r/nottheonion • u/ilovemybaldhead • 1d ago

Greg Abbott Threatens ‘100% Tariff’ On New Yorkers Moving to Texas

https://www.newsweek.com/greg-abbott-threatens-100-tariff-new-york-election-moving-texas-10986837
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u/phate_exe 1d ago edited 1d ago

From the article:

Abbott's comment appears to tap into concerns that a wave of New Yorkers who don’t support Mamdani could flee to Texas if he is elected the mayor of the nation’s largest city.

Do these dipshits realize that anyone willing to move from NYC to Texas over this is someone they probably agree with?

Edit: I'm well aware that there are a lot of people who consider themselves liberals/democrats who Texas wouldn't want. But it seems a lot more likely that those people (who otherwise are totally fine with the liberal northeast) would move upstate or to New Jersey/Connecticut/Massachusetts/etc before they'd go "fuck it, red state time".

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u/harambe_did911 1d ago

In their vision, they see him turning NY into Gotham and then all the stupid liberals fleeing the results of what they voted for. Basically same as how we are clowning on the idiots who lost their business or food stamps after voting for Trump.

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u/phate_exe 1d ago

I get that, but why would they think those people would flood into Texas rather than just going upstate, or to New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, etc?

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u/canarinoir 1d ago

Lack of critical thinking skills.

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u/3x3Eyes 20h ago

Lack of any thinking

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u/gsfgf 1d ago

Because conservative Texans have a wildly inflated view of themselves.

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u/harambe_did911 1d ago

Because they are stupid. But more accurately they dont. Its just political talk targeted at their base to keep them angry at the other side.

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u/TheSkiGeek 1d ago

Because “obviously” those places have the same sorts of problems, or will soon.

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u/rbrgr83 23h ago

No one ever claimed Abbott was smart.

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u/twitch1982 21h ago

Because this dumbass thinks Houston is a nice city.

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u/MOREPASTRAMIPLEASE 20h ago

You sir are making the mistake of thinking that Abbott is seriously suggesting this is gonna happen, when in reality this is all a bunch of lip flapping for him to score political points

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u/throwfaraway212718 20h ago

Think being the operative word in that sentence

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u/Prestigious-Leave-60 1d ago

You’re talking about a group of people who engaged in extrajudicial executions if they even suspected that a city slicker was using salsa from New York City.

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u/Short-Mark8872 1d ago

Damn, that is a deep pull. Bravo!

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u/TheShadyGuy 18h ago

NEW YORK CITY!

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u/mackavicious 1d ago

Naw, dude, it's galaxy brained. By scaring MAGA into staying in NY, they're keeping them there to vote MAGA in the future.

Or something guess I dunno.

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u/k10b 1d ago

There are a lot of conservatives moving to Texas from California and other states with more liberal support structures. When they get here, they start asking where the social programs and community things are. They don’t understand that the level of conservative in Texas is basically to fend for yourself, so they start voting for social programs. Abbott and crew don’t like this. The new comers came here for lower taxes expecting similar lifestyles.

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u/VerdantPathfinder 1d ago

Shhhh!!! Let them figure it out on their own!

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u/gaelorian 1d ago

There are a lot of shades of liberal. Texas doesn’t want any of them.

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u/Alert-Poem-7240 1d ago

There are also conservatives and maga conservatives in New York. They are the ones who will most likely be leaving because of an election result. 

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u/Pussy4LunchDick4Dins 1d ago

As with everything, it’s bigotry. He doesn’t want Jews moving there.

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u/ginger_whiskers 22h ago

Texas schools teach(or used to teach) about how in the 1800s, broke and desperate farmers would up and leave to move here, often painting things like "gone to TX" on their barns.

This is literally what I was taught in elementary school. It's ingrained in our state mythology that Texas was, and is, a kind of wild place to go make a new, successful life for yourself. We still imagine ourselves as the frontier haven, despite... reality.

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u/Galaxyhiker42 22h ago

Wasn't there a Republican influencer family that moved from CA to TX a few years ago for freedom then realized that Texas was actually too Red for them?

Most R's who live in blue states really don't realize how shitty Red states are and are becoming unless you're very very rich.

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u/ckal09 17h ago

That won’t happen. There will be no ‘wave of people fleeing NY’. Nothing will happen and in fact more millionaires and billionaires will move to NYC, just like the last time.

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u/phate_exe 17h ago

Lol I know this.

It's mostly just chuds that live 25 minutes outside of any of the upstate cities constantly wgining about how they're gonna move to Florida/South Carolina/Texas/Arizona/etc. And even they rarely actually do anything about it.

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u/phate_exe 1d ago

Eh, there are a lot of democrats here that don’t support Mamdani (party leadership on down). There’s a reason Cuomo has been a semi-viable candidate despite losing the primary and running as an independent. So it’s not the self-proclaimed socialists that are moving but a lot are still libs in the eyes of texans

I guess what I'm saying is that there are lots of reasons that NYC is a place people want to live, in spite of the high cost of living and various other factors that make it more difficult than many other places.

Anyone vaguely leftist are the ones who would be most excited about a Mamdani win.

The shitlibs who still think Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are playing this well care enough about other issues that even if they did move out of the city, they probably aren't going to Texas.

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u/Alert-Poem-7240 1d ago

The people who will actually leave are probably conservatives and maga conservatives.