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.
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?
I will impose a 100% tariff on anyone moving to Texas from NYC
What the fuck does that even mean?
Me big important! Say big word! trump! win over woke!
Nobody knows what it means, but it’s provocative…
Seriously, they know republican voters still don’t know what a tarif is.
But they’re conditioned to support tarrifs and be against taxes, so Abbott can’t say he’s taxing them.
And he definitely can’t say it’s a “wealth tax”…
Like, dude went full circle and accidentally became a full on communist, probably without even realizing it.
Would republicans support taxing wealth if it’s the “right ethic group”
Germany totally “taxed” wealthy Jews at some point.
This is stupider…
He’s threatening to tax wealthy New Yorkers who leave NYC after Mamdani is elected.
He should be incentizing those moves to stoke fear the wealthy would flee NYC, or at least pretending to mean that so that common new yorkers might vote against their own best interests
Like, theyve been trying to use “the wealthy will leave” right up to election day, then 180’d to “the wealthy can’t leave”.
The wealthy are already voting for Cuomo
The wealthy are already voting for Cuomo
I wouldn’t assume that, I bet there are a bunch of wealthy cat ladies on Staten Island voting for Sliwa…
For every human that is moved into the state of Texas from New York you must transfer ownership of another human to the state.
Uhauls gonna get expensive!
It means that piss baby either doesn’t know tarrifs work, or that he’s just a lying shitbag that knows his retard supporters don’t know how tarrifs work
The conservatives are just complete assholes. That’s the ideology, full stop. A license to be a total asshole.
They’re now using that word to mean… What exactly?
Don’t you fucking coup me! I’ll coup you!
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.
Prove the ignorance of Texas Republicans?
Shit’s woke, yo! Put a tariff on it!
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.
No one’s interested in your “lone star out of five” rated shithole of a state.
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.
Texas is a massive rich petro-state with zero social safety net, I can’t think of a more stupid ideology about the best way to run things than the way people do in Texas.
The power grid bullshit alone is murderous to vulnerable people.
DO NOT move there!
DO NOT move there!
Roger, Roger
Look, if you’re a Star Wars droid, admit it! Then, you don’t even need food or shelter…
Moving as in home prices?
Joke’s on him, NYC folks are already so used to outrageous home prices they wouldn’t notice.
Does that mean NYC can bar Texans from trading on the NY stock exchange?
Let’s just ban Texas. From everything, everywhere.
Someone needs to “Mac and Me” Greg Abbott and his wheelchair.
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.
Oh, wait. This isn’t the Onion? I didn’t realize Abbott was that stupid.
Dude. Way.
If we want to buy a former new yorker, we now have to pay double?
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…
Texas is too big, we should split it up into 4 states.
With 6 additional senators?
Nothing different other than now they are 4 states.
With 4 times the senate votes
