Governor Abbott Breaks US Supply Chain

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

With the 2024 presidential election season drawing ever nearer, career politicians are already jockeying  for national attention.  One GOP White House hopeful who seems to be pulling out all of the stops in his efforts to be noticed is Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas.  This week Abbott has attracted national attention over two shamelessly political stunts that he and his staff dreamed up and foisted on America.

The least harmful of the two bits of political theatre was a free bus ride that Abbott and his people organized to take immigrants from the Texas border to Washington, D.C.   Apparently Abbott at first thought he could have his uniformed goons simply hustle the newcomers onto buses, whether they wanted to go to the nation's capital or not.  Then somebody alerted him to the fact that might be considered kidnapping, so they had to regroup and make the trip voluntary.

When the bus ride to Washington, D.C. became voluntary, the governor was only able to fill about half a bus, but he is promising the press that more will follow.

Abbott's tourist bus arrived in D.C. yesterday and the twenty-some individuals who were aboard disembarked in front of Fox Studios for photo ops.  In covering the event, Fox failed to mention that the immigrants were delivered directly to their news studio, saying instead that the travelers disembarked a few blocks from the White House.  (For those who do not think that Fox News works hand-in-glove with Republican politicians of the fascist stripe, think again!)

But the bus adventure was not Abbott's political low point for the week.  That came when he announced that Texas would begin "enhanced" inspection of vehicles arriving from Mexico, and delivery trucks in particular.  The practical impact (and no doubt the intended impact) of the more thorough inspections was a massive slowdown of traffic crossing into the United States.  Lines of stalled trucks waiting to cross the border grew longer and longer with anger and frustration mounting on both sides of the border.  Drivers in Mexico were reporting food rotting in their trucks, and US drivers waiting to pick up the loads and move them on into the country had their schedules (and incomes) interrupted and drastically impacted.

Meanwhile as drivers sat in Mexico watching their cargos rot, Republican politicians in the US grabbed media microphones and began wailing about empty grocery shelves and the awful Biden administration breaking the supply chain!

This morning a news update revealed that Abbott was backing off of the enhanced inspections.  The governor had made plenty of headlines for the week, and he had proven to the GOP party faithful that he is a true  reptilian Republican.  Next week will no doubt bring more wonderful opportunities to humiliate human beings and work at destroying the nation just for a bit of political advantage.

That's the way Greg rolls.