Governor Greg Abbot (Hey, Abbot! anyone remember that ... anyone?) of Texas has approved a new law burning any books he doesn’t like.
So far, this includes all books ever written by women, gay people, black people, Hispanic people, Asian people, Indigenous people, and goddamn hippies!
Also on the burning pyre will be all Orwell, Kafka, Margaret Atwood, Karl Marx and other “commie writers”, all Russian writers except those approved of by Vlad Putin, and any children’s books that “fail to depict a ‘normal’ family of a straight man, a straight women, and 2.5 kids. All white, of course.”
Abbot has deflected criticism that he is just like Hitler, who also enjoyed burning books, by saying, “I am smarter than books. Books are bad if they are bad books. Good books are good. I am read better every day so this good thing me doing, me name is Abbot – hey, Abbot! Anyone ‘member that, funny, me like to laugh.”
What a hilarious governor of an American state. Too bad there’s no criteria for any politician to have a fucking brain in their head before they’re given the power to decide things for millions for people. There are no philosopher-kings. (Abbot doesn’t know what that refers to, do you, Bud?)
