Fascists eating their own

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  1. Demiurge

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    Ken Paxton, the incredibly corrupt Texas AG, attacked the Texas House chairman Dade Phelan for being drunk while conducting state business and called on him to resign.

    Paxton has been under indictment for over 8 years for claims of fraud by his own staff, and there is a separate FBI investigation.

    Phelan just revealed that the House also had an ongoing investigation of Paxton and they have now opened impeachment proceedings against with over 20 charges listed, including Disregard for Official Duty, Misuse of Public Funds, Bribery, and Obstruction of Justice.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/25/texas-impeachment-attorney-general-ken-paxton/

    https://apnews.com/article/texas-ken-paxton-speaker-2d159c425d35463799d13dc15af381c9

    Texas has never removed an Attorney General before. It takes a 2/3rd majority vote in the House to open a trial in the Senate, where it takes a 2/3rd vote to remove from office.
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    Impeachment only requires a simple majority and, if passed, Paxton would be removed from office until the conclusion of the trial. So, theoretically, he could be out as early as this afternoon. :corn:

    He's such a piece of shit and has been from day one. I covered a primary debate between him and his opponent when he first ran for the office and he just came across as oily/slimy/sleazy compared to the other guy. :jayzus:
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    Which is why he won? :chris:
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    I mean, it's Texas... the closest thing they have to a state hero is J.R. Ewing.
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    Paxton impeached, suspended pending Senate trial. Developing….:corn:
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    I bet they impeach him and blame it on liberals.
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    Paxton, Cruz and Trump are whining about RINOs.
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    The threads on patriots.win (formerly The Donald) are glorious.
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    George Soros, the holocaust survivor, is a Nazi?
    Nazis holocausted themselves?
    That's a neat trick.
    That's like a magician pulling himself out of a hat.
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    Well, in Mein Kampf Hitler blamed the communists, capitalists and Jews for Germany's problems. Cognative dissonance isn't anything new. :clyde:
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    Oh, trust me, my friend, that’s one rabbit hole you want to avoid. Because I’ve been down part of it, and it gets real weird and real bad, real quick. The simplest description is you know how the Allies had to let innocent civilians get bombed because to stop it would risk letting the Germans know you’d broken their code? It’s like that. Only on steroids and rabies, with some meth thrown in to kinda keep you mellowed out.

    (Wait’s for folks who’ve done meth to figure out what the problem with that is.)

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    My understanding is that they will need to get 9/19 Rs to vote to impeach. And one is his wife. So safe to assume 9/18.

    I know jack shit about their state senate but unless she is a Cruz level asshole you have to believe she’d be able to sway some of her colleagues. Enough? No idea. But my guess is that it will be a lot tighter than their house.
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    Presumably the idea is that Abbott will be able to install a subtler crook.
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    Coincidence that this happened right after ‘Meatball’ declared he was running?

    Not a chance.

    This was the Deep State/Uniparty/DeSantis taking out a MAGA Patriot so a puppet can be installed who will give Texas’s votes to ‘Meatball’ (I didn’t realize the AG ran elections in Texas).
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    I mean yeah, however it happens it's pretty clear they wouldn't risk having an actual GOOD AG

    A Texas reporter on Twitter says they were content to let him be as shitty as he wanted until he ask the legislature to authorize a $3.3 million settlement with some whistleblowers to save his ass, they decided that doing so would implicate them so he had to go under the bus.

    Also, about his wife the senator, apparently dude was banging his mistress in a different senator's office so they apparently have a ...less than traditional....arrangement.
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    On a serious note re Senator Wife apparently there might be a legal issue/Get Out of Jail Free card there. Apparently the Texas Constitution requires all Senators be present for an impeachment. But Texas law requires any government official with ties or family ties to an issue to recuse themself.

    So she is both required to be there for it to happen but banned from being there.

    So… :shrug:

    One out could be that she could be required to be present for the impeachment but then have to recuse themself from the vote.

    We’ll see.
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    The Republicans know that once Texas goes blue, and the day is coming, it's over for them.
    All this comic book level villainy they're up to now is naked terror.
    They've been in naked terror since Obama.
    Newt Gingrich admitted as much in a Frontline documentary.
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    That’s the obvious reading yes.
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    Well, after she refused to recuse herself, the state Senate barred her from voting - she has to attend the proceedings but cannot affect them.

    https://crooksandliars.com/2023/06/angela-paxton-barred-voting-husband-s
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    I'm a big fan of any public corruption, by anyone of any party, ends in a life sentence at hard labor. And I mean 8a-8p 6 days a week chain gang hard labor. And it applies to anyone with their hand in the cookie jar, Dem, Rep, everyone from the President to the assistant to the assistant streetsweeper. And it applies to the spouses getting all kinds of sweetheart deals and no show jobs as well.
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    But in what way did he go too far? It certainly wasn't in having an affair or being an evil prejudiced fascist. Did he jerk off to hillary in a private and shameful display of being aroused by a dem? We all know fucking children is not too far as long as you are a priest or have an R next to your name. Raping women is not a problem. homosexual activity with another man might be. Killing a black guy seems to be good for your repug reputation.

    There has always been too far with repugs, but those reasons are typically stupid.
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