Politics & Covid 19 - Part 1

We are all pretty much confined to our homes and your ol' Homeboy LionStart has been slacking it again on the blog.

I know. But my beat is usually just politics and I try to stick to local politics because, well there are plenty of other blogs that do the whole national political thing.

But hey, if you stick around I'll make it up to you. Turns out, a local political appears to have physically threatened El Paso Mayor Dee Margo over the whole shelter-in-place thing.

So how did we end up with a shelter-in-place situation? Well, because all too often, people left to their own devices will always have some pendejos that don't listen and have to ruin things for everyone else. Sorta ruins the entire premise of libertarians' world view, but that is a blog for another day.

Apparently El Paso's Dandy boy, Max Grossman now fancies himself some sort of constitutional scholar and has gotten is bloomers and top hat on a little tight. He's apparently having a fit over the shelter-in-place order and is going after his fellow Republican El Paso Mayor Dee Margo pretty badly.

I mean forget the fact that the number of cases in El Paso keeps rising and the whole point of shelter-in-place is to minimize the spread of the virus so that our hospitals aren't overwhelmed in the process.  No, that doesn't matter to the Dandy. He wants to still be able to grandstand and play dress-up in front TV cameras in downtown El Paso.

But the point is to stay home - for everyone else's good. So he rants on social media. He's what we used to call in the Army, a buddy-fucker.

He will fuck over his buddy, for his own gain or satisfaction. If there is a better textbook definition for the Dandy, I'd love to hear it because that one fits pretty damn well.

Anwho, stay the fuck home Max and all you other dumbass Maxes out there that are ruining it for everyone else. Stop being selfish. Stop being self-important. Save lives and stay your ass home.

Well Max is pals with notorious immigrant-harraser and felon Anthony Aguero. You remember him right? He's the guy that made all kinds of noise about how he was leading a movement and he was going to be the next member of congress, etc. Well he took a major beatdown in the Republican primary and really underperformed as a candidate.

Seriously, that shit was embarrassing.

Well it turns out his buddy / campaign manager was another whack-job named Chris Yost. Now if you want to hear some really funny stuff, you should listen to the recorded phone calls between Sam Williams - on the Republicans that trounced Aguero and is still in a run-off - and Yost. Williams makes him look like an idiot.

Yost ultimately sounded pretty submissive to Williams, which is funny if you have heard Yost speak or read any of his social media postings.

Well Yost appears to be joining the Dandy in his opposition to the shelter-in-place order. So he has also taken to social media to air out his opposition. But man, does this guy go off the deep end...

Look, you all know that I am one of Mayor Margo's biggest critics. Quite frankly, I've been one of his biggest critics for years, since her was the State Representative for the westside. Political disagreements are what this country was founded on. But I ache never heard for someone threaten an elected official - then did so in writing - through social media for the whole world to see.

I honestly don't understand how this isn't a crime. This appears to be a pretty cut-and-dry incident of threatening a public official. I mean he wants to remove Margo, "by force if need be".

I'm not sure how that could be interpreted any other way. No one twisted this guy Yost's arm to make a public statement like that. He did that on his own. But its really disturbing, especially when you see how much he likes to brag about his firearms.

Stick around for another - equally infuriating - part to this post about the local political angle. Only this time, it'll involve some pretty prominent Democrats...