Before everyone starts praising Texas. The deep state is deep down here and Texans have been doing too much praising and not enough work. A lot needs to change in Texas
I agree with this, but it also sucks to have to be thankful to have back freedoms that weren't theirs to infringe on in the first place. Like, oh, thank you government for allowing me to breath fresh air again? Thank you for lifting these completely unscientific, ineffective and grotesque abuses of power? Not once had any of these measures proven to be even slightly effective by any metric, and yet they stayed in place for the better part of a year.
I refused to comply, but having the state behind it sure gave a bunch of obnoxious Karens license to bitch me out for not mindlessly following these stupid mandates. It made life absolutely miserable having all these neurotic hypochondriacs too stupid to do any research chew me out like I'M the crazy one.
And then Abbott has the fucking nerve to say "People and businesses don't need the state telling them how to operate." That's where you should've STARTED, dumbass. If you don't err on the side of liberty by default, you shouldn't be in the Republican party and you definitely shouldn't be let anywhere near a position of power.
EDIT: I realize his mandates didn't have any teeth legally and that the freedoms weren't actually taken away by force, but the bigger issue is the social pressure it caused and aggravated the irrational hysteria surrounding the most overblown non-emergency in modern history.
Before everyone starts praising Texas. The deep state is deep down here and Texans have been doing too much praising and not enough work. A lot needs to change in Texas
Agreed but you have to celebrate the small victories when you get them and then get back to work.
I agree with this, but it also sucks to have to be thankful to have back freedoms that weren't theirs to infringe on in the first place. Like, oh, thank you government for allowing me to breath fresh air again? Thank you for lifting these completely unscientific, ineffective and grotesque abuses of power? Not once had any of these measures proven to be even slightly effective by any metric, and yet they stayed in place for the better part of a year.
I refused to comply, but having the state behind it sure gave a bunch of obnoxious Karens license to bitch me out for not mindlessly following these stupid mandates. It made life absolutely miserable having all these neurotic hypochondriacs too stupid to do any research chew me out like I'M the crazy one.
And then Abbott has the fucking nerve to say "People and businesses don't need the state telling them how to operate." That's where you should've STARTED, dumbass. If you don't err on the side of liberty by default, you shouldn't be in the Republican party and you definitely shouldn't be let anywhere near a position of power.
EDIT: I realize his mandates didn't have any teeth legally and that the freedoms weren't actually taken away by force, but the bigger issue is the social pressure it caused and aggravated the irrational hysteria surrounding the most overblown non-emergency in modern history.
This! Exactly right! That damnable social pressure. It's a lie! DO NOT COMPLY!