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!
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.
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…
Never underestimate an idiot’s ability. You push them into a well and they’ll just keep digging down.
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?
The conservatives are just complete assholes. That’s the ideology, full stop. A license to be a total asshole.
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?
Someone needs to “Mac and Me” Greg Abbott and his wheelchair.
Oh, wait. This isn’t the Onion? I didn’t realize Abbott was that stupid.
Dude. Way.
Well tariffs are prices you charge the buyer when you move goods.
Doesn’t that mean Texans buying New Yorkers would pay a premium on owning humans?
I know they didn’t mean slavery, but it’s far more logical than what he thinks he is saying. And Texas was part of the confederacy sooo…
Someone tell Wheels that people are not products that are being imported.
