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She is Risen! #HappyEaster (from your atheist friend) https://t.co/kdezdiGhYn
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) April 15, 2022
Greg "Abbott is The Crisis" decided -- in what he believes was a demonstration of his foreign policy skilz -- to resolve himself after the week of domestic terrorism he inflicted on the nation's economy. Let's survey the damage.
"This is not a localized issue. It's going to hit you in St. Louis or up in Seattle.
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) April 16, 2022
"It's a bad time to be adding this to consumers' pockets to pay out." https://t.co/qWLOwZv3G3 #TXLege #AbbottIsTheCrisis #ASStax
Savage.
— Jeremy Wallace (@JeremySWallace) April 15, 2022
The American Trucking Association left ZERO doubt about how they feel about Gov. Greg Abbott's "wholly flawed" border-clogging inspection "scheme."
In one page statement they called it flawed, senseless and misguided. pic.twitter.com/cUBDBf3Fns
'It's a train wreck' | Houston's largest produce company @BrothersProduce warns of higher prices due to Abbott's border inspections, @KHOUmelissa reports
— KHOU 11 News Houston (@KHOU) April 14, 2022
https://t.co/umLWfKQQFO pic.twitter.com/PgwA4FJDyP
Abbott's Debacle
— RA News (@RANewsTX) April 14, 2022
By @Nick_Anderson_ for @RANewsTX #txlege #txgov #GregAbbott #BorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/6DuM1EQGwe
No shortage of disaster-related adjectives. There remains, astonishingly, some question as to whether Governor Helen Wheels will pay a political price.
Why don't Texas business leaders support Democrats?
— Scott Braddock (@scottbraddock) April 15, 2022
Why don't Texas Democrats show up to talk to Texas business leaders? Ever?
It's a two way street and @GregAbbott_TX has created opportunities#txlege
After everything that's happened this year (the erosion of women's rights, voting rights, LGBTQ rights, children's reading rights, etc. ad nauseum) that Texas businesses large and small have voiced both loud and mumbled objection to, on which side of the fence will Lone Star corporate leaders and their PACs will be dumping fertilizer? We all know that ATT hasn't changed their plans.
Sidebar: after I kicked Kuffner in the shins for lazy-ass blogging, he came back with a respectable post. Although "I'm at a loss here" and "I don't know what else to say" is more of his -- and Texas' and all Democrats' -- by-now-predictable weakness in confronting fascism, "it's a start" (another of his go-to tropes).
I'm not through with ASStax Abbott yet.
Desantis can now thank Abbott! 10 of the migrants bussed to DC by Abbott are from Venezuela. They said they knew they were being used as a political prop but said they didn’t care because they are on their way to Miami, and it will be easier to get there from DC than the border. pic.twitter.com/IcrZHfapEr
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) April 13, 2022
.@GovAbbott is the hardest working political hoo-ah in the nation #TXLege #TX2022 #TXGov #AbbottFailedTexasAgain #ASStax https://t.co/vGnT7LMd0t
— Forever in debt to your priceless advice. (@PDiddie) April 14, 2022
Okay, that's enough for today. It's a holiday weekend, after all. Let's turn to some other dumbasses in the news.
Rep. Chip Roy text right after the 2020 election: “We need ammo. We need fraud examples.”
— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) April 15, 2022
Roy text two months later: “The President should never have spun up certain Americans to believe something that simply cannot be."https://t.co/OB6nWfnomL
The seditionist calls are coming from inside the House (and Senate). And apparently the Democrats on the January 6th committee are just too scared to do anything about it.
A high-speed train between Houston and Dallas would allow travelers to avoid costly and time-consuming freeway traffic. But before it can deliver that relief, the company behind the project will have to stop avoiding its own costly property tax bills. https://t.co/SMfnTUdRx8
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) April 13, 2022
Not a good look for the Texas Central folks when the project still has public disapproval in the Republican hinterlands to overcome. Maybe they can join the chorus of whining on the Right about onerous property tax burdens and garner some sympathy.
Elon Musk has said he might launch rockets from Florida if the FAA does not approve expansion of aerospace operations in Brownsville. https://t.co/CDYx0nKEX7 via @RioGGuardian
— Rio Grande Guardian (@RioGGuardian) April 13, 2022
A commercial threat by Mr. Tesla that slipped under the radar this week, what with all of his -- and everybody else's -- histrionics.
Twenty-two years ago, America asked itself, in the undying words of George W. Bush: “Is our children learning?” Now we ask ourselves: Is our children learning . . . too much?
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) April 15, 2022
On the moral panic over sex and race education in schools: https://t.co/dB2lv0ZMLs
Fucking W Bush.
Off-duty Pasadena police officer crashes into Houston cop investigating passed-out driver https://t.co/FuKgHVMNLn
— Laredo Morning Times (@lmtnews) April 14, 2022
Tempted to go with a Kuffner quote, but I'll pass.
The Patriots for America answered Kinney County's call for help cracking down on immigration. Now, some officials have grown weary of their methods, which include highly visible armed daytime reconnaissance and stealthy nighttime tracking.https://t.co/KyP7F4EpMG
— Texas Monthly (@TexasMonthly) April 9, 2022
The southern border, as we should all know by now, is not being invaded. The people who are seeking asylum there are fleeing for their lives.
Here are your organizing/action items.
#RiseUp4AbortionRights
— Refuse Fascism (@RefuseFascism) April 15, 2022
National Organizing Zoom Summit
Saturday, April 16 3PM ET
Register now & invite your friends: https://t.co/6wQP10s37T https://t.co/zkRPqiFy30
Good news: Texas can eliminate carbon pollution in less than 30 years. Better news: we’d likely be better off economically. #txlege #txenergy #EVs https://t.co/NwzgSUHO9N
— Texas Electric Transportation Resources Alliance (@TxETRA_TX) April 14, 2022
One calm-me-down.
🙌🙌🙌 Juneteenth icon and Fort Worth resident Opal Lee threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Friday night's Texas Rangers game to celebrate #JackieRobinsonDay!
— WFAA (@wfaa) April 16, 2022
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