Current Events

What to talk about today? More about Texas, still suffering and still powerless in the cold?  This week, Senator Ted Cruz (the "Walmart Wolverine") was caught flying with his family down to Cancun while his constituents were literally freezing to death and starving, without clean water or sanitation.  He blamed the idea on his daughters, age 10 and 12, who said they thought it was a good idea to leave the country during an emergency, not to mention a covid pandemic, and spend time at the beach, and when that happens what can you do but go along, amirite?

Cruz apparently didn't want his legacy to be the treacherous senator who contributed to a violent coup attempt by perpetuating The Big Lie by tring to overturn the results of the Electoral College in the Senate.  He apparently decided he didn't want to be remembered for slavish, fawning obedience to the former so-called "president" after Trump had said his wife was ugly and that his father was a conspirator in the JFK assassination.  He apparently decided that it looked better to be remembered as the senator who ran to sunny Cancun while his constituents were in a life-or-death emergency and then blamed the error in judgement on his preteen daughters.  Nice guy.  Hey, Texas, I hate to break it to you, but Senator Ted Cruz doesn't give two shits about you. Feel free to pass the message on to his wife and padre.  

But let's not talk about that.  Let's talk about right here in Georgia, fresh off our blue-state electoral victories and flush with satisfaction after our Republican leadership stood up to Trump and denied The Big Lie, asserting our election was indeed free and fair.  Well, now that we're past that, the same Republican leadership is already trying to suppress the next vote, making it harder to vote by mail in the future here.  A bill advancing through the state legislature will require that an absentee voter be over 75 years of age, have a physical disability, or to be out of town.  Absentee balloting has been available to anyone who wanted it for 16 years now without incident or problems.  But QAnon-friendly, MAGA Republicans feel it's now time to turn back the calendar 

Personally, I have no problem voting in person.  I voted by mail in the Georgia primary, the General Election, and the Senate runoff because of the covids, but now that I'm vaccinated, I have no problem  going to my local polling place and voting in person. But we're not all in the same boat.  There are many Georgians who don't happen to be retired, who don't get time off work to vote, and who are working two (or more) jobs just to make ends meet   Many of them are poor, many of them are minorities.  Republicans don't want many of them voting, so they're using The Big Lie ("millions of fraudulent mail-in votes!") as an excuse to suppress their vote.

A luta continua.