The Official Greg Abbott is Doing Awesome Thread

[daboom1]

Just not your day,,,pg,,,,read it and weep,,,,

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...l-16819146.php

gotheem

[Winehole23]

Texas Tribune/Military Times story on Greg Abbott using the Texas National Guard as an electoral prop and wrecking the lives of guardsmen who can't do about illegal immigration.

Faced with a humanitarian crisis along the Rio Grande, pressured by conservative rivals and chided by right-wing cable pundits, Gov. Greg Abbott decided last fall to move thousands of troops to the border as quickly as possible. And the Texas Military Department, which oversees the state’s National and State Guard branches, did all it could to comply — with haste.


Never before has Texas — or any other state — involuntarily activated so many troops under state active duty authority for such a long-term mission. Nor has it been done so quickly.


A few days after being told he’d likely sit the deployment out, the NCO was ordered to report within 72 hours, he said. If he didn’t, his commanders told him, the state would issue an arrest warrant.


“I had to cancel $60,000 worth of business contracts,” the NCO, who requested anonymity because he feared retaliation from Guard leaders, said in a text to Army Times and The Texas Tribune. His employees all quit.

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/02...e-star-abbott/

[Winehole23]

After “three weeks of sitting on my ass with zero task or purpose,” he was sent home. But it may be too late to save his business. He says he still hasn’t found a new project and had to sell his company’s van to pay his mortgage, car payments and business loans.


“I didn’t want to get out of bed for a week,” the soldier said. “I was unemployed … and [I] felt exactly as if [the Texas Military Department] put me there because of their … lack of planning and leadership.”

[Winehole23]

“Instead of solving [pay, lack of equipment, and family or employer hardships], more energy was spent on hiding or covering up problems rather than fixing them,” Featherston argued. “Families [have been] impacted forever.”

[Winehole23]

In the Brownsville area, some of the state’s most elite troops — its Air National Guard cyber operations forces — are “sitting at a watch point for hours on end with their thumbs up their ass doing nothing,” a member of the cyber unit said.


A junior soldier assigned to a post along Falcon Lake near Zapata said he and his peers spend their days “staring” at the lake.


Does he ever see migrants? “Nope, not even once,” he said. “Just people fishing.”


“Send [us] to critical areas where there is a major need for assistance,” he said. “I will do my job as a soldier and Guardsman, but I just want to be used effectively.”


Another soldier said he supports the “intent of the mission,” but not “its poor execution and the rush to failure.”


“A lot of these issues could have been mitigated had leadership taken a step back and thought of the soldiers for a minute,” he said. “They made this huge deal and rushed everybody out here, and all we're doing is staring into nothing.”

[Adam Lambert]

"Why ain't there nobody fer us to shoot out here?"

[ChumpDumper]

What is the "intent of the mission" anyway?

[Trainwreck2100]

"Why ain't there nobody fer us to shoot out here?"

Guardsmen can't use their firearms on american soil

[Winehole23]

What is the "intent of the mission" anyway?

to prop up the sagging political fortunes of Greg Abbott

[Adam Lambert]

[daboom1]

[Ef-man]

ted making plans for next cold snap, again.

[ChumpDumper]

ted making plans for next cold snap, again.

that outfit

[SnakeBoy]

that outfit

Eye

[spurraider21]

that outfit

close

[pgardn]

Just not your day,,,pg,,,,read it and weep,,,,

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/lo...l-16819146.php

Has ZERO to do with Cruz.
Not my day…
Its not your year, or life.
Dumbass…

[pgardn]

Fat guy

Fixed.
Looks like he swallowed a baby whole.
Snakes will do that.

[ChumpDumper]

Eye

Oh , you must look like dumpy lumpy Ted all the time.

What else would make you lash out like that?

[CNN]

Oh , you must look like dumpy lumpy Ted all the time.

What else would make you lash out like that?

Eye lash. I get it

[HemisfairArena]

Has ZERO to do with Cruz.
Not my day…
Its not your year, or life.
Dumbass…

Dude couldnt beat Cruz either but democrats are to stupid to make a change. They're gonna ride his skateboard with him all the way to 2nd place again,,,,you sound bitter.

[Winehole23]

[daboom1]

[Thread]

Oh, and were CNN waiting on that one. Once it went down the drain they ran for Rogan.

[ChumpDumper]

Why wasn't it available back then, Qhris?

[Ef-man]

Almost sniped 900 in Lamar county.

Texas power outages hit counties where people need electricity for medical devices.

This week’s freezing temperatures and winter storms in Texas led to far fewer power outages than a similar freeze last year. But worryingly, a handful of Texas counties with high rates of power outages also have high numbers of people who need power for medical devices, according to a new analysis by the data group CrisisReady.

Losing electricity in bitter cold is always dangerous, but it’s particularly scary for people who rely on it to keep medical devices like ventilators running. The new analysis pulled federal data on Medicare beneficiaries to identify counties with high numbers of people using electricity-dependent medical equipment. It found that six such counties had more than 1 percent of the population out of power at one point during the storm. Lamar County — home to under 50,000 people — had a high percentage of people without power and also has nearly 900 people dependent on medical devices that need electricity.