Crafty Greggy
As King Ad-Rock said about some unnamed trick, maybe Lucy but they all called her “Loose,” Gov. Greg Abbott sure is crafty.
The Republican nutjob currently occupying 1010 Colorado St in Austin is poised to blame immigrants at the border for the upcoming surge in COVID-19 numbers. Never mind that Gov. Greg rescinded the mask mandate weeks ago, just in time to prop up struggling businesses whose owners and employees could benefit from a Spring Break boom. And never mind that the man also removed social distancing orders, bullied cities into complying with said mask and social distancing orders, and screwed up the vaccine rollout — only 11% of Texans are fully vaccinated, including me now but only partially. (Hey, take it up with my doc. She claims that I am quote-overweight-unquote. Psh. Two-hundred-and-five pounds on a 5-foot-10 frame never looked this svelte.) (It has. Billions of times before, undoubtedly.) No, because of Abbott’s posturing, the Central Americans fleeing two natural disasters and nonstop drug wars and the droves of Mexican immigrants at the border now will be blamed by our fearless governor for the forthcoming bad COVID numbers. He’s crafty! He’s got a gripe!
The Biden administration *blesses self* has offered help that Abbott has denied, which simply encapsulates the entirety of the Republican party post-Dump. People do not matter. Poor people really don’t matter. Only power does.
Because Abbott is just more of the same party-over-country crap we’ve come to expect from so-called conservatives, I’m really looking forward to voting for Beto O’Rourke for governor in two years. In a social media post the other day, the former Texas pol and now all-around do-gooder says everything we all know about Abbott’s manufactured border outrage but that our friends and loved ones on the right won’t see or hear because of the right-wing media bubble, which is more like a steel cage tipped with razorwire but that we’ll call a “bubble” to drive home the imagery of gun-toting, bible-thumping rich white folks floating away, hopefully to be wonderfully popped and come back down to Earth.
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(Fort Worth Weekly)
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