Texas Gov. Abbott’s antics kill three at the border

[jlw]

Originally published at: Texas Gov. Abbott’s antics kill three at the border - Boing Boing

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[smurph]

Abbott’s willing to kill his own citizens (see Snowpocalypse '21). Why would he give a damn about some furriners?

[thomasta]

@jlw

Texas authorities have achieved their desired cruelty.

I think you’re grossly underestimating how fucking awful abbott and the gop are if you think 3 deaths is anywhere near their desired level of cruelty.

[vernonbird]

@jlw

Texas’ psychopathic Governor Greg Abbott.

Well, he is only 1/3 of the Troika; there’s a christofascist Lt. Governor & a criminal MAGAt Attorney Genral. Both of these fine gentlemen take their marching orders from some christofascist billionaires.

Still, Abbott keeps shipping people to Chicago, in the middle of winter, just to own the libs, or something…

It’s a goddamn shame that tree missed.

@jlw

Abbott also announced that border agents would no longer be allowed “on that property any more”.

Uncle Joe needs to force Czar Abbott’s hand on this,
Let’s see just who will be arresting whom.

@jlw

Later that same day, a mother and her two young children drowned in the Rio Grande near the park. US border patrol agents alleged they were “physically barred” from entering the park to rescue the family by the state officials.

If true, this wouldn’t surprise me a bit.

@jlw

Texas officials have rejected that version of events and said…

Doesn’t matter.
Those ‘officials’ have zero credibility, as far as I am concerned.

[GagHalfrunt]

Texas officials have rejected that version of events and said that Mexican authorities were already recovering the bodies when border agents requested access.

I dare say that they waited until they could see dead bodies before they logged the Border Patrol’s request for access.

[mmascari]

@jlw

Blocking access from border patrol agents

@jlw

a fence built around Shelby Park. Abbott also announced that border agents would no longer be allowed “on that property any more”.

Has there been any reporting on the engagement rules for either Border Patrol or the Texas State Officials? Which state agency is it also? I didn’t see it in the article.

At some fundamental level this devolves into two people facing each other. One attempting to go somewhere and one telling them they cannot. It’s like a velvet rope, it only works if everyone agrees that it should work this way. What happens when Border Patrol ignores the request and tries to go to the border anyway?

[TornPaperNapkin]

They weren’t real children, they were just autonomous fentanyl! - Texas GOP

[iknownuurthing]

Fucking Unconscionable Monster.
I just cannot understand the awful cruelty.
That he shares this terrible mindset with the UK Prime Monster only makes it worse.
Bloody hateful.

Feel free, internet, to take the FUM acronym and apply to your favorite republican monstrous individual.

[awfulhorrid]

@mmascari

either Border Patrol or the Texas State Officials?

When you’re actions are more draconian than those of the Border Patrol, you’ve really hit a new bottom. “Those fascists are worse than these other fascists” isn’t exactly comforting.

[vernonbird]

@awfulhorrid

When you’re actions are more draconian than those of the Border Patrol, you’ve really hit a new bottom.

There is no bottom. They have shovels.

@awfulhorrid

“Those fascists are worse than these other fascists” isn’t exactly comforting.

Speaking of which, since DeSantis has dropped out of the race for POTUS, he & Abbott can now restart their contest of ‘Who can out-fascist the Other’.
It’s gonna be like watching a tennis match. Again.