OPINION:
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett announced in a fundraising email she’s running for the U.S. Senate, vowing to “take on Donald Trump, the Texas Republican political machine and all of their shady special interest donors.” That’s her official campaign message.
Her unofficial campaign slogan is this: Vote for me, or I’ll kick your butt.
She doesn’t need to say it. It’s implied by her congressional behavior. And rhetoric. And ghetto talk.
In March, in a video where she was leading a resistance event against President Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk and MAGAs, she said, of Trump: “Listen. He up there. He doin’ all kind of nonsense and bulls—. Lemme just be real. And we ain’t gonna sit with that sh—. We wouldn’t.” She went on to point out the messages of T-shirts her fellow anti-Trumpers wore — “Resist. That’s what we about,” she said of one. “No kings live here. Yeah. We sending a message. We sending a message,” she said of another. “Ya’ll know that that’s how we roll,” she said, of yet another. Classic Crockett.
It’s not just that Crockett’s grammatically challenged. It’s that she loves to take her tough talk to the congressional floor and wallow around in it, roll in the mud with it, drag others into the cesspool with her. Who can forget her famous publicly videoed taunt of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene as a “bleach blond, bad built, butch body” during a House committee hearing?
She’s the one who inspired the Politico headline in March, “‘Potty mouth’ Democrats have some new fighting words we can’t put in this headline.” The story went on to report: “When Rep. Jasmine Crockett reacted to President Donald Trump’s joint address to Congress … profanity leaped effortlessly from her lips: ‘Somebody slap me and wake me the f— up because I’m ready to get on with it.’ Just a few days earlier, when asked of her message to Elon Musk, she told him to ‘f— off.’”
She’s an attorney.
“Jasmine Crockett Fakes ‘Ghetto’ Persona For Fame,” one YouTube video title claimed about a year ago.
In the video, her before-Congress speech was normal. Her after-Congress speech was street.
Why would a woman who served in the legal field purposely set out to sound like a trash-talking, uneducated street urchin?
Answer: Because that’s what resonates with Democrat voters.
Today’s Democrat Party has become a haven for all that’s ugly, stupid, vicious, hateful, chaotic and violent about society. It’s where brick-throwing Antifa walks; where street-blocking Black Lives Matter roams; where p——- hat-wearing, pink-haired, pierced-nose boys masquerading as girls get their love and acceptance. It’s where illegals —especially of the rapist and murderer ilk — run to receive shelter from the deportation storm. It’s where Marxists push their rot and socialists spread their seeds and communists grow their propaganda.
Democrats truly have become the place for the lowest of society’s low.
So it makes sense that Crockett is running for Senate. It makes perfect sense that a woman who spends her political capital on spreading ignorance is fundraising for higher office under the Democrat ticket, with the blessings and support of the Democrat Party.
It’s hard to imagine how history will portray her congressional service, though.
Nearly everything she says has to be blocked out or marked with a warning label for children and those with objections to vulgar language. And that’s as it should be. One day — and the sane have a dream about this — one day, Crockett will be a distant, dim, eventually forgotten memory.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.
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