i don't speak about my West Texas experience much cause there wasn't much politics to talk about........even in 2010 it was all white all right.
A buddy of mine's sister headed up the Tom Green County tea party.If I had given the Tea Party a thought the thought was it was a fad like the 'Take Back Texas' gang in the 80's..IOW harmless.
My friend convinced me to attend a Tea Party rally at the Tom Green County Courthouse. I went as a favor. I got there and su'nuff there was a thousand or so....whatever u want to call em, partiots? dupes? use your own term.
I saw a dozen or 2 Dems, Hispanics mostly, friends and family of Fuentes, a downtown Mexican resturant, huddled neath a sprawling oak tree i0n the shade, in lawn chairs with beer. I said my hello's and howya doings and turned back to the Courthouse to look at the throng......There I observed the Tom Green County Sherrifs Deputy, batons drawn, lined up to seperate the 'patriot's' from the commie gay Dems all 11 of us.
Thing is the Sherriffs Deputies were facing us, not the throng like we were the threat and not the thousand tea party lunatics.
*and important note; in the 2000's San Angleo had an openly gay mayor, elected to 3 terms.**
** in the middle of his 3rd term he ran off with a Mexican pool boy to Acapulco. He wrote a Dear John letter to San Angelinans advising us he was resigning.Drama!!!!!!.
The point is in very red San Angleo they could elect someone 'different' and along came Tea Party and Trump and willing and susceptibe Texans were turned into vicious hateful homophobic racists......Go Putin!
for you younger readers there is a thread that plays thru. The tea party movement was 2 things......1)racist as all fuck cause it was germinated by white republicans in reaction to Obama.
2) it wasn't an uprising by white blue collar displaced by globalization.....it was bought and paid for by the Koch Bros with some slick ass political consutants and Texas own capetbagging North Dakotan Congressman Dick Armey from Denton. Who kows why working Texans embraced this North Dakota charlatan.....His string plaid out and he receeded back to the ooze.
MAGA was the birth child of this, risen not out ,of the womb of Dick Armey's Tea Party, but out of the afterbirth
i don't speak about my West Texas experience much cause there wasn't much politics to talk about........even in 2010 it was all white all right.
A buddy of mine's sister headed up the Tom Green County tea party.If I had given the Tea Party a thought the thought was it was a fad like the 'Take Back Texas' gang in the 80's..IOW harmless.
My friend convinced me to attend a Tea Party rally at the Tom Green County Courthouse. I went as a favor. I got there and su'nuff there was a thousand or so....whatever u want to call em, partiots? dupes? use your own term.
I saw a dozen or 2 Dems, Hispanics mostly, friends and family of Fuentes, a downtown Mexican resturant, huddled neath a sprawling oak tree i0n the shade, in lawn chairs with beer. I said my hello's and howya doings and turned back to the Courthouse to look at the throng......There I observed the Tom Green County Sherrifs Deputy, batons drawn, lined up to seperate the 'patriot's' from the commie gay Dems all 11 of us.
Thing is the Sherriffs Deputies were facing us, not the throng like we were the threat and not the thousand tea party lunatics.
*and important note; in the 2000's San Angleo had an openly gay mayor, elected to 3 terms.**
** in the middle of his 3rd term he ran off with a Mexican pool boy to Acapulco. He wrote a Dear John letter to San Angelinans advising us he was resigning.Drama!!!!!!.
The point is in very red San Angleo they could elect someone 'different' and along came Tea Party and Trump and willing and susceptibe Texans were turned into vicious hateful homophobic racists......Go Putin!
for you younger readers there is a thread that plays thru. The tea party movement was 2 things......1)racist as all fuck cause it was germinated by white republicans in reaction to Obama.
2) it wasn't an uprising by white blue collar displaced by globalization.....it was bought and paid for by the Koch Bros with some slick ass political consutants and Texas own capetbagging North Dakotan Congressman Dick Armey from Denton. Who kows why working Texans embraced this North Dakota charlatan.....His string plaid out and he receeded back to the ooze.
MAGA was the birth child of this, risen not out ,of the womb of Dick Armey's Tea Party, but out of the afterbirth