When will Texans realize that Greg Abbott is incompetent?

[yellowcanine]

From school shootings to paralyzing storms to deadly floods he can’t seem to do anything to prevent or mitigate disaster. Instead he plays border politics with the Texas National Guard.

[Jilly_in_VA]

1. I have always said

that the tree was incompetent. It didn't finish the job.

[electricmonk]

8. You'd think after an accident

like that a person would gain some empathy but it seems to have just made him more of a dick.

[BigMin28]

23. He is a bitter

Small man.

[elleng]

2. Never, they like him.

[cayugafalls]

6. NOT this Texan.

Broad brushes are good for painting a fence, not so good when discussing an entire population of a state.

Just sayin’

[rubbersole]

17. Thoughts and prayers. 👋

My cousin lives in Arlington. They disowned me when Biden won. Now, where did I leave those chocolate chip cookies 🍪?

[Keepthesoulalive]

55. I agree never

I am not talking about all Texans, I am talking about the majority that vote. The children who had to be identified by their shoes because of a high powered weapon and they still voted for him. He didn’t care about those babies. He was rewarded with another term . His incompetence in the face of the crises the Texans have faced is beyond comprehension and still they voted for him again.
That’s reality.

[efhmc]

15. Wrong. Many despise him but he has the money and the oil folks and the RW so called Christians behind him.

We Dems fight and fight and get nowhere.

[Polybius]

3. Texas governors keep declining in order

Last four in order:

Ann Richards: Very good
George W. Bush: Not good but acceptable for Texas
Rick Perry: Bad
Greg Abbott: Awful

So, will the trend continue?

[newdeal2]

7. Probably. Expect Musk or Rogan or one of those types to run

[CTyankee]

22. I am a 3rd generation Texan. I left Texas to go to college and never went back (to live, only visit).

I love New England. I love living in CT.

[DENVERPOPS]

24. My star celebrity from texas

was Molly Ivins......may she rest in peace, proof that only the good die young....bless her soul

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

50. Quite the decline

[walkingman]

57. Most people do not realize that Rick Perry and Greg Abbott are direct derivatives of George W Bush

Rick Perry - Agriculture Commissioner
Greg Abbott - appointed as Texas Supreme Court Justice
Ted Cruz - Policy Advisor
John Cornyn - Attorney General

The stench of "W" lingers even to this day in so many ways in Texas.

[LuvLoogie]

4. He's good at othering and scapegoating

politically marginalized people.

Texas is a haven for that motivation. It is rewarded, encouraged, promoted, prioritized.

And they are digging in for the long haul.

[DBoon]

21. There are two philosophies of government here in the USA

One believes government should improve the lives of all its citizens

Another believes government should punish "bad people"

Guess which philosophy Abbott has?

Under his reign, Texas spends lots of money making life miserable for those trying to cross in from Mexico, and very little on disaster prevention.

[DENVERPOPS]

27. Or maintenance on his TEXAS electrical grid

I would have thought, after that big freeze down there that it would have been the end of Abbott and the Republican Senators for sure.......

There are a ton of cars driving around Denver & Colorado sporting TEXAS license plates.....maybe it's the dems getting the hell out of there....
Same with Florida License plates on the streets here.......

[underpants]

31. othering

Thanks. I hadn’t heard that before

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Greg is an asshole and an idiot

Greg used to be a toxic tort defense attorney who bragged about cheating widows and orphans out of what was due to them

[democratsruletheday]

10. He's a POS....

and as another poster accurately said: the majority of voters in that state LIKE him. Same as liking Trump and all his horrible traits. Crap hole state. Sorry for all the flood victims but it was absolutely preventable sadly.

[republianmushroom]

9. When more than 50% of voting Texan are competent.

Don't expect this to happen any time to soon.

[Buzz cook]

11. Texas is a minority ruled state

Just like the USA is.

Abbott is not liked by the people of Texas.

[dem4decades]

54. They elect Cruz, Paxton and Abbott, Texas sucks.

[snowybirdie]

12. You didn't mention

His handling the mass shooting in Uvalde. He failed miserably there.

[snowybirdie]

13. You failed to mention

His handling of the mass shooting in Uvalde. He failed miserably tnere.

[underpants]

32. As I read here at the time - The Texas Tribune

They were all over that and are the reason we got any of the information and horrible videos on it.

[JCMach1]

14. We don't. Hence the nickname Gov.. Hotwheels

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It's not a different abilities slur, its about his overarching ambition combined with incompetence.

[B.See]

16. According to the above comments

many in Texas don't like him. Yet incompetents like Abbott, Rafael (Ted) Cruz (former Canadian, and son of an immigrant who sought political asylum in the US), and (once indicted) Ken Paxton, seem to PERSIST.

Go figure.

[MLWR]

18. When hell freezes over...

[littlemissmartypants]

19. Isn't Texas kinda gerrymandered?

[yellowdogintexas]

28. yes, for Congressional and State Legislative seats. Not for state wide offices

The entire vote total across the state determines the winner for Governor, Lt Governor, Atty Gen, US Senators and POTUS. There are also some Commissioner positions which only pertain to Texas, like Railroad Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, and so forth. Some are on the ballot and some are appointed positions

[littlemissmartypants]

35. Thanks! ❤️

[Wiz Imp]

30. That has no impact of Governor's elections

[Paladin]

20. Trust me on this one:

If current Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick ever manages become Governor, we'll look back on Greg Abbott's disastrous reign as "The Good Old Days." That's how bad Dan Patrick is.

[Sessuch]

29. When the hell he fashioned freezes over

[cab67]

37. That's happened. It didn't make a difference.

The power grid in the state has gone down during winter Arctic incursions, and he doesn't seem to have suffered for his failures.

[cab67]

38. Reminds me of what a lot of Texans said when Rick Perry was governor.

When comparing Perry with George W. Bush, Bush was described as the smart one.

[Polybius]

42. Yep

See post 3 about how they keep getting worse.

[OldBaldy1701E]

25. Short answer: Never.

Long Answer: They (the rethugs) know it but they also know he will always be the racist, classist piece of dung that he is and therefore they will keep him there for the time being.

[JT45242]

26. He makes brown and black people suffer... that's a plus for at least 51% of voters

Racism wins in Texas.

He may not wear the pillow case with eyeholes like David Duke but he is just as tight with the klan and its policies.

[pinkstarburst]

60. Texas is a majority Hispanic state

And as we are all aware from the 2024 election, lots of Hispanic voters are conservative and vote republican.

Uvalde, where the school shooting happened a few years back, is very much a deep red republican stronghold and something like 80% Hispanic. Unfortunately, there are lots of people of all backgrounds in Texas who support republicans. And also plenty of democrats, particularly in the blue urban areas like Austin, Houston and Dallas.

[JT45242]

62. Don't know the voter turn out of that group in Texas but Abbott and Paxton are full out racists

I thought that registered voters were still plurality white in Texas.
The population shift is much more prevalent in younger people.

[Grokenstein]

33. The correct question is: Will Texans EVER realize that Abbott is a heartless monster?

Some might, I suppose, when they're hurt personally. But those who haven't figured it out yet may never do so.

And then of course there are the ones who DO know what he is, and LIKE it.

[jmowreader]

48. There's a big problem with your question

There are three classes of people living in Texas:

people who don't like that their governor is a heartless monster
people who know he's a heartless monster and like him that way
people who thinks he needs to be even more of a heartless monster

[LittleGirl]

34. Don't forget the massive explosion

From one fertilizer factory that had safety deficiencies and neighbors died from the explosion. I believe there was more than one incident like that.

[cab67]

36. Probably around the time they realize Trump is incompetent.

I assume that will coincide with their realization that not everything is about them.

[MagickMuffin]

39. Because he has embraced the magahiveset!

As long as he is cruel that’s fine with them

I vote against him every chance I get and will continue to do so.

[DFW]

40. Half of us already do.

It’s the other half, plus the non-voters, that are the cause of our misery.

[Paladin]

59. Now, now, now. Mustn't interrupt a Texas-bashing thread.

The Texas-haters are no more appreciative of reality than the trump goons are. But you knew that already, didn't you, DFW?

[Martin68]

41. When will MAGAts realize the Trump is incompetent? They seem to think incompetence is a sign of a superior intellect.

[Retrograde]

43. I don't think he's incompetent

cynical, greedy, and ambitious is more like it. IMHO, he thinks himself presidential material (how many politicians don't?) and once he's done with Texas he'll be looking for a nation-wide stage.

[Skittles]

53. he will play as well as DeFascist did on the national stage

both thoroughly despicable people

[LetMyPeopleVote]

44. Republicans are trying to further gerrymander a state that already has districts that look like this:

Link to tweet

[Torchlight]

45. I did after he began his first run.

I can only speak for me, though.

[uponit7771]

46. MAGA wants all of US to be like Texas... That housing market ain't nice though

[LetMyPeopleVote]

47. Texas Redistricting-As a voting rights volunteer, I was amused to learn a new term "dummymander"

I have been volunteering on voting rights/voter protection since 2004 when I went to Florida as part of the Kerry Edwards voter protection team. I have testified before committees of both the Texas House and Senate on gerrymandered districts. Part of my testimony was used in a prior lawsuit that unfortunately failed. Texas is heavily gerrymandered. My congressional district went from a R+1 to a R+21 as part of the last gerrymander. trump wants Ohio and Texas to re-gerrymander their districts to help in the midterms. I was amused to see that these efforts run a risk of failing

Republicans run a risky strategy for holding the House that rests on redrawn maps
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

— David Darmofal (@daviddarmofal.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T18:40:41.292Z

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/texas-redistricting-00448145

But in Texas, Republicans are in danger of creating a so-called dummymander, whereby an attempt to draw more seats for one party accidentally benefits the other. Texas’ congressional map already heavily favors the GOP, so any changes to further benefit the party would have to walk a careful line. Adding Republican voters to blue districts to reduce Democrats’ margins means taking those same voters out of the red districts where they reside. The result is more competitive districts across the board — ones Democrats hope to take advantage of as they harness anti-Trump energy in the midterms.

“They are playing a little bit of roulette with these maps,” said Rep. Julie Johnson (D-Texas). “In a wave election like what we have a potential opportunity for in ‘26 I think it makes these Republicans very vulnerable.”

Texas has 38 House seats, with 25 held by Republicans. Members of the state’s Democratic delegation huddled with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries as the redistricting talk ramped up, with follow-up meetings planned.

Jeffries warned in a statement Wednesday that an aggressive map could “result in making several incumbent House Republicans vulnerable to fierce general election challenges.”

“Republicans are cutting off their nose to spite their face,” he added.....

Democrats are almost certain to sue over whatever new maps are created in both Ohio and Texas, said John Bisognano, president of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee.

“I imagine we will have a lot to say about the map they create and the legalities of it,” he said Thursday.

On top of everything else, there is a trial going on with respect to the Texas maps that these efforts may affect.

This will be fun to watch

[Scott Alan Swaggerty]

49. Good question

[SheltieLover]

51. Never magats are uneducable.

[Skittles]

52. doesn't matter

too many voters in Texas vote repuke no matter what

[doc03]

56. It seems to be the Republican goal to make all local and federal governments

incompetent.

[JustAnotherGen]

58. They do

But the folks that vote for him hate the same people and things he does - so he gets a free pass.

[pinkstarburst]

61. There are lots of democrats in Texas

particularly in the urban areas like Austin, Dallas and Houston.

But I don't see Texas turning Blue anytime in the foreseeable future. You have to remember that Texas is a majority Hispanic state and is trending less white with every census. We saw in 2024 that many Hispanics vote conservatively and are moving right. I would not expect that Texas is going to get more progressive any time soon due to that large Hispanic population, but rather more conservative.

Though we can always hope.