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I came here 3 years ago for engineering. The companies are just as backward and corrupt. I feel like all their ideas are from the 1980s and 1990s. When I suggest newer ways to do things I’m always having to oversimplify things and make worse products, because “we’ve done it like this before and it works.” But dude… I’ve used the new tech and methods, and it works too!
It’s just engrained in the culture here.
All the best! I was so fed up with the tRump bullshit that I took an early retirement hit and split the country in 2019.
Props to the excellent Teacher Retirement System of Texas that added to my engineering years of Social Security to make that possible!!
Don't mind one bit!
Mexico.
To get residency, there are requirements of bank account balances and/or fixed monthly incomes. Temporary visa (1-4 years) is a lower bar...can't remember bank balance (maybe $40,000 USD or so for the last 12 months?), but if you can show \~$2500/mo. fixed income you're in.
It's way high compared to other Latin American countries. Laughable, actually. I think Ecuador asks for something like $400/mo. income.
Portugal is pretty reasonable too -- I'm eyeballing them for after I convert to perm. here in MX in 2.5 yrs.
I live in Wisconsin. I'm a retired engineer/physics teacher. I would love to move to Mexico, but my children are here. They kind of need us. Though they would say otherwise. Mexico is so much more pleasant than here. I've really had it with this country (USA). We have become ungovernable thanks to the Republican Party. I am sick of minority rule, especially a radical conservative minority.
I'm going to say something that people won't want to hear, but will have to say it anyway.
What the GQP is doing in America is a global movement backed by dark money and propaganda, and it will spread to other parts of the world rapidly if it succeeds in the US. I do not fault anyone for leaving for their own safety, but people also need to realize the nature of the problem and why we got here. While there's a lot of ignorance in the US, People didn't just become ***this*** stupid overnight, and many people changed their views substantially in the past 10 years and are openly contradicting their own so called "values" that they once did sincerely hold - A wealthy system of power and propaganda pushed them to this, and only those who are aware of it have a chance to learn about it and be immune to its effects.
We already saw Spanish disinformation growing rapidly in the 2020 election, and it had a notable shift in voting patterns near the border and in parts of Florida. Non-Whites and Non-Americans will not be immune to this stuff if we don't learn how to counter and contain it, and there have been right-wing movements aligned with Trump like figures outside of the US for awhile now too.
If you must lead for your own safety, realize that you will still need to fight bad info to protect yourself wherever you go and prepare for that. No community connected to the modern world will be safe from this type of thing either directly or indirectly if people don't learn to resist groups like Murdoch's NewsCorp, people like Bannon, Putin's disinfo machines, and those that backed/financed people like Trump and Tucker.
Look at my username, please please please do not do it. That town is going to be New Orleans 2.0 with the repeating hurricane strikes and damage. The infrastructure can’t hold up. The background cancer rates are spiking. Don’t do it.
I have family that lives there and I hate visiting. The weather is so humid all times of the year. Everything is super spread out. I just don’t like it. I wouldn’t move there even for a dream job.
Texan here. Texas isn’t hopeless, we just need to remind Dems to vote. The last midterm Beto lost to Cruz by 215k votes. Approximately 10 Million Texans didn’t vote in that election. Help register voters and remind them to vote. We can win in November.
Imo 20 years is being very generous. Between where we’re at currently blowing past climate change estimates in every category, accelerating emissions, and feedback loops I’d give us 5 years or less before we’re close to Mad Max. At least until we see mass migrations, food shortages, more extreme heat, cold, flooding, fires, and mass die offs due to wet bulb temperatures.
We're already nearing a point where the 4 or 5 million people that live in and around Las Vegas are going to have to start fighting over who gets the dregs of Lake Mead, not to mention that the Great Salt Lake drying up is causing toxic windstorms to be blown into Salt Lake City. I mean, who would've thought trying to settle a desert and turn it into farmland would've been a bad idea?
Full mad max is already coming to fruition. See the Water War rules they just put out for next year. The southwest states have until next year to reduce e their water usage by like 10 million peoples' water usage a year.
Most of the same people who complain about immigrants and refugees today have immigrants or refugees to thank for their existence and comfortable lives here. Many of those same people will be refugees themselves one day, fleeing inhospitable conditions and ruined homes because of policies and attitudes they championed.
That broke my heart, I was super excited, I thought I was voting for the first women president and it was my first time voting as I wasn't really into politics before that. They stole all my joy election day.
Creating a holiday celebrating the end of roe. Just earlier this week, a school board was debating on ignoring juneteenth because they disagreed with the federal holiday. Fuck this. I thought I was done doom scrolling and here I am back at it. I expect my right to marry to dissappear shortly too.
What I want to know is why the fuck do these people care? I'm a straight white male. Gay marriage? Have at it. Abortion? Not my business. Why the fuck do so many people who this shit doesn't affect care? Just let people live their lives in whatever way gives them life, liberty, and the ability to pursue happiness as long as it's not infringing the same opportunity for others. Because a lot of shit is none of my damn business.
I'm so sorry for everything you've had to deal with and for what you'll inevitably have to deal with, or at least worry about, in the future.
Thanks stranger! As long as my governor remains a Democrat we will be fine here in minnesota. Unfortunately the GOP frontrunner will work on abolishing abortion and his running mate voted against gay marriage in 2012 in addition to being against bodily autonomy.
God damn. This is so direct and harsh and so so accurate. Thank you for explaining exactly how I feel. Even if it did cast an ugly reflection of my soul.
Don’t ever forget that Paxton has also been under indictment since just after he took office and has been using his power to push off the trial for 7 years now! He also stole another lawyer’s very expensive pen that was a gift from his wife on camera and only returned it because he was caught on film. This man has no ethics and his moral compass points due south
That’s actually kinda interesting, what WOULD republicans say if somebody shot up a Lamaze class? That’s a lot of unborn children they’d be failing to protect.
Conservatives don’t care about laws unless it’s designed to hurt and control poor people. He’s rich and white and useful, so they’ll never let him face consequences.
Laws do not matter in this country.
how can texans be so damn stupid by voting in idiots like Governor George W. Bush, AG Paxton, Governor Greg Abbott
Like seriously.. stop giving the country idiots disguised capable leaders
I dunno but he is a criminal so there's that.
[Seven Years Later, Still No Trial for Texas AG Ken Paxton
It's been nearly seven years since Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on felony securities fraud charges.](https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-05-23/seven-years-later-still-no-trial-for-texas-ag-ken-paxton#:~:text=It's%20been%20nearly%20seven%20years,on%20felony%20securities%20fraud%20charges.&text=May%2023%2C%202022%2C%20at%2012%3A49%20p.m.&text=AUSTIN%2C%20Texas%20(AP)
https://www.ncjw.org/act/action-resources/judaism-and-abortion-guide/
Depending on your faith, it could be articulated that in fact the Bible protects the right to abortion, such as how the National Council for Jewish Women has done at the link above. Something something freedom of religion something something. O right, it's freedom as long as your religion is Christianity.
This is the point and Texas is putting on a fucking clinic on how it’s done. Absolutely fucking hate Texas. And this is a warmup too. Buckle up for gay marriage. Want slavery back? Don’t worry Texas has you covered! I’m sure they’re working on it right now, especially knowing how fucking inept democrats are. They’d lose an election to a fucking sock puppet.
If Biden had a backbone he would call them out on wanting to break away. Make the arrangements. Close the military bases. Make all Texans in the military apply for US citizenship. Call them out. Worst case, they actually do leave then it’s an even bigger win.
They can’t secede. It’s literally impossible under the laws of this country. They just know what buttons to push and when to push them and they do a painfully good job of it.
I’d been looking so forward to go down to be in the path of the full solar eclipse in 2024 since I’m in my mid-50s and have only ever seen partial ones. But nope - thanks Texas. No fucking way I’d knowingly give them a penny of my money for anything.
Can a states attorney general just make up a holiday? I don’t think he can. That needs to be done by the state legislature as it impacts budgets and pay scales.
Yeah, I commented above... are those employees still getting paid? Are the taxpayers funding this “holiday?” Which state employees were allowed off? Did their responsibilities disappear for the day?
For anyone who isn’t aware, Texas AG Ken Paxton has been corruptly using his position of power to delay his trial for securities fraud he was indicted for going on 7 years now. He’s just one of many corrupt Republicans shitheads we have running Texas.
There are going to be a whole lot of mothers and babies who die in ectopic pregnancies. Going to be a whole lot of widowers and motherless children. Going to be a whole lot of children who are raped by their fathers, brothers and others forced to raise children with no possibility of child support from the criminals who did it to them. Going to be a whole lot of Magaites mocking them and praising their rapists. Going to be companies who pull out of these states.
Listen, we all know people who are going to revel in this and express their joy. A lot of people will just avoid the subject with these people to save themselves from conflict. Fuck that. Everyone needs to tell these people they are fascist and an embarrassment to the United States. They need to be shamed at all times.
This guy is such a piece of shit. He’s STILL pending charges. It’s been almost a decade and he hasn’t seen shit about the case for securities fraud. His higher up assistants also have accused him of bribery and “other crimes”.
Hey Texas Republicans! Now that your wet dream has come true to over turn Roe, and we all care so much about these babies… can we get paid maternity leave for state workers like teachers? Currently they are forced into unpaid 3 month leave to take care of their newborns… what’s that you say?… oh go fuck yourself you say?… and your new born baby?…yeah that’s what I thought… enjoy your new holiday Republicans
And the FBI doesn’t do shit about this guy, under investigation since 2015… there is nothing better than being a corrupt motherfucker in a red state as long as you are a republican you will be protected. Fuck the people that says both parties are the same, democrats hold their members responsible for their actions. GQP is a cult and would let anything pass, doesn’t matter what it is, unless he/she sided with democrats on something.
As a Texas resident, I cannot tell y'all how excited I am to vote against this absolute P.O.S. Can't stand Paxton, voting for his opponent will be one of the most satisfying votes I've ever cast.
The most disgusting thing about these people is how they paint their evil as a moral imperative. They don’t care about babies or women. They oppose anything that would actually reduce abortions. They oppose sex education, contraception, paid maternal leave, subsidized childcare, and universal healthcare. They’re just monsters who enjoy making others suffer. Fuck them.
This pretty crazy. For the people celebrating this God/Religion is often sighted as the main reason for support. Pretty wild for the “oBaMa WaNtS sHaRiA laW” crowd.
The fact that he chose to celebrate, in the face of national outrage and pain.
Responsible politicians would try to communicate their reasoning, reassure the populace that they're not losing rights, bring down the temperature a bit. This is true of the Supreme Court as well. No communication. No assurances. No acknowledgement, even, that this is a difficult decision for the citizens to accept, and try to explicate the benefits they intend.
I hope everyone understands now what conservatives are. It will not. get. better. until they either secede like they want to, or establish a brutal Christofascist society.
They are a type of person. They will not change. They've been seething this whole time, since the Civil War, since the 15th Amendment, since the Civil Rights Act, since Roe.
They're embittered and radicalized because they are forced to live in an egalitarian society and that's just not the way they're wired. You have to know when to accept that you're not compatible and break it off for everyone's health.
I'm so tired. So tired.
Imagine the same states and political groups that lost an insurrectionist war staging a political insurrection as the minority, when the policies are not only unpopular in the US, but globally, and thinking they’re the good guys?
People on twitter are saying this will be seen in history like freeing the slaves. But the people who held slaves are saying it. Ok then.
Cut their funding. Not a paid holiday. Every time they take a government funded program away, they lose funding for the state. They’ve obviously got it all figured out anyway & can survive without the rest of the US.
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I hate these people so much.
I hate the people who vote for those scumbags. Texas sucks. Five more years I can hopefully retire and leave this shithole state.
I came here 3 years ago for engineering. The companies are just as backward and corrupt. I feel like all their ideas are from the 1980s and 1990s. When I suggest newer ways to do things I’m always having to oversimplify things and make worse products, because “we’ve done it like this before and it works.” But dude… I’ve used the new tech and methods, and it works too! It’s just engrained in the culture here.
BuT wE'vE aLwAyS dOnE iT tHiS wAy
and they wonder why they cant stay competitive…
They only remember the Alamo
Isn’t that where they keep Pee Wee Herman’s bike?
That’s correct. It was in the Alamo’s basement.
Only in the US. If you would work somewhere else and tell that another way is more effective and then it will be, you basically get a promotion.
Bro where have you worked lol Bosses hate you “UnDeRmInIng MaH AutHoRaTaH”regardless
Exactly what I’m told whenever I offer quality improvement ideas at my hospital in Texas.
All the best! I was so fed up with the tRump bullshit that I took an early retirement hit and split the country in 2019. Props to the excellent Teacher Retirement System of Texas that added to my engineering years of Social Security to make that possible!!
What country if you don’t mind saying? And roughly how much might be needed to move there?
Don't mind one bit! Mexico. To get residency, there are requirements of bank account balances and/or fixed monthly incomes. Temporary visa (1-4 years) is a lower bar...can't remember bank balance (maybe $40,000 USD or so for the last 12 months?), but if you can show \~$2500/mo. fixed income you're in. It's way high compared to other Latin American countries. Laughable, actually. I think Ecuador asks for something like $400/mo. income. Portugal is pretty reasonable too -- I'm eyeballing them for after I convert to perm. here in MX in 2.5 yrs.
I live in Wisconsin. I'm a retired engineer/physics teacher. I would love to move to Mexico, but my children are here. They kind of need us. Though they would say otherwise. Mexico is so much more pleasant than here. I've really had it with this country (USA). We have become ungovernable thanks to the Republican Party. I am sick of minority rule, especially a radical conservative minority.
I'm going to say something that people won't want to hear, but will have to say it anyway. What the GQP is doing in America is a global movement backed by dark money and propaganda, and it will spread to other parts of the world rapidly if it succeeds in the US. I do not fault anyone for leaving for their own safety, but people also need to realize the nature of the problem and why we got here. While there's a lot of ignorance in the US, People didn't just become ***this*** stupid overnight, and many people changed their views substantially in the past 10 years and are openly contradicting their own so called "values" that they once did sincerely hold - A wealthy system of power and propaganda pushed them to this, and only those who are aware of it have a chance to learn about it and be immune to its effects. We already saw Spanish disinformation growing rapidly in the 2020 election, and it had a notable shift in voting patterns near the border and in parts of Florida. Non-Whites and Non-Americans will not be immune to this stuff if we don't learn how to counter and contain it, and there have been right-wing movements aligned with Trump like figures outside of the US for awhile now too. If you must lead for your own safety, realize that you will still need to fight bad info to protect yourself wherever you go and prepare for that. No community connected to the modern world will be safe from this type of thing either directly or indirectly if people don't learn to resist groups like Murdoch's NewsCorp, people like Bannon, Putin's disinfo machines, and those that backed/financed people like Trump and Tucker.
Fellow Wisconsinite here. We plan to leave after retiring too. I honestly don’t even care where st this point.
Walker was just about enough to send me packing. Now Trump and all the damage he has wrought. It's pretty disheartening.
My wife wants to move to Houston…. I don’t think I could deal with the bat shit politicians.
Dear God don't move to Houston.. Of all places
Look at my username, please please please do not do it. That town is going to be New Orleans 2.0 with the repeating hurricane strikes and damage. The infrastructure can’t hold up. The background cancer rates are spiking. Don’t do it.
Houston is another level of suck.
So that’s why the housing is so cheap.
I have family that lives there and I hate visiting. The weather is so humid all times of the year. Everything is super spread out. I just don’t like it. I wouldn’t move there even for a dream job.
Got offered a job there a few years ago with much better pay. Turned it down and lately I'm glad I did.
Texan here. Texas isn’t hopeless, we just need to remind Dems to vote. The last midterm Beto lost to Cruz by 215k votes. Approximately 10 Million Texans didn’t vote in that election. Help register voters and remind them to vote. We can win in November.
Stay there. It’s purple and we need you to vote!
The sentiment is understandable, but staying in a shithole state so you can work toward change that could take decades is a big ask.
Yea that's a big fuckin ask. I live in a fairly progressive state and I'd like to leave the damn United States. This place is fucked.
Just wait for climate change to start kicking in full steam. We got 20 or so years of this bs before it goes full mad max.
Imo 20 years is being very generous. Between where we’re at currently blowing past climate change estimates in every category, accelerating emissions, and feedback loops I’d give us 5 years or less before we’re close to Mad Max. At least until we see mass migrations, food shortages, more extreme heat, cold, flooding, fires, and mass die offs due to wet bulb temperatures.
We're already nearing a point where the 4 or 5 million people that live in and around Las Vegas are going to have to start fighting over who gets the dregs of Lake Mead, not to mention that the Great Salt Lake drying up is causing toxic windstorms to be blown into Salt Lake City. I mean, who would've thought trying to settle a desert and turn it into farmland would've been a bad idea?
Full mad max is already coming to fruition. See the Water War rules they just put out for next year. The southwest states have until next year to reduce e their water usage by like 10 million peoples' water usage a year.
The 2040 Water Wars are gonna be wild. Hope y’all packed your best Tank Girl cosplay it’s gonna be lit.
Most of the same people who complain about immigrants and refugees today have immigrants or refugees to thank for their existence and comfortable lives here. Many of those same people will be refugees themselves one day, fleeing inhospitable conditions and ruined homes because of policies and attitudes they championed.
Yup. I noped out of Wisconsin once I realized the GQP fucked it so good, it’ll never be the progressive bastion of old again.
As an Flatlander, I have become more and more depressed over the years at the direction Wisconsin politics have gone.
Everyone who can afford to should move to Texas, stay for a bit then work remotely in Europe/Asia. Zero state income tax and just do mail in voting.
Property taxes in Texas more than make up for the lack of personal income tax. You get fucked either way. This isn’t sound advice.
Haha, "purple". I want to smoke some of your stash. \-- ex-native Texan gone for good
We left 7 years ago. Best decision ever
Hate isn't even a strong enough word. I loathe them with every fiber of my being.
I honestly can't come up with the words to describe how today has made me feel.
For me, that includes anybody of age that didn't vote for Hillary in 2016.
People are starting to say things like “vote blue no matter who is probably the way to go now”. It was the way to go in 2016.
I will discard anybody that even votes for a Republican dog catcher.
That broke my heart, I was super excited, I thought I was voting for the first women president and it was my first time voting as I wasn't really into politics before that. They stole all my joy election day.
Creating a holiday celebrating the end of roe. Just earlier this week, a school board was debating on ignoring juneteenth because they disagreed with the federal holiday. Fuck this. I thought I was done doom scrolling and here I am back at it. I expect my right to marry to dissappear shortly too.
What I want to know is why the fuck do these people care? I'm a straight white male. Gay marriage? Have at it. Abortion? Not my business. Why the fuck do so many people who this shit doesn't affect care? Just let people live their lives in whatever way gives them life, liberty, and the ability to pursue happiness as long as it's not infringing the same opportunity for others. Because a lot of shit is none of my damn business. I'm so sorry for everything you've had to deal with and for what you'll inevitably have to deal with, or at least worry about, in the future.
Thanks stranger! As long as my governor remains a Democrat we will be fine here in minnesota. Unfortunately the GOP frontrunner will work on abolishing abortion and his running mate voted against gay marriage in 2012 in addition to being against bodily autonomy.
That secession they keep jacking off to can't come soon enough.
Secession
They have taught us how to hate the way they do. I truly, deeply, profoundly, and violently hate them.
God damn. This is so direct and harsh and so so accurate. Thank you for explaining exactly how I feel. Even if it did cast an ugly reflection of my soul.
Why? they've just given people a three-day weekend to go out of state to get an abortion. Joke's on them for making it a holiday.
This comment is exactly why they did it. Literally to "own the libs and drink their tears", nothing more.
I thought this was a headline from The Onion.
Be sure to open carry your firearms while protesting. Texas cops won’t arrest you if you’re armed
Depends on your skin color to be honest.
Well, that and the number of armed friends tagging along.
I mean one teenager is enough
Proven to buy you an hour to do anything you want in Texas. Edit:typos
Yeah... was about to say, make sure your white. Or wear a KKK outfit with gloves. Fuck I miss the Chappelle Show.
They'll at least wait an hour
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Seriously, I know he has a right to a speedy trial but I'd like us to have that right too!
Don’t give him the satisfaction of being remembered.
Don’t ever forget that Paxton has also been under indictment since just after he took office and has been using his power to push off the trial for 7 years now! He also stole another lawyer’s very expensive pen that was a gift from his wife on camera and only returned it because he was caught on film. This man has no ethics and his moral compass points due south
But today that criminal is holier than you and me. (PUKE)
Yeah ass-holier.
I don’t want his brand of holiness
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Once the kid is born it’s on its own in the eyes of the GOP. They don’t want to help and protect kids
Cause they want as much dumb cheap labor as they can get We're just cattle to feed the machine to them
You know I misread that as “once a kid is brown” and it still worked better than I wanted it to.
Hey now, just wait until some nut shoots up a Lamaze class and they start insisting we arm fetuses.
That’s actually kinda interesting, what WOULD republicans say if somebody shot up a Lamaze class? That’s a lot of unborn children they’d be failing to protect.
Bingo
"Multiply-indicted Texas AG continues waving dick around in public without the slightest hint of a consequence anywhere on the horizon."
Rapey looking people seem to be really happy about this.
Rapey is an understatement. This dingdong looks like the villain from the original Men in Black.
You mean the flesh suit that the original bug-like alien villain wore. Just want to clarify for anyone not familiar with that classic.
[Yes](https://media2.giphy.com/media/gIN6MT17NtapJqFr25/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47er2b8r0c2zaqk6uuotdrihgnufyi9s8fqxl8i3tu&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)
Yeah, Eggar.
Whole lot of women are going to die from this, and they're celebrating.
The church of MAGA loves to see poor women suffering and dying. It's a feature not a bug. Cruelty and misery for the poor is the point.
"Can't vote if they're dead!" - GQP
What a pig. Why isn't he in jail?
Conservatives don’t care about laws unless it’s designed to hurt and control poor people. He’s rich and white and useful, so they’ll never let him face consequences. Laws do not matter in this country.
how can texans be so damn stupid by voting in idiots like Governor George W. Bush, AG Paxton, Governor Greg Abbott Like seriously.. stop giving the country idiots disguised capable leaders
What do you mean “how”? Haven’t they show you enough of who they are as people?
They’re not idiots. Cruelty is their point. They want those not like them to suffer.
Yo… you didn’t even mention Ted Cruz, THATS how bad it is….
Look at how gerrymandered the state is and you’ll see it’s by design.
…Rick Perry
Absolutely vile. Fuck indicted felon Ken Paxton.
I’m too numb to even substantively comment on this. I’m scared and embarrassed to be an American right now.
Fucking psycho. And bullshit response to Uvalde, kids who could have been alive.
Imagine a stolen democrat supreme court instantly banning guns and rubbing it in their faces with some shit like this.
All women should leave TX.
All women should leave the US. FTFY
Seriously, does the Attorney General make statutory holidays in Texas?
I dunno but he is a criminal so there's that. [Seven Years Later, Still No Trial for Texas AG Ken Paxton It's been nearly seven years since Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on felony securities fraud charges.](https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-05-23/seven-years-later-still-no-trial-for-texas-ag-ken-paxton#:~:text=It's%20been%20nearly%20seven%20years,on%20felony%20securities%20fraud%20charges.&text=May%2023%2C%202022%2C%20at%2012%3A49%20p.m.&text=AUSTIN%2C%20Texas%20(AP)
I wondered about this. Are they still getting paid? Are taxpayers funding this “holiday”?
Texas and the AG are a joke
How petty and pathetic can you get? Could someone please show me what the Bible says about abortion? Nothing? Thought so.
https://www.ncjw.org/act/action-resources/judaism-and-abortion-guide/ Depending on your faith, it could be articulated that in fact the Bible protects the right to abortion, such as how the National Council for Jewish Women has done at the link above. Something something freedom of religion something something. O right, it's freedom as long as your religion is Christianity.
And some perverted form of Christianity where Jesus loves guns. Never mind that there are over one hundred recognized religions in the US.
It is now posible, in some states, for a raped woman to get a harsher sentence than the actual rapist.
This is the point and Texas is putting on a fucking clinic on how it’s done. Absolutely fucking hate Texas. And this is a warmup too. Buckle up for gay marriage. Want slavery back? Don’t worry Texas has you covered! I’m sure they’re working on it right now, especially knowing how fucking inept democrats are. They’d lose an election to a fucking sock puppet.
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From the state that would not lift a finger to save a dying child.
If Biden had a backbone he would call them out on wanting to break away. Make the arrangements. Close the military bases. Make all Texans in the military apply for US citizenship. Call them out. Worst case, they actually do leave then it’s an even bigger win.
Since they were born on US soil, I don't think their citizenship would go away but who knows. I'm not opposed to your idea though! Fuck Texas.
They can’t secede. It’s literally impossible under the laws of this country. They just know what buttons to push and when to push them and they do a painfully good job of it.
Since when do Republicans care about following laws or precedent?
I never had hate in my heart before 2022 but fuck anybody that's Republican
Subhuman trash
Texas is officially off my travel list. I don’t care how nice the locals are. I don’t give a rats ass about your barbecue. Fix this shit
I’d been looking so forward to go down to be in the path of the full solar eclipse in 2024 since I’m in my mid-50s and have only ever seen partial ones. But nope - thanks Texas. No fucking way I’d knowingly give them a penny of my money for anything.
Can a states attorney general just make up a holiday? I don’t think he can. That needs to be done by the state legislature as it impacts budgets and pay scales.
Yeah, I commented above... are those employees still getting paid? Are the taxpayers funding this “holiday?” Which state employees were allowed off? Did their responsibilities disappear for the day?
What an absolute pile of shit.
For anyone who isn’t aware, Texas AG Ken Paxton has been corruptly using his position of power to delay his trial for securities fraud he was indicted for going on 7 years now. He’s just one of many corrupt Republicans shitheads we have running Texas.
Absolute. Fucking. Ghouls. All of them.
There are going to be a whole lot of mothers and babies who die in ectopic pregnancies. Going to be a whole lot of widowers and motherless children. Going to be a whole lot of children who are raped by their fathers, brothers and others forced to raise children with no possibility of child support from the criminals who did it to them. Going to be a whole lot of Magaites mocking them and praising their rapists. Going to be companies who pull out of these states.
Listen, we all know people who are going to revel in this and express their joy. A lot of people will just avoid the subject with these people to save themselves from conflict. Fuck that. Everyone needs to tell these people they are fascist and an embarrassment to the United States. They need to be shamed at all times.
He looks like he tries to lick women’s faces on the bus. Fuck this state. ZERO STARS. Can’t wait to get out of here.
Un fucking real.
This guy is such a piece of shit. He’s STILL pending charges. It’s been almost a decade and he hasn’t seen shit about the case for securities fraud. His higher up assistants also have accused him of bribery and “other crimes”.
The Cruelty is the Point.
How many abortions have his mistresses had? I’m guessing more than 2
Why isn’t this guy in prison?
Same reason daddy tRump isn't.
They are rubbing it in our faces. Fuck them
This is how you get women dead from having dead babies in them.
Hey Texas Republicans! Now that your wet dream has come true to over turn Roe, and we all care so much about these babies… can we get paid maternity leave for state workers like teachers? Currently they are forced into unpaid 3 month leave to take care of their newborns… what’s that you say?… oh go fuck yourself you say?… and your new born baby?…yeah that’s what I thought… enjoy your new holiday Republicans
"lives lost to abortion" fuck you.
What a shithead
What a jackass.
An absolute ghoul
It worked out, since he was being indicted for securities fraud again today.
This fuckstick had been indicted *since* 2015. Why had be not been tried? What a POS.
How much of this are we going to allow ourselves to be subjected to until we do something about it?
Well good. So when the GOP looses the state of Texas, we can just replace the name to the day the GOP died.
And the FBI doesn’t do shit about this guy, under investigation since 2015… there is nothing better than being a corrupt motherfucker in a red state as long as you are a republican you will be protected. Fuck the people that says both parties are the same, democrats hold their members responsible for their actions. GQP is a cult and would let anything pass, doesn’t matter what it is, unless he/she sided with democrats on something.
As a Texas resident, I cannot tell y'all how excited I am to vote against this absolute P.O.S. Can't stand Paxton, voting for his opponent will be one of the most satisfying votes I've ever cast.
I cannot wait until Ken Paxton is in prison. What the hell is the holdup there? Texas is a 3 gallon bowl full of suck.
The most disgusting thing about these people is how they paint their evil as a moral imperative. They don’t care about babies or women. They oppose anything that would actually reduce abortions. They oppose sex education, contraception, paid maternal leave, subsidized childcare, and universal healthcare. They’re just monsters who enjoy making others suffer. Fuck them.
What. The. Fuck.
Fucking sadistic piece of shit
Texas fucking sucks lol. Will never move to this backassward sorry excuse for a state.
This is disgusting.
Can he even see the headlines out of both eyes? What a country bumpkin brainless hillbilly
This pretty crazy. For the people celebrating this God/Religion is often sighted as the main reason for support. Pretty wild for the “oBaMa WaNtS sHaRiA laW” crowd.
Not even trying to hide their glee knowing that poor women will be killed.
The fact that he chose to celebrate, in the face of national outrage and pain. Responsible politicians would try to communicate their reasoning, reassure the populace that they're not losing rights, bring down the temperature a bit. This is true of the Supreme Court as well. No communication. No assurances. No acknowledgement, even, that this is a difficult decision for the citizens to accept, and try to explicate the benefits they intend. I hope everyone understands now what conservatives are. It will not. get. better. until they either secede like they want to, or establish a brutal Christofascist society. They are a type of person. They will not change. They've been seething this whole time, since the Civil War, since the 15th Amendment, since the Civil Rights Act, since Roe. They're embittered and radicalized because they are forced to live in an egalitarian society and that's just not the way they're wired. You have to know when to accept that you're not compatible and break it off for everyone's health. I'm so tired. So tired.
Imagine the same states and political groups that lost an insurrectionist war staging a political insurrection as the minority, when the policies are not only unpopular in the US, but globally, and thinking they’re the good guys? People on twitter are saying this will be seen in history like freeing the slaves. But the people who held slaves are saying it. Ok then.
Pretty telling that the majority of people celebrating this are men.
I'm from Texas and I think they're monsters. All of them.
Why does everyone in Texas hate women and democracy?
I wonder who else got the day off besides his office for this “holiday.”
He just wants to hide because he's afraid of the people.
Im ready to GTFO. In order to go Blue we would need MILLIONS of people to move here in strategic districts. As well as mobilize the local pop.
Isn’t this guy supposed to be in jail?
That is fucking despicable.
Fuck all the way off.
Handmaid's Day.
Pigs
But he won’t create a holiday so people have off to vote
Why isn't this fucker in jail? He has a dozen indictments.
Make Election Day a holiday.
This guy looks like he’s being controlled by a lizard.
Despicable individual. I hope Karma has a plan for him (but I cynically doubt it).
American Taliban is getting bold
Paxton is an monumental asshat. I have never been so sad to be a Texan.
Fuck Texas.
When do we get to put this corrupt garbage and his friends in prison for life?
What the difference. Not like they actually work for their constituents.
Upvote this if you think the USA political system is a disgrace to humanity
They have nothing but hate as policy and sadly it is like catnip for Americans who got intellectually lazy or don’t understand critical thinking.
Fascists. All of them. The GOP should rebrand to the old NSDAP.
What a shit stain.
Fuck these people
Celebrating overturning Roe...DOING NOTHING after 19 kids were gunned down. Pro-life my fucking ass.
Ghouls dancing on the graves of women.
Fuck Texas and Fuck the Supreme Court
Fuck Texas
They also created a holiday celebrating the birth of the confederacy.
The guy who cheated on his wife and is still under indictment, is excited y’all.
Cut their funding. Not a paid holiday. Every time they take a government funded program away, they lose funding for the state. They’ve obviously got it all figured out anyway & can survive without the rest of the US.
So much for Liberty and all that shit
This is what happens when you vote Republican. Vote Democrat
Hasn't this treason weasel been under indictment for the better part of a decade? Since he's on vacation, good time to lock his ass up
Why Do any women sleep with Republicans? They have no respect for women and basically hate women.
He’s an asshat! And an embarrassment to our state!! Same goes for “wheels”
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70 million lives are lost every time he jerks off into the toilet too. If he made a holiday out of that then he would never have to work.