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Cocked eyed bastard was trying to be sneaky. The judge wouldn’t allow it.

So the ethically challenged, indicted, adulterer, Ken Paxton, was acquitted by some Texas Senators who lost the balls to do what most real conservatives wanted. They all whined about the impeachment from the House lacked evidence (it didn’t) and wasn’t enough to remove him from office (it was). So he got off.

But….the impeachment proceedings was created by the civil suit Paxton had settled with a number of staff members who sued under the Whistleblower Act for wrongful termination. Paxton settled for $3 Million and wanted the tax payers to pay it. The House investigated and based upon the evidence, impeached him. The settlement was not paid and the civil suit continues.

So now Paxton has to give a deposition, under oath, in the civil case. Instead he gives up. He surrenders. Instead he admits guilt. NBC Ft Worth sums it up perfectly: “He wrote [to the Judge] he no longer will contest accusations he illegally fired the whistleblowers after they reported him to the FBI for bribery and corruption.” To get out of being deposed he gives up. He will not contest the fact he took bribes.

Unfortunately for Kenny, the Judge will have nothing to do with this. Paxton is going to have to give a deposition. He will spend 4+ hours taking the fifth when asked “Did you order the firing of the staff members?” which in a civil suit is just as good as saying “You’re goddamn right I did it”. This is so bad some Senators are calling for a new impeachment trial. From NBC Ft Worth:

Springer was one of those who lost his balls in the trial but he isn’t running for reelection so he doesn’t need his balls anymore. At least he has a pair to realize what Paxton is doing.

The Texas GOP. The Group Of Pussies.

There is no bottom.

Mayra Flores is a Mexican MAGAt. She won a special election in south Texas and served for about 6 months. On New Years Eve she made a series of mistakes leaving her with egg on her face.

On NYE Mayra tweeted a picture celebrating life on the ranch. It went down hill from there. Here it is:

From Lone Star Left:

In fact, this yummy meal wasn’t from Flores’s family ranch; it wasn’t even from America. As Twitter user Ben Anderson discovered, the picture Mayra Flores used on New Year’s Eve, claiming it was a family meal on her family ranch, was a STOLEN picture from the Guyanese Facebook Page,

Once she was caught, she deleted her Twitter account, then created a new one, then began banning users from her account once they found her and made fun of her. Besides that, Mexican Americans don’t eat stew on NYE. We eat Carne Guisada. It’s a Mexican version of stew. It’s delicious, nutritious, filling. It’s bad enough that a small percentage of Mexican Americans are MAGAts but this culinary fuck up is bad.

Mayra is a Mexican MAGAt. She like Trump is a fuckin liar, a cheat, a disgrace to all Mexican Americans and to the human race. She lies to her God, her Country, and with her Family.

What a fucking disgrace.

Dang. It is hard to get away from this guy.

Through an open records request the Texas Ethics Commission provided an excellent list of unpaid TEC fines over the past 10 years. The complete list can be viewed here. Leading the field of those who have refused to pay is Harris County Department of Education Trustee Eric Dick.

Dick was fined $30,000 and $10,000 for two different violations. The $30,000 fine leads the field of 47 that are unpaid. (Note Sharon Faye Keller is the Presiding Judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. She was fined a whopping $100,000 but settled with the TEC for $25,000 and paid it. More later) Dick’s $30,000 came from a Final Order issued by the TEC. The $10,000 came from an agreement by the TEC and Dick. I expect the $10,000 to be paid. The $30,000 fine has been referred to the Texas Attorney General for collection.

The TEC provided a great 13 page list of those who have been fined over the last 10 years. Their summary of the data is as follows:

It’s an impressive list with an 88% rate of collections. Of the 367 sanctions by the TEC 43 were referred to the Texas Attorney General for collections. More on that later. Only 4 of the 43 have been collected.

There needs to be a deeper look into the 43 fines referred to the Texas AG.

It’s like laughing and throwing up at the same time.

“Little Baby” Briscoe Cain, pictured here at the annual Take your Child to Work Day, has a challenger in the Republican Party. Bianca Gracia, founder of Latinos for Trump, claims Briscoe is a pro-Democrat which is laughable. Cain is so far right he is wrong. Maybe the PAC Defend Texas Liberty known for meeting with a white supremacist is funding her campaign. Cain was one of the many Republican House members to vote to impeach Ken Paxton. Even right wing wackos have their limits. The PAC has vowed to primary these members.

Gracia is best known for meeting with Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys, and founder of the Oath Keepers Elmer Stewart Rhodes in a garage a day prior to the Jan 6 insurrection. Tarrio and Rhodes were convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States and are serving 20 year prison sentences. In 2020 Gracia ran for the Texas Senate and won 7% of the vote in the primary. If fundraising is an indication of future success she should quit while she is behind.

The president of Defend Texas Liberty met with Nick Fuentes a known white supremacist. Go ahead. Google Nick Fuentes.

Fuentes often praises Adolf Hitler and has publicly fantasized about marrying a 16-year-old. Last week, he visited the office of a Texas operative who runs a deep-pocketed political group.

That deep-pocketed political group was Defend Texas Liberty the same guys who meddled in our CCISD elections. Over the last year Defend Texas Liberty has raised over $4.6 Million. $2.8 Million came from Texas billionaire Timothy Dunn and/or Hexagon Partners (Dunn is the registered agent) $1.5 Million came from another billionaire Timothy Dunn. New comers to the PAC include Alex Fairly the registered agent for DealOn LLC out of Amarillo. He donated over $222,000. New comer Carol Adams of Princeton Texas donated $50,000. Wind Grimes and her husband has donated over $500,000 since 2022. In 2023 she donated $25,000.

Here are the top donors that made up 99.4% of the total donations.

Yes.

What kind of idiot thinks a $3 Million donation to a judge prior to an impeachment trial is proper? Patrick was acting (seriously) as the judge in the Attorney General Ken Paxton impeachment trial. He isn’t a judge. He isn’t an attorney. He has no law experience. He had to depend on his legal staff to rule on motions, objections, and other legal matters during the trial. But, nevertheless, he was the judge in the trial.

Just prior to the trial he received a $3 Million donation from an extreme right wing PAC, Defend Texas Liberty. This is the same group featured on a CNN investigation. It is funded by two Texas billionaires. Their goal is to transform Texas into a christian nationalist state by funding extreme white wing candidates against republican elected officials. As an example they funded the campaign for State Representative Bryan Slaton and won. (Slaton was eventually the 1st representative in 100 years to be removed from office for providing alcohol to an under aged staffer, porking her, and then trying to cover it up.) They have financed State Representative Tony Tinderholt. (He has been married 5 times!) You get the idea. They are just massive christian hypocrites.

So prior to the trial they just bribed the shit out of Patrick and it worked. After the cowards of the Senate refused to remove Paxton, Patrick took to the microphone. He could have thanked the Senators, said another fucking prayer, then adjourn. Instead he berated the House investigators, demanded an investigation of the investigators, and acted like the giant dick he is. All for $3 Million.

The billionaires are now setting their sights on the House Members who voted to impeach Paxton. They have unlimited money and they are going to spend it. It’s happening now.

As I have said. The new GOP. The Gang Of Pussies.

They aren’t laughing with you. They are laughing at you. This is who they are. The Republican Senators couldn’t find an ounce of intelligence, or morals, or a pair of balls to do the right thing, the obvious thing. Instead they let the biggest crook in the history of the Texas Attorney Generals office off the hook. They couldn’t hold him to the highest standard the office demands. They couldn’t hold him to the highest standard the Bible demands. They couldn’t hold him accountable because they were afraid of being kicked in the balls by those who control them, their donors.

They have been officially neutered. Paxton will return to office to fire some more people and continue screwing his mistress. Tony Buzbee will run for Houston City Council. Lt Governor Dan Patrick will take the $3 Million he received from a Paxton PAC, Defend Texas Liberty, and start an investigation of those in the house who brought the charges to the Senate.

As I said in the past, they were never going to have the balls, the moral fortitude to do the right thing. Today the Republican Party leaders are just a bunch of low life, lying, cheating, stealing, adulterer sympathizer, excuse making, rotten bunch of fucking bastards. They will let Paxton off.

What an incredibly fucked up, spineless, immoral, stupid, ignorant, lawless, party of pussies.

I have to agree. They have nothing. Almost. The Texas Tribune had a very short recap here. (even they were bored)

The most drama moment in the trial was Tony Buzbee saying the defense rests. The rest was boring and I’m not even sure what the defense was trying to do beside bore the shit out of the jurors.

The prosecution needs to prove only 1 of 20 articles of impeachment for Paxton to be removed from office. From what I watched, and I watched much of the trial, the issue of hiring of Brandon Cammack to conduct that bogus investigation is the one that is easy to understand and was pretty clear. He should go down for that alone. Luckily he has a bunch of Senators who are afraid of their shadow and will let him off.

The defense rested their defense of Paxton with time to spare to call more witnesses. I was wondering who they were going to find to actually come to the defense of Paxton. They found a couple that did their best to bore the crap out of the jury. They did their job.

Closing arguments begin today.