Texas
Related: About this forumGreg Abbott wants Texas to build a border barrier between Texas and New Mexico and Oklahoma
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Raven123
(6,666 posts)Midnight Writer
(23,958 posts)Our hope our good Democratic brothers and sisters in The Lone Star State are able to break this stranglehold of hatred and lunacy.
jpak
(41,780 posts)Let Texas pay for it
Yup
CanonRay
(15,276 posts)It worked so well in Berlin.
OAITW r.2.0
(30,269 posts)How much would this cost Texas taxpayers?
brush
(59,886 posts)Just secede already. That's what that amounts to.
And don't expect anymore federal funds. Hands off federal facilities also. We'll be in touch to negotiate arrangements to close federal courthouses, post offices, NASA property, ports etc.
So be it, little dictator. We'll be in touch.
redstatebluegirl
(12,715 posts)for your universities. Enjoy that Mr Abbott!
brush
(59,886 posts)LakeArenal
(29,941 posts)When are Texas taxpayers going to get sick of these expenditures and vote blue?
DURHAM D
(32,904 posts)that he needs to be institutionalized.
sop
(14,223 posts)In addition to suing for crippling back injuries at the time, he also claimed mental damage. Maybe that explains this latest insanity.
Freethinker65
(11,194 posts)Last trip items in our car got stolen in Amarillo. Oklahoma is not a bastion of liberalism, but wasting TX taxpayer money on stunts for conservative cred seems to play well to many non-critical thinking TX voters.
Interesting he feels ok to leave the border with Louisiana open.
brush
(59,886 posts)wonder what's up with that? Does he think he doesn't have to worry about "wokeness" coming out of Louisiana, that Louisianans are in solidarity with his insanity?
Girard442
(6,638 posts)I have it on good authority that all the Christians in Texas will be raptured soon.
Eugene
(65,026 posts)This was already a breathtakingly stupid idea before he escalated it.
By this logic, why neglect Arkansas and Louisiana?
Can you trust them to be as MAGA as you are?
Diamond_Dog
(36,994 posts)that anything woke is coming into Texas from Oklahoma.
yellowdogintexas
(23,237 posts)and it borders Colorado as well as New Mexico. Depending on your point of origin, one can travel the length of the Panhandle into either state.
Keeping 'woke' folks in Colorado suits his purpose
From here in Fort Worth, the best route to Angel Fire NM (for skiing) is Northwest through Amarillo.
sinkingfeeling
(55,157 posts)of the University of Arkansas' students were from Texas. It seemed the parents sent their most troubling children out-of-state. I got tried of the line of massive pickups and scooters running stop signs on campus and the drunks on Dickson Street.
dai13sy
(556 posts)is bat-crap crazy. Has he ever been evaluated mentally because there are connectors in Abbotts brain that aren't coming together.

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