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Tickle

(2,521 posts)
Fri Apr 22, 2022, 12:54 PM Apr 2022

Texas National Guard soldier drowns while trying to rescue migrants

This was invadable that there would be an accident eventually.

A Texas National Guard soldier drowned while trying to rescue migrants in a river on the state’s border with Mexico, multiple sources told Fox News on Friday.

The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) confirmed the incident at Eagle Pass and said a body had been found.

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UTUSN

(70,700 posts)
1. Will ABBUTT attend the funeral, honor him in any way?
Fri Apr 22, 2022, 01:17 PM
Apr 2022

Or does ABBUTT consider him disqualified because of trying to rescue instead of drowning the immigrants?

What about compensation for the deceased's family? Along the lines of how ABBUTT, when a college student jogging got a rotted tree fall on him, paralyzing him, for which he got some $15M (?) by suing the landscape company and property owner? And when he became active politically, one of his earliest projects was to get a CAP of $250G put on suits by others like his - like how, ever since he has focused on shutting down any safety net things, like federal Medicaid funds, for disadvantaged people.






Tickle

(2,521 posts)
3. I don't know if abbutt will go to his funeral or not
Fri Apr 22, 2022, 01:29 PM
Apr 2022

as for his compensation package I assume that was documented when he started working for the guard.

I have to ask, who cares whether abbutt goes to his funeral or not?

UTUSN

(70,700 posts)
6. It's about ABBUTT taking responsibility for his boondoggle of militarizing government policy.
Fri Apr 22, 2022, 01:36 PM
Apr 2022

The Guard was put at the border because of ABBUTT. And ABBUTT is *cruel,* shown by all his initiatives that denigrate the least advantaged, and the soldier was acting humanely, which is contrary to anything ABBUTT stands for.

I shouldn't have butted into your thread.






ripcord

(5,404 posts)
5. He will go to the funeral
Fri Apr 22, 2022, 01:31 PM
Apr 2022

And at the press conference after he will blame the death on Biden, the democrats and immigration.

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