TX Gov Greg Abbott threatens to shut down trade at the southern border

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

Why are Dems not screaming that there are no "open borders"?

[Skittles]

1. LOL

Abbott needs his big bad issue to impress the cult, he doesn't have Disney the way his nemesis DeSantis does

[Justice matters.]

2. Go thru New Mexico then.

F abbott.

[PortTack]

6. This is by far the best solution. Not to mention it ends ab-butts attention grabbing nonsense

[Igirl]

3. Forget him

Appealing to the lowest

[Budi]

4. Dems have been "screaming" since 2016. ffs.

No one fking hears the Dem's warnings.
Thank god for Mexico President Obrador, that the MEDIA finally ran a piece with HIS condemnation, because they sure aren't running our Dem leader's "screams" & warnings.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216607364


"Despicable". Mexico President Obrador on Gov Abbott's costly border checks.
https://samsung.tribunecontentagency.com/2022/04/19/mexicos-lopez-obrador-says-abbotts-costly-border-checks-that-snarled-traffic-were-despicable/
Mexico’s Lopez Obrador says Abbott’s costly border checks that snarled traffic were ‘despicable
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[alwaysinasnit]

5. I say, encourage him to do it. Call his bluff. I suspect the blowback will knock the MF off his

wheelchair.

[Hortensis]

7. Well, Nevilledog, if it bleeds it leads. Where's the blood in honest and defensive?

Boooring doesn't get noticed.

Suggest new tactic: If it bleeds and inflames, people will rush to notice, click quickly on it, slow down and creep by to watch, and talk and rage about it on social media. How about something like this:

"REPUBLICANS KIDNAPPING AND TRAFFICKING MIGRANT CHILDREN FROM THE BORDER." Inside, you could point out that there are no open borders, but make it noticeable by tying it to claims they're kidnapping children in Mexico and sneaking them across for "grooming" and sale to pederasts (words they've already made into giant bonfires).

Good luck if you try it, but please don't identify it as from a Democrat.

[Nevilledog]

9. I know you're right, but it's maddening.

[Hortensis]

11. Oh, yeah. They have the powers of the dark side.

[Liberal In Texas]

8. Next time he tries this the Feds had better come down on him like a ton of bricks.

This is an international border and is not Abbotts personal toy to play with. Whether or not the border is open is a US Government decision, not the state of Texas.

I know Pres. Biden has been preoccupied with Ukraine, but he should be taking time to put Abbott in his place. And just maybe we can get him booted out and replaced with Beto in Nov.

[lagomorph777]

10. That's a brazen Constitutional violation.

DOJ should bring suit and shut him down.