Governor Abbott is a Fucking Sadist (UPDATES)

 

Officers working for Gov. Greg Abbott’s border security initiative have been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande and not to give water to asylum seekers even in extreme heat, according to an email from a DPS trooper. https://t.co/6yg2aNt9E2

— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) July 17, 2023

The Republicans in Texas chose this man. He was a fucking sadist when he implied it was wrong to feed migrant children who were in federal care. He's been a sadist.  He's a signifying sadist about the border. He's a signifying sadist about whether workers need water in brutal heat. 

It's not enough for even children or mothers to be drowned, but they should be drowned bleeding from razor wire. He denies migrants in petty ways and in dangerous ways. He's a useless signifying knob, but in unpleasant stupid ways. 

If Texas Republicans have any answer for why this is their Governor that isn't because they love that he's a whole entire piece of psychopathic shit I can hardly imagine it. 

The cruelty looks like the entire point to me. Psychopaths should not be in politics. 

UPDATE: The DOJ is suing Abbott for turning the Rio Grande into a bloody death moat. 

Abbott of course, is being a defiant asshole about it:

Abbott fired back Friday, writing on Twitter that Texas has "sovereign authority" to defend its border. The humanitarian crisis at the border was created because of Biden's refusal to secure the border and by his policies that encourage migrants to risk their lives by crossing illegally through the Rio Grande, Abbott said.

"We will continue to deploy every strategy to protect Texans and Americans – and the migrants risking their lives," he wrote. "We will see you in court, Mr. President."

Just for the record--Biden's policies have caused a drop in border crossings, and every time you see the words "seized" and "detained" WRT the border in a fucking Republican Tweet, you are looking at the results of a border that is being defended. 

But to understand why what Abbott is doing is only for the cruelty, here's a baby being passed through razor wire:

Was the razor-wire supposed to stop people so desperate they faced a 2,000 mile journey in the first place? Was the fear of drowning supposed to stop people when migrants from Africa and the Middle East make a journey and know they could drown in the Mediterranean Sea? Look at that razor wire. This is a normal person's idea of a border. It's like an act of war. 

And the people whose land these barriers are erected on or near don't even see the necessity. Texas is doing this in some cases on private land. And I can't help but think also about what this monstrosity means for local wildlife and even area livestock.

Mr. Abbott; TEAR DOWN THIS FLOATING WALL!