Lordelpus!

i mean, just look at the comments. he's basically already president of $bluechecks https://t.co/jlzWbCm9IT

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 16, 2023

Molly Ivins grew up in the wealthy neighborhood where Ted Cruz now lives, in Houston. Her father was an oil executive, and Molly remembers conversations in her home as he colluded with other oil companies to fix prices across the industry. I mention this because she said once she was very comfortable having lunch with “the boys” at the Petroleum Club (a Texas thing. In my childhood every city in Texas with serious connection to oil drilling had one. It was the real Chamber of Commerce.). But she never wanted to see any one of them hold public office.

I’ve got a wall of what I call very expensive wallpaper (diplomas). I tell you this only to establish my bona fides for this observation. I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life among very educated people. A lot of people, in other words, who can discuss Camus and the Stoics at the drop of a hat.

And that didn’t keep some of them from being blithering idiots like RFK, Jr.

If the standard for qualification for public office is going a round with Joe Rogan, then we are done for.