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Hello hello! It’s been so long since I’ve done a Wonkette One A Day, I just about plumb forgot! First I took a Secret Vacation, and then once I was home I conveniently had a meeting just every time it was time to One A Day it up! Where’s Dok, he does such a nice job on these instead of just slapping the links on the page and calling it good enough. Dok? DOKKKKKK?
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I’m not trying to get my ass beat on the Internet, but I am glad James Talarico won the Texas Senate primary. Jasmine Crockett’s great! But she’s kind of also … a dick? (I specifically never cared for “butch body” nor her campaign throwing reporters out of events and then lying about it.) Which we pussed out and did not say, ever, we or at least I just thought it.
Even Republicans tore into Kristi Noem. Thom Tillis because he’s out of fucks and John Kennedy because … apparently they’re trying to get DHS funded by sacrificing Noem? At least that’s what the Bulwark says, you can see it tomorrow in tabs!
This is just really something. And we didn’t even mention Marco Rubio’s Sweaty Coke Guy routine as of late.
This too.
Robyn is aghast. Or as my late Old Dad would say, “but is she two ghasts?”
This is … well you just go on and read it, I can’t do justice to Evan’s thang.
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I'm a Texas expat. If I still lived there, I'd have had a hard time deciding whether to vote for Talarico or Crockett. I like them both a lot, and I know a lot of Texas Dems feel the same way. My brother lives in Crockett's district in south Dallas; I've talked to her office a few times to express support for what she's doing in DC. We need someone to raise hell and get in Republicans' face.
In terms of how they'd vote on issues, I don't see much daylight between Crockett and Talarico. The media mislabel him as a moderate because he's trying to reach out to Trump voters. But he's not a moderate on the issues; he's liberal. He's simply calling for a more traditional form of populism in which liberals and MAGA conservatives focus on the billionaires and corporate interests that have left them both economically disadvantaged and politically marginalized. (Maybe worth remembering that the Populist Movement of the 1890s had its origins in Lampasas, TX.)
Some have suggested it's racist to say that Talarico is more electable because he's white. But I think that's just a recognition of the enduring racism of the general electorate in the state. I don't think any Black woman could win a statewide race right now in Texas. Not even Oprah. It's a sad commentary, but Texas is still a sad place, even though Joe Biden got more total votes there than any state besides California and maybe New York.
This primary illustrates the questions Dems are facing in primary races across the country. A feisty Black woman like Crockett is going to improve turnout among more liberal voters who think it's about damn time we had more candidates would speak up and fewer who act like Chuck Schumer. But she also may cost voters who had once supported Trump and are looking for an alternative they can get behind.
Talarico might bring some of those voters back. But the risk is that some of Crockett's voters won't show up for him. And it's also a fair question as to whether enough Trump voters to matter would support anyone running with a D by their name.
I would really like the explanation for not supporting the Black woman to be more than contested reports from a white lady at The Atlantic and the MSM and the fact that Crockett was too mean to Marjorie Taylor Greene. Was there an issue with her record serving in Congress? Her fitness as a potential senator? Because the cracks taken at her are really like “going on vibes”, which…🫠