gay texan (1,535 posts)
Today's experience with Beto
So today there was a Beto town hall in a little town about an hour and a half from me.
And I went!
So in a west texas town of about 11,000 about 100 people were there. First thing I noticed was some Trumpers parked across the street with the usual Trump/gun/"dont tread on Derp" flags and signs.
There was a mild police presence and they were cool.
So the rally starts inside of the public library and Beto comes on to a round of applause. He gives his speech and eventually comes to the phrase "A bullet out of an AR-15 liquifies human organs" (it does, that's a fact)
This of course gets two loud sneering of laughs by two pudgy white MAGA cap guys. Beto took note of this but didnt react.
So the opening speech ends and he opens the floor for questioning and this is where it gets good: He CHALLENGED the sign holders, the disrespectful people, the assholes of the group to ask him questions.
Only three of them out of twenty some odd people had the ****ing balls to ask him anything. He put those assholes on the spot professionally and they turned into instant cowards!!!!
The crowd picks up on this and I swear to ****ing whatever, the energy CHANGES in that room! The MAGAS realize they are not in the majority, but a useless embarrassment of a minority. The crowd is energized for BETO.
They start LEAVING!!!!! Beto didn't play their games!!!
Folks Snyder, Texas is stupid deep red. In all of my years I never thought I'd see anything like today!
Dont wanna be put the cart before the horse here, but I think Beto has some real momentum here and he CAN win this!
Interesting that the protesters were across the street, the town hall was inside, but there were evil redcaps inside to snort, laugh, and be challenged.
Next, while it seems Robert Francis is on whirlwind tour of Texas, the last reported on meeting I'm seeing with video was in Midland, and I see no horrible MAGA in the news report. Beto's website rehashes much of his social media activities, which, I would think, would include his masterful owning of them dumb rednecks and them sulking off into the darkness.
Sounds like campaign worker bouncy to me.....