And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[KaraBulut]

Cocaine and hot tubs... 2004 vs 2020...

 

[KaraBulut]

Ken Paxton. Attorney General of the State of Texas. Indicted Felon. Adulterer.

While serving as a State Senator in 2014, it's discovered that he was being paid to solicit clients for a North Texas financial services firm without being registered was a financial advisor with the State of Texas. He pays a fine of $1,000 in exchange for a reprimand from the State Securities Board.

While running for Attorney General in 2014, Paxton is accused of persuading investors to buy stock in a technology firm without disclosing that he would be compensated for it. In spite of being under investigation, Paxton raises $4 million for his campaign. He's elected Attorney General and having spent less than $1 million to run for office, he has $3 million left in his campaign account.

In July 2015, Paxton is indicted by a grand jury for felony State Securities fraud. The case is assigned to his home county outside Dallas and the County District Attorney recuses himself because he and Paxton are friends

The SEC also investigates him for securities fraud, Federal charges are filed but are later dropped in 2017 after Trump is elected.

Upon assuming office as State Attorney General in 2015, Paxton begins filing various suits against the Obama Administration. He replaces staff attorneys in his office with attorneys assoicated with Liberty University School of Law. Donations poor into his legal defense fund to assist with the securities charges against him. The Texas Ethics Commission rules that he cannot use out-of-state donations or the $3 million dollars in his campaign fund to pay for his personal legal defense but only because he was not defrauding people as part of his duties as Senator or Attorney General.

In 2016, Paxton is accused of being involved in a shady land deal in his home county, along with his good friend District Attorney Greg Willis. The county later built their new Appraisal District offices on the land.

Ken Paxton becomes the co-chair for Lawyers for Trump Coalition.

In 2018, Paxton's wife, Angela Paxton, runs for his old State Senate seat and is elected. Mr. Paxton is re-elected to Attorney General of the State of Texas, in spite of the charges pending against him.

After joining the Senate, Mrs Paxton filed a bill to augment the power of the Attorney General's office.

In 2020, 8 employees in Paxton's office accuse Paxton bribery, abuse of office and of obstructing an FBI investigation of Nate Paul, one of Paxton's many rich donors. The same donor also hired a woman that Paxton was having an affair with. Paxton fires the employees who filed the complaint against him.

In Dec, 2020 Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton files a suit with the US Supreme Court on the behalf of the State of Texas, seeking to invalidate the election returns of Wisconsin, Michigan, Arizona and Georgia.

 

[KaraBulut]

I guess that he decided that the $10 million payoff was enough after all.

Jerry Falwell Jr. drops lawsuit against Liberty University [WaPo]

Jerry Falwell Jr. has dropped a defamation lawsuit he filed in October against Liberty University, just months after he resigned in August as president of the Christian school following a series of personal scandals, Falwell and a university spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.

In his lawsuit, Falwell alleged that Liberty damaged his reputation because it accepted without verifying what he called false statements made by a man who had an affair with Falwell’s wife and attempted to extort them.

 

[TX-Beau]

I guess that he decided that the $10 million payoff was enough after all.

Jerry Falwell Jr. drops lawsuit against Liberty University [WaPo]

Someone has a picture of a cock in his mouth. Probably Cohen - he seems to have all the pics.

 

[TX-Beau]

Lin Wood.

Only in this instance he may actually being doing God's Work.

I wouldn't get too hopeful. In the end the trogs hate us more than each other,

I do declare, we need a GA runoff thread.

...Runoff, runoff, runoff. This runoff talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this winter...

 

[TX-Beau]

Cocaine and hot tubs... 2004 vs 2020...

SOMEONE has had a little work done...

 

[TX-Beau]

I see lips, nose, eyes, and the unfortunately aggressive augmentation...

What is it that straight guys see in women like that? Is it a titty fuck thing?

I will however be eternally grateful for the convention performance. Deliberate farce just can't compete.

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forgot the cheekbones - if we could see the backside, no doubt the ass as well.

 

[TX-Beau]

Oh yeah and Gavin is way hotter.

 

[KaraBulut]

SOMEONE has had a little work done...

A couple of someones...

^That's the first wife, btw. The one that divorced him around the time that the new girlfriend (Cocaine Kimberley) entered the picture, along with the hot tubs and cocaine.

 

[rareboy]

Guess who is on Parler having a complete melt-down?

Milo Yiannopoulos.


https://www.advocate.com/politics/2...ebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=politics

 

[KaraBulut]

Add to the list of Christian ablution rituals: campaign money laundering.

In final years at Liberty, Falwell spent millions on pro-Trump causes [Politico]

After shocking many in the evangelical movement by endorsing Donald Trump over other Republicans for the 2016 presidential nomination, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. pumped millions of the nonprofit religious institution’s funds into Republican causes and efforts to promote the Trump administration, blurring the lines between education and politics.

The culmination of his efforts was the creation of a university-funded campus “think tank” — which has produced no peer-reviewed academic work and bears little relation to study centers at other universities — that ran pro-Trump ads, hired Trump allies including former adviser Sebastian Gorka and current Trump attorney Jenna Ellis to serve as fellows and, in recent weeks, has aggressively promoted Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud...

The think tank — called the Falkirk Center, a portmanteau of Falwell’s name and that of GOP activist Charlie Kirk, who co-founded it — purchased campaign-season ads on Facebook, at least $50,000's worth of which were designated by the network as political ads, that promoted Trump and other Republican candidates by name...

Liberty’s actions, detailed for the first time by POLITICO, suggest the university is pushing the boundaries of its status as a nonprofit organization under Section 501c(3) of the federal tax code, which forbids spending money on political campaigns. Liberty’s actions also go well beyond the traditional role of a university as a politically neutral institution of higher learning...

 

[KaraBulut]

First question: Why is a church getting taxpayer money? Second question: How does a church have 368 employees?

Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church received $4.4M COVID-19 PPP loan [NY Post]

Multimillionaire televangelist Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Texas netted $4.4 million in bailouts through the federal COVID-19 relief program, records show.

The Houston megachurch, the largest in the nation with 52,000 weekly congregants, received the forgivable Paycheck Protection Program loan in late July, the Houston Business Journal reported Sunday.

The loan was the third-highest in the Houston area during all of July and August, the outlet noted, citing federal data.

Lakewood’s PPP check went to 368 full- and part-time employees, spokesman Donald Iloff told the Houston Business Journal.

 

[gsdx]

^ Kanye West got a big cheque as well. It was quite some time ago, but $3 million rings a bell.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Add to the list of Christian ablution rituals: campaign money laundering.

In final years at Liberty, Falwell spent millions on pro-Trump causes [Politico]

Politico states that universities are traditionally neutral. That's not ever been true. Public universities aren't even neutral, and private universities have been overtly activist from the beginning, including great names like Notre Dame.

I'm in complete agreement that the tax-exempt status of both churches and universities should be forfeit when they engage in violations, but don't peddle half-truths or Pollyanna claims to endorse that.

First question: Why is a church getting taxpayer money? Second question: How does a church have 368 employees?

Get on one side of the argument or another. If the Democrats are correct in championing more COVID relief for individuals and businesses, then it should be for all affected, not just some who pass a litmus test of sectarian. Jobs are jobs. Lost jobs are lost jobs. The legislation and funds were intended to keep people from being laid off. Churches are some of the hardest hit once their services were banned.

I'm just as against publicly funding religion as anyone, but you can't have it both ways. Either the Democrats are wrong for such largess, or the money is needed.

As for large churches having large full and part-time staffs, it's a large institution, period. It has less employees than lots of businesses and factories that were hit by the pandemic.

I personally dislike megachurches, but it's obvious lots of Texans like them, and that staff isn't that many for a megachurch with lots of facilities, lots of activities, and lots of paid personnel running food banks, keeping nurseries, landscaping, cleaning, etc.

If you're suggesting that church employees should be left without the extra aid other businesses and charities are getting, then you are arguing that they should be paying payroll taxes and income taxes but shut out when their government aids its taxpayers.

 

[NotHardUp1]

This is where America is, folks....

No, that is where the fringe is, not where America is.

This goofball is on Parler because he couldn't post that crap on Twitter or Facebook and not be flagged as a conspiracy theorist.

In another post, he claims the Democratic Party and the US media heads are Chinese plants, literally a sleeper cell.

He's a fringe lunatic and followed by fellow lunies.

 

[Alistair]

^ I wouldn't say that's the fringe. From what I've seen it's 25% of the country

 

[Sausy]

Look, between 70-75% of Republicans think Trump won and Biden is an illegitimate president. About 30% of the electorate are living in an alternate reality. How there won't be ramifications still to play I just can't fathom. How do Republicans get state and national nominations for office if they don't support the Trumpist way of things... Trump was the person who spoke to their concerns, even if he had no intention of giving a shit for any of them save those who worshipped every move he made, everything lie, every misrepresentation he spewed. It doesn't live and die with Trump... it just falls to someone more savvy, charismatic, intelligent and insidious. Someone who might garner more support in the end from those who backed away from Trump, because he is so egregious and fucked up... so unstable and ignorant.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Being a conservative, hating progressives and liberals, isn't the same as believing that martial law will be imposed.

You can't cherry pick the extreme and portray it as the median.

Lots of the Trump supporters hate his defeat and were hoping against hope that there were real bases for winning election fraud suits. My own sister mumbled something about the ballots that they found, referring to the discarded ones, so desperately clinging on to the smallest shred.

But that's not the same as believing the country is about to be under lockdown and martial law and the borders under attack.

Believing that is delusional as well, and it fosters the dangerous notion that they're all a bunch of crazies. They're not. They're all in power and dreading the turning of the tide, but the fringe ravings are still the fringe ravings.

Even Giuliani and Meadows fought back against the insanity Powell and Flynn were peddling in the Oval Office on Friday. Since when are those two considered mainstream? Even the lackeys aren't backing the coup crap.

But Sausy is right and I've said it before. Trump will leave and his son will try a grab at it. Just watch in 2024, or in February this year for that matter, as they'll start having LOSER rallies right off the bat to keep up the drumbeat that Biden is illegitimate. Trust me. It's tempting to listen to them, for if anyone knows a bastard when they see one, it's Trump's people.

 

[Sausy]

The thing isn't going to happen under Trump. Not for lack of trying... Meadows in his Freedom Caucus days was as big a factor in the hyperpartisan GOP obstruction of the Obama years, and Giuliani was all in on the futile, incompetent but persistent plot to get the Supreme Court to overturn the election... a legal coup, as you will. Giuliani doesn't get to be the voice of reason because Powel is batshit crazy... he has done nothing but push the illegitimacy of Biden's election lie.

But something is happening in the Republican Party... yes, it exists some on the left but not nearly to the extent the GOP has gone so far right in recent years. If not his son, someone who tries to gain support by attracting the same people who want Trump will be at it in 2024. We're NOT returning to normal anytime soon, as long as Trump has significant influence in the party and even more worrisome many more share hard right, extremist views than ever before in the GOP. Not about equating a rough and tumble conservatism as evil and unpatriotic in itself.... though it has become more nasty and pointed and was still pretty nasty in the Reagan/Gingrich era. Since the Tea Party, it has exponentially exploded. The Dems have been far from blameless, but it's the Republican Party that today might well find Ronald Reagan too accommodating for their tastes. It's Trump's party now... traditional conservatism is gone, there is precious next to nothing of a moderate wing left.

I just think you're too optimistic here. It isn't inevitable, but events could push us over the edge. It's dangerous and naive to believe things can't get any worse. It will most likely come from wearing out our institutions from within, highly unlikely there will ever be a military coup but like countries in Eastern Europe and Asia, the rise of illiberal democracy... the facade of democratic state and institutions, but the increasing control of those institutions by undemocratic politicians who will use pressure, coercion, ridicule, gaslighting tactics to attack the opposition. Freedom won't be dramatically taken away likely by a coup so much as institutions now corrupted and redesigned to serve their interests.

 

[Pierresro]

"Deplorables"... the word that lost Hillary the presidency, because ordinary Americans couldn't shake the notion that she meant them...

That is BS, Hillary did nbot win the election becuase of Russsian interferance watch this quizás quisiste decir: name of Home Box video about Russian interference in US election chaos

Agents of Chaos - watch the HBO original documentary watch it and comment or go away with your easy answer!!