Zero Days Since Texas was a National Embarrassment
Texas in the national news yesterday:
- Ken Paxton’s lawsuit to attempt ONCE AGAIN to repeal the ACA was tossed by Scotus.
- Greg Abbott commits $250 million of Texans’ money and then begs for donations to build Trump’s wall that takes private land to create a solution that doesn’t work. Ask the Chinese about that.
- Abbott signs SEVEN bills that unravel 150 years of gun safety laws allowing any idiot to carry a firearm in public with no license, no background check, and no training.
- ERCOT asks us to reduce power usage due to normal summer weather. This is after Abbott smugly announced that laws that he signed that will do nothing to fix our state power grid has fixed our power grid.
Like one person posted on social media yesterday:
“We are flying electric helicopters on Mars, but Texans can’t run their dryers. That’s because scientists are in charge of Mars and Republicans are in charge of Texas.”
To bad most of texastan vote to be fleeced and plucked!!!
1Abbott should go ahead and change ERCOT to SNAFU. Actually, that could describe the whole GOP led state government.
2L. Long, for real. In the immortal words of Walt Kelly’s Pogo: “We have met the enemy and it is us.”
3With Dr. Strangegov and his cohorts that sign needs to be changed to Hours instead of Days.
4My state Virginia is looking better every day. We do not build walls or screw up our hvac systems either
5Sheep Were made to be shared..
6Grandma Ada, I think the correct term is FUBAR. And Texas is starting to make Alabama look almost normal!
7You might be right Katherine #7, however Situation Normal All F’d Up does seem to describe our state government!
8We know what abutt head really wants is to run for el presidente where he’ll have a bunch more things he could f..k up. He’s just drooling over the prospects.
9El Jefe, you left Louie Gohmert off your Texas embarrassment list, or maybe you did it on purpose. Is something in your water?
10When I’m not snickering, I sometimes feel sorry for Texas. Yet Republicans continue to be the majority, and they continue to vote in these yahoos. Why? It’s not like they’re doing anything for the people who live there.
11Niggling thoughts:
* Walt Kelly did not originate “We have met the enemy and he is us” in a cartoon strip. he _really_ didn’t cartoon “We have met the enemy and it is us.”
* Sheep Were made to be shared… In Texas, doesn’t the sharing usually focuses on beef, pork, or chicken.
And I continue to wonder about all the Texans who don’t think it worthwhile to vote. What will it take???
12Don’t forget the idiots who voted against Juneteenth:
Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson
13Texas Rep. Chip Roy
Is it true they’re renaming all the Motel 6’s in Texas to Motel 5? Because without electricity they can’t leave a light on for you?
14Sam @ 13- isn’t and ronnie jackson is mobilizing other idiot repugnanticans trying to force Biden to have a “cognitive test”. Isn’t jackasson the quack that said trumpf is one of the smartest people he’s ever known. Texas does supply DC with some really dumb asses.
15I’m all for a wall as long as it to protect us here in New Mexico
16*Walt Kelly did not originate “We have met the enemy and he is us” in a cartoon strip. he _really_ didn’t cartoon “We have met the enemy and it is us.”
according to the Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, he did. it was a parody of a line from US Navy Commander Oliver Hazzard Perry, said during the Battle of Lake Erie: “”We have met the enemy, and he is ours!”, to announce they’d won the battle against the British fleet.
Kelly used it for an Earth Day cartoon.
17neglected to include the link to the cite. sorry about that.
https://library.osu.edu/site/40stories/2020/01/05/we-have-met-the-enemy/
18in any other state (probably), the Gov. just deciding to take millions of dollars from the general treasury, without benefit of agreement by the legislature, to squander on no-compete contracts to his buddies/donors/his back pocket, might do more than just raise a few eyebrows. but TX has been corrupt from the start, so there it’s just considered bidness as usual.
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