Pandering & Congressional Funnies

This post has lots of pics, but I swear its worth it. I love social media during campaign season because something funny always happens. So this is a bit of a potpourri piece, so I'll end it on a humorous note. For now, lets start with pandering.

Pandering isn't a new thing and there is always that one candidate that will surrender any bit of self-dignity they have for the sake of getting a vote. Happens every election cycle. Last election cycle it was David Saucedo that embodied pandering. This cycle, it is Dori Fenenbock far and away.

She's really taken the pandering to the next level. I mean she's not dancing cumbias like David Saucedo did, but lets be real...that will likely happen before this is all said and done. I'm getting used to the Mexican pandering, which I'll go more into in a second, but I want to focus on Veteran's Day pandering.

So I found this picture and it annoyed me on so many levels but I'll start with the fact that as a veteran who is starting to gray, I am like a lot of the thousands of other veterans in town and we all put on some sort of military regalia on Veteran's Day to signify our military service. We are big on wearing something from our branch of service. Trust me, you never have to wonder what branch a veteran served in because we almost always wear something that will tell you.

Fenenbock must've been watching war movies and went full Tropic Thunder. She apparently decided to play dress-up and wore this. I know a few veterans that were offended, but most of us just laughed at the lengths people will go to for pandering for a vote.

Normally electeds will wear a flag on their lapel or a red, white, and blue scarf or something patriotic on veterans day. The electeds that are veterans, which there are fewer and fewer of these days, may wear a baseball hat with their branch of service.

Fenenbock looks like she got run over by a supply truck heading to a military surplus store.

Or the guy that brought his wife to the hunting trip. Pro tip - if you aren't a veteran, don't play dress-up as one. Seriously its like there is no one around her that cares enough about her to stop her from doing some of the things she does.

Okay so now lets move on to the non-holiday pandering Fenenbock does. Remember when I said earlier that I thought she'd end up dancing cumbias before this is all said and done? Well there is a reason I have said that. She seems to be really focused on pandering to raza for the purposes of trying to appeal to us.

Which is weird because she also actually brags about defeating Latino candidates. Ive written about it before and its still on her website. Go check if you don't believe me.

She's done it with the Si Se Puede chant at her announcement, she will try to speak Spanish to people in that special annoying way that only rich white folk seem to have mastered, and makes sure she gets as many pictures with prominent Latinos as she can.

Frankly, all you Latinos that are encouraging that shit, especially those of you that call yourselves Chicanos, trust me when I tell you that people are taking note.

Here's an example of her posting a pic with Dolores Huerta, who I guarantee she needed help learning to pronounce her last name...

Obviously she wants to look like she hangs out with farmworkers and civil rights heroes. In reality, she's more comfortable hanging out in Beverly Hills wearing furs. No seriously, I'm not joking.

No, I don't know what kind of fur that is, I'm chicano. I've never seen a fur.

Anywho, its not just civil rights leaders she tries to pander with. Its also with my future ex-wife's current boo A -Rod.

And frankly, its my favorite one because of the hashtag.

Lets Fiesta?

I've been brown my entire life. So I have one question for all you Chicanos that are allegedly hardcore Democrats that are all Down with Dori...who the fuck says that?!?!?!

I'll tell you who...

Drunk gringas that have had one too many shots of tequila at the Drinko-de-Mayo frat party, thats who.

Because I've never heard raza say "Lets Fiesta" in my entire life. Seriously how much cultural appropriation are you Chicanos going to stand and watch?

So in that spirit, I thought if she's gonna use images of herself with Latinos, why not make them more genuine and include what her website says about raza?

There, I fixed it.

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I said I'd end on a humorous note. Like I said, I love social media during election season. If you haven't met Enrique Garcia, he's a really great guy. He's not gonna win, but he is a great guy. Well he made a little boo-boo on his social media post on Veteran's Day. Its still there today, so I don't think he's caught it yet.

But here's a screenshot. I've magnified the flags emoji that are used in the post to draw to your attention something one of my readers caught.

That is not the American flag that is used in his post. Its actually Liberia's flag.