Bozo, Attorney at Law
Texas attorney Paul MacNeal Davis was terminated by his employer, Goosehead Insurance, for posting a video of himself inside the Capitol.
He left a picture of it on Instagram.
And then, oh and then, he said.
“I already lost my job because of the Twitter mob. I’m not upset. I’m thankful to be suffering for righteousness and freedom.”
Freedumb!
Wanna know the easiest way he could have avoided this? I mean, beside not going to try to overthrow the United States government? The easiest way to avoid this would be to … wear a damn mask, you ignorant fool. Hell, nobody would have thought anything about it, except that you’re not trying to catch Covid.
Then, not having said so much that people are asking what he did with the money his momma gave him to go to law school, he has to draw a comparison to his life and “MLK-style civil disobedience.”
No.
I swear to God almighty. NO.
First off, Martin Luther King did not break into the Capitol and tear things up. Civil disobedience by definition is passive, which you would have known if you had been reading law books instead of prancing around the Capitol with some very squirrelly people.
I am sure the law school he graduated from is just thrilled with him.
Seriously. It was back in the ’70s that we started figuring out how to de-program cultists, starting with the Moonies.
When do we start de-programming Trump cultists?
1Domestic terrorists could end all this unrest if *before* they attacked the Capitol, they checked to see how many state election tabulations were already audited, instead of listening to lying politicians. Or, they could ask the lying politicians for a list of states that didn’t audit their election results yet.
But no, they’d rather run around the rotunda and conduct their research on the subject with some guy wearing feral animal fur and horns.
2No, dude, you lost your job because you
1) committed felony
2) confessed to committing that felony on a video that you yourself posted!
I expect he’ll be equally upset when someone reports him to the Texas State Bar for discipline. For folks so concerned about personal responsibility, they sure don’t seem to think the concept applies to themselves.
Kind of like the laws against sedition…
3Dunno where he got his ideas about Dr. King, but the rest of the world know about non-violence and satyagraha.
4Be grateful they don’t know enough history to compare themselves to John Brown. Although his sedition (he was actually convicted of committing treason against Virginia, if that’s possible) did not end well for anyone.
5Somewhere, John Lewis is laughing his butt off at this idiot.
6Perhaps he will get some additional clarity from the State Bar of Texas, with its statement of how it “is dedicated to improving and advancing the quality of legal services to the public, protecting the public through the discipline system, and fostering integrity and ethical conduct in the legal profession.”
Although, given the example of your state’s Attorney General, perhaps the State Bar doesn’t really want to take notice until AFTER some conviction.
7This season of Darwin Awards should include participation ribbons for those morons who supported the fu king moron.
Keerap, how st00pid are they? After The Toddler-in-Thief “inspired” them to attack the House and Senate, Commander-Coward-vonClorox was nowhere to be seen. Bunker boi Donnie fled – how can these morons not see the obvious?
8I’m betting the only states that didn’t audit votes were red states Trumpf “won”. I’m thinking that some repugnanticans in congress might want to retreat from the narrative of a stolen election. To support that narrative says they support the insurrection. I’m loving the newspapers in TX and MIssouri asking for Cruz and hawley to resign. Others to follow I’m hoping.
9Mr. Davis needs to be disbarred.
Have we mentioned yet that there’s apparently an entire association of Republican Attorneys General, and they all sent out letters (invitations? Instructions?) to go to the event in Washington, D.C. on January 6? Not-a-lawyer here says, doesn’t that make them part of a conspiracy to overturn an election and maybe the government? Encouraging the riot?
10Just who would be on the committee to provide a “legitimate audit” ? Jim Jordan? Ted Cruz? Yeah, that would be fair and unbiased.
Also wonder if (God Forbid) Daffy Don had won the election, would he and the others be hollering about voter fraud and mail in ballots. Of course not, but they would be dismissing Dems complaints with a haughty wave of the hand.
11My older son is an attorney; his firm was looking ahead to hiring a new associate attorney. They asked candidates to send 1) a resume, 2) a cover letter, and 3) an example of their legal writing (very important). All of the candidates that applied were immediately rejected without review of what they’d sent. Why? Because they didn’t follow the request for those three specific items, sending 2 of 3, or substituting an item with a transcript, etc. All were law school graduates, presumably. I thought of them when I heard about Paul Davis. Paul’s statement is so ridiculous I’m surprised he had a job at all. Are we sure he was an actual attorney at Goosehead? His law school should rescind his degree.
12“How can these morons not see the obvious?” Jane & PKM
13This is the fundamental question we need to have answered
regarding all trumpists. For the life of me, I cannot fathom the hold he has over otherwise normal people. Congressional Republicans, yes, they are greedy, power-hungry and willing to sell their souls at the drop of a hat. But what is obvious about Trump’s venal power plays, seems to escape his Everyman apologists, even after this latest manipulation of his mob. What in God’s name do they see in him that would cause them to participate in his insurrection or even try to explain it away?
Ken Paxton will be hiring this Davis jakeleg in 5.4.3.2.
In other nooz, the Tangerine Twitler is visiting Deep South Texas Tuesday, probably around Mission, to admire some of his environmentally disastrous ‘Wall’. No, Mexico hasn’t paid a peso for it yet.
14‘jakeleg’ is new to me? How do you define it? Any connection to jakefoot?
maryelle, while I cannot entirely answer your question, I can recast it. Remember when conventional Protestants went so alarmed by the religious beliefs of the Moonies? But although different in detail, how different in concept were those beliefs from their own?
It is fear. But whence the fear?
15Harry, here’s what I found online about jakeleg. This definition is from Merriam-Webster: “a paralysis caused by drinking improperly distilled or contaminated liquor.” World Wide Words says this: “The Southern US term ‘Jake-leg’ can mean incompetent work or an incompetent person.”
16The terminal stupidity of these boneheads is stunning.
17Stephen Colbert talks really poor planning on that head thing:
https://twitter.com/colbertlateshow/status/1347417372336947200
18Obviously dropped on his head as a very young child.
19Tosematy, thank you. Jake-foot was derived from a high-alcohol patent medicine called Jamaica Ginger that in high doses caused a paralysis marked by dragging a foot.
But I never heard it used in the second sense, or as jake-leg.
Back to incompetent lawyers: Can he expect an Ivy League law degree?
20Harry Eagar @15&20, Rosemary from Indiana @16,
Y’all got it.
It’s a derogatory term, unfortunately derived [and enhanced] from the paralysis caused by drinking one of the notorious ‘fake’ alcoholic beverages during Prohibition.
The fine old epithet “jakeleg” has meant a ‘mentally deficient’, stupid, incompetent jerkoff and/or total asshole to me as long as I can remember [since whenever one learns all ‘those’ words].
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21https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_ginger#Organophosphate-induced_delayed_neuropathy