“Every time you think Ken Paxton couldn’t get worse, he finds a way to prove you wrong,” the Democratic Senate Majority PAC wrote on X. “Turns out, Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife.”

Just living up to Republican Christian values.

Anyone else feel like Republicans dangle Paxton out there to see if they can figure out just how much disgusting behavior they can get away with? Figure out where that maximum-grift line is?

I felt that way about Mark Robinson, the candidate for NC governor in 2024.

"Let's see, porn addicted? Acceptable, okay. Anti-trans? Win in our book! Nazi sympathizer? Yeesh, okay. We can work with that. Wife had an abortion? Well, we've all been there, haven't we? Pro-slavery? Well, okay--- wait, he's black??? Gotta pull the plug."

We'll see how much more bullshit GOP voters will swallow for a white guy.

It's even worse than you think. Here's what the article says about the two guys partying with Paxton and his mistress:

Sameer Suhail and Anosh Ahmed were federally indicted in 2024 on charges of embezzling $15 million from the Illinois hospital where Ahmed was chief financial officer.

Ahmed was later charged with another even grander scheme in which he allegedly sold $195 million worth of faulty Covid-19 tests to the government.

No, our healthcare is not strangled of funding and shitty enough, they needed to hop on and make it even worse. And selling $195 million worth of known bad covid tests to the govt to be distributed to citizens during a worldwide pandemic? That's just comic-book level evil.

These are Paxton's friends, the company he chooses to keep when his time is free to spend as he likes. And there's no way he didn't know who they were: from the brief WSJ video it looks like they're standing on a private balcony directly across from the Birj, someone's home. But even if it wasn't, it's hard to imagine anyone got past security that wasn't directly invited.

TNR pulled their article from the much more thorough Wall Street Journal report; if you click on the WSJ link you'll get paywalled but the 30 second video is still watchable:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ken-paxton-texas-senate-dubai-trip-b54292c3

Archive link: https://archive.ph/irgQw (there are known problems with the site but it has the full text; use at your own discretion)

And yet all the republicans voters will cry fake news and vote for him anyway.

It's crazy to see their respective campaign strategies.

Talarico soft-shoeing it like mad all over the state.

Paxton jet setting to gin up as much campaign cash as his briefcase can carry, so he can fund a bunch of "Talarico Secretly Had Bottom Surgery in Ohio" Facebook ads into November.

And it won’t hurt him even a little.

Starting to wonder if Paxton could actually be more hated in the senate than Cruz is. Cant remember who said it but I remember a quote or at least paraphrased quote, saying you could murder Cruz on the Senate floor and have 99 people not witness it.

At least this time he didn't free up another child rapist. Not a good look but he rarely goes a day without being a complete piece of shit.

Months later, that decision is looking like Trump’s biggest gamble of the midterms.

I mean, is it though? He won the primary. And at this point its just red vs. blue anyway. No one cares about the details, they just vote for whoever is on "my team". Ever heard the phrase "vote blue, no matter who"? Guess what, that goes both ways. "Who" is just worked out in the primaries.

As bad as it seems, every time you see a headline you ask "who is this for and who does it work on".

If you are a ken Paxton voter in Texas last week you are a ken Paxton voter in Texas this week. This headline isn't for Paxton voters. so who remains?

People who are going to vote Talitico, they're postivists. People who vote on negative sentiment are already voting for Paxton. So who is left?

This headline is for liberals and coasters.

We already know these people are the worst of humanity. Its all those out there who will never read this or will call it a lie that need to realize it. They wont until these evil fuckers come for them.