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Greg Abbott puts his pants on with one humiliating and degrading motion like you're shaking a pillow into a case and then he has to be rolled to one side to have everything buttoned and zipped and the

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3 minutes ago, BevoAbyss said:

And not one media outlet, not one business exec, not one political leader, not one sports figure will call any these fascist f*ucks what they are: fascists!  

Fascists and fascism are being completely normalized in Texas and America. Right smack in the middle of Austin, no less.

Let me tell you, fascists fucking HATE being called a fascist

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And their sympathizers love to call everyone else the problem. I remember one time incredulity called me an "antifa fascist" lololol

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1 minute ago, Captainant said:

Let me tell you, fascists fucking HATE being called a fascist

And their sympathizers love to call everyone else the problem. I remember one time incredulity called me an "antifa fascist" lololol

I didn’t say there was a problem or not. I think it’s funny how sure he is in his post, just those darn media groups won’t even make a single mention of it.  BOMC, imo. 

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Bet that $210 million he redirected for Operation Lone Star would have helped...

 

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Perhaps you missed the memo.  The one that states the entire GQP platform: "All we do is make libs cry, and the cruelty is the point."

That's it.  If you ever want to know what a GQP elected official would do, just ask yourself "what would a gigantic gaping asshole of a human being do?".....and you'll have your answer.

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Perhaps you missed the memo.  The one that states the entire GQP platform: "All we do is make libs cry, and the cruelty is the point."

In their eyes, libs are being the cruel ones. They want to eliminate the social programs altogether and therefore there is no 6 month wait to receive benefits.

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https://www.kxan.com/investigations/doggett-usda-investigating-texas-snap-delays-backlog/

The US Department of Agriculture, which administers the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), is investigating lengthy delays for Texans needing assistance, according to Democratic Congressman Lloyd Doggett of Austin.

USDA officials came to Austin recently to meet with officials from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, which oversees SNAP, Doggett said. He will be briefed on the findings, and potential “corrective actions” next week, he told KXAN on Nov. 22.

“We’ll be gathering for Thanksgiving with families, often for a Thanksgiving feast,” said Doggett. “And, just keep in mind as you do that, that there’s 60,000 Texans who have not gotten their applications properly processed to get food on the table.”

Thousands of families in Texas are struggling to put any food on their tables. For more than a year, KXAN has investigated backlogs for Texans receiving federal food benefits through SNAP, which helps low-income households buy groceries. 

On Thanksgiving morning, Gov. Greg Abbott served up food with Meals on Wheels Central Texas to homebound seniors in Austin. 

“We have a responsibility to make sure that we are giving back to those who may be lacking,” Abbott said.

However, a series of whistleblower letters, say Texans who are lacking the most are waiting longer than ever for food assistance. The anonymous letters, sent to Abbott and others, claim to come from concerned Texas HHSC employees. They allege SNAP recipients are waiting more than six months and could be waiting longer than 200 days next month.

“In September, we brought to your attention that the delay had increased to over 100 days and expected to exceed 200 days by the end of December,” a letter dated Nov. 21 said. “These things have happened just as we warned. The delay is currently over six months (more than 180 days) from when an individual applies to when their application is assigned to one of our staff to process. As we approach the holiday season, thousands of Texans are still waiting to receive the much-needed food assistance they applied for over six months ago. Governor Abbott and [HHSC Executive] Commissioner [Cecile] Young, how can you reasonably expect anyone in the situation we have placed our citizens in to have a happy Thanksgiving or a merry Christmas while they are contemplating how they will feed their families?”

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“Federal law requires States to process SNAP applications and recertifications within 30 days, a requirement Texas has failed to meet since July 2021,” the letter, dated Sept. 25, said. “We strongly urge you to immediate find Texas out of compliance with application processing time requirements and proceed directly to corrective action” procedures. 

Among the potential “corrective actions” the USDA could take, Doggett said, is to withhold money from the state — something he doesn’t want to see happen. 

“The way the program is set up now, you can withhold funds from the state in that area,” said Doggett. “And that’s the primary sanction.”

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On Thanksgiving, KXAN asked Abbott about the USDA investigation and the long wait times reported by SNAP recipients. 

“My office is working with the Texas Health and Human Services Commission to make sure that they fix any problem that is causing any delay whatsoever,” said Abbott. “Because we want to make sure that the people who are eligible for SNAP are going to be getting the food that they deserve.”

On Wednesday, his office said Texas HHSC is “moving aggressively to reduce the backlog” caused by “increased strain” on staff who had to re-determine eligibility for millions of Medicaid recipients, after a temporary rule protecting people from losing coverage during the pandemic ended this year. 

The governor’s office said, now, Texas HHSC is:

  • Moving 250 staff from other projects to “focus on expediting” SNAP applications
  • Sending 600 newer staff to Medicaid training, which will increase the capacity to process combined applications.

“The majority of backlogged SNAP applications are people who are applying for SNAP and another benefit program, such as Medicaid or TANF, which requires workers trained in both programs to process the application,” said the governor’s press secretary Andrew Mahaleris. 

“HHSC expects these actions will cut the backlog in half by the end of December,” he added.

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KXAN reached out to the USDA and the whistleblowers on Wednesday but did not hear back. HHSC said on Wednesday it couldn’t comment due to the Thanksgiving holiday. 

“Due to the holidays, we will provide you a response next week,” said Texas HHS deputy chief press officer José Andrés Araiza.

 

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https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-gov-greg-abbott-delivers-meals-to-homebound-austinites-thanksgiving-morning/

Conservative politicos love to be seen serving meals in a soup kitchen for a few hours a year, or doing other charity photo-ops, while simultaneously advancing policies that don't support (or actively harm) the vast majority of people in poverty or people at economic risk. I guess they either see no hypocrisy in that, or they don't care about the hypocrisy. Or they have some twisted justification that it's somehow bad or wrong when assistance comes from the government but it's OK if the assistance is coming from the religious establishment.

If I was ever in a role of authority in a nonprofit or church institution and one of these tools wanted to do a self-aggrandizing photo op I'd tell them to go pound sand.

 

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1 hour ago, Paper_jam said:

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-gov-greg-abbott-delivers-meals-to-homebound-austinites-thanksgiving-morning/

Conservative politicos love to be seen serving meals in a soup kitchen for a few hours a year, or doing other charity photo-ops, while simultaneously advancing policies that don't support (or actively harm) the vast majority of people in poverty or people at economic risk. I guess they either see no hypocrisy in that, or they don't care about the hypocrisy. Or they have some twisted justification that it's somehow bad or wrong when assistance comes from the government but it's OK if the assistance is coming from the religious establishment.

If I was ever in a role of authority in a nonprofit or church institution and one of these tools wanted to do a self-aggrandizing photo op I'd tell them to go pound sand.

 

Even Abbott should know that charity will never trump justice.

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https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/texas-must-remove-floating-barrier-from-rio-grande-fifth-circuit-court-orders/

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered Texas on Friday to remove the floating barrier it deployed in the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass this summer, affirming a lower court’s ruling.

In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the court found that the river is navigable where the barrier was placed and that it is “an obstruction,” meaning that Texas needed to receive permission from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers — which regulates activities in waterways and wetlands under federal law — before deploying it.

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Judge Don Willett, a Trump appointee, was the dissenting vote in the ruling, arguing that the Rio Grande cannot accommodate commercial boat traffic and is therefore not navigable.

Texas argued that the barrier was also meant to save lives and force migrants to cross the border at ports of entry, but Willet said Texas hasn’t proved that’s the case. “At this stage, however, Texas has not offered concrete evidence that the barrier has saved lives or reduced illegal crossings and drug trafficking,” Willet wrote

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The 5th Cir. Court of Appeals’ denial of Texas’ sovereign authority to secure the border with floating marine barriers is clearly wrong.

AG Paxton & I will seek an immediate rehearing by the entire court. We’ll go to SCOTUS if needed to protect Texas from Biden’s open borders.

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8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Judge Don Willett, a Trump appointee, was the dissenting vote in the ruling, arguing that the Rio Grande cannot accommodate commercial boat traffic and is therefore not navigable.

conservatives on guns: subsequent developments do not matter

conservatives on navigable waters: subsequent developments control

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17 minutes ago, elfenix said:

conservatives on guns: subsequent developments do not matter

conservatives on navigable waters: subsequent developments control

I'm surprised that he said it hadn't reduced illegal immigration or drug trafficking.  That had to be a slap in the face to Abbott.

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Judge Don Willett, a Trump appointee, was the dissenting vote in the ruling, arguing that the Rio Grande cannot accommodate commercial boat traffic and is therefore not navigable.

 

That's not the federal definition of a navigable water way.

 

Also, the two who ruled against Abbott are liberals, appointed by Biden and Carter. Abbott will request an en banc ruling, which will not go the same way.

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18 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

I’ve paid a Mexican $5 for a seat on a rowboat, so it is commercially navigable. I’d imagine if he had an airboat and I had the cash we could have transited the length of the border from the Gulf to El Paso.

You know what else $5 will get you down there?

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I’ve paid a Mexican $5 for a seat on a rowboat, so it is commercially navigable. I’d imagine if he had an airboat and I had the cash we could have transited the length of the border from the Gulf to El Paso.

Wow. We only paid a buck each for a round trip.
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6 hours ago, C-Man said:

Anybody else cringe seeing VY hugging Hot Wheels at the Big 12 Championship Game on Saturday?

Didn't see it, but I cringe whenever he is accepted anywhere in polite society.

Before Uvalde I didn't like him. After Uvalde, I'm disgusted. His border policies are terrible, his culture war stuff is just awful, and his voucher scheme is a complete giveaway to rich parents while trying to blur the lines between church and state.

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Wow. We only paid a buck each for a round trip.
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$1? Thanks, Biden.

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12 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

Before Uvalde I didn't like him. After Uvalde, I'm disgusted. His border policies are terrible, his culture war stuff is just awful, and his voucher scheme is a complete giveaway to rich parents while trying to blur the lines between church and state.

And he can't even walk!

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On 10/11/2023 at 10:32 AM, crash_davis said:

Texas paid a private company $75.5 million in taxpayer funds over the span of a year to transport migrants to sanctuary cities across the U.S.

https://abc13.com/texas-bus-migrants-bussing-to-other-cities-wynne-transportation-sanctuary/13889625/

"Governor Abbott launched the border bus mission in April 2022 to provide support to our overrun and overwhelmed border communities as the Biden Administration dumps thousands of migrants in their towns. Texas has since bused over 54,000 migrants to self-declared sanctuary cities, providing much-needed relief. In recent weeks, border officials and NGOs in border communities have requested additional support to respond to the unprecedented surges enticed by President (Joe) Biden's reckless open border policies. Until President Biden steps up and does his job to secure the border, Texas will continue busing migrants to sanctuary cities to help our local partners respond to this Biden-made crisis."

Migrants have been transported to Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, and Los Angeles, according to a news release from Abbott's office.

 

Let's do that math. $75.5M / 54k migrants = $1399 per migrant. That's a non-first class round trip plane class ticket to most anywhere in the world. FUCK THIS STATE!

It's still happening.  Bus from Texas showed up in Denver today.

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My understanding is that the law says if someone is here illegally and arrested under this law, the are brought back to a Mexican border entry point... even if they aren't Mexican. So if there is someone from Guatemala, they are going to be sent to Mexico... who will not allow them in. We are so smart.
 

Under bilateral and international agreements, Mexico is required to accept deportations of its own citizens, but not those of other countries. Under the Texas law, migrants ordered to leave would be sent to ports of entry along the border with Mexico, even if they are not Mexican citizens.

“The Mexican government categorically rejects any measure that would allow local or state authorities to detain or deport Mexicans or other nationalities to Mexican soil,” Mexico’s foreign relations department wrote in a statement.

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