Shaking In Your Boots
It’s like a Stephen King book, y’all.
There’s some people – and I am told that they can read and write – who want Greg Abbott to be Donald Trump’s vice president.
“Trump — Abbott, that’s a ticket to make America great again and put the fear of God in America’s enemies, foreign and domestic!” Paul Nagy wrote in a recent post for The Hill, a Washington, D.C., online news outlet.
Abbott, who says he wants “to make sure that the presidential candidates understand the constitution” because, of course, only he does, has got his talking points in order.
Among his top priorities: banning sanctuary cities, creating “real ethics reform … not the watered-down version” passed in 2016, “criminalizing the sale of baby body parts” and continuing to push back against federal mandates.
He also said Texas should tighten its belt a little it but also try to give taxpayers some relief.
Abbott also noted federal warnings about refugees and said he believes it’s time “we had a president who heeds warnings … and puts American safety first.”
Okay, there are no sanctuary cities and nobody is selling baby body parts. Abbott wants ethics reform the same way I want scabies.
As far as federal mandates – that’s the only thing standing between Texas and closing down all the schools and teaching children to just read the Bible and guess at math.
Excuse me, but a man whose party encourages their elected officials to give six digit salaries to all their unqualified buddies ain’t gonna tell me how he’s gonna tighten belts on the backs of poor children and old women.
Spread the word: Greg Abbott makes Dick Cheney look sweet.
Thanks to Kyle for the heads up.
Now that would be a real balASSed ticket…didn’t think they could get more ‘nasty’ going than the present klownkar, so much for that. ‘Course T-Rump or DetesTed could resurrect Vlad the Impaler or some such paragon of Repukkke virtue for VP.
(JFK-LBJ, et al., ticket ‘balancing’ not so necessary anymore though, so I’ve heard)
1Birds of a feathered get tarred together!
2And exactly how are those proposals going to get me a decent job with decent wages? Fugetaboutit as we say in Brooklyn.
3Any of you not from Texas, trust us, Abbott is cunning and as mean as they come. And the only people he wants to have rights are white men.
4I think that America’s friends have more reason to be afraid of Trump and Abbott than America’s enemies do.
5Wasn’t The Children of the Corn was about the GOP base?
6“and puts American safety first.”
And how’s that working out in Texas? Let’s check the recently released report on the Texas fertilizer plant explosion over two years ago:
“Despite the death and devastation, Republican state lawmakers have been skeptical of imposing additional regulations on the fertilizer industry or making other changes to protect the public.
7If the incident had occurred during the day, when school was in session, hundreds of people likely would have died, the safety board found.”
https://www.texastribune.org/2016/01/28/report-texas-hasnt-done-enough-west-explosion/
If Abbott wants ethics reform, why do we have two GOP candidates with ethics problems running against each other?
http://www.iamatexan.com/2016/02/08/two-men-for-state-supreme-court-both-accused-of-wrongdoing/#
8Nope, sorry, nobody could make Dick Cheney look sweet. Not if they piled skulls in high pyramids.
Yeah, GOoPers put American safety first, like when they voted to put a hold on limiting mountaintop-destruction mining, *even if it was proven that said mining increases cancer and birth defects in the people who live there*. They don’t give a flick about Americans.
9Abbott and his ilk give me a pain in that sensitive spot. Understanding the constitution? Thomas Jefferson had it right. “It should be changed every 19 years. The dead ought not control the lives of the living”.
10Too horrible to contemplate the thought of a Trump/Abbott ticket. They’d have the hate vote sewed up, though.
11I’m sorry, but I believe this to be a great country right now.It could use a little fixing and sprucing up, but neither Abbot nor the tRUMP would do what’s necessary. And the two of them, along with Paul Nagy, are perfectly free to leave and go looking for some place that would suit them better.
12I’m not bothered so much by a Trump/Abbott ticket since I think it would produce a landslide for the Dems.
A T & A victory would, of course, be an abomination.
Mama, do not google “T & A.”
13A mental cripple with a physical cripple? Or can’t I use that word?
14I just vomited in my mouth a little bit. No, a lot.
15Larry from Colorado: I would have used “impaired” or “challenged”, but I get your point.
16Abbott’s photo has him posing with Ted Nugent. I’d rather see Nugent as Trump’s running mate. Nugent could use the cover of his Scream Dream album for his campaign photo and play the title track as his official campaign song. That’ll impress voters for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhFPuVQFbXA
17Larry, you should change your statement to two mental defectives.
18I wish Gail Collins would update AS TEXAS GOES….It explains a lot. Like why Cruz is running and why people vote for him. Except she only gets to Perry. I think. Great reading.
19Stephen King, perhaps. Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue, most certainly.
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