@georgetakei He's a real POS, always has been, always will be.
Perfect for the Texas GOP.
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Paxton's opponent in the GOP runoff, Sen. John Cornyn put up a site which lambastes him called Crooked Ken Paxton. It was taken down this morning but fortunately has been archived at the Wayback Machine. π
Much of it is useful for Dems.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260521125727/https://www.crookedken.com/
One thing I learned there is that Paxton has ties to an Albanian oligarch.
@Oyu_Fka No, I mean β has he gone through a stroke, or maybe tried to apply his own botox?
@Oyu_Fka At first, I thought it was one unfortunate video frame, but he's having it the same way in numerous photos. And old photos of him appear to not have this feature. => Some sort of health incident happened.
@riley @georgetakei Yes, I thought the same, and also noted other pictures prior to this one were fine - I think you're right, maybe health issue...π€.
Edit: maybe a minor stroke - his smile on the right side droops a little as well.
@georgetakei Douglas Adams comes to mind:
"It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..."
"You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?"
"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in. Got any gin?"
"What?"
"I said," said Ford, with an increasing air of urgency creeping into his voice, "have you got any gin?"
"I'll look. Tell me about the lizards."
Ford shrugged again.
"Some people say that the lizards are the best thing that ever happened to them," he said. "They're completely wrong of course, completely and utterly wrong, but someone's got to say it."
"But that's terrible," said Arthur.
I think a lot of the Republicans are just so used to the lizards, they just can't fathom living without them.