As Texas and Arizona face surging outbreaks of COVID-19, the two sunbelt states’ biggest cities have a simple request for their governors: give us back the power to slow the spread.
Republican governors actively trying to kill their citizens, especially the urban ones.
“Abbott expressed a mixture of relief and gloating at the judge’s move in a Wednesday radio interview, saying ‘there has been a plan in place all along that all that was needed was for local officials to actually read the plan that was issued by the state of Texas.’
“‘It turned out earlier today that the county judge in Bexar County finally figured that out,’ he added.”
Fuck you, Governor. This isn’t a game of “find the loophole.” People are dying and you’re giddy about the Goddamn semantics of your clever riddles.
Grow the fuck up already.
The Trump/Republican atrocity of actively discouraging the most important preventive measure in the pandemic (mask-wearing), and turning into a marker in the political/cultural wars, will surely go down as one of the greatest crimes in American history. How many preventable cases of illness and death will happen because of this Trump/Republican idiocy and malevolence?
Looks like the Confederacy will be a wasteland for Covid-19 this summer.
The states seeing record-high averages are Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas.
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Tie them up and force them to listen to a lecture on the dynamics of exponential growth.
F*** you, Gov. Worse-Than-Useless, if you think the Bexar County Judge saved your ass. You never intended that this loophole exist, but now you’re scared and too cowardly to do the right thing — undo your politically motivated EO preventing city and county governments from enforcing masking requirements.
yeah–wow, Abbott is an asshole.
Even if we take him at his word that the loophole was intentional, it does not make him look good. As you said, he’s playing f’ing games.
The “judge” in San Antonio is not a district court judge. A “County Judge” in Texas (and several other states) is actually the county government’s chief administrative official.
Abbott expressed a mixture of relief and gloating at the judge’s move in a Wednesday radio interview, saying “there has been a plan in place all along that all that was needed was for local officials to actually read the plan that was issued by the state of Texas.”
There is a perfect Texan word for this: chickenshit.
Too late, assholes. Damage done. Reap it, literally and figuratively. It’s not like you didn’t get warning.
Abbott and Ducey are yapping chihuahuas on the pantleg of idiocy.
With heavy emphasis on governors kneecapped their own cities until it was too late. Out of loyalty to the party of Gassing Out Priests.
Two words: Jade Helm
In Nebraska, for example, Governor Pete Ricketts (R) reportedly [told] local officials that cities and towns which issue mask-wearing regulations would not receive federal coronavirus aid money.
How stupid is that? Take away the money from places that actually give a shit.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. Is this a just world? If it is, Abbott would be run out of office NOW.
And not a single one of them have any experience or insight into pandemic/immunological response systems.
Yet they “know better” than everyone else.
Having to wear a mask is an imposition on freedumb. So is having to wear shoes and shirts. So is having to wear any clothes at all. And what about those red lights? Why do I have to stop just for some stupid color?
Yes, this was an order from the Bexar County Judge rather than from the state district court in Bexar County.
And, BTW, for non-Texans: “Bexar“ is pronounced “bear.“ And no, that’s not really right either, since it should be pronounced *bé-har,” but Texas seems happy to mispronounce many local Spanish language-derived place names. I’m looking at you, San Jacinto.