Friday, June 13, 2025

Monkey See, Monkey Do

I remember this kind of panic after Hurricane Katrina. A lot of people fled New Orleans for Houston, and Hurricane Rita seemed intent on following them. New Orleans suburbs sent officers to bridges and roads to keep the “chaos” (as reported by TeeVee; turned out to be lies) from spreading  to them. Rather than, you know, being humanitarians.

Meanwhile, the fear of Rita caused panic in Houston, where we were still watching drowned New Orleans on TeeVee. Local government didn’t help, advising people to leave the “flood zones.” They meant near the coast, but people 60 miles from the coast decided they were in the flood zone and ran to their cars. And caused a traffic jam between here and Austin, and as far north as Dallas. Had Rita not turned north to Beaumont, the carnage on the highways would have been apocalyptic.

Now every small person (mostly in the South, I have to note) wants to be Trump’s most devoted disciple. Abbott’s a fucking idiot. The No Kings organizers are organizing non-violent marches. The only anti-ICE protest I’ve heard of in Texas was in San Antonio, and all they did was sing. I take it back, I do know of protests in Houston and Austin, but neither gave Abbott an excuse to use DPS (state) troopers or the NG. Or even one Ranger. (The legend is that a Texas Ranger was sent to quell a riot in the early 20th century. “They only sent one Ranger?,” he was asked. “You only got one riot,” was the answer. The Rangers adopted it as their motto: “One riot, one Ranger.” I’ll only say it doesn’t wash away the history of racism and downright fascism in the Rangers, and leave it at that.)

Abbott never saw Trump pull a stunt he didn’t want to emulate. I’m waiting for him to support “remigration” and go full white supremacist like his idol.
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