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Originally posted by Prefontaine:
They have already invaded Dallas too. I see the plates, the bumper stickers and flags on their property. Sorry this is Texas, if you like Santa Barbara so much, or Seattle, or Denver, go the fuck back there, don’t bring that shit here.

When I first moved to Texas in the late 90s, this song by Brian Burns was popular on the local country station.

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Welcome to Texas, glad that you came down,
you've got lots of friends here, take a look around.
They come from California, they come from Ohio,
they come from Minnesota to get out of the snow.

You don't like our drivin', you don't like our roads,
you make fun of the way we talk, make fun of our clothes,
but you clog up our highways, been pourin' in for years;
if you don't like the way we do it, what are you doin' here?

CHORUS:

Welcome to Texas, don't anybody get me wrong;
we're glad y'all came to see us, just don't forget to go back home.
We don't need your politics, we don't need your prayers,
we don't need your moral compass leadin' us anywhere.
We don't need your business, we don't need your art,
we don't really give a damn how you did things up north.

REPEAT CHORUS

You gripe about our music, gripe about our food,
gripe about the weather here, say it's way too hot for you.
We hear all your whinin', and it starts wearin' thin
when we see our milk and honey runnin' down your chin.

So come on down to Texas, have yourself a ball,
take the kids to Six Flags, and the wife out to the mall.
Have a good vacation, but then don't hesitate
to point your car back up the road to that outbound interstate.

REPEAT CHORU

I’ve tried to not be one of those people native Texans want to move back north (Upper Midwest) and consider Texas my home. However, I do understand the sentiment and hold it myself when neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances complain it’s not like back home.

Amen, Tatortodd! I am a "transplant", too. Grew up in Detroit, MI and spent 20 years in USAF. When I retired I ended up in Dallas, TX and I've been here almost 40 years now. I have tried to be a "Texan" in every way (even rode a horse a couple of times and had a pickup truck) and I love my adopted state. I love hearing a Texan speak (my accent has not changed much). I've never complained about conditions here or how things are done (and NEVER mentioned how it was done elsewhere).

Migrate to Texas if you want, for whatever reason you want, but BECOME a Texan when you do. WE (even the good transplants) don't want your Liberal ideas here.

flashguy

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Originally posted by tatortodd:

When I first moved to Texas in the late 90s

I’ve tried to not be one of those people native Texans want to move back north (Upper Midwest) and consider Texas my home. However, I do understand the sentiment and hold it myself when neighbors, coworkers, acquaintances complain it’s not like back home.

Back then, we didn’t have this population invasion. So you made the cut. Like a long line of people trying to get in somewhere and the bouncer comes, cuts the line at a certain point and says sold out. We’re all sold out here.

Don’t take us natives bitching like we are after people here on the forum. TX people are just real got damn tired of Californians, their liberal bullshit, people from a certain other country, and just tired of the increased costs and traffic. It’s getting out of hand. Anyone else, in a state down South where you’re allowed to be free, have firearms, etc, if all of a sudden, millions of New York City liberals moved all around you, clogged up the roads, and drove your costs through the roof, you’d be livid too. Especially if they started hanging NYC forever flags on their property and putting bumper stickers on their vehicles and right next to either you see a Blue sign or blue bumper sticker. There are reports of our state turning blue. I’ve got my runway planned and my exodus, I’m just scared the Cali people are going to figure out where that is and blow that place up too. Rogan coming here is just going to set off another tidal wave.

And if you think I sound saucy, my people in Austin, oh my. You don’t even bring the subject up. It’s insane in Austin, natives are fucking livid and from what I hear from my own people at some point it’s going to boil over. There is a guy so pissed off about it, on his property he put a sign that says Dallas -> and it points to downtown Austin. Many of us are already planning our escapes. Yes it’s that bad. I hope they throw trash at Rogan’s property. He’s in for a rude awakening dealing with the locals wherever this ranch he bought exists. He’ll bring in constant traffic of his liberal friends, celebrities, etc, and the neighbors aren’t going to like it much.

First time I ever heard of the man. Guess I don't get out much.

@Fredward beat me to it. Who is Joe Rogan and why should I care?

Rogan needs to keep his Commiefornia ass outta Texas.

A Yoop winter tend to run off a lot of folks.
I dont think Kalifornians would enjoy it.
I hope we have a true ass freezer this year.

He is a minor celebrity that has worked very hard to get where he is. I don't always agree with him but he can give a reasoned discussion about everything he believes. Libertarian that is pro second amendment and a hunter.

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

People have been screaming at CA members to leave that state for years. He is doing just that. I'm sure he will make a good citizen of TX!

The dude is many things in parallel, and a hard worker, and supports many right leaning things and people. Don't cast the dude aside over some perceived purity test failure. It's foolish. He's more friendly than foe. He definitely supports law enforcement, too. (And I barely like him, myself.)

His standup comedy has its fans. I like some of it. His bits fucking with woke people and SJWs is as on point as is Burr's and others we like around here.

His MMA affiliation, promotion, discussion, and live commentary is another thing entirely. Most MMA fans like him well enough in that capacity. I don't mind him. He's as MMA as anything at this point.

But his podcast, and his guests, is where the goods are, I think.

Jordan Peterson, Ed Calderon (Mexico and Cartel insights), there have been many interesting discussions across the more than 1500 episodes now.

The dude himself, and his bro-ness at times, is an acquired taste for sure.

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Originally posted by Ronin101:
He is a minor celebrity that has worked very hard to get where he is. I don't always agree with him but he can give a reasoned discussion about everything he believes. Libertarian that is pro second amendment and a hunter.

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

People have been screaming at CA members to leave that state for years. He is doing just that. I'm sure he will make a good citizen of TX!

Rogan is far from conservative.
He is literally all over the map on just about every issue.
On his show he is a chameleon assuming the position of whatever guest he has on.
Colion Noir is on - all in on the 2A.
Alonzo Bodden is on and starts bashing guns - he jumps on the bandwagon.
Rogan isn't doing us Texans any favors (politically) by moving here.

His interviews with Colin Noir, Ben Shapiro and Candice Owens have been good. He had on Krystal and Saagar recently and it seemed like a good bit too. He's not on either side with Biden or Trump.

He did let a liberal reporter (Bari Weiss) dig herself into a hole, and that was pretty sweet. She totally embarrassed herself and actually challenged her with facts that went against her narrative.

Tony.

As long as he votes on the right side, he's welcome. Otherwise, stay the hell out.

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Originally posted by benny6:

He did let a liberal reporter dig herself into a hole, and that was pretty sweet. She totally embarrassed herself and actually challenged her with facts that went against her narrative.

Tony.

That was Bari Weiss, who recently quit the New York Times because of their blatant bias.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by benny6:

He did let a liberal reporter dig herself into a hole, and that was pretty sweet. She totally embarrassed herself and actually challenged her with facts that went against her narrative.

Tony.

That was Bari Weiss, who recently quit the New York Times because of their blatant bias.

Yeah, that was her! I wonder if that was a turning point for her, realizing she was caught up in groupthink. I don't know if she's changed her views or writing style since then.

Tony.

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Originally posted by benny6:

Yeah, that was her! I wonder if that was a turning point for her, realizing she was caught up in groupthink. I don't know if she's changed her views or writing style since then.

Tony.

Funny enough, she was sort of billed as one of the token conservatives at the NYT's; of course she was nothing of the sort. However, she wasn't a blatant leftist. She was a moderate leftist I suppose one could say. I think Joe Rogan took issue with her because she was heavily critical of Tulsi Gabbard who Joe really liked, especially as a candidate. When Rogan had Tim Pool on not long after that, they had a good time ripping on how badly she embarrassed herself. Haha

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by benny6:
That was Bari Weiss, who recently quit the New York Times because of their blatant bias.

Yeah, that was her! I wonder if that was a turning point for her, realizing she was caught up in groupthink. I don't know if she's changed her views or writing style since then.

Tony.

The dismissal of editor James Bennett over Tom Cotton's opinion piece and the internal debate about it, was the nail in the coffin for Weiss. Over the course of her 4-years at the NYT, the staff and editorial board went from left-supporting to, far-left championing; she wasn't outraged or, 'woke enough' for many of her co-workers and colleagues. She attempted to be a objective (in a lefty journalism way ) and got ostracized.

Weiss, like many middle-aged leftist, still has not come to grips with the fact that the leftist ideals that they allowed to flourish and encouraged, has spawned the monster that we see now: intolerance, denunciation of differences and cultural Marxism.


As for Rogan, he's a centrist, the fact that he doesn't pass a supposed purity test because of a few nits is ridiculous. Better to have a voice like him, than a world full of Young Turks, Ezra Klein, and TrueAnon. His show isn't scientific or, professional, this isn't William F. Buckley, Dick Cavet or, Peter Robinson, he's a regular guy, with a handful of interests, and is able to pull-in a bunch of guests with interesting backgrounds.

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Originally posted by corsair:
As for Rogan, he's a centrist, the fact that he doesn't pass a supposed purity test because of a few nits is ridiculous.

Are you by chance referring to my comments and the comments of others? There's no test. I just don't like the guy. I find him boring. Speaking of which, I found out from this thread that Rogan is a comedian. That guy?? A comedian? He doesn't strike me as being funny at all. He strikes me as being, well, boring.

Never would I have pegged him as a standup comic, and I do mean never.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

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Originally posted by corsair:
As for Rogan, he's a centrist, the fact that he doesn't pass a supposed purity test because of a few nits is ridiculous.

Are you by chance referring to my comments and the comments of others? There's no test. I just don't like the guy. I find him boring. Speaking of which, I found out from this thread that Rogan is a comedian? That guy?? A comedian? He doesn't strike me as being funny at all. He strikes me as being, well, boring.

Never would I have pegged him as a standup comic, and I do mean never.

More of a general argument against and not on anybody in particular, he ain't for everybody, as we all have different tastes and levels of entertainment, which is fine. In a perfect world, he'd polish up his language and interviewing skills; frustrating when people do interviews and the host constantly interrupts and over-talks. His interests led to various fascinations, which result in his trying to advocate without having any knowledge of the subject or, perspective: areas around LE, understanding of the military, historical understanding, etc. He's not an academic nor, a professional interviewer like a Peter Robinson.

He started out as a stand-up comic working the club/college circuit putting out a few CD's. Somehow he because the host of Fear Factor and his interest in martial arts led to being the lead announcer for UFC. He's that guy who gets along with most everyone and clearly has made the right friends to support his various business channels.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Speaking of which, I found out from this thread that Rogan is a comedian. That guy??

You sure people here haven't confused Joe Rogan with Seth Rogen??

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
You sure people here haven't confused Joe Rogan with Seth Rogen??

Joe Rogan has been doing stand-up comedy for a very long time. Having said that, I actually only became aware that he is a comedian a few years ago. I only first knew him from Fear Factor, then the UFC, and then The Joe Rogan Experience. Lastly I discovered he was first and foremost a stand-up comic.