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Texas is the third world
I’ve lived in “third world countries”, and I’ve lived in Texas. Texas is worse.
i don't die to debt going to the hospital and i live in a third world country
We should just let Texas split from the US. All the right wingers can move there and they can have their “freedom.”
The rest of us can get on with life.
Agreed, fucking let them. They try all the time, it’s obviously something they want. It would be good riddance.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/3886527-texas-lawmaker-files-texit-bill-to-spur-vote-on-exploring-secession-from-us/
It would be like brexit, so much fun to watch.
Texas treats being the dumbest state in the US as a serious trophy that it aggressively defends by constantly shooting itself in the foot and screaming to the rest of the country “hah, SEE WE SHOWED THOSE POOR PEOPLE WHO IS BOSS”.
The other states always feel really awkward and kind of traumatized by seeing Texas repeatedly empty a firearm into their foot while screaming at…themselves? but whenever another state offers to drive them to the hospital Texas spits in their face and starts screaming even louder about how they don’t need handouts… which usually culminates in them emptying another magazine of rounds into their foot to put a pin on the point. Eventually they mercifully pass out from the pain and Connecticut takes them in the back of their Camry and just never says a word about it and Texas usually has lost enough blood by that point that it doesn’t remember.
How is this the fault of Texas?
Shit policy making designed to hurt the people at the lowest rungs of society and absolve those with the real power of any responsibility.
This is due to a change in federal policy because the public health emergency declared due to COVID has come to an end.
Also, remind me where Texas stood on Medicaid expansion.
In addition to the Texas stand on Medicaid expansion, from the article:
Don’t forget the very next line, Texas is responsible for …
And there’s this line
It isn't. And yet Texas is still the third world.
Like I said, just fly the sick to other states and drop them off at suburbs.