Boy did I find the nutter on Substack

Samuel Abraham? Muted and will be blocked. A true nutter, this is what he had to say in response to my comment on The Dissident's piece about Tulsi Gabbard when I said Hindutva-fascism WAS the one constant bright line, per my old piece here.

Anyway, here he is 

Tulsi was actually a serving CIA psyop officer all the time on the radicalise Hinduism project run by CIA. The CIA Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Foundation created the cult led by a Bengali Shudra with a double ended radicalise and debauch both the west and India aim. These Bengali Shudras ran the humungous Tantrik death destruction debauch drugs cult that ritually sacrificed 2 million human beings while the British were watching and then the same British put them down only to weaponise the Shudra Tantrik gurus as world teachers or Vishwagurus (which is a meme in India now) worldwide to bring Blavatsky Besant and Baileys end of the world total inversion of good and bad and morality and ethics with mass slavery age or NWO. The CIA using the ISI created and funded the University of Jihad in Pakistan to punish the Pashtun tribes for being the rare Indic people unbending to foreign rule like the Punjabis. When you see these malaria fever radicalism in Pakistan and Afghanistan among the Pashtuns it was created using Islamic textbooks financed by the CIA and authored by a white American professor at the University of Nebraska - not a Muslim. These CIA psyop officers are in the business of death destruction and mass deception.

Can't even try to argue with that. 

Related? This note:

The Hindu fundamentalist RSS and Muslim fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood were created by the same super witch crooked genius - Helena Blavatsky who literally had roaring adulterous wild sex with the founders of both the Muslim Brotherhood and the progenitor of the Hindu fascist RSS. Haha! -śome wild ass's orgasm they had! 

The world is a small place - at least everything including Nazism and Fascism started inside the venomous viper pits between the legs of Helena Blavatsky and her ideological sister Annie Besant. Lucifer does Lucifers things. Nobody fucks the devil for fun!

Wowza. 

But, he's not just calling out Theosophy. 

There's esoteric Nazi conspiracy theories, in another note of his: 

Hitler did not write most of his speeches or a word of the Mein Kampf - they were written by the Jesuit "priest" Stempfle. Neither did Marx write a word of the Communist Manifesto - it was written by a committee under the Jesuit "priest" Jan Paul Beckx. Why two mutually exclusive ideologies by the same papal order? The same reason why there is a left and a right in any "democracy" (but not meritocracy). The thesis antithesis = synthesis Pharaonic system of civilisation management called Hermetic Kabbala simply got too murderous and genocidal.

And, he follows Paul Thacker and other nutters, like a guy claiming an assassination conspiracy theory about John Lennon. 

I just had to separate this from my normal new list of Substack blocks. 

Trump's school privatization tax-credit voucher is flying under the radar

Shock me that Texas has opted in to this system, that like the current state voucher system, won't directly fund private schools but will instead fund a disbursement system.

There's plenty of room for grift, it should be obvious. That's on top of the grift that Strangeabbott's voucher system already incentivizes.

Then, per the story, there's the question about how declining enrollment will damage public schools. And, here in Tex-ass, that's Katy bar the door time for a TEA takeover. 

Data centers: Big win for state-level Democrats in Texas? Nah

Contra Kuff, I doubt it.

Kuff is talking about this Trib piece; here's another from a month ago. 

First, let's note that MOST states, including many more blue ones, don't grant county governments a lot of statutory powers. So, this isn't, nationally, totally a blue vs red deal.

And, there is NO way the Lege is reporting out a constitutional amendment to change that. 

Second, here in Tex-ass, one Hood County unincorporated "community" voted down a municipal incorporation effort last year. Per Kuff's piece, it was to give the would-be city more control over a data center Many people in places like that will be fine at bitching about wind farms causing cancer, about "gummint" stealing rights, and about Democraps, rather than incorporate themselves and actually have to pay local property taxes.

Right now, the white collar retirees in these places probably won't even blame Trump for their higher gas prices. (Many farmers actually WILL, on diesel and fertilizer.) 

Texas Progressives roundup

SocraticGadfly had two post-runoff takes, one on The Art of No Deal and the other on Strangeabbott's shrinking coattails.

Off the Kuff shares some post-runoff thoughts. 

Letitia Plummer deserves a kudo for taking down Annise Parker in the Dem runoff for Harris County Judge. 

The music is playing loudly for Corpus Christi's water problems, loud enough the city can't deny it's hearing it, while it is trying to put a Band-Aid over the band. 

Does the Christian Menafee vs Al Green showdown, in the wake of SCOTUS gutting the Voting Rights Act, forshadow more Black-on-Black political battles inside the Democratic Party? The Observer weighs in. 

Mike Pence has at least a bit bigger balls on Trump's slush fund than most Rethugs. 

Black bookstores in Texas face ugly racial pressure.

Wind has long been ahead of coal for solar electricity in Texas. Now, despite wingnuts, despite Texas law not allowing for rooftop solar being metered back to utilities, solar is moving ahead too. 

The Current rounds up the Republican website purge of anti-Paxton attacks.

City of Yes reminds us that no one is ever given the opportunity to vote on highway projects.

Law Dork notes the SPLC’s attempt to get the bogus charges against it dismissed.

G. Elliott Morris deems the Texas Senate election a tossup.

 

 

John Cornyn postmortem roundup

At the Monthly, not only is there not a CD Hooks piece fellating Cornyn one last time, but Ben Rowan offers a skeptic's guide to November, while getting people like Strangeabbott his own self to do some pearl-clutching. He offers this,  halfway through:

Everyone I spoke to, in both parties, believes that the national environment is better for Democrats this year than in 2018—Trump is even more unpopular, facing inflation and the Iran war. And they believe Talarico is a better statewide candidate than O’Rourke. At roughly this point in 2018, O’Rourke trailed Cruz in the polls by 5 points. The polling aggregate currently finds Talarico running 1.5 points ahead of Paxton (he leads by as much as 8 in one survey and trails by as much as 2 in another). As one longtime GOP strategist, who requested anonymity given their current position, told me: “This is not a made-up race. You are covering a real race.”

I'm still more skeptical. We'll see. One reason for skepticism is most those polls had Talarico vs a generic Republican, before the runoff. That always favors a "name." Rowan notes that himself, later on.

And, he concludes with:

Even if Ken isn’t actually all that good, most everyone I talked to believed Democrats could still find a way to blow their advantage. After laying out his fantasy of exactly one GOP statewide candidate losing, and explaining how this year there really were signs a Democrat could win, the former Republican legislator caught himself mid-reverie. “Democrats are killing us now,” he started, “but—and I’m going to use a naughty word here, don’t hold it against me—Democrats can f— up a one-car parade.”

Bingo. 

Kuff peddles some Kool-Aid on possible GOP defections. I'm not drinking.

Nate Cohn at the NYT talks about Hispanic numbers, ignores the Tex-ass reputation as a nonvoting state. 

The Trib fellating John Cornyn? Not surprised. 

At the Observer, Justin Miller doesn't fellate him, but does think Kenny Boy Paxton's win is "judgment day" for the Texas GOP. I shall officially laugh on Election Day.

Gus Bova there also salutes James Talarico's chances while noting the Anglo-ness of Dems' top candidates in general. 

My initial guess? Talarico runs as close as Beto-Bob vs Havana Ted, 2018, but no closer.

No Green in the race? As I told Kuff, I'm undervoting for sure unless Talarico has a real, full-bore, statement about Gaza. That's at minimum and I'm not holding my breath on that. 

Texas primary runoff hot take two: Strangeabbott's shrinking coattails

Bo French, a nutter even by Tex-ass GOP standards, defeated incumbent Jim Wright in the Texas Railroad Commission Rethuglican runoff. That's despite Strangeabbott, and others, endorsing Wright.

More on his degree of nuttery and the runoff at Inside Climate News. 

Side note: Despite the Monthly wondering if Farris Wilks should be on the side of a milk carton, which led to jokes by me earlier this month, Wilks as well as Tim Dunn, with personal money as well as PAC money, was there for both the original round and the runoff. 

And, of course, because that's the way he rolls, Strangeabbott was a big old crow-eating hypocrite after French won:

While the United States’ war in Iran has provided a boost to the Texas oil industry, Abbott warned during a campaign event earlier this month that French’s agenda would “wreck” Texas oil and gas. He went on to say that Republicans can’t assume victory in the general election. “All of these elections are going to be close in November,” he said.  

Wednesday morning, Abbott struck a different tone when he congratulated French. 

“Republicans are UNITED and ready to win in November to keep Texas, TEXAS!” Abbott wrote on his campaign X account.

Shock me. 

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Beyond that, Abbott-endorsed Abraham Enriquez lost in the 19th CD runoff and nutter state Sen. Briscoe Cain, also endorsed by Strangeabbott, lost to Alex Mealer. Cain was laughably called a "liberal lightweight" by a super PAC funding Mealer. I'm still not sure how much some PACs and super PACs believe their claims.