Okay, below the cartoons I have been updating the giant bustercluck that is the Republican State Convention in Texas. They cannot seem to do what high school kids do every damn day.

It was supposed to start yesterday, then they had to move it to today at noon.  I had a fresh batch of popcorn popped by 9:30 and was ready to watch all afternoon.  Damn.  Now they moved it until tomorrow because they are still untechnical, I dunno, maybe it’s distechnical.

So now they are promising it’ll be tomorrow. Until 5 minutes ago when this breaking news hits the Quorum Report.

So, last week they went to state court and the Texas Supreme Court (which is 100% Republican) and got a big giant nope at both places. So, now they are going to try federal court two days after the convention is supposed to have started.

Now, let me tell you why this even matters.

State conventions are where each Texas state senate district elects electors to vote on the presidency. After the November election these electors meet in Austin and cast their votes for the presidential candidate of their party.  The winner gets the state’s electoral votes.  There is no other method provided by the election code for electors to be elected.

Soooooo … if they don’t have a convention to elect electors and Donald Trump wins, there’s no electors for him so he gets 0 electoral votes from Texas.  Joe Biden wouldn’t get them, but neither would Trump.

So, if Trump were to win, Texas would end up with zero electoral votes because these Republican bozos could not get a computer to work.

This is so typical of the Trump years that it is raging fierce justice.

UPDATE:  4:30 Houston Time

So, apparently, you have a constitutional right to spread a killer virus.

I stand with Mayor Turner.