Tuesday, July 8, 2025 - Burt 'bulldogs' his way onto the governor's race stage

Georgia Lieutenant Governor Burt Jones finally made it public: he's running to be the state's next governor, and did so with a ⁠well-produce, trope-riddle campaign video⁠ that checked off all the rudimentary Republican campaign ad must-haves: a truck, driving from a lovely exurban home, through the wandering highways of rural-esque Georgia, walking the grounds with the entire family in tow, chatting it up with some guy wearing a cowboy hat and walking a horse, etc. It also included some other disturbing tropes: the absurdly not-at-all female guy running track as a distraight female looks on, for example. Oh, and his big foray into policy: no more income taxes. That's where the focus went here. Why? Because A) it never reduces - actually contributes to - inequalities and B) as per "A," is yet aother disproportionate handout to the well-off at the expense of the poor and working class. ⁠Plenty of evidence to that.⁠ Burt's okay with that because he has zero concept what it's like being that poor and/or working class Georgian. That's how it goes when you're raised in wealth, attend private schools and don't have to balance going to college with job(s) but can instead walk-on with the football squad then step into the family business.