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AUSTIN (The Borowitz Report)Texas Governor Greg Abbott said that he was actively considering additional measures to prevent people from wanting to ever set foot in the state.
Although he acknowledged that new laws banning most abortions, restricting voting, and allowing citizens to carry a gun without a permit or training would dissuade many from visiting Texas, Abbott said that theres more we can do.
Maybe we pass a law that says when you have to go to bed every night, or when youre allowed to use a hair dryer, he said. We need to put our thinking caps on.
Just spitballing here, but what if we mandated that every visitor to Texas got bitten by a dog or poked with a stick of some kind? he said. Ill be damned if that wouldnt do the trick.
Even as he works overtime thinking up with new ideas to alienate potential visitors to Texas, he admitted he was surprised that anyone still wanted to come. Honestly, I thought me being Governor would be enough to keep people out, he said.
Short article, no more at link: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/abbott-considering-other-measures-to-prevent-people-from-ever-setting-foot-in-texas
Photograph by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post / Getty
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Borowitz should have included or do business with companies in that hellhole state.
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)And I'd have to include Florida on my list, considering the Covid rate there now. But there are those in my neck-of-the-woods who are still planning to head there as soon as the weather turns cold, on Sunday I talked with a very nice woman who is still planning to head back there next month.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Does she know?
Glad boycots are starting!
Really should be all these hellhole red states.
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)And I haven't seen her elderly Dad at any meeting since. I have no idea what's up with him, I just hope he's not ill.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Glad you have the sense to stay away!
Diamond_Dog
(31,992 posts)Ive never had any desire to visit Texas, either.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Rebl2
(13,500 posts)FL, MO, KS, IA, MT, and on and on. Unfortunately I live in one of them.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Me, too. TN.
Glorfindel
(9,729 posts)I made sure not to eat or drink anything or touch any dirt, so I don't consider I have ever been in T***s at all. It will certainly never be a destination for me.
2naSalit
(86,591 posts)My main objective upon arrival was to get the hell out, every time.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2naSalit
(86,591 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Sounds like something I would do.
LakeArenal
(28,817 posts)All racists to the core. I hated visiting Texas.
(All the women died from complications from Alzheimers. I think its been a Texas plot.)
NotASurfer
(2,149 posts)Abbot's motto would probably be "Welcome it Texas - We don't like your kind in our state, so GIT!"
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)You should mail in the suggestion!
nocoincidences
(2,218 posts)I saw bumper stickers that said: Welcome to Texas! Now go home.
Another one said: We are guarding the wrong river.
UTUSN
(70,686 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,957 posts)Assholes like Abbott are a disincentive to want to ever go there.
niyad
(113,296 posts)or The Onion first.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)niyad
(113,296 posts)invited back a number of times. HELLLLL NO !!!!
Moebym
(989 posts)Not even on a layover.
With these new laws in place, chances are I never will.
AverageOldGuy
(1,524 posts)Just secede, will you. Let anyone who wishes to leave. Then secede. We will remove all military installations, all US Post Offices, all Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, anything associated with the US Government. Just go away.
ffr
(22,669 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(5,689 posts)Rebl2
(13,500 posts)wish they would secede. Then dont allow the citizens the money they have paid in to social security and no Medicare of course. Dont be asking us to help after a hurricane destroys your new country or you have another big freeze like last winter. Nope. Dont be asking for any help from the USA.
dchill
(38,488 posts)...or give it back to Mexico.
gab13by13
(21,333 posts)way too hot. Went to a Baylor baseball game and almost got tossed for claiming the mascot was a cow and not a bear. It turns out it was a cow, Chick-fil-a was a sponsor. The rest of the time I ate some gator tail and drank a lot of Guiness at Buzzard Billy's.
Bo Zarts
(25,396 posts)I am the DUer who used to be DemoTex, and I say that the best things to come out of Texas are I-10 and I-20.
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)I've never been to Texas, myself - the closest I came was a plane change in Atlanta, when I was flying from here in New York to see my grandmother in North Carolina!
MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)we drove cross-country and back (along different routes). On the way back, when we were going to go from New Orleans to Colorado, we drove an extra 200 miles out of way to avoid going through Texas.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)the wheels on his wheelchair were square. You know, something to make his life a tad more difficult.
dickthegrouch
(3,173 posts)Can't fly through
DFW, or HOU because Texas
MIA because FL
SLC because mormons
DEN because antigay
There's only PHX and MSP remaining.
If I want to go to South America I'll have to go through LAX and Panama
And yes my Kayak account is coded not to route me through all the above (except LAX).