! Mentally Incompetent Redneck Cripple Wants More Dead Trump Lovers In Texas

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday banned any entity in his state — 
including private businesses — from mandating coronavirus vaccines for 
workers or customers, expanding prior executive orders from his office 
that prohibited state government entities from imposing similar 
requirements.

Abbott’s move puts him at odds with some large corporations and with the 
Biden administration, which last month announced plans to require all 
employers with 100 or more workers to adopt vaccine mandates or testing 
regimens. A number of large private companies in Texas have issued 
mandates.

“If indeed the mandate now is everyone must be vaccinated or . . . tested 
once a week, we will obviously comply by that mandate,” Doug Parker, chief 
executive of Fort Worth-based American Airlines, said in a Washington Post 
Live interview in September.

“All along, as we’ve been going through this, we have been considering 
mandates and may have done one on our own. But what we wanted to do was do 
everything we could first to encourage everyone to do so,” he said.

Dallas-based Southwest Airlines last week gave all employees until Dec. 8 
to get vaccinated or face possible termination. (Many U.S. airlines also 
are government contractors, which must meet a Dec. 8 federal deadline for 
coronavirus vaccinations.) Telecom giant AT&T, also based in Dallas, in 
August ordered most of its management employees to get vaccinated by this 
week. Hewlett Packard Enterprise, headquartered in Houston, announced a 
similar move the same month.

Abbott called the Biden administration’s sweeping plan “yet another 
instance of federal overreach,” saying in his order that the 
administration is “bullying” private entities into vaccine mandates, 
hurting the livelihoods of Texans and threatening the state’s economic 
recovery from the pandemic.

Although the White House did not immediately reply to a request for 
comment, President Biden appeared dismissive of earlier legal threats by a 
group of Republican governors including Abbott over his vaccine mandates, 
saying, “Have at it.”
Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Gypsyamber D'Souza explains how 
the U.S. can reach coronavirus herd immunity and what happens if that goal 
is missed. (Brian Monroe, John Farrell/The Washington Post)

Republicans gird for battle and businesses brace for details of Biden’s 
new vaccine rule

Violators will face a fine up to $1,000, according to the order, which 
will remain in effect until the Republican-dominated Texas legislature 
passes law that formalizes it, Abbott said. The ban covers any person who 
objects to vaccination “for any reason of personal conscience, based on a 
religious belief, or for medical reasons, including prior recovery from 
COVID-19.”

But Abbott, who is fully vaccinated, still urged those eligible to receive 
a coronavirus vaccine to do so.

In July, Abbott restricted local governments and state entities from 
levying vaccine mandates. In March, he repealed mask mandates, an order 
which has since been overridden by some courts in the state.

Abbott is also facing political challenges from within his party, whose 
most vocal members have railed against vaccine and mask mandates.

Don Huffines, a former Texas state senator who is challenging Abbott for 
the GOP candidacy in next year’s gubernatorial race, tweeted that Abbott’s 
move had been long overdue.

“Greg Abbott is a political windsock and today proves it,” he said. “He 
knows conservative Republican voters are tired of the vaccine mandates and 
tired of him being a failed leader.”

About 15 million Texans have been fully vaccinated, or just over half of 
the nation’s second-most populous state, according to The Washington Post 
coronavirus vaccination tracker. The United States as a whole has 
vaccinated about 56 percent of its residents.

Texas’s deaths and new daily infections have been gradually falling in 
recent weeks, after the state suffered increases in both tallies this 
summer amid the spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus.