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IndridCold@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 11 hours ago

Greg Abbott threatens "100% tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas

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Greg Abbott threatens "100% tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas

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IndridCold@lemmy.ca to politics @lemmy.world · 11 hours ago
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As NYC elects its next mayor, Governor Greg Abbott said he would "impose a 100 percent tariff" on New Yorkers moving to Texas.
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  • IndridCold@lemmy.caOP
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    Wait. What? How does that even… I mean. Huh?

    Republicans are the stupidest mother fuckers in the world.

    • ccunning@lemmy.world
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      I think it means Texans will have to purchase one whole New Yorker for each New Yorker who moves to Texas?

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      I said tariff! Good day sir!

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    Talk about tilting at Windmills.

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    Hey Abbott, how’s the plan to personally prevent every rape in texas going?

    Someone needs to push his chair over

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      A cliff

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    What does that even mean?

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff

      A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer.

      Could be a slip that Texas is finally going to secede.

      Or his head has seceded from reality, no one rly knows

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      It will cost Texans twice as much to buy themselves a New Yorker?

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        they never got the cartoons anyway

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      I literally exclaimed that aloud to myself upon reading the headline.

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      Means he’s red, mad, and nude, as usual.

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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9do8LNIjs

    • IndridCold@lemmy.caOP
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      Tiggy Skibbles and I smoke teeth behind the monolith.

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    Twelve years later and oh how the turn tables

    Gov. Rick Perry announced Monday that he’s hitting the airwaves in California to tout business opportunities in Texas and invite Californians to migrate.

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      Rick Perry is now out there spreading the word about psychedelics, oddly enough.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        John Boehner toked up so that Rick Perry could trip balls.

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    He’s contracted Trump’s tendency to string words together without regard to their meaning.

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    Republicans punishing Republicans

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    How is that even legal?

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      It isn’t; the Privileges and Immunities clause of the constitution has been interpreted by previous SCOTUS decision to mean that people can move freely between the States without restrictions.

      However, reactionaries like Abbott know they have ideological allies in the current SCOTUS who are eager to overturn case law in order to advance their shared conservative project.

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      It’s not just not legal, it’s nonsensical. Like, what does it even mean? How would it even be enforced? It’s just virtue signaling.

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    That’s not how that works! That’s not how any of this works!

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