Monday, June 06, 2022

The "Bad News for Baptists and Greg Abbott" Wrangle


Scattershooting (*groan*) while the Texas Progressive Alliance stands around and watches the neo-Nazis in Ukraine rebrand themselves ...
Don't believe I've ever seen Governor Fish Lips' lips so tight.  He must be under duress.


Perhaps that additional $50 million that Dave Carney was bragging about last month is out of reach now.  Speaking of $50 million:


More committees, fewer school doors, bulletproof shields for cowardly cops; anything they can think of to avoid the actual problem.  Speaking of shitty law enforcement officers:


On and on it goes, with no end in sight.  Same old shit, same old nothing.


Vote harder.  "Vote Blue".


I just don't think that's going to work out any better than it has for the past twenty-something years.


Consider the definition of insanity.  Then consider doing something besides what you've been doing over and over again.


Just a suggestion.

When I read this my first thought was, "Hey! Maybe Shelley Kuffner has finally seen the light!"  Then I read 'her', and realized, 'nope, not yet'.


Here's a few more environmental notes.


Once again: thank you, Joe Biden.

A few social justice tweets; bad news first.


Some good news and some activist items.


Segue-ing into the soothers.

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Sunday, June 05, 2022

Sunday Absurdist Funnies

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Saturday, June 04, 2022

A Really Lousy Week Wrangle


It's too late for me to catch up on all the atrocities that went down since the last non-toon post, but like our pathetic Democrats in Washington and Austin trying to pass some gun safety legislation -- or anything approaching that -- I'll give it a go anyway.


As you know, Beto did his best to capitalize on all of these blunders.  The blue partisans and the media got honked up about it, but some of us saw it for what it was.


Then there was the NRA convention here in H-Town, which was filled with its own theatrics.  Inside and out.


If I blog any more about this topic at this length it'll be about the cops and their failures, coverups, lies, and whatever other corruption gets uncovered in the days to come.


Be reminded that absofuckinglutely nothing will be done to stop the next tragedy.




There were some other bad things that happened while I was away.  You probably noticed.


I would like to think that after he leaves Congress early next year, we will have heard the last of Louie.  But I doubt it.


Cuellar has survived because of the assistance provided by Republicans Nancy Pelosi, James Cyburn, Steny Hoyer, and Joe Biden.


But there were also some good things.  And some of those involved Texas Democrats.


This is an embarrassing defeat for Matt Angle, who had taken to calling Jasmine "Crypto Crockett" in his slimeball attempts to wedge his chosen Blue Dog into this seat.  Crockett isn't even all that progressive; nobody's talking about welcoming her to The Squad's cast of pretenders.  She may not be as shitlibby as Colin Allred or Lizzie Fletcher; we'll have to wait and see.


A tough road still ahead for Zapata against Chip Roy.  She's made all the right moves and the winds seem to be prevailing.  She's one of the very few I would say: help if you can.


That's enough for now.  More on Monday.  A couple of soothers:

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Sunday, May 29, 2022

Texas, Our Texas Gun Nuts

Inside any random MAGA household:
And through the generations, Texas Republicans understood ...
... and so did Texas Democrats (not Henry Cuellar, though).
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Tipping Point Funnies

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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Nothing.

Not feeling like blogging election results today.  Later perhaps, after the blood gets mopped up and the kids who can only be identified by comparing DNA with their parents' -- because their bodies were so ripped apart by bullets that they are unrecognizable -- are mourned, buried, and mourned again.

In the meanwhile I need to do some ripping myself.  Or at least post the rips of others.


On the other hand, maybe I should just let the assholes speak for themselves.


It never fails to amaze me how a supreme deity with -- allegedly -- the power to have prevented these tragedies should be the one summoned to comfort the grieving.  The Gawd these people worship is not supposed to be an idle bystander, nor for that matter an observer with some unquantifiable and apparently variable degree of empathy.

Here in reality, They is those things.  In Jesusland, Dey 'pose to be something bigger and stronger than that.  This inability to live in Factghanistan is a massive piece of our collective problem, as a species and a culture.  What should we do about that?

I know what we should do; what we will be doing is precisely the same thing our elected officials have done, are doing, and will do about the gun carnage in this nation.

Absofuckinglutely nothing.
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Monday, May 23, 2022

Texas Election Season's End of the Beginning Wrangle


It's almost over.


Keeping fingers crossed, but not holding my breath, that TX-28 Democrats are smart enough to take out the trash tomorrow.


Heat hot (caliente) and spicy hot (picante) too.  Yeah.  More on the rising outdoor temperatures in the environmental round-up, below.


Yes she is, and the orchestra's conductor is Matt Angle of the Lone Star Project, still holding the ignominious title of the state's most flea-bitten Blue Dog.  Thanks for calling him out, Texas Signal staff, but next time put somebody's name on it and his name in it.  Be bold, be brave. This shit isn't going to stop on its own, and none of us have time to wait for these centrist shitlibs to die off.

We're all enjoying a nice respite from the heat at the moment, but nobody should overlook the fact that this might be one of the hottest summers on record.  And maybe the coolest for years to come.


The TexTrib's crew is doing much of the heavy lifting in today's Wrangle.  Also providing the segue between the climate tweets and the social injustice ones.


It wasn't all social injustice last week, though it may have seemed so.


Here's the rest of the calm-me-downs (and two crack-me-ups).

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Sunday, May 22, 2022

"The Replacements" Funnies

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Friday, May 20, 2022

Mudslinging and Shitstirring Wrangle


Hard to delineate, but we'll classify K-Pax and Pee Bush in the first.  If you've had your teevee on this week, you've probably noticed.


TexDems didn't want to be left out.


Some people would rather focus on the policy failures.


Well and good for them, but if you read this piece from Svitek regarding Paxton's acolytes, the one thing you should take away is that reasoning, logic, and facts are impermeable.


And if you're still under the impression that the Democrats are different, or better ...


Voting harder, red or blue, isn't going to change any of this.  But hey, if that's still your jam, go on with your bad self.  I'll even grant that there are some Dems worth giving a chance, inside and outside the Great State.  Here's a few.


But there's many reasons why the list is short, and why Beto O'Rourke is not on it.


And you can meet her this Saturday in H-Town and see for yourself why she's the best choice for governor in November.


Lots more later, maybe tomorrow but more likely Monday.  Here's a few soothers.


I worked with Big Daddy Horridge at Lexus of Clear Lake from '99 to '02 ( I was the F&I guy; he was the top salesman).  He was just as animated and hilarious in real life as we was on the sidelines in the Dome.  Condolences to his loved ones.

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