The Gov of Texas explains the position of the #OregonUnderAttack militia with this one simple tweet!

[riversedge]

When we have elected lawmakers saying crap like this you know--you know some crazy is going to start shooting.


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The Governor of Texas explains the position of the #OregonUnderAttack militia with this one simple tweet


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Obama wants to impose more gun control. My response.#? COME & TAKE IT @NRA #tcot #PJNET https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/01/01/obama-to-impose-new-gun-control-curbs-next-week/

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[Gothmog]

1. Greg Abbot is an idiot

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

3. Greg Abbot is an idiot

Lately, it seems, Idiocy is a prerequisite to hold elected office, certainly the Governorship, in texas.

Bush, Perry and the current jack wad.

[hobbit709]

5. The scary thing is that out of these three, Bush was the smart one.

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

12. Yeah

Boosh set the bar too high for the jackwipes succeeding him.

[Ex Lurker]

14. Greg Abbott is a silver spoon TCU grad

he's playing to the crowd, that's all.

[Buzz Clik]

2. Wow. Glad to see he's really up on the issues on the table in Oregon.

Dear Greg,

It has nothing to do with gun control.

Luv, Buzz

[Egnever]

6. It's a bad headline

not that the tweet isn't obnoxious. It has nothing to do with Oregon, it is about Obamas gun control measures he is planning on implementing.

[Buzz Clik]

10. Ah.

Abbott can rest easy. Obama's Army will not be invading soon. As with all such laws, his new "gun control" measures will likely be toothless and ineffective.

But, Abbott will continue to dance for his audience.

[callous taoboy]

4. An embarrassment to the state.

[Buzz Clik]

11. Not really. Just another day.

[Recursion]

7. It's an Alamo (and Thermopylae) reference, though he fucked up the tense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe

I'll add, as a classicist: it's not "come and take it". It's "Having come, then take it". I'll get to the difference in a second.

It was used by the defenders of the Alamo. They took it from the Spartans at Thermopylae. If you've seen the movie "300", it was an extremely Hollywood-ized version of that battle, though what's probably the most amazing scene is word-for-word from multiple attested sources: the Greeks were told to lay down their spears, and replied "???ὼ? ???έ", often badly rendered "come and take them". ("???ὼ? ???έ" is still the motto of the first Greek infantry division, rightly.)

But it's not "come and take them", it's "having come, then take them". Leonidas had absolutely zero illusions about the outcome of the battle, but he knew he was buying time for the Athenian navy to cut off the Persian supply lines. Similarly, Bill Travis had zero illusions about the outcome of the Alamo, but he knew it would give Houston time to raise the other settlers into an insurgency Santa Anna could not break.

Anyways: I think both the defenders of Thermopylae and the Alamo deserve better than to have their sacrifices appropriated by these jackasses...

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Yup

Moab Abbé is the phrase used by these types.

Abbott knows his base

[Vinca]

9. That could be interpreted as a threat against the POTUS.

[riversedge]

13. I do not think it goes that far. but the TX Gov is sick in the head.

[gratuitous]

15. His best tweet since Game 4 of the ALDS

Houston going to the eighth inning against Kansas City. They had a two games to one lead, and Minute Maid Park was rocking in the wake of back-to-back home runs in the bottom of the seventh, stretching a 3-2 lead to 6-2. Gov. Abbott got on his twitter account, and congratulated the Astros on going to the ALCS. The Royals rallied for five runs in the top of the eighth, added two more in the ninth, won the game 9-6, and took the series in Game 5.

It would appear Gov. Dimbulb hasn't learned anything in three months since.

[Skittles]

16. he is a gun humping coward

and that is exactly who he represents