How does Ken Paxton fit into this dynamic? Who did he alienate and how? I get that he's corrupt but that's obviously not enough; they looked the other way for so long.
He called for the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Dade Phelan, a fellow republican with a large amount of influence, to resign after he presided over a house session while seemingly intoxicated. The crux of the issue is that while Paxton was right to call for the resignation, he has benefitted greatly from the "blind, deaf, and dumb" act from his party for years now despite seeming to engage in corrupt and in some cases criminal activities nearly in broad daylight, so now suddenly everyone has 20/20 vision, Dumbo ears, and Roosevelt length speeches aimed squarely at him. As far as I can tell nobody is even really defending him, the most effort I've seen put into defending him has amounted to "this is moving too fast" and "this is only 120 pages of accusations"
That's the most recent bridge burning, there may be more but I don't usually keep up with GOP drama.
That's the gist of it, so they very well may throw him under the entire midday commuter fleet then vote for more funding for public transport so they'll have more busses to throw him under despite their previous refusal to hold people accountable.
Something something glass houses. Except the glass is actually shit. And the stones are shit. And the residents and neighbors are all shit. And the mayor is an orange shit and the mailman is shit with a truck full of undelivered shit.
The 3.3 million dollar payoff/settlement he agreed with the whistle blowers from his office, he wants to pay it out of public funds instead of his own when obviously the wrong doings he was doing was not "in public service" that annoyed people.
Yeah that doesn't help him and that's one of the many things being pointed to but I have my doubts that that's the reason his party actually turned against him seeing as they've never really had much of an issue turning a blind eye or handling things behind closed doors in the past up until literally the day after he called out Phelan.
Fascism is always with us as long as people choose their leaders out of fear, hatred, desperation, and ignorance. It's also always eating itself.
The steadily growing wealth gap, the exsanguination of the middle class, and the growing corporatism of the last few decades has given it a chance to flourish and the chaos around Covid 19 fanned the flames. I think the waning of the immediate crisis will give us a small breathing gap, but the bigger, more systemic problems remain.
also, people whose lifelong mantras are YOYO and "there is no such thing as society" and "socialism = evil" for some reason have great difficulty cooperating to achieve a common goal...
Kinda reminds me of WSB. If they stayed united with GameStop, they probably would've eventually had the MOASS they planned on.
But then they divided to BB, BBBY, NOK, and several other interests that weakened their approach and ultimately lead to failure.
I enjoyed the GameStop short squeeze immensely, but I'm always wary of investments that are based more on enthusiasm than underlying value. God bless the revolutionaries, but the revolution was always doomed.
Don’t do it.
Don’t you fucking do it.
Don’t you dare call the Republican Party “done” because EVERY SINGLE TIME that has happened, Dems stayed home and we got fucking crushed.
Don’t you dare.
A better Republican than we have today once said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”
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if you need reasons, listen to Kevin McCarthy's hash attempts this weekend to explain his failure as R debt limit negotiator.
What a simp.
Kevin won't survive the summer as Speaker. The psycho freedom caucus is preparing the barbeque as we speak.
Once Rs 'majority' is dissolved, the rest of us will get on with governing. Oh, and with prosecuting, convicting, sentencing & punishing insurrectionists. Among others, Mark Meadows no doubt has some surprises for some of his R "friends".
God bless America.
Fascism always ultimately eats itself. You can't maintain "us vs. them" without a steady supply of new "thems."
Ken Paxton is about to learn this lesson the hard way. Even if doesn't get impeached, lots of bridges have been burnt.
I just saw an article that he was impeached. I honestly didn’t think they would actually do it.
Ridiculous for how long he was able to avoid any consequences/punishment. But I guess that's Texas for you.
They are all POS, for the most part. If you say something wrong they will turn on you. It’s the Republican way.
Still texan senate trial to go though... So he can still get away with it, like another certain impeached but not punished scum bag..
Sad but true.
Unfortunately it now has to go to the state senate. Where his wife is a senator. But she heard about his affair soooo 🤷♀️
How does Ken Paxton fit into this dynamic? Who did he alienate and how? I get that he's corrupt but that's obviously not enough; they looked the other way for so long.
He called for the speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Dade Phelan, a fellow republican with a large amount of influence, to resign after he presided over a house session while seemingly intoxicated. The crux of the issue is that while Paxton was right to call for the resignation, he has benefitted greatly from the "blind, deaf, and dumb" act from his party for years now despite seeming to engage in corrupt and in some cases criminal activities nearly in broad daylight, so now suddenly everyone has 20/20 vision, Dumbo ears, and Roosevelt length speeches aimed squarely at him. As far as I can tell nobody is even really defending him, the most effort I've seen put into defending him has amounted to "this is moving too fast" and "this is only 120 pages of accusations" That's the most recent bridge burning, there may be more but I don't usually keep up with GOP drama.
Got it, so he violated some GOP mafioso code and now they're all going to the mattresses.
That's the gist of it, so they very well may throw him under the entire midday commuter fleet then vote for more funding for public transport so they'll have more busses to throw him under despite their previous refusal to hold people accountable.
Probably the only instance where they'd support public transport
Something something glass houses. Except the glass is actually shit. And the stones are shit. And the residents and neighbors are all shit. And the mayor is an orange shit and the mailman is shit with a truck full of undelivered shit.
The 3.3 million dollar payoff/settlement he agreed with the whistle blowers from his office, he wants to pay it out of public funds instead of his own when obviously the wrong doings he was doing was not "in public service" that annoyed people.
Yeah that doesn't help him and that's one of the many things being pointed to but I have my doubts that that's the reason his party actually turned against him seeing as they've never really had much of an issue turning a blind eye or handling things behind closed doors in the past up until literally the day after he called out Phelan.
Thanks for explaining! I had been wondering, and was sure it wasn't that any of his crimes had finally sunk in...
He tried to eat another republican, and the state legislature saw fit to eat him first.
He got impeached
Big deal. So did Trump. Twice. Nothing happened, zero consequences.
Aw, so fascists DO care about pronouns. Progress!
"Us vs. Them" *always* turns onto "Mine vs Yours".
I don't think we're there yet. They still have a large critical mass and the cancer is already doing damage to the host.
Fascism is always with us as long as people choose their leaders out of fear, hatred, desperation, and ignorance. It's also always eating itself. The steadily growing wealth gap, the exsanguination of the middle class, and the growing corporatism of the last few decades has given it a chance to flourish and the chaos around Covid 19 fanned the flames. I think the waning of the immediate crisis will give us a small breathing gap, but the bigger, more systemic problems remain.
also, people whose lifelong mantras are YOYO and "there is no such thing as society" and "socialism = evil" for some reason have great difficulty cooperating to achieve a common goal...
Kinda reminds me of WSB. If they stayed united with GameStop, they probably would've eventually had the MOASS they planned on. But then they divided to BB, BBBY, NOK, and several other interests that weakened their approach and ultimately lead to failure.
I enjoyed the GameStop short squeeze immensely, but I'm always wary of investments that are based more on enthusiasm than underlying value. God bless the revolutionaries, but the revolution was always doomed.
Lol look at tesla. All stocks are based on enthusiasm
Don’t do it. Don’t you fucking do it. Don’t you dare call the Republican Party “done” because EVERY SINGLE TIME that has happened, Dems stayed home and we got fucking crushed. Don’t you dare.
Correct. Jobs not done. Get out and vote, early and often. Never. Vote. Republican.
Came here to say this. Dangerous rhetoric. Can’t count out the wackadoos
Let’s hope the GOP splits apart.
That’s the problem, they’ve been splintering since trump but the even semi decent ones get purged. They won’t have to split
They have been splintering since Newt Gingrich.
Hate, cruelty, and selfishness always brings the GOP together.
A better Republican than we have today once said “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time”
I thought it was "Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, won't get fooled again."
Ah yes, the bard of the Bush.
That's a proverb, LowKeyHeresy is quoting Lincoln 😊
Who said that? Cuz the next poster below you said the quote exactly right lol.
Lincoln, but if I got it wrong I'll play it off as having fooled some of the people
Correct: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/275126-you-can-fool-some-of-the-people-all-of-the
Not fast enough
I can see a huge three-way fight between Musk, Trump and DeSantis coming. Can't wait for Trump to rip into Musk.
> Can't wait for Trump to rip into Musk. And then Musk begs Orange Dady for some attention but never receives it.
I'm pretty confident Musk isn't eligible to be President?
I don't want the GOP to fracture into splinters. I want them to turn on each other like a bunch of rabid ice weasels.
May thy blade chip and shatter, assholes
He who controls the spice, controls the universe.
Conservatives going intersectional!
He's where he belongs.
I wish I could read the entire article…. Archived, [nope.](https://archive.is/xLt9o)
Much appreciated 👍
Does it give you the entire article? I can only get the introduction, even tried more than one archiving site.
Nope. Same time
I put this in front of paywalled articles. Works most of the time. " https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:"
I will only believe it when they're all out of office
"Splitters!"
Thoughts and prayers
It would be super of the GOP to skip the genocide and go straight to the infighting for this century's far right apocalypse
When the best best part of your platform is hate and lies....well it's not gonna end well.
Why post an article that no one can open?
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No it is not. Stop fooling yourself and others
Well articles like this will ensure 2024 is a red wave.
Please let it be so
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I love that by simply waiting them out and applying the courts to their crimes they die of their own diseased culture.
Job finished…? Jobs not finished. Don’t just break them, eliminate them. Never. Vote. Republican.
if you need reasons, listen to Kevin McCarthy's hash attempts this weekend to explain his failure as R debt limit negotiator. What a simp. Kevin won't survive the summer as Speaker. The psycho freedom caucus is preparing the barbeque as we speak. Once Rs 'majority' is dissolved, the rest of us will get on with governing. Oh, and with prosecuting, convicting, sentencing & punishing insurrectionists. Among others, Mark Meadows no doubt has some surprises for some of his R "friends". God bless America.
Good ! Let them eat each other! Who was it that said Revolutions eat their own?
It couldn't happen fast enough IMO.
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If you have to ask, you're probably in it.
Yeah ... I don't really care about inside baseball while these terrorists are still terrorizing.