Vibes-based policy. Republicans hate when people from blue states move to red states, even if they are republicans. They think they bring the liberal stink with them and fuck things up for everyone else.

They'll eat this up, regardless of how little sense it makes.

I think it means Texans will have to purchase one whole New Yorker for each New Yorker who moves to Texas?

I said tariff! Good day sir!

Best I can figure out, is that it's a joke, but I'm not sure what the punchline is?

They don't have to be smart. They have the backing of the rich.

It doesn't even make sense. He's just throwing around the word "tariff" because Republican dumbfucks don't know what it means but think it sounds harsh and Trumpy.

"No, no, no! Do not come to Texas! Texas is full!"

Meanwhile, Texas:

Come to Texas! We love guns and hate brown people and reliable public utilities! Do you like water? Well so do our datacenters, but you might get some too!

A cliff

It will cost Texans twice as much to buy themselves a New Yorker?

I literally exclaimed that aloud to myself upon reading the headline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff

A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer.

Could be a slip that Texas is finally going to secede.

Or his head has seceded from reality, no one rly knows

Means he's red, mad, and nude, as usual.

He's a Republican. They all do it.

Are you trying to make sense of a MAGA soundbite again? They don't exist to make sense.

Rick Perry is now out there spreading the word about psychedelics, oddly enough.

It isn't; the Privileges and Immunities clause of the constitution has been interpreted by previous SCOTUS decision to mean that people can move freely between the States without restrictions.

However, reactionaries like Abbott know they have ideological allies in the current SCOTUS who are eager to overturn case law in order to advance their shared conservative project.

A tariff on zero dollars is still zero. This means he'll be introducing an unnecessary, job-killing regulation that adds more pointless bureaucracy to Texas's already-extreme tax situation.

So, traditional Republican politics.

It’s not

It's not just not legal, it's nonsensical. Like, what does it even mean? How would it even be enforced? It's just virtue signaling.

It's Texas. The guns are already there.

Tiggy Skibbles and I smoke teeth behind the monolith.