Fumigate Texas

[douglas9]

Strangers are always asking me, “Bob, what’s the worst state in the union?” To which I reply, “Let me see your hands.”

Ha ha! Just a bit of levity during a pandemic in a heavily armed nation!

I could reply: “Do you mean the lowest per capita income? That would be West Virginia, Mississippi and Arkansas.”

Or: “Do you mean the lowest percentage of people fully vaccinated? That would be Alabama, Mississippi and Wyoming.”

Or: “Do you mean the highest percentage of people in prison? That would be Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma.”

Or: “Do you mean the highest rates of infant mortality? That would be Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia.”

Or I could reply: “Do you mean which state has the most racist, sniveling, arrogant, corrupt and idiotic high-ranking elected officials? That would be Texas.”

Let’s narrow this snark hunt down to events of the past few weeks.


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[Paladin]

1. I have no problem with labeling Texas high-ranking elected officials that way. Daily proof exists.

Just don't apply such defamatory descriptions to the entire state, and thus to every Texas resident. That happens way too often at DU.

[czarjak]

2. Go-Low perfected!

[walkingman]

3. I don't think there is any question that "We" (I'm a Texan) have the sorriest

government in the US. It hasn't always been that way but since the 90's it has been a downhill slide. I think you could say that about America in general, although I think it mostly began in 1980 after the election of Ronnie Raygun. It has become quite common to hear "Texas has become the new Mississippi" and that would have never happened prior to the 90's.

Rural Texas, Oil, and the Christian Taliban are the three biggest factors in continuing this embarrassing situation and I'm not sure that will change in my lifetime.

[Skittles]

4. Reagan made greed and ignorance fashionable

add in the racism and xenophobia and the south fell especially hard