Friday, January 07, 2022

The Weekend Wrangle


It's been a very bad start to the new year for Texas Republicans.  Update:


To say they stepped in their own understates it.  Just follow the mockery.  Before I get to the rest of that, there's a few things that are more important to the rest of us.


But it might not matter, at least for Greg Abbott's political future.


Hope all those statewide Dems running on keeping the power on have a backup campaign plan.  Looks like they're gonna need it.

That's my segue.


So Ted Cruz had a worse week than this.  First, the Dallas Observer introduced us to his very online daughter, and then his treasonous actions from January 6, 2021 caught up with him, and his feeble explanations only dug his hole deeper.


But he was by no means alone.


Both Cruz and Crenshaw have been branded RINOs by the QAnon Caucus as fallout for these transgressions, i.e. telling the truth.  And I can't stop laughing.


Just cannot wait for the next poll in the TXGOP AG race.



So to summarize:


Unfortunately, Texas Democrats' top two prospects took serious hits themselves from what might usually be considered friendly sources.


Beto O'Rourke going rote was no surprise.  Lina Hidalgo discovered as a puppet of the oligarchy -- for this observer -- was.


 This probably won't register on the shitlibs' meters.

Here are the criminal and social justice updates; the first intersects with the environment.  (More climate news next week.)


Background on ShotSpotter.


Going long on soothers today.

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Wednesday, January 05, 2022

A Sedition Eve Wrangle


Perhaps I should begin with another threat.


Or maybe this one.


Given the possibilities of dying or becoming disabled from COVID, or freezing to death because we can't keep the power on, it might be permissible to excuse people from worrying too much about the climate.  Or whether their votes are going to count.


Or whether an insurrection might take place again.


Texas is full of these right-wing extremist militias.  They're not just the national security threat we've been warned about but a danger to all Texans.  And they are emboldened by the tacit approval, the wink-and-nod from police.


Greg Abbott and company aren't too worried about them, either.


So while we mark an anniversary tomorrow, no one feels like celebrating.  Not even those responsible, from what I can tell.


I'll try to be a little more cheery in the next Wrangle, the one I promised yesterday for today but will appear tomorrow or Friday.
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