{"id":43774,"date":"2026-02-02T07:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43774"},"modified":"2026-02-02T07:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:16:07","slug":"get-out-the-goat-entrails-ctd-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/02\/get-out-the-goat-entrails-ctd-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Out The Goat Entrails, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

An important feature of the\u00a0upset victory of Democrat Taylor Rehmet<\/a> in a special election for the Texas State Senate escaped my attention, and is supplied<\/a> by the Star-Telegram<\/strong><\/em> of Fort Worth, TX:<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he wasn\u2019t involved in the Texas Senate District 9 race, where a Democrat flipped a historically Republican seat in the Fort Worth-area, despite endorsing the candidate and urging voters to get out to the polls.<\/p>\n

Democrat Taylor Rehmet\u2019s defeat of Republican Leigh Wambsganss in the longtime GOP district has garnered national attention, as some look to the race as an indicator of what could be to come in the November midterm elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>Another Trump endorsee loses a special election. This remains important because it signals left-leaning voters that Trump is not dominant, and right voters who are wavering that a Trump-endorsed candidate isn’t always going to win.<\/p>\n

And so it’s worth getting out to the polls.<\/p>\n

Losses like this one should be a huge red flag for the GOP<\/strong><\/em>, not only as a political warning, but, in fact, a Divine warning. Hey, I’m an agnostic, folks, so some will say I don’t know how to read the Christian tea-leaves, but, taking into account Senator Goldwater’s numerous remarks[1]<\/a><\/sup> on the increasingly Christian GOP<\/em><\/strong> of his day, losses such as this one, that the GOP<\/strong><\/em> is suffering in most special elections, or winning by smaller-tha-expected margins, suggests that either the Divine does not approve of the GOP<\/em><\/strong>, or that the Divine doesn’t exist. Oh, sure, maybe there’s a Plan, or the particular GOP<\/strong><\/em> candidates were not acceptable to a rather picky Divine, but in the end that’s just pussy-footing around their real problem: there’s no proof of a Divine<\/strong>. Acting as if there is, and that absolves you of responsibility for self-examination, will lead to, well, Ken Paxton<\/a> and his ilk.<\/p>\n

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\u200b<\/a>1<\/sup> Here’s one now:<\/p>\n

Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know, I’ve tried to deal with them. [AZ Quotes<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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An important feature of the\u00a0upset victory of Democrat Taylor Rehmet in a special election for the Texas State Senate escaped my attention, and is supplied by the Star-Telegram of Fort Worth, TX: President Donald Trump on Sunday said he wasn\u2019t involved in the Texas Senate District 9 race, where a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43774"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43781,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43774\/revisions\/43781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}