CRS
Chandler, Arizona, United States

There's an old saying. If you don't want someone to join a crowd, you ask them, "If everyone were jumping off of a cliff, would you?" Well, I have. So my answer would be "Yes". True story.
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Fuck Rick Perry, From A Texan

Wednesday, September 07, 2011

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This is slightly old news, but it warrants talking about. Recently Rick Perry was quoted, referring to Ben Bernanke: "If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y'all would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous – or treasonous in my opinion."

I was listening to a podcast that had someone from the New York Times named David Leonhardt, and he commend that saying something like this wasn't without precedent; Senator Al Franken had recently called another Congressman "treasonous", and that Senator Jesse Helms had said that Bill Clinton "better have a bodyguard" if he ever went to North Carolina.

This blew my mind. This journalist from The New York Times was honestly equating a liberal accusing someone of treason and a conservative threatening bodily harm on a person, just to have some sort of equivalence between the two parties. Listen, accusing someone of being treasonous, even if they are not being treasonous, is not at all the same as saying you'd treat someone "pretty ugly" if they stepped foot in your shitty, backwards state, even if you are joking. And pretending that they're at all the same thing is idiotic.

But there's something else I wanted to mention about Rick Perry's remark.

I'm fucking from Texas. And as much as that state goes out of its way to make me totally ashamed of this fact, I consider it home, and believe it or not, I believe I got a great quality education that I wouldn't trade from it. Yes! From Texas!

And no, the kind of people who treat people ugly in Texas are not at all the kind of people who at all know who Ben Bernanke is, what the Chairman of the Federal Reserve does, or how printing more money matters to a person-- let alone that printing more money is exactly what one should do in the situation we're in so that the middle class doesn't collapse.

But never mind that. I resent the idea that Texans as a group are so knuckle dragging, so forehead sloped, such teeth gnashing morons that they would immediately pound anyone they disagreed with politically. It's a giant fucking state, after all, a state that's proud of its overly immense size. And as I said before, obviously he was saying this as a half-joke. But what kind of joke is that as a person trying to run for any kind of office? That you're proud of your people for their inability to listen to an opposing opinion? That this is something you can take in stride? It'd be like joking that your family all fucks their cousins while giving a toast. Of course it's not true, but why would you even say that when people are listening to you?

You know what? Fuck Rick Perry. Fuck him a million times. Texans are sweet people, they're kind, some of them are really smart, and a lot of them are really accepting and celebrate the vastly different cultural backgrounds that all somehow end up in its vast borders. It is a state where my family's car broke down miles and miles outside of civilization, and a biker-- a biker! In Texas!-- bought us a brand new tire out of the kindness of his heart, demanding nothing in return.

After all, they're not fucking Arizona where they literally shoot politicians they disagree with.
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with love from CRS @ 9:01 AM 

1 Comments:

Well said! I despise Rick Perry and I hate the Texas government. This state treats its citizens like garbage, especially those who are middle class or impoverished.

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