Texas Governor Abbott Tweets FAKE Churchill Quote - Gets Bruised Online

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https://gizmodo.com/texas-governor-tweets-fake-churchill-quote-about-fascis-1828159181

Have you heard the famous Winston Churchill quote that “the fascists of the future will call themselves anti-fascists”? Well, it’s a fake quote. Churchill never said it. But that didn’t stop Texas Governor Greg Abbott from tweeting the fake quote late last night. And while Abbott is rightly being taken to task, the responses to his tweet are pretty funny.

Click the link above for teh funnay.



Update, 11:43am: Abbott has, in fact, deleted the tweet now. Good for him.

Update, 1:20pm: Texas politics reporter Lauren McGaughy from the Dallas News has tweeted that Governor Abbott was just asked about the fake quote. As I suspected he might, Abbott doubled down.

“What I tweeted was a sentiment that I had, and that is antifa is dangerous to society and antifa is the antithesis of safety and security and they are antagonists to law enforcement as well as to other people,” Abbot said, according to McGaughy.

“It was irrelevant to me who may or may not have said that in the past. I didn’t want to be accused of plagiarism for saying it,” said Abbott. “If no one else said it, attribute the quote to me because it’s what I believe in.”

BTW, anti-fascists like my granddad used to kill Nazis in WWII. They were the good guys. Why is this so hard?

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1. Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!

Photograph Emerges of Leftist Anti-Fascists VIOLENTLY Disrupting Conservative White Supremacists!!!!!

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2. Thanks Keith

Ripped from the weekend's headlines...

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3. Greg Abbot is an idiot

Link to tweet

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4. Demagoguery and propaganda go together like drunk and disorderly

Both are decidedly fascist traits.

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5. "Greg Abbott is a colossal asshole." - Gandhi

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6. Some insights are timeless

"Greg Abbott? Never met him." - Will Rogers

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7. "It's a damn shame Gregg Abbott's mother didn't swallow him." -- Confucius