Far right pundit and former election lawyer Erick Erickson is entertaining me this morning:
Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of Texas, is under a federal investigation and would love a presidential pardon. His lawsuit is just more performative leg humping by someone desperate to curry favor with President Trump.
The various attorneys general who have joined his lawsuit all want to either get re-elected or seek higher office. Joining the lawsuit gives them some measure of ring kissing or protection from any rabid Trump supporters who wanted a “just fight” moment.
Ron DeSantis, mentioned in the title of this post, is Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who, when he entered the primary for his current position, was immediately considered an also-ran. But he knew his constituents and made it his business to appear on Fox News far more than his competitors, won the endorsement of President Trump, and won both primary and the general.
And so Florida is now saddled with a sadly incompetent Governor who has been accused, among other things, of manipulating the Covid-19 numbers in his state to make his management of the pandemic look good, firing his chief data scientist when she, the scientist claims, refused to cooperate, and lately said scientist’s home was raided by Florida law enforcement, who claimed she had been hacking.
So Texas AG Paxton – who, as Erickson notes, is under Federal and, I think, also State investigation, as his own employees blew a whistle alleging wrong-doing in the office of AG, and so he fired all of them – yeah, a real class act he is – knows what he’s about. The world is a reality TV show, in his view.
I personally think my company should pay me workers compensation for brain damage for having to read that lawsuit and related filings. It really is one of the stupidest bits of performative leg humping we have seen in the last five years. These attorneys general are willing to beclown themselves and their states all to get in good with the losing presidential candidate.
A reality TV show where no one – no one – will remember your spectacular incompetence.
The level of debasement these people [other State AGs who’ve joined the Texas lawsuit] have been willing to engage in makes them seem more the ball-gagged gimp from Pulp Fiction, humiliating themselves for their master. They should be ashamed and embarrassed.
I would hope that anyone who might find themselves employing Ken Paxton and the other AGs responsible for joining this impotent lawsuit asking for un-Constitutional actions on the part of SCOTUS will take one look at this ludicrous maneuver and take a pass on them. That includes voters who might find themselves asked to vote for this person.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the right-wing extremists and their followers, trying to characterize them, and all I can come up with self-centered and deeply immature. Somewhere I read that long-time radio pundit Rush Limbaugh claims secession is our only option. He, or his successors and adherents, will look awfully damn stupid when the Russians and Chinese take world leadership away from us, and relegate democracy to an also-ran of governance models. Hell, the New York National Guard may find itself fighting invading Russian armies at Niagara Falls.
Not the US Army. Because there won’t be one.
That’s how stupid Limbaugh, and the far-right, have become.
