04.27.2022
ANALYSIS
Reality Check: 7 Times Texas Leaders Misled the Public About Operation Lone Star
As reporters investigated Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s border initiative, they repeatedly found instances where Abbott and DPS officials cited accomplishments that lacked crucial context or were misleading. Here are a few examples.

Not everyone approves of Gov. Greg Abbott's border effort

Spectrum News 1
https://spectrumlocalnews.com › politics › 2023/02/27
Feb 27, 2023 — Critics of Operation Lone Star, which will cost taxpayers $4.6B over the next two years, say the border security effort is wasteful and ...

Opinion: Operation Lone Star is hurting local communities

Austin American-Statesman
https://www.statesman.com › story › guest › 2023/04/09
Apr 9, 2023 — Instead, they are dedicating far too many resources to hunting migrants while the people of my community suffer the consequences of neglect.


OPERATION LONE STAR
“I h**e it here”: National Guard members sound off on Texas border mission in leaked morale survey
Frustration, anxiety and anger prevailed in the survey responses obtained by the The Texas Tribune and Military Times. The survey includes responses from nearly 250 members of Task Force South, one of six units that fall under the umbrella of Operation Lone Star.

“We were rushed down here from our homes and families just to sit around for a month waiting on training [and] equipment (most of which we are still waiting on), without the proper infrastructure to support such a [massive] mobilization,” the airman said.
Other troops resented feeling like a number or a political pawn in Abbott’s 2022 ree******n campaign. Abbott is facing multiple challengers from his right in the Republican primary on March 1 who have criticized him for not being tough enough on the border. Many of the mission’s critics have condemned its scale as a political ploy, despite record migration at the border.
“[Operation Lone Star] cares more about numbers than the impact on individuals and their families,” said one. “It does greater harm to our members than good by putting their families and own lives at risk for an unclear mission.”

Another said they hope other states learn from the mission’s troubles.

“We are disposable in the eyes of top leaders, from the governor on down,” declared the service member. “The leadership failures of this mission will be a case study for military leaders for years to come.”

Why is it a BS trial?
Don’t you believe that anyone that tries to steal an e******n should be punished?

How are you able to convince yourself of a lie with no facts at all? Really, how are you able to do it?

Don't wait too long Donald. Flee to Russia or Saudi Arabia. Maybe North Korea but, don't wait.
Don't call their bluff, they're not bluffing. They have Two and a half years of gathering evidence, your lawyers told you they have the proof, your minions are turning on you in order to stay out of jail. Claiming it's all political is not going to cut it in a court of law. Run you fool!

Who actually tried to steal the e******n? Who's most likely going to go to jail for it?

"Texas: What the Hell?" Feb 24, 2023:
FEB 24, 2023

Periodically, news bubbles up here out of Texas that has even original Texans like me scratching our heads. Thus, I’m starting this new periodic series, “Texas: What the Hell?” to keep up with the absurdity— and keep it in check.

Perhaps you think Texas is a Kingdom of Crazies, with state leaders who are too nutty, too repressive, too self-serving to be allowed out in public unsupervised by sane adults. You are wrong. Our present gaggle of far-out, right-wing officials is much goofier than that.

Meet Carrie Isaac, who won a GOP-gerrymandered state legislative seat last fall. As her priority goal in this legislative session, she has introduced a bill that would ban county officials from putting polling places on university campuses!

It’s not to keep these campus constituents from v****g, she explains. No, no—it’s for their own safety. She cites the horror of mass shooters coming to a campus and murdering young v**ers. Unable to name even one threat of a rampage at any campus v****g location, however, Isaac says her bill is a heroic effort to preempt tragedy by eliminating potential victims of what my possibly happen someday, somewhere. Fear the worst, she screeches.

Besides, says this learned Solon of v**er suppression, students could still v**e—universities could pay to bus students to some off-campus polling place. Yeah, Carrie, surely that would fool mass shooters.

Look out, “Texas Stupid” could soon be spreading to Florida, Wisconsin, Arizona… and your state. How about a requirement that political hucksters have to have an IQ higher than room temperature to be a lawmaker?
Jim Hightower

Little-known fact: A leading cause of death in Texas is Gov. Greg Abbott.
Yes, by intentional actions and deliberate inactions, Abbott has used his gubernatorial policies to k**l thousands of Texans, including: his calculated refusal to extend Medicaid to millions of poor Texans (including nearly a million children)… his intentional denial of water breaks for outdoor workers broiling under this year’s 100-plus-degree heat dome… his lethal deregulation of utilities causing the state power grid to collapse for days in the deep freeze of 2021 with hundreds dying for lack of heat and water… his shameful prioritizing of gun extremism over the lives of school children... and his despicable grandstanding stunts at the Mexican border, k*****g untold hundreds of migrant families by design.

These people are not dying accidentally, but are victims of Abbot’s premeditated policies and political ambition. Consider his silly scheme of throwing $9.5 BILLION of Texas taxpayers’ money into the ditch of his highly-ballyhooed border-security PR show. Grandiosely branded “Operation Lone Star,” it has posed Generalissimo Abbott as a right-wing border hero.

Some hero. He has stretched miles of razor wire underwater in the Rio Grande, slashing the flesh of migrant families and trapping babies and pregnant women in the coils. And Abbott’s state troopers have been commanded to shove exhausted and injured refugees back into the river toward Mexico. As one appalled trooper says: “We have stepped over a line into the inhumane.”

This willful cruelty is immoral, but it’s made ridiculous by the fact that Abbott’s militaristic power play has totally failed to deter migration. After all, these families are fleeing for their lives and future, so he can wrap all of Texas in razor wire, and they will still come… and find a way in.
By: Jim Hightower

"You will know them by their deeds."

Ohio v**ers scored a big e******n victory for women’s rights last week! It was a tricky v**e, too – deceptively couched as a statewide referendum to approve a little technical change in the procedure for approving statewide referendums. How boring.

But Ohioans figured out that it really was a BIG v**e on an underhanded ploy by right-wing Republicans to block the right of women to make their own reproductive decisions. Not boring. So, in a huge turnout, a whopping 57 precent of v**ers said “yes” to women and “NO!” to the tricksters.

Yet the referendum actually did encompass a procedural issue that’s an even bigger political story than the e******n results – namely the GOP’s ongoing attempts to rig e******n rules so it’s extremist minority can “win” without getting a majority of the v**es. Background: A state constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to a******n is already set to be v**ed on this November in Ohio. Right-wing Republican leaders fear that more than half of Ohioans will support that amendment. Thus, last week’s referendum was their desperate attempt to win by losing, specifically by decreeing that – Hocus Pocus! – constitutional initiatives must get 60-percent approval to become law. Yes, a 40-percent minority of v**ers could nullify the majority will of the people.

This gaming of the system by devious Republican officials and far-right extremists has become their core political strategy across the country. It’s actually a deeply embarrassing admission by them – they are conceding that they are now captives of ideological extremism and outright nutballism, making their party so completely out of touch with the American majority that they can’t win honestly. So they’ve become the Anti-Democracy Party, acting as rabid political veterinarians out to “fix” democracy by neutering the power of the people.
By: Jim Hightower

Trump knew that v****g machines in Georgia were breached because it was his team that did it, and the prosecutor of Georgia has the emails that prove it.
Trump charged with almost 80 felonies and counting.

That question and comment actually says more about your ignorance and need to find acceptance from other intellectually inept individuals of your ilk.

If you didn’t post this BS, no one would know how gullible you are.

I would have labeled it “T***h” instead of funny.

By Jim Hightower
Weather forecasters across the Southwest are having a hard time this summer coming up with descriptive taglines for each day’s ever-rising heat. If 105° is “hot”—what to call 110°… and up? Some have quit trying, simply labeling each day: “Again.”

Luckily Joe Biden has issued bold new steps to counter the relentless c*****e c****e that’s causing this extreme, k**ler heat. For example, workers will get “hazard alerts” telling them it’s hot. Also, a new website will urge everyone to stay hydrated. His aides say this shows that Joe is treating c*****e c****e with “the urgency it deserves.”

Excuse me while I have a political heat stroke. Urgency? The same day Biden launched his pathetic g****l w*****g “policy,” the Republican Supreme Court rubber stamped his disastrous push for the massively-polluting Mountain Valley Pipeline. This 300-mile environmental scar across two states will be like adding 26 more coal-fired power plants to our c*****e c****e crisis. Then there’s his unconscionable approval this year of Willow, an oil-drilling project in the Arctic that will release hundreds of millions of tons of additional greenhouse gas emissions. Plus approving and subsidizing dozens of other f****l f**l boondoggles.

Worse, Biden has meekly refused to take the genuinely bold step of declaring a climate emergency, even as he’s pushed new laws to remove the people’s right to challenge corporate profiteering at the expense of climate sanity.

Yes, the Republicans are worse, but pointing that out is neither a policy nor good politics. C*****e c****e is not a future problem, it is NOW… and people are literally feeling it. If Biden wonders why his approval rating is a woeful 39 percent (and even among Democrats, only 20 percent express enthusiasm for him)—there it is. People want and need p**********l boldness, not a hot weather website.

Would be dictators, N**is and criminals. This is todays Republican party.

Utah man suspected of threatening President Joe Biden shot and k**led as FBI served warrant
Associated Press
LINDSAY WHITEHURST AND SAM METZ
August 9, 2023 at 2:47 PM

PROVO, Utah (AP) — An armed Utah man accused of making threats against President Joe Biden was shot and k**led by FBI agents hours before the president was expected to land in the state Wednesday, authorities said.

Special agents were trying to serve a warrant on the home of Craig Deleeuw Robertson in Provo, south of Salt Lake City, when the shooting happened at 6:15 a.m., the FBI said in a statement.

Robertson was armed at the time of the shooting, according to two law enforcement sources who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss details of an ongoing investigation.

Robertson posted online Monday that he had heard Biden was coming to Utah and he was planning to dig out a camouf**ge suit and “clean the dust off the m24 sniper rifle," according to court documents.

In another post, Robertson refers to himself as a “MAGA Trumper," a reference to former President Donald Trump's “Make America Great Again” slogan.