i moved to midland in 2016 and lived there for five loooong years until i could safely relocate back to fort worth in 2021 after i was able to get the covid vaccine. midessa likes to bill itself as a caring christian community but it is anything but. while more and more racist residents were erecting flagpoles to waive their ridiculous, car dealership sized trump flags, i was getting more heavily involved in politics and mutated into one salty, staunch democrat… which is one, if not the only, good thing that i got out of that brown, upside down, hellhole.
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 moved to midland in 2016 and lived there for five loooong years until i could safely relocate back to fort worth in 2021 after i was able to get the covid vaccine. midessa likes to bill itself as a caring christian community but it is anything but. while more and more racist residents were erecting flagpoles to waive their ridiculous, car dealership sized trump flags, i was getting more heavily involved in politics and mutated into one salty, staunch democrat… which is one, if not the only, good thing that i got out of that brown, upside down, hellhole.
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
U need only ask James Byrd Jr. if modern day lynching is a 'thang'.
Fuck.
that's a little open ended statement wise....i am guessing its "fuck" like "fuck all those fuckety fuck fuckeR's."
Happy TID.......
btw thruout history Nations have conquered Nations with armies and ballistics and bullets
Mexicans have taken over half the world with nothing but frijoles and rice
Ole
Exactly like that 🤣