NERDS!!!!!

 Not exactly the Shot heard 'round the World.

Revisiting the Houston Political Dictionary.

Houston Politicians (n): 

1. People you knew in High School who had no friends.

2. The last people in the world you want to invite to a Dinner party.

So, Lina Hidalgo is marrying a nerd. Whether or not this is the case, and I don't know her Fiancé from Adam so I have no idea, it should not have been something posted by Houston's highest elected official, even in jest. Especially given the frosty relations between Hidalgo and Whitmire to kick things off.

Quips like that are things that bad politicians live for. For Hidalgo, it allows her to, once again, play the victim card and continue her ridiculous narrative running that the system is somehow rigged against her. You know, rigged in that she was able to be elected to Harris County's highest office despite being a political neophyte and a total unknown. Rigged against her in a way that allows her to marry a wealthy attorney. Yup, totally rigged. Oh the humanity of it all.

But politicians of Hidalgo's ilk need that underdog energy to fan the passionate flames of her supporters. It's like Oxygen for their sense of injustice. Without stupidity such as this they have nothing to rally around.

Yes, they could choose to focus on the Texas Supreme Court, who is about to shoot down their Harris First guaranteed income plan, or they could focus on the mean old District Attorney's office, now the Attorney General's office, who have chosen to look into some questionable deals involving contracts related to COVID-19 outreach, but nothing fires up the proletariat like a good old "nerd" kerfuffle.

The media loves it because it allows them to write political pieces at a 3rd grade reading level and basically wake up in the morning and scan their Facebook feeds as research.  Call it HAWK TUAH, journalism if you will.

None of this would be an issue if Hidalgo and Whitmire had played nice in the sandbox from the jump. But since they've had a quiet, not talking to one another, taking juvenile pot-shots during disaster press conferences game of political footsie ongoing since January silly comments like this can be elevated to "cruel" (give me a break) and suddenly become something that's going to survive multiple news cycles.

The proper response to this is to laugh and move on. Refuse to acknowledge the political outrage for outrage' sake politics machine and focus on important matters such as the cost of admission to the Houston Zoo.

An alternate response would be to line them all up in a row. Point and holler: "NERDS!!!!!!!"