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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has told a right-wing radio host that there’s only one tool the state isn’t using to stop migrants from crossing the border into Texas: gun violence, because it would prompt a response from the pesky federal government.

“The only thing that we are not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border—because, of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder,” the Republican governor told former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch on her radio show last week.

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[-] coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works 186 points 11 months ago

Yeah that's because it's murder...

[-] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 138 points 11 months ago

Biden isn't a law enforcement official. He's not a DA. He's not a police officer. He doesn't have the ability to have you arrested. I suspect Abbott knows this, but his constituents are too fucking stupid to understand the difference.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Biden is human though, which apparently disqualifies him from the Republican Party

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[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 84 points 11 months ago

"I'd totally murder people, but that evil federal government would lock me up for murder? Can you believe the audacity?!!! I really want to murder these people, but they won't let me. Total government overreach! Whatever happened to states' rights?"

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 63 points 11 months ago

Stupid Biden... enforcing the... checks notes ...Seventh Commandment.

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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 58 points 11 months ago

Just when I think Texas can’t be any more of an embarrassment than it already is a Texas Republican opens their mouth again.

[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 11 points 11 months ago

As a Texan, I hope Ken pushes Abbot off a cliff and dives down after.

[-] 108@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

Isn’t there something in the Bible about not murdering?

[-] PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Only if they're not Christian, American-born, white, and right-leaning - other than that, the Bible states it's "open season". /s, just in case

Edit: I can't tell my left hand from my right hand. They're hands, please pardon me for my confusion.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Plus darker skin don’t count. Everyone in the Bible is pure white so those with darker skin aren’t saved

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[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

Isn’t there something in the Bible about not murdering?

They must be working to toss that rule in with the "wearing mixed fabrics in one garment" garbage bin.

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[-] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 40 points 11 months ago

As fucked as it is, I hope someone pushes this fuck off his wheelchair.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

“Let me tell you something else. I've seen a lot of spinals, Dude, and this guy is a fake. A fucking goldbricker. This guy fucking walks.”

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[-] Rhaedas@kbin.social 19 points 11 months ago

Just an accidental brake malfunction. A Mac and Me moment.

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[-] pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online 9 points 11 months ago

Over a cliff.

It's not fucked. Abbot is an unapologetic monster and a threat to all Texans. I hope he dies in a slow, horrible fashion. Ken Paxton too.

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[-] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 39 points 11 months ago

Uh chaps, are you aware that your country is derailing faster than a train with toxic shit in Ohio?

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[-] sik0fewl@kbin.social 36 points 11 months ago

I thought the Bible was the only thing keeping Texans from killing people, but apparently it’s Joe Biden.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

From now on this is going to be my response if a Christian asks me what’s preventing my atheist self from doing all the murdering I want.

“That pesky Joe Biden.”

[-] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 36 points 11 months ago
[-] Hegar@kbin.social 29 points 11 months ago

It's much worse than that - he's accurately assessed what his voters want to hear.

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[-] Infinity187@lemm.ee 35 points 11 months ago

I'd shoot Abbott if I could, but it's immoral, and I'd get charged with murder, so I won't.

Is that how that goes? We can say that as long as we admit we won't do it because of the repercussions? Oh wait, this racist white racist trash is just pissed at the repercussions and not the immorality of the act. Fuck this peg leg piece of shit.

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

Imagine if mexico started mowing down americans travelling across the border. Or canada shooting americans at the border

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

So he's saying that Biden cares about the Constitution and assholes like Abbott do not?

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago
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[-] TheJims@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago

Will Christian Conservative Republicans like Abbott ever recognize that killing goes against their Gods Commandments? It seems these bloodthirsty degenerates conveniently overlook it.

[-] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 19 points 11 months ago

They twist the bible into what fits their agenda and ignore everything that doesn't. They are not good people.

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[-] ferralcat@monyet.cc 25 points 11 months ago

These people will literally apply the death penalty for jaywalkers as long as the jaywalker is "them* (i.e. non white l, male, or just someone they slightly disagree with) and then scream online about how theyre protected from censorship by the first amendment.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

It's so Christian to want to do that to poor people but to not do it to prevent legal trouble. Like Jesus said once in almost every page of that playbook...speed holes!

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

WWJS: Who would Jesus shoot

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Greg Abbott. Or rather he'd throw an oak tree at him.

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[-] tree@lemmy.zip 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

c/NotTheOnion

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

Yes, because that IS murder.

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[-] Vaginal_blood_fart@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Shit states gonna shit state

[-] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

What about just shooting nazi's instead of migrants? Are we allowed to do that? What about nazi's in wheelchairs? It's not murder if it's not human, right?

Conservatives don't see normal people as humans, but boy do they hate it when that dehumanization is applied to them.

[-] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago

the Republican governor told former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch on her radio show last week

Both trash people.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Right, because I wasn’t already aware that republicans are worthless shitbags.

[-] RedAggroBest@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Greg Abbott is the only cripple I'd gladly push out of their wheelchair in Phoenix and watch them suffer.

[-] badbytes@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Why morons get leadership positions. A lot to digest

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

“And we’d be murdering these folks but the radicals in government consider murdering people who have the right to do this to be murder”

And yes people who believe they qualify for refugee status have the legal right to illegally cross borders in an attempt to enter a safe country.

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

is it just me or is ol' greg the spitting image of Hans here

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