Thoughts on Beto?

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Anonymous wrote:Slightly off topic but can anyone explain to me why conservatives are triggered by Beto having a nickname? I often see them correcting it to *Robert Francis as if that’s some kind of own.

I think it is because Beto is a nickname for Robert among Spanish speaking people--that is what I have been told. I have never heard it personally as a nickname for anyone else ever so I don't know if that is true. But, if that is an real thing-Beto as a Spanish nickname--I think Republicans are trying to show he is a poser --an Irish guy posing as a guy of Spanish distraction.

Oh that makes sense. I also have never heard the name Beto and didn’t know it was Hispanic.

Anyway, those in Raphael Cruz’s party don’t have much room to talk about misleading nicknames.

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Anonymous wrote:I listened to an interview of Beto with Brene Brown last week and fell in love with him all over again. I don't get why he hasn't done better in these last two races.

Abbott has been a terrible leader. I know Texas has been a red state, and this probably wasn't surprising. But I don't know why Texans haven't latched on to Beto more.

A good friend who is a Dem and politically involved has said to me a few times that he is an "empty suit." I'd be interested in perspectives on why Beto wasn't able to clinch Senator or Governor from Cruz or Abbott.

Because he is too busy running for everyone else's job to do his own job. He is seen as just wanting power and not wanting to work. He also wrote some awful things about 'how he dreams of running over and murdering children and taking away the happiness'...granted he was 15 but having, expressing, and publishing said thoughts are disturbing. He also doesn't understand how things work in TX or the economic drivers so he comes across as tone-deaf.

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He’s a listless rich kid that wasted away his youth and never accomplished anything and then says stupid garbage like “I’m just born to be in it”. The cover art from his band’s CD is just cringe.

Beto is literally the living, breathing, walking embodiment of white privilege.

As an actual, honest to goodness Mexican in Texas I truly hate the nickname and I don’t for a second believe that a powerful, wealthy, connected white family from El Paso bestowed their precious son a Spanish nickname to differentiate from Grandpa Robert. I’d bet a mortgage payment that came from a Mexican nanny/house cleaner. Families that send their kids to east coast boarding schools don’t nickname their boys with Spanish names.

I skip the section of the ballot when his name is listed as a candidate.

He’s the Democratic answer to George W. Bush. That’s not a compliment.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s a listless rich kid that wasted away his youth and never accomplished anything and then says stupid garbage like “I’m just born to be in it”. The cover art from his band’s CD is just cringe.

Beto is literally the living, breathing, walking embodiment of white privilege.

As an actual, honest to goodness Mexican in Texas I truly hate the nickname and I don’t for a second believe that a powerful, wealthy, connected white family from El Paso bestowed their precious son a Spanish nickname to differentiate from Grandpa Robert. I’d bet a mortgage payment that came from a Mexican nanny/house cleaner. Families that send their kids to east coast boarding schools don’t nickname their boys with Spanish names.

I skip the section of the ballot when his name is listed as a candidate.

He’s the Democratic answer to George W. Bush. That’s not a compliment.

I am not connected to Texas and try to avoid reading anything about him in national publications, so my view is about as uninformed as it gets. But if the knee-jerk opinion of someone who only sees his surface and 2-3 most famous sound bites is any use: I cannot STAND the guy. I’m a white yuppie liberal so thoroughly within his demographic, but I have just a visceral dislike of everything about him. I’ve never needed to explain it, but assume I’m picking up on something along the lines of these first two paragraphs.

(Whew, thank you for asking, OP. Clearly I needed to get that off my chest, because it’s an “emperor’s new clothes” situation that has been bugging me. If I had been a Texan in this election, I still would have voted for him. But I understood your question as more a personal reaction than a policy one.)

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There was a profile on him years ago in the New Yorker or Alantic I think that I read years ago and it did make him out to be a lightweight (lots of pot smoking). Since then, I haven’t thought much of him.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s a listless rich kid that wasted away his youth and never accomplished anything and then says stupid garbage like “I’m just born to be in it”. The cover art from his band’s CD is just cringe.

Beto is literally the living, breathing, walking embodiment of white privilege.

As an actual, honest to goodness Mexican in Texas I truly hate the nickname and I don’t for a second believe that a powerful, wealthy, connected white family from El Paso bestowed their precious son a Spanish nickname to differentiate from Grandpa Robert. I’d bet a mortgage payment that came from a Mexican nanny/house cleaner. Families that send their kids to east coast boarding schools don’t nickname their boys with Spanish names.

I skip the section of the ballot when his name is listed as a candidate.

He’s the Democratic answer to George W. Bush. That’s not a compliment.

That’s literally a PERFECT description of him.

Well done.

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I don't know how he is know but I knew him in high school. He went to Woodberry. LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't know how he is know but I knew him in high school. He went to Woodberry. LOL.

Now.

Clearly I didn't pay attention in English class.

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Beto and Stacy are annoying.

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He’s very good at losing elections but not much else.

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Anonymous wrote:Homophobia

My red friends in Texas think it’s clever and funny to insinuate that Beto is gay.

A dad with a special needs child.

That’s Texas for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Slightly off topic but can anyone explain to me why conservatives are triggered by Beto having a nickname? I often see them correcting it to *Robert Francis as if that’s some kind of own.

I think it is because Beto is a nickname for Robert among Spanish speaking people--that is what I have been told. I have never heard it personally as a nickname for anyone else ever so I don't know if that is true. But, if that is an real thing-Beto as a Spanish nickname--I think Republicans are trying to show he is a poser --an Irish guy posing as a guy of Spanish distraction.

Oh that makes sense. I also have never heard the name Beto and didn’t know it was Hispanic.

Anyway, those in Raphael Cruz’s party don’t have much room to talk about misleading nicknames.

And let's not forget Nimrata Randhawa (Nikki Haley).

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You know who I miss, and who would totally win? Ann Richards.

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Anonymous wrote:He’s a listless rich kid that wasted away his youth and never accomplished anything and then says stupid garbage like “I’m just born to be in it”. The cover art from his band’s CD is just cringe.

Beto is literally the living, breathing, walking embodiment of white privilege.

As an actual, honest to goodness Mexican in Texas I truly hate the nickname and I don’t for a second believe that a powerful, wealthy, connected white family from El Paso bestowed their precious son a Spanish nickname to differentiate from Grandpa Robert. I’d bet a mortgage payment that came from a Mexican nanny/house cleaner. Families that send their kids to east coast boarding schools don’t nickname their boys with Spanish names.

I skip the section of the ballot when his name is listed as a candidate.

He’s the Democratic answer to George W. Bush. That’s not a compliment.

All of this. I’m a Democrat and I hate him and all the lazy, entitled white people just like him who spend their lives coasting on white privilege. That big-toothed loser wouldn’t be where he is if he was a black man who spent his youth bumming around on mommy and daddy’s money and then married richer.

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Anonymous wrote:He made a statement about going after Texans guns. No way he could recover from that in Texas. Which is a real shame since Abbott is one of the worst governor's in history.

OP here... yes, I get the "going after their guns" concern, but I've heard him talk about really reasonable gun control as a 4th gen Texan. With Uvalde, El Paso, etc., I would think Texas would be more open to him. I also. just read a story that the county where Uvalde is went 60% for Abbott, so what do I know???

There’s *nothing* reasonable about telling Texans “hell YES we’re gonna take your AR15!” . And that’s what he’s going to be forever known for. There’s no walking that back. Do you know how many millions of Texans own an AR15? It’s THE most common rifle in Texas. Had Eugene Stoner been a Texas resident when he invented it in 1956, the state legislature would’ve made it the official firearm of the state of Texas.

Not defending this logic but it is the reality there. This is why he lost.