Although the T-Rump has been gone from office nearly nine months, his inbred-toxic hatred of humanity remains deeply embedded within Republicans, and just about every day (maybe twice/three times a day) they prove cruelty is the point.

Today no exception as Greg Abbott once again flourished with a pure, and complete, lack of self-awareness, or really whatever it takes to act like he has any form of fucking intelligence. Seemingly, we’ve got three most-major problems right now with all their far-reaching impacts — the COVID pandemic, climate change, Republican nationwide-shitting on democracy. And to double-worse the situation, that last one makes it near impossible to get a handle on the first two, and, thus, chaos reigns.
Abbott is a complete asshat, however, and is happy about it:

"Texas will work tirelessly to make sure we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas" https://t.co/00LWxlLUHp

— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) September 7, 2021

Obviously, Asshat Abbott has never seen any episode of “Law and Order: SVU,” or thought for a second before opening his mouth. WTF with ‘eliminating rapists’ before the rape.
Phillip Bump at The Washington Post this afternoon:

During a signing ceremony for Texas’s new restrictions on voting, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) was asked about the state’s strict new prohibitions against abortion.
“Why force a rape or incest victim to carry a pregnancy to term?” a reporter asked.

“It doesn’t require that at all,” Abbott said of the law, “because, obviously, it provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.”

This is a misleading assertion, as the 19th News reported. In most cases, women won’t know that they are pregnant until at least the fourth week of their pregnancies, based on how pregnancy durations are calculated.
That would leave the woman two weeks during which she might legally obtain an abortion in the state.
After that point, she would be forced to either carry the baby to term or risk a lawsuit costing her $10,000.

“That said, however, let’s make something very clear,” Abbott continued, his voice gaining emphasis. “Rape is a crime, and Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them and prosecuting them and getting them off the streets.”

Those standing behind him applauded, but this bit of rhetoric is even less rooted in reality.

The most obvious way in which this strategy is flawed is that prosecuting a rapist does not prevent a rape, any more than prosecuting a murderer saves his victim’s life. After-the-fact legal actions are of course important, but even a successful effort to arrest everyone who has committed rape in Texas does not prevent a new rape from occurring.

But there’s essentially no way that every person who has committed rape will be caught.
In 2019, data compiled by the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting system indicates that about 8,000 Texans, the vast majority of them women, were victims of rape.
To the point about preventing rapes before they occur, it’s worth pointing out that rapes are usually committed by acquaintances of their victims, as was the case in nearly 9 in 10 rapes reported to the FBI in Texas that year.
On a per capita basis, incidentally, rape is more common in Texas than in the United States overall.

Odd feel to that last bit of information.

Shit leads maybe to Asshat Abbott trying to crawl into some Phillip K. Dick:

No way — Asshat Abbott would know absolutely zilch about Dick.

Beyond the future right now — and once again, here we are…

(Illustration out front: New Yorker cartoon by Bruce Eric Kaplan, found here)