, Darth Cheney’s “We create reality and you report it,” St. Reagan, Tricky Dick and “Nuke ’em Now” Goldwater. The roots go all the way back to the Fifties with “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy!
Much like the German Conservatives and Aristocrats who also hated the Weimar Republic, the rank-and-file Country Clubbers of the GOP kept recruiting these rabid dogs, thinking, “Oh, we can keep them in line,” and “They’re not completely crazy.” Given the clusterfuck the House is in, ya’ think they finally realized the lunatics are in charge?
In Texas, it’s equally awful. The Texas Tribune published a list of all the shit birds who took money from a PAC that had no problem meeting with Nick Fuentes. Cue up TMBG’s “You and Your Racist Friend.” Our current Speaker, Dan Phelan, no friend of anyone left of the Center-Right, is a favorite target of the PAC and the openly corrupt elected officials who want him removed. It’s also no shock to see Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and AG Ken Paxton as the second and third (respectively) recipients of racist money. OK, they should be tied at first really.
I miss the days when these assholes weren’t so proud to accept the checks and/or could be shamed into returning the money.
I forgot to mention, before Paxton was popping champagne bottles for getting away with his crimes (c’mon FBI, don’t fuck this up), he and Patrick started their witch hunt against the Democratic minority over the impeachment. First, an audit over all the money spent to pay for the legal services. Second, a push to change the state constitution to prevent this from happening again…ever. Lastly, the Republicans who found Paxton a liability will be all challenged in the primaries next year with you guessed it, Nazi Money.
When I moved to Austin and Texas 29 years ago, I thought I was just changing my location in the three dimensions we reside in. Little did I know I would also be traveling back in the fourth (time) from 1994 to 1860 (or earlier).