Monica de la Cruz Hernandez Wants to Move Battleship Texas to Town Lake (1 Viewer)

Monica de la Cruz Hernandez has big plans for Texas in her bid for representative of District 15. They include universal background checks for all public and private gun sales, wind and solar farms from the border with Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico, and moving the Battleship Texas to Town Lake as part of a southern border defense strategy. Warning: satire.

Did you make this?

If this is satire, I don't understand what point is trying to be made.

brandon said:

Did you make this?

If this is satire, I don't understand what point is trying to be made.

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Read the site he linked to:

Monica Cruz's tangled community tree roots and a misanthropic desire to be served inspired her to run for the 15th Congressional District in Texas. Monica was born and raised in the RGV. She understands the number of dreamers and energetic, hardworking undocumented people exceeds the number of lazy citizens in District 15 by more than 100%. Heavily gerrymandered District 15 is a thin, severed finger, extending from the southernmost border of Mexico to the center of Texas.​

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brandon said:

Did you make this?

If this is satire, I don't understand what point is trying to be made.

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the site url has wixsite.com in it. A free website builder.

insidejob said:

Read the site he linked to:

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I did read it. I'm not sure what point the site is trying to make.

zztop said:

the site url has wixsite.com in it. A free website builder.

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Which is why I asked if he made it.

brandon said:

I did read it. I'm not sure what point the site is trying to make.


Which is why I asked if he made it.

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I thought you may have missed the link like I did at first since it's up in the corner. I'm not sure what the point is other than to disparage the candidate, although even that was a failure.

brandon said:

Did you make this?

If this is satire, I don't understand what point is trying to be made.

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Read this, I think our new member is perhaps liberal, perhaps. However once in a while one does meet a Republican with fine sense of humor, time will tell.


Either way In the mean time a big welcome to our new member DillyDang, off to a good start.

insidejob said:

I thought you may have missed the link like I did at first since it's up in the corner. I'm not sure what the point is other than to disparage the candidate, although even that was a failure.

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Perhaps you missed this part at the link:

"She plans to redesign the navy uniform worn in Texas. They will be of white buckskin leather having eight inches of white tassels on the trouser legs and arms. Red and blue Texas stars made of shiny sequins will adorn the front and back of the uniform. The uniform hat will be a 10-gallon white leather hat with a handmade black leather belt as a hat strap. On the front will be a silver oversized belt buckle with embossed long horn bull. Monica Cruz said “in basic training all sailors will learn to move like Elvis.”​

This Monica Cruz ran as a Republican in the last election and she came within about 3% of winning against the Democrat Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (D)

SamAndreas said:

Perhaps you missed this part at the link:

"She plans to redesign the navy uniform worn in Texas. They will be of white buckskin leather having eight inches of white tassels on the trouser legs and arms. Red and blue Texas stars made of shiny sequins will adorn the front and back of the uniform. The uniform hat will be a 10-gallon white leather hat with a handmade black leather belt as a hat strap. On the front will be a silver oversized belt buckle with embossed long horn bull. Monica Cruz said “in basic training all sailors will learn to move like Elvis.”​

This Monica Cruz ran as a Republican in the last election and she came within about 3% of winning against the Democrat Vicente Gonzalez Jr. (D)

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Again, I just don't get it.

There's a difference between satire and just being silly.

Maybe it's something about TX politics that I'm not getting. I obviously caught the Elvis Navy part, it's only a page long. Like @brandon , I'm missing the satire though.

To each his own.

dillydang said:

Monica de la Cruz Hernandez has big plans for Texas in her bid for representative of District 15. They include universal background checks for all public and private gun sales, wind and solar farms from the border with Oklahoma to the Gulf of Mexico, and moving the Battleship Texas to Town Lake as part of a southern border defense strategy. Warning: satire.

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I was a supporter of hers early on when she was saying she was moving the battleship to Lady Bird Lake, but she has showed her true colors and sold out to the Town Lake lobby after they started throwing Circuit City gift cards at her like candy.

brandon said:

Again, I just don't get it.

There's a difference between satire and just being silly.

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Wikipedia says:

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of shaming or exposing the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

A feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm —"in satire, irony is militant", according to literary critic Northrop Frye—[2] but parody, burlesque, exaggeration,[3] juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This "militant" irony or sarcasm often professes to approve of (or at least accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to question.

This is my favorite example of satire, the Proud Purple Penultimate:

insidejob said:

Maybe it's something about TX politics that I'm not getting. I obviously caught the Elvis Navy part, it's only a page long. Like @brandon , I'm missing the satire though.

To each his own.

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This would help:

SamAndreas said:

This would help:

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Word.

insidejob said:

I thought you may have missed the link like I did at first since it's up in the corner. I'm not sure what the point is other than to disparage the candidate, although even that was a failure.

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I had the same thought ^

SamAndreas said:

Although satire is usually meant to be humorous, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

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brandon said:

I'm not sure what point the site is trying to make.

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brandon said:

There's a difference between satire and just being silly.

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I'm not sure why you thought I needed the definition of satire. I know the definition of satire, and my point is that while some may find this particular site humorous, it does not meet the definition of satire. There is no "using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society."

It's just taking shots at a candidate. That's not satire. It might be comedy. Somebody might find it hilarious. But that doesn't make it satire.

brandon said:

I'm not sure why you thought I needed the definition of satire. I know the definition of satire, and my point is that while some may find this particular site humorous, it does not meet the definition of satire. There is no "using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society."

It's just taking shots at a candidate. That's not satire. It might be comedy. Somebody might find it hilarious. But that doesn't make it satire.

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There's an obscure satirical reference you might not be aware of, it's this book:




Notice the authors name. The plot of the book parallels the candidate Monica de la Cruz's vision for the same battleship Texas. That is to fix it up to save America, again. I think that satisfies the requirement of "using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society." MAGA, guns, and the Southern border immigration are a wider issues than just a rematch for that one House seat.

From the OP link

"Cruz Hernandez will build a canal and move Battleship Texas to Town Lake to make Austin great again. In the process, it will be restored to a full working condition so that the southern border can be protected at a far remove. When fully recovered, the Battleship Texas will be able to throw 500-pound shells all the way to Mexico City. By declaring all inland waterways to be part of the US Navy, Texas will have the full legal authority to deploy Battleship Texas for defense."​

SamAndreas said:

There's an obscure satirical reference you might not be aware of, it's this book:

Notice the authors name. The plot of the book parallels the candidate Monica de la Cruz's vision for the same battleship Texas. That is to fix it up to save America, again. I think that satisfies the requirement of "using wit to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society." MAGA, guns, and the Southern border immigration are a wider issues than just a rematch for that one House seat.

From the OP link

"Cruz Hernandez will build a canal and move Battleship Texas to Town Lake to make Austin great again. In the process, it will be restored to a full working condition so that the southern border can be protected at a far remove. When fully recovered, the Battleship Texas will be able to throw 500-pound shells all the way to Mexico City. By declaring all inland waterways to be part of the US Navy, Texas will have the full legal authority to deploy Battleship Texas for defense."​

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I think the odds are high that this *slight* connection is nothing more than coincidence.