By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ
BROWNSVILLE, Texas |...Republicans are amok. Grown males in heat, their women open to it all. Viciously sexing an entire country with blood-thirsty verbiage. They wish to see another America, goes the line in bars and restaurants. I feel it. And, yes, I know, heat is always about elevating the temperature. Republicans are masters of destruction.
Good morning.
Well, the jury in that New York courtroom has the first criminal case against one Donald J. Trump, pretty much the expected Republican Party nominee for president in the upcoming November General Election. That's one hope against all hope.
It's more than evident at this point, I was telling a friend the other day.
Words bite. Insulting words fight harder. Separatists know the lingo. They want you over there, not with them. They know the psychology of the weak. They play the game of attraction, only it's not that at all. The Republican Party as we know it today is not a party for all, Black and Brown window dressing aside.
But fools are plentiful in our ever-ragged nation of immigrants.
Why else would an Indian-American named Vivek Ramaswamy begin to think he could be a Republican, a Republican president at that! It was never going to happen, yet there he was, there he still is - a sad and laughable cartoonization of his proud culture.
There's Tim Scott, the U.S. Senator from South Carolina.
He's very Black with oversized horse teeth, a smiler of sorts. He, too, is a Republican wannabe. They would never accept him, even with his required plain-Jane white galpal. Some say he's up for vice-president in that Trump ticket, only that also will never happen. Trump is all about "whiteness," and he's made it clear on more than one occasion. Tim Scott? Make me laugh, bro.
Locally, one Mayra Flores (shown in photo above, at right) claims to be a Republican, die-hard even she will tell you. But she's not. I doubt that Trump-prankster Steve Bannon knows who she is. Same for Stephen Miller, the Trump operative said to be behind all this Nazi stuff chasing Trump.
Oh, there's a photo out there of the sheltered Flores with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and another with Gov. Greg Abbott - both very "in" with Trump.
We hear that Mayra Flores dreams of being invited to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's version of Eagle Nest (Google it). The invitation must have gotten lost in the mail. Flores is still here, lumbering across the Rio Grande Valley, in and out of eateries as if to not eat is to die. She fully believes she is in a competitive race against well-entrenched Democrat Vicente Gonzalez for his 34th Congressional District seat. If only!!!
Neighboring District 15 has incumbent Republican Monica De La Cruz (shown in photo below, left).
I at times think about writing a book about these two lost Mexicans. But a voice in my head says they have no "staying power;" that is, both will end up as inconsequential footnotes in their own who-cares diaries.
Such is the fate of low-ranking flies in a cult.
They are nobodies at the end of the day. I have covered serious, Big-Time politicians in my journalism career, candidates with something to offer the collective, not all ready for it but at the very least educated on who we are and are not in this country. Cheap-ass, rowdy politicians are suddenly a dime a dozen, and that is not a good thing.
Yes, that's still the American Dream - one of everyone rising to the many opportunities. It's all well & good, only some Americans are simply not qualified, not up to the job of leading and representing. They are more groupies than leaders.
Mayra Flores teaching me a thing or two? Ha ha. Maybe how to traipse across our local geography in search of the Perfect Taco. Monica De La Cruz? Sorry, District 15, but she's hollow, acquired Republican veneer covering a lonely divorcee's ambitions.
So, what about it all? Is there a moral to the story here.
Well, we have at our disposal a good hundred morals, yes.
But what we'll say is this: The Republican Party these days is a road show looking for who knows what, other than tackling Lady Liberty and repeatedly raping her, poor, aging Uncle Sam beaten to a pulp by ballsy Republican women in that nursing home over yonder.
The election this November is a test of what this free country has been for more than 200 years, about whether it all will be shitcanned for the laughing pleasure of one flawed racist individual.
Republicans are exhibiting rabid tendencies.
It would be a monumental job for an army of psychiatrists. It will be the test of a lifetime for voters...
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