Whenever Texas Democrat Representative Jasmine Crockett opens her big mouth and disgorges violent and bigoted blather, I am reminded of something author and philanthropist Orin Woodward once said:
“Big mouths and small brains make the strangest noises.”
Without a doubt, Jasmine Crockett has been making a lot of strange noises during the past month or so.
Among other things, the unhinged congresswoman has unleashed violent rhetoric implying that Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz should “be knocked over the head, like hard.”
Then, she called for Tesla founder and DOGE chief Elon Musk to be “taken down.”
During an online telephone interview, Crockett called for a “Tesla Takedown. “All I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down.”
That bit of pugnacious chatter prompted U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to warn Crockett to “tread very carefully” when it comes to advocating for violence against Republicans and other political opponents.
“She (Crockett) is an elected public official, so she needs to tread very carefully because nothing will happen to Elon Musk,” Bondi said during an interview. “We are going to fight to protect all Tesla owners throughout the country.”
But Crockett ignored Bondi’s warning and doubled down with her threatening twaddle against Cruz.
Responding to a question about how Democrats can win elections, specifically in the red state of Texas, Crockett said, “I think that you punch, I think you punch, I think you OK with punching. It’s Ted Cruz. I mean, like, this dude has to be knocked over the head, like, hard, right? Like there is no niceties with him, like at all. Like you go clean off on him.”
Most recently, Crockett mocked Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s disability. Abbott, a paraplegic, has been confined to a wheelchair since suffering an accident when he was 26 years old.
“Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there – come on now! And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass mess, honey,” Crockett said.
After her comments about Gov. Abbott generated a flood of condemnations, Crockett offered a lame defense of her tactless comments.
“I wasn’t thinking about the governor’s condition—I was thinking about the planes, trains, and automobiles he used to transfer migrants into communities led by Black mayors, deliberately stoking tension and fear among the most vulnerable. Literally, the next line I said was that he was a ‘Hot Ass Mess,’ referencing his terrible policies. At no point did I mention or allude to his condition.”
Crockett’s callous comments about Abbott and her weedy defense of them brought to mind something that Mark Twain once wrote:
“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”
Crockett’s disparagement of Abbott prompted Texas Republican Congressman Randy Weber to announce that he was introducing a censure resolution against his fellow delegation member.
“The story of our great governor of Texas is one of unwavering resilience and perseverance,” Weber said in an interview. “Meanwhile, the actions of Jasmine Crockett – stooping to vile levels of discrimination and despicable political attacks – are nothing short of reprehensible. It’s painfully obvious she was never taught a single thing about Texas class, as her behavior is a disgrace to everything Texas and the United States stands for.”
These most recent examples of Crockett’s prickly tongue were preceded by a kerfuffle last year with Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Greene ignited Crockett’s indignation and rage when she spoke about Crockett’s appearance at an edgy House Oversight Committee meeting.
“I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading,” Greene said.
Crockett fired back at Greene, declaring that she had a “bleach blonde bad built butch body.”
It would be easy to write off Crockett as just another deranged motormouth, but that would be a mistake.
While she is, without doubt, lacking in common sense, she is not a stupid woman.
Nevertheless, advocating violence against political opponents like Musk and Cruz amid a wave of violent attacks, vandalism, and doxxing against Tesla owners and workers seems reckless and counterintuitive, to say the least.
Crockett’s background seems to belie her outrageous, trash-talking conduct. Of course, there is no accounting for character, and one can argue that the greatest test of a person’s character is their tongue.
The 44-year-old congresswoman was born in St. Louis. She attended the University of Houston Law Center, graduating with a Juris Doctor in 2006. After completing law school, Crockett passed the bar examination in 2006. She became a public defender for Bowie County and later formed a law firm that handled car accident lawsuits, as well as taking pro bono cases for Black Lives Matter activists.
Crockett has represented Texas’s 30th congressional district since 2023. In the 118th Congress, Crockett served as the representative for the Democratic freshman class, bridging the gap between the House Democratic leadership and the approximately 35 newly elected Democratic members. Crockett was named co-chair of the 2024 Harris-Walz campaign and is a member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The brains are seemingly there, even if Crockett appears at times to forget to use them.
So, what’s next for Jasmine “Big Mouth” Crockett?
A call for another assassination attempt on Donald Trump? Blowing up Republican National Headquarters? Spewing bigoted graffiti on the White House?
Who knows.
But I will end this with something that Jimmy Durante (look him up if you aren’t old enough to know who he was) once said about having a big mouth:
“Me and my big mouth! I’d get rid of it, only it’s such a handy place to keep my teeth.”
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