Texas governor: We'd shoot migrants, but Biden "would charge us with murder"
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Greg Abbott made the comments on former NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch's radio show.

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.

  • sugarfree@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t think its an absurd position to defend an international border with force against those who would illegally cross it. Sovereign countries are sovereign.

  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.net
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    10 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.

  • theodewere@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    i guess Joe lives to ruin their notion of fun down in Texas… hunting innocent neighbors in need when they’re at their most vulnerable… what a joyful place Texas must be…

  • sik0fewl@kbin.social
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    10 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
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      10 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.”

  • Infinity187@lemm.ee
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    10 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.

  • ferralcat@monyet.cc
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    10 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.

  • WashedOver@lemmy.ca
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    10 months ago

    Just like the good book said.

    Then they wonder why AI would take us out. Is anyone seeing this sh!t?!?!