Dear Texans: Were Mistakes Made?
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Texans: How did you make this mistake?
Senator Cruz and Representative Gohmert from your Lonestar Republic have made bold claims and persist.
They are correct, somewhat: Pennsylvanians did indeed count votes received by mail past the 8PM “deadline” on November 3rd. Pedantically and strictly speaking, they’re absolutely permitted the claim of ‘lawfulness’ by timed arrival or others like imperfect signatures or missing dates.
Morally though, they’re fully bankrupt. Arizonans and Pennsylvanians went to extraordinary lengths to count every, single sacred Vote.
They scraped the peanut butter jar down to the last iota
They squeezed the tooth paste tube down to the last bit.
While Cruz and Gohmert are legally entitled to these arguments, they themselves represent the proverbial “emperor who has no clothes.” In so doing, both have left Texans with the naked embarrassment of shame.
While every bit of their argument has some tangible legal basis, I am incredulous and flabbergasted that well-educated lawyers would make such a claim for “fraud and a stolen election.” Not privately musing amongst confidants, but in public — with confidence and without shame. They’ve reasserted these claims even inside the chambers of the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Texans have to choose.
- Support them and repeat their claims; OR
- Reject them and their claims.
There is no ‘in between.’
Should Texans choose to sustain the claims and repeat, you must humbly review and consider:
Is secession an option, now that your shame is unbearable?
Is civil war an option, though it’s outcome predetermined?
Is rejection still possible?
Texans must be proud of the following fact: Kathleen Rubins from Texas voted in the 2016 and 2020 elections. Normally, this is uneventful and not special — however in both elections, astronaut Rubins voted from the ISS in space. Not once, but twice. With the aid of a 1997 Texas Law, to boot.
Cruz or Gohmert may use their brilliant jurisprudence to argue that Rubins: a) so called digitally “voted” via satellite, not comporting with the ‘mode or manner’ of the elections clause; b) “voted” on a day not prescribed as ‘Election day’; and c) “voted” not at her registered polling place, without justifiable reason for inability. Other arguments may be raised indeed.
On their surface, these arguments have tangible merit as we may agree. Any state or federal Court in Texas must by obligation, hear this challenge.
Legal? Yes.
Immoral and unethical? Absolutely.
Will this prevail in Court? Texans know by now that similar arguments did not succeed in 74 cases. Despite the immediate ridicule and predictions of dismissal for lack of standing or potential redress, Rep. Gohmert mortifyingly carried on with his suit against the Vice-President (Gohmert v. Pence, Supreme Court, 20A115) all the way to the Supreme Court — despite being repeatedly denied in lower Courts. What was he thinking?
If there was ever an appropriate attribution of the phrase “so called Judge,” I offer that it is Rep. Louie Gohmert.
Barely just four years after being called “Lyin’ Ted” and being threatened by Trump to “spill the beans on his wife [Heidi],” Cruz (now ‘beautiful Ted’) was enthusiastic to offer argument at the Supreme Court in Texas’ own lawsuit against various States (Texas v. Pennsylvania et al., Supreme Court, 22A155) Cruz deserves an award for persistence in ignorance. He was and is unwilling to accept the lack of standing nor a cognizable interest or claim. Even after the nation’s highest Court having ruled on the suit, he still is unable or unwilling to accept the decision. Or is it possible that Trump has some magic beans to spill?
Trump has lost every single argument and every single claim of substance. Cruz and Gohmert for their part, are accountable for perpetuating these frivolous and juvenile arguments that simply have fizzled. Cruz and Gohmert have lost, but they have no shame in defeat. It was worth a long shot; but it wasn’t worth the loss of their humanity and integrity in this process. When truth is under assault, the risks to our democracy are real and direct. Claiming challenges on imperfect signatures, missing dates and zip codes or challenges on delayed mail isn’t just unconscionable. It is petty and was bound to fail before the challenge was even brought.
Are Sen. Cruz and Rep. Gohmert the best eggs you could find?
