Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened Wednesday to sue the city of Austin and surrounding Travis County after officials there, citing the continued threat of Covid-19, said they would continue to require residents to wear masks even “when outside of their residence.” Aired on 03/11/2021.
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Texas AG Threatens To Austin For Defying Governor’s Mask Mandate Repeal | The ReidOut | MSNBC
All people like Abbott and Paxton have have are threats because they are no more than man-children running around with full diapers. Laughable, but also disgusting.
Better than wearing face diapers all day.
@Ready Set React didn’t know that you wear diapers on your face. I wear a surgeon’s mask. Trolls are ignorant.
And deadly…and deadly….
Abbott and Paxton clearly have a death wish.
@flip phone wizard
Watch more Hannity.
He graduated high school.
Nothing else, though.
Hope it comes true for them. The typhoid marys that wont wear a mask! Jeez people are stupid
@flip phone wizard The reason it spread so much is because of selfish people like you. People can get covid and spread it without having symptoms.
If only they’d confine that wish to themselves rather than murdering thousands of innocent Texans.
“THAT FORMER WHITE HOUSE GUY” Shade at it’s finest! LMAO 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
@Regina Berry lmao 😂 😂 😂
Employees shouldn’t have to be exposed for minimum wage jobs. 🤯🤨😢
@Wally Censorship imagination be provided with the most safe environment possible in their circumstances.
@Wally Censorship exactly, they should be released into the wild to free-range
they can quit
@Wally Censorship what about it, it’s their job.
America seems to be a parody of a developed nation and republicans seem to have the sole goal of maximising said parody
@Andrew so I tell you I live in a border town and I’ve seen things with my own eyes and you’re still going to call me a lier?
And you wonder why no one takes you lifeless shut ins seriously.
@Cthulu I don’t care where you live. You’re saying things that are false. Anecdotal evidence is only evidence of an anecdote and is meaninglessness. You tell blatantly false statements with nothing other than “I live on the border” as evidence. And you wonder why no one takes you fear mongers seriously.
@Andrew explain to me how it’s blatantly false? Cause of what the news says? You have a snapchat? I can snap you the evidence myself, I’m tired of getting called a lier.
@Cthulu because our border patrol reports on the numbers. Because the caravans that did form were verified to have broken up before they even got to Mexico. No, I don’t have snapchat. How did you personally verify the numbers yourself. Did you go and count them all on your own? If you don’t like being called a liar, you might consider not lying. Just a suggestion. Have a nice day troll.
@Andrew Denial can’t save you from reality my man, it’s not that hard tent city is 4 miles from my house and anyone can go see it. I offer you rock solid proof and you deny it and still call me a lier, that’s crazy. Definitely not a troll, but okay.
Austin has good sense, thank God.
Which is why they let homeless people camp on the sidewalks, crap everywhere, and trash businesses.
Make Austin Seattle! Brilliant.
@Rise Again They won’t take it. They won’t follow rules and the do gooders won’t force them to.
If you live in Austin you’ll soon see your city become the next progressive 💩 hole.
Enjoy.
Paxton should be prosecuted for public endangerment and imprisoned.
@tb I can just smell the unathletic ability from you over here
@Ray Bellows THE DEMOCRATS HAPPENED
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? AND WHERE ARE THE FUNDS GOING THAT BIDEN DIVERTED AWAY FROM THE WALL ON DAY 1? 🧐
For a Pro Life party republiklans do want to cause as much death they possibly can manage .
@Ready Set React the masks protect others from your spittle, not protect you from others so it kind of defeats the purpose
@Scott Herberg because he wasn’t instantaneously able to fix Trump’s mess?
Abbott RESIGN!!!
Someone should wheel Abbott into federal prison .
What for? SO HIS REPUBLICAN FASCIST AG PARDONS HIM? Isn’t that what they do? PARDON CRIMINALS LIKE PERRY? Texans are getting what they vote for… SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES
@gennaterra I didn’t vote for him. It’s called gerrymandering by the Republican Party
The blatant ignorance and shamelessness of people like the AG and the governor of Texas is just beyond me.
It’s because they’re completely out of touch and have too much $, which is their catalyst to power, all the while, their half-assed, misguided faith is what drives their ignorance and spread of disinformation in defiance of factual science.
@American God’s but it’s truthful. I checked in on a friend who lives there during the cold spike/power outage and asked him why they kept electing these folks into these positions and he said, they would rather trust the enemy they know, rather than the enemy they don’t know. I just shook my head…
There are millions of us in texas that aren’t insane and have never voted for these tumpy gop bootlicking bozos‼️There are also millions that aren’t safe without the mandates- Our Governor is an ignorant sociopath.
Yes some are ridiculously voting here but some of us know better. Much of the problem is our good-ol-boy system where money buys your seat in government. Plus voting is using an antiquated system that isn’t Dominian and while I suspect there are plenty of back doors into our system; trump saying how much he liked the voting machines in Texas really gave me a new sense of utter revulsion to our system of government here from the bottom up. But open the state up with no masks to a 7% vaccinated population. Covid spikes will be because immigrants. Don’t worry about us ignoring winterizing grid warnings for decades.. look a shiny thing over here. Still following a failed trump
@Joni M.L. You’re safe snowflake. You can come out from under the bed.
“they know exactly what to do”……..yes getting rid of Paxton would be a good start.
Evidently Tx. Doesn’t know what to do. People were freezing to death , Just a few weeks ago. And had no leadership to Lead.
Make him pay 16 billion dollars electric bill in February for Texans
@༒ Di ༒ “You think these…”
It’s not about what anyone “thinks”, the energy companies did not break any contracts or agreements.
Possibly the state or local government could provide some assistance…….but not “because the energy companies”.
Folk signed contracts and were charged on that basis. They weren’t ‘cheated’
@T Electronix I haven’t read their actual contracts so I can’t state what was actually signed. Have you?
@༒ Di ༒ “I haven’t read…”
Didn’t stop you from opining about the big bad companies…..
@T Electronix I do know about caps on prices but the wording varies between companies and that rural areas are sometimes taken over without knowing they are now are now under a variable- rate contract. Also the governor and several lawyers called it out as price gouging. Do you have something that proves what they signed could be held up in court is what I asking.
@༒ Di ༒ : IF the power companies had done the mandatory right thing with their infrastructure and things just fell apart despite this, then perhaps they could say we did the best we could and we need help in the repair phase. They didn’t do the minimum to maintain their grid therefore the liability should be theirs solely. I agree with you completely.
“They don’t need government to tell them what to do” Yeah, unless you’re a woman who doesn’t want to be pregnant. THEN they’ll tell you what to do. Credit Jimmy Kimmel:)
@Cody Russow Yes, there were many but it was never in God’s eyes seen as good; Sometimes even given as a punishment for rebelling against the Lord
@That Guy yes the killing God lol how ironic
@Cody Russow You may not believe in God, but the Devil believes in you
@That Guy i believe in your book God or Jesus is a deciple correct ? Not a God anyway u believe in a different God
@Cody Russow Well, Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all Abrahamic religions; which means they follow the same God. Islam doesn’t believe Jesus was God or the Son of God but rather a Prophet and obviously other differences.
So says the man who is under Federal investigation. Reminds me of a rebellious teenager.
todddler
Shut up. Go to your room.
Oh its that guy, man he’s as crooked as.
There needs to be a fine for filing bogus court lawsuits. Maybe 10 million dollars will shut these clowns up.
Send them to Quintanamo Bay Detention camp.
Until the city or state actually has to for the bill. They should personally be fined the 10 million
Why hasn’t this fellow gone to prison already?
What is the hold-up?
Is he investigating himself, again?
“They don’t need government” – GOVERNOR abbot, elected GOVERNMENT fool
Not if you’re the governor they don’t.
They don’t need government… so the governor is redundant – he should resign.
So government salaries should end if they are not needed!
So resign you murderers! Because you are not needed. In fact you are destroying your state and all its people. How dare he destroy America in such a corrupt and criminal fashion! What can be done to help these poor Texans?
No one talking about what the Florida governor is doing? He’s literally selling the covid-19 shots to his rich donors and taking them all from the underprivileged areas and the people of each phase. There’s text evidence, emails, & videos. He literally took them from baptist hospitals. Is this not a major freaking story?
It is, and they are investigating it.
I’ve been seeing it everywhere now for the last 3 days days maybe you aren’t seeing them.. The bad thing is the news HERE in Florida isn’t covering it…
@Gloria K well I’ve seen it a lot in the last four days. I guess I must have missed it. I had be listening for it after I heard about it on The Ring of Fire, Farron Cousins, over 2 weeks ago.
Wait, so Abbott says the local areas can choose to enforce mask wearing at their own discretion because they don’t need government to tell them what to do…and when Austin chooses to continue to enforce mask wearing, they get threatened by the Texas AG? Uhh…okay…
Duh…America ain’t what she used to be with this lot.
They’re actually trying to deflect attention to this away from the extreme fiasco and damage of the energy infrastructure collapse of the Texas Energy Grid. It’s a Trumpian tactic: create another extreme outrageous scenario to distract people and media from their dangerous, corrupt business decisions. It’s working, isn’t it???
So now, the spring breakers will disperse to their homes and communities and spread the variant. Nice job governor!
Right? Abbott is a disgrace.
Spring breakers are a mature lot. Their wisdom will be on display once they don masks after holiday.
@g0679 😂 is that sarcasm?