Besides, What’s a Few More Dead People?
Texas Governor Greg Abbott got taken down to the river and after they dunked him in the spit of Donald Trump, they bashed his head against a rock a few times.
It’s bad enough that he has decreed – and I mean that in the regal sense – that no business in Texas can require their workers to be vaccinated to protect their customers. So much for the first commandment of the Republican Party: government should get off the backs of business.
Bad enough that he has decreed that my constitutional right to privacy is worthless and he – and he alone – can control my body.
He’s trying like the dickens to up the death toll in the wake of his conversation from Really Mean Guy to Trump Death Machine.
His latest meaner than ten acres of snakes move is this one.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) quietly removed information intended to help prevent LGBTQ youth suicide from one of its websites after Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was criticized by a primary opponent for “promoting transgender sexual policies to Texas youth.”
This came about because Don Huffines, Abbott’s Republican opponent, posted this to Twitter:
It’s offensive to see @GregAbbott_TX use our tax dollars to advocate for transgender ideology. This must end. #txlege pic.twitter.com/gQiAEJZ8YR
— Don Huffines (@DonHuffines) August 31, 2021
But that’s not even the half of it. A taxpayer funded governmental agency, Family Protective Services, begin exchanging emails about the Huffines tweet within 13 minutes of him posting it.
Thirteen minutes after Huffines’ video went up, media relations director Marissa Gonzales emailed a link to Crimmins, the agency’s communications director, under the subject line “Don Huffines video accusing Gov/DFPS of pushing liberal transgender agenda.”
“FYI. This is starting to blow up on Twitter,” Gonzales wrote.
Crimmins then queried Darrell Azar, DFPS’ web and creative services director, about who oversees the page. “Darrell — please note we may need to take that page down, or somehow revise content,” he wrote.
The page was taken down and left a big fat lie in its place. They lied that the page was taken down to update the sources.
This information was directed to older kids in foster care, where kids are three times more likely to attempt suicide compared to those who never spent time in foster care.
He has an evil heart, y’all.
We’ve had such a hard time climbing out of the pit dug by the Old Pretender, it’s going to be just as bad if we can turn Abbott out in 2022. He hasn’t waved his wand and helped people, I think he’s actually beating us with it.
1What else do private corporations in Texas have to run by Greg? Expense accounts, health insurance, parking places? What can they offer in the cafeteria? Is there mandatory retirement? Y’all should press him for a complete list.
2There’s something in the water down there. That’s the only explanation.
3Heart, Hell! He’s evil through and through!
4He sold his soul for money and power ages ago
I feel very sorry for all you Texas folks (plus the citizens affected by abbutt’s actions and no fault of their own, ie. Democrats). What’s really depressing is it looks like the repugnantican candidates for governor are going to try and 1 up each other in the despicable department.
5Sadly it is not only Texas Republicans chasing Donnie down the deeper depths of depravity. Perhaps someone should suggest to Donnie that his swarm of little wannabe Qcumbers are not being loyal. Not even waiting a scaramucci of a second to climb over his back to 2024.
6I am leaving New Mexico, land of my heart, to move back to the Houston area in November. I am retiring and want to live near my grandchildren. My mortgage processor has asked for a letter from me to explain why I am moving to Texas. Is she trying to warn me? Is Texas now screening new residents? I admit I am having second thoughts. LOL
7IIRC, starting with Gov. Bill Clements [R-IxtocAwl], then Bush, Perry, and Abbutt, all ran on one of the biggest of all Rethuglikan deceptions and lies:
—How only they could return government to the local authorities closest to the people!—
Cities, counties, school districts, would all once again be controlled by their local citizens.
Those evil, socialist commie Democrats wouldn’t be allowed to impose their radical dictatorial central government edicts upon the poor law-abiding peons.
Funny how that’s worked out, eh?
8Dear Leader Greggie needs to be removed from office next year [the 2022 election], we can’t stand any more of this MAGAotty fascist crap.
So, it has come to this….. kids have to sue to climb back into the wombs they abandoned previously to get back in the good graces of the slimiest, stinkingest piles of human garbage ever created. Good luck with that, kids.
9What a typically magat way of telling kids they hate them.
10Sandridge, reading that made me think of Denton, and I found this.
11https://dentonrc.com/news/five-years-later-dentons-epic-battle-to-ban-fracking-and-keep-local-control/article_df910328-7409-5acf-b951-5934ad766c12.html
It’s from November 2019 and it’s pretty wide ranging, but I think think the writer pulls it together pretty well.
Also, part of it’ll hit “home” for you.
At least nautically.
P.P. @11, The DRC website wouldn’t let me read that article without ponying up some dinero, by clearing the sub notice it showed the current front page. So any “nautically” point’s been missed. So couldn’t read that. I gotta soon make a choice, continue to throw money into my Harvey-damaged sailboat [y’all know the old saying: If you gotta ask…], or get a new [to me] one. [other nautical terms: BringOutAnotherThousand; Boat, a hole in the water that you throw money into…A sailor’s two happiest days, the day you buy a boat, and the day you sell it…]
But I’ve been aware of the attempts of some communities to restrict or ban fracking before.
Abbutt [and maybe even Lil George and Perry] and the Austin Rethuglikans jumped on that issue like flies on a cow pat. They promptly passed some state laws against it, Abbutt might have even excreted one of his ‘Excutetive Orders’. No effing way are those stinkin’ peons gonna preserve their own damned clean air and water! **
These vermin are hypocrites beyond the pale. They yammer about ‘liberty ‘n freedumb ‘n local sovereignty and all the rest of their bullshit, and the redhat MAGAots gulp it down.
Then they reign over us like fascist commie feudal kings, ‘Autocrats-R-US’. Seig Greg!
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** I live rural on the northern edge of the Eagle Ford Shale region, have been here for close to three decades. Until a few years ago the air was about as good and clean as you can get most places [unless a norther from the NW blew San Antonio’s pollution in]. The prevailing winds are S/SE and off the Gulf, just some salt in the air.
Now, that wind traverses the Eagle Ford country. For a look just check out nighttime satellite views, there’s a huge swathe of bright lights from ~Laredo to ~Brenham, like a giant stretched out Houston. It used to be mostly quite dark there/here. The light comes from the thousands of frack sites, etc., flaring away, and with huge work lights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Ford_Group#Oil_and_natural_gas_production
You could wash your vehicles and they stayed nice and shiny clean outside for weeks, barring muddy weather. Now, getting worse by the month, you wash a vehicle and it’s coated in air-borne dirt in a day or two. It’s even worse if it rains sometimes, the rainfall is polluted as hell; a good rain used to wash it for you.
12Then there’s the damned earthquakes…
Abbot’s “executive orders” sure seem to have no constraints. Didn’t there use to be a legislature there?
Another one he emitted. Because of his pro-plague stance, Texas has a major nurse shortage. Seems they’re all rather busy. So FEMA is providing emergency contracts to bring in more nurses. Average hourly pay for an RN in Texas is $35.82, with some skeeziness about overtime pay. The new contracts pay $100/hr and $150/hr for overtime. So to keep from paying their current RNs a decent wage for near-combat conditions, Abbot has declared that any current nurses are forbidden from taking a FEMA contract:
https://nurse.org/articles/texas-bans-nurses-from-in-state-crisis-contracts/
If I were an RN, I’d gladly bail out for 30 days to then get nearly a raise that triples pay rate.
Karen in New Mexico: before you leave the land of enchantment, notice what that article says:
“Serena Bumpus, Director of Practice in Nursing for the Texas Nurses Association told CBS Austin that the state was already 30,000 nurses short in Texas in 2018 and it was predicted by 2032, Texas would be short 60,000 nurses.”
So if you have any potential health issues that might require nursing care, you should check on the local conditions. [Disclaimer: in north Texas we always refered to Houston as the armpit of Texas. Hot, humid, smelly, and hairy!]
13Arguably the overt A-butt / R urge is typically to dominate all other groups. A la the “you won’t replace us” chants of the torch bearers in Charlottesville a while back. The same impulse propels the compulsion to “own the libs” at any cost, going so far as to even enable (“no mandates!”) the facilitation and spread of a deadly virus that is indiscriminate in who it infects and kills. And telling a woman what to do with her body. Etc. If any of these seen-as-subgroups, like the DFPS kids, appear to evade the domination, then they need to suffer. Cruelty is the point.
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