Texas Guardsmen watched as a woman and two children drowned. what in the actual fuck

I’m pretty sure that trying to overthrow your own government is a far more serious crime than wading across a river

the states’ rights crowd has an awesome new right that they’re super fucking proud of: the right of the state to prevent anyone from helping as a woman and two small children drown.

Texas “physically barred” Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned, federal officials say

A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday while trying to enter the U.S. near a section of the southern border where Texas National Guard soldiers have prevented federal Border Patrol agents from processing and rescuing migrants.

wait, what? are you telling me that Greg Abbott’s border goons prevented the federal government from saving the lives of three human beings?

they “physically barred” them?

step aside, there are people drowning here.
no. fuck you. I work for Greg Abbott.

what in the utter heartless fuck is this bullshit?

Federal officials and a Texas congressman said National Guard soldiers deployed by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not allow Border Patrol agents to attempt to rescue the migrants. Earlier this week, Texas National Guard soldiers abruptly seized control of a public park in Eagle Pass that Border Patrol had been using to hold migrants, marking the latest escalation in an intensifying political and legal feud between Abbott and President Biden over U.S. border policy.

“abruptly seized control”?

is Greg Abbott a governor, or a tribal warlord? is Texas now Somalia?

on social media, the worst people in the world roared with delight. THEY BROKE THE LAW, they screamed, as if that were all the justification needed for treating migrants as if their lives have no value.

fuck straight off.

the last time I looked, crossing the border was not a capital crime.

in another era, these shitheads would be passing the popcorn at a lynching.

and smiling. no, seriously.

hey, you know who else has been BREAKING THE LAW?

I know of a certain classified document thief and insurrectionist who has been BREAKING THE FUCKING LAW LEFT AND RIGHT. where are your bloodthirsty calls for justice?

maybe it’s just me, but I’m pretty sure that trying to overthrow your own government is a far more serious crime than wading across a river — and yet Donald Trump and his deranged crowd of violent cultists insist that no one has ever been treated more unfairly than he.

are you fucking kidding me?

this woman — we don’t even know her name. will we ever? — was she allowed to hand-pick her own fangirl judge to derail her classified document theft trial?

was she allowed to continually violate her bail agreements and gag orders? did she spend hours a day on her crappy failing app, goading her unhinged worshipers into threatening and harassing judges and prosecutors?

was she allowed just this week to break every rule of courtroom procedure and stand up and pitch a twenty-megaton shit-fit, insulting the judge right to his face? any ordinary citizen would have had a bailiff dragging them away in handcuffs for pulling that crap.

was this woman given the freedom to fly around the country and hold hate rallies and con gullible rubes into handing over their wallets?

I can’t remember any of those things happening. what I do remember is that she was allowed to drown, and the people trying to help her were phyically barred from doing so.

so please spare me your whiny bullshit about how unfairly Donald Trump has been treated.

go ahead, give all your money to your fucked-up fake-billionaire god-emperor so he can pay his legal bills.

look at this befuddled old fuck. he doesn’t need your money. he needs a nurse to guide him back to his bed at the assisted living facility — no, screw that, he needs to be in prison.

I have no fucking clue where we’re headed as a country.

all I know is that Little Donny Shitstain is resting comfortably today in a five-star hotel in Iowa, while a nameless woman and two children are lying in a freezer in a morgue.

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