# Reluctantly — Fuck Texas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 19, 2021, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289 "2021-02-19T14:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 43
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/841 "2024-01-22T19:52:48Z")
Exactly… I know that Democrats want to maintain the moral high ground and all, but sometimes you need get down in the mud and get dirty if you’re going have a chance of beating them… ---
**Author:** ![Cheesesteak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheesesteak/32/3694_2.png) [@Cheesesteak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheesesteak)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/842 "2024-01-22T20:02:18Z")
> [@Nightaudit](#): > > you need get down in the mud and get dirty We’re talking about someone who is prepared to drive 2,000 miles in order to dump a busload of men women and children on a random roadside in the middle of the night knowing that they have no food, no water, and nowhere to go. Arresting them is not “dirty”, it’s the right thing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/843 "2024-01-22T21:27:48Z")
I’d like to see a Super Bowls add bragging about how much more “true Christian” the organizations that deals migrants once they are dropped off in Chicago are vs the Bible Believing God Fearing Christian Fundamentalists Texans that put them on the bus… maybe use the “arms of an angel” song with juxtaposed bible verses about being kind to immigrants and images of kids in camps, dead bodies in the barbed wire floating fences in the river, cold confused people getting off buses in the middle of the night. Let’s go full “bad dog rubbing noses on carpet pee stains” on these dirty degenerate republicans. ---
**Author:** ![Nightaudit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightaudit/32/17181_2.png) [@Nightaudit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightaudit)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/844 "2024-01-22T21:33:33Z")
Every time one of them goes on a Sunday morning political show the host should blind side the talking head with questions about what they think about Leviticus 19:33-34 or Deuteronomy 10:19 or 19:34 Jeremiah 7:5-7 and so forth ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/845 "2024-01-23T03:56:02Z")
Bizarre e-mail from the Texas state medical board today. Based on a bill passed by the Texas legislature recently, the medical board has decided that all licensed physicians have to be fingerprinted _at their expense_ so the prints can be entered into an F.B.I. database and used to notify the medical board of criminal offenses committed anywhere in the country (the only exceptions are docs who’ve been fingerprinted since 2018). I could give a 💩 since this doesn’t apply to me (I decided not to renew my Texas license several years ago, but they still send me e-mails). Weirdly, I distinctly remember having to be fingerprinted when I initially applied for the license long ago (no other state I’ve ever been licensed in required fingerprinting). Did Texas manage to lose all those prints in their system and thus needs a new set from everybody now? \*Fun fact: Texas docs apparently can commit misdemeanors without fear of jeopardizing their medical licenses unless the offense involves “moral turpitude”. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/846 "2024-01-23T07:06:17Z")
They still have the prints. What this is is naked intimidation. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/847 "2024-01-23T09:23:12Z")
Yep. Clearly the inmates running the asylum in Texas don’t trust doctors. Wow, beating up on the people who treat diseases and might be able to save your life in the event of an accident sounds really stupid to me, but then, I’m not a big, powerful politician from Texas as what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/848 "2024-01-23T14:06:12Z")
And yet rural Republicans constantly bitch and moan about how doctors don’t want to serve in rural communities. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/849 "2024-01-23T14:50:37Z")
And when they were slavers, they obviously complained about the enslaved being reluctant and unhappy with their place. Same thing. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2024, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/850 "2024-01-24T21:13:18Z")
Abbott says Supreme Court’s not the boss of him. > **[Texas governor defies Supreme Court ruling, continues to fortify border with...](https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/texas-governor-defies-supreme-court-ruling-continues-to-fortify-border-with-razor-wire-el-paso-congresswoman-veronica-escobar-biden-administration-greg-abbott)** > > Texas governor Greg Abbott is pushing back and adding more razor wire to the border fence after Monday's Supreme Court ruling. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/851 "2024-01-25T00:33:45Z")
They really want to create a major Feds vs “states rights” stand-off between now and November to use as a _cause celebre_ to ignite the Reactionary Wacko Traitors nationwide and thereby create a trump win. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/852 "2024-01-25T05:02:01Z")
I wonder if the Federal government could work out a deal with Mexico to stage razor-wire removal from the Mexican side of the river? And if so, what would be the reaction from Texas authorities? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/853 "2024-01-25T05:25:00Z")
Ah, yes. A 3-party war with the federal governments of the United States of America and Estados Unidos Mexicanos on one side against the state government of Texas. Gee, I wonder who’d win that one, what with the Texas State Guard having 1,678 members as of 2020. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/854 "2024-01-25T05:56:29Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Gee, I wonder who’d win that one, what with the Texas State Guard having 1,678 members Remember the Alamo, adjusted for inflation. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/855 "2024-01-25T06:34:44Z")
😃 Texas lost at the Alamo. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/856 "2024-01-25T07:00:59Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > I wonder if the Federal government could work out a deal with Mexico to stage razor-wire removal from the Mexican side of the river? > > And if so, what would be the reaction from Texas authorities? My understanding is that all of these walls, bundles of razor wire, and what not are on the US side of the border and not in anyway in Mexico so… probably would be used as an excuse for an international incident. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/857 "2024-01-25T07:39:03Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > 😃 Texas lost at the Alamo. You’re saying that like it’s a bad thing? ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/858 "2024-01-25T08:35:32Z")
Well, after my time in San Angelo, I found I quite liked San Antonio. San Angelo…not at all. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/859 "2024-01-25T11:45:30Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Gee, I wonder who’d win that one, what with the Texas State Guard having 1,678 members as of 2020. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus knows how that ends. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/860 "2024-01-25T23:01:27Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > 😃 Texas lost at the Alamo. So just like trump. A total loser with a false reputation as a winner. There might even be a local aphorism for that: > All hat; no cattle. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=42) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=44)