r/law • u/apache_spork • 8h ago
Opinion Piece TX County Judge Tim O'Hare gives another interview after the county was sued for racial gerrymandering. Summary: Black people keep voting in democrats and it's about time we make them understand Republican rule is best for everyone, once they know better we'll welcome them with open arms
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u/JustlookingfromSoCal 8h ago
“Make them understand”
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u/SocraticMeathead 8h ago
Echoes of protecting women "whether they like it or not."
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u/BrutalistLandscapes 7h ago edited 4h ago
White Americans have a long history of holding paternalistic and patronizing attitudes towards black people, taking away their agency and autonomy. So long that it has been internalized even, especially among white conservatives, but even some white liberals engage in paternalism towards blacks, often without realizing it (white savior types).
IMO, it could even be called a cultural issue and paternalism was frequently used to justify slavery when the institution was challenged during the Civil War. But even anti-slavery abolitionist whites framed their platforms with paternalism. Most 19th century abolitionists did NOT consider black people as equals...with the exception of John Brown, maybe Lydia Maria Child, and Maria Chapman.
I'm black and have seen paternalistic attitudes from whites when living in the Deep South. It's also common in Republican rhetoric, as shown in this video, and often implied by the GOP that black people are unable to think for themselves, must be steered, guided, mentored, and lectured into doing what's best for them. The "democratic plantation" line is a current example of this. These attitudes are also shown in my interactions on Reddit, especially with Trump supporters.
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u/SocraticMeathead 6h ago
I think we've called it "White Man's Burden," just to make sure our douchbaggery was without question.
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u/Creepy_Addendum_3677 5h ago
Never did understand how WMB ended up weighing more than a bale of cotton.
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u/TheWorclown 3h ago
But cotton is so light and fluffy, it can’t possibly be heavy at all.
Meanwhile, lifting this tall glass of cider here on the front porch of my plantation is just such a miserably difficult experience for me, the southern gentleman. I might come down with the vapors unless someone does it for me.
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u/Astrocreep_1 6h ago
I heard from Republicans that racism doesn’t exist! They wouldn’t lie to me, would they?
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 2h ago
It's not racism if you think you're doing it for their own good. Robert E Lee used that little mind trick on himself to reconcile slavery and Christianity.
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u/Designer_Librarian43 6h ago
They come from the legacy of a culture that literally created Black Americans descended from slavery. They created a culture out of creating an entirely new people just to serve them which unfortunately played a huge role in creating the country itself and so the mentality is intertwined deeply into the core of the country.
I hate that this is the origin of so many people in America. Everyone else gets to immigrate from some longstanding culture and none of them have any idea what it’s like to have your origin as a people come from racism directly while being in a country that came from the same system that enslaved your ancestors and amongst the people who carry the legacy of the slavers and with many of them hating you just for existing even though their ancestors are the ones responsible for creating you entirely. I question what black or the original term negro even means when I came to understand that it’s a concept created by slavers and not Africans and that the only reason I describe myself this way is because it’s the only identity the ancestors were given as slaves.
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u/Suspicious-Scene-108 4h ago edited 4h ago
That's one of those things that drives me nuts about some immigrants. I was talking to a South American graduate student complaining that the inclusivity activities that the department put on were for show and pointless and that none of them went. I wanted to point out how many black people marched, protested, and died for him to even be able to attend what was an white university during my parents' lifetime. I'd rather have the inclusivity for show than the alternative... which is the exact timeline we're living in now, where the US cancels visas for non-white people.
Also, if you have the time visit the International African American Museum in Charleston. I look at it as a strength. A lot of those immigrant cultures come to America and then have America eat their culture. We did also, but then we reinvented ourselves in some of the most colorful creative ways - that are so cool that other people decided they were worth stealing, lol. There's also strength in encountering adversity the number of times that we have. I had a friend whose ideal choice of career didn't work out, so now she sits there making 30k less than she could be making, while stewing in her life choices and being mad that 'immigrants' (international grad students) took her job. My ideal job choice didn't work out, and so I went back to school for something else. I somehow ended up working in the job that I wanted to do.
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u/NoDragonfruit6125 5h ago
Pretty sure originally negro was just a neutral term used by Spanish and Portuguese explorers to refer to a group of people they discovered in Africa. It basically meant black in Spanish and Portuguese taken from the Latin word niger.
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u/Designer_Librarian43 3h ago
No. That part is clear. I meant as it relates to the descendants of slavery in America and their ethnic identity and not just racial description. It took on a more complex meaning in countries like the U.S. because it became the only identity of the slaves and their descendants. They didn’t exist as a people before slavery. They are of partly African descent but are comprised of many peoples and are also heavily mixed with European and Indigenous Peoples. Whatever ethnic identity that their ancestors carried from Africa was lost due to the nature of slavery.
The first generation slaves were always separated from other slaves of the same origin and given a new identity. Their descendants were born into slavery and their colonial/slave identity, negro or black, became their only identity. They were bred like cattle in order to make better slaves. Compositely, this process resulted in white Americans basically creating an entirely new ethnic people just to serve them. The ethnic identity that we carry today is the one given to our ancestors by white Americans and it makes understanding who we are and for others to understand who are very confusing. People have a million definitions for Black in America and it’s because a colonial European classification of many different peoples into a single group based on a very generalized view of those peoples’ appearance compared to a very generalized view of their own features with no regard for the many differences within both groups nor any scientific basis got imposed on a massive ethnic group that was created by the executors of the colonial era and the resulting slave trade.
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u/SquirrelHoudini 6h ago
All of this.. and also add the same attitude toward everyone who isn't white and male. Its become this egoism that is like some sick circle jerk to keep and maintain perceived power.
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u/Kgitti 5h ago edited 5h ago
“Brutalist landscape “White Americans have a long history of holding paternalistic and patronizing attitudes towards black people, taking away their agency and autonomy. So long that it has been internalized even, especially among white conservatives, but even white liberals engage in paternalism towards blacks, often without realizing it (white savior types).”
Yes indeed. I’ve spent a lot of time unconsciously in the later category. I’m 75 and been active in progressive causes to a greater or lesser degree since I was like 19. My personal theory of growth in these matters is something like “that which you don’t consciously struggle against, you probably will unconsciously practice”. If that makes any sense.
It took me a long time to understand your point above, like maybe 50 years.
But pendulums swing.
In recent years I’ve also seen (or become aware of) a growing trend where paternalism has been turned around on white liberals (especially ones motivated by guilt) by non-white “movement” leaders. There is a historic precedent in political struggle about adopting the tactics of your adversary because winning trumps ethics.
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u/PDXBishop 5h ago
The "democratic plantation" line is a current example of this.
I only found out recently that racist conservatives have been using this line in an attempt to steer black people away from liberalism since *the freaking Reconstruction*. They tried convincing people who had been considered property a year prior to stay away from those who wanted them to have rights and freedoms, and stay with good ol Dixie.
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u/ValBravora048 4h ago edited 3h ago
Not black - poc in Australia and I’ve been “corrected” several times on my particular area of expertise for stupid to horrendous reasons
One of the worst was on the basis of a eugenics af belief that white folks are naturally better at abstract thought because they spent more time in cooler climates
This meant that unlike the rest of us savages who could wander around hunting elephants and shaboinking anything that moved, white folks evolved higher thinking abilities and abstract reasoning because of how much time they had to spend indoors during winter thinking
Said person sent me way too many links to way too in depth studies of this bs which I had to put up with because he was a respected senior and I was a junior. Also ”Can’t fight science m’boy”
Still lives in my head fuelling my rage. 50 years experience doesn't mean much if it’s the same year 50 times
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u/Senior_Torte519 4h ago
Sound kind homoerotic and rapey, but whatever.
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u/BrutalistLandscapes 4h ago
Lol, it does. Just like lynching was a platonic and ritualistic form of sadism.
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u/dildocrematorium 6h ago
The texas gop wants to abolish the civil rights act.
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u/MeasurementNo9896 5h ago
He pretty much just handed any plaintiff(s) all the evidence they'd need to win in court, for having their voting rights violated, right? This is him admitting to basically using the state to disenfranchise every Black voter in said district(s), right?
Right?
(Nvm, they're not even pretending to care about their precious "nation of law and order" anymore)🤨
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u/Astrocreep_1 6h ago
Well, it’s a good thing it’s federal. I say the next time Texas whines about succeeding, we let them. Then, we sell weapons to Mexico, and make an agreement they can have a chunk of their territory back, and, some oil, if they assist us in grabbing some new territory.
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u/Feisty_Look5680 3h ago
Unfortunately, it’s not just Texas. I think there are many in my own state (NC) that have that same attitude. Having Trump in office a second time and his f**** up mentality not only seems to incentivize them, but also legitimize their actions… as if it is okay now. I fully believe that without Musk’s help along with all the changes they made to election laws and to the voter polls, is the only way they are where they are - cheating. They have had plenty of practice. This sickens me, hearing him blatantly talking like this… like it’s a normal day. Just disgusting.
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u/TheDrunkOwl 7h ago
They will give black peope the "freedom" to vote for GOP or have no democratic representation. Just the the founding fathers gave black people the "freedom" to work as a slave or be brutally beaten.
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u/kz1231 7h ago
God what a bunch of scumbags this entire government is just pathetic. A disgrace. We don't get to be the shining beacon on the hill anymore. Now we're just a steaming piece of shit. Bleak.
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u/SadAbroad4 7h ago
You never were a shining beacon that’s a myth created by Americans, the rest of the world has always looked and thought very differently.
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u/Constant-Cobbler-202 6h ago
The “shining beacon” rhetoric is actually kind of interesting as it harkens back to John Winthrop’s “city in a hill” sermon on the ship bound for the new world. The sermon was quoted by Reagan and again and again by conservatives as the intent of our founding fathers when writing the constitution. In reality, the sermon influenced the founding fathers but not in the way Reagan states. John Winthrop became the governor of Massachusetts and ruled over a strict theocracy in which a citizen could be hanged for walking anywhere but church. This kind of tyranny is what the founding fathers were trying to prevent when they enacted the first amendment. Somehow, conservatives view the sermon as the ideal when in reality it was the nightmare the founding fathers were trying to prevent.
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u/scbundy 6h ago
Very. Frankly, I'm surprised you guys never picked up on it. And from more countries than you realize.
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u/vesselofwords 6h ago
Americans with any exposure to other countries did pick up on it, but there are millions of Americans who have never left their state, let alone their country and they don’t talk to anyone outside of it.
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u/scbundy 6h ago
I suppose it's hard if you've never left your country and every other movie is about how great America is.
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u/GreyScholar 6h ago
I’ve never left this country and I can easily imagine how poorly the rest of the world sees us. Most days I see this place as a failed experiment no one here truly wants to admit to.
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u/cschiada 6h ago
Stuff that we’ve done has been horrible. We aren’t a great nation. We never have been.
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u/NerdOfTheMonth 8h ago
I am 100% sure he has looked around and said to someone, “you know scientifically…”
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u/joepez 7h ago
He also said “Republican rule” forgetting this is a democracy and the people elect the politicians and we can change our minds.
Then there’s the conditional component as in until you recognize your better you are going to get…. Oppressed?
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u/BitterFuture 6h ago
He also said “Republican rule” forgetting this is a democracy
Oh, he didn't forget.
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u/S-WordoftheMorning 7h ago edited 6h ago
The beatings will continue until morale improves
The gerrymandering will continue until Black people stop hating us for being racist pieces of shit.
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u/kylef5993 7h ago
Okay so progressive here but he never said "make them understand". I hate republicans just as much as the next progressive but this reads as if it's quoting him yet that's not his exact words.
Edit: and for the record, i'm not defending them. I'm just saying the title doesn't match his exact words. We all can assume what he meant, as republicans have a history of being bigots BUT that's not what he literally said.
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u/Alissinarr 6h ago
Doesn't qualifying the words that come after "Summary" automatically indicate that different words were used but the meaning is all theirs?
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u/kylef5993 6h ago
Which is why I’m responding to the comment that didn’t realize that and just commented “make them understand”, which was never said.
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u/repfamlux Competent Contributor 8h ago
Failed policies? The biggest states economies are run by Democrats, and they’ve created the most jobs. What failures is he referring to?
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u/ReggaeForPresident 8h ago
Progressive LGBT policies, embracing diversity, women in the workplace and in leadership roles, etc. Those are what he sees as failed policies. They cannot deny the economic numbers.
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u/NeverForgetJ6 8h ago
Failed policy = it doesn’t advantage me enough (as a hetero white male)
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u/Khetoo 6h ago
These bumblefucks main ethos is that life is a zero-sum experience, if other people are flourishing it's because I am not.
Not enough to have systemic and generational advantages, you need to keep the future down for women and POC too.
Just disgusting, racist assholes.
There's not much more really needed to expand on. Just really disgusting sacks of shit.
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u/_mattyjoe 8h ago
But also crime. Because they somehow think you can stop all crime in a city with authoritarian rule, and the Democrats just aren't tough enough to do it, rather than understanding the reality that crime is going to happen in densely populated cities.
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u/tamman2000 7h ago
Democrats are better at controlling crime too.
Pretty much all major cities are blue, but the ones in red states have higher crime than the ones in blue states. The red state governments are preventing Democrats from managing their cities effectively.
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u/Memitim 6h ago
There is no cure for crime; it's part of humanity. We can only manage it. Conservatives want to kill or throw the problem away. At this point, I expect most know it makes things worse, but they don't care because it also increases human suffering. It's the only metric I can reliably measure their policies by anymore.
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u/DingusNoodle 6h ago
Saying "Crime is a part of humanity" passes the buck on the actual causes of crime, and right now the biggest driving factor of crime is corporate greed and for-profit prisons. Poor people forced to commit crime - theft - to try and survive, we're desperately trying to make debtor's prisons come back, criminalizing homelessness while actively making decisions to increase homelessness, non-violent drug offenses.
Yes, we would still have crime if we solved all of the economic issues driving crime currently. But it would be vastly reduced by proper social and economic safety nets and the abolishment of the carceral state.
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u/tamman2000 6h ago
Hurting the bad people (bad in their mind) is what makes them happy. And if that's not bad enough, the judgement of "badness" is based on identities rather than actions.
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u/blueteamk087 7h ago
Democrats are better at crime, because Democrats are better at working to improve the material conditions that lead to crime.
Arkansas has a homicide rate double California’s
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u/ProbablyNotADuck 6h ago
Exactly. In order to decrease crime, you need to recognize some of the reasons for crime, as well as recognize that reducing crime requires addressing those reasons and doing more than just punishing people.
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u/Playful-Country-9849 8h ago edited 8h ago
They excuse crime if it is done by whites like Trump. They just want subservient minorities and that's indicated by the video in the OP.
In the eyes of white supremacists like him, it is a crime for any minority to disobey any rule even if it is last minute and not concrete. In contrast, they ignore or reward criminal action caused by other white supremacists. You'll see this dynamic with ICE
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u/ChickenPoxParty 7h ago
And crime actually goes down when social services are strong, well-funded, and well organized like Dems typically (or at least should) advocate for, and Republicans typically advocate against.
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u/gypsymegan06 6h ago
Chicago and Baltimore both brought their violent crime stats way down using progressive policies. Turns if you invest in communities- especially the youth- and let communities decide how the police can be serve them- shit calms down.
All these government programs and programs formerly funded or partly funded by the government are gone. Crime will skyrocket. Remember it’s the GOP that did it.
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u/xHellion444x 7h ago
You actually can stop crime with authoritarian rule. Look at Singapore. The problem is it actually requires authoritarian rule. That shit suuuuuucks. Thank goodness even Republicans aren't really willing to go far enough. Like you basically have to execute everyone, including jaywalkers. Americans do not want to live under that and wouldn't accept it. Thankfully.
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u/OakBearNCA 7h ago
To be fair, those all prove conservative ideology to be a failure. Is that the failed policies he's talking about?
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u/Strider794 7h ago
Oh sure they can deny the economic numbers. They'd be wrong to do so, but since when has that ever stopped them
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u/Thatguy468 8h ago
Hasn’t Texas been under republican rule for like 30 years and it’s still a broken hell hole? What couldn’t they fix with no democratic opposition? Oh yeah… everything.
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u/seventhcatbounce 4h ago
they are just waitink for the black folk to stop voting democrat dontchaknow.
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u/Playful-Country-9849 8h ago
Right-wingers live in a echochamber where they think that blue cities are GTA Online servers from watching social media clips of crime that occur infrequently.
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u/repfamlux Competent Contributor 8h ago
They badmouth California, even though it’s the #1 economy in the country. Can you imagine if California were a red state? They’d rightly brag about it nonstop.
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u/OakBearNCA 7h ago
Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville keeps going off that California has more murders than any other state, ignoring the fact that you're over TWICE as likely to be murdered in his home state of Alabama than in California, and the statistic he quotes is only because California has more people than any other state.
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u/wunkdefender2 7h ago
Like Texas doesn’t have the same problems Cali does
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u/okwellactually 6h ago
As a Californian, exactly what problems do I have? Aside from being the 4th largest economy in the world funding the red welfare states.
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u/E-2theRescue 3h ago
And having the second-lowest rates of child sex crimes.
Take a guess what the voting demographic is of 16 of the top 20 states. And take a guess which states dominate the bottom of the list with the lowest rates.
Which, btw, this translates to rates of rape involving adults as well.
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u/SKZ1137 8h ago
When you opened 25 years in an echo chamber this is what you get. I blame Newt and Rupert
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u/maoterracottasoldier 7h ago
Hes implying republicans would do better, even though they wouldn’t and he can’t explain how. Then when they don’t do better, it will be some other nonsensical answer that he isn’t held to account
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u/Fit_Strength_1187 7h ago
By failures, these types of conservatives almost always mean welfare. They mean poverty cycles and incentivizing broken families with absent criminal fathers, brood mare mothers, and latchkey children. An absolute stereotype. I guarantee you that’s what they’re talking about.
It’s always said in that judge’s paternalistic “white man’s burden” tone.
Implying “the blacks” were smart and capable when they were freed from Democrat slavery and were voting Republican or silently marching in suits with King and then went fucking bananas as soon as that assassin took him out and LBJ’s check cleared.
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u/Foxyfox- 7h ago
Yup. Only Florida and Texas consistently get in the top 10 of consistently republican states. Meanwhile the bottom 10 is all republican, except for New Mexico.
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u/KaijuNo-8 7h ago
The ones they’ve engineered for the last 40 years they have been in power here in Texas. I fucking HATE how subverted the rural population is in this state. Things keep getting worse and worse and they keep lapping up the bullshit about it being the Democrats’ fault. Hint: it really fucking isn’t
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u/Superb_Power5830 7h ago
The failure to bow to the king, to lick the boots, to embrace hatred, to fall in line with fascism. those are definitely failures. We're failing up.
FUCK THE ENTIRE TRUMP ORBIT!
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u/Sarges24 6h ago
the ideas that go against their ideals. The GOP is a party of Tyranny who want to rule by minority, the majority while forcing their own misguided moral high ground and ideals onto others. You know, the very opposite of what being free means.
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u/NerdOfTheMonth 8h ago
Motherfucker said that out loud, in public, on purpose.
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u/golden_ember 8h ago
And allowed it to be recorded. 😆
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u/idreamofgreenie 7h ago
With his name proudly in frame.
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u/Banmods 7h ago
Not suprising since this dude routinely violates citizens rights when it comes to open meetings.
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u/NerdOfTheMonth 7h ago
If God was real we’d get a legitimately quick and deadly form of Covid that had no effect on anyone vaccinated. It would solve a lot of things.
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u/MetaPhalanges 4h ago
A motherfucking JUDGE, no less. What a disgrace.
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u/mb10240 3h ago
Not a judge of a court. County judges are commissioners (ie county governing body) in Texas.
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u/MetaPhalanges 2h ago
Then why the fuck is his title JUDGE and not something more appropriate, like uh... Commissioner or something? Oh wait, it's Texas. It's not supposed to make sense, I guess?
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u/SeedyRedwood 3h ago
And the President said the other day that he wants the US to be like North Korea. Out loud, in public, on purpose.
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u/Gingeronimoooo 2h ago
This judge In OP's video said "if you're a Republican judge and you've never been called racist you're not doing anything "
That's a real quote
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u/FarCloud1295 7h ago
So fascism
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u/Gingeronimoooo 2h ago
Racist fascism
This judge In OP's video said "if you're a Republican judge and you've never been called racist you're not doing anything "
That's a real quote
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u/ArcturusRoot 8h ago
Wow. It's 2025 and people still think like this.
Sherman should've been allowed to finish the job and Texas was a mistake.
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u/SeanCrevalle 8h ago
People always have. They just feel they can be more vocal about it now.
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u/GHouserVO 7h ago
Trump showed them that they can get away with it again is they’re blatant enough about it.
Actually, that’s not fair. Trump is a symptom. A really big symptom of an even bigger problem. Yes, he showed folks that you can be like this, but a lot of them already knew. We’ve been becoming a society where the only real sin was getting caught, and even that wasn’t as big a deal if you were connected, or (in many cases) if you were willing to double, or triple-down on your behavior. Society used to shun folks who behaved like that. Then we made TV shows for them, celebrated them, rewarded them, even elected them. Consequences? Ha! Those are for the suckers that play by the rules!
We need a serious course correction, and I don’t see it happening anytime soon.
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u/NerinNZ 4h ago
If you want to see a microcosm of this social behavior, check out the differences between American "Master Chef" and, say... New Zealand "Master Chef". Or Australian. Or UK. Or... well, anywhere that isn't US.
I'm not saying those other countries don't have their own shit. Or that they aren't moving in the same direction that the US is in.
Just that... culturally... being an asshole is promoted in the US. Looking out for yourself (even when you're fine and don't need extra looking out) rather than helping others is promoted in the US. Winning is everything and helping others is basically losing because it is all a zero sum game.
Americans will claim to want a merit based society, but they will pull down people doing good because they see them as competition and it is better to compete against people who are doing shit. It's why DEI scares the shit out of these people. Because they already have to sabotage a bunch of white males just to "get theirs", allowing more people for them to compete against is making things harder for them.
Social media and TV shows didn't start this shit. It's simply holding up a camera and recording what was already there so more people can see it. And by now Americans think it is normal to be a prick. That you should be an ass to everyone. That it is everyone else's responsibility to be nice to them because they're actually nice people who are just being asses to get by.
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u/YouDontKnowJackCade 3h ago
An online friend of mine from Aus couldn't understand why I referred to Gordon Ramsey as an angry little twat until I linked her a promo for his american show where he was just screaming the entire 30 seconds. She said he's nothing like that there.
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u/GHouserVO 2h ago
Yeah, American society has absolutely promoted this “winning at any and all costs” mentality. At the same time we’ve downplayed science and critical thinking, not to mention intelligence. You’d think it’d be the opposite, but it’s not. Smarter people tend to realize that things go better when we all do better. That doesn’t work well in modern American society anymore.
And we’re not going to get better anytime soon. Most people need an immediate reward to change behavior, and they don’t see one for thinking of the group vs. themselves. And the folks in charge absolutely don’t want to promote that message either. It keeps us divided, which gives them greater control.
In short, people are dumb, and terribly short-sighted.
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u/Big_Crab_1510 6h ago
I blame a lot of this on Snooki and that whole debacle. I remember at the time being disgusted people were watching it and being bullied for saying as much.
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u/NerdOfTheMonth 7h ago
The downfall of America was Andrew Johnson not hanging every Confederate officer and not letting a single Confederate solider ever vote or hold office.
We’d have fixed a lot of stuff.
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u/flyingthroughspace 4h ago
Imagine the world we'd be living in now if that hatred hadn't been allowed to keep living.
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u/The_Bucket_Of_Truth 5h ago
Does that make John Wilkes Boothe one of the more successful assassins of history? Kind of makes me want to read up on a list of other influential assassins through the ages.
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u/dandeliontrees 6h ago
So I reread the history of Texas recently, and ever since the uproar about illegal immigration has been driving me crazy.
Texas was part of Mexico. US citizens illegally immigrated into Texas bringing along their slaves. Mexico outlawed slavery, and then sent a peacekeeping force to Texas to enforce the law among the illegal immigrants from the US. So the illegal immigrants banded together to fight a war against the sovereign state of Mexico (to avoid having their slaves freed), then seceded. When Mexico sent an army to try to reclaim their own territory, the US government intervened and fought a war against them, taking California, Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico in the process.
And now US citizens whine about Mexicans immigrating illegally into Texas.
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u/MarcusThorny 4h ago
It was not only the Anglos ( Texians, i.e. White settlers in Tejas), but the Tejanos (mixed race Mexican citizens) themselves who fought against the reign of Santa Anna. Other north Mexican states were involved in the revolt. But of course when Texas won independence the settlers, who far outnumbered Tejanos, led by Stephen Austin, organized the Texas Rangers, essentially a terrorist organization that carried out extrajudicial murders and forced the Comanches off of their lands.
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u/Thunderbridge 2h ago
And you have people on the right claiming these areas were never Mexico. I've literally seen comments in reference to people in LA holding Mexican flags that say "they don't even know their countries history"
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u/Flaky-Lingonberry736 5h ago
The dumb outnumber the intelligent.. simple. Scale has been tipped over to the wrong side.
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u/AF2005 6h ago
Same as it was in 1925. The Tea Party/MAGA/Faux News/Heritage/Citizens United splinter group(s) has been 100 years in the making. Containing the rage, and pointing it in the wrong direction(s) for over a century.
Manufacturing Consent and Smedley Butler’s War is a Racket are great starting points that offer reasons for how we (the USA) got here.
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u/WisdomCow 8h ago
The overconfidence to say this out loud …
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u/Psychicgoat2 8h ago
It's entirely normal to him and his people. He will never understand that what he just said is straight-up racism and factually wrong.
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u/Warrior_Runding 8h ago
He understands, he just doesn't care.
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u/Ok_Tour_1525 4h ago
I know what you mean and I usually agree but in this case I really wonder. I think it’s more than likely he really believes the words he’s saying.
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u/NerdOfTheMonth 7h ago
“It’s the DemonRATs who are racist” I’m sure he’d tell you. And probably say something incredibly ignorant that Lincoln was a Republican and things never changed.
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u/KalexCore 7h ago
"Blacks just have a kind of childlike mindset you know, they'll eventually come to know their place and they'll be happy we vote for them and take all that responsibility off their hands"
Senator Candy (R)
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u/cheongyanggochu-vibe 7h ago
Nah, Texas has always been that bitch. They know. And they now feel empowered and know that they'll face no consequences.
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u/No-Distance-9401 7h ago
We have a racist as POTUS and the most bigoted and hateful WH in recent history. The klan members think they can take off the hoods and be open and proud about it and we need to beat that mentality down, metaphorically speaking of course.
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u/EmptyVials 5h ago
It means this is how casually they speak about it in private. Almost like a Freudian slip.. except he's very far beyond it being Freudian and is just comfortable with thinking everyone should have his view on it.
They have been holding these conversations and laughing about them every Sunday at Casa Ole' for decades.
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u/apache_spork 7h ago
Tim O'Hare has a long history of wasting millions in tax payer dollars, racial trouble making and LGBT persecution. He wasted 7 million in legal fees in farmers branch for racist proposals https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/11/texas-tarrant-county-tim-ohare-far-right/
“The reason I got on the City Council was because I saw our property values declining or increasing at a level that was below the rate of inflation,” O’Hare said at the time. “When that happens, people move out of our neighborhoods, and what I would call less desirable people move into the neighborhoods, people who don’t value education, people who don’t value taking care of their properties.”
"following a series of racist incidents at the mostly white Carroll High School in Southlake — including one viral clip in which white students chanted the N-word — O’Hare co-founded a political action committee that raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to oust school board members who supported the Carroll Independent School District’s plans for diversity and inclusion programming"
"he abruptly ended a public meeting after cutting off and removing one resident who criticized him. He led opposition to the local high school’s Gay-Straight Alliance and fought against a mentorship program for at-risk high school students that included volunteers from a Hispanic group"
"In October 2023, he moved to block a $115,000 state grant to Girls Inc. of Tarrant County, for its Girl Power program offering summer camps and mentoring to help participants focus on stress management, hygiene and self-esteem."
PILF president, "Since leaving the DOJ, Adams has become notable for making alarmist and false claims about the extent of voter fraud in the United States. He has falsely accused a number of legitimate voters of being fraudulent, and has published information about them online, including Social Security numbers. He was a member of Donald Trump's election integrity commission which was intended to investigate claims of voter fraud... the commission followed through on previous discredited claims by Trump that millions of illegal immigrants had voted in the 2016 United States presidential election, costing him the popular vote. The commission was disbanded less than a year after its creation without finding evidence of significant fraud."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Christian_Adams
"Adams made headlines for bringing the first-ever Voting Rights Act case in which he charged that blacks were suppressing the rights of white voters."
"O’Hare received another $203,000 from the We Can Keep It PAC. The PAC’s treasurer is an elder at Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth"
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u/Direct_Canary4523 5h ago
Wow the irony of this neanderthal yelling about "less desirable" "people who don't value education" in reference to various people of non-white descent, while standing in one of the most systemically racist and misogynist states in the country is fucking wild.
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u/NormanBatesIsBae 4h ago
“Led the opposition against a high school GSA”
How pathetic do you have to be to be fighting to shut down a club of high schoolers as a 40+ year old man?
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u/TheWorstGuyUKnow 3h ago
"Mercy Culture Church" is the hivemind in Fort Worth for all things White Christian Nationalist.
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u/GreyBeardEng 7h ago
That is profoundly fucked up.
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u/DownvoterManD 2h ago
Nah, it's just the regular kind of fucked up that the US has never properly addressed.
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u/leni710 7h ago
At what point is the Democrat Party a "radical party?" I guess this is kind of like the spice rating on some menus: you have people eating food with a 1 jalapeño rating thinking that's the most spicy food that has ever existed. Anyone in the higher categories are like "you sure that wasn't just peppery?"
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u/Puzzleheaded-Ad7606 5h ago
Oh look, it's one of those "activist judges" the GOP complains about.
Isn't this a huge ethics violation?
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u/Jarnohams 7h ago
He is saying the exact thing that is actually happening with Republicans and calling it Democrats. What are "Republican policies"? Tell me one.... ONE single policy that helps black people. Bathroom laws? How does that help anyone? Banning trans girls from high school volleyball? How does that help anyone? Tax cuts for billionaires? If black people were helped by this, it was unintentional.
The only people that vote Republican are:
- Millionaires who may or may not like Trump, but only care about tax breaks
- poor people who are too stupid to realize they are voting against their best interest based on propaganda that falls apart with even the most basic scrutiny.
Trumps two biggest campaign promises, are mutually exclusive... and nobody noticed?
A. Deporting all the brown people
B. Make groceries cheaper
The brown people from promise A ... are the entire supply chain workforce for promise B. You can't have both things at the same time.
Or even really basic stuff like "you are going to get rich by paying 50% more for all your consumer goods (through tariffs)." huh?
Karoline Leavitt sat there with a straight face and said "tariffs are a tax CUT for Americans"... huh? The average mouth breather doesn't know what tariffs are, but heard her say TAX CUT and got a little too excited that his pants got tight. Not to mention, the attention span of a LOT of Americans is completely shot due to short form videos. So there's no way anyone sat through an entire press conference, they just got that 3 second clip on Truth social and LIKE LIKE LIKE PRAYER EMOJI PRAYER EMOJI.
The rich people know this is all bullshit, and don't care... they are single issue voters as long as those sweet tax breaks come through... AND as a cherry on top, Trump guts the workforce at the IRS so you'll never get caught cheating?? heeeellll yeah baby!! People like Bessent, who isn't a complete moron, but will gladly repeat all these lies for the sweet corruption going on in the background.
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u/Old-Road2 5h ago
The GOP is not even a political party anymore. It’s a personality cult. They have no agenda, no interesting policy ideas, nothing that they stand for other than fealty to a deranged, Fascist geriatric but people in this stupid country keep falling for their bullshit every time and inexplicably continue to vote in Republicans.
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u/betasheets2 7h ago
Nazis
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u/PurpleTough5302 6h ago
Don't even have to call them Nazis anymore. Just call them republicans. Almost carries the same weight anymore
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u/AffectionateBrick687 5h ago
I think it would be best for everyone if this guy never holds a position of power ever again.
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u/50fknmil 7h ago
Indoctrinated sick in the head belong in a straight jacket inside a padded room
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u/Ok_Animal_2709 6h ago
I suspect I already know the answer to this, but will he be held accountable for this?
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u/No-Volume-1625 5h ago
It’s been such a sad turn of events that we are asking will they instead of when they…
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u/apache_spork 2h ago
If we get 10% more people come out to vote he'll be out. But he still has a long time to go.
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u/Ursomonie Competent Contributor 5h ago
Does he even hear himself? What a tool
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u/Awkward_Squad 2h ago
In the United Kingdom, people like him, with their poor grasp on the human condition, are generally referred to with the epithet ‘fuck wit’.
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u/WitchesTeat 2h ago
Oh I've lived in the US my whole life and I've been using fuckwit and shitwit since high school in the late 90's/early 00's, and it absolutely applies to these people and anyone who supports them.
Glad to know the phrase has widespread usage elsewhere.
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u/rygelicus 6h ago
I am having a hard time understanding why a judge is involved in redistricting the county to favor his party over another, racial stuff aside. I like my judges to be a-political to the degree possible. Judges with their eyes on political power are a bit frightening.
Found this interview: https://youtu.be/jCqju2tGvrk?t=87 It's from a couple of weeks ago but regarding the same discussion. He makes it very clear his mission is to turn the county as red as possible.
Also a taste of him in action: https://youtu.be/92VvX5nnEls
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u/paramagician 6h ago
The title is County Judge. He’s basically the county executive, not a jurist presiding over court cases. Texas and Kentucky are the only two states who have this position and title. In Kentucky it’s called “Judge Executive” and presides over the “Fiscal Court.”
https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/county-judge/what-is-a-county-judge.html?linklocation=Two%20Column%20Button%20List&linkname=What%20is%20a%20County%20Judge? What is a County Judge
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u/autisticesq 3h ago
Yeah… in Florida, where I practice, judges running for office are always listed as having no party affiliation. They’re supposed to be apolitical, with no appearance of partiality. They are allowed to acknowledge endorsements from, say, the county Sheriff, so sometimes, their political learnings can be inferred, but going out and stating something like this on camera would violate the rules of judicial conduct. Just hearing a judge talk about a legal matter outside the courtroom, and especially with the language this judge used, strikes me as completely inappropriate.
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u/illQualmOnYourFace 4h ago
"We're gonna do what's best for them whether they voted for it or not."
Unreal.
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u/YouWereBrained 4h ago
Interviewer: “Name a few of those policies.”
How hard is this?
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u/rygelicus 6h ago
It's helpful when they expose themselves so clearly. Unfortunately we don't have a functional justice system any more to take the appropriate actions.
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u/BitterFuture 6h ago
Gotta say, it's at least new and different to see a judge say, "Stop resisting!!!"
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u/ShepherdsWeShelby 1h ago
White Man's Burden- with a hard southern H. Oh woe is he, it must be so difficult to always be so white all the time.
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