Greg Abbott- A Lousy Christian And An Even Worse Human Being
What would Jesus Do? He'd kick the Texas Governor's sorry inhumane ass.
A more remarkable display of American Taliban hypocrisy has seldom been seen.
If any American doubted that Texas Governor Greg Abbott was a Gold Star, 24-karat, top-shelf, first-class, Grade-A, USDA Prime asshole, what he did on Christmas Eve should have disabused anyone of that doubt.
On a bitterly cold Christmas Eve, Abbott staged his latest political stunt. A busload of migrants, which had traveled two days from Texas, was unloaded near Vice President Kamala Harris’ residence in Washington, DC. The passengers, including children, were discharged into temperatures reaching 14 degrees. Unfortunately, many on board didn’t have winter clothing and were unprepared for below-freezing conditions.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has drawn intense criticism on social media on Sunday following his latest alleged migrant busing stunt, which saw people, including kids, shipped to the freezing cold Washington, D.C., on Christmas Eve….
In the late hours of Christmas Eve, another busload of migrants arrived in Washington, D.C., near the residence of Vice President Kamala Harris. According to CNN reporter Noah Gray, the people onboard claimed to have traveled for two days from Texas. The weather in D.C. that night was well below freezing at 14 degrees Fahrenheit, with a strong wind chill making temperatures even more dangerous….
"Governor Abbott claims to be a 'pro-life Christian' yet shows no regard for the lives of children left shivering in the freezing cold on Christmas Eve," Ritchie Torres, a Democrat congressman from New York, wrote in a tweet. "Dropping off migrants in 18 degree weather is so cruel that it ought to be criminal."
Then, just a few hours later, on Christmas morning, Abbott’s office tweeted out a Christmas greeting, including a Bible verse to emphasize the Governor’s strong Christian faith.
Except Christians don’t dump migrants into 14-degree temperatures as a political stunt. The Christmas Eve migrant dump wasn’t the first time Abbott has pulled this stunt; if memory serves, it was his sixth. He’s also sent buses to other cities with Democratic mayors.
Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress continue to resist immigration reform, even as they have no problem blaming the problem on our southern border on President Biden. I don’t remember Donald Trump making a particularly strong effort to fix immigration, even when Republicans had majorities in the House and Senate.
No, it’s easier to demonize President Biden than to work on finding a solution. And it’s WAY more entertaining to pull politically theatrical stunts like sending buses full of migrants to Democratic strongholds or the VP’s residence. That shows real class, eh?
No, it just shows how thin the line between “class” and “ass” can be.
It would be hard to argue with the undeniable cruelty of dropping migrants off in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas Eve. But, with inadequate protection from the elements and no place to go, Gov. Abbott is creating more suffering when it will do nothing to solve the problem he thinks he’s identified.
No Christian and no decent human being would do what Greg Abbott did. That he calls himself a Christian is evidence of an almost unimaginable degree of hypocrisy. No Christian worthy of the name would use other human beings to score political points, yet that’s precisely what Abbott did.
As a result of this latest busing effort so close to a major holiday, Abbott became the target of fierce condemnation online. Though it is known that the migrants arrived from Texas, it has not yet been confirmed that they were sent specifically by Abbott, though this has been the case in the past. Julián Castro, a Texas Democrat who previously served in former President Barack Obama's Cabinet and ran for president himself in 2020, declared on Twitter on Sunday that Abbott did not deserve to hold office.
Castro’s characterization of Abbott as a “POS” is spot on. Though the office he holds may be worthy of respect, the person holding it is wholly unworthy of even the barest shred. Greg Abbott is a lousy Christian and an even worse human being. Calling him a “POS” seems almost tame.
What continues to amaze me is that Texans re-elected Abbott over Beto O’Rourke. Even after having lived in Texas for ten-plus years (3722 days, not that I was counting), I still fail to understand the refusal of Texans to think outside the box. The old saying that Texans would vote for a ham sandwich if it had an “R” behind its name is more accurate than most outsiders realize. Too many rural Texans reflexively think of Democrats as being in league with Satanists and pedophiles. And there’s no shaking them from that view.
They vote Republican. They’ve always voted Republican, and they’ll continue to vote Republican. And they continue to believe that Donald Trump was actually GOOD for the country.
Perhaps it’s that Texans think of themselves as Christians, and they see Greg Abbott as someone who talks the talk. He sure as Hell doesn’t walk the walk, though. If Greg Abbott is a Christian, I’m Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
I am so sick of these people being given a free pass for their actions. An ordinary citizen who pulled such a stunt would already be arrested. If that citizen was black, they'd already be shot dead.