Conryn faces certain defeat today but steps up nasty attack ads anyway. 
Senator John Cornyn of Texas faces state Attorney General Ken Paxton in today’s GOP Senate runoff after neither candidate secured enough votes in the March primary to win the nomination. President Donald Trump endorsed Paxton last week. The winner will face Democratic state Rep. James Talarico in the November election.
The primary is today. Polymarket gives Paxton a 96 percent chance of winning.
Paxton is still running attack ads.
The Cornyn Lonestar Victory Fund is up with a new #TXSen ad attacking Ken Paxton.
Crooked Ken
The Perfect Candidate
A Question of Values
Texas Senate Polymarket
What’s Cornyn’s Strategy?
Trump demanded support for whoever he endorsed and said the other candidate would drop out.
Yet, Paxton is still fighting on, arguably wasting money in a futile battle.
What’s clear is Conryn does not care if he is hurting Paxton’s chances in the general election.
And why should he? Perhaps that is indeed his strategy.
That will be the accusation regardless. He will be accused of vindictive politics, when 100 percent of the vindictiveness was by Trump.
I have the seat as a tossup. Perhaps Paxton has a slight advantage. But Republicans are now going to have to spend huge, perhaps even record amounts of money to defend this seat.
Conryn would have won easily. And this is one of the reasons Senate Republicans are in open revolt.
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What’s the point? To win.
Someday not soon enough there will be a post mortem on the destruction Trump hath wrought. One of the top tragedies may well be his supporting Ken Paxton. World Class Scumbag.
Yuck! Imagine having to watch the news on TV with this shit show going on. The ads would be disgusting.
Seen on a bathroom stall in Vail, Colorado:
Here I sit
Cheeks a flexan
Given birth
To another Texan
Since when did the prediction market numbers become the “polls”?!
Captain James T. Kirk: Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before, or since, tall words proudly saying, “We the People”. That which you call Ee’d Plebnista, was not written for the chiefs of kings, or the warriors or the rich or the powerful, but for ALL the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty, to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution”. These words and the words that follow, were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well! They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!
Re:massie. The present in question is going to be an apocalypse for pedophile protecting morons like Cindy. I’m looking forward to seeing the cope out of this as MAGA paints itself ever deeper into the corner while screaming about how little it cares for Americans.
Paxton is ahead in most polls. It’s too funny. He’ll win in November. Conservative Texans are lost.
Paxton is down tied or behind in November on realclear’s aggregated polls.
Texas has been truly disappointing in the past. But I suppose it’s not crazy to hope.
The Christian thugs are about to go on the warpath. And they will be armed.
Good thing they’re all in their seventies and very overconfident of what they can do.
economic genius speaks
Hassett: “The thing I’ve seen is that while people have been spending more money at gas stations, they’ve been spending more money on everything else, which means they’re still very very optimistic about the state of the economy”
Dr. McCoy: Spock, I’ve found that evil usually triumphs – unless good is very, very careful.
Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito should resign at the end of this term (June 30), so their replacements can be voted on by the current senate.
Why?
Just pray for/to Giant Asteroid.
Think they could find anyone dumber or more corrupt on the short bus to replace them?
Thomas won’t resign, he counts on the bribes to earn a living
Thomas is 77, Alito is 76. I expect them both to announce their retirement in June, 2026. They currently have salaries of $306,600 and their pension would equal their salary. Once they retire, the legal prohibition on honoraria goes away. But mainly they don’t want to do an inverse of Ruth Bader Ginsburg who hung around just long enough to let Trump name her replacement. Even if they don’t think the GOP will lose the Senate this fall, both of them reportedly want out, and there will be no better time than while the current senate is in office.
they are all weird
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is once again going viral for an animal encounter — this time getting bitten repeatedly by snakes at the home of his subordinate, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz, as his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, pleaded with him to stop.
C’mon he was role-playing the Rattlesnake ceremony scene from The Trial of Billy Jack.
People broke out in tears at the theater when I saw it way back when, so one can understand how he was touched by it.
Taco needs a fellow rapist to protect the Epstein files. He’s someone that the pedo ring can trust. Maybe they even made the call for taco. Like most men he is all about his pecker and his wallet. Who knows, maybe his ego is all about getting one or the other too. At least the R’s are going to have to spend, spend, spend. That leaves the rest in more peril. The bigger the swing, the smaller the king! Here’s to hoping one day they’ll be more than just the uniparty.
He already changed the narrative to Iran/Cuba/Greenland.
A couple of months it will be starving people and low stocks at Walmart.
Then either stimmy checks or UBI.
Who will bitch about that?
Then there is this
Homeowners Face Eminent Domain Bulldozers As Data Centers Demand Ever More Power
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/homeowners-face-eminent-domain-bulldozers-ai-data-centers-demand-new-power
I think MD and maybe other states are trying to block these en masse. But I learned yesterday that the Strategic Digital Asset law could give the government the right to seize digital assets as was done with gold by FDR. I imagine such a law could also be used to build data centers where ever the hell Bezos wants them.
Once you understand that Trump’s entire focus is to rob the country blind it all makes sense. Paxton is an immoral POS who will help him for a cut, and that is what Trump expects from every Republican elected official. He’s getting rid of anyone who isn’t on-board, and Cornyn definitely wasn’t on-board. Cornyn represents the ultra-wealthy of Texas who also happen to be the backbone of the old Republican Party. Once Trump is gone in a couple of years, their party will be understood to be the party of corruption and simply collapse. They need to get rid of the Paxton’s of the party to save the population’s view of it. But what they don’t get is the GOP is now the party of “Christian Conservatives”. So they have no hope of ever returning to being seen as having any kind of integrity.
trump haunts your dreams. tds gummies can help.
See they get paid to upvote too.
Who was paid to downvote that?
It turns out, people just don’t like pedophiles.
Little green sprouts of nasty pushback toward Trump, are reminiscent of the “little green sprouts” of nascent economic growth after the 2007-8 GFC. Tentative, yes, but especially important when coming from within MAGA and/or the GOP. Perhaps not the beginning of the end, but maybe the end of the beginning? (Thanks Churchill.)
Cornyn is Uniparty. Neocon lover of war. Nastiness is what you would expect from him. The Cornyn/Bush/Neocon sector of the Texas Republican Party (the faction that manipulated Paxton’s totally unwarranted impeachment) will probably vote for the Democrat, who will be as pro-war as Cornyn.
Regardless of how true this is, TDS trumps all.
You make no sense. Paxton is on record supporting Trump’s neocon war on Iran. In fact, Republicans are the most ardent supporters of Trump’s neocon war on Iran. Democrats by and large are against it. But in your mind it’s the democrats that are pro-war…
90% of Dems have been onboard with all the Neocon wars, from Hillary to Chuck Schumer. “Anti-war” Obama killed thousands of people in the Middle East and continued the Afghanistan lies.
So Bush gets us into 2 wars that he cant get us out of. It takes 2 Democratic Presidents to get us out so that another Republican President can get us back in.
Yeah, Schumer and Hillary are really the culprits. Makes so much sense. Thank you for your insight.
Great summary!
As a leftie, I’d say this – 0-bama got us into some more wars to add to Bush’s 2 wars. Plus, he continued the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (including bombing a fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner a la the “illustrious” Kissinger).
Biden did a disastrous pullout from Afghanistan and got us into an endless proxy war in Ukraine. Not to mention what he did in Gaza.
Make no mistake – the donorCRATs are every bit as bloodthirsty as their Republican pals.
You are kind of changing the subject. In stating that 90% of Democrats favor the Neocon wars (95% of the take AIPAC $ and have an Israeli handler), I said nothing about Republicans being any better. Bush was a lying warmonger. But so was Obama in the Middle East, killing great numbers of innocent civilians with drones and rockets and instigating the Syrian “Civil War” and continuing the Afghanistan absurdity. The administration for which Biden was the figurehead fomented the Ukraine war.
If you don’t see the nature of the Uniparty, then they clearly have you playing their game. When they get you to ask the wrong questions, the answers don’t matter.
Most likely WAY before then. At least we won Grenada and kept the Nutmeg flowing.
Texas has all the charm of a fat man’s flip flops
lol, are you forgetting you keep saying the same thing? maybe your meds and baby formula are stuck in customs.
Found the fatass.
Yeah or the first one inexplicably went into moderation.
If there is a God in heaven, Cornyn, Cassidy and Massie will all run as independants.
Senator James “Jesus is non-binary’ Talarico has a nice ring to it. And he’d be just middle-of-the-pack insane.
Two sides of the same coin. People get mad when I say the truth but there it is….
Got exit strategy?
Please! Cornyn is a swamp creature. He’s voted with the 🍊 creature through and through and, like the late hellish creature McCain, he never saw a country that wouldn’t like to bomb. Both Texas senators are vile creatures. That the warmongering pedophile wing fights over with the warmongering wing is just a fight for who gets the bigger bite off the pie. As there is a God in Heaven, Cornyn and Paxton will join McCain one day.
It is perhaps “funny” that the Vietnam escalation and GWOT were started by Texan presidents (with close ties, utterly coincidentally, to Kellogg Brown & Root, who were major contractors in each).
2-Star Mishelin rating for asking the right question, if only you had asked the third most important question for a 3-star: Got exit strategy?
And whenever I turn on the TV to watch the news, I have to sit and watch all those stupid commercials. Sucks.
Do worry, Trump & Walrus will find a way to make things even worse.™
Texas has all the charm of a morbidly obese man’s flip flops. Watching all this red state stuff from New England feels like visiting from another planet.
People need to known how vile Paxton is. It may not help this particular race, but it will help awareness of how the GOP has been overrun by grifting, pedophile pigs.
Kind of like telling your neighbor his house is on fire when he hasn’t noticed.
It won’t take much more than realizing Paxton got his friend off kid rape charges for people who have real morals to decide the one thing they can NEVER do is vote for Ken “Rapist Protector” Paxton. No wonder Trump likes him so much!
I think at this point they’re just fine with child rape. How long till we see them in “I rape children, so what?” T-shirts?
MAGATs in 2016 had T-shirts saying “better Russian than Democrate”. The men should now have “your body, my choice”. And the women could have “my teen, your choice”. ‘bout says it all.
Not just Paxton, it’s the whole generation and a “Pig in the python” phrase was coined. Pigs is about right.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/economy/the-pig-in-the-python-baby-boomers-are-strangling-the-economy-they-built-by-refusing-to-move-or-retire/ar-AA23ZBOM
They just can’t let go of those lifestyles their grandchildren will never know.
If the grand children had any work ethic there would be no problems now would there.
No instead then thin slice every aspect of society and force it to compete against itself seeking to blame anyone but themselves.
Work ethic means a LOT less than it did 40 years ago. Corporations have hoovered up the vast majority of labor opportunities and stripped them to the bone.
My dad was able to support us on a machinist’s salary, working 40 hour weeks. Now for blue collar people, that requires both spouses working overtime. Yes, somebody has to do the blue collar work. We can’t all vibecode our way to financial nirvana.
At some point the juice just ain’t worth the squeeze, and the kids realize all they are doing is scraping by while they make a bunch of rich pricks richer.
Power to ’em. They were sold out 2 decades before they were even born.
It could be because until then we had the advantage because the US blew the shit out of every manufacturer that would compete.
Then we took half the German scientists that created everything.
Then they died and we started using Chinese, the really smart people of the world, to create stuff.
And greed became good.
The worst thing Boomers did was NOT raise their kids to be smart.
Then those dumbasses didn’t care what their kids did ;ike listening to Vanilla Ice instead of Snow.
Then the stupid bred ever more stupid and the genpop devolved into blaming Boomers for everything instead of taking the reins of power and wealth and sharing with other workers who they hired at a fair wage.
“Am I evil?” — Beth
“Worse. You’re smart. When you know nothing matters, the universe is yours. And I’ve never met a universe that was into it. The universe is basically an animal. It grazes on the ordinary. It creates infinite idiots just to eat them… You know, smart people get a chance to climb on top and take reality for a ride, but it’ll never stop trying to throw you, and eventually it will. There’s no other way off.” — Rick Sanchez
The Rick and Morty quote capping this post off is honestly more than I can make fun of. I literally can’t top that.
MAGAs don’t care about grifting pedophiles.In fact, they support them.
MAGAs know Paxton is trash, but they like trash. They prefer candidates that are a reflection of themeselves.
Wait there is still MAGA?
ZH claims those are an illusion based on Fox news and Evangelicals.
You know like real pacifists.