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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I gotta give the MAGA contingent credit, they really tried to create an impression that Paxton had more support in the House than he actually did.

What does Paxton have to say?

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JFC. I need another descriptor for politicians like Paxton, Trump et al. The absolute lying nonsense to keep power while breaking laws and inflicting damage on the state and country is infuriating to a point where ‘vile asshole’ doesn’t really cover it.  

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Here's a hint - if you vote for someone, you support them.  Whether it's Paxton, Abbott, Trump, Cruz, your vote says you support their actions.

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Ah, yes. The “I don’t like this guy, but voting for a a literal criminal into a position of power is better than voting for someone who fights for civil liberties. Because fuck democrats and people wh

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Lulz. With all due respect, what this really means in 2023 GQP Texas is: "I lean hard fascist, but I've never been a fan of fascist Paxton. Of course, I am a fan of many other fascists and voted

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23 minutes ago, Mach 1 said:

JFC. I need another descriptor for politicians like Paxton, Trump et al. The absolute lying nonsense to keep power while breaking laws and inflicting damage on the state and country is infuriating to a point where ‘vile asshole’ doesn’t really cover it.  

Republican?

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Not much on Webster but I did come across this:

After the dramatic exit of Paxton's top staff in 2020, those brought into senior roles included a California attorney who donated $10,000 to help Paxton fight his 2015 securities fraud indictment and Tom Kelly Gleason, a former ice cream company owner whose father gave $50,000 to the attorney general's legal defense fund.

Gleason was fired less than two months into his new job as a law enforcement adviser. Paxton's office has not disclosed why, but three people with knowledge of the matter said Gleason included child pornography in a work presentation at the agency's Austin headquarters.

The people said Gleason displayed the video -- which one of them described as showing a man raping a small child -- in a misguided effort to underscore agency investigators' difficult work. It was met with outrage and caused the meeting to quickly dissolve.

Afterward, Paxton's top deputy, Brent Webster, told staff not to talk about what happened, according to one of the people.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/dysfunction-in-texas-ags-office-as-ken-paxton-seeks-third-term/3085983/

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He lost by almost 100 votes.  Imagine the pending Senate vote being the third worst thing that happens to you while you're being extradited to Mexico.  He's really not gonna like what happens next.  only question is who he takes out with him...

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

This is a pretty interesting doc - streaming on Amazon

 

 

Isn’t that the dude who offed himself on live TV?

 

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Y'all wanna see something beautiful?

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He’s a total moron.

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this ad still makes me chuckle. he got impeached doing what he loved

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dammit. Jack Klompus. Take the pen. Do me a personal favor, take the pen!
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43 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

He lost by almost 100 votes.  Imagine the pending Senate vote being the third worst thing that happens to you while you're being extradited to Mexico.  He's really not gonna like what happens next.  only question is who he takes out with him...

A lot of CYA goin’ on around the Capital City right now I’m sure. 
Wonder if Nate’s gonna turn agin him to strike a deal?

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8 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

A lot of CYA goin’ on around the Capital City right now I’m sure. 
Wonder if Nate’s gonna turn agin him to strike a deal?

The problem is that you can't often strike effective/enforceable deals with the drug cartels.  Allegedly, of course.

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The problem is that you can't often strike effective/enforceable deals with the drug cartels.  Allegedly, of course.

Yeah, their window of negotiating is often somewhat limited and typically involves you being thrown out of it.  

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You know sometimes when somebody is impeached, they'll go on TV or a listening tour or travel the state to drum up support and appeal funds and what-not?  Yeah,  $50 and one of my pinky toe says Ken stays right fucking put in Austin with round-the-clock security until it's no longer free.  He won't go so much as to the corner store.   The guy ain't going anywhere or talking to anyone save for maybe an email pledge.  Once that Senate trial starts, he stays in that same spot for probably the rest of his life.  

And oh yeah, if you donated the maximum amount to him..they're gonna ask you if you know where he is.  I tried to fucking warn you guys.  But you just wouldn't listen.

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Gleason was fired less than two months into his new job as a law enforcement adviser. Paxton's office has not disclosed why, but three people with knowledge of the matter said Gleason included child pornography in a work presentation at the agency's Austin headquarters.

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Considering Reitz's first call when leaving the AG's office was to Matt to let him know Paxton was burned and Matt agreed to help him get a gig with Cruz's federal office instead...I find it hard to believe the many years of Paxton's criming came as a shock to Harrison and Matt.  

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So I didn’t really have an understanding of what Paxton did and never in a million years thought any Rs would go against him. He should find much friendlier results for him in the senate right? I mean I think he should go but find it hard to believe it would ever happen.

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What I gleaned from the other thread is Nate and Ken roped some Mexicans into a deal and they lost money on the deal.

That's the motive for violent retaliation? Was the "lost money" due to intentional fleecing from Ken and Nate or just due to incompetency?

I know it's fun to speculate about Breaking Bad plots but how likely would anything like that actually be?

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Wasn’t their argument that Paxton was elected by the people so wait until the next election and let the people decide? They don’t seem interested in the same for phelan and he didn’t even break the law!

Well, the people we elected voted for impeachment so it’s a push.
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5 minutes ago, Helobious said:

So I didn’t really have an understanding of what Paxton did and never in a million years thought any Rs would go against him. He should find much friendlier results for him in the senate right? I mean I think he should go but find it hard to believe it would ever happen.

Well, you have to assume the House R's had a pretty good idea how the Senate R's are going to vote before making such a public repudiation of Paxton.

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17 minutes ago, Helobious said:

So I didn’t really have an understanding of what Paxton did and never in a million years thought any Rs would go against him. He should find much friendlier results for him in the senate right? I mean I think he should go but find it hard to believe it would ever happen.


 

 

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21 minutes ago, Helobious said:

So I didn’t really have an understanding of what Paxton did and never in a million years thought any Rs would go against him. He should find much friendlier results for him in the senate right? I mean I think he should go but find it hard to believe it would ever happen.

So, you didn't know what you were talking about?

Hang on while I find my shocked face.....

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The speculation has properly shifted to what Ken and Nate are gonna say on their way out the door.  From this point forward, there is no winning, only degrees of losing.  even his max donors are worried.  This is gonna get sideways real fast.  

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So will 50% of (non-spousal) Senate republicans vote to convict?

that’s my count of what needs to happen but someone check my math.

2/3rds of the 31 seat chamber = 21 needed

12 democrats for

1 Republican (wife) against (maybe?)

need 9 of the remaining 18 Republicans to get to 21.

 

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Completely depends on who Ken threatens to take out with him.  Like the Cormac McCarthy novel passage, "It's not about you anymore counselor, it's about who you're taking out with you."  

Ken leaving office isn't the issue anymore.  It's his collateral damage on the way out the door.  He knows an awful lot of burial sites.  He's about to get loud, only time you worry about him is when shit gets quiet/ 

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“During the hearing to impeach TX AG Ken Paxton, he had the brass monkey balls to call GOP reps to threaten them with political retaliation if they voted against him. Read again: IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HEARING.”

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It's a bit of an overacted scene, but I think of "The Town" when Jon Hamm tells Ben Affleck in the interrogation room, "No deal.  I'm just here today to tell you that you're going to die in federal prison."  And right now, considering Ken's fate with Mexico, that sounds like a pretty good fucking deal.  At least it'll be gradual.  He had 3 more years to sort this out and now it's been sprung on him out of the blue.  And he wasn't ready.  If I were a donor to him, I'd be getting my affairs and ammo ready.  You're really not gonna like what's coming.

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1 hour ago, Helobious said:

So I didn’t really have an understanding of what Paxton did and never in a million years thought any Rs would go against him. He should find much friendlier results for him in the senate right? I mean I think he should go but find it hard to believe it would ever happen.

There was a reason why only 23 out of 85 Republicans sided with him, and there was a reason why they had 20 articles, many of which were very different from one another.

Much of it has been public knowledge for a few years - we've talked a ton about it in the Paxton thread, and in the 6th Street Journal thread on Nate Paul/World Class whatever. 

The fact that Paxton called up Republican legislators this week and threatened to see that they lose their next primaries was very telling - that kind of political retaliation is the kind of arrogance and connections that is straight-up criminal in nature.

 

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42 minutes ago, bluto said:

All us assholes cheering for this now have a son of Wilco as ag, congrats!

Murr is an aggy (and Tech law school grad) and ran a clean committee report or whatever that helped make it so decisive today, so it's a wash.

12 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

So does Patrick save him in the senate ?

It's a lot of articles, and a large variety of articles, and they were probably specifically chosen so that something would stick, even if some Republicans tried to play down some of them. And it was interesting to see that of the Republicans supporting him in the House today, none of them really defended his actions or proclaimed him to be some kind of saint that was innocent - they were more interested in trying to slow-roll things from a procedural point-of-view. That's not a good sign if they weren't willing to go on the record and claim he was completely innocent.

Paxton should really be scared shitless that Patrick and Abbott are not flooding social media with support for him.  In fact, Trump is bitching that Abbott is not saying anything.

Normally Trump barking at Abbott would make Abbott piss himself, but Abbott will probably try to ride this out and stay in the shadows since the only thing he can do is appoint a temp replacement.

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