"Hot Wheels:" Democrat Princess Jasmine Crockett Mocks Texas Governor's Disability
*UPDATED* The privileged Congressional member took a shot at Gov. Greg Abbott's inability to walk during a "Human Rights Campaign" speech.
*UPDATE BELOW* — Attention-hungry Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett mocked Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s disability in a speech ironically given at a “Human Rights Campaign” event.
When Abbott was 26 years-old he was hit by a large tree limb while jogging after a storm that paralyzed him from the waist-down, requiring use of a wheelchair.
“We in these hot-ass Texas streets, honey, um … 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-ass mess, honey! So yes, yes, yes, yes. Right? Okay, alright, Imma move on, Imma move on.”
Crockett was a virtual unknown a few years ago until she decided to compete in the insufferable attention economy which means if you’re a politician, you routinely debase yourself by picking moronic fights and pulling brash stunts. Every soundbite is a chance to offend because even if it’s nonsensical and dishonest, it’s at least stupid enough to get you into the headlines, and that’s enough. She isn’t the only one throwing elbows to get into this space, but she is perhaps the most shameless.
Adding to the ridiculousness of it all is her obsession with pretending to be street. Crockett grew up in St. Louis, as did I, and we’re around the same age. She attended the most exclusive and expensive private school in the state — MICDS. It’s the school attended by all of the politicians’s kids, all the business owners’s kids, pro athletes’s kids, the kids of the rich and famous. It is a world far away from that of our own. She was born into privilege, educated in privilege, and passed into adulthood in privilege. The closest to street she ever came was driving through them on her way to her tony private school. She pretends as a form of cosplay. It’s her bigoted interpretation of her voting bloc, a costume she puts on to assume relatability. She has to, because they barely vote for her:
A one-million strong heavily blue district and she barely scrapes up 197k votes. Sheesh.
She’s an avatar for the soul of the Democrat party. The House is moving to censure her for her remarks, but it won’t mean anything. Under Pelosi, they refused to censure Ilhan Omar or Rashdia Talib for their repeated antisemitic comments.
So because censure and outrage are essentially meaningless, should Republicans drop the effort? No — mostly because outrage is not meaningless when it’s about something for which legitimate outrage is the only response. Mocking a man for being in a wheelchair fits that bill. Democrats ran away a generation of voters with their incessant nastiness and mean-spiritedness. They’ve only just now begun realizing this, but instead of changing their tactics they’ve decided to pretend that the issue isn’t them, it’s everyone else. Example: After months of people doxxing Tesla owners and shooting up Tesla dealerships The Atlantic blames Trump and Vance for a “brutal American” phenomenon.
When Democrats serve these examples of their ideology on a silver platter for you, take them. Remind your fellow Americans that Democrats are still no more interested in fixing their attitude than they are in fixing their failed policies.
*UPDATE: Crockett responded on X:
“What I ackshully meant when I made fun of the disabled governor was …” isn’t a good look. Hoo boy, she’s going to forever generate content, isn’t she?
*MORE: Not her first offense:
She is pathetic.
Where are the people having conversations with the sages as they reach through the pages of history, discovering a more meaningful life instead of discussing mockery of life? Quietly sitting in their libraries, elevating their minds to astronomical heights, fueled by the secret depths of the thoughts of kings and travelers refined from wells of ink to pen to paper.