{"id":48681,"date":"2021-03-04T12:45:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T20:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48681"},"modified":"2021-03-04T12:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T20:52:39","slug":"texas-governor-whines-to-fox-news-blames-biden-after-recklessly-revoking-covid-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48681","title":{"rendered":"Texas Governor Whines to Fox News, Blames Biden, After Recklessly Revoking COVID Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the country is heaving a sigh of relief as President Biden&#8217;s program for increasing the availability of vaccines and the administration of vaccinations has resulted in fewer infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. But that real world sentiment isn&#8217;t seeping into the fallacy-sealed craniums of Donald Trump&#8217;s glassy-eyed cultists.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/FoxNews\/foxnews-covid-virus.jpg\" alt=\"Fox News, Covid\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48682\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday morning the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, visited Fox News for a typically lie-riddled rant wherein he sought to justify his risky abandonment of all COVID related regulations in the state. Local health officials, as well as the CDC, immediately <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2021\/03\/02\/texas-masks-coronavirus-health-guidance\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">condemned<\/a><\/strong> Abbott&#8217;s edict as <em>&#8220;premature&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;reckless.&#8221;<\/em> Experts overwhelmingly agree that maintaining the practices of social distancing and mask wearing is necessary to overcome the coronavirus and return to a state of normality. So naturally, Abbott dismisses the experts and the science in favor of awkwardly shifting blame to Biden. He told Fox News that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Biden administration was releasing illegal immigrants into our communities who had COVID. The Biden administration was spreading COVID in South Texas yesterday because of the lack of constraint, of testing and quarantining people who come across the border illegally. The Biden administration was exposing Texans to COVID. That is &#8220;Neanderthal&#8221; approach to dealing with the COVID situation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After rescinding the state&#39;s mask mandate, Greg Abbott is now blaming undocumented immigrants (and Biden) for spreading Covid in Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DOnFDwPUdW\">pic.twitter.com\/DOnFDwPUdW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1367477693529395203?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Abbott&#8217;s brazen dishonesty puts him on par with the former Liar-in-Chief, Donald Trump. The Border Patrol is processing asylum requests according to the law, and the law hasn&#8217;t changed in the past six weeks. So nothing about that can be attributed to the Biden administration. What&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s interesting to note that Abbott is asserting that Texans are now facing greater exposure to the coronavirus, but he&#8217;s still eliminating the safeguards that would protect his constituents.<\/p>\n<p>However, Abbott&#8217;s lies are even worse when taking into account the most recent COVID data in the state as it relates to immigration. Local officials <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/latino\/after-border-patrol-release-asylum-seekers-test-positive-covid-brownsville-n1259282\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a><\/strong> that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Since the City [of Brownsville] started testing the migrants on January 25, there has been 6.3% of positive cases. The Cameron County positivity rate is 13.8%.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So immigrants are testing positive at a lower rate than native Texans. The positivity rate statewide is 12.7%. And new cases rose 27% in the past week. These statistics show not only that Abbott is purposefully lying, but they also show the foolishness of his policy to remove the restrictions and allow the virus free rein to infect &#8211; and kill &#8211; more people in a state that is already near the bottom with regard to COVID cases and fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>One can never underestimate the callousness and cruelty of power-mad Republicans like Abbott. After all, he has already gotten his vaccination, and he lives in a highly secure mansion where he doesn&#8217;t have to mingle with the riff raff he rules over, and who he is forcing to live in a more dangerous world. Just like his colleague <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48580\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;Cancun&#8221;<\/em> Ted Cruz<\/a><\/strong>. That&#8217;s business as usual for the GOP (Greedy One Percent).<\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the country is heaving a sigh of relief as President Biden&#8217;s program for increasing the availability of vaccines and the administration of vaccinations has resulted in fewer infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. But that real world sentiment isn&#8217;t seeping into the fallacy-sealed craniums of Donald Trump&#8217;s glassy-eyed cultists. On Thursday morning the governor of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,684,1200,16],"tags":[1397,33,1413,1013,377],"class_list":["post-48681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-coronavirus","tag-fox-news","tag-greg-abbott","tag-immigration","tag-joe-biden"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-covid-virus.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cFb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52573,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=52573","url_meta":{"origin":48681,"position":0},"title":"Jen Psaki Shreds Texas Gov. 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