Of Course – Bum Steer Award Goes to Abbott
This week Texas Monthly announced its 2022 Bum Steer Awards and the ones you expected were winners. The only question was who was going to be the Top Bum Steer. You won’t be surprised that it is none other the National Embarrassment of Texas, Greg Abbott. The magazine ripped him a new one with these choice quotes:
“From the beginning, Abbott was attuned to the 4 percent of Texans who decide Republican primary elections and that group’s many peculiar priorities.”
“This has been a hard year for everyone, and no governor in the U.S. has had it easy. (“At least we don’t have Andrew Cuomo,” Texans could say.) But every step of the way, Abbott has made it harder for nearly everyone, rendering life more difficult, the death tolls higher, and the experience of being a Texan more demoralizing.”
About the blackout: “Who was the responsible party? Two days into the crisis, Abbott took the time to appear on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show and blame renewable energy—a field in which Texas has been a leader, thanks in large part to his Republican predecessors—even though the blackout was caused mostly by problems with the distribution of natural gas.”
About COVID-19: “And Abbott’s handling of the situation was comically erratic. He ordered a lockdown and then, under pressure from his right, crusaded to free Texans imprisoned by his lockdown.”
“But Abbott had other priorities. With his approval, the Legislature passed voter suppression legislation that rivaled the worst in the country as well as a law placing bounties on the heads of those who help others get abortions.”
And finally, “Over the course of 2021, Texans learned that Greg Abbott was not so colorless after all—somewhere along the line, he learned to be ruthless. ”
The article is a must read. Close runners up were Ted Cruz for obvious reasons, and 25 Texans who participated in Trump’s effort to overthrow the US government and steal the presidency from Joe Biden.
After 26 years of single party rule where the GOP has controlled the governor’s mansion, both state houses, and virtually all the courts including the Texas Supreme Court, our state has become a cesspool of corruption, weirdos, felons, and fascists. I have little hope that much will change as long as the federal government and courts are tolerant and complicit with Texas’ post-democracy fascist regime.
And Texans reliably vote for these dirtbag cockroaches (sorry, meaning no disrespect to cockroaches) because GOD, GUNS AND GUTS MADE AMERICA FREE! FREEDUMB!
1Yes, Abbott and Cruz are number one and number two – in every sense!
2Suppose storing all the MAGATs in Texas would be about as popular as storing nuclear waste under Yucca Mountain was with Nevaduh residents. Is there an island somewhere to quarantine Qcumber MAGATs until they come to their senses? Now. Now. Eternity is such a harsh word.
3Rule by the 4% in TX?
Seems familiar. Here is what the U.S. looks like if “did not vote” was a candidate in the 2016 Presidential election.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGu43VOXoAkIHAp?format=jpg&name=900×900
4Learn something new every day.
5I’m a New Yorker (upstate) and I *ALWAYS* thought that a “bum steer” had something to do with defective longhorns (maybe lame, or begging with a tin cup).
Today I googled “bun steer etymology” and learned that it has nothing to do with bovines! So this wonderful website has helped make me more knowledgeable that I was yesterday. Thanks to all, and may 2022 be an improvement.
Thank you Texas Monthly and Juanita for sharing.
6And for the update on “Did Not Vote” was a candidate, 2020:
Map created by reddit user Ad8526, based off the 2016 map by Taillesskangaru.
7https://brilliantmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/did-not-vote-2020.png
Bum Steer is just So appropriate for Greg Abbott.
8In Abbot’s defense,
9Ken Paxton, Sid Miller, and Dan Patrick are even worse.
Jane & PKM @3, “Is there an island somewhere to quarantine Qcumber MAGATs until they come to their senses?”.
There’s a perfect, tropical ‘paradise’ in the Caribbean called Navassa Island; which is a US Guano Island possession, uninhabited for more than 100 years. It’s about 100mi south of Gitmo and 40mi west of Haiti.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navassa_Island
I’ve often referred to it as the perfect place to resettle RWNJs since before the Teabaggers even, let alone the MAGAots/Trumpkins of today.
They could have their own little ‘sovereignty’ just for their precious snowflakey selves.
Navassa isn’t too big, is quite isolated, has a hot dry climate, and is full of guano; couldn’t find a better place for them all. Good fishing, but not much food after the feral goats, dogs, and cats run out; they can grow a few veggies.
It once had a guano mining laborers settlement and a lighthouse, long abandoned, no navigable harbor and ringed with cliffs.
Navassa is only about two miles square, ~1344acres, kind of small. But let them all take their weaponry with them and any overpopulation, overcrowding, will be quickly resolved [for the better].
10For comparisons in the integrity, honor, bravery, etc., departments, just compare ANY stinking Rethuglikan like Abbutt, Paxton, Patrick, tRump, DeathSantis, et al., with just one great Democrat, President Jimmy Carter.
President Carter’s –piss–, literally, is more noble [really] than the entire lot of all the Rethugs put together.
Carter, as a young Navy Lieutenant and nuclear expert, actually entered an actively melting down experimental Canadian nuclear reactor, leading and working with others, and helped save Ottawa!
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/12/16/2069578/-Did-Jimmy-Carter-really-get-lowered-into-a-nuclear-reactor-to-help-save-Canada-Hell-yes-he-did
” ”And finally when we went down into the reactor itself, which was extremely radioactive, then we would dash in there as quickly as we could and take off as many bolts as we could, the same bolts we had just been practicing on. Each time our men managed to remove a bolt or fitting from the core, the equivalent piece was removed on the mock-up.”
His urine reportedly had traces of radiation in it for six months after the experience.
It’s hard to overstate how great Jimmy Carter is.
Every new story about him, or old story you had not heard before, only adds to one’s respect and admiration for the man. ”
Hell Yes!
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