Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said he would “impose a 100 percent tariff” on New Yorkers moving to Texas.
“After the polls close tomorrow night, I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC,” the Republican wrote on X on Monday night.
Abbott’s post came on the eve of New York City’s mayoral election, in which Democrat Zohran Mamdani is the frontrunner. He is facing former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo—who is running as an independent after Mamdani emerged victorious in the Democratic primary in June—and Republican Curtis Sliwa.
They’re now using that word to mean… What exactly?
Prove the ignorance of Texas Republicans?
About 6 months ago I started tariffing things and people just in every day speech. Kid won’t eat his vegetables? Tariff. 5%. Keep it up, see how it goes, buddy. Water cooler empty at work? That’s a 10% tariff MINIMUM.
It sucks when your crafted absurdity has such a short shelf life because reality seems intent on anexing it.
Shit’s woke, yo! Put a tariff on it!
Don’t you fucking coup me! I’ll coup you!
Is “tariff” now the new “woke”? A term without any meaning that Republicans throw around just to give their brainless followers a starting point from which they can see their deluded fantasies as seemingly rooted in reality?
So something along the lines of: “100 percent tariffs will teach you what happens when you are woke” or some other stupid crap like that.
It’s hard to believe, but somehow US news are getting more absurd by the day, even though it should have reached rock bottom long ago…
They’ve always been doing this to language ever since I can remember. See how they misuse terms like “freedom”, “liberty”, “patriotic”, “political correctness”, “activist”, and on and on…
Orwell was spot on about the importance of controlling language
People think it’s NBD, but the Confederate Party, almost to a one, simply cannot bring themselves to say the proper name of the DemocratIC Party, too. It’d be one thing if it was just the yokels in the base, but no, it’s virtually all of them that simply refuse to say the actual name of the opposition party.
I sometimes wonder if that is not related to their other distortions.
And of course the compliant “liberal media” has never questioned them on this. Not that I’ve ever seen anyway. And the conservatives have been doing this for decades in a coordinated way. Just, for once, I’d like to see some reporter ask one of these assholes a rather basic question: “You know the correct name for the DemocratIC Party. Are you somehow unable to say it? Will you be cast out of the Republican Party?”
Never underestimate an idiot’s ability. You push them into a well and they’ll just keep digging down.
We get Texas commercials in Seattle, lmao. Who the fuck wants to willingly go there.
If you can find good Tex-mex food outside of Texas there’s really zero reason to go there.
Any New Yorker who actually chose to move to Texas would probably deserve it.
Can we just put a tariff on anyone entering Texas? Cut down on adminstration costs?
A guy cut me off in traffic today, so I tariffed the hell out him at the next light.
That’s what this idiot sounds like.
Does that mean NYC can bar Texans from trading on the NY stock exchange?
Let’s just ban Texas. From everything, everywhere.
The fuck does that even mean?
No one’s interested in your “lone star out of five” rated shithole of a state.
The conservatives are just complete assholes. That’s the ideology, full stop. A license to be a total asshole.
Fascist says some nonsense bullshit is always a distraction, never newsworthy and best left unshared.
This is epic nonsense bullshit and was shared because it is so fucking ridiculous it made me spit out my coffee.
Yeah, i feel that. I think that in this attention economy it’s important to focus on the real.
I don’t fully understand why the fascists want us all focusing on BS, but we shouldn’t be giving them what they want.
Uhh… 100% of what? Is that guy demented too?
This is hilarious. The only people who’d want to move to this shithole are the fucking horrible ones, so he’s doing exactly what trump is doing: trying to fuck over the people that support him.
If we want to buy a former new yorker, we now have to pay double?
Valentina Gomez, a Republican congressional candidate in Texas, wrote on X: “Greg, focus on lowering property taxes first. Hardworking people are losing their homes because of this.”
Popular MAGA influencer Gunther Eagleman wrote on X: “Good! Now abolish property taxes for us that live here.”
Ryan Fournier, a co-founder of the Students for Trump group, wrote on X: “Governor Abbott joked that he’d slap a 100% tariff on anyone moving from New York to Texas if Mamdani wins. Funny—but he’s not wrong. Stop fleeing liberal cities just to vote the same way you did there.”
So here we have a spectrum of Republicans.
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I mean honestly that on its own, in isolation, is pretty reasonable, Texas has massive property taxes compared to almost every other state, she’s telling Abbot to stop wasting time messaging gibberish to idiots, she’s worried about her potential constituents.
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Ok, so uh, I guess we just don’t need a functioning, funded government in Texas. Eagleman is apparently pro-shutdown of the state of Texas… Aka, a libertarian? At least this is possibly a conceptually understandable idea, regardless of how stupid that idea is.
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… and now we get to the head-desk level of stupid. Ryan, are the people who voted for Mamdani going to be leaving NYC? … No? No it would be Republicans. Democrats who hate Palestinians …who apparently aren’t Republican or bigotted enough, or … Texas enough? I legitimately don’t think this person could handle making a flow chart with like, more than 2 nodes.
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Someone tell Wheels that people are not products that are being imported.
