A “Democratic Socialist” entering the Harris County DA’s race?

December 1, 2023

Four years ago a “Democratic Socialist” entered the race for Harris County DA. She lost in the primary.

With the current District Attorney, Kim Ogg, on the ropes and being challenged by at least one candidate in the Democratic Primary I’m wondering if a socialist will enter the race. One did in Travis County and actually won back in 2020. I just don’t think Harris County is that far left. Democratic Socialists are not Democrats. They are socialists running in our primary especially in deep, deep, blue areas and they have seen some success putting in six members of The Squad in Congress. (Five very unsuccessful members. With 24 years in combined office they have passed 4 bills.)

In the past the socialists would run everywhere and would lose everywhere. Back in 2016 I wrote about Justice Democrats, an organization with Democratic Socialist ties:

Out of 80 candidates endorsed by JD, only 7 won. 2 were incumbents in deep blue districts. 1 was unopposed.  4 were all in very blue districts wiping out their general election opponents. It’s not like they were endorsing in tough competitive states like Texas, although those that did, lost. All of them. One raised over a $1 Million and lost 70-30 in the primary

In 2018 they focused on specific deep blue districts running young “progressives” and was more successful. I wonder if they are considering to try it again in Harris County. They might be waiting to see how the Mayor’s race ends up.


Harris County Democrats continue to whine about DA Kim Ogg

December 1, 2023

Even the Houston Chronicle is getting tired of the controversy. They are just re-using photos.

You won’t get me to defend Harris County DA Kim Ogg but the Harris County Democratic Party needs to vote on their resolution condemning Kim Ogg, stop whining, shut the hell up, and start working on raising money and preparing for the 2024 elections. You made your point. You don’t like DA Ogg for many good reasons. Most of us don’t but this stupid publicity stunt needs to end. Vote and move the fuck on.

In the end it will amount to a hill of refried beans. It will have the same affect as writing a letter to DA Ogg condemning her policies and getting some publicity out of it. It’s a complete waste of time and energy all while the Party is working to raise money, recruit candidates, and prepare for a major election in 2024. Instead of pitching in on these efforts they are whining about a fucking resolution.

So put the damn thing on the floor. Vote. Move the fuck on. Quit whining and sign up to volunteer for the campaign of her primary challenger.


League City fires City Attorney

November 29, 2023

The fallout from the League City book ban continues.

League City Attorney Nghiem Dan is out and the Deputy Michelle Villarreal is in. The vote was 4-3 in a clearly divided city council. From the video it looks like Captain Snowflake, Justin Hicks, seconded the motion and voted in favor. How surprising.

Mayor Nick Long had a rambling rant prior to the vote acknowledging the book ban was the cause of the issue being brought forward. As two council members said this is going to cost the city. I wonder if there is a cause for a lawsuit and if so who would file it.

There is an open seat on council with 5 individuals signing up. Maybe this vote should have been tabled until this seat was filled. Probably the council members voting yes knew this motion would not pass with a new member on board. As one council member said this vote should have been put off until the council seat was filled.


When Trump is gone from this world….

November 28, 2023

Judgement day for trump will eventually come.

His family will not let him go quietly. They will request a state funeral that will last for 5 days. His coffin will be draped with the United States flag and put on a horse drawn carriage. A riderless horse with a single boot placed backwards in a stirrup will follow the carriage.

Trumps body will be place in the rotunda of the United States Capitol if Congress approves it. Luckily trump will not be buried in Arlington. His family will decide where he will be buried. Flags across the nation will be at half mast. MAGAs from across the country will come to see trump’s casket carrying their confederate flags, wearing the red hood, possibly considering storming the capitol again.

And then trump will meet his day of judgement. On this day this rotten, filthy, lying, cheating, racist, immoral, adulterer will be refused entry into hell by satan.

At least satan has limits.


Local Elected Officials vote in support of vouchers for rich kids

November 20, 2023

They are voting against the wishes of the community.

State Representatives Dennis Paul of Clear Lake, Terry Wilson of Galveston, and Little Baby Briscoe Cain of Deer Park joined a handful of State Representatives and voted against an amendment to strip vouchers out of an education bill. Paul and Wilson also voted to not impeach Texas Attorney General Paxton. At least Baby Briscoe had enough common sense to be sensible. Only 23 House Representative voted to give Paxton a pass.

The amendment to remove vouchers from the bill was supported by 63 Democrats and 21 Republicans. Vouchers would give parents $10,000 of your tax dollars to send rich kids to a private school. It’s not a popular idea especially in the rural areas where schools are significantly underfunded. In Clear Lake the district is against vouchers. The Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce is against vouchers as is the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership.

For me I can’t see how this is even constitutional. If someone is paying $2000 in school taxes, why should we give them $8000 more from our taxes just so their kids can attend a private school? Why should they get more than they put in? If vouchers were going to pass they should get no more than they put in. You put in $2000? You get $2000 and nothing more.

Private schools are not cost efficient and most parents can not afford the tuition or the transportation even with the voucher. Vouchers have nothing to do with school “choice”. It is nothing more than give away to rich kids.


Why is NASA continuing to do business with SpaceX/Musk?

November 20, 2023

T-Minus WTF?

What the fuck NASA? Major companies across the country are pausing or cancelling ads on Twitter (now X) after Elon Musk endorsed an antisemitic conspiracy theory. These companies include Apple, Paramount, Comcast, IBM, Warner Bros., the European Commission and the movie studio Lionsgate. The tweet even got a response from the Whitehouse:  “We condemn this abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate in the strongest terms, which runs against our core values as Americans.”

And yet….billions of tax dollars are continuing to be spent on SpaceX services. NASA should take a stand and consider their own “pause” of tax dollars to Space X until they rid themselves of this disease. This cannot be tolerated. Twitter has turned into a hate filled cluster fuck. It’s a breeding ground for keyboard warrior racists with the opportunity provided by Twitter to spread their hate.

NASA shouldn’t be tolerating this. At all.


Movie Review: Asteroid City

November 18, 2023

Watch it, rent it, or skip it?

Skip. That was $5.99 I will not get back. The best thing about this movie is that fact that I was able to watch it outside in the comfort of my patio and with cool weather.

What was it about? I don’t know. I really couldn’t figure out WTF it was about. It was chock full of actors providing a performance that led me to fall asleep towards the end.

At least my wife didn’t leave me out there. She woke me up at the end.


Mexican MAGAts take over Univision

November 18, 2023

Republicans aren’t stupid but they think we are. (and some are)

John Leguizamo, Latino actor has called for a boycott of Univision after they have turned Mexican MAGAt. According to Leguizamo the station is becoming a Fox News for Mexicans cozying up to Trump and cancelling ads placed by President Biden.

I’ve written about Mexican MAGAts before in WTF is wrong with you? Latinos for Trump. I’ve wondered why any Latino, or Veteran, or Texan, or any human being would support trump at this point:

He is a big, giant, dick, a rotten excuse of a human being. He bashes immigrants to the point they are targeted by white wing extremists of the Republican Party. He makes fun of the language. He uses Latino voters as props, as ignorant pawns. He is a fucked up human being. He is disrespectful of everyone, the media, elected officials, foreign officials, and anyone he has a grievance with. He is a fucking liar, not just a liar, a fucking liar. He has fed the Latino community a mouthful of lies and some of you are too stupid to realize he is a fucking liar. He stole top secret military documents. He was impeached, twice. He has been indicted for felonies, twice, with more coming. He is a racist and is supported by racist organizations.

https://bayareahouston.net/2023/07/14/wtf-is-wrong-with-you-latinos-for-trump/

So Univision, jumping in on the freak show to make money, has started, with its softball interview of Trump, feeding Latinos carne guisada with a free glass of koolaid . The interviewer cozied up to trump feeding him softball questions and giving him everything he wanted except a blow job. It was disgusting and many have called them out for it.

At least one reporter has left Univision and more than 70 groups — including major Latino rights organizations UnidosUS Action, America’s Voice and MALDEF — sent a letter Friday night to Davis and two other Televisa Univision executives who attended the meeting with Trump that described the interview as “a betrayal of trust.”

“We demand Univision conduct a thorough internal review, take corrective measures, and reaffirm its commitment to unbiased reporting and to keeping the Latino community informed and up-to-date with facts and truth,” the letter reads. “Unfiltered, unaddressed and unrestricted disinformation does a disservice to all communities in the U.S. and will destroy Univision’s reputation as a credible network that informs an important electorate.”

Good on Leguizamo for speaking out. Trump and the republican parties so called “values” are not the values of Latinos. We are not a bunch of rotten assholes.


Signs of Qanon in Clear Lake. #SaveTheChildren

November 17, 2023

They are recruiting.

You might have seen signs on the side of the road with the hashtag #SaveTheChildren. Unfortunately the Qanon movement, an insane conspiracy theory organization, has hijacked the phrase. According to CNN:

You might see people sharing the hashtag #SavetheChildren on social media. But much of this online activity has nothing to do with the respected and real Save the Children charity. Its name has been hijacked by followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory.

QAnon has hijacked the name of a real organization trying to save children

This Qanon group was preceded by Pizzagate, a conspiracy theory about a Pizza place in DC was a front for a pedophile organization connected to the Democratic Party. An individual, based upon this misinformation, entered the restaurant and fired 3 shots from an assault rifle. He spent 4 years in jail for his stunt.

Save The Children is actually an organization that help children in need especially in the war torn areas of the world. They have issued a statement concerning the Qanon movement:

Our name in hashtag form has been experiencing unusually high volumes and causing confusion among our supporters and the general public. In the United States, Save the Children is the sole owner of the registered trademark “Save the Children.” While people may choose to use our organization’s name as a hashtag to make their point on different issues, we are not affiliated or associated with any of these campaigns.

Steer clear of any organization abusing the hashtag. Stay away from Qanon. They are truly a sick group of people.


CliffsNotes: George Santos Ethics Committee Report

November 16, 2023

I took another for the team and read the 55 page report. You can read the entire thing here. It’s detailed. It’s boring. Here are the findings:

  • The committee gave Santos ample opportunity to address the issues, provide documentation, and testify to the committee. He refused all while claiming he was fully cooperating with the committee.
  • His staff wrote a 141 page Vulnerability report and encouraged him to drop out of the race. His staff members quit.
  • His staff encouraged him to seek medical attention for his constant lying.
  • His staff member responsible for the FEC filings admitted to conspiring with Representative Santos to submit false reports to the FEC.
  • Santos listed multiple personal loans, over $80,000, and $500,000 to his campaign that were never actually made.
  • Representative Santos was also improperly repaid for loans that were not made ($31,000)
  • These fictions loans falsely raised his Cash on Hand and could not pay outstanding debts. One staffer was not paid for 8 months.
  • Ms. Marks pled guilty and testified under oath to conspiring with Representative Santos to falsely report loans
  • He made $6,000 worth of purchases at Ferragamo stores, withdraw $800 in cash from an ATM at a casino, withdraw $1,000 in cash from an ATM near Representative Santos’ apartment, and to pay Representative Santos’ rent.
  • filed a list of false donors with the FEC on the year-end 2021 report knowing it was not true, and the donors, who are the real people, didn’t give [her] permission to use their names.
  • This was done to obtain money for his campaign by artificially inflating his funds to meet thresholds set by a national political committee
  • He spent thousands of dollars on personal expenses such as $2,281.52 spent at resorts in Atlantic City, $1,400 at Virtual Skin Spa, $225 at CityMD, and $3,332.81 Airbnb expenditure, $5000 for personal credit cards
  • He used his campaign money, over $4000, for Botox treatments
  • The ISC determined that the systemic errors and omissions in Representative Santos’ campaign reporting were more than mere carelessness by his treasurer; rather, they were part of an overall scheme to avoid transparency about his campaign’s finances
  • $50,000 of contributors money was used to, among other things: pay down personal credit card bills and other debt; make a $4,127.80 purchase at Hermes; and for smaller purchases at OnlyFans; Sephora; and for meals and for parking.
  • He convinced donors to contribute large amounts to an advertising company claiming the donations would go towards his campaign. He used the donations for personal use.
  • Santos claimed that he hired a professional tax preparer to file his Financial Disclosure statements. The tax preparer said she didn’t file the reports and was not hired by Santos.
  • He lied on his FD claiming he made $400,000/year when he made only $55,000
  • Santos reported four assets: (i) an apartment valued between $500,001 and $1,000,000; (ii) a checking account with between $100,001 and $250,000; (iii) a savings account with between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000; and (iv) 100% ownership of Devolder Organization, valued between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000. Each of these disclosures was false.

I’m tired. He is a liar like trump but just more stupid.


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