Originally published at: Meet the Aspiring Texas Oil Regulator Who Wants to Deport 100 Million People
FORT WORTH, TEXAS — A swanky stockyards-themed venue in this Texas city hosted a far-right politician whose candidacy for a top state oil regulator position asks a simple question: is racist posturing enough to win an election? Far-right figures in attendance helped set the scene. Kyle Rittenhouse, Ken Paxton, Brandon Herrera, and an influencer called “MAGA…
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Seems racism is the Texas Tea that keeps bubblin’ out of the veins of the Texas GOP.
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Here’s another nincompoop that hasn’t figured out that this idea of deporting millions of people will severely deplete his pool of prospective employees.
ETA: Of course he didn’t return comment. Calling out the fallacy of a position isn’t something one wants to address. He can ignore it. Why the opposing candidates aren’t calling it out is really the problem here.
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When can we vote to make Texas a Republic again and I am speaking for the other 49 states?
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Although war isn’t funny, the paradox that Trump has managed to get himself in is that the best-salvage settlement with Iran looks an awful lot like what Obama and Kerry negotiated in 2015 (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA). Pretty weak tea and not a great way to spend $100 billion and upend the global economy.
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Wonder when some wag will point out the similarities and start laughing at him.
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Genocidal mania may be the new GOP. It is curious to see the GOP spiral into wanting to pursue the same set of crimes against humanity that some other societies put themselves through to great tragedy.
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In an era dominated by social media and partisan infotainment outlets, the MAGA party (formerly the GOP) is running extremist kooks for myriad numbers of offices across the country. Their primary electorate, who are themselves radicalized right wingers, buy into the craziness.
While an opportunity for Democrats (if they don’t blow it), it’s scary one party is so far off the rails and an exigent danger to freedom and democracy.
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Why do these troglodytes keep crawling out of the woodwork? Yes, I know, Der Pumpkinführer had destroyed the idea of civil conversation in politics and common decency. His bio
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It’s Texas? Not to malign all Texans, but they do have a lot of the most obnoxious ones.
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Primaries distill the essence of voting blocs, and their bloc consists of racist assholes who want to burn everything (except cryptocurrencies, LLM AI, and hydrocarbons) to the ground and aren’t particularly worried about anything else, such as actually winning.
Bo French is consciously playing a role to an audience, and that role will continue to win primary elections until it starts losing general elections, which might just be a plausible outcome later this year.
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“It’s gone to award contracts based on skin color or based on gender, as opposed to awarding contracts based on merit,” he said.
And as all good maggots MAGATs know, only whites have merit. Fuck this guy.
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I regret nothing. Posting that you want to expel 30 million people from the nation is fucking despicable.
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Who implied anything of the sort?
I agree with the rest of your statement.
All these assholes keep going on and on about “personal responsibility “ while living well off government handouts and destroying other people’s lives and property.
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The mods, who appear to think “GFY” is an inappropriate response to an express wish for 30 million Americans to be expelled from the nation.
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“Republican incumbent Jim Wright”?? Oh now that’s cheating. There used to be a beloved liberal Democrat from Fort Worth named Jim Wright—famous for his wit, like “There’s nuthin’ in the middle of the road but a yellow line and dead armadillos.”
This guy must be milking what he can off the name recognition.
I still miss Molly Ivins.
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I grew up there & can vouch for that.
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The US pays $3 billon a day on its debt. That’s roughly 2 J6 slush funds a day, or three times what the Iran War is currently costing every day. The problem is that this $39 trillion debt doesn’t go away, and the silly plans of Scott Bessent aren’t helping. In recent weeks, the rate on US 30-year treasury bond has gone above 5%. Next stop, 6%. Which means that over 20% of all money collected by the Treasury goes to paying the interest on that $39 trillion. The advantage of US treasuries for the past seven decades has been that they are considered a near risk-free asset. This meant most things in the world were priced in dollars. As a reserve currency, it is as good as gold or oil and much easier to transport. So what happens if nobody wants the dollar? The rate goes up. and Americans pay more. Instead of knocking Pete Hegseth in the nuts and telling him to stop making wars, Bessent has self-owned himself by declaring dollar swap lines the answer. Like the US, petrostates have to sell their products every day, and maybe dollars won’t always be the reserve currency. China has been experimenting with petroyuan for about a year and a half, and has been developing its cross-border payments system (CIPS) for over a decade. Metal, oil, gas and other commodity trades can now be conducted in yuan, and payment transfers never have to go through SWIFT. The UAE warned earlier this spring that it was ready to move to yuan if Bessent couldn’t deliver. Perhaps the craziest thing about this situation is that Xi only has to act like the risk-free alternative to the US, not a big challenge when his counterpart thrives on chaos to cover his own self-dealing.
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Texas has a long tradition of name thieves running for office. There was a guy named Sam Houston who ran for something every cycle back around the 90s.
Molly Ivins would probably get 10% of the vote in a Democratic primary today.
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Also a lot of the best ones.
We’re the third-bluest red state in the country.
And we’re huge. Flipping Texas – which we are closer and closer to achieving – ends the national Republican Party for a generation or more.
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