# 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:** 45
**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:** [February 21, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/881 "2024-02-21T20:55:22Z")
This article explains when someone from the U.S. can sue a foreign country. Could someone more knowledgeable than I in that law stuff take a look to see how it applies to this particular situation? [U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies When You Can Sue Foreign Organizations - Neufeld O’Leary & Giusto (noglaw.com)](https://www.noglaw.com/u-s-supreme-court-clarifies-can-sue-foreign-organizations/) ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/882 "2024-02-21T22:29:26Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > UK. Or, more specifically, Scotland. It involved bagpipes. Doesn’t everything there? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2024, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/883 "2024-02-21T22:57:07Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > > [@Broomstick](#): > > > > UK. Or, more specifically, Scotland. It involved bagpipes. > > Doesn’t everything there?   It’s why haggis is illegal in most states. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/884 "2024-02-22T00:15:05Z")
The sheep are eyeing you warily. > [@Broomstick](#): > > UK. Or, more specifically, Scotland. It involved bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2024, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/885 "2024-02-22T12:19:10Z")
**“Abbott Administration Seeks to Outlaw Practicing the Gospel!”** > **[Nonprofit that aids migrants targeted by Paxton - San Antonio Express, 2/22/2024](http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/odn/sanantonioexpressnews/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=SAEN%2F2024%2F02%2F22&entity=Ar00101&sk=73A40CD1&mode=text)** > > San Antonio Express - 2/22/2024 > WASHINGTON — Attorney General Ken Paxton is seeking to shut down a Catholic nonprofit in El Paso that has helped shelter and feed asylum seekers for decades, accusing it of operating as a “stash house” and taking part in “human smuggling.” > > … > > Paxton said in a statement that Annunciation House’s efforts amount to “facilitating illegal entry to the United States.” > > “The chaos at the southern border has created an environment where NGOs, funded with taxpayer money from the Biden administration, facilitate astonishing horrors including human smuggling,” Paxton said. “While the federal government perpetuates the lawlessness destroying this country, my office works day in and day out to hold these organizations responsible for worsening illegal immigration.” > > Annunciation House called Paxton’s stance “illegal, immoral and anti-faith.” In a statement, it said that if its work is against the law, then so are the efforts of hospitals, schools and food banks that also serve migrants, regardless of their immigration status. > > “Annunciation House has done this work of accompaniment out of the scriptural and Gospel mandate to welcome the stranger,” the statement said. > … Sorry, Father, Gospel mandates don’t fly out here in ~~God’s~~ _Paxton’s_ Country!" ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/886 "2024-03-02T03:34:31Z")
A Reddit link They elect pols who oppose regulation of PFAS. Too much government interference and all that. [Texas farmers claim company sold them PFAS-contaminated sludge that killed livestock | PFAS | The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/01/texas-farmers-pfas-killed-livestock) ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/887 "2024-03-02T08:24:45Z")
[For those of us who don’t know what PFAS means.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_substances) ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/888 "2024-03-02T08:39:04Z")
“I didn’t think they’d poison _my_ cows!” ---
**Author:** ![MikeF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MikeF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeF)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/889 "2024-03-02T15:37:28Z")
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a group of man-made chemicals that are used in many products and industrial processes. PFAS are known as “forever chemicals” because they break down slowly over time and can’t easily break down in the environmen ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/890 "2024-03-02T17:08:44Z")
Ask the Airway Heights/West Plains WA community what they think of PFAS. Horrible. > **['I've been drinking poison for 30 years': West Plains residents reckon with...](https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/dec/26/ive-been-drinking-poison-for-30-years-west-plains-/)** > > Chuck Danner has stopped drinking water from his private well out in the country on the outskirts of Spokane. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2024, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/891 "2024-03-02T21:15:57Z")
> [@MikeF](#): > > PFAS are known as “forever chemicals” because they break down slowly over time and can’t easily break down in the environmen Meanwhile your sentence seems extremely biodegradable. 😜 ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/892 "2024-03-04T17:21:20Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > “I didn’t think they’d poison _my_ cows!” Its a question as to who has more money to grease the palms, some mom and pop cattle ranch, or producers of industrial sludge. If they didn’t want their cows poisoned they should have made more money. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/893 "2024-03-06T03:11:44Z")
Primary returns are coming in for Texas and – it’s looking bad, guys. Abbott and Paxton weren’t on the ballot, but they’ve invested heavily in ousting a dozen or so state House Republicans who dared oppose them (by impeaching Paxton and opposing Abbott’s school voucher scheme). And those incumbents are mostly trailing in the returns. Including House Speaker Dade Phelan, who is trailing his primary opponent but will likely face a runoff due to a third candidate in the race. This is bad. The Texas House has been the last bastion of still-somewhat-sane conservatism among Texas Republicans. Assuming these results hold up – and redistricting having entrenched the Republican majority for the next decade – there will be absolutely no bar to right-wing conservatives in Texas enacting their deepest fever dreams. I’m not even most worried about the obvious shit – privatizing the public schools, giving embryos legal rights, eliminating environmental protections, silencing dissent. With this level of control, they’ll feel free to feed the darkest impulses of their base with policies I can’t even imagine. This is bad. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/894 "2024-03-06T03:36:53Z")
They have to hit rock bottom before they turn around. ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/895 "2024-03-06T04:15:06Z")
They love to dig here . Finding rock bottom is just incentive for them to dig more and find something even more repugnant to shout about. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/896 "2024-03-06T14:31:09Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > hit rock bottom It saddens me to see “lithobraking” in political discourse. ---
**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:** [March 6, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/897 "2024-03-06T14:51:52Z")
Unfortunately we won’t see litho_braking_. Once they hit bedrock, these evil bastards will keep digging to new lows until they come out the other side of the planet. True litho_braking_, would have stopped them in their tracks and shredded them to smithereens a long time ago. Sigh. It used to a such a lovely country. Not so good for old men, but a lovely country nonetheless ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/898 "2024-03-06T23:13:54Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > They have to hit rock bottom before they turn around. There is no bottom for the Republican Party. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2024, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/899 "2024-03-06T23:15:34Z")
I hear that in Texas, that’s called _Diminished Gluteal Syndrome_. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/900 "2024-04-16T14:39:53Z")
I have some fond memories of my time in Texas, but stories like this make me glad I moved away. The power grid in Texas [is under strain](http://wsj.com/articles/texas-power-grid-energy-electric-reliability-council-of-texas-efd5990e?mod=hp_opin_pos_5#cxrecs_s), and it’s only early spring! “Summer is two months away, yet the Texas power grid is already swooning. On Friday the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (Ercot) asked power generators to postpone scheduled maintenance early this week “to help alleviate potential tight conditions” as temperatures rise into the not-so-sizzling 80s.” “The grid typically has excess power-generating capacity in the spring owing to mild weather. There’s also an abundance of solar and wind power. This is why plants go off-line for repairs in the spring to prepare for the summer when electricity use surges as people ramp up the air conditioning.” “Yet merely warm spring weather is now enough to push the Texas grid to the brink. Tuesday’s high is forecast to be 89 degrees in Dallas and 84 in Houston. These temperatures shouldn’t force grid operators to break a sweat to keep the lights on, but they are.” An 84-degree high is only a few degrees above normal for Houston this time of year. The thought of brownouts or blackouts during even average summer temperatures in Dallas or Houston is not a pleasant one. You get the distinct impression that Texas leaders are a long way from learning how to plan for energy challenges. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=44) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=46)