A Look Back at 2021 - Texas Roundup

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🗓️ 28 December 2021

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Ronny Chieng highlights bad news from Texas in 2021, including the state's harmful response to the COVID-19 crisis, restrictions on voting access, its attack on abortion rights and more.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:02.7	Ow!
0:05.7	Howdy partners, I'm here in Texas.
0:09.0	The state that grabbed 2021 by the horns and made it is bitch.
0:13.1	Yee-haw!
0:14.4	Everything that happened this year happened in Texas, the border crisis,
0:19.7	QAnon resurrecting JFK Jr.
0:22.2	Me developing a crippling dependency on brisket.
0:26.2	Of course, Texas wouldn't have had such a big year without its governor Greg Abbott.
0:35.1	He banned mass mandates.
0:36.7	He banned vaccine mandates.
0:38.2	He banned vaccine cards because the best way to fight COVID is your freedom.
0:43.7	And I see you, Ben.
0:44.7	But we ran out because of all the COVID.
0:47.4	Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill!
0:50.4	And maybe some Texas haters will say that Abbott didn't do enough to suppress COVID
0:54.7	cases.
0:55.7	Well, sorry, you were too busy trying to suppress something else.
0:59.6	If enacted, the Texas voting legislation would end right through and 24 hour voting, including
1:05.5	prohibiting Sunday voting before 1 p.m., which critics say unfairly impacts black voters.
1:11.5	What's a stake then?
1:12.7	Effectively, the voting rights of black Texans.
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