Texas Mayor Says the Quiet Part Out Loud

[Anonymous]

This thread.

Is about this particular Texas mayor. There are two other threads about the general situation in Texas.

Have you ever met anyone from Texas? They're not monsters.

This particular Texas mayor is a monster, or at least talks like one. That’s who this thread is about. Not everyone from Texas.

Can you guys stop listening to each other and turn your brains on?

What is your brain telling you this thread is about?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread.

Have you ever met anyone from Texas? They're not monsters.

Can you guys stop listening to each other and turn your brains on?

I have, several people. Their obsession with TEXAS is annoying, for one thing. That their state keeps electing these horrible people is deeply offensive. I think you’ll go blue at some point; but probably not soon enough.

But unelecting these horrible people doesn't even register. Apparently.

He quit. So how’s that “unelecting”? And what does that have to with all the like minded elected GOP in Texas who think the same way but kept their mouths shut?

[Anonymous]

Yes PP, my sister and nephew are freezing their @sses off in San Antonio and they agree with everything we've said on this thread about idiots like that Mayor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread.

Have you ever met anyone from Texas? They're not monsters.

Can you guys stop listening to each other and turn your brains on?

I have, several people. Their obsession with TEXAS is annoying, for one thing. That their state keeps electing these horrible people is deeply offensive. I think you’ll go blue at some point; but probably not soon enough.

But unelecting these horrible people doesn't even register. Apparently.

He quit. So how’s that “unelecting”? And what does that have to with all the like minded elected GOP in Texas who think the same way but kept their mouths shut?

Why did he quit?

Do you think he just got bored, like Sarah Palin?

Or maybe his constituents told him to go take a hike and not come back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes PP, my sister and nephew are freezing their @sses off in San Antonio and they agree with everything we've said on this thread about idiots like that Mayor.

Sure, I've got friends and family in Austin, Dallas, and in west Texas.

This guy isn't representative of west Texas. The opposite, really.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let him speak for himself...

Let me hurt some feelings while I have a minute!! No one owes you are your family anything; nor is it the local government’s responsibility to support you during trying times like this! Sink or swim it’s your choice! The City and County, along with power providers or any other service owes you NOTHING! I’m sick and tired of people looking for a damn handout! If you don’t have electricity you step up and come up with a game plan to keep your family warm and safe. If you have no water you deal without and think outside of the box to survive and supply water to your family.

If you are sitting at home in the cold because you have no power and are sitting there waiting for someone to come rescue you because your lazy is direct result of your raising! Only the strong will survive and the weak will perish. Folks God has given us the tools to support ourselves in times like this. This is sadly a product of a socialist government where they feed people to believe that the FEW will work and others will become dependent for handouts. Am I sorry that you have been dealing without electricity and water; yes! But I’ll be damned if I’m going to provide for anyone that is capable of doing it themselves! We have lost sight of those in need and those that take advantage of the system and meshed them in to one group!! Bottom line quit crying and looking for a handout! Get off your ass and take care of your own family! Bottom line-DONT A PART OF PROBLEM, BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION!!

https://gizmodo.com/texas-mayor-announces-resignation-after-unhinged-facebo-1846285536

Need electricity? Get it yerself.
No food? Go hunt. Gawd knows we make it easy enuf for you to get a gun!
No job? It's yer own damn fault.
No water? Dig a well, dammit!
Need healthcare? Learn to do yer own surgery!
Need education? Everything ya need is in the Bible and the Constitution! Teach yerself ta read (and speak 'Muhrican, dammit)!
Potholes in yer roads? Go fix 'em yerself!

Yes, I'm the Mayor and yer taxes pay my salary, but the guv'mint owes you NOTHING! Those power companies deserve sympathy and help, not complaints from you whiney socialists who think you deserve service for all those electric bills you pay.

A classic, dumb-f**k, fake-tough-guy Republican dick. You can bet he's "anti-government," while sucking the public teat for his government paycheck. The imbecility and hyped-up, poorly educated, emotionally charged tone and content of his email is a clear depiction of a large swath of white Republican men. They really are #TheBestPeople. MAGA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are reading this backwards. He said some nonsense and immediately got fired for it.

Everyone, even some small town Texans that you look down on, knows he's an idiot.

How is this backwards? This (lack of) governance approach is the GOP brand - their leaders, however, are not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

He obviously didn't say what anyone else was thinking, "the quiet part", because he got fired for saying it. Fired by his constituents.

It's not on brand for a party or the government. It's just one loony loon.

What? It is 100% on brand for Republicans.

1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

Grover Norquist, “I don’t want to abolish government. I just want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Glen Beck, "What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."

Trent Lott, "Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self."

Republicans have:

Repeatedly refused to raise the minimum wage.

Consistently tried to repeal, handicap, or defund the health care law that has brought affordable health insurance to 16 million people.

Supported the budgets that slash funding for food stamps, Medicaid (health care for the poorest of the poor), Meals on Wheels for homebound elderly, and other social service programs.

Refused to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans during the Great Recession and fought those extensions during the pandemic.

Blocked the expansion of Medicaid for low-income and disabled people in Republican states

Proposed significant cuts in Head Start, the preschool program for low-income children

Proposed steep cuts to Pell grants to help low-income students go to college.

But, yeah, this guy is "off brand" for the Republican party for the last 40 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are reading this backwards. He said some nonsense and immediately got fired for it.

Everyone, even some small town Texans that you look down on, knows he's an idiot.

How is this backwards? This (lack of) governance approach is the GOP brand - their leaders, however, are not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

He obviously didn't say what anyone else was thinking, "the quiet part", because he got fired for saying it. Fired by his constituents.

It's not on brand for a party or the government. It's just one loony loon.

What? It is 100% on brand for Republicans.

1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

Grover Norquist, “I don’t want to abolish government. I just want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Glen Beck, "What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."

Trent Lott, "Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self."

Republicans have:

Repeatedly refused to raise the minimum wage.

Consistently tried to repeal, handicap, or defund the health care law that has brought affordable health insurance to 16 million people.

Supported the budgets that slash funding for food stamps, Medicaid (health care for the poorest of the poor), Meals on Wheels for homebound elderly, and other social service programs.

Refused to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans during the Great Recession and fought those extensions during the pandemic.

Blocked the expansion of Medicaid for low-income and disabled people in Republican states

Proposed significant cuts in Head Start, the preschool program for low-income children

Proposed steep cuts to Pell grants to help low-income students go to college.

But, yeah, this guy is "off brand" for the Republican party for the last 40 years.

Shout it from the rooftops, my man.

I hope that now that Texans have borne the brunt of such a despicable political philosophy, they'll see the error of their ways and vote for sensible politicians. But I won't hold my breath.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are reading this backwards. He said some nonsense and immediately got fired for it.

Everyone, even some small town Texans that you look down on, knows he's an idiot.

How is this backwards? This (lack of) governance approach is the GOP brand - their leaders, however, are not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

He obviously didn't say what anyone else was thinking, "the quiet part", because he got fired for saying it. Fired by his constituents.

It's not on brand for a party or the government. It's just one loony loon.

What? It is 100% on brand for Republicans.

1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

Grover Norquist, “I don’t want to abolish government. I just want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Glen Beck, "What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."

Trent Lott, "Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self."

Republicans have:

Repeatedly refused to raise the minimum wage.

Consistently tried to repeal, handicap, or defund the health care law that has brought affordable health insurance to 16 million people.

Supported the budgets that slash funding for food stamps, Medicaid (health care for the poorest of the poor), Meals on Wheels for homebound elderly, and other social service programs.

Refused to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans during the Great Recession and fought those extensions during the pandemic.

Blocked the expansion of Medicaid for low-income and disabled people in Republican states

Proposed significant cuts in Head Start, the preschool program for low-income children

Proposed steep cuts to Pell grants to help low-income students go to college.

But, yeah, this guy is "off brand" for the Republican party for the last 40 years.

Shout it from the rooftops, my man.

I hope that now that Texans have borne the brunt of such a despicable political philosophy, they'll see the error of their ways and vote for sensible politicians. But I won't hold my breath.

Unfortunately, they'll be angry because their government failed them because they deserve those things from their government, because they are "makers" not "takers" - not like those underserving, scamming, welfare wastrels. In the immortal words of the Bard...

[Anonymous]

Do we really need four threads essentially about Texas’ power grid failures?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are reading this backwards. He said some nonsense and immediately got fired for it.

Everyone, even some small town Texans that you look down on, knows he's an idiot.

How is this backwards? This (lack of) governance approach is the GOP brand - their leaders, however, are not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

He obviously didn't say what anyone else was thinking, "the quiet part", because he got fired for saying it. Fired by his constituents.

It's not on brand for a party or the government. It's just one loony loon.

What? It is 100% on brand for Republicans.

1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

Grover Norquist, “I don’t want to abolish government. I just want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Glen Beck, "What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."

Trent Lott, "Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self."

Republicans have:

Repeatedly refused to raise the minimum wage.

Consistently tried to repeal, handicap, or defund the health care law that has brought affordable health insurance to 16 million people.

Supported the budgets that slash funding for food stamps, Medicaid (health care for the poorest of the poor), Meals on Wheels for homebound elderly, and other social service programs.

Refused to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans during the Great Recession and fought those extensions during the pandemic.

Blocked the expansion of Medicaid for low-income and disabled people in Republican states

Proposed significant cuts in Head Start, the preschool program for low-income children

Proposed steep cuts to Pell grants to help low-income students go to college.

But, yeah, this guy is "off brand" for the Republican party for the last 40 years.

Shout it from the rooftops, my man.

I hope that now that Texans have borne the brunt of such a despicable political philosophy, they'll see the error of their ways and vote for sensible politicians. But I won't hold my breath.

+1.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are reading this backwards. He said some nonsense and immediately got fired for it.

Everyone, even some small town Texans that you look down on, knows he's an idiot.

How is this backwards? This (lack of) governance approach is the GOP brand - their leaders, however, are not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

He obviously didn't say what anyone else was thinking, "the quiet part", because he got fired for saying it. Fired by his constituents.

It's not on brand for a party or the government. It's just one loony loon.

What? It is 100% on brand for Republicans.

1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

Grover Norquist, “I don’t want to abolish government. I just want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Glen Beck, "What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."

Trent Lott, "Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self."

Republicans have:

Repeatedly refused to raise the minimum wage.

Consistently tried to repeal, handicap, or defund the health care law that has brought affordable health insurance to 16 million people.

Supported the budgets that slash funding for food stamps, Medicaid (health care for the poorest of the poor), Meals on Wheels for homebound elderly, and other social service programs.

Refused to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans during the Great Recession and fought those extensions during the pandemic.

Blocked the expansion of Medicaid for low-income and disabled people in Republican states

Proposed significant cuts in Head Start, the preschool program for low-income children

Proposed steep cuts to Pell grants to help low-income students go to college.

But, yeah, this guy is "off brand" for the Republican party for the last 40 years.

Excellent post. Excellent, excellent post.

[Anonymous]

And yet, as the OP points out, people like this are absolutely fine with taking a government salary. Why? Wouldn’t that be “ Socialist”? Or does it count as “helping himself” ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you are reading this backwards. He said some nonsense and immediately got fired for it.

Everyone, even some small town Texans that you look down on, knows he's an idiot.

How is this backwards? This (lack of) governance approach is the GOP brand - their leaders, however, are not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.

He obviously didn't say what anyone else was thinking, "the quiet part", because he got fired for saying it. Fired by his constituents.

It's not on brand for a party or the government. It's just one loony loon.

What? It is 100% on brand for Republicans.

1980 Republican presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.’”

Grover Norquist, “I don’t want to abolish government. I just want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”

Glen Beck, "What we don't have a right to is healthcare, housing, or handouts. We don't have those rights."

Trent Lott, "Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self."

Republicans have:

Repeatedly refused to raise the minimum wage.

Consistently tried to repeal, handicap, or defund the health care law that has brought affordable health insurance to 16 million people.

Supported the budgets that slash funding for food stamps, Medicaid (health care for the poorest of the poor), Meals on Wheels for homebound elderly, and other social service programs.

Refused to extend unemployment benefits to jobless Americans during the Great Recession and fought those extensions during the pandemic.

Blocked the expansion of Medicaid for low-income and disabled people in Republican states

Proposed significant cuts in Head Start, the preschool program for low-income children

Proposed steep cuts to Pell grants to help low-income students go to college.

But, yeah, this guy is "off brand" for the Republican party for the last 40 years.

Wow. When you lay it out so starkly, it's so obvious, isn't it? Great post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good ole Texas. Is it something in the water?

Except right now that don't have the water working either.