Texas Governor Jokes About Shooting Reporters
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The unrelenting Republican assault on the free press continued on Friday when Greg Abbott, the Republican governor of Texas, joked about shooting journalists. The joke was made not two days after a Montana congressional candidate, Greg Gianforte, assaulted a reporter instead of answering a question on health care. Abbott made his joke at a gun range,…
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You know what happens when you joke about killing public officials? You get a knock on the door, that’s what. Sometimes you get a short trip to a windowless room where unfriendly men ask unfriendly questions. Why is this different?
This shit isn’t funny. People are getting shot for political reasons all the time and if someone took a poke or a shot at this stupid bastard, the gun lovers and the gun haters and the liberal bashers would be fighting like cats in a pillowcase.
Idiocracy, that’s what it is.