So what.
I wasn’t going to but I’ve been getting pummeled by Talarico ads, so fuck that guy. Lucky for me, the county I live has an election polling place map, showing the times.
It’s not always accurate, but it shows trends. The place closest to me is always busy (it’s at 60+ minutes here), but not really before 10 AM, so I headed out first thing. Parked right in front. I was the only one in line. That’s when the old lady election crone fussed at me. YOU HAVE TO STAND BEHIND THAT LINE!.
The line was in the doorway, and I had only taken one step in. Off to a great start, I was.
They scan your license, ask if that’s you. You sign. They print a receipt and say go hand this to Joe. Old Joe scans the receipt, and the machine prints a code to enter into the machine. Grab a paper ballot, go to a unit, insert the paper and type in the code. No problemo.
In the process, I discovered why things move so slow. I think they had 10 machines in a little room. There are 69 choices this election, everything from Senator to dog catcher, it seemed. And the touch screen was stupid. It had a next button on the bottom of each page. Every time, it seemed, I had to stab that fuggin button a dozen times before it reacted. Halfway through this, I realized the arrow to the right of “Next” was the spot on the button it wanted you to hit. At the end, you hit print, where it sucks in your ballot and prints it with the speed of a 1990s fax machine. I think I was at it 15-20 minutes. No wonder the wait times are long. The process takes forever. Still, I got ‘er done.
I’m so over this.
The ads interrupting my YouTubes are insufferable. They really are over the top, bordering on slander for both sides. I don’t care that Paxton is a “Crook”. He’s our crook and I see his impeachment process as democrat lawfare. That’s what I remember from the time. But he’s been a honey badger of an attorney general. His opponent, Talarico, is a jug eared unaccomplished moron. He had an ad with a large black woman that Paxton tried to jail because of his rules banning blacks from voting. I’m going to guess that it was the whole enforcing the ID to vote thing.
Oh, my aching Irish ass, what horseshit. She filed a provisional ballot. Want to put up some dough and bet she has a prison record? Paxton didn’t raise your taxes, enable data centers with backdoor deals, and kick your dog. He’s the attorney general. They don’t make deals, they don’t make laws. He has nothing to do with your property taxes.
And that jug-eared idiot Talarico isn’t going to ‘fight for you’ or do anything for you in any way. He’s running for US Senate. He’ll do nothing other than take Jasmine Crockett’s spot as a village idiot from Texas.
All these local politicians are just as bad. The ads tell you how they lowered your taxes and other heroic feats that amounted to they voted in a legislative session. What nonsense. They aren’t super-heroes. If anything, most are lazy and stupid. They want to keep, or hope to get, a cushy phony baloney job.
There are tons of “Get out the vote” ads. One animated, two with all black actors. They are counting on my vote, doncha’ know. The animated one tells you that they record the fact you voted, and while your neighbors can’t see your vote, they know if you voted or not. It’s not the only one like that and they are all paid for by some sort of democrat or lefty PAC.
What’s it’s point? If they lose they’ll grab the voter rolls for retribution? You really want to try that in Texas?
The other ones that the left loves are the “I voted for Trump/Abbott/Paxton, I’m a former sherriff/Cop/Constable, but now I can’t vote for Paxton. Really? So you’re going to vote for a far left weirdo instead? That’s nonsensical.
Whatever. It’s all bullshit and most of us know it.
I have little attention span for the local races. I’d bet Abbott will win bigly over Hinahosa, the mexican woman they cough up to lose to him every time. In a normal world, Jug Ears would be curb stomped by Paxton. He still may be. Talarico is like “Beto” O’rourke, Only weirder. Like I’ve said before, he has the look that makes you think he has twinks locked up in a barn somewhere, that weird pervert preacher look. I’d guess he’s too weird a duck for Texas, but one never knows, do one? We have a locust infestation from blue states. No telling. They say he’s neck and neck. But that’s also what they said about “Beto” and Cruz. Cruz beat him pretty good, but the scandal was that “Beto” came closer than he should have.
Meh…a pox on all of them. I’ll be glad when it’s over.
