Paxton made a big deal about this one, saying that the “left is gaslighting on voter fraud” pretending that it doesn’t exist.  The little detail he left out was that the arrests that were made last month included a Justice of the Peace of Medina County, Tomas Ramirez, a REPUBLICAN, along with 3 other suspects who had participated in a mail in vote harvesting scheme at managed care facilities.

They always accuse opponents for what they’re doing themselves.  BTW, am I the only one shocked that the Texas AG continues in his position FIVE YEARS after being indicted for felony securities fraud?

Written by Nick Caraway

It is amazing that in the era of 24 hour news, the internet, and social media we are nowhere closer to a world with fuller context than we were before. Andrew Cuomo is only the latest politician to be embroiled in scandal. We all know he won’t be the last. His story and our story has so many layers and so many sides that one can scarcely tell where to start.

There is the obvious question of whether he is guilty of harassment or worse. As usually happens in situations like this, the vultures are circling. More and more people are coming forward with their own stories to tell. This obviously cuts both ways. Sometimes it is because you have a horrible person and people finally have the courage to report incidents that also happened to them. Sometimes it is merely blood in the water and the sharks are circling.

From there, there is the question of where to go from here. There is the simple question of what would be appropriate in a perfect world with the knowledge that there is a huge double standard. Democrats guilty of bad behavior fall on their sword. Republicans guilty of bad behavior get a seat on the Supreme Court and a seat in the oval office. Should that even matter?

I’m definitely not a tit for tat kind of person. It’s one thing to point out a double standard, but it is quite something else to allow that to govern our actual day to day activities. Either we advise someone in Cuomo’s position to resign or we don’t. If we think there is a path forward for him then there is a path forward for people in situations like him to move forward. If there isn’t one for him then there isn’t one for anyone in a similar situation.

What makes it harder is that we all know of situations where people were falsely accused. When it becomes multiple accusers then you could easily have both simultaneously. It’s difficult to strike the balance between presuming innocence while also giving the accuser the benefit of the doubt. Both sides deserve consideration. I know people have strong opinions on this topic and I invite all thoughts. Having a strong opinion doesn’t necessarily mean we know the wisest course of action.”

Nick

Teas Republican Congresssquirt Dan Crenshaw, has taken his sanctimonious self to the stock market in double violation of congressional rules.

Crenshaw showed no interest in the stock market his first year in congress, but all that changed when his fellow Republicans showed him how to do a little insider trading.  He up and made six stock purchases.

Five of those purchases came in the three days between March 25 and 27, as the Senate and House voted on the CARES Act and former President Trump signed it into law. Crenshaw, who supported the bill, did not initially disclose the transactions, in violation of the STOCK Act, a law that requires members of Congress to tell the public when they engage in securities trades. Months later he amended his records to reflect the purchases.

Crenshaw’s buys didn’t fall into the monetary field of Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue, but it just looked odd since there was no record of him buying stock before, coupled with the fact that it was during a crisis when he should have been paying attention to the crisis and not his stock portfolio, and – here’s the biggie – he failed to report the buys on two separate occasions and all that is what made the whole thing look hinkey.

As to the STOCK Act:  Crenshaw bought the stock in March and did not report it until August.  He had two opportunities to disclose it before then, but you’ll recall that’s when other congresspeople reported their stock buying and selling and got chastised for it.

Ole brave Dan just laid low.  He thought we’d forget because he thinks we’re all dumb.  Y’all, I admit it – this guy is a jerk and I don’t like him and always will. I’d rather share a night in a burlap bag with a bobcat than spend an hour in the same room with Cringeshaw.

Okay, if you’re Marjorie Taylor Greene you probably don’t need help to screw things up. It’s highly likely you can do that on our own.

But if you’re Louie Gohmert, you have stoopid to share – plenty go around for everybody to enjoy.

So, when Louie gave a donation to Marjorie Greene in his own name to make it look like the money came from him personally instead of his campaign account, MTG reported it as a personal contribution. Then she had to file a correction, and she made sure the FEC knew it was Louie’s fault, not hers.

You can click here and go to page 3.

Louie is always there to help.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

Interesting fact:

You cannot give them a little and expect them to give a little back.  You cannot negotiate with them. You cannot reason with them.  Hungry children are not a priority as long as it’s not their kids. Their kids go to Cancun. They would rather die from Covid than give the Dems a “win.”

They have become Donald Trump.  Don’t try to make nice with them. They don’t know nice.

Donald Trump, Jr. is outraged and mad and appalled and, well, if I had a thesaurus I could tell you more words, but the story goes like this.

The former Washington Redskins football team changed their name. So far, they are named The Washington Team, which is kinda catchy.

So they went on Twitter and announced some coming attractions.  This is where they announced that  they will replace cheerleaders with a coed “dance team.”

So, along comes Donald Trump, Jr. and he’s acting like a popcorn popper with the lid off.  He says he’s concerned all to hell and back over the “lack of decency” for the cheerleaders to learn on Twitter that they are being fired.

Decency.  The boy child wants to talk about decency.

Trump Jr.’s father announced numerous administration employees’ dismissals on Twitter during his four years in the White House, without notifying them personally prior to alerting social media. Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, White House counsel Don McGahn, DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Chief of Staff Reince Preibus, Department of Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson were each fired in this way.

Yeah, but cheerleaders are whole different class of people.

I guess that Trump firing them on Twitter was more decent than grabbing them by the you know what.

Decency – that word even oozing out of his mouth …