Hands should be smaller

Nice.

Looking back on the case 40 years later, Don Riddle, Abbott’s personal injury lawyer at the time, agrees that Texas has changed.

“It would be next to impossible to get the kind of settlement we got,” Riddle told Chron Monday.

They still made it very difficult. It may not be completely pulling the ladder up behind him, but he for sure knocked out a lot of rungs.

Fun fact: Texas Governor Greg Abbott had his spine broken, resulting in his paralysis, while out jogging in his youth. He successfully sued and won millions in damages. Then campaigned on stopping “frivolous” lawsuits and helped institute that cap.

https://www.chron.com/politics/article/greg-abbott-tree-lawsuit-explained-19574621.php

Classic Republican “Fuck you, I got mine”.

You guys, I found what Karoline Leavitt is doing now.

Yeah it’s not a new playbook…

In 60 years, they’ll say the same about something else we all use. Not just the obvious like plastic, something we genuinely think is awesome right now.

Not likely. People knew in 1921 when, tetraethyl lead was being added to gasoline, that it was extremely hazardous. They just, as is the style, got bought out by lobbyists.

Thomas Midgley Jr. was one of the worst people in history, maybe accidentally, maybe not.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/one-man-disaster-scientist-who-36285595