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Texas gov Greg Abbott responds to question about who's to blame for deaths in Texas floods
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Wanna know why your kids are dead ? Don’t be a loser
It’s a “solution” for losers apparently. What a horrible person.
Nah it's that they'll fix it by scoring points by bringing the kids back to life!
I haven't found any glee in the I-told-you-so's about this tragedy or pointing out the FAFO that Texas is facing thus far. However, your comment has provided a beautiful image of Abbott with a football rolling down the sidelines at top speed to let the kids live, and that has made my morning.
I grew up in Texas. Texas used to be a democratic state and it used to be all about sticking it to the big guys. Franchise banks weren't allowed in Texas till like the 90s or something for example. Now Texas is the mini-mall of the nation, allowing businesses to build whatever the fuck they want wherever they want. It sold out to businesses like what Camp Mystic had become, a "Christian" business, grandfathered in to zoning laws that made it ok to leave children's lives in danger. They knew this was a dangerous thing, they even tried to budget sirens that would have saved these girls' lives. But of course, it takes the lives of innocent children before anyone does fuck all. Hopefully if one thing can come out of it, camp counselors should have phones going forward so they can self organize and not have to worry about the only people with cell phones on the camp fucking off and prepping for July 4th festivities. That's why these kids died. They had zero technology on the entire camp minus the one nurse present for over 500 kids.
That's loser talk! Apparently.
Recently the worst thing is, that even when it does take the lives of innocent children, nothing beneficial gets changed. There is no proactivity. A state-sanctioned day of prayer does fuck all for the making sure this type of thing doesn't happen again.
Texas doesn’t care about dead kids, unfortunately.
‘Kids dying in tragedies, doesn’t win football games.’ -Greg Abbott…probably
“They’re losers, and we don’t talk about losers!”
Greg Abbott…probably
Gotta protect the authorities from accountability!
We care about football not preventable child deaths, loser.
Abbott is such trash and is someone to blame
"Don't worry, parents of missing or dead children. We got this!"
Those kids just needed to score more
Why didn't those parents and residents all chip in and pay to get individual environmental risk assessments before they went camping like Daniel Boone would have done1?!?
Hey man, we all know that there’s at least 100+ deaths on your average football team. We all make mistakes sometimes.
Stand up and take a bow Abbott, you fucking ghoul.
“Winners don’t point fingers” said while literally pointing his finger at the crowd
Your kids should have gone and scored again. Then they’d be champions instead of dead
"The losing team points at the ones to blame..."
Sound Familiar...?!?!?! I know a Orange guy that says stuff like this.
Obamas Fault, Bidens Fault, Clintons Fault... hmmmm weird that.
He’s sitting in a wheelchair but somehow still talking out of his ass
Comparing the many deaths on his watch to football is peak TX
What a lot of words to say absolutely fuck all
He was saying something though. That is: don’t you dare blame us for our mistakes even though your kids died needlessly. You’re a loser if you do that.
From the same party whose favorite catchphrase is "Obama did it" and whose only solution is "more tax breaks for billionaires."
From the folks who brought you "thoughts and prayers" and "higher power" comes our new single: "Ouch My Face, a Leopard is Eating it"
Isn't it the job of the Coach to point out who did what wrong? Isn't that why we review footage of games? Isn't that why players get benched! If he's gonna use a football analogy, then maybe he should understand the fucking game and the Coach's role as Governor of the team.
This is the part that got me. It’s not even true. Winners analyze what went wrong so they can learn from it and come up with a better way forward the next time. Losers are the teams that don’t worry about it and keep doing the same things over and over. It’s just the dumbest analogy to try to weasel out of any self-reflection and/or culpability in a horrible situation. What an absolute disgrace.
It’s two completely different situations too. The scenario he’s giving is during a game. When someone on your team makes a mistake you try to rectify it. But the person who made the mistake still needs to take accountability.
But after the game, like we are now with the floods, winners analyze what went wrong and how to fix it.
As well as coach will bench you if you’re not doing your job. Those city workers that refused to put in the emergency system should have been voted out. It’s unbelievable from every angle. No accountability for a single person.
He's wrong too.
Football teams watch replays of games and the coach goes through what went wrong and who messed up so they can improve for the next game.
Identifying blame and then working to improve those gaps is how teams get better and win.
Yeah the way he’s describing the team is how parents coach peewee leagues, not how winning teams work. Can you imagine a football team that never reviewed game footage or worked on their weak spots? Of course you can, it’s a peewee football league. Even high school teams watch footage and figure out how to improve by fixing their mistakes. Absolutely wild metaphor to use.
He isn't even correct with his long ass diatribe. From my time on football, you ABSOLUTELY point out who fucked up and why. Sure, doing nothing but blaming and blaming makes you a negative Nancy. But never pointing out any mistakes and thinking you'll be champions by never acknowledging where your team's plays went wrong? You might as well start an adult Tee Ball league if you're going to be that soft.
Well my read of it is he said they are the winners. Maybe he overlooked how many children were lost on his watch…
He also overlooked Winter Storm Uri in 2021 that resulted in 246 deaths and was a direct result of Texas utility providers not being prepared or “winterizing” the power grid.
Texas is on its own power grid, separate from the rest of the country, because we’re such “winners”, that our utility companies want to avoid federal oversight of the electricity market to ensure the max amount of profits.
That was also an “aww shucks, don’t worry about who to blame, we did the best we could with what we had” moment as well. Wheelchair bound or not, the guy has been a total villain the last decade, since he was elected governor in 2015.
And also had the cheek to blame renewables that time. Their story was that wind turbines fail in cold weather. Completely overlooking the fact they are used a lot in the arctic, it was just that the Texas power companies didn’t want to spend the money to weather proof their turbines even though they were warned multiple times.
Also, in that specific incident, renewables like wind overperformed. By a lot.
Its the natural gas generation that froze up and ultimately fucked Texas.
That didn't stop governor hot wheels from going on Fox News and literally blaming the green new deal for people dying in Texas.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/abbott-republicans-green-energy/
... only to then have to "walk" it back ...
That's winning team material right there
On this tragedy, I’m assuming you mean. He’s got quite the dossier of bodies on “his watch”.
No he's saying that football wins and children die and Texas doesn't care.
He's right.
Man, sounds like you don’t give a single shit about football. Fucking monster. Get your priorities in order. The man said Friday Night Lights, for Pete’s sake! What more do you want?!? I thought it was a very moving speech. I give it a ten!
Abbott literally says in his footballese response: Don’t worry about it man 🏈
He’s right though. The solution in this case would be to hold him personally accountable and liable for the lives lost and make him pay with his own money to families of victims of school shootings, natural disasters and mishandled healthcare/medicaid etc.
Also, he needs to be impeached from governing over the one star reviewed state
You need to use football in your response otherwise you're part of the problem. In football there are no problems. Only solutions.
plus you know if it's the Dems fault they're the first ones to point fingers
Politicians in a nutshell mate.
Hmmh . . . Uvalde.
Yes they love football too, so says Gregg.
I'm a Texan, and (gasp)....I hate football and Greg Abbott
"Wait...uh...that does not compute...you're...uhh...under arrest!"
Guess he's wrong AND stupid!
We’ll get em next time?!!!
Uvalde
"And another thing about football..."
Not even something prepared, a Bible verse, fuck it a chatgpt prepared speech.
"You're a loser if you ask why your family members are dead."
Bad signs forming all around us.
They just call that a fumble, and reset of downed… I mean downs.
Soo fuck the kids who died. Fooottttballl.
Complain about kids dieing? Loser mentality.
"I prefer the kids who didn't die."
They ain't making varsity with that loser mentality
Go cowboys! How's training camp going to look this year? That's the most important thing in the news, right? New head coach? Jerry picks winners! Is the news cycle over yet? Loser talk will get you 2 a days outside for a week. Full gear. Go cowboys!
Jesus take the football.
100+ people dead is just like a football game, ladies and gentlemen
“We’re winners! Woohoo!”
It’s way too horrible to even be satire at this stage.
that’s not what Championship teams say at all 🤣 Bill Billichek famously has a quote “Do your job” and holds the people who make mistakes accountable.
Don’t teams watch game film to figure out who made a mistake… so they can fix the mistakes? How can you have solutions without first identifying the problems?
What mistake? this is God's rapture, ain't that right Joel?
Edit: but seriously a reporter should bring that up exactly what you said
Teams also will occasionally fire the office and/or coaching staff when their teams keep having big losses.
The analogy really falls flat when you realize texas hasn't won a nat'l championship in 20 years
what a fucking idiot
I am so sorry. I truly do not want to laugh, and yet...the USA will continue to measure their dead by SPORTS is unbelievable and morose to me.
100 dead....shame...
FIRST DOWN!!!!!
This is one of the most tone deaf, blathering stupid fucking responses I have ever heard. In my life. Seriously. I don't think it would be possible to come up with a worse answer if you sat down and really tried to think of one, for several days.
Joni “We are all going to die” Ernst has entered the chat.
It’s really, really difficult for Republicans to hide their total lack of empathy for their fellow man.
This reminds of the family guy skit where they ask serious questions but all the responses are just “9/11” and everyone claps
9....crowd gasps....11 standing ovation
That’s the one. Lois was clearly knew the art of the deal.
He should give himself a standing ovation for such a compelling speech....oh wait...
But seriously, fuck this peice of trash.
In Texas: Foot......Ball
Sweet let's treat this like football then and fire the fucking coach for making consistently stupid decisions
Usually the coach is the easiest thing to change
His analogy also needs a wheelchair.
What should happen wherever Abbott shows up
People died. Save your stupid football analogy. Children are dead because there was no warning system.
The analogy also falls flat on its face when he talks about finding solutions. Texas had a power outage due to a storm that fell below a cat 1 once it touch land. The outage lasted for days in some areas. This was a few years after the freeze that killed several citizens. Turns out the grid was in fact not worked on and the state tried to lowball in paying electricians that came from out of state. All so they can receive threats at gun point by some citizens (some real and some BB guns).
Also people that are calling him and Ted Cruz out are met with lowlifes that are saying this is a time for prayer and not politicizing a tragedy. Abbott is a pos that has lived for free in the governor’s mansion for the better part of my existence. Of course he would say something this stupid and the state would glaze the response.
Bro really tried to use football as a deflection lmao
Over 100 football deaths been recorded any time soon?
Straight outta the end of Billy Madison and Bill and Ted
Yes, but there's a slight difference between losing a football game and losing human lives. If you die because of my reckless driving, I'm to blame. So the question is "who did the reckless thing that led to death and tragedy?".
lol I can’t help but imagine some high school players dying in the middle of a game…
and then the coach telling parents wanting answers that their questions are for ‘losers’.
said a whole lot of nothing
Making a mistake in football doesn't result in the death of several dozen children, dipshit.
If you go off of the context of this speech, then that makes our President a loser, since he’s constantly blaming everyone for shit.
Googling “Abbott blames” was enough to show me this Abbott guy might be a lying hypocrite. Maybe.
“Texas is all about solutions”
Here’s some solutions Gov. Abbot, I’ll make it real easy for you:
Gun Control, NOAA, FEMA.
And a reliable power grid for Texans.
Idiot Texans don’t care about solutions because they keep voting back other idiots (Abbott, Cruz, et al) who continuously fail to provide solutions.
Texas cares more about being racist than their kids.
Immediate follow-up question should have been "What are your solutions?"
Who are the winners and who are the losers, Greg?
Talking about winners and losers while hundreds of families are mourning the loss of their loved ones comes across as deeply tone deaf.
“What winners say, is they say look, we got this.”
Yeah dude, except you don’t got this. Not even close. More than 100 of your people died and it’s looking highly sus that state or Kerr County officials dropped the fucking ball. But he doesn’t want to even attempt a coherent explanation as to why that’s not so.
It’s a redux of Uvalde. 20 third graders were executed while the cops straight-up pussed out, declining to act until their tactical body armor and expensive military toys arrived. Texas dropped the ball HARD on that one, because they hired unqualified dipshits and didn’t train them well. And then, just like Abbott here, TX AG Ken Paxton responded by saying “God has a plan.”
What Greg is channeling here is the classic halftime speech of losers, that the players know is a bunch of BS, and which is the prelude them getting blown out by 40 in the second half (by Mother Nature, I guess).
Lastly….. he’s responding to over 100 deaths from a flood and actually utters the words, “In Texas, we love football??” Holy shit man - that is just about the dumbest thing anyone could say in this moment. I could’ve drummed up with a better response, tailored specifically for Texas “manly men,” in under 5 minutes. I thought this dude was supposed to be smart, even if he’s a bastard.
Texans. You are better than this. Your governor thinks you are idiots!
What in the actual fuck is he saying
Saying anything other than taking responsibility
The fuck does football have to do with a flood that killed 50+ people?
When a football team loses they still get to go home, they aren’t killed because the coach decided to remove the warning systems and safety precautions that would’ve prevented their deaths.
It’s meant to baffle you and make you forget about every single time Abbott has played the blame game.
I bet we’ll be seeing this clip juxtaposed with a highlight reel of Abbott pointing the finger at others instead of talking solutions.
Hell, he’s not even talking solutions now.
Just when you think it can’t get any fucking stupider, he comes rolling in. This is after announcing the missing person count was more than 160 and not 20.
… he’s giving a pep rally speech about flooding deaths??
"This is what I have to say about placing blame...football!....f-150s!...TEXAS! Alright, next question."
What a moron
5-10 years ago this kind of response would be part of a joke or a skit. Now it’s reality
What an unserious person
This is appalling!
Queue the video further down where they blame the National Weather Service for their "faulty" forecast
So many people on social media were jumping on the NWS immediately after the flood and I felt like the only one telling them it was the local officials and camp directors who were responsible for what happened to their community and those kids. I'm so glad it seems people have figured out who's really at fault. It wasn't even a hard call to point the finger at local Texas officials who have a history of failing their communities but I'm glad people seem to have figured it out over the last few days.
“Every team makes mistakes!”
Sir over a 100 people died from a flash flood, two dozen of them were children
What a blithering idiot he is. He’s to blame. Vote this sad sack of shit out of office. His solution is to let people die and talk rubbish like this
How much tax payer money has been spent on high school football programs vs weather alert systems for areas known to flood?
lol fuck that hot wheels psychopath.
Gov. Greg Abbott: “And in conclusion, when life gives you lemons… sometimes those lemons flood your house because radical leftists refused to pray the floodwaters away.
Did I deregulate the levees? Yes. Did I WIN anyway? Also yes.
The real question is, why didn’t Joe Biden personally sandbag your driveway, huh? Where was AOC with her reusable bucket? Where was Beto, besides crying into his oat milk latte?
I didn’t fail Texas, the weather did. And the weather’s woke.
[spins wheelchair 360 degrees like he’s about to drop a mixtape]
That’s leadership, folks. Winner mentality. God bless Texas…….Knibb High football rules.”
[turns his head to his assistant] “I killed it didn’t I? Yeah football!”
Spineless little shit
What a ridiculous thing to say. So many deaths, so many children gone, and he doesn't want to look at who's at fault? Fucking ridiculous. Imagine voting for a creep like this as your governor.. pathetic. Man the fuck up and face your issues.
Ah yes who doesn't remember that time the Dallas Cowboys didn't notify people at the stadium that a flood was potentially coming and it lead to over 100 people dying.
Thankfully they scored a touchdown right after
"my daughter is still missing"
"Well let me tell you why you're acting like a loser"
Roll this piece of shit into the sewer.
Last time I checked, championship football teams do indeed point out their mistakes in the locker room, for no other reason to improve future performances. Everyone on that championship team needs to own their mistakes to not repeat them. No decent coach in this position is not pointing out areas for improvement at every practice. What a crappy analogy (or maybe just the way it’s used)
Do they run a test on people to elect the most absolute morons in the US?
So did he actually talk about the "solutions" from his football analogy???
Hey Greg!
Remember when a tree fell on you and you sued and became a millionaire then later signed a law so no one else harmed like that could effectively sue? Cool guy.
Time to vote hot wheels out
Comparing a human tragedy to football isn’t leadership, it’s deflection. Accountability isn’t finger-pointing, it’s step one in problem-solving. Champions don’t dodge responsibility THEY OWN IT
literally a psychopath? what the fuck is he talking about. did he just say we arent gonna worry about 100 dead because football teams make mistakes?
Texas should really vote for someone that will stand up for them.
It’s not about blame, it’s about accountability Greg. The fact you can’t grasp that makes YOU a loser and a terrible leader.
Sports is a terrible analogy for this tragedy, but ok: Teams take accountability for their mistakes, SO THEY DON’T MAKE THEM AGAIN, and actually have a shot at winning the next game.
Accountability, stop ducking it you pedantic loser.
So, it's not Biden's fault anymore?
That's a very long-winded way of dodging the question.
Clown
Your leaders have no respect for you. They aren't even trying anymore. The citizens are a joke, an obstacle, an inconvenient necessity. You will all be manipulated, sorted and disposed of through violence or neglect.
"who's to blame"
"EVERYBODY IN TEXAS LOVES FOOTBALL"
Holy shit, we are so fucked
Oh my god the AUDACITY of this clown. Has he met the other people in his party.
I wish Mac & Me was real for him.
Fuck outta here
What a fucking chode.
Yeah and a bunch of the players on the losing team get washed away in raging waters. Floods, they’re just like football. JFC what outrageously sociopathic framing of a catastrophic event.
Also, after football games the teams absolutely do review what went wrong and how to prevent it happening again. FFS…
But what if you simply don’t offer any solutions? And instead go on about some random ass analogy that makes no sense when confronted about your lack of solutions.
Maybe his brain is also in a wheelchair?
What a cunt
Christ. Americans are stupid.
I think I just got Chlamydia of the brain.
So he isn’t gonna stand up and assume some accountability?
Yeah. People died buddy. Not a football game.
“We got this”…. - “What is your states solution for the safety of people moving forward?”. - “Did your team already have a feeling that they have a solution for not failing and losing this game again?”. - “You look like you are aiming for a championship because you have the ‘we got this’ mentality”. - “Using your words: What is the score in the goverment vs nature game in the past week?”. - “Does is feel like you lost the game because you had a few to many drinks the night before?”
You can tell he misses the good ol days of being able to blame everything on Biden.
I’m almost more disappointed he didn’t blame democrats vs some embarrassing football analogy.
Is that not exactly what he did by literally calling them a losing team
It was such a piss poor analogy i didnt even notice lol
Why didn't he just use a sharpie on the map and force the rain to miss Texas?
Good o’l days
https://preview.redd.it/66d412igisbf1.jpeg?width=822&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1df8321091090aee25bf2239507de7957906371e
Good o’l days
Ah, good ol' Lazlo Hollyfield
I don't understand how red states and counties can ever blame the dems. You didn't elect them, how could they fuck it up?
The same way conservatives blame the mere existence of women for all of humanity's problems.
If it wasn’t for Eve and that damned Apple…
/s
“This is the Biden nature”
Yep.
And being able to walk… which, I’ll remind you, he found someone to blame and sue.
He really misses the good old days of walking, that made him a bitter man.
Listen man, when they can blame anyone else without anyone questioning they are going to do it. But fuck, you expect them to start pointing the finger when it’s obvious they are the ones that fucked up? Don’t be ridiculous.
Texas has a long history of not spending upgrades for emergency services, and people suffer for it. Everything is bigger in Texas, especially the denial and accountability.
I thought you were going to say black folks...