cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/9685932
Texas Governor Pardons and Frees Far-Right Gunman Who Killed Garret Foster Who was Pushing Girlfriend’s Wheelchair at a Black Lives Matter Protest
This says so much about the morals and values of the Conservative Christian Republican.
In case this dude wasn’t despicable enough, he was also in the process of grooming a minor when this happened. Republicans really are the party of projection.
Edit: he was 35 when he sent this.
WHAT THE FUCK.
What the fuck is wrong with the US?
How much time do you have?
Why is the word grooming in quotations
the world has understood this clearly for decades. we need to stop talking about the kind of people they are and instead start talking about what we’re going to do about it.
Isn’t it scaring you how you guys have no real justice in the US if anyone with a bit of power can just override it?
Yeah, it’s fucking terrifying.
I don’t know if this makes it more or less scary but the idea of Perry being able to just pardon anyone isn’t actually factual. A Texas governor can refer a pardon, but a board still has to approve it.
setting a murderer back on the streets.
If democrats don’t run ads on this they’re useless.
It would just end as another Kyle Shittenhouse. Conservative media would blow him up until he’s a star with a chance at running for congress.
You can’t keep adhering to the rules when your opponent threw them away years ago.
On the one hand, your Democrats need to run ad/announcement/propaganda campaigns about both their new achievements they brought about this term, like all the domestic fund allocations that are at least aimed at progressive and environment protection departments announced by Biden, all the while showing whoever they can reach about the apparent evil aspirations of the Republicans or conservatives, like pardoning this fascist murderer and potential child abuser before he served his appropriate and law-ordained sentence.
I’m not a U.S. citizen, I am Turk living in Turkey. But even news like this helps me evaluate what’s what in the U.S. and who’s who. Even though I’m living this far away and getting my news about there from a rather low-people count platform like Lemmy, I’m sure there are a lot of people in the U.S. that don’t get news like this on their word of mouth or cable tv information sharing networks, so Democrats utilizing all avenues to make this incident known to everyone would be a better idea than thinking it is a risk about blowing the popularity of this guy.
How else would the achievements of Biden and Democratic government reach me without me seeking it myself otherwise? The genocide part is spread all over the world naturally, and if it were just that reaching me naturally, I’d be demonizing Biden naturally, like any conservative.
And the ads need to be regular people who got help. None of this mellow voiceover in front of patriotic stock images. Just real people who were actually helped by the policies. Film it like Apple’s old “Switch” commercials, with ordinary folks on a white background telling us their story.
If democrats don’t run ads on this
On which network? Sinclair Media owned local news? Clear Channel Communications, in between Rush Limbaugh reruns and Sean Hannity rants? Bezos’s WaPo? Murdoch’s FOX? One of the other 15 billionaires who own our public media?
I mean, yeah. Go for it. Tell West Texas good’ole’boy indie voters that a right-wing nut killed a white guy with a black girlfriend in a wheelchair and the sitting Texas governor let him back out to do it again. See how they respond.
Stop. My Penis Can Only Get So Erect. - the good’ole’boy indie voters.
Don’t forget he’s a pedophile as well, which is undoubtedly is what pushed Abbott over the edge and saved a fellow monster.
People really need to make a bigger deal out of this: https://www.salon.com/2023/04/21/convicted-murderer-greg-abbott-wants-to-pardon-sought-chats-to-meet-young-girls/
I was amazed that there is no limit to how many pardons a president van issue (let alone take money for it) but now I learn that Governors can pardon too?
How can people accept this in a civilized wold?
governors can pardon state level crimes. And a pardon is just the executive branch of government saying that they are not going to enforce any punishment against a person who was convicted of a crime.
And people are ok with that?
Considering the incarceration rates in the us, yes.
Conservatism is a vile plague of bigotry, oppression and death. It always has been. There is no place in a modern culture for such a hate-fueled ideology.
Teach your children why it is unethical to keep relations or do business with conservatives. Speak openly about the evils of conservatism. We can exclude hate in our lives by excluding the haters from our lives.
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i was saying the most important thing there is to be said. if i can’t say that, we’re doomed.
His efforts to assemble the henchman nutjob army of Gotham City do not go unnoticed. Fuck you Gregory, you depraved cunt.
Texas signaling the penalty for crossing the color line.
The fucking shitbag bragged about heading to Dallas to shoot people. Fuck greg, he’s a garbage human.
least fascistic US state.
Actually probably the most, but the joke is funny.
Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Idaho are all in the running, but that is just gonna drive Texas further
We’re actually only a couple of steps from someone openly saying the will immediately pardon anyone convicted of killing the “”“others”“”
yep, and us liberals are going to be caught with our pants down when it happens. ya’ll need to start preparing.
The US is fucking fubar.
For anyone else who was concerned like I was about the credibility of reporting by “The Grouch,” here’s an alternate source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/16/texas-greg-abbott-pardons-daniel-perry
How does the family of the victim get justice? Or was there a settlement? Does he not have anyone to get justice for him?
Edit very sad situation just wondering what the family is going thru
How does the family of the victim get justice?
If the family is white, apparently they can just kill him
“The board [the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles] did not elaborate on why it issued a full pardon.”
Gee, I wonder fucking why they didn’t elaborate on why they pardon a man, who texted his friends he wanted to shoot protestors and then went and actually did it and killed a US military veteran. Fuck Abbott now and forever.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/05/16/daniel-perry-greg-abbott-pardon/
