Q NOTES # 826: On the Seventh Day

The state of Texas belongs in the Shithole category based on (a) its weather, and (b) its government.

Regarding weather: Most of the year, it's too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry. Every year, there are approximately 30-40 days with almost perfect weather. Otherwise, the damned weather sucks: blazing heat, freezing cold, drought or flooding.

Regarding government: There are a lot of good Democrats in Texas. Unfortunately, none of them seem capable of winning any statewide office. Consequently, the state government is controlled by Trumplickan assholes like Greg Abutt, Danny (Goeb) Patrick, and felon AG Kenny Boy Paxton, with trash like Rafael Cruz, Cornhole Cornyn, Louie Gohmert, and Ronny Jackson in Washington.

Intended consequences? Since the House select committee hearings have started being watched on TV by millions of Americans, the percentage of people who believe Donnie Duhmp should be charged with a crime has increased from around 50% to nearly 60% (and plenty of incriminating stuff hasn't been televised yet). 

Panic City? Donnie Duhmp's entire political career has pivoted on zero accountability, regardless of how many corrupt or illegal activities he was engaged in. Is it possible he's realizing his free ride is coming to an end?

It's increasingly obvious that the Trumplickan party agenda is rapidly being condensed to fascism, theocracy, and domestic terrorism, with acts of violence against public school officials, school librarians, and any other people that don't meet their standards of acceptability.

Q NOTES # 822: Georgia on my mind

Former football star Herschel Walker, now U.S. Senate candidate, is in a tight race with the incumbent Democrat. Every day, Walker says or does something that proves he's probably the least-qualified candidate for Congress running in 2022, and potentially among the worst ones ever. He's ignorant, inarticulate, and dishonest, which explains why he's so appealing to former guy King Kwazi.

In the 2020 election Georgia went blue in the three races that mattered most, and I subsequently moved the state out of the shithole category which includes Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, etc. If Georgia now replaces Warnock with Walker, I'll unfortunately be forced to return the state to shithole classification.

According to Lauren "Bim" Boebert, if Jesus had an arsenal of AR-15s, he'd still be here today. It's the opinion of some that this is her attempt at clever humor.

Q NOTES # 625: Short Cuts 77

Houston Chronicle @ Greg A Butt promises there won't be a repeat of February's power failure disaster because he signed bills. There's another story in the same edition of the Chronicle that says the Texas power grid will be as unprepared in 2022 as it was in 2021, given the same weather conditions. So who should I believe? Probably not a worthless political hack who thinks he can fool all of the people all of the time.

It's just a trickle so far, not a flood, but apparently a few Trumplican conspiracy theory believers are starting to suspect they may be fools whose gullibility has been exploited. 

Q NOTES # 456: A Lack of Energy

Considering the shitty weather and the shitty government run by Greg Abbott and other RepubliQans, Texas is like other southern red states: a shitty place to live. 

The situation in Texas is so screwed up, even Wonkette is reporting on the mess. 

So, how long are Texans going to put up with this shit?

One thing the nation definitely needs is a 90 percent reduction in the number of RepubliQans holding elected office in state and federal government.

One thing the nation definitely does NOT need is former guy's promised memoir of his years in the White House.

Another One

This disgusting blob of human decay is another sack of fresh dog shit left by Texas on America's front porch as a cruel practical joke. We have thousands more just like this one. Unfortunately for the world.

One of the five most horrible experiences in life is being forced to hope that Porky Prick will actually keep one of his promises.

Leaving ?

At the Texas Republican convention, the flaming assholes are at it again. When Texas secedes, we need to round up all the right-wing malcontents in the remaining 49 states and deport them to Texas. All of the decent ex-Texans will have migrated to the United States, so there'll be plenty of vacant space.

In a way, post-secession Texas should resemble one of those Biblical leper colonies.

Violated

A black man named Barack Hussein Obama won consecutive presidential elections in 2008 and 2012. In the alternate reality of conservative Republicans, this outcome was only possible because massive fraud was involved. That was all they needed to start grinding out voter ID laws.

The one thing that conservative assholes never explain is why voter fraud wasn't a problem in 2000 and 2004 when George W. Bush was being elected, but suddenly became a problem of crisis proportions after Obama was elected in 2008. I mean, there were illegal immigrants in Texas in 2000 and 2004 too.

Alabammie

The University of Alabama has an outstanding football team. Unfortunately, that's the only positive thing about the state of Alabama that comes to mind. 

Bimbo

Is Rep. Molly White bright enough to serve in the Texas legislature, or is she just another in the long line of conservative bimbos cluttering up politics in this country?

That's easy. The answer is that she fits in perfectly as a member of the Texas House of Representatives because she's a conservative bimbo, not in spite of it. Like Danny (Goeb) Patrick, Rafael (Ted) Cruz, and Louie Gohmert, she understands the use of symbolic gestures that appeal to the base instincts of her worthless fucking constituents.

Ten Things Republicans Believe

This is a partial list of things Republicans in Texas believe:

• The Texas voter ID law is necessary to eliminate massive election fraud.
• Texas abortion laws were passed to protect the health and safety of pregnant women.
• The Keystone XL pipeline will provide enough new jobs to make an impact on unemployment rates, and will help the United States become energy independent.
• The fact that there is cold weather in Dallas in January is proof that climate change is a liberal hoax.
• The best way to eliminate gun violence is to have more people carrying more loaded guns in more places more often.
• Problems in public school education can be solved by taxpayer subsidies of private school vouchers.
• Giving huge tax breaks to billionaires will create lots of jobs with high pay and great benefits.
• Eliminating accountability in the form of government regulations will stimulate businesses to create a lot of jobs with high pay and great benefits.
• Heterosexual marriage traditions are threatened if gay people are allowed to marry each other.
• Praying in school only works if everybody is required to participate. That's the way God wants it.

And then you wonder why we can't have nice things...

Mandate

Election return data for Texas (November 2014) ~

• Voting age population of Texas (May 2014): 18.915 million
• Registered voters in Texas (November 2014): 14.026 million
• Total votes cast for governor of Texas:  4.689 million
• Total votes received by Greg Abbott (Republican):  2.790 million

The 4.689 million votes cast in Tuesday's gubernatorial election represent 33.4 percent of the registered voters in Texas. Greg Abbott's total of 2.79 million represents about 19.9 percent of the RV population. In other words, 80.1 percent of the registered voters in this state did NOT vote for Greg Abbott.

More telling, only 24.8 percent of the state's voting age population bothered to vote at all, and only 14.8 percent of the Texas VAP voted for Abbott.

Greg Abbott is actively supported by less than 15 percent of Texans who are old enough to vote in state elections. That means 86.2 percent of the VAP voted for someone else or didn't give a shit one way or another.

The numbers were even worse for Danny (Goeb) Patrick, who only received 2,718,406 votes, fewer than Abbott. This is why Republicans like low-turnout elections in which white people over age 50 vote in large numbers, while younger people (under 30), lower-income people, and non-white people stay away on election day.

Favorable Odds

Among Republicans, Rafael (Ted) Cruz and Danny (Goeb) Patrick are the worst of a real bad lot. Fortunately, the odds are that both will destroy (a) themselves or (b) the Republican Party before they can come close to destroying Texas or America.

Epidemic

From the Houston Chronicle, Thursday, September 4th:

"Abbott...vowed a crusade against the 'epidemic' of voter fraud in Texas when he became attorney general in 2002. In the dozen years since, his zealous efforts have uncovered a grand total of two cases that would have been stopped by the state's voter ID law. That's no misprint; he's found two."

Conservative Republicans share several traits, one of which is the mistaken belief that everyone in America is just as stupid as they are. And only hopelessly stupid assholes still believe the Texas voter ID law was intended to prevent massive fraud.

As for Greg Abbott, he's a cheesy political hack.

Primarily

Today is Primary Election Day in Texas, and I couldn't care less. First of all, it's too cold to go outside unless I'm accomplishing something, and second of all, voting in a Texas primary is not accomplishing a goddamned thing as far as I'm concerned. If I want my vote to actually have some potential significance, I'll need to move out of Texas.

The only thing that will be conclusively settled today is which two of the four assholes seeking the Republican nomination for Lt. Gov. will be eliminated. With my lousy luck, dipshit Dan Patrick will make the cut.

Strength in numbers

In Texas, conservative Republicans are a voting majority, if not a numerical one. They are therefore able to live their entire adult lives without ever realizing how goddamned ridiculous they look to people like me, or caring.

Impeachment

The tea crackers can't get the idea of impeaching Obama out of their tiny minds. Most of the impeachment racket is coming from worthless skin bags like Louie Gohmert. What's pathetic about David Dewhurst is that he knows better, but is such a candy ass motherfucker that he'll add his voice to the noise just so he can be in the club. Being taken behind the woodshed by the tea crackers in 2012 got the worthless fuck's attention; he never wants to go through that again.

Not so fast, cheese dick.

Within minutes of the Supreme Court decision, gubernatorial wannabee and current A.G. Greg Abbott gloated that the Texas voter ID law was back in effect immediately if not sooner. Maybe the U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, will have something to say about it. In an interesting twist, the conservative Dallas Morning News supports Holder.

Meddler

Conservative columnist Bill McKenzie of the Dallas Morning News discusses reason number 8,462 to hate Rick Perry's guts.

Schoolin'

I've become mildly interested in the issue of home schooling as an educational practice, and started searching the Internet for curriculum materials. Not that I want to buy anything; I just wanted an idea of what's available to parents who need their kids to get a better education than those government schools provide. I found a science textbook that should prepare a youngster for MIT, Harvard or Stanford. A company called Apologia is apparently a major player in the home school curriculum racket, as is Bob Jones University.

Meanwhile in Austin, Rick Perry, budding dominionist, continues to dream of a Texan theocracy with himself as the high priest. The legislature, lacking anything better to do, passed a bill that evidently makes it legal to say "Merry Christmas" in godless public schools.

El Perrito could barely wait to make a public show of signing the silly-ass thing, complete with assurances to persecuted Christians that he's looking out for their poor, mistreated asses. It's getting harder to find vestiges of sanity in this state's government every fucking day. In Texas, it's "Get religion or get the hell out."

Shootin' up

If you want to see a Texas Republican's head explode, ask him which he loves better, Jesus or his gun collection. The legislature in Texas is mostly made up of Republicans who don't give a shit about government or know much about it, but they love their guns.

This grinning asshole is first-term tea party Rep. Steve Toth of The Woodlands. His claim to fame is that he introduced a bill in the current session which was passed overwhelmingly by voice vote. Steve's measure "would nullify within state borders any federal laws banning assault weapons or high-capacity magazines, or expansion of background checks for firearms owners..." according to an AP report by Will Weissert.

Then we have this fucking waste of space, Rep. Brandon Creighton of Conroe, who "sponsored a bill to punish by up to a year in jail and a 4,000 dollar fine police officers or government officials who try to enforce federal firearms limits in Texas." That masterpiece of legislative brilliance also passed by voice vote.

The good news is that while House Republicans are entertaining themselves with circle jerks, they aren't doing anything that would actually make life worse for people like me.