Abbott being Abbott

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1 hour ago, Biff Tannen said:

Aside from the HEB part, the last page was fucking horrific.  I mean what the fuck is going on.

It’s starting to dawn on people that maybe part of the tree landed on Abbott’s head and not just his spin?

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2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s starting to dawn on people that maybe part of the tree landed on Abbott’s head and not just his spin?

abbott is a slimey little fucker. He knows if trump gets tripped up, the nomination could easily be his. he has the war chest and can promise a trump pardon to get his endorsement 

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8 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

It’s starting to dawn on people that maybe part of the tree landed on Abbott’s head and not just his spin?

I think the spin doctors have noticed.

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And the names of those two princes?  You guessed it. 

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3 hours ago, South Austin said:

I think the spin doctors have noticed.

He really could have used a pocket full of kryptonite. 

[South Austin 52515]

I don't know why I started this, because I hate that fucking band, almost as much as I hate Greg Abbott.

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Oh…don’t go getting all blue on us, Jimmy Olsen. 

Edited February 28 by YGIFS

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12 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I don't know why I started this, because I hate that fucking band, almost as much as I hate Greg Abbott.

Abbott is not what a princess lover ought to be.

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17 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I doubt it. At the end of the day, they or their spouses will go to the same grocery stores they already go to because of convenience or price.  If it’s one thing MAGA does well, it’s being lazy and being cheap.

I'm reminded of the Keurig kerfuffle from a ways back. Hannity backed the serial teen-molester Lady Gun candidate, Roy Moore, and Keurig pulled their advertising from FOX.  Were GOPs outraged at the teen molesting part? Nope. They started burning their Keurigs:

The profound impact of the campaign to keep FOX from being bullied is expressed below:

I think HEB will weather the backlash even if the deplorables are mad dedicated to their jijads.

10 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

abbott is a slimey little fucker. He knows if trump gets tripped up, the nomination could easily be his. he has the war chest and can promise a trump pardon to get his endorsement 

I don't know how "easily" he could pick up the nomination, but don't forget he has more than a war chest; he's got a war!

"Peedro ain't crossin' this one eighth mile stretch of our sacred border!"

Got himself a band of brothers in the background, FDR wheelchair, and terrifying enemy bent on world domination.

 

Edited February 28 by RomaVicta

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Wonder what's he's gonna say if the state needs federal assistance with the wild fire

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2 hours ago, YChang said:

Wonder what's he's gonna say if the state needs federal assistance with the wild fire

 

It's not like GQP governors aren't 100% consistent about their inconsistency.  He'll sidle up to Biden with his hand out, and as he's given the money, berate Biden for being a commie socialist.

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

He'll sidle up to Biden with his hand out

Abbott should borrow Desantis' white boots for that.

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So tomorrow, Abbott's choices are to either go to a place in Texas that actually needs his help but is full of trees falling over.  Or go to a place in Texas that he's not really needed except to be at the perfect height to suck on orange scrotal sacks.  And yes, Lobo cliche---new band name.

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That 148 million spent busing migrants all over the country sure would come in handy right now in west Texas

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12 minutes ago, Satchel said:

That 148 million spent busing migrants all over the country sure would come in handy right now in west Texas

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23 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

So tomorrow, Abbott's choices are to either go to a place in Texas that actually needs his help but is full of trees falling over.  Or go to a place in Texas that he's not really needed except to be at the perfect height to suck on orange scrotal sacks.  And yes, Lobo cliche---new band name.

I'm from the panhandle. There are maybe 11 trees between Lubbock and Canada. 

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8 minutes ago, UrbanAchiever said:

I'm from the panhandle. There are maybe 11 trees between Lubbock and Canada. 

Truth. Hemphill County hasn't had a tree since the Jurassic.

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So you guys are telling me there’s a chance? /lloydchristmas

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[High Plains Drifter 11050]

 

NPR reported this morning that DotARd mentioned abbot as a possible running mate. 

 

 

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2 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

NPR reported this morning that DotARd mentioned abbot as a possible rolling mate. 

ftfy

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On 2/28/2024 at 2:17 PM, South Austin said:

Abbott should borrow Desantis' white boots for that.

 

Spoiler

 

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On 2/27/2024 at 2:51 PM, atomheartbevo said:

What’s amusing is Butt was Rick Perry’s second biggest donor for a while when he was Governor  (behind Bob Perry).

But yeah, go ahead and take on HEB.

Can’t believe I’m thinking this, but we’d be lucky to have Perry right now instead of Abbott

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On 2/28/2024 at 12:25 PM, YGIFS said:

So tomorrow, Abbott's choices are to either go to a place in Texas that actually needs his help but is full of trees falling over.  Or go to a place in Texas that he's not really needed except to be at the perfect height to suck on orange scrotal sacks.  And yes, Lobo cliche---new band name.

Kinda goes with Red Solo Cup

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5 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

NPR reported this morning that DotARd mentioned abbot as a possible running mate. 

 

 

GQP worried Texas might turn blue?

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bluto 4932]

Damn, Kronberg went off on Abbott on today on quorum report. 

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Holy shit. Harvey went nuclear. That’s a big deal. He just doesn’t do that. Ever.

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Who?

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Tragic loss of life.  But I'm an asshole, we're just not gonna discuss his newfound hairdo when his buddy came to town?  But we totally don't live in a computer simulation, right?  

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9 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Who?

You know...  Harvey the Rabbit. 

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16 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

GQP worried Texas might turn blue?

“NOT ON MY WATCH”

-Texas Democrats

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21 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

NPR reported this morning that DotARd mentioned abbot as a possible running mate. 

 

 

At this point I'd take anything to get abbott out. DotARd at least is term limited... abbott can continue his destruction forever here.

[Radical Larry 28628]

We’re stuck with this asshole unless we can vote him out. Biggie Smells isn’t picking him to be his VP.

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23 minutes ago, Radical Larry said:

Biggie Smells isn’t picking him to be his VP.

And based on Abbott’s statement about it yesterday, Abbott knows Trump won’t pick him.  Of course, Abbott has always known that Trump won’t pick a guy in a wheel chair.  

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/greg-abbott-gets-scathing-rebuke-from-largest-texas-newspaper-disturbing/ar-BB1jE77T?ocid=nl_article_link
 

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In an op-ed published by the Chronicle on Sunday titled, "Abbott's Super Tuesday triumph in voucher battle is no win for Texas" the newspaper's editorial board warned of the damage Abbott's "obsession" with school vouchers could do and wrote, "While Abbott exults, schools around the state—large and small, urban and rural—are grappling with massive budget deficits, thanks to Abbott's voucher obsession and a Legislature diverted during four sessions last year from meeting its constitutional obligation to adequately fund public schools."

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The newspaper also wrote in its editorial, "What's disturbing about the governor's voucher obsession is his naked obeisance to wealthy special interests who manifestly do not have the best interests of the people of Texas at heart."

According to the Chronicle, the "wealthy special interests," in which it names West Texas billionaires Tim Dunn of Midland and the Wilks brothers from Cisco, are looking to "redirect public resources into private Christian education" with the help of the governor.

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"Their ultimate aim, even if it's not necessarily the governor's, is to transform Texas into a Christian-dominated, biblically based state. Those 21 House Republicans who joined with 63 Democrats to block last year's voucher proposal understood who benefited and who didn't. And on Tuesday, many paid the political price. It's of little consolation, we realize, but we salute their courage," the newspaper's editorial board wrote.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/abbott-super-tuesday-voucher-triumph-18747481.php

Edited March 10 by atomheartbevo

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On 3/2/2024 at 8:44 AM, atomheartbevo said:

And based on Abbott’s statement about it yesterday, Abbott knows Trump won’t pick him.  Of course, Abbott has always known that Trump won’t pick a guy in a wheel chair.  

Very bad look for the orange dumb ass

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Tim Dunn has been pushed out of being Vice Chair/Chair-Elect of the TPPF for being too extreme.  

Think about that.  That's where we are as a state under this latest Abbott term.  

"I mean, look.  I'll shove heroin up my ass but I'm not gonna stick it my ear.  We're not savages."  

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On 3/10/2024 at 3:45 PM, atomheartbevo said:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/greg-abbott-gets-scathing-rebuke-from-largest-texas-newspaper-disturbing/ar-BB1jE77T?ocid=nl_article_link
 

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editorials/article/abbott-super-tuesday-voucher-triumph-18747481.php

Ooooooh, another scathing editorial about the fucked up state of things.  I'm sure this one will make a difference.

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Maybe the chronicle should have published that before the election.

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Abbott:  George Soros gave a WHOPPING 2.1 million in "BIG MONEY out-of-state" dollars to make Texas a liberal paradise.

Also Abbott: I took six million dollars from Pennsylvanian Jeff Yass to fund a harmful school voucher campaign that will close rural Texas schools.

Shameless and shameful.

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When was the last time this traitor spoke publicly?

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On 3/11/2024 at 11:27 AM, tx 3 putt said:

Very bad look for the orange dumb ass

It’s bad enough that one of them wears a diaper. Can’t have two. 

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7 hours ago, MissingInAction said:

When was the last time this traitor spoke publicly?

That's the thing that pisses me off the most, is the sterile, bullshit, fake ass, no-real-questions "press appearances" this guy does. Absolute bullshit. Never ever gets called out or questioned by a real reporter.

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Has he ever held a press conference?

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Ive sat quietly for border and gun legislation. I will not sit quietly for my phub Rx being disrupted. 

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Texas governor predicted donations would pay for busing migrants out of state. He’s collected less than 1% of that cost

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/politics/texas-busing-migrants-donations-invs/index.html

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boasted shortly after he began soliciting private donations for his controversial migrant busing program that there would likely “be no cost to the state” given the outpouring of support from concerned citizens across the country.

But after nearly two years of fundraising to offset the program’s costs, Abbott’s operation has collected less than half of 1% of the roughly $150 million spent on busing migrants to sanctuary cities, according to a review of state records. And CNN found that the largest donation – $900,000 – never made it into the state’s coffers, either because it was a mistake or a prank.

Records show that at most, around $550,000 has been raised to date.

The data provided by the state reflected donations submitted online or by mail through check, credit card or bank transfer, not funds actually received by the state — meaning the data could contain donations that were rejected by banks and credit companies during processing. Reporters tried to reach the woman behind the supposed $900,000 donation, but they could not locate the person with the name provided, and the phone number submitted to state officials was disconnected.

 

Abbott’s office published a running tally online to show how willing people were to support his program. After the $900,000 contribution was submitted online in September, the website showed that donations had reached more than $1.3 million, but in December, the tally was readjusted – dropping back down to around $460,000.

CNN also spoke with another donor listed in the data who confirmed he did not make the $2,000 donation listed under his name. Yet another donor showed reporters a letter he said he received from the state after complaining that his $1,000 donation to the state border wall fund had been instead allocated to the busing efforts.

The governor’s office did not respond to CNN’s questions about the mystery donation, other discrepancies and whether any of the other donations listed in the state data did not come through.

Since the busing program started, Texas taxpayers have largely footed the bill. The governor’s office says it has transported more than 100,000 migrants from Texas to sanctuary cities around the nation, including New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC and Denver. Given the payments made to private contractors so far as detailed in public records, this means it has cost about $1,500 to move each migrant out of the state.

Immigration advocates have slammed this operation as a dangerous and inhumane publicity stunt, and sanctuary city mayors have also fought back against Abbott’s program, instituting regulations about when and where the buses can drop off migrants, as the cities have struggled to meet the needs of the sudden influx of asylum seekers. Last year, a 3-year-old migrant girl died while on a bus to Chicago as part of Abbott’s busing program, and a 10-year-old girl was reportedly hospitalized the prior year due to dehydration and a high fever while on a bus to Philadelphia.

Securing the border has been a hot button issue as the presidential election nears. While many Republicans have lambasted President Joe Biden for not doing enough to stop migrants from crossing the border, some immigration advocates and attorneys say he has actually made it too difficult for migrants to go through the legal process to seek asylum in the country

Aside from the unfulfilled $900,000 contribution, the largest donation in the records came just last month from Wyoming megadonor Timothy Mellon, an heir to the Mellon family fortune. Mellon donated $50,000 to the busing program, far less than the tens of millions of dollars that the Texas Tribune reported he contributed to the state’s border wall fund. He has also donated millions to Super PACs supporting presidential candidates Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this year alone, according to Federal Election Commission filings. He did not respond to a request for comment.

CNN reached some of the donors on the list who confirmed they had made the donations and said they strongly believed in the governor’s mission.

Texas engineer Ronald Roche, who has donated $500 to the fund, said Abbott’s busing initiative has become necessary because the federal government has failed to address “this migrant problem.” He first learned about the efforts watching the news and said that while he was compelled to donate, he is also supportive of state taxpayer funds being used.

“States have a right to protect themselves,” he said. “If the federal government’s not doing it up to the level, I think any state… ought to use their own money. And that’s money well spent.”

While the bulk of the donations in which a state was listed came from those living in Texas, residents in other states – such as Mellon – also offered support.

 

This isn’t just a Texas problem,” said Peter D’Amato, a property manager in South Carolina, who donated $100. “Texas drew the short straw being on the border, but it’s a national issue and they need some relief, and these folks need to find refuge in the sanctuary cities that invite them.”

Samay Rajan Verma, a 19-year-old college sophomore at Elmhurst University, a Christian college in Illinois, told CNN he supported the program because he wants people to “see the value of legal immigration,” saying his Punjabi parents entered the country legally and had to re-start their schooling. “They did a lot just to be here and to be successful in the United States. … I feel like the American people aren’t really realizing that this is really a slap on the face of all the legal immigrants that came here.” Verma donated $25 to Abbott’s efforts.

A $2,000 donation, meanwhile, was listed as coming from a progressive Washington, DC climate activist named Hendrik Voss.

When reached by CNN on the phone number provided to the state, Voss said he was shocked – then angry – to hear that he was listed in the donation data.

“I can say with 1,000% certainty that I’ve never given a cent to Gov. Abbott’s dehumanizing and racist publicity stunts,” he said in an interview. In reaction to the news, he said he had made an immediate donation to a local nonprofit to help support migrants who are being bused to DC

 

$1500 for a one way bus ticket to New York City, Chicago, Washington, DC and Denver ....Didn't someone here post something when this bussing started that the company Texas is using for bussing is owned by one of Abbotts friends?