Abbott talks nonesense: the MAGA movement is really afraid of Mamdani.

[applegrove]

He doesn't know what tariffs are or how they work, and how the Constitution works.

Great choice of leader Texas.

#USpol #TXpol #tariffs #GovernorAbbott

— David August ❌👑 (@davidaugust.bsky.social) 2025-11-04T00:00:21.081Z

[UTUSN]

1. K&R

[UpInArms]

2. Jeez

I did not think that anyone could be as utterly stupid

[applegrove]

4. Half the time they are playing dumb and just want

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scare the public. Some are always playing dumb.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. Yes. They know Democrats are not stupid and are not convinced by lies & idiocy. So

So Abbott and RepubliCONNERs only want stupid people.

[Biophilic]

3. That's really weird.

Of course he knows what a tariff is. I’m guessing he thinks his fellow Texans don’t.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. 1) What a dumbass. 2) He makes it sound like if say, Tanner Ray Whiskynuts

decided to himself “This job cleaning porta-pots at Space-X just isn’t as lucrative and intellectually stimulating as I’d been led to believe,” he would face a personal 100% tariff if he moved to NYC.

Sure, it makes NO SENSE. That’s why it’s plausible MAGA.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. All parties have beliefs. Democrats believe all people are basically equal. Ideology does not trump facts & logic.

That's what I get as your point. I am (we are) with you.

[LearnedHand]

7. Even stupider, why would a governer impose tariffs on new residents?

I mean I know it’s just stupo-theater, but it makes no sense at all. Why tax new state residents? And what would the tariff be applied to? Their personal possessions?

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Having worked in Dallas, Texas for 2 years, my question is , "Why the fu*k would anyone want to move there?"

[mwmisses4289]

9. Why does anyone move anywhere?

We moved back to be closer to elderly family and now adult children. Would we like to move back to where we lived before? In a heartbeat, but it has become unaffordable for us.

I often think with abbott, that when that tree branch fell on him, it not only messed up his body, it also fucked up what few brain cells he had.

[ananda]

14. I got out of Dallas at age 17 and never moved back.

I loved Houston for its culture and diversity.

Now I live in Austin where it's much safer
weather-wise. When you get old, you have
to think of these kinds of things.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. 1) You can only tariff possessions (slaves), not citizens.

1) You can only tariff possessions (slaves), not citizens.

2) Abbott thinks wives and children are possessions.

3) You'd think Abbott would welcome "patriots" fleeing the "communist", but he has shit for brains

[SSJVegeta]

13. Is his brain working?

[RainCaster]

17. what brain?

[reACTIONary]

15. I happen to be reading the Federalist Papers, so this strikes me as...

double bad stupid.

[czarjak]

16. You Baylor Baptists!

Righteousness2Spare

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. Abbott's inspirations: "Nearly a million New Yorkers plan to flee if Mamdani is elected mayor -report"

This is what is motivating Abbott. Posted not for endorsement of the Reich Wing site or viewpoints. Posted to help people understand Reich Wing memes. Copied from a Reich Wing website, and I'm not going to the Reich Wing American (non)Thinker site to verify it.

Nearly a million New Yorkers plan to flee if Mamdani is elected mayor -report
American Thinker ^ | 11/03/2025 | Monica Showalter

Nothing says 'socialism' like people fleeing from it. This is as true in New York, Illinois, and California as it was in the U.S.S.R., Venezuela, and Cuba. But the prospect of young and dogmatic socialist Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor of New York City has taken the phenomenon to a new level.

Mamdani's lead in the polls has narrowed, but he still leads by six points. The majority of New Yorkers have split their votes between disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and peripatic safety advocate Curtis Sliwa, divving up more than 50% of the vote it would otherwise be if the two united.

According to the New York Post:

Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers are prepared to bolt from the Big Apple if socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani wins Tuesday’s mayoral race — potentially setting the stage for the largest population flight in US history, an alarming new poll warned early Monday.

Around 765,000 people of the 8.4 million residents who call New York City home are preparing to leave, with about 9% of New Yorkers sharing that they would “definitely” leave the city if Mamdani is elected the 111th mayor, the Daily Mail reported, citing a survey conducted by J.L. Partners. If those residents were to leave, it would be equal to the population of Washington, DC, Las Vegas, or Seattle fleeing the city.

Thatt's [sic] quite the advertisement for the impact of socialism, which is to say, high prices, high taxes, unequal justice, lack of representation, lack of freedom, waste, fraud, ripoffs, crime, a lower standard of living, and a crummy, corrupt nomenklatura elite growing rich off the people who have to work for a living. Those are the 'fruits' of socialism, everywhere it is tried.

A note about polling: there are about 10% of any sample who will agree with any proposition, no matter how stupid. They will do so because they a) want to please the pollster / polling group, or b) don't understand the question, or c) just want to ratfuck the poll.

[Fil1957]

19. The only thing that's gonna do, is increase support for Mamdani. Trump's endorsement of Cuomo will help Mamdani even

more.

[RainCaster]

20. Texans don't get to vote in that election

Why is that moron so worried?

[PufPuf23]

21. Texas is or wants to be the strange attractor of stupid.

Abbott is the blackhole magnet at the center of the sucking in stupid.

[LudwigPastorius]

22. "...the MAGA movement is really afraid of Mamdani."

You know what scares Abbott?

[BidenRocks]

23. Abbot proves

He went to a Texas school.

They didn't even teach him the difference between shit and shinola!

[Renew Deal]

24. How exactly would that work?

Is he going to take peoples moving trucks?

[walkingman]

25. Any single borough in NYC has more sense than the entire State of Texas.