# Screw Greg Abbott {Texas Governor} **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 2, 2021, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141 "2021-03-02T21:00:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/202 "2021-08-17T22:41:48Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > I wonder how many people will have to self-isolate because of close contact with Abbott? Chances are it was some other less-vaccinated bloke, not Abbott, who brought Covid to the event and shared it around. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/203 "2021-08-17T23:03:20Z")
> [@filmore](#): > > There’s a lot of people at that event. I hope the press or someone does contact tracing to see how those people do over the next couple of weeks. I wonder how many people will have to self-isolate because of close contact with Abbott? He must meet with a lot of people on a regular basis. Unvaccinated people who’ll get a big ass bill for their Regeneron treatment if they even get one. > [@ThelmaLou](#): > > My good friend’s 80-year old dad is in a nursing home with covid. He’s vaccinated but he has symptoms-- fever, chest congestion, cough. Who do ya have to know to get treated? I worried about that so much with my Mom, we held off putting her in a memory care until it was too late provide any decent stimulation. Thanks Covid. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jungian_camisole1/32/3646_2.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/204 "2021-08-17T23:45:59Z")
> [@Tfletch1](#): > > It’s weird that he’s receiving Regeneron monoclonal antibody treatment. Yep. He gets the treatment, and the rest of us can have the mortuary trucks. Ain’t Texas grand?! ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/205 "2021-08-17T23:55:58Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Who do ya have to know to get treated? Benjamin Franklin. _Really_ well. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/206 "2021-08-18T01:47:18Z")
Yeeehaw!! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/207 "2021-08-18T02:07:07Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > Greg Abbott has tested positive for COVID. I sincerely hope he makes a full recovery, … I hope he gets good and sick, and dies really soon. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/208 "2021-08-18T02:23:41Z")
Hardly seems fair after all he’s done for the virus. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/209 "2021-08-18T04:38:57Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I hope he gets good and sick, and dies really soon. Indeed. Fuck that worthless shit Greg Abbott. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/210 "2021-08-18T04:44:08Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I hope he gets good and sick, and dies really soon. I’d say that’s cruel and hateful, except that if he died and his death was an effective cautionary tale that led other people to take proper precautions and actually listen to authoritative medical advice, then it would be a small sacrifice in the scheme of things. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/211 "2021-08-18T04:50:04Z")
The trouble is, whether he lives or dies, the outcome will be the same. Some combination of: (a) Vaccinations don’t work! (b) COVID isn’t that bad! It will be (a) alone if he dies. (a) and (b) if he lives. Either way, the only real solution is MORE GUNS\*. \*ETA: Let me clear that up. I don’t mean to advocate for armed revolt. Rather, I mean to parody a similar catch-22 with Republicans and guns. Lots of crime? We need more guns so people can defend themselves. Very little crime? Clearly all these guns are working and so we can have more of them (or gun control just never comes up as an issue to be considered with such little crime, either way). ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/212 "2021-08-18T12:37:32Z")
Abbott dying for the cause of covid awareness is a price I’m willing to pay. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/213 "2021-08-18T12:49:05Z")
Remember who’s waiting in the wings. If Abbott dies, Dan Patrick becomes governor. Bad as Abbott is, I suspect Patrick could be even worse. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/214 "2021-08-18T13:41:36Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > Either way, the only real solution is MORE GUNS\*. This made me laugh right out loud in the waiting room at the car place where I’m getting my tires rotated. 🤣 But of course you are correct. More guns are the solution to everything. The _nec plus ultra_, the alpha and the omega, and any other foreign or domestic expression you can come up with. We will not be safe until every man, woman, child, fetus, dog, cat, and all inclusive and exclusive genders are armed with guns. And this includes the armless. > [@Morgyn](#): > > Remember who’s waiting in the wings. If Abbott dies, Dan Patrick becomes governor. Bad as Abbott is, I suspect Patrick could be even worse. That’s a toughie… Better the devil you know? I don’t know. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/215 "2021-08-18T13:52:10Z")
The number of deaths that can be already be linked to him, plus the others that are coming - many that are children, make it really hard to feel any sympathy. Especially when I look at the fact that he’s getting the Regeneron treatment. I don’t wish his death, but long COVID might be instructive. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/216 "2021-08-18T14:06:44Z")
It’ll probably turn out like this- he’ll go to Maralargo, kiss the holy ring, and not only get cured from covid he’ll walk away from his wheelchair. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/217 "2021-08-18T14:29:51Z")
Suspect? That’s a virtual certainty. Abbott has historically been a moderate Republican, and in fact has pretty much been that until this spring, when Don Huffines and Allen West announced they were running for Governor as Republicans, with rhetoric that Abbott wasn’t a _real_ Republican (yes, there are billboards out in the sticks for Huffines that say that), or that he’s too moderate for Texas. So Abbott has apparently gone screaming to the right in hopes of staving off those primary challengers. His recent actions w.r.t. masks and COVID are **more** reprehensible to me as a result. I’d give him a tiny bit of grace if he were a true believer and believed his own bullshit. But this is _ **entirely** _ a political move intended to shore up his right-wing credentials in the eyes of the voters who vote in the Texas GOP primaries. It’s _ **entirely** _ self-serving and mercenary. At the expense of the larger population of the state outside of the GOP primary voters. Patrick has been a dickbag since day 1. Which in one sense is refreshing, in that he hasn’t changed his tune or toned his assholishness up or down, unlike the majority of politicians. On the other hand, it would mean that as Governor, we’d get more governance like “primary-challenge Abbott”, not 2019 mostly sane Abbott. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/218 "2021-08-18T14:32:58Z")
The problem is, Abbott was fully vaccinated and **still** got sick. This throws a dangerous wrench in the pro-vaccine message. Anti-vaxxers are going to fully latch on to this as “See, vaccines don’t work!” I’m already seeing this spin by some conservatives on Reddit. Had Abbott been defiantly unvaccinated, and got sick, that would be a quite different thing. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/219 "2021-08-18T14:39:16Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > That’s a toughie… Better the devil you know? I don’t know. It’s not tough at all. We know both devils. Patrick is worse. And even if he goes down, we’ve got nearly as bad cretins behind him in the President Pro Tempore of the Texas Senate, the Speaker of the House, and then AG Paxton (probably the worst of all of them). Abbott is probably the best of the lot, and that doesn’t say much for Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Tfletch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tfletch1/32/5340_2.png) [@Tfletch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tfletch1)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/220 "2021-08-18T14:44:44Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > The problem is, Abbott was fully vaccinated and **still** got sick. This throws a dangerous wrench in the pro-vaccine message. Anti-vaxxers are going to fully latch on to this as “See, vaccines don’t work!” I’m already seeing this spin by some conservatives on Reddit. As far as we know, he is asymptomatic and was positive on his daily screen. So that means the Regeneron is being used as a prophylactic therapy. That’s the creepy part. So he just gets monoclonal antibodies that other people don’t get just in case or he really is showing symptoms and is lying about it. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141/221 "2021-08-18T14:50:36Z")
He absolutely is. Birdwell, Phelan and Paxton are all pretty bad, with Phelan being probably the best of the lot, not being an evangelical Christian (he’s Catholic). Still pretty conservative, but not religiously motivated (Birdwell) and not an absolute smarmy crook (Paxton). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/screw-greg-abbott-texas-governor/934141.md?page=12)