Governor's Race

[bystander]

Here is what the Democrats have offered up...

Lupe owes back property taxes and her campaign manager said the following:

"AUSTIN — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Lupe Valdez owes more than $12,000 in overdue property taxes on six properties in Dallas County and one in Ellis County, the Houston Chronicle first reported Thursday.

The former Dallas County sheriff, who owns a home in north Oak Cliff and eight other properties in Dallas County, also failed to disclose one of them on her official financial disclosure report, and two companies listed on the report have incorrect names, according to the Chronicle.
Valdez campaign spokesman Juan Bautista Dominguez blamed Gov. Greg Abbott, whom she is challenging this fall, and the property tax system for the errors.

"As we've been saying all along, under Greg Abbott's failed leadership, property taxes are unpredictable and burdensome for Texans everywhere, including Sheriff Lupe Valdez," Dominguez said. "Sheriff Valdez has an agreement with the counties to pay off 2017 property taxes and plans to do so entirely in the coming months."

This came out in the Dallas Morning News AFTER the primary. Wendy was qualified in their minds because of a filibuster about abortion. Lupe is qualified for God knows what reason but I can guess: her willingness to play the race and victim card for Latino's in Texas.

It is my opinion that the Left knows they can't win in Texas so they put out an extremist candidate to take a pound of flesh from the Republicans in terms of generating hatred from the base as instructed by the DNC. It's unfortunate because I lean towards being a Democrat (A Republican without the religion meaning a strict Conservative who wouldn't outlaw abortion or gay marriage on religious grounds). I'm not an Abbott fan and especially not a Sid Miller type Republican fan either. But it is what it is sometimes.

 

[Clean]

Lupe is qualified for God knows what reason but I can guess: her willingness to play the race and victim card for Latino's in Texas.

She's doubly qualified to the Democrats being a gay Latina.

 

[Phil Elliott]

If she was a tranny, they'd run her for POTUS.

 

[Mr. Deez]

If she was a tranny, they'd run her for POTUS.

That's where the Democrats are headed. It's all about intersectionality. The more victim cards you can play, the more qualified you are. White was a straight white guy who was pro-choice but didn't celebrate abortion (so he was obviously a closet misogynist). That was enough to disqualify him.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Lupe is qualified for God knows what reason but I can guess: her willingness to play the race and victim card for Latino's in Texas.

It's not commonly discussed in public, but Texas political insiders universally know that Hispanic Democrats are so racist that a Hispanic surname is enough to get a huge piece of their vote in a primary election. It doesn't matter if the candidate is a complete unknown. Outside of the Dallas area, Valdez's biggest asset (by far) was the name "Valdez."

 

[Phil Elliott]

It's all about intersectionality.

Is that the new, nice-sounding name for Identity Politics?

a Hispanic surname is enough to get a huge piece of their vote in a primary election.

Or so-called nickname, even (see: "Beto" O'Rourke).

 

[Mr. Deez]

Is that the new, nice-sounding name for Identity Politics?

It's actually more screwed up than traditional identity politics. Link.

 

[bystander]

It's not commonly discussed in public, but Texas political insiders universally know that Hispanic Democrats are so racist that a Hispanic surname is enough to get a huge piece of their vote in a primary election. It doesn't matter if the candidate is a complete unknown. Outside of the Dallas area, Valdez's biggest asset (by far) was the name "Valdez."

I'm not a political insider but I am from South Texas and they are loyal to their race like you wouldn't believe. They are constantly fighting the battle for their honor. I do see it as absolute racism. Remember Victor Morales when he ran against Phil Gramm? He couldn't answer questions during the debate but it didn't matter. He was one of them and incompetence didn't matter because they knew he's just send money their way. It's pretty bad actually. Abbott should destroy her in a landslide solely on the basis of competence. It's amazing they can't summon up a competent candidate who is not full of hate and a chip on their shoulder. Where is the rational well spoken able to articulate values and opinions on the issues Democrat candidate?

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

Where is the rational well spoken able to articulate values and opinions on the issues Democrat candidate?

He got beat. White fit your definition just fine, but the Dem party has wandered so far down the identity politics road they no longer care about actual competence.

 

[bystander]

He got beat. White fit your definition just fine, but the Dem party has wandered so far down the identity politics road they no longer care about actual competence.

Yep. To be perfectly honest, this whole primary kind of snuck up on me. Looks like the Dallas Morning News held back the article on Lupe that I posted until after the primary. White should be pretty upset about that. I didn't know much about him. For me, the question should have been, why is the DNC not demanding such a candidate? But I think you're right; identity politics; i.e. hatred is their MO. The extremists have the microphone.

 

[Mr. Deez]

I'm not a political insider but I am from South Texas and they are loyal to their race like you wouldn't believe. They are constantly fighting the battle for their honor. I do see it as absolute racism.

It is racism, but the modern political discourse only frowns on racism or ethnic nationalism if it comes from white people. If it comes from anyone else, it's considered acceptable. Of course, that's how we got Trump, and it gives massive, unjustified credibility to people like David Duke and Richard Spencer.

Remember Victor Morales when he ran against Phil Gramm? He couldn't answer questions during the debate but it didn't matter. He was one of them and incompetence didn't matter because they knew he's just send money their way. It's pretty bad actually.

Victor Morales was a decent guy, but he was too liberal for Texas and grossly under-qualified compared to Gramm. Gramm talked like a redneck but was an economist by trade - one of the smartest people in politics. Morales was never going to measure up to that. Nevertheless, his name was Morales, and with a bunch of ethnic nationalists and racists in the Democratic primary that was enough to defeat serious political candidates who might have been able to mount a serious challenge to Gramm.

 

[bystander]

@Mr. Deez

Morales did seem like a decent fellow. I don't or didn't expect Democrats to embrace Gramm because of his Conservatism. The tribalism (to be kind; I think we both agree it is flat-out racism) runs so deep you cannot reason with them. They are about themselves and cannot be shamed. They just don't care. They want their own even if he is completely over his head. They don't care about immigration laws either. If one of them comes over then they will defend it to the death. If they gain full power it's all over.

 

[Mr. Deez]

They are about themselves and cannot be shamed.

They can be shamed just as white nationalists get shamed, but somebody has to shame them. Nobody does it. Education, media, population culture, and government largely celebrate and promote their racism.

If they gain full power it's all over.

And this is why guys like Richard Spencer are getting a following. The only reason why white nationalism ever lost influence or that civil rights protections ever became law is that white people were convinced in large numbers that racial equality and deemphasis of race was a higher moral ideal than white nationalism was. They are correct. However, if other groups celebrate their own nationalism and racism, then whites eventually assume that racial equality isn't the real agenda and isn't on the table. Once that happens, the choice is between Richard Spencer and self-flaggellation and abuse. Only a fool would choose the latter.

 

[bystander]

I've mentioned my Cuban heritage ad nauseum but my Dad truly was a US citizen. We had a deep Cuban culture in our home but it involved Mambo music, cigars and Lechon on Thanksgivign. But he put the US first. He had a Ph.D. in Political Science and taught in Laredo. He said he had a lot of Marxists as students. He was a true Libertarian and had lively debates with them. He took care of his own but he understood the need for the entire enterprise of the United States to be the melting pot and not cater so much to special interest groups. Living in Laredo I have a pretty deep knowledge about how things are. We don't want the political culture of South Texas to reign supreme in Texas or the US. We just don't. I'm sorry to say it but that's my feeling.

As for Spencer, I don't even know the guy. I haven't read up on him. The sad thing is that Trump is not pursuing a White Supremacist agenda; it's just being imputed. But the racist agenda on the Left is part of the DNC platform. BIG DIFFERENCE. They want to scare people with the fringe elements that we abhor (KKK, Nazi's etc) and make them believe all white people are like that.

It is a despicable lie. Every white person I know would have burned Hitler alive if they had the opportunity. There is no, "Yeah but about him." They were evil monsters. Same with the KKK. I can't even watch Mississippi Burning because it makes me sick to my stomach. I want to shoot those KKK B*ast*rds myself.

 

[Mr. Deez]

Living in Laredo I have a pretty deep knowledge about how things are. We don't want the political culture of South Texas to reign supreme in Texas or the US. We just don't. I'm sorry to say it but that's my feeling.

As a former plaintiffs attorney, I'm familiar with the political culture of South Texas. Though it benefited me and people who do what I did, it was a very dirty and corrupt system.

As for Spencer, I don't even know the guy. I haven't read up on him.

He's a major alt-Right activist and white nationalist in the true sense. He believes that white racial heritage is inherent to exclusive to Western culture and supports the creation of a white racial empire. He denies being a neo-Nazi, but his agenda is pretty much out of Mein Kampf, and he often uses Nazi rhetoric in his speeches and rallies.

The sad thing is that Trump is not pursuing a White Supremacist agenda; it's just being imputed. But the racist agenda on the Left is part of the DNC platform. BIG DIFFERENCE.

Any agenda (such as cutting immigration) that undermines the Democratic Party's demographic goals is going to be called white supremacist or racist and framed as such. It's a political ploy and a very effective one, and truth doesn't matter.

However, Trump has stepped on his own dick a few times and made the problem worse. His rhetoric on illegal immigration is needlessly divisive and overly simplistic. That feeds into the Democrats' strategy. Failing to quickly and decisively condemn David Duke and the alt-Right also hurts. Of course, his critics don't have any credibility on the matter because they have no problem with Louis Farrakhan, who's no better than Spencer and probably more inflammatory than David Duke. Nevertheless, Trump's slowness in condemning those guys doesn't help.

They want to scare people with the fringe elements that we abhor (KKK, Nazi's etc) and make them believe all white people are like that.

Hard to blame them. It works. Almost all black voters and most Hispanic voters will let the identity politics and fear mongering completely define their politics. That means the Democrats' actual policy agenda basically becomes irrelevant. They can screw up and fail these voters decade after decade, and it doesn't matter to them.