Sin Is In: The Festering Soul of Greg Abbott

Ladies Jacket Club
Nov 5 · 3 min read

Greg Abbott is a liar and a coward, a killer and a thief. Yes, we’s all sinners (and few are saints), but Abbott is in a league of his own. From attacking trans kids to terrorizing immigrants to executing the innocent to fear-mongering about homeless people, Greg Abbott has made a career out of being a son of a bitch, a craven venal creep, a great big fat stinking oozing sinner. Mouldering rat corpses have more to recommend them than Greg Abbott’s decaying soul; rats don’t go to hell.

Lately, the Governor of Texas has been pointing his hate boner straight at homeless people in Austin. Recently, Austin’s City Council passed a handful of homelessness decriminalization ordinances. Among them was ending the ban on camping. If you live here, you might have seen more tents pop up under bridges. If you are not a moron, you understand that this is not evidence that there are now more homeless people. Rather, the number has remained the same, but homeless people have been able to achieve some measure of stability and establish camps simply because they no longer had to hide from police. Greg Abbott is not a moron, and yet he wants to take away those precious few comforts. What a small thing to have, a square of concrete you won’t get kicked out of, but apparently that little thing was too big.

It was too much for homeowners and business owners too morally weak and self-involved to stomach the mere sight of human beings unfortunate enough to have few or no possessions, no home to call their own. It was too much for some Austin City Council members, who voted to partially reinstate the no-camping ban.

It was too much for Greg Abbott.

Abbott, bored with drinking the tears of the poor or skinning cats alive or whatever he does with his weekends, decided he had to step in. He began a one-man misinformation campaign, posting suspicious and even entirely false claims about the dangers of homeless people. He said Austin was littered with needles. He retweeted a post from two years ago of a man breaking a car window, claiming it as yet further evidence of the lethal threat of charity and kindness. As it happens, two years ago was before the homelessness decriminalization ordinances were passed, the man was experiencing a mental health crisis, and he was not homeless. Abbott of course was undeterred. He blamed homeless people for traffic accidents. He threatened the city of Austin and insulted Mayor Steve Adler. He tweeted about poop.

Greg Abbott is a Christian. In fact, he’s so Christian that his website’s “faith” section features a video of him on Pat Robertson’s 700 Club. But Greg Abbott follows his own commandments. Hate the poor. Hate thy neighbor. Hate the stranger, the immigrant, the downtrodden and bewildered. Strike down all those who would lift others up. He uses his power and influence to hurt the most vulnerable among us. He experiences no shame and no remorse. He is prideful, vain, and cruel. He embraces rapacious greed; he is forever stricken with wrath. However much the man prays, he has more devil in him than most self-declared Satanists.

We should not expect Abbott to repent; he shows no signs. He has ordered the Texas Department of Transportation to force homeless people out of their meager shelters under bridges and confiscate their property if they don’t comply. In the face of his grotesque hatred of the poor and homeless, we should not expect his political star to wane. It is a credulous person or god who believes Greg Abbott is redeemable. This is not a man who can be saved; he must instead be defeated.

Sin is in, my babies. We have to buckle the fuck up and beat this bastard.

Ladies Jacket Club

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