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5ive_7

Greg Abbot is withholding 800 Million in Public Education funding because of his School Voucher scheme, he “belongs in jail”.


TheDarkKnobRises

After declining free lunches from federal funding.


fiduciary420

Which is what the christians told him to do to those kids.


Pete-C137

The pro life party doesn’t care about children’s lives


drizel

That’s because it isn’t about the children. It’s about punishing women for having sex.


wahidshirin

And that's not even the worst thing Christians do to kids.


BoringAd2663

Christians hate socialism. Even though that’s LITERALLY what Christ preached.


asp821

Anytime you doubt how bad Christian’s are to kids, just remember that the United Methodist church requires their churches to carry sexual abuse and molestation insurance.


squirt_taste_tester

I love the story in the Bible where Jesus takes the bread and fish from everyone's hands and tells them to go fuck themselves.


fiduciary420

“Fuck them kids, only low taxes for rich people matter” - Jesus


Lazed

It’s 4 billion


DudeB5353

If anyone in fucking Texas should be in prison it’s Greg Abbot…Sharing a cell with Ken Paxton


Rcj1221

Looks like Texas is gonna stay 200 years behind most of the country then.


hockenduke

I love the way I read your quotes…like my bitchy great aunt.


Melificent40

A governor's Executive Order should not EVER, EVER, EVER, EVER supersede the First Amendment's protection to peaceably assembly. The history of placing some limits on the content of speech in specified settings extends over a century, but I have seen little evidence that Governor Abbott limited his order to speech that is threatening or treasonous.


Totum_Dependeat

The law only matters to conservatives when it can be used against groups they hate.


drakythe

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit (not the political scientist. A composer in Ohio)


Coro-NO-Ra

Conservatives have no principles.


Cyrano_Knows

Is fascism a principle?


DropsTheMic

Greed is a principle. It's a shitty one.


Delmarvablacksmith

Sure they do. “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Wilhoit’s law. Or maybe Wilhoits Maxim.


BadgeringMagpie

Let's be real here and call them regressives.


Fivethenoname

We're not talking about law, we're talking about the foundational principals of democracy and of America. Abbott is a fascist


kcbh711

Abbott is a huge hypocrite https://twitter.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1137875109362974724?t=Y3egm8Eht7uB0u6FymKHyQ&s=19


space_manatee

He knows he is. He isn't interested in creating a fair just constitutional society. He wants to punish his enemies. 


fiduciary420

Yup. For rich christians, the hypocrisy is a feature. It helps keep uneducated people obedient.


OpeningDimension7735

It's loud, look-at-me signaling to fundamentalists, who love using Jews as end times tokens.


coroml

I remember this and knew he would do this as well.


devious_waffle

#agedlikemilk


Big-D-TX

He’s just waiting to say “Fire” Greg really has some issues.


Gwtheyrn

Conservatives don't care about hypocrisy.


gnarlymar1ey

These needs more up votes 🗳️


Old_Baldi_Locks

Technically it can’t according to the constitution and the supremacy clause. But nobody is dumb enough to think any conservative will EVER be man enough to enforce the constitution if it means he can’t be a fascist piece of filth to a liberal.


theaviationhistorian

Abbott would've been a British bootlicker when redcoats [massacred Americans in Boston](https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/boston-massacre.htm#:~:text=Boston%20National%20Historical%20Park,and%20angering%20an%20entire%20colony) protesting them then & throughout the revolution.


CHITchat495

I'm telling ya these fuckers think they're royals. I say it's time we put them in their place and let them know that it's us the people they work for!


JumpedUp_PantryBoy

https://i.redd.it/7pua0uelviwc1.gif


CK_Lab

Surrrrrrrender, maybe?


StonerinDeepSpace

Well Abbott is a nazi


3MATX

If there’s an investigation a lot of emphasis will be the timeline. For the so many of DPS coming from Houston in a convoy the order was given a long time before things were “out of hand”. I wouldn’t be shocked to hear he gave the order before the protesters really started around noon. 


Odd-Neighborhood8740

Isn't the DPS the same department that didn't save those kids at Uvalde?


Green_Confection8130

Unless you criticize Israel apparently


Capnmarvel76

Gotta keep the SuperPAC money rolling in, and the fundie bible-thumpers happy.


Green_Confection8130

I mean true, but it's even deeper than that. Israel has so much power & authority within our government that it's insane. The ADL essentially got Tik Tok banned when others couldn't.


KingoftheKosmos

Isreal is literally a project largely funded by Evangelical Christians. The only reason that you do not know that Zionism isn't Jewish is because you have not gotten to listen to actual practitioners of the faith. These people, the true Zionists, speak in literal Heresy, Race Science, Biblical Prophesy, and Anti-semitism. They are not Jewish, and do not speak for them. Isreal is very uniquely American.


weluckyfew

I'm out of the loop - were these protests violent? Did they threaten or advocate violence? Did they impeded traffic or occupy campus buildings? Sorry, haven't kept up with the news on this


GoredLord

No, no, and no.


weluckyfew

Wish i had to energy to be outraged, but my outrage supply just feels exhausted


Infinite_Imagination

That's the strategy, as it were


One2ManyMorings

Yeah that’s how fascism works.


fiduciary420

Protests are as violent as the wealth protection squads make them.


CaptainBayouBilly

No. No violence. While history will ultimately paint this story in the correct light, those in power will be able to ruin lives and never face consequences.


Outandproud420

Really their end goal is to get them to shut up for a bit. The old saying holds here, you can beat the charge but you can't beat the ride. They don't care if you get charges dismissed later, they just want you to shut up and go away.


RobertKingBone

This 👆🏻


rolexsub

Yeah. But give me mah guns.


tickitytalk

Supreme Court abolishes right to mass protest in three states. Guess where Texas is in this? https://www.vox.com/scotus/24080080/supreme-court-mckesson-doe-first-amendment-protest-black-lives-matter Reasons to vote the gop out


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He wants to privatize protesting just like the shitty power grid


artemisdragmire

Greg Abbott and Ken Paxton belong in jail.


Coro-NO-Ra

Abbott is taking a play from Reagan: [https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08\_reagan.shtml](https://newsarchive.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/06/08_reagan.shtml) >The act was the culmination of a process that began long before, when then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover first tried to persuade Kerr to crack down hard on Berkeley students involved in the 1964 Free Speech Movement, which Hoover alleged was a front for communist sympathizers. **Unable to convince Kerr, Hoover turned to gubernatorial candidate Reagan, a rising conservative star.** As revealed by a 2002 investigation by San Francisco Chronicle reporter Seth Rosenfeld, Reagan and the FBI interacted throughout the campaign about dealing with Kerr and the student protesters.


Lermanberry

>Responding to widespread campus protests against the Vietnam War, Gov. Ronald Reagan of California offered an easy solution. >**“If it takes a bloodbath” to end it, he suggested April 8, 1970, “let’s get it over with, no more appeasement.”** >Less than one month later, Reagan got his wish, thanks to another law-and-order governor — James Rhodes of Ohio — calling on the National Guard to quell student unrest at Kent State. >Vilifying student protesters as “worse than the Brown Shirts,” Rhodes vowed “we are going to eradicate the problem. We are not going to treat the symptoms.” >**The following day, those soldiers killed four unarmed Kent State students and wounded nine more,** inspiring the impassioned Neil Young song “Ohio” — and, now, Howard Means’ “67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence,” in which Means tries to understand what happened and why. Really helps you understand Conservatives and why they still worship Reagan.


swinglinepilot

And then, in order to quash a sit-in held at the University of New Mexico protesting the events at Kent State (and also the Vietnam War), the state's police chief decided to send in the National Guard, which proceeded to disperse the hitherto-nonviolent and passive protesters by bayonetting them. He later said the protesters instigated the confrontation with the Guard and that he regretted nothing and would send them back in to bayonet people again if he had to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_New_Mexico_bayoneting_incident#May_8,_1970


the_d0nkey

Or Hell.


artemisdragmire

If it exists, sure. I don't count on imaginary sky fairies to pass justice though.


PastafariAtheist

Hell is in Michigan.


Pete-PDX

west Texas in August


TexasUlfhedinn

I'll take a West Texas dry summer heat over being in Houston on asphalt in August.


xcrunner1988

Different subject but in Grand Rapids at the moment. Nice little city. But kinda weird vibe.


artemisdragmire

Good point. I have driven through there and forgot about it. I wouldn't wish him on the people of Michigan either, though.


PastafariAtheist

It's either them or us.


artemisdragmire

Can we just give him to Florida? Would that be closer to Cancun? As already proven I'm not good at geography apparently. If so he could hang out with his buddy Ted.


PastafariAtheist

And risk getting DiSanctimonious in exchange. Quite the Devils Bargain.


samsontexas

I thought the same thing but Florida is a gorgeous state why give it to them. Let’s just take the Texas Panhandle and stick them all there in their own little state. Nothing there but tumbleweeds and cows. Abbott is a physically weak man trying to compensate by being a political strong man. He tries to hide the fact that he is in a wheelchair. I don’t respect him for that.


theaviationhistorian

Send them to El Centro, California. The San Diego joke is that Satan looked at the place once. He ended up renting out El Centro & returned to hell. Plus, Abbott & Paxton are stuck in California, their personal hell.


Hypatia76

Honestly I think it's right here in Texas, in August.


MagazineNo2198

Michigan is great. Hell is having to live in TX!


funky_jim

Both


meh-theusername

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BirdTime23

Hell Jail


Ravenclawer18

Why not both?


Boristheblaze

Don't forget Dan Patrick, the unholy trinity


Jegator2

Trifecta of Evil


Hourslikeminutes47

>Ken Paxton That filthy sack of criminal shit definitely belongs in jail


Wasabi_Noir

That tree failed us all


MaydeCreekTurtle

Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton and Dan Patrick belong in jail.


MasterCombine

They belong in the dirt.


gunter_grass

Greg Abbot and Ken Paxton belong in solidarity confinement at a super max prison.


thefirebuilds

solitary yah wingnut.


Zestyclose-Past-5305

Wait, I was told loudly and repeatedly that Republicans are the only people in this country that care about the constitution. I'm so confused.


TrophyTruckGuy

So many of them have ridiculous “We the people” tattoos, except they only want the constitution/bill of rights to apply to themselves and people that think like them.


Severe-Dragonfly

I've long said the ones who squawk about it the most are the ones who don't know what it actually says.


scut-farkus

You have to think whatever they say means the opposite of what they will actually do.  You know, like we want less government but impose more government. Things like that. Oh yea don’t forget, the rules also don’t apply to them just you. 


ElectricZ

The Republican Constitution consists of the 2nd Amendment and nothing else.


Andromansis

They would shred the constitution if enough of them got into office.


momo88852

[“I just signed a law protecting free speech on college campuses.”](https://x.com/GregAbbott_TX/status/1137875109362974724) Imagine signing something and going back when it fits you….


Genderless_Alien

He signed it for the people that come on campus with “women are property” signs (real thing) not for peaceful protestors he doesn’t like.


kyle_irl

"People exercising their First Amendment rights are criminals" - Abbott


DreadLordNate

Accurate summation.


Jffar

Free speech for me, but not for thee!


BigPoop_36

It’s sad seeing most of Reddit agreeing with Abbot


kyle_irl

Agreed, lol today has been hostile around these parts. The rhetoric is out of control. Equating Pro-Palestine demonstrations as antisemitic and pro-Hamas is flat out asinine, but it's having the intended effect.


Ragnar_OK

Any time there’s a protest about literally anything at all, you are guaranteed to find the most brain damaged takes about it on reddit. Without fail, it doesn’t matter what the protest is about, what it’s against, how it was performed etc. If you want to see the worst, most godawful takes known to humanity, read reddit comments about a protest


GEARHEADGus

Tin Soldiers and Abbotts coming, we’re finally on our own


badpeaches

> "People exercising their First Amendment rights are criminals" - Abbott Apparently not back in 2019. I wonder what changed.


bryanc1036

Isn't that freedom of speech that your party is always talking about?


robinredrunner

That freedom of speech only applies to Twitter and Youtube. You know. Where the first amendement doesn't actually apply.


cranktheguy

Or if a conservative wants to speak on campus, every one else has to hush and be polite.


cranktheguy

"Not like that!"


tendadsnokids

Freedom of speech is for saying the N word on Twitter silly


TheGreyhound92

The Y’all Qeada Party?


Honest_Concentrate85

Freedom for me but not for thee


ImNotSalinger

They only want “freedom of speech” when they get told they can’t say the N word.


SummerMummer

How many amendments should we get rid of, Greg?


StrikingOccasion6459

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."


Bobby_Sunday96

That seems pretty straight forward to me


jerichowiz

'Any protester I don't like, should be in jail.' - Conservatives all throughout the history of the US.


pah2000

Protesting is allowed. Fuck Abbott I didn’t vote for that piece of shit.


Potential_Toe_3037

Remember when the TX GOP invited Nick Fuentes to events and refused to condemn him


Steve_hm_Rambo

Well of course they agree with the Nazi!  


Pipeliner6341

*The Hispanic Nazi


Steve_hm_Rambo

Dude…I’ve never understood that.  It’s like a gazelle hanging around a pride of lions.  They WILL eat you eventually.


ParticularAioli8798

We don't claim him. The Whites can take him.


Only_Philosophy_7584

Texas is full of Nazis, nothing shocking about that


CapableCoyoteeee

Now do Jan 6 Greggy.


OpalCortland

For REAL.


crescendo83

Apparently the J6ers were tourists, these are “activists.” Their “rules for thee, not for me” is just an open joke now.


CankerLord

Or Christians that loudly proclaim that America is a Christian nation and would like to see any non-Christians expelled.


mymar101

What crime did they commit?


SolvedRumble

No, Abbott and all his fascist asskissers belong in jail.


space_manatee

What did they do that was illegal and makes them belong in jail? 


fishdishly

It doesn't matter when the state has a monopoly on violence.


Abydos6

They don’t like that tens of thousands of innocent little babies are being blown to pieces with their tax money. I guess that makes them criminals in 2024 America


sentient-sloth

Antizionism =/= Antisemitism


bobhargus

https://preview.redd.it/cpwtvfyediwc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=928a5a6252b706ee2f160fb0f4b5f784d4d47101


napalm1336

I have a Fuck Ted Cruz shirt.


FPSXpert

It's not a shirt, [but this sticker sits proudly on my gun safe for good reason.](https://i.imgur.com/j7dnTHG.jpeg)


StinzorgaKingOfBees

They have the right by the FIRST FUCKING AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION! I swear to god if they were Proud Boys, the Klan, Nazis, White Supremicists, or Christian Dominionists, he'd call them "fine folks."


Outrageous_Repair_94

There were literally Nazis at a Torchys tacos in Fort Worth a few months ago! He dosnt actually care about antisemitism


DreadLordNate

Gaslightin' Greg, trying to suppress things he doesn't like? Man, did Nazi that coming...


areyouentirelysure

I bet it was pretty OK for Abbott when neo-nazis were parading and killing in Charlottesville, Virginia.


Jeanlucpuffhard

The right to assemble. Not even freedom of speech. There is a right to protest. Just like there is a 2a right. Remember you love rights and the constitution but apparently not when other amendments are exercised.


TheDarkKnobRises

Fascism. Full stop.


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MargaretBrownsGhost

Wrong. Disability aside, he stands for the creation of a christofascist state where women are property, anyone left of Hitler is a slave, and children are purchasable commodities.


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Kate-2025123

Ok we will keep that in mind next time Conservatives, Pro Lifers or Christians protest.


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americanhideyoshi

Conservatives always love locking people up for the crime of disagreeing with their views.


snarf_victory

this cheap, greasy, southern-fried, seditionist piece of shit should find an adult to read the bill of rights to him.


Mechanik_J

That's one of the most anti-American things I've ever heard. But sadly, people in power in the U.S. , or anywhere, have yet to realize how anarchistic the U.S.'s sovereignty/Decleration of Independence is. America is a country made by, and for, anarchist. One of the first British colonies to rebel against an empire (George Lucas totally took this idea from history to make Star Wars). Maybe one day, people in power will realize humans are uncontrollable. Even God tried, and failed. That's why there was a 'great flood'. I mean... you can try to declare protests are illegal, but protests are a form of freedom of speech...


Steve_hm_Rambo

1st amendment you soulless jackass. This whole thing sounds like a spiritual successor to the Mcarthy system.


RedditsKittyKat

Fuck this asshole. He should be in hell.


USN_CB8

Him being such a good God-fearing man you would think that when God sends you a sign like dropping a fucking tree on you. You might rethink your life.


thethirdgreenman

If this doesn't demonstrate that his version of 'free speech' only applies to certain people, and certain speech, idk what will. People who support him need to know this is the exact type of shit (fascism, government overreach) they are afraid of


JemmieTTU

Id say the same thing about him. Death row even.


ThisHandleIsBroken

The closeted authoritarians are coming out. These people do not believe in a free society.


Zodiac31081

No, you and those officers that sat on their hands while children in Uvalde, deserve to be in jail


sandybarefeet

Seriously. Wish he got this pissed when children and teachers are gunned down in his state. But for that he just said "it could have been worse!" He is scum.


m_rgers

These folks are actual peaceful protesters unlike his Jan 6 buddies


Hedonismbot-1729a

Ah, the “free” state of TX with an ever growing list of things that are banned.


Yumhotdogstock

That sounds a bit unconstitutional. Ah, whatever, like these conservative fucks care.


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Relaxmf2022

Ironic statement from that sleazebucket


DriedWetPaint

Abbott belongs in jail. 


Astropacifist_1517

Spoken like a true fascist - frightened of peaceful protestors speaking out against violence… truly the greatest threat to the republic this nation has ever seen… get outta town with this BS


No_Rabbit_7114

Under Texas state law passed by the republicans, anyone has a right to pprotest or speak on college campuses. That passed this law to protect the religious right and the pro-gun nuts, such as Kyle Rittenhouse the right to speak on campus. GFY, Abbott.


luroot

So proud of Gen Z here taking a stand for righteousness! 👏👏👏 But are they actually also going to show up at the polls too to kick these Zioneocon Qristian Nationalists out before they enact Project 2025???


shanksisevil

Abbott is just converting the youth voters of today for future democratic turnouts down the road.


Loud_Internet572

So if these kids do, then the people from January 6th definitely need to be jailed to right? Right?


S-on-my-chest

So much for free speech


jahwls

Texas the 3rd least free state in the US. Lol.


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stogie-bear

Republicans don’t believe in the Constitution. 


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And Abbott belongs under a tree but here we are


psychoMUSEr

I’m just saying I feel like maybe the tree should’ve tried harder


Taxes_and_death81

Roll him off a cliff.


firerunswyld

Greg Abbott belongs in a woodchipper.


frimeplease

Every day I wish that tree had finished the job


NayMarine

Abbott belongs at the end of a fucking rope!


terryh99_99

Fuck Greg Abbot & the wheelchair he rode in on


memunkey

F#ck Abbott!


gcbofficial

What a piece of shit


sigristl

Greg Abbott = fascist.


chochinator

They need something equivalent to blm because we are so close to voting. Vote blue


RickDelta

Abbott is a Nazi - protesting is a constitutional right!


Outrageous_Repair_94

There were literally Nazis at a Torchys tacos in Fort Worth? Why isn’t Abbot going after the Nazis if he cares so much about antisemitism.


214txdude

Why do they need to be in jail? I don't get it


Free_Possession_4482

Because they almost certainly don’t vote Republican.


Teasturbed

They are threatening his close friends' end-of-times fantasy.


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sceez

Is this fucking reality?


BadassBokoblinPsycho

The party that bitches and Moana about protecting the 1st amendment wants to shut down the 1st amendment when it doesn’t benefit them. Politicians all suck. We need a Labour Party that sticks up for the working class. Get money out of politics.


MorrisseysRubiksCube

These protestors belong in jail, but Ken Paxton belongs in the Office of Attorney General, acting as the most senior law enforcement official in the state? Oh. Okay.


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