# 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:** 46
**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:** [April 16, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/901 "2024-04-16T15:01:51Z")
I was going to revive this thread this morning, so thanks for the assist. > **[Texas removes more than 2M from Medicaid - San Antonio Express, 4/16/2024](https://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/odn/sanantonioexpressnews/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=SAEN%2F2024%2F04%2F16&entity=Ar00103&sk=D68C6908&mode=text)** > > San Antonio Express - 4/16/2024 > … > Texas has so far removed 2.1 million Medicaid recipients from its rolls, which works out to 49% of the cases it has reviewed, more than twice the national average and a higher proportion than all but six other states, according to analysis by the San Francisco-based nonprofit KFF, formerly known as the Kaiser Family Foundation. > … > > The highest rates of Medicaid recipients losing coverage are in Republican-controlled states such as Texas, many of which had relatively low participation rates to begin with because of their decision not to expand Medicaid coverage beyond children, pregnant women and those in extreme poverty under the Obama administration’s Affordable Care Act. > > Most affected are children, who represent 65% of those dropped in Texas thus far. > … > > Driving the high drop rate in Texas and other Republican-led states has been the practice of requiring Medicaid recipients to submit forms and documentation instead of using automated systems to check income and other factors to determine eligibility, Corallo said. > > Once Medicaid coverage is lost, it can take up to a year to get it reinstated. Without health care coverage, many low-income families are forced to go without medical care for their children … > … We loved those kids when they were still cute, tidy, undemanding fetuses, but once those danged children got _born-ded_, they became a drain on the state, and they and their parents are on their own. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/902 "2024-04-16T15:06:48Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > You get the distinct impression that Texas leaders are a long way from learning how to plan for energy challenges. Have they tried blaming undocumented immigrants yet? That always works. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/903 "2024-04-16T15:28:19Z")
I believe you meant this as a rhetorical statement but I can’t resist replying as if you were serious … > [@Jackmannii](#): > > You get the distinct impression that Texas leaders are a long way from learning how to plan for energy challenges. _You_ might get that impression. _I_ get the impression the so-called “leaders” are deliberately failing to plan for energy challenges. Doctrinally speaking, the “free market” always works ideally, and especially in situations where demand for [whatever] is short, spikey, and inelastic. By “free market” I don’t mean the boring business of generating and delivering electricity, but the exciting business of financial speculation in electricity. That’s where the real money is made. Either as a business insider or as a politician / regulator collecting bribes to ensure the speculation situation continues. Poor people dying of heat or cold? “Baah! Who cares!” sez they. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/904 "2024-04-16T15:38:58Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Poor people dying of heat or cold? “Baah! Who cares!” sez they. If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2024, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/905 "2024-04-16T15:48:30Z")
In case I wasn’t clear … > Poor people dying of heat or cold? “Baah! Who cares!” sez ~~they~~ the fatcats luxuriating in their own home-generated electricity. Besides, those doing the dying are mostly brown people who don’t matter anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2024, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/906 "2024-04-16T15:51:38Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > By “free market” I don’t mean the boring business of generating and delivering electricity, but the exciting business of financial speculation in electricity. That’s where the real money is made. You snark, but that’s literally what some previous ERCOT folks said and what a lot of them still believe, i.e. that people would _somehow_ learn to use less energy or be more efficient during peak summer to save some money. And that it would encourage producers to make more plants to take advantage but only if it’s a sustained thing, i.e. short spikes will just sometimes happen. Yeah, when it’s 110 degrees outside and the grid is pushed to capacity, sure, it’s just the market reacting efficiently. It’s not people literally dying for lack of electricity. ---
**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:** [April 16, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/907 "2024-04-16T15:54:13Z")
You’re right I snark, but you’re spot-on that these doctrinaire dingbats believe that shit. Enron made (and stole) billions that way. Some states learned that was a bad idea and altered their laws to prevent that. Texas said > Somebody hold my beer! Hey y’all! Watch _this!!!11!11!!!_ ---
**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:** [April 16, 2024, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/908 "2024-04-16T19:22:08Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > Have they tried blaming undocumented immigrants yet? That always works. Don’t forget the Deep State. And they should work “woke” into it…and DEI and CRT. What the hell, the fans come to hear the greatest hits. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/909 "2024-04-17T12:20:22Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > and DEI This is the way - if they didn’t have _those_ people working at power plants, all would be fine. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/910 "2024-04-25T01:21:04Z")
A by-all-accounts peaceful student protest of the war in Gaza at the University of Texas today was met with a massive police show of force and mass arrests of those involved – including a reporter who’s crime seems to have been tripping and bumping into an officer. Of course, the police response was abetted by the completely-cowed UT administration and cheered on by Abbott and Patrick. > **[Police arrest more than two dozen pro-Palestine protesters on UT-Austin...](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/24/ut-austin-israel-hamas-war-palestine-student-arrests/)** > > Gov. Greg Abbott expressed support for the arrests, which come amid tensions on college campuses across the country over the Israel-Hamas war. ---
**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:** [April 25, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/911 "2024-04-25T02:05:14Z")
Speaking of Abbott: > **[Gov. Greg Abbott suggests he wants to bar transgender teachers from dressing...](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/24/greg-abbott-trans-teachers-texas/)** > > Abbott made the remarks as he recounted the story of a male teacher in North Texas who wore a pink dress for his school’s spirit day earlier this year. > … > “This person, a man, dressing as a woman in a public high school in the state of Texas, he’s trying to normalize the concept that this type of behavior is okay,” Abbott said Friday, according to an audio recording [captured by the Texas Observer](https://x.com/stevanzetti/status/1781511677894111268). “This type of behavior is not okay, and this is the type of behavior that we want to make sure we end in the state of Texas.” > … > > State Rep. [Briscoe Cain](https://www.texastribune.org/directory/briscoe-cain/), R-Deer Park, [responded](https://twitter.com/BriscoeCain/status/1781756905414619268) by writing, “Perverts should not be teachers.” > … 🙄 ---
**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:** [April 25, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/912 "2024-04-25T05:59:05Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > State Rep. [Briscoe Cain](https://www.texastribune.org/directory/briscoe-cain/), R-Deer Park, [responded](https://twitter.com/BriscoeCain/status/1781756905414619268) by writing, “Perverts should not be teachers.” Instead they should be POTUS. ---
**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:** [April 29, 2024, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/913 "2024-04-29T00:16:25Z")
Ah, yes, but thats a _hetero_ pervert. The reechest kind. Jeebus loves him some hetero-perverts. Or so says the Religious Right wackos. Which demonstrates they’re as clueless about the religion they claim to follow as they are about human nature, modern society, human kindness, and … well … just about everything. Bastards the lot of 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/914 "2024-05-16T21:08:08Z")
As expected… > **[Texas Governor Pardons Man in Fatal Shooting of Protester in 2020](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/texas-abbott-pardon-daniel-perry.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.c2US.Hsw4E2wgAUuE&smid=url-share)** > > The man, Daniel S. Perry, was convicted of killing a protester during a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Austin. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/915 "2024-05-17T02:20:42Z")
So murder is officially okay now in Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and a bunch of other red states if you’re the right color and the victim is, well, not. And the Orange Anus wants to give police absolute immunity. That sounds promising for the ammosexuals. ---
**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:** [May 17, 2024, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/916 "2024-05-17T16:16:24Z")
> [@smithsb](#): > > So murder is officially okay now in Texas, Florida, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, and a bunch of other red states if you’re the right color and the victim is, well, not. Actually the victim was white in this case. Its just that the year long open season on blacks has been expanded to include all liberals regardless of complexion. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/917 "2024-05-18T16:03:45Z")
If it were a murder of a non white person I doubt there would have been a conviction or jail time to pardon in the first place . ---
**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:** [May 18, 2024, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/918 "2024-05-18T16:08:41Z")
Slightly off topic but how are fellow Houstonian all doing , everyone OK? Still out of power here in Spring Branch area, which is fine, lack of internet is the main issue for our youngest but they seem to have got cellular networks running at a decent rate. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Antibob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/919 "2024-05-18T18:41:29Z")
Everything’s been ok in the Fort Bend area. Power didn’t even flicker once during the storm, though the wind was pretty heavy (not as heavy as up north though). It’s incredibly odd how much of the extreme weather the last few weeks has been along and north of I-10. ---
**Author:** ![StraightTalk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/straighttalk/32/9982_2.png) [@StraightTalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StraightTalk)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289/920 "2024-05-18T19:06:29Z")
In Spring. Was only extra rainy here. Lost power for a couple hours the other day but we have a whole house generator. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reluctantly-fuck-texas/933289.md?page=47)