A Tale Of Texas Duplicity in Two Acts

[Soph0571]

TEXAS - YOU CAN'T TELL BUSINESSES WHAT TO DO



ALSO TEXAS



I mean seriously - how do these wankers keep a straight face when pulling this opposites shit, all the time...

[Septua]

1. Abbot is some more piece of work

I have to keep reminding myself all the rhetoric from the Trump fractured-faction party is directed solely at the base...

[mgardener]

2. "Irony is wasted on the stupid"

Oscar Wilde said that.
And I have been repeating it almost daily since Trump.

[Botany]

3. This is all on you Governor, "4-Year-Old Texas Preschooler Dies of COVID"

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215843797

It Took Her So Fast’: 4-Year-Old Texas Preschooler Dies of COVID Within Hours of First Symptoms



A Texas preschooler died of COVID-19 this week within hours of a fever first coming on, her family says. Kali Cook, 4, died in her sleep early Tuesday morning, about five hours after she was found to have a fever, her mother Karra Harwood told the Houston Chronicle.

[Cosmo Blues]

4. From what I hear

Conservatives get kicked off of social media sites for their lies that endanger public health. And for advocating violence. Not because of their poor choices in politics. They're lucky I'm not president I would have jailed the ex-president and all the Republican governors who fight on the side of the virus to kill people for being public health menaces

[Septua]

11. You hear correctly...

If Joe Schmo posts an opinion, nobody gives a shit, you know? But when a President, say Donald Trump Sr, says an election was rigged, over and over and over, with no evidence to prove it and existing ample evidence to the contrary, Social Media has an obligation to shut him down.

Powerful, elected people, take an oath to serve and protect, with honor, the people who elected them; not themselves, not the party, not the minority. The Trump GOP party has failed miserably...

[Cosmo Blues]

13. They seem to be doing it for their God

Money

[paleotn]

5. Greg Abbott.....Deep in the heart of Jackass

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Double Messages of Hypocrisy plus Projection equals Confusion, Abuse, and Social Control

This is time tested by social psychologists, and by some of the most infamous propagandists of history. Corporate Marketing and PR love it, and use it in its more subtle forms, daily. The public is putty in their hands.

[SergeStorms]

7. Someone, please remind me...

is Texas "The Lone Star State", or " The Lone Brain Cell State"?

Abbott certainly exhibits evidence that it's the latter, and not the former.

[Septua]

12. I think Abbott's physiology has run amuck...

..his esophagus has somehow connected with his asshole. Every time he opens his mouth, what comes out is odorous, indiscernible
crap.

[SergeStorms]

14. That's republican DNA.

They're apparently all that way. Their DNA has mutated.

[MrModerate]

8. They divide their constituents into two categories:

Those they can stiff and those who get a cut of the cream. The foolish are easily fooled, and the insiders are regularly rewarded.

[erpowers]

9. Not Just That

As far as I know, Texas just passed a law forcing private businesses to play the national anthem before sporting events. As far as I know, all sporting teams, even professional leagues, are now required to play the national anthem before their games. In that case Gov. abbott and the Republican Party do not seem to have a problem with taking the "right to choose" away from companies.

[Ford_Prefect]

10. Quite simply it is that they are paid very well indeed to do just this kind of thing.

Mercer, Koch, along with many more like them have engineered it so using stunning amounts of cash in high and low places to game the system and bend the rules so they can do this.

The Governor and the GOP legislators were recruited specifically because they WOULD do this kind of thing over, and over and over.