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Ford_Prefect

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16. Abbott wants to be able to blame someone else. He knows that testing without an
Mon Jan 3, 2022, 01:24 AM
Jan 2022

aggressive vaccination program is virtually worthless. He'd much rather see 1,000,000 dead Texans who he can blame on someone else than risk leading them to healthy outcomes by contradicting TLG and Q mythology.

(I know TLG has made weak-ass remarks supporting vaccination. He's not nearly as out loud about it as he is about the big lie so few take him seriously on that point, to say nothing about the True-Q believers.)

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We are broken...completely. Eliot Rosewater Jan 2022 #1
A NY county executive overrode the governor's COVID-19 mandates, then demanded for the state to help TheBlackAdder Jan 2022 #17
Amazing...and the obvious thing you would do if you wanted to survive would be Eliot Rosewater Jan 2022 #33
"mitigate the spread" - Yeah, now the anti-vaxx governor wants to mitigate the spread to save lives bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #2
It almost reminds me of the anti-vaxxers who were BEGGING for the vaccine before being intubated... NurseJackie Jan 2022 #32
Has a ring similar to that of Rand Paul requesting disaster relief. n/t Harker Jan 2022 #3
He Will Get Everything He Wants SoCalDavidS Jan 2022 #4
And then he'll go pat himself on the back for a job well done. sakabatou Jan 2022 #6
Wipe his face in it mollie8 Jan 2022 #12
Agreed Sherman A1 Jan 2022 #25
Absolutely. Easy to do and must say so on live kacekwl Jan 2022 #38
you think he will wait that long quakerboy Jan 2022 #20
What is this "next week"? LiberalLovinLug Jan 2022 #22
I can't help but wonder if some Republicans in TX actually want help sakabatou Jan 2022 #5
They Want Help For THEMSELVES SoCalDavidS Jan 2022 #8
if human lives weren't at stake - cab67 Jan 2022 #7
+ 1 nt pazzyanne Jan 2022 #14
But thought Rebl2 Jan 2022 #9
I don't want them to get federal help. James48 Jan 2022 #10
There are a lot of democrats in texas quakerboy Jan 2022 #21
That's what the Orange one would do. Magoo48 Jan 2022 #27
I dunno....rednecks be damned, someone is using all the test kits! LeftInTX Jan 2022 #39
He's losing GOP voters in Texas IronLionZion Jan 2022 #11
I'm ok with that. James48 Jan 2022 #41
Where's that ass face dan patrick to spew some more "better to die" Comfortably_Numb Jan 2022 #13
better watch it, jury just got me or being a bad boy !!!!!!!!! monkeyman1 Jan 2022 #15
Ruh-rho... dan's a repuke though so maybe I'm safe.. Comfortably_Numb Jan 2022 #24
Abbott wants to be able to blame someone else. He knows that testing without an Ford_Prefect Jan 2022 #16
Hubby and I both have Covid and are vaxxed and boosted... LeftInTX Jan 2022 #18
You have my sympathies as someone who has also had COVID although I'm fully vaccinated and boosted Ford_Prefect Jan 2022 #26
I know LeftInTX Jan 2022 #37
Just makes you wonder DownriverDem Jan 2022 #29
That takes a lot of Chutzpah! Grumpy Old Guy Jan 2022 #19
He'll find a way to blame the Dems pfitz59 Jan 2022 #23
What a goober DownriverDem Jan 2022 #28
He should just go on vacation. The Jungle 1 Jan 2022 #30
Is it cold enough yet to turn off the electricity? twodogsbarking Jan 2022 #31
Typical Republican thinking (?) packman Jan 2022 #34
This message was self-deleted by its author packman Jan 2022 #35
Abbot, You Moron! When you can't handle it, you call on Biden. MineralMan Jan 2022 #36
shouldn't he ask the republican masters in Russia, China, and North Korea. And Saudi Arabia? samsingh Jan 2022 #40
Oh I see, so it's NEXT year that they will louis-t Jan 2022 #42
"Before we help you, you must eliminate the TX abortion bounty law." nt LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jan 2022 #43
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