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Emile

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Tue Jan 14, 2025, 05:19 AM Tuesday

Texas governor orders state's flags raised to full-staff for Trump's inauguration

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) on Monday ordered the state’s flags be raised to full-staff on Inauguration Day, as President-elect Trump enters his second term in the White House.

The move disrupts the 30-day period of half-staff mourning issued by President Biden to honor the late President Carter. Biden ordered flags nationally to half-staff through sunset on Jan. 28. Abbott’s order would apply to all flags at the Texas Capitol and at state buildings on Jan. 20.

“Texas continues to mourn with our fellow Americans across the country over the passing of former President Jimmy Carter,” Abbott said in a statement. “President Carter’s steadfast leadership left a lasting legacy that will be felt for generations to come, which together as a nation we honor by displaying flags at half-staff for 30 days"

Read more at: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5082505-texas-governor-flags-raised-full-staff-trump-inauguration/

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Texas governor orders state's flags raised to full-staff for Trump's inauguration (Original Post) Emile Tuesday OP
Fuck abbott and the chair he rides in! joshdawg Tuesday #1
If you'd told me 20 years ago that a significant number of Americans tanyev Tuesday #2

tanyev

(44,928 posts)
2. If you'd told me 20 years ago that a significant number of Americans
Tue Jan 14, 2025, 08:03 AM
Tuesday

would be lining up to kiss the authoritarian ass of a man with the emotional maturity of a cranky toddler, I would have laughed and laughed and laughed.

Now here we are.

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