This is a fabulous video of a rally for Beto O’Rourke, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas. He was in West Texas, which is red red red. He is explaining why he thinks the gun laws for purchasing an AR15 are too lax. The Uvalde mass murderer bought two of them as soon as he turned 18.
That video is the whole rally. If you want to see the crucial one-minute e crept, it’s here.
Someone in the crowd laughed as Beto talked about the lethal power of an AR15 turned on children.
Beto let him have it. Verbally.
“You May think it’s funny, motherf—-er, but I don’t.” The crowd went wild.
A must-see.
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Beto is ready to lead. I hope Texans give him a shot to make significant changes in the state. Beto is prepared, poised and an excellent speaker. He doesn’t talk down to people. He supports public schools, teachers, and he intends to get rid of the horrid STAAR Test. He takes time to explain his position and what he intends to do as governor. He wants to be an inclusive leader. Beto welcomed the Abbott supporters until one of them laughed at his comments about the AR 15. These weapons are no laughing matter, particularly after what happened to the children in Uvalde..
Imagine that. Explaining a position. Not much of that in politics anymore.
Actually it’s not bleeped out but it’s awesome all the same <wink, nod> 😀
Some videos bleepit out, a few don’t. It’s awesome to hear it unedited.
Good for Beto, does he even stand a chance in Texas? I certainly hope so, but Texas keeps doing stupid and electing gargoyles like Greg Abbott. I’m sure the GOP will use Beto’s cursing in an attack ad without showing what the heckler said.
Latest polls put Beto within five points of Abbott. Who knows what will happen with all the voter suppression and gerrymandering? Beto is running a grassroots campaign, and he can answer any question. Maybe if the people of Texas get tired of freezing in the winter, watching their public schools wither and die along with other Texans that do not have access to Medicaid, they will vote for change and a restoration of democracy.
In Florida there are about 6,000 conservative women that are planning to vote for Democrats due to the overturning of Roe V. Wade. Texas has an unrealistic, restrictive six week window to access an abortion. Few women even know they are pregnant at this time. I would hope there would be some backlash from some of the women in Texas that would support Democrats in order to secure a woman’s right to choose.
Hope you are right, RT, and that those women who don’t want to live in the Handmaid’s Tale go to the polls!
My guess is that lots of Texans will admire the cursing.
Right now the big GOP attack ad is about Beto getting a DWI ticket about 20 years ago.
Beto can let Abbott have it for the failure of the power grid, the removal of all gun control, etc
Abbott and his cronies even have control of the water system.
https://www.newsweek.com/here-texas-were-getting-scammed-out-millions-water-opinion-1731962
Abbutt should be charged with GWI : governing while intoxicated
IDK if I think that was a good idea — it may have genuinely been spontaneous on Beto’s part, and I do love the crowd’s reaction. I also love the bluntness and seriousness of the response — but — I think the future of our democracy lies in how we talk to our political opponents. Deep thoughts?
The opponents of democracy aren’t listening to anyone. Their heads are filled with schemes and plots to take control. Mitch McConnell and the conservative majority on SCOTUS prove it over and over again. The latter are the judges of Leonard Leo and Charles Koch, who funded Paul Weyrich’s diabolical plans to create theocracy and authoritarianism in the U.S.
Have you ever listened to Ted Cruz or Matt Gaetz? How about the Trump boys? Some of the women even use this language. Even though Trump didn’t curse, he was crass and crude. It’s a whole different world out there now. It won’t hurt Beto one little bit….even if it doesn’t sound polite to those of the older generations. OH, how I long for the 70’s again when people were more civil and polite even while disagreeing.
Oh, but it45 DID curse! Not wasting my time looking up the examples, though, but they’re out there for those who want to spend the time.
45 cursed in large public rallies.
We are long past civility, Ms. Spires. There are many professors of political science who believe that the next Civil War has already begun. I have never, in my long life, seen the country this polarized.
Mrs. Betty Bowers addresses members of Congress, presents Capitol Awards…
Oh Lord, the competition is difficult for these!
Amazing!! I needed to see that!
Next year’s award show needs to add a category for JD Vance, Peter Thiel’s Ohio Senate candidate. Vance and his wife, who has replaced him in his ads, are Yale grads. Vance launched his political career with the book Hillbilly Elegy (and, by moving back to Ohio). His wife, a lawyer, works at a law firm with no offices in Ohio. The firm has offices in Calf. and in D.C.
In one of those head-scratching moments, Vance claims people without “offspring” have “no physical commitment to the future of this country”, “no stake” (does that include Thiel?). Vance from the Party that denies climate change – Vance’s category should be biggest hypocrite.
American Conservative, 8-11-2019, “JD Vance Converted to Catholicism in 2019.” In the interview, Vance states his thinking, “which of the two political parties is least offensive to my faith.”
Or, in my thinking, which church leads Vance, the candidate, to more donations and a political apparatus that helps him get elected.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/j-d-vance-becomes-catholic/
Vance chose the confirmation name Augustine, after Augustine of Hippo. Here’s the 411 on Augustine:
For the first couple of centuries after Christ, things were still a little vague among Christians, and there were many upstart heresies. Then, however, along came St. Augustine. He wrote two important books: The highly readable Confessions (an autobiography) and the interminable doorstop called The City of God (a discussion of the fall of Rome that also lays out Augustine’s theology). Augustine was a sex addict. He loved to go to the brothels and did so frequently, but this made him feel ashamed and guilty, largely because it upset his mother, whom Augustine adored. But he couldn’t break himself of the compulsion. So, he decided that this compulsion he had must be due to some overriding, overwhelming, external force acting upon him and hit up attributing this to Original Sin, inherited from Adam and Eve by every child, that could only be washed away by faith in the Savior, Jesus, who died to wash away that sin. This sick, insane notion, that all babies are born in sin and deserve hellfire for all eternity because Adam and Eve ate a fruit they weren’t supposed to, became the official doctrine of the Church and remains the official doctrine of most Christian churches, though members generally think, rightly, that it’s totally wacko. There is often this major disconnect between what these Christian sects officially believe and what members of them believe. Often, members are clueless about the actual beliefs of the sects to which they belong. “In Adam’s Fall, we sinn’d All,” reads the first textbook published in the New World, The New England Primer. This is pure Augustine: we inherit Adam and Eve’s sin at birth.
Augustine was one sick fellow. But by becoming a zealous convert, he eventually beat his sex addiction, which really pleased his mother, Monica (after whom, btw, the city of Santa Monica is named). And it is because her son figured, if I’m this bad, then everyone must be, that the Christian doctrine of Original Sin has been with us, now, for more than a millennium. (A dogma is an infallible, divinely revealed truth; a doctrine is a Church teaching; all dogmas are doctrines, but not all doctrines are dogmas.)
“Such, my darlings, is the role of sex in history.” –Eleanor of Aquitaine to her children in James Goldman’s play and film (1968) A Lion in Winter
Bob,
Thanks for the explanation. You are the blog’s reference archive about… well… everything!
I think you may have hit upon something about Vance. Don’t know what it is, but, to me, he looks uncomfortable in his own skin.
“He looks uncomfortable in his own skin.” Opportunistic liars often are.
Thanks for the laugh!
This is why the good Lord bestowed cursing upon us, just for moments like this.
Les mots justes
Well if the crowd went wild then it was effective use of language. Even better no apology.
So, Vlad’s Asset Orange, Donald J. Trump, took documents with the highest level of secrecy to his freaking golf club/beach resort home, documents that are so secret that most people in our national intelligence agencies can’t even look at them.
And the Republican Party, those back the blue guys and gals, those true blue patriots, are calling for defunding the FBI and prosecuting these law enforcement people. You cannot make up stuff this insane. The Republican Party seems to think that if the FBI finds out that someone has documents describing nuclear state secrets lying around, they should just give that a pass, no prob.
Just when I think that the Republican Party has hit bottom, these people prove to me that they can sink even further. Now they are just fine with treason.
They have always been just fine with Treason. Forget the Watergate what about scuttling the Vietnam peace talks. And if you don’t think they scuttled the Iran Hostage talks wait for the memoir . It took 5 decades to get Haldeman’s notes on scuttling the peace talks . If nothing else did 20,000 additional boys die from 69-75 .
Nailed it, Joel. Yes, they have a history of this.
Now if the rest of the party learned how to use language effectively.
Amen
The Trumpist age, the framing of public cruelty as religiously sacred-
Within the past couple of years, scholar, David French, has elaborated on a public debate he had with an adherent to, “a belief system that seeks to place the Catholic Church at the center of American faith and politics and to integrate religion and political power in a way that utterly contradicts the current American Constitutional order.” French quoted his debate opponent, Sohrab Ahmari, “Civility and decency are secondary values.”
French summarized, the religious right as, “providing a sacred frame …that encourages Christians to conform to the words of the most publicly cruel man ever to occupy the Oval Office.”
French’s viewpoint is posted at the The Dispatch, French Press (10-24-2021), “JD Vance and the Great Challenge of Cristian Malice.” French explains Vance’s “rationalization of public aggression.”
It seems probable that JD Vance’s wife is on Leonard Leo’s short list.
She’s in the mold of Amy Coney Barrett.
Fecking surprise-
JD Vance’s wife clerked for Kavanaugh. And, she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar- yes, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation- funded program.
With due and incredible respect for First Lady Obama,
When they go low, we can go high with integrity and the truth, but we gotta go low with how we say it!
Democrats want to be teachers (some are) and talk, explain, talk some more, explain more…
Republicans use one to three word phrases that can set a rally on its feet screaming and hooting and hollering.
So, for many years, little Beto didn’t speak. His parents were concerned. They took him to doctors. Did innumerable tests. Nothing. “There’s no abnormality,” they said. “No reason he shouldn’t be speaking.”
Then, one morning at breakfast, Beto said, “This oatmeal has lumps in it.”
“Beto! Beto! You can speak!” said the parents. “Why, why have you not said anything for all these years?”
“Because this was the first damned time the oatmeal had lumps in it,” he said.
So, ghetto trash talking a heckler with vile verbiage is your idea of “taking down a heckler with one sentence?” Laughable! Low IQ individuals tend to fly off the handle and use words like this. Beto is a fraud.
If Beto is “a fraud,” Gov Abbott is Satan in the flesh.