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  Greg Abbott is a disgraceful human being. 
  Change my mind.
context: Like that one time it was a one-off disaster now it’s a predictable, avoidable problem masquerading as a disaster >
  
  I feel for the people of Texas too but it's ridiculous that FEMA is gonna end up footing the bill for all this help again. This is not a straight up natural disaster, they're allowing this to happen on purpose. Abbott is piece of human trash, while his people are freezing he's wasting money playing games shipping immigrants to the VP's house at the same time. Which he should be in jail for on it's own, frankly. >
  
  I dont feel sorry for these people.  They keep electing these morons. >
  
  I feel sorry for the people who have to pay for Texas voting for morons. If Texas wasn't part of the Union, everyone there would be dead because of their idiotic votes. >
  
  If Texas wasn't part of the Union, and Texans were 100% in charge of Texas, that place would look like Somalia. >
  
  OR it’d be like the UAE. (Not a good thing in this context). >
  
  What do you mean? >
  
  Uber wealthy oil barons importing Mexicans to work to death in the oil fields for pennies. >
  
  Plus highly restrictive laws for women under the guise of religion >
  
  So it would look like it does now? >
  
  That's what happens when Democrats have held the governorship and controlled the state for 27 years. They failed to invest in the independent Texas power system.
  Oh wait, that was Republicans. >
  
  They literally blame “the leftists” for all these problems.  They’ve had absolute control for decades.  
  The only thing they’re good at is targeting weak/low intelligence voters.  
  Which isn’t saying much….  In Texas, you can’t spit up in the air, and not hit a low intelligence voter. >
  
  My dad lives in Texas and blames wind turbines for the blackouts. >
  
  Did he say why? >
  
  "They froze." Apparently that was enough to cripple the whole grid >
  
  But only Texas has frozen wind turbines that cause state wide black outs lol >
  
  But only Texas has frozen wind turbines.
  If only there was a way to make them not freeze. 🤔 >
  
  Fuck every single person who went and voted for this guy… AGAIN. 
  How’s that hatred for immigrants and abortion rights doing? Keeping you warm at night and filling your pantry? 
  Sorry to the Texans who didn’t vote for this. You deserve better. >
  
  Bro the rich Texans who voted for him don’t care. They probably have back up generators and will be fine no matter what. Or they’ll pull a ted Cruz and just go to Cancun for a couple weeks. Once you see in person how detached conservatives are from reality is makes sense. They have no need to care about people in need. “Fuck you I got mine” is the r/conservative mindset >
  
  I think you underestimate how poor many conservatives are, which is really the crazy part to me >
  
  You’re not wrong… alot of them are poor and live in trailer parks. But a lot of them aren’t tho… they’re just rich suburban types. Think boats with trump flag/ rich evangelical families that basically make up the west and south >
  
  Yeah but you're not winning an election on just the rich. >
  
  The asshat should spend less time working on sending migrants to VP Harris' house, and more time on insuring people have power. >
  
  My very Christian family loved him for sending those migrants and risking their lives. When I questioned their Christian love they said it’s different because they’re not American… like how do I even respond to that >
  
  You tell them that Jesus was an Arab man. >
  
  And his saintly mother had to give birth to him in a stable because no one showed them any hospitality or kindness.. >
  
  Yeah but it forged his character so there is that. >
  
  To think what they would actually say to Jesus if he came back… and what Jesus would say to them 🤯 >
  
  The appeal for them is merely the semblance of being christian... They understand that the bible means for you to be good, they just don't do the heavy lifting of actually being good people.
  So it's just a club basically... they overcompensate by going to the church and doing stuff, without actually comiting to the "love each other" part. >
  
  
  The appeal for them is merely the semblance of being christian
  
  I've seen them be referred to as "Christianists" instead of just Christians. The worship the religion instead of practicing it. >
  
  I’m assuming he knew this would happen, which is why he wanted to distract his base and give them somethng to hatefully froth at the mouth about on Christmas Eve. He’ll blame the Dems for Republican led failures in Texas, and Ted will blame his daughters when he gets caught secretly vacationing in Mexico during a crisis. But hey. He sure owned the Libs in the name of Jesus Christ. >
  
  The fact that Christians all over the nation aren't screaming bloody murder over this stunt - done on the day Jesus was supposed born in a filthy ass fucking barn among dirty animals because nobody would give his family shelter and warmth in a foreign town - is a goddam disgrace and makes me lose whatever respect I might have had left for Christianity.
  Y'all "good" Christians need to stop tut tutting about this abomination and fucking stand up for something for once and bring hell down on that piece of shit Abbott. >
  
  That's the trick. There are no good Christians. There are some people that are good in spite of their Christianity, not because of it. >
  
  It’s funny how much shit he was talking earlier today about saving Texas by busing what, 200 something migrants, to another state on Christmas Eve for a political stunt?
  He needs to be put on the worlds longest moving walkway, in the wrong direction. >
  
  Further proof that the current leadership of Texas has absolutely no idea what the hell they're doing. >
  
  winning elections by any means other than doing a good job at governing >
  
  The Republican motto is government doesn't work, so elect us to break it worse. They delivered. >
  
  The issue with Texas is that the small portions of the state connected to outside electrical grids always fare much better than the portions connected to the Texas ERCOT grid. 
  Texas is singularly terrible at running an electrical grid. >
  
  I hear you. We can all agree that 4 hours without power is inconvenient, but it’s manageable. When the outage extends to days or weeks, it becomes an expensive and potentially life threatening situation. >
  
  Can’t ship that problem out of state on a bus. >
  
  Oh, but he'd try... >
  
  Why are Texans voting for him? >
  
  He has an R next to his name on the ballot >
  
  Freezing your ass off and burying your shot kid is “owning the libs” in the Lone Star State? >
  
  They think just not voting for a D is owning the libs. They'd rather their whole state burn to the ground and everyone die because of their poor choices. >
  
  The article didn't even mention plants failing after the headline. >
  
  you can pretty much just ignore any newsweek article