It’s not easy being from Mississippi a lot of the time. We have some of the most beautiful land in the country, some of the best music, best writers, best food (it’s why we’re all so dadgum fat), but… lordamighty, have we got some idiots. Not all conservatives here are hateful bigots, but most of ‘em are, and it’s hard to find any who aren’t terrifyingly stupid and creepy in how easily-led they are. Even the ones who aren’t bigots are too cowardly and herd-conformist to stand up to the ones who are. And it’s beyond frustrating watching people vote for the same televangelist-like grifters year after year, and get the worst results in the country and never learning anything from it. If you try to straighten them out, they’ve been trained, like good cultists, to attack you. If you’ve ever seen in comments at all, you’ve heard it all before — it’s about all I talk about, because it gripes me so badly.
It’s frustrating, it’s disheartening, and though I’ll never leave the place (I like my house and yard too much, and I’m also too stubborn to surrender the state to them — I’ll stay and fight and help turn it more purple) I still feel really embarrassed by a lot of my neighbors.
But not today! :) Today, I get a break!
Okay, you may have heard about the mayor of Petal, a jackass named Hal Marx, and his beyond-idiotic recent tweet. The guy’s been acting like a junior-league Trump for a while now, running a Twitter feed (which now appears to be gone due to good ol’ cover-your-ass) full of smartassed liberal-hatin’ and race-baiting and general assholery that makes it clear that he’s not suited to govern a diverse group of people. Like Trump, you can’t trust him to behave fairly to people he disagrees with… which, in his case, is anybody to the left of Sean Hannity.
His Twitter and Facebook trolling have irked people for quite a while. Then he really stepped in it by speculating that George Floyd maybe died of heart failure or a drug overdose, because he was talking and that means he could breathe. Kneeling on a man’s neck just couldn’t be a factor, right? Nothing “unreasonable,” and police are the real victims in the situation, right?
It’s fuckin’ ignorant right-winger excuse-making for the police and general disregard for the life of a black man, the typical shit guys like Hal Marx say. But here comes the good part:
The Aldermen of Petal, Mississippi (yes, Mississippi) called a special meeting calling for his resignation. Marx refused (babbling some crazyperson hoohah about “not surrendering to Antifa” or some such horseshit).
Welllllll, Petal’s locals were not havin’ it and they put this jackass on BLAST for an hour and he had to sit there listening to it. They are angry, they are relentless, and it is freakin’ beautiful. I can only dream of a day when Trump will have to sit there and listen to people tell him what an embarrassment he is. In the meantime, we have one of his fan-boys getting an earful of “we hate you, dude!” (direct quote)
And, most importantly to me, we get to see how some Mississippians feel about this kind of shit. They are pissed, they are not taking it, and that means there may be some help for this state after all.
Even if you aren’t into Mississippi politics, this video’s worth your time, just to see a bully get what’s coming to him. For an hour, the bastard has to just sit there and hear what a complete shit he is. And we don’t get to see things like that nearly often enough.
Enjoy!
As a bonus, here’s a link to a protest in Petal in front of City Hall, which also has some great stuff.