Jasmine Crockett, the incredibly voluble congresswoman from Texas, is the new fresh leader of the Democrat Party, the fresh-faced Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who is now considered a veteran).
And Crockett is trying to steal AOC’s thunder.
The Democrats are completely lost. They’re in the wilderness right now because their leaders are people like Crockett. They’re attempting to show that they are, in fact, The Resistance. And they think that the way to show they are The Resistance is by cursing a lot and saying deeply insulting, terrible things.
Thus, Jasmine Crockett.
Last Saturday, she was at the Human Rights Campaign, which is all about LGBTQ+ and supposedly about marginalized people. While speaking at the evening’s dinner, she proceeded to drop an insane line about Texas GOP governor Greg Abbott, who is a paraplegic, saying, “Because we in these hot-a** Texas streets, honey. Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on, now. And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-a** mess, honey.”
There are a few problems with this. First, Crockett grew up in a rather privileged precinct of St. Louis, so she’s cosplaying.
But beyond that, when she refers to Governor Abbott as “Hot Wheels,” she is insulting a person who is in a wheelchair and a paraplegic. She is insulting a paraplegic for being in a wheelchair by calling him “Hot Wheels” as the members of the Human Rights Campaign laugh with her and cheer — members who are supposedly all about the inclusion of marginalized people.
I don’t think they are about the inclusion of marginalized people. I have doubts that is their actual political agenda.
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Then, Crockett tried to walk back her remarks because it turns out that it’s actually not great to insult the disabled and to characterize them as “Hot Wheels.” She tried to pretend she wasn’t talking about the fact that Governor Abbott is a paraplegic. She wrote on X:
I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable.
Literally, the next line I said was that he was a “Hot A** Mess,” referencing his terrible policies. At no point did I mention or allude to his condition. So, I’m even more appalled that the very people who unequivocally support Trump—a man known for racially insensitive nicknames and mocking those with disabilities—are now outraged.
At one time, Trump supposedly made fun of a journalist who had a condition, but it was actually not him making fun of the journalist who had the condition. He was making the same weird hand motions he makes whenever he talks about someone he thinks is stupid and weak.
But the media played it as though this particular journalist was being mocked by Trump. It became a national news story.
Crockett publicly called a paraplegic “Hot Wheels.” Now, she’s claiming the reason she called Abbott “Hot Wheels” was not because he is in a wheelchair, but rather because he is sending migrants on airplanes to various cities led by black mayors.
I don’t think that’s what she meant. And the reason I don’t is that, in 2021, she liked a post referencing Governor Abbott as “Hot Wheels,” which was before the migrant transfers.
Oopsie daisy.
That fact was uncovered by the Washington Free Beacon, which does tremendous reporting.
This, of course, has generated angst and antagonism in the House of Representatives, which is staffed by good, responsible people who actually care about their constituents.
But there is also a contingent of the House of Representatives that is basically comparable to Jerry Springer running for various gubernatorial seats. That is what the House of Representatives has become. In large part, it is filled with some of the dullest knives in the drawer.
That includes Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who’s now complaining about the Trump administration for — wait for it — being too white. Yesterday, she said:
Look, I don’t want us to lose sight of what is actually happening here. Let’s not revise what’s happening. The Trump cabinet is on track to be one of the whitest cabinets in modern history. And when the government is given unchecked authority, civil rights are often the first to be sacrificed.
This is what they’ve got: “The Cabinet’s too white” and “Hot Wheels governor.”
These are your leaders, Democrats. You chose your fighters.
There’s a whole Democratic campaign right now which is asking, “Do you regret your vote for Trump?” And the answer so far seems to be, “Absolutely not,” for the vast majority of people who voted for Trump.
And the reason for that is because the specter of Democrat rule is simply frightening.
One of the ousted members of “The Squad,” Cori Bush, admitted what the Democrats were going to do next if they gained power. And it was terrifying: “Remember, the investment kept going down, down, down. And we were like, ‘No, because we need this investment. We need,’ like you said, ‘the money.’ … I thought we were at 10 and then we’re down to six and down to three, then we’re down to 1.7,” she said.
They were going to shoot for a $10 trillion — $10 trillion — in a climate bill. If they had unified control of the government, they would try to do it again.
No wonder people are still resonating with President Trump’s message.
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