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From the Candidates’ Debate:
HOLT: Secretary Castro, this one is for you. All of you on stage support a woman’s right to an abortion. You all support some version of a government health care option. Would your plan cover abortion, Mr. Secretary?
CASTRO: Yes, it would. I don’t believe only in reproductive freedom, I believe in reproductive justice.
(APPLAUSE)
And, you know, what that means is that just because a woman — or let’s also not forget someone in the trans community, a trans female, is poor, doesn’t mean they shouldn’t have the right to exercise that right to choose. And so I absolutely would cover the right to have an abortion.
After all, that’s Reproductive Justice.
Here’s a golden oldie about Julian Castro, from Zev Chafets’ very fun 2010 New York Times profile of La Bama:
Paradoxically, Julián Castro’s appeal to fellow Hispanic voters may be limited by his own assimilation. Although he pronounces his name “HOO-lee-un,” he doesn’t really speak Spanish — a fact he isn’t eager to advertise. La Raza put a high premium on the mother tongue, but Rosie Castro spoke English to her sons, and Julián studied Latin and Japanese in school, while Joaquín studied Latin and German. A lack of Spanish fluency isn’t unusual in San Antonio, especially among Castro’s generation, but in the immigrant barrios of Houston and the colonias south of Interstate 10 down to the border, Spanish is the first and often only language. A Mexican-American with statewide political aspirations needs to be able to do more than pronounce his name correctly. Early in his administration, Castro assigned his chief of staff, Robbie Greenblum — a Jewish lawyer from the border town of Laredo whose own Spanish is impeccable — to discreetly find him a tutor. Rosie Castro’s son is now being taught Spanish by a woman named Marta Bronstein. Greenblum met her in shul.
Zev used to be the press secretary for Likud prime minister Menachem Begin, so more things amuse him than surprise him.
His handlers should get somebody to school him on this the way he got Spanish lessons. I see a growth field for “trans-consultants.”
Satire just died, laughing. Monty Python was not doing comedy, they were predicting the future 40 years ago—or maybe they were doing hate speech, I dunno, check with the commissars . I’m stocking up on their DVDs, just in case:
How many Hispanic men do you imagine want to be associated with that guy tonight? Comes off as a total beta sucking up to power; “please sir, some more.” He should never have added an addendum. Made him look weak. Just go with the first part and let it hang like a true alpha. Dare the questioner to come to you, don’t go to them. Instead, we got a Beto male.
Did Julian Castro’s parents forget to have the birds-and-the-bees talk with him?
Xi Jinping is unironically better than all of them
I thought that “reproductive justice” was the multiracial Browning of America, according to Democrats.
“Reproductive Freedom” though, that’s a puzzler. I guess if Democrat women go to Mexico, are implanted with a Mexican fetus, and then come back here to give birth to it, that would be “reproductive freedom” or at least “freedom through reproduction”. Or would it be people smuggling?
It’s confusing.
If we’re supposed to accept that mentally ill men who believe themselves to be women are indeed women, then it’s not such a huge leap for us to accept that those mentally ill men who, say, have an extended bout of constipation and believe themselves to be pregnant are indeed pregnant.
Pregnant trans female. Well someone better not have a crisis that involves biology when they’re president……
But not a Westerner, therefore No thanks, therefore not better than some of the more rational ones on stage. Godfree Roberts can keep atheistic President ‘God Free’ Xi.
(I do think some of those on stage are preferable to a President Kushner Term Two. The ongoing failures and general terribleness on all his core promises, the immigration surge, the weakness, feebleness, and blowhardism. Go back to Reality TV, Donald; and have the courtesy to legally change your name to “Don Kushner.”)
Julian needs some coaching in wokeage if he thought, perhaps understandably, a “trans female” was a female that’s transitioned to male, not the other way around. Maybe he can find someone from shul?
That Spanish-speaking Jewish lawyer from Laredo might be a better candidate
Julian Castro emphasized his executive experience.
Perhaps those things did coincide with his time as mayor. I doubt he wants anyone looking into the extent of his responsibility for them.
When Julian Castro was mayor of San Antonio, he began to shift its local public utility from coal-fired plants to solar and other renewables, and he created more than 800 jobs doing that.
Uh huh.
LESTER HOLT FOLLOWUP: Secretary Castro, will your campaign provide a breakdown of these 800 positions, their titles and hourly or annual pay rates? Are these 800 net jobs, or did one Coal Backhoe Operator join the unemployment line for each Equinox Azimuth Panel Adjustment Technician who you hired? How many of those 800 jobs were in San Antonio? How many in Jiangsu?
Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
You all may laugh! But I’m the one who stocked up on Orville Redenbacher futures.
Julian Castro. Sounds like an actor from one of those 90s Cinemax Afterdark movies.
😀 😀 😀
‘Congratulations, sir–uh, ma’m: you just gave birth to a bouncing baby Nubian!’
That’s not correct. Unless the accent is a Spinal Tap affectation.
Or who got the jobs, or who got the funds.
That can’t be from tonight’s debate–one guy was actually arguing against his right to have babies.
To the extent the government of the country for which it stands actively works against my interests and values as a conservative white Christian, I’m uneasy with the pledge myself. (We used to have a town councilor who would wait till everyone finished the pledge, then loudly say “for ALL”. The nitwit later got elected mayor).
Julián. Its name is Julián. Don’t impose your cis-anglo-normative orthography of white privilege on zhir’s Latinx homo-inter-sexual-sectional candidacy, you brute!
If he’s elected, instead of Mr. President can we call him The Lizard King?:
> When I was mayor of San Antonio, we moved our local public utility, we began to shift it from coal-fired plants to solar and other renewables, and also created more than 800 jobs doing that.
When Julian Castro was mayor of San Antonio, he began to shift its local public utility from coal-fired plants to solar and other renewables, and he created more than 800 jobs doing that.
Uh huh.
LESTER HOLT FOLLOWUP: Secretary Castro, will your campaign provide a breakdown of these 800 positions, their titles and hourly or annual pay rates? Are these 800 net jobs, or did one Coal Backhoe Operator join the unemployment line for each Equinox Azimuth Panel Adjustment Technician who you hired? How many of those 800 jobs were in San Antonio? How many in Jiangsu?
Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
I get the really strong impression that Julian is more interested in other birds, so in his defense, he may not really know about the mechanics of the situation.
I get my local news from San Antonio TV stations, and I have no memory of vast fields of solar panels beinging installed, or windmills, or rainbow unicorn fart harvesting plants. And 800 jobs? Must have slipped his mind to mention it when pursuing endless time on TV and radio. But then again, lord knows, mediocre polititicians don’t like to toot their own horn.
Does Castro still not know Spanish? It’s not that hard a language. If he started studying it in 2010 (with personal tutors no less) he should be at least intermediate by now.
This wokeness signaling is getting out of hand. A couple years, I would have never expected to hear such absurdity from mainstream politicians.
Re: Castro
It’s a sad sign of our decline as a nation that Julian Castro feels the need to learn Spanish. Even at the peak of the Great Wave Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland weren’t trying to learn German or Italian. Nor do I recall Teddy Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson trying to learn Yiddish or Swedish.
Tough question, Lester.
One of the under-discussed aspects of media bias – and that bias is staggering – is how these leftist media types, even though it is ostensibly their job to do so, can’t bring themselves to formulate a challenging question for these leftist pols.
“Mr. Conservative: Why is your administration putting little children in cages, etc… And when did you stop beating your wife, children, and the dog?”
“Mr. or Ms. Liberal: We’re all familiar with the vicious, under-handed tactics of the far right and their disinformation campaigns on the internet, what is your plan to get your message out to the people in the face of such hostility and deceit?”
Someone posted a list yesterday from Bill O’Reilly of questions which should be asked of these people but never will be. It was a good list. Start with, “Why should the children of a West Virginia Coal miner who died from black at age 43 be forced to subsidize through the income tax a reparations check to Barak Obama’s kids?”
Castro apparently studied Latin, so he could learn Spanish pretty easily within a few weeks. Also with Latin he can chat with the Pontiff on Facetime.
Caitlin Jenner is a post menopausal grandmother and will not be needing abortions.
The notion of sex change women getting pregnant and then wanting abortions is hardly going to break the finances of the health care system, thought theoretically it is just about possible, and the only valid response is to say “whatever”.
It would be a turn up for the book if 62 years after the Cuban revolution the US also gets a President Castro, but Julian would be better than either of the candidates we had to choose from on November 8th, 2016. Mark your 2020 Calendars for Julian.
Questions of foreign policy seem to be largely ignored in presidential primary campaigns, even though as President, the main part of the job is dealing the the relationship between the US and other nations, choosing which foreign leaders to insult, which other nations to bomb or invade, which scenic resort to spend your working vacations at, etc.
I would be more interested to know what foreign wars Castro has planned, than if he thinks transexual women/men/undecided should have hysterectomies or orchidectomies on the house.
Um, it’s the Republicans who are ANTI-SCIENCE, right?
Amazing. And he will get a free pass because he’s a Demmunist…
Coached by Marta Bronstein, um, any relation to Lev Davidovich Bronstein (aka Leon Trotsky)?? Just askin’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky
Leon Trotsky
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lev Davidovich Bronstein[a] (7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky[b] (/ˈtrɒtski/),[1] was a Russian revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and Soviet politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism.
Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronstein on 7 November 1879, the fifth child of a Ukrainian-Jewish family of wealthy farmers in Yanovka or Yanivka, in the Kherson governorate of the Russian Empire (now Bereslavka, in Ukraine), a small village 24 kilometres (15 mi) from the nearest post office.
In other words, if you build the Gulag, they will come. Better have non-Hispanic Spanish coaches too.
Calling Solzhenitsyn, Calling Solzhenitsyn…
I thought the Mayor position for San Antonio is mostoy ceremonial and the city has a city manager.
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/154794/garrison-goes-wild
http://southpark.cc.com/clips/104426/scramble-its-brains-or-vacuum-it-out