I’m so exhausted, ok, maybe exasperated? - by my state government here in TX! It really is a scorched earth hellscape and I’m at a loss for words, actions...coherent thought.
I just wish someone, like this asshat Rafael Cruz - don’t call him ‘Ted’!! - if pronouns are such an issue for him , I’d like to think proper names should rank - also, I don’t want to be accused of using or promoting anything undocumented - especially considering his overly vocal stance on all of the above “issues” that he gives priority over actually governing like he campaigned to do. More importantly, that he was elected to do.
Or was he?
If the voting was “rigged” - then he must not have actually won his last senatorial election.
What’s that? Oh, so just the presidential candidates were rigged the rest were not?
If that isn’t just the stupidest damned theory that could be floated into the whackadoodle kkkjj I II
Look at all the millions Donny Dumpys super pacs (or whatever), are throwing away at his bullshit. Of course that’s mostly his deplorable bases donations. Which is the only thing funny about it.
His cult is supporting his ridiculous defense. It’s disgusting.
J6 2023 was the 2 year anniversary of the insurrection at the capital.......they didn't want to associate THEIR attempt to nullify an election with the national disgrace of a nation.
there is a scene in the novel IT in which Derry's young and upcoming juvenile delinquents foregather near the gravel pit to light each other's farts, while Beverly watches from cover.
A friend who was in the habit of lighting his farts for their entertainment value was lying in bed naked reading when he felt one coming on. The lighter was nearby. Instinct took over.
One of the characteristics of mammals is body hair, some of it in the darndest places.
Yep. He was a moderate rock star in the 70’s in Detroit. But he was a gun and bow hunting wingnut after that. Eventually he became so far-right extreme he hated purple Michigan and left for good. He had a bow hunting store near where I grew up. I played basketball in the 90’s with his son and saw him a couple years ago in Pentwater. He still lives here, but his dad went to the wingnut Wild West to shout about conspiracies.
Waaaaa we were led astray by a wingnut lawyer who agreed to advance our wingnut beliefs! Waaaaa. Lawyers are agents FOR their clients, advancing their goals. Not the other way around.
You know, if every state had a vote by mail option we wouldn't have these problems but then again Republicans wouldn't win an election ever again so that's why they don't push it as a solution.
Speaking of lawyers, Alina Habba Dabba Doo appears to be in some serious trouble. Seems she tricked an employee of PAB's Bedminster Club into settling a sexual harassment case in a way not beneficial to the harassed employee (a young woman).
Our Liz has written some on this on another site; I'm guessing we'll get a 'splainer about the trouble Habba Dabba Doo is in soon. But it looks like the kind of trouble that gets you disbarred.
Yeah. That whole situation was super shady. She apparently manipulated the shit out of that poor girl. Never told her she was council for Dumper. Acted as a (friend) who understood her predicament, then slid her cash for a nondisclosure agreement.
She was sexually harassed and abused by a slime ball restaurant manager.
I *think* Habba Dabba Doo wasn't yet a member of PAB's clownshow but I could be wrong. IIRC, the way she screwed that employee was her "audition" for the PAB clownshow. Which, if I think about it, makes it even worse than if she WAS working for PAB when she did that.
She is definitely not one of our best and brightest.
That’s what drew Trump to her. She had proven herself morally flexible and willing to hurt others to protect Trumpland. And she’s pretty in that creepy, something is off, kinda way. If she was plain, brilliant and possessed true mastery of the law, they’d have no use for each other.
So THAT's why he was babbling about the general and the p*ssy grabbing. The dotted line between what tRump says and his crimes is always about two dots long. An m-dash, if you will.
There's got to be a way that we can I Am Spartacus that damn Texas civil liability law into an unwieldy tangle that includes every tax payer who contributed to the building and maintenance of interstate highways.
Under the law that criminalizes abortion only the doctor ever faced arrest.
The TRO currently extends protection over those who "faciliate" her travel, but if it falls on appeal she and her husband and anyone else involved can be sued by any busybody, including from outside Texas, under the bounty law.
Speaking just as a rational person, not a lawyer, it strikes me that enactment of any sort of bounty law amounts to abdication by the State of responsibility and authority. It is insanely illogical. No coherent constitution could permit it. This same critique holds for the idiots who declare themselves to be "sovereign citizens". That amounts to claiming to be an outlaw in the common law sense of that term. If some idiot (Alex Jones, say) declared himself to be a sovcit, anyone could just kill him.
I wonder if any case has been brought under this law. Although the state itself will not be the plaintiff in the case, it's a state law that authorizes it, you don't have to claim someone you have never seen who had an abortion harms you in any way, and apparently anyone using this is immune from charges of frivolous claims, harassment, or damages by the defendant. Or even false claims or libel charges if you did not have an abortion, but proving it only after spending thousands of dollars proving you were not pregnant during the time period they claim.
I’m so exhausted, ok, maybe exasperated? - by my state government here in TX! It really is a scorched earth hellscape and I’m at a loss for words, actions...coherent thought.
I just wish someone, like this asshat Rafael Cruz - don’t call him ‘Ted’!! - if pronouns are such an issue for him , I’d like to think proper names should rank - also, I don’t want to be accused of using or promoting anything undocumented - especially considering his overly vocal stance on all of the above “issues” that he gives priority over actually governing like he campaigned to do. More importantly, that he was elected to do.
Or was he?
If the voting was “rigged” - then he must not have actually won his last senatorial election.
What’s that? Oh, so just the presidential candidates were rigged the rest were not?
If that isn’t just the stupidest damned theory that could be floated into the whackadoodle kkkjj I II
"...and the Fiji mermaid she promised would testify on their behalf was just a monkey and a fish sewn together."
Which half of the monkey?
Look at all the millions Donny Dumpys super pacs (or whatever), are throwing away at his bullshit. Of course that’s mostly his deplorable bases donations. Which is the only thing funny about it.
His cult is supporting his ridiculous defense. It’s disgusting.
They were "scammed" because they were willing to be.
That's what happens when you want to deny reality THAT badly.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑑 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑏𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑒.
We Boomers succinctly put that as getting high off your own supply.
Ta, Robyn. Madness.
"because 55 percent of the 29 polling places the Republicans included were in counties that went to Donald Trump"
Weren't all of them in Harris County? Also, why stipulate that she not file anything on J6?
J6 2023 was the 2 year anniversary of the insurrection at the capital.......they didn't want to associate THEIR attempt to nullify an election with the national disgrace of a nation.
They got high on their own supply....
let this be a lesson to the young people. Huffing your own farts is a bad idea.
Lighting them naked, I have been told, is also not a good idea.
Let's just file that one under: "Anything's a dildo if you're brave enough."
there is a scene in the novel IT in which Derry's young and upcoming juvenile delinquents foregather near the gravel pit to light each other's farts, while Beverly watches from cover.
A friend who was in the habit of lighting his farts for their entertainment value was lying in bed naked reading when he felt one coming on. The lighter was nearby. Instinct took over.
One of the characteristics of mammals is body hair, some of it in the darndest places.
Texas should be avoided. Ken Paxton is still AG and Ted Nugent moved there on purpose to retire. What more must you know.
OK, I can go back to Michigan now.
Nugent got run out of Michigan by the liberals? Music to my ears.
Yep. He was a moderate rock star in the 70’s in Detroit. But he was a gun and bow hunting wingnut after that. Eventually he became so far-right extreme he hated purple Michigan and left for good. He had a bow hunting store near where I grew up. I played basketball in the 90’s with his son and saw him a couple years ago in Pentwater. He still lives here, but his dad went to the wingnut Wild West to shout about conspiracies.
Waaaaa we were led astray by a wingnut lawyer who agreed to advance our wingnut beliefs! Waaaaa. Lawyers are agents FOR their clients, advancing their goals. Not the other way around.
You know, if every state had a vote by mail option we wouldn't have these problems but then again Republicans wouldn't win an election ever again so that's why they don't push it as a solution.
Don't push it as a solution? They actively oppose it.
Is there no one who can make a beautiful sampler with this sentiment woven into it? Alas!
it is generally a bad idea to believe your own bullshit to the degree that you actually give money to someone to prove it is true.
Props for P T Barnum callout
Mencken smirks.
I'm gonna guess Alverez was also singing , "Oh you got trouble, right here in Harris County..."
🎶 With a capital T, that rhymes with P and that stands for Poo"🎶. 💙💙💙
Speaking of lawyers, Alina Habba Dabba Doo appears to be in some serious trouble. Seems she tricked an employee of PAB's Bedminster Club into settling a sexual harassment case in a way not beneficial to the harassed employee (a young woman).
Our Liz has written some on this on another site; I'm guessing we'll get a 'splainer about the trouble Habba Dabba Doo is in soon. But it looks like the kind of trouble that gets you disbarred.
Yeah. That whole situation was super shady. She apparently manipulated the shit out of that poor girl. Never told her she was council for Dumper. Acted as a (friend) who understood her predicament, then slid her cash for a nondisclosure agreement.
She was sexually harassed and abused by a slime ball restaurant manager.
Alina is a shitty human being.
I *think* Habba Dabba Doo wasn't yet a member of PAB's clownshow but I could be wrong. IIRC, the way she screwed that employee was her "audition" for the PAB clownshow. Which, if I think about it, makes it even worse than if she WAS working for PAB when she did that.
She is definitely not one of our best and brightest.
That’s what drew Trump to her. She had proven herself morally flexible and willing to hurt others to protect Trumpland. And she’s pretty in that creepy, something is off, kinda way. If she was plain, brilliant and possessed true mastery of the law, they’d have no use for each other.
Liz' story: https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/alina-habba-call-your-lawyer
So THAT's why he was babbling about the general and the p*ssy grabbing. The dotted line between what tRump says and his crimes is always about two dots long. An m-dash, if you will.
It won't look good for the Trump organization either since it involved a sexual harassment claim against management at one of his golf courses.
"Look good"? Somehow one thinks that horse is several counties and galloping away.
Several countries.
well when you're a celebrity....
Katie Cox and her family should move to the state where she gets the abortion, and just stay there.
Sadly, this family may not want to return to Texas, as, I'm sure, Paxton will threaten them with arrest, etc.
There's got to be a way that we can I Am Spartacus that damn Texas civil liability law into an unwieldy tangle that includes every tax payer who contributed to the building and maintenance of interstate highways.
THINK folks! We can do this!
Under the law that criminalizes abortion only the doctor ever faced arrest.
The TRO currently extends protection over those who "faciliate" her travel, but if it falls on appeal she and her husband and anyone else involved can be sued by any busybody, including from outside Texas, under the bounty law.
Speaking just as a rational person, not a lawyer, it strikes me that enactment of any sort of bounty law amounts to abdication by the State of responsibility and authority. It is insanely illogical. No coherent constitution could permit it. This same critique holds for the idiots who declare themselves to be "sovereign citizens". That amounts to claiming to be an outlaw in the common law sense of that term. If some idiot (Alex Jones, say) declared himself to be a sovcit, anyone could just kill him.
I wonder if any case has been brought under this law. Although the state itself will not be the plaintiff in the case, it's a state law that authorizes it, you don't have to claim someone you have never seen who had an abortion harms you in any way, and apparently anyone using this is immune from charges of frivolous claims, harassment, or damages by the defendant. Or even false claims or libel charges if you did not have an abortion, but proving it only after spending thousands of dollars proving you were not pregnant during the time period they claim.
Sounds like time to file against every female R legislator and office holder in Tx along with R men and their partners
Soooooo, the state of Texas does not have respect the states rights of any other state? Just like slaves fleeing to northern states?
Did I get that correctly?
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
Maybe if other states enact specific laws to shield their residents?
The doctor would have been SOL if implicated in the procedure though.
Sads
THIS!!!!!!
Yay