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Greg Abbott has never been about state rights. He's a contrarian for the sake of being "different". Broken dip shit has no idea how to be a decent person anymore.
Yeah, there is a common misconception that conservatism is about "small government" and "States rights."
In reality, these reactionaries will use any kind of bad-faith argument, distraction, distortion, or outright lie to consolidate power for their white-supremacist christofascist project.
Their only true principle is that they can tell other people what to do and how to live. The purpose of every single policy and process that they push is to defend and entrench the hierarchy from which they benefit.
Yep. It's always been about their perverted notion of "liberty", meaning, the Southern kind.
They never care about "states rights" they value it when its useful to enforce their agenda and don't care for it when it interferes just like the southern states hated states not cooperating with "slave catchers".
"States' rights" is a bullshit argument and always has been a bullshit argument
Wouldn't it be nice if we only owed taxes when the party in power is the same as ours? We could call it "partisan taxpaying".
Abbott’s arguments then and actions now are an example of what Jessica Bulman-Pozen, a constitutional law professor at Columbia University, calls partisan federalism, a term describing how state leaders’ fervor for defending their sovereignty increasingly depends on whether their party is in power in Washington. She said Abbott’s support of the guard deployments is particularly alarming because it diminishes the traditional power of governors to manage law enforcement in their states.
The conservatives and the Republicans have always been full of shit in every key talking point they ever used. They only care about "states rights" when it comes to stripping away human rights.
They don't give a shit about liberty or the Constitution, either.
While Trump is blowing bubba…Abbott is blowing Trump.
Lol
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2025
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