And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[rareboy]

Just a reminder that the Canadian Gen x'er Gavin Mcinnes, who started the cult movement, 'The Proud Boys', after absorbing the worst of Toxic masculinity, is a sniveling coward who disappeared back under his rock and seems to have nothing to say about the outcome of his movement on Jan 6th while all his cereal eating, non-masturbating incels are being sentenced.

 

[rareboy]

and hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[rareboy]

 

[KaraBulut]

Unbelievable.

Nearly half of dog owners are hesitant to vaccinate their pets

A new study found that more than half of people who own dogs expressed some level of canine vaccine hesitancy -- i.e. skepticism about vaccinating their pets against rabies and other diseases. An estimated 45 percent of US households own a dog; according to the survey results, nearly 40 percent...

www.sciencedaily.com

An estimated 45 percent of US households own a dog; according to the survey results, nearly 40 percent of dog owners believe that canine vaccines are unsafe, more than 20 percent believe these vaccines are ineffective, and 30 percent consider them to be medically unnecessary.

About 37 percent of dog owners also believe that canine vaccination could cause their dogs to develop autism, even though there is no scientific data that validates this risk for animals or humans.

 

[KaraBulut]

I dunno. The House vote was 121-23 in the Texas House. Paxton has enemies. At this point, his dog probably wants him gone, too.
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The Senate vote is going to be weird. His wife (the one he cheated on with the lobbyist) is a member of the Texas Senate.

I think he's going to be convicted by the Texas Senate. News reports say that Paxton was calling House members while they were on the floor threatening to make it difficult for them to get re-elected. Paxton has the Nutty-Fundie base (which is a big part of the Republican primary voters in Texas) but there's been enough unseemly shit that gets uncovered, I think the Texas Senate will dump him and he'll finally get the trial that he's managed to stall for 6 years.

I've seen a lot of office politics involving shady people. This reminds me of cases where shady powerful people were protecting other shady powerful people... until they weren't. Paxton pissed off somebody in power. Somebody in power has decided that Paxton has gotten to big for his britches and they were hoping that the Texas voters would dump him in 2022. Since Paxton was re-elected in 2022, the powers-that-be used a Texas House investigation to build Paxton's coffin. I suspect those same people will be out buying nails for Texas Senators to nail the coffin shut.

Other possible explanation: some rich donor in Texas has told Abbott, Patrick and Phelan to get rid of Paxton.

Here's the 20 articles in the impeachment motion. It's tawdry stuff.

1. Article 1, disregard of official duty - Paxton had employees in his office intervene in a lawsuit against one of his donors, Nate Paul.
2. Article 2, disregard of official duty - Paxton issued opinions that helped Nate Paul avoid foreclosures on properties owned by Paul.
3. Article 3, disregard of official duty - Paxton ordered State employees to not follow Texas' open records laws.
4. Article 4, disregard of official duty - Paxton abused public information laws to benefit Nate Paul.
5. Article 5, disregard of official duty - Paxton hired cronies to work for the State Attorney General's office to abuse the grand gury system for the benefit of Nate Paul.
6. Article 6, disregard of official duty - Paxton fired employees who had filed complaints in 2020 about Paxton's behavior which violated the Texas Whistleblower Act.
7. Article 7, misapplication of public resources - Paxton used State employees to retaliate against the whisteblowers and to issue a report that "cleared" Paxton of the accusations made by the whistleblowers.
8. Article 8, disregard of official duty - Paxton did not recuse himself from the efforts to come to a settlement with the whistleblowers. The settlement would pay $3.3 million to the whistleblowers and would include an NDA that prevented the whistleblowers from publicly discussing the accusations against Paxton. This may have helped Paxton get re-elected in 2022, since the public was not given all of the facts about the accusations against Paxton.
9. Article 9, constitutional bribery - Paxton was having an affair with a female lobbyist. He got Nate Paul to hire the woman.
10. Article 10, constitutional bribery - Nate Paul paid to remodel Paxton's home.
11. Article 11, obstruction of justice - Paxton was under indictment for securities fraud when he was elected in 2014. He's obstructed the investigation so that he's avoided trial for 8 years.
12. Article 12, obstruction of justice - Another Paxton donor, Jeff Blackard, conspired with Paxton to use legal action to further Paxton's trial for securities fraud.
13. Article 13, false statements in official records - Paxton lied to the State Securities Board regarding his promotion of stocks for sale which led to his indictment for securities fraud.
14. Article 14, false statements in official records - Paxton lied on financial disclosure forms required by State law.
15. Article 15, false statements in official records - Paxton lied during the investigation of the whistleblower accusatoins.
16. Article 16, conspiracy and attempted conspiracy - Paxton conspired with other people in connection with the crimes detailed in the previous Articles.
17. Article 17, misappropriation of public resources - Paxton used Texas state workers to do work to benefit Paxton's donors.
18. Article 18, dereliction of duty - Paxton's actions in the Articles violated his oath of office.
19. Article 19, unfitness for office - Paxton committed public and private actions that make him unfit to serve as Attorney General.
20. Article 20, abuse of public trust - Paxton abused his office as Attorney General and brought the attorney general’s office “into scandal and disrepute".

Deplorable update:

Paxton's Senate trial starts today, accompanied by multiple articles in the Texas media about Paxton's extramarital affairs, corrupt practices and failure to do his job as Texas Attorney General. Allegedly, there's also an FBI investigation ongoing into his corruption since the State of Texas and the Texas voters apparently weren't going to kick his ass out of office.

Ken Paxton tried to hide his affair from his wife and voters. It may be his undoing.

The impeachment trial that starts Tuesday is expected to center on Paxton’s infidelity, and could air out the sordid details of the staunch, Christian conservative’s life as he sits just yards away from his wife, and her 30 Senate colleagues.

www.texastribune.org

In September 2018, Attorney General Ken Paxton gathered his staff to make a fateful confession.

With two months to go before Election Day — and holding hands with his wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton — the attorney general reportedly told them about an extramarital affair. He said it was over and swore to recommit to his marriage.

But Ken Paxton didn’t — the first in a series of consequential choices that Texas House impeachment managers say set off a chain of alleged crimes and coverups... The once-in-a-century impeachment trial that starts Tuesday is expected to center on Paxton’s infidelity, and could air out the sordid details of the staunch, Christian conservative’s life...

House impeachment managers argue that Paxton, driven in large part by his desire to continue and conceal the tryst, went to great, impeachable — and potentially criminal — lengths to hide the betrayal from his wife, and from the deeply religious voters who have sustained his political life for two decades...

Citing nearly 4,000 pages of documents that were released last month, impeachment managers allege that Paxton repeatedly abused his office to help real estate investor Nate Paul’s faltering businesses amid an FBI raid, looming bankruptcies and a litany of related lawsuits. In exchange, Paul allegedly hired Paxton’s girlfriend so that she could move to Austin and helped Paxton clandestinely meet with her through a secret Uber account that the two men shared.

Someone just noticed that Paxton has been costing the State of Texas (and its taxpayers) lots of money. Paxton (and his merry band of evangelical underlings) have been suing the Obama and Biden Administrations while refusing to defend Texas State Agencies that he is supposed to be defending. That meant that those State Agencies had to hire (and pay for) outside counsel to defend them.

Texas AG Ken Paxton’s habit of refusing to defend state agencies cost taxpayers

Records obtained by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune give deeper insight into how Paxton’s representation denials often pushed agencies to look for outside legal counsel that was ultimately funded by taxpayers.

www.texastribune.org

And one of the other Fox News darlings, Lt Gov Dan Patrick, is overseeing the trial. Patrick is yet another Christian White Nationalist, has said that he won't continue to accept millions of dollars in donations from Ken Paxton's PAC and rich evangelical donors....while Patrick is overseeing Paxton's trial. Patrick already accepted $3 million from PACs supporting Paxton before the trial started.

Dan Patrick says he won’t accept donations during trial, after taking heat for pro-Paxton money

The Senate Republican and Democratic caucuses also said they will not fundraise as organizations during the trial, which starts Tuesday.

www.texastribune.org

Patrick, who serves as presiding officer of the trial, has already attracted scrutiny for accepting $3 million in campaign support from a pro-Paxton group in June.

"During the impeachment proceedings, the lieutenant governor will be singularly focused on matters related to the impeachment proceedings,” Patrick spokesperson Allen Blakemore told The Texas Tribune. “He will not be doing any fundraising, meetings, speeches or other events of any kind during the impeachment proceedings.”

 

[TX-Beau]

Makes one long for the days of whiskey runners and Ma Ferguson.





Oh, wait.....

 

[rareboy]

Meanwhile...just because he sounds like a total asshole. In the deaths of despair:

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

I imagine when Jenna sees posts like this, she gets that icy jab of fear and her belly knots up.

 

[TX-Beau]

..."But at this point, the DOJ need only use his own words against him," Pagliery added. "On Tuesday, prosecutors filed a court memo indicating that Navarro himself has already copped to the crime in the ill-advised 88-page lawsuit he filed on his own against then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — a move that violated the old adage, 'A man who represents himself has a fool for a client.'"..

MSN

www.msn.com

September is not going to be kind to Toads and Trogs.

 

[KaraBulut]

..."But at this point, the DOJ need only use his own words against him," Pagliery added. "On Tuesday, prosecutors filed a court memo indicating that Navarro himself has already copped to the crime in the ill-advised 88-page lawsuit he filed on his own against then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — a move that violated the old adage, 'A man who represents himself has a fool for a client.'"..

MSN

www.msn.com

September is not going to be kind to Toads and Trogs.

Navarro also claims that he's going to take the case to the Supreme Court (who have already ruled that executive privilege is determined by the current occupant of the White House). He's claiming that it's going to cost him up to $1 million to defend himself.

Listening to Navarro's ramblings during COVID-19 convinced me that he was another hire off of Fox News who was a lunatic. Now it appears that he's going to be a lunatic with a lot less money in the bank.

Peter Navarro will face contempt trial for defying Jan 6 committee as legal fees soar

The economist shared last week that his legal bills "just went up by another half-million dollars"

www.salon.com

The Washington Post reports that Navarro, who has pleaded not guilty, stated last week outside a Washington courthouse that his "legal bills just went up by another half-million dollars" and that he expects the final cost of those fees to reach $750,000, on the expectation that his case "is probably going to the Supreme Court."

 

[rareboy]

He probably heisted a lot during his time in Trump's White House, so a million really isn't much unless he blew it all on hookers and blow.

 

[johaninsc]

Gabriel smacking Jenna again...

 

[KaraBulut]

Navarro also claims that he's going to take the case to the Supreme Court (who have already ruled that executive privilege is determined by the current occupant of the White House). He's claiming that it's going to cost him up to $1 million to defend himself.

The daily Trump-related conviction:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/peter-navarro-contempt-of-congress-january-6-committee-subpoena/index.html

Former Donald Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro has been convicted of contempt of Congress for not complying to a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Navarro is the second ex-aide to former President Donald Trump to be prosecuted for his lack of cooperation with the committee. Steve Bannon was convicted last year on two contempt counts. Bannon’s case is currently on appeal.

Everything Trump touches, dies*.

*Or gets indicted.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[KaraBulut]

I'm confused. Is "NewsMax" a news channel? Or is it the latest media arm of the MAGA wing of the Republican Party?

Rudy Giuliani's Newsmax "legal defense fund"

The conservative network is making fundraising appeals for Giuliani while collecting donations on his behalf

www.salon.com

As Newsmax pushes on-air fundraising appeals for Rudy Giuliani's legal defense to its viewers, the conservative network also appears to be operating his donation website directly and collecting checks on behalf of the former New York mayor.

According to media watchdog Media Matters for America, the website that Newsmax anchors urge viewers to donate to, RudyFund.com, redirects to a Newsmax-hosted domain, which indicates that the network processes the actual donations the site receives. The website offers potential donors the opportunity to mail physical checks to a Florida P.O. box as well, and that address is listed on the Newsmax contact page as its mailing address.

 

[rareboy]

Newsmax was never a news channel.

 

[KaraBulut]

It's like watching a car crash in slow motion.

 

[TX-Beau]

Newsmax was never a news channel.

It's just another grift. If Rudy sees more than a penny on the dollar I'll be very surprised.

 

[rareboy]

It's stupid season again....