By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
McALLEN, Texas |...There is no rhyme or reason, from what I can see. Support for convicted felon Donald J, Trump is understandable from certain quarters, but from Latinos? Uh, no. They know not what they do, Lord.
The man hates them, won't sit with them, won't eat with them.
Yet, there they are, fawning over the racist candidate for president, asking to be among the first he would go after, damage and deport. Citizenship is not a given under fascism. They can only hope.
Surveys may indicate that Latinos are rallying behind the flawed Republican, but I also suspect that those numbers are skewed. A certain sector of insecure Hispanics is aboard his campaign, like local District 15 Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz and District 34 candidate Mayra Flores.
Would both give an arm and leg to help do Trump's ugly bidding?
But they are not alone in the ever-fad-happy Rio Grande Valley, a shank of land so far from Washington, D.C. and so much closer to Mexico City that it is neighboring country's culture that brings what we call life for locals.
Pass the salsa and keep the Grey Poupon.
Flores and De la Cruz, shown above, at right posing with Trump, have nothing in common with Trump and his crowd. What - claim to a party allegiance? Puh-leeeese. The Republican Party's use of non-White voters is a strategy for winning the most votes. Inclusion? Obscenity!
Trump never looks to Latinos for any sort of leadership standing. He had none - not one - in his Cabinet while in The White House. There was no such thing as the highest-ranking Hispanic in his administration. Even that other weird Republican, George W. Bush, had one - Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.
Trump makes it very plain to see, yet Latinos do fawn over him. In Congress, U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio support Trump wholeheartedly these days. They've come around. Once, Trump said Cruz's wife, Heidi, was ugly, and he labeled Rubio "Little Marco."
No, the myriads of clues are there, and it is more than just a foot-tall mound.
Flores, shown in photo at left, and De La Cruz, I say, exhibit nothing that tells me they are intelligent enough to see beyond the glitz of an inclusion that is simply a fake, one-way relationship. Meat on the hoof to be used and discarded after the election.
Latinos are a recognized force in our elections these days.
That political power is something that can benefit our people, our role in this ever-segmented country.
Smiling for Trump only makes Latinos look dumb, weak, futile and lost...
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ReplyDeleteHis decline can't be ignored.
ReplyDeleteFor the Republicans who say they don't mind Trump being a "dictator for one day", I say this. One day is ALL he needs to turn this republic into an empire ruled by fear.
ReplyDeleteThere's a big problem when you have "presidential candidate" and "probation officer" in the same sentence.
ReplyDeleteMayra and Monica are insecure chicanas. Nothing more than that. kissing up is not a campaign for votes.
ReplyDeleteEcho that.
DeleteAt least Monica has a degree from a 4-year college - UTSA.
DeleteMayra needs work on her public-speaking. Puro rancho!!!
DeleteI call on Mayra to release her STCC grades transcript.
DeleteMayra holding watermelon. priceless.
DeleteTrump challenges Biden to a cognitive test but confuses the name of the doctor who tested him
ReplyDeleteI think we all agree that Donald J. Trump's mental health is far worse now than it was when he debated President Biden prior to the 2020 election. The evidence is clear as a bell and I recommend folks listen/watch him speak in any of the last five or six campaign rallies. The question we all should be asking is "what if Trump's mental decline continues (e.g. he has Alzheimer's). Joe sounds tired and slurs periodically, but he still has a photographic memory - which is why he could speak so well for two hours straight in front of a hostile Republican controlled Congress (State of the Union speech).
ReplyDeleteHe won't win. his brains are leaking out his dang ears and most woman are PISSED.
ReplyDeleteTrump met with 50 of the country's top CEOs last Thursday and they all laughed at him.
ReplyDeleteThe problem isn't Trump, it's our fellow Americans who will still vote for him.
DeleteTrump said Milwaukee is a "horrible" city as the Republican Convention is set to begin there. Maybe the city asked for payment for the convention-related expenses upfront?
ReplyDeleteThe Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started
ReplyDeleteAn emerging coalition that views Donald J. Trump’s agenda as a threat to democracy is laying the groundwork to push back if he wins in November, taking extraordinary pre-emptive actions.
Funny. White crowd fills the pews for Trump’s visit to a Black church in Detroit. (shameful photo op)
ReplyDeleteGalling.
DeleteRepublicans can — and will — keep trying to ban Mifepristone
ReplyDeleteThe Supreme Court shot down a lousy argument from a fabricated plaintiff. But anti-abortion groups still have other paths to ban medication abortion.
It's so wonderful to have a President and First Lady in our White House who clearly love and respect each other. The Trump years were like a clown show, with everyone covered in too much makeup, and telling lies.......so phony.
ReplyDeleteWhat is the punishment for being a traitor? That's exactly what should be handed to Trump!
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DeleteI am a Republican who has never voted for Trump and I never will vote for Trump
ReplyDeleteFact check: Trump revives lie that he was long ago named "Man of the Year" in Michigan. He wasn't.
ReplyDeleteSupport Biden, Democracy and America.
ReplyDeleteTrump for Prison 2024
I really don't understand or appreciate it...when Republicans state that they will accept a win if it's a free and fair election. That's very rich of them.
ReplyDeleteWith the caveat that they get to decide what is fair and free.
No decent respectable Black person would ever support DJT.
ReplyDeleteRepublicans cheer when called criminals. Be glad the majority of the country doesn't cheer for their dear leader.
ReplyDeletePresident Biden should say he isn’t prepping for the debate because everyone is expecting Trump will find an excuse to chicken out.
ReplyDeleteMaintain the psychological pressure.
It’s time for Democrats to take the gloves off. Trump inspires through fear and lies, and Biden is too honorable to do the same, so the fight is both exhausting and uneven, but fight we must. Vote Blue!!!
ReplyDeleteMy son was KIA in Afghanistan trying to save three Navy SEALs. He was a Hero. He is NOT a loser or a sucker.
ReplyDeleteWhy would anyone vote for a man that says John McCain was not a hero?
The proper function of the citizen in an operational democracy is to call out or even drag out those deemed corrupt and unfit for public office. Problem is none of this happens now. They’re all way corrupt.
ReplyDeleteRepublican-appointed Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito have been bought and paid for several times over, we have seen the receipts. At this point just expect them to rule with whoever paid the most money. Just another bought off partisan branch government. Except this branch cannot be voted out and are untouchable, and they know it
ReplyDeleteWhat's with the MAGAs? Why do they always have to totally exaggerate the number of people at Trump's events. Of course, Trump does that all the time, but his surrogates don't need to do that. Just don't mention how many people were in attendance instead of lying. My gosh claiming 8,000 at that Black church in Detroit when it wasn't even 800?
ReplyDeleteHe RENTED out a black church?! Crazy!
DeleteI am in Britain and honestly there is a fear in this country about what will happen to our greatest ally and the most powerful democracy in the world if Trump is voted in. The whole situation is deeply disturbing, please protect what is so precious to your country. Your democracy!!!!! The president of the United States should be setting an example for your young people, uphold your constitution and represent the people not himself and his cronies
ReplyDeleteTo quote Former President Theodore Roosevelt:
ReplyDelete"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it. Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor. The judges who administer justice in our countries must be seen as ethical and subject to meaningful correction when it is necessary. Nothing less than the rule of law is at stake."
Is Mayra Flores on or off her "All You Can Eat" campaign this week? ja ja ja
ReplyDeleteAfter all the eating comes the diet. She was looking pudgy.
DeleteTrump talks about himself - Trump brand, I, me, my, mine - while President Biden talks about America - Americans, us, we ours the difference, with Trump it is always about Trump and what Trump will get out of it. While Biden has always seen it as service to the people.
ReplyDeletePotential Tropical Cyclone One forms in Gulf. We could use the rain. Sandbags being handed out across the valley.
ReplyDeleteWe just hit Corpus for a week at the beach. We may get rained out. But never regret the rain, ever. Everybody needs it so much.
ReplyDeletePundits saying Trump will not show at June 27 debate with President Biden. If Trump fails to show or cancels, I hope President Biden still proceeds with the debate without him and answers the questions and talks to Americans and shows Trump's absence.
ReplyDeleteHispanic Republicans - "Flies will swarm around shit...."
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