As a Texas resident I normally defend my state from insults and broad accusations, but you’re not wrong here.

Ummm ever been to Houston between April and November? Unless you like sweaty butt crack, it’s not nice.

People like PeteRR are the reason why the housing market is so fucked here right now. People are flooding in from CA and are able to price everyone out of home buying. It’s a seller’s wet dream out here.

Okay I’ve disagreed with most of what you said, but insinuating that Houston is a “pretty nice” city is just plain wrong. I lived in Houston and Dallas, have traveled the country heavily for work, and live in Denver. Houston is the worst place with over 200k people I’ve ever been.

Houston is a fucking dump. Shitty weather. Awful traffic. No culture. Incredibly spreadout. Some of the fattest people I’ve ever seen. And the crown jewel, The Galleria looks like an early 90s nightmare.

The best long-term fix for unfunded government pension obligations might be returning cigarette machines to all the break rooms.

The investment firm the mayor tapped is being investigated by the FBI:

Countercounterpoint: Assholes like you belong in Texas.

But in the meantime people in CA, NY, and IL provide the vast majority of the tax money for government services for the taker states in the south.

Using Texas as an example is foolish. You’re 43rd in education, 47th in pollution, 38th in poverty, 40th in % of people on food stamps...all with staunch GOP anti-union politicians in control. Texas is a dump and we should let it leave the Union. You also take a higher % of federal aid dollars than nearly every other…

“Tough titty” - The Republican response to hearing people will suffer and die

I live in Dallas and you don’t know what you are talking about. The pension is in trouble because our dumbass real-estate broker mayor and councilmen voted to buy a bunch of risky property.

It is amazing how stupid Republican voters are. But they voted for it. I hope they all suffer to their last breath. They fucking deserve it.

Counterpoint: fuck you, fuck Texas, and those of us here in California are glad that assholes like you are willing to rot in a shithole like Texas.

But my state (Florida) is surprisingly well-run and properly-funded. So what does our idiot GOP legislature and Gov Voldemort continually try to do? Undermine it by pushing new hires in the direction of a “personal investment account” 401k-style system. In the long run, if enough people choose that option, the pension…

Seriously. He went from the being the head of the RNC to Cheetolini’s punching bag. That’s just embarrassing. Does he have no self-respect?

Wow, was that even a song? I was really hoping for “The Entertainer.”

No, it goes too far because Fox News is going to replay this story every 6 minutes for the next 3 weeks straight, until my mother says something about how she doesn’t approve of everything Trump’s doing but she really disapproves of all of these protesters driving Congressmen off of roads...

It really does go too far. Because only one of them is assured of health insurance in the event.

I kinda like the idea of everybody being fired and replaced. Oh, wait, Trump would probably stay huh?