Tag: Politics

Propositions

Elections, Politics

Also in last Tuesday’s Republican ballots were a series of “propositions” — basically, a way for the Texas Republican Party to gauge the feelings of their supporters for ideas that should be considered for inclusion as planks in their party platform in future elections.  They make for interesting reading (with my vote + reasons):

Proposition 1:
Texas property taxes should be assessed at the purchase price and phased out entirely over the next six years through spending reductions. — Yes (government should get only one bite at the cherry, not an annual one;  if they need more money, let them beg for it at election time, or sell bonds)

Proposition 2:
Texas should require any local government budget that raises property taxes to be approved by voters at a November general election. — Yes (one of my buddies recently moved to a “growing” area, and was presented with a 40% increase in his property tax for next year;  municipalities should never think they have an open checkbook)

Proposition 3:
Texas should prohibit denial of healthcare or any medical service based solely on the patient’s vaccination status. — Yes (screw those Covid-type excrescences)

Proposition 4:
Texas should require its public schools to teach that life begins at fertilization. — Yes (although I have some reservations about this, I can see why it’s been suggested)

Proposition 5:
Texas should ban gender, sexuality, and reproductive clinics and services in K-12 schools. — Yes (if the kids feel they need any of those, they can do it with their parents, outside school)

Proposition 6:
Texas should enact term limits on all elected officials. — Yes (although I sometimes like it when we get a good ‘un, I don’t like any politician to get too comfortable in a sinecure)

Proposition 7:
Texas should ban the large-scale export or sale of our groundwater and surface water to any single private or public entity. — Yes (we don’t have a lot of water in the Lone Star State, and we need to guard it jealously)

Proposition 8:
The Texas Legislature should reduce the burden of illegal immigration on taxpayers by ending public services for illegal aliens. — Yes (especially education, which has stuck in my craw for decades)

Proposition 9:
The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature should stop awarding leadership positions, including committee and subcommittee chairmanships and vice chairmanships, to Democrats. — Yes (because Democrats are not to be trusted with any levers of power)

Proposition 10:
Texas should prohibit Sharia Law. — Yes (to address any First Amendment qualms on this issue, see what’s happened in Britishland)

I’ll be interested to see how this all plays out.

Primary Colors

Elections

Went early to vote in the Republican primary elections yesterday.  The place looked like an AARP/VFW convention, no doubt because Republican youngins in my district have things like jobs.  Anyway, my local choice for the U.S. House did okay:


…but that wasn’t unexpected.  Come November, I expect him to win again against whomever the Democrats place on the altar.

In other local news:


…damn, I thought Pax had it in the can, but Cornyn’s got huge support from the RINO element, and he outspent Paxton by something like 10:1.  Oh well… it’s going to be a close-run thing even with most of Wesley Hunt’s voters (Hunt is more conservative than either of the two, so his support will likely go to Paxton and not to the RINO).

The TexGov primary was predictable:


…which means a reelection in November seems likely.  (I know that many Texas Republicans don’t think too highly of Abbot, and I can see why.  But I agree with his actions about 80% of the time, and I’m not going to let perfection be the enemy of the good.)


Ditto the vote for Dan Patrick.  (The position of Lt. Governor is an important one in Texas, unlike in many other states.  For one thing, the Lt.Gov sets the agenda for the Texas legislature, which is highly influential.  Patrick’s done well in the job, so he’s justifiably popular.)

But Wait!  There’s More!

In national news, there’s a Good Thing What Happened in the U.S. House race, over in the Evil Party:


Bye bye Jasmine (who is predictably saying her voters were excluded or “suppressed”, the lying bitch).  I have no idea who Talarico is, but he can only be an improvement — assuming, that is, that he wins in November against his Republican opponent, whether Paxton or Cornyn.

Glad to have done my bit.

Yeah, We Know

Marxists, Morons & Idiots, Politics

Finally, the rest of the world discovers what we conservatives have known for years:  the Brooklyn Barmaid is a vacuous Marxist with little intelligence and an astonishing ignorance of, well, just about everything.

I actually started to watch AOC’s little speech at the Munich conference and had to quit because I was embarrassed by the spectacle of her complete meltdown.  I mean, she had no idea of any of the topics she was quizzed on — she couldn’t even recall her party’s talking points, let alone formulate any cogent or reasoned responses to the simple questions put to her.

The only negative outcome I can see coming from this is that she should have been exposed during the 2028 primaries instead of now.  She wouldn’t be able to debate prospective candidates from her own party*, let alone heavy hitters like Marco Rubio or J.D. Vance.

*I’m assuming that the Social Democrat Marxists might actually have a better candidate than this fool, but I could be mistaken.

High Hurdles

Foreign Affairs, Immigration

Speaking of the Swedes, I see that they’re following their Danish cousins and getting serious about immigration and citizenship:

The right-wing coalition government in Sweden has announced plans to significantly increase the threshold to obtain citizenship in the country, including a prohibition on migrants who fail to learn the native language.

The Swedish Ministry of Justice said this week that a series of new citizenship requirements will take effect by June 6th of this year. The ministry said that the measures will seek to “strengthen the importance of citizenship and increase incentives for individuals to become part of Swedish society, which also strengthens the Swedish community.”

According to the MoJ, the government will require migrants to live in the country for at least eight years to become eligible for citizenship, up from the current five-year standard.

It will also become necessary to demonstrate “self-sufficiency”, with a monthly income of around 20,000kr ($2,250).

Finally, prospective citizens will now have to demonstrate the ability to speak Swedish and knowledge of Swedish society.

All good stuff, and all quite reasonable qualifications to joining what is, after all, one of the more civilized nations of the world.

The only thing I’d add — were I a Swede at that level of power and influence — would be a limit on non-citizen residence to eight years:  in other words, if you don’t become a citizen after eight years, then out you go.  Once again, quite reasonable.

Just Shuddup

Illegal immigrants

Oh FFS, here’s another one piling on:

Wednesday on “CBS Mornings,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said “there’s a loss of public trust” in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) so some reforms are needed.

Paul said, “I think the nation and the country at large or large parts of the country, have lost trust. You know, I think there’s a loss of public trust in ICE and their officials after seeing what’s been going on in Minneapolis. I think there’s fault on both sides.”

And I think you have your head up your ass.

Item 1:  “Public trust”:  I would bet a considerable sum of money that the “public” — i.e. the people who voted for Trump and his agenda in their millions — have not lost trust in ICE. You’ve fallen prey to the Washington D.C. mindset of letting the constant drumbeat of opposition from the mainstream media cloud your thinking.

Item 2:  “Fault in both sides”:  Let’s allow, as you yourself have in the past, that there are tens of millions of illegal immigrants in the country right now, thanks to FuckJoeBiden’s “open borders” policy, people that need to be deported back to  Shitholia  their native countries with some alacrity.  Let’s also allow that Trump has directed ICE to concentrate on getting the worst of these illegals — the hardcore criminals;  the murderers, rapists, violent robbers and drug dealers — as their first priority.  As he has.

Now ask the question:  Did you think that this was going to be easy?  Did you think that these violent assholes were just going to submit meekly to ICE agents and comply with their lawful actions?  Of course they wouldn’t, and haven’t.  They’ve been resisting ICE with all their might — in one case, deserting his own 5-year-old child to make his escape — and at all stages, these criminals have been assisted in their resistance by the efforts of Marxist scum in (surprise, surprise) Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

Oh yeah, maybe ICE has lost the “public trust”, in those Marxist hellholes and strongholds.  In the rest of the country, where local law enforcement has been helping ICE remove the cancer?  Not so much.

Senator Paul, I generally have a great deal of respect for you — generally, not always, because sometimes you let your inner libertarian go a little too far.  As you did here.

So STFU, let law enforcement get on with their Augean task of cleaning our national stables of this scum and trash, and stop feeding our enemies — that would be the likes of CBS — with headlines that undermine our national purpose.

Quote Of The Day

QOTD

An excellent analysis by this guy:

“Donald Trump is like a shark, in that he must always swim forward or risk suffocation. He, his administration and the media ecosystem that has grown up around Trump’s political persona depends upon action and controversy. In fallow news cycles, Trump steadily loses the initiative and two things happen:  First, the media establishment and the leftist activist machine begin gathering their own critical momentum.  Second, the vast MAGA-adjacent social media sphere must turn to other controversies to keep the clicks and the ad revenue flowing. Both of these work against the forty-seventh president and his purposes.”

Read the whole thing, because I can find no fault with his thesis.