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[–] [email protected] 148 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

I just hope he bough Raphael a ticket too. That guy HATES being in Texas when the people there are suffering more than he legislates for.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Abbott rolls out as Beryl rolls in.

Someone, please think of the comedy!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Greg is definitely not a stand up guy

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Greg Abbott is indeed the littlest and pissiest of all the little piss babies there ever were

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I'm sure they don't enforce handicap rules in that shithole state, so I truly think he actually is a piss baby. Greg Abbott that is.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago (11 children)

I'm glad my Tax Dollars paid for his Vacation instead of LITERALLY ANYTHING TO HELP ANYONE AT ALL IN THE STATE!

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 4 months ago

This is the guy whose very own Lieutenant Gov Dan Patrick suggested during the peak of Covid that the elderly should unretire and get back to work!, sacrificing themselves for.. the economy. Seriously, that's not a joke, that actually happened. Both Abbott and Patrick are likely technically of "elder" age. Mother Nature clearly demands vengeance by way of Texan blood, even if it's the blood of hate filled shit-donuts like these two. We can round Cruz's age to elderly too, because fuck it

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I give it a one-star rating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

"If I could give it less stars, I would. But one is the minimum."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (4 children)

It certainly seems like the governor fancies himself president of Texas. Heads of state means leader of countries not US states.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

isnt it kinda par for the course that republicans abandon texas in a natural disaster, and rush off to some safe, comfortable country until it passes?

Meanwhile the evil liberal democrats aid organizations are on the ground before the rain stops giving help and aid to their constituents, who take it, then go home and cry about the evilbad demoncrats

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah republicans are really embracing the "evil cartoon villain" vibe the best that they can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

nah. Just embracing the deplorable.

Not even Cartoon Villains would fuck kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

it's because they are utter cowards and are unable to face their constituents.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why should he care for his people? They were stupid enough to vote for him once (at least enough of them, fuck the others), they will stay stupid enough to vote for him again.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

As long as he continues to persecute people with melanin and women, he's fine. The insurance will cover the storm damage and they'll blame the liberal media for the fifty percent increase in premiums that follow.

Source: lived in this shit hole for twenty years and counting.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

and they’ll blame the liberal media for the fifty percent increase in premiums that follow.

They'll probably blame the Democrats for the storm in the first place: "It's the Democrats that talk about this climate change nonsense, and now they have created this hurricane to support their hoax!!!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Trump would have nuked it for us!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And then they would have complained about the nuclear fallout, created by the LibDems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Ignorance is bliss, defund NOAA!

#SharpiesArePredictiveTools #ConeOfCertainty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Maybe they can blame wind power again for their failing freedum grid.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Texans really like people who don't care about them, just like the people in my state of FL.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Its the "Free State of Florida" now per the new interstate signs.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Don't mess with Texas, especially when there's a crisis!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or what, they’re gonna fuck their grid up even more? Secede?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I wish they'd just shut the hell up and secede already. It's like having an abusive spouse who just won't stop threatening to leave. Just leave, we don't want you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Don't mess with texas, the ones with money will just leave

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I mean he's already a ghoul, is this that surprising? He's been racing to see whose state can out-suck Louisiana, with him and DeSantis neck and neck for last place.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is Cruz with him? Seems about time for him to jet off somewhere too.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Isn't he already in Cancun again or was that just a joke?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Does this count as elitist in the minds of the cons? They have so perverted the term.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Tickets to the Philippines and then Cancun Mexico please....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Greg Abbott didn't earn the nickname "hot wheels" for nothin.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

He should go see some sawtooth oaks while he's there.

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