Greg Abbott Did It
Yep – the day before.
The letter starts out, “If we’re going to DEFEND Texas, we’ll need to take matters into our own hands.” And it goes downhill from there.
You can read the letter for yourself right here.
The Texas Tribune says that Hector DeLeon the leader of Associated Republicans of Texas, spoke about it.
“It’s easy to go out and shoot a bunch of ‘Mexicans,’ if you don’t view them as people,” De Leon said. “I think state leaders and national leaders cannot pander to the worst in human nature or the worst in their party; they can engage in rhetoric that shows were more than that.
Come on, Greg, get on board the human train.
I would argue Greg Abbutt is every bit as culpable as the sh!tbird who pulled the trigger in that Walmart.
1I think the appeal “need to take matters into our own hands” will be difficult to defend. He can spin, squirm, and squeal all he wants, claim “our” means “Republican.” But when a crazy person who owns an arsenal hears “our own hands” they’re thinking their own personal hands which need some guns in them to properly DEFEND Texas.
2My first thought was of condolences to the victims. I’m sorry we let people who could say such things into power. But now we can’t let them off the hook for what they’ve done…
3Dropping trou in front of the whole state never felt so good.
I did my part by doing that “yelling fire in a movie theater” thing while splashing my racist pride – oh and, heh, my stupidty too I guess.
Ya might as well own the rest them, goobenor.
California police arrest hotel worker allegedly planning mass shooting
Long Beach police: suspect had huge arsenal and well-laid plans. Rodolfo Montoya allegedly plotted revenge attack on Marriott
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/22/mass-shooting-hotel-worker-arrest-guns-arsenal-long-beach-california
4“If we’re going to DEFEND Texas, we’ll need to take matters into our own hands.” Abbott is the personification of stochastic terrorism. We need a Bill O’Reilly law for when one of these moronic chickenshit wannabe terrorists says something that results in one of their followers killing someone.
5That was a small mention toward the end of the Tribune article; why wasn’t it a headline?
6NYC is 37% immigrant. So much for the BS comment about NYC and CA.
7This certainly seems like a classic example of yelling FIRE in a crowded theatre.
8Incitement to violence charge possible.
Any chance of a “private” prosecution ( Prosecution brought by private party when state actors refuse to act) in Texas?
Wow.
Does he have to worry about getting voted out of office?
9Definitely not surprised!
10Start his chair rolling from the Texas white house!
11Paul ADK no, in statewide races Texas is still a one-party state, and the chances of him being primaried over a letter like that are nil. That’s prolly why he did it. No question that Abbott has ambitions for national office one day, he’s one of those like Tom Cotton and Matt Bevin who are trying to find the post-Trump Trump style that will sweep them into the Oval Office one day.
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