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Strange California Billboard Scare Tactic: Don’t Move to Texas!?
AmmoLand ^ | August 31, 2022 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 09/09/2022 6:17:13 AM PDT by marktwain

New billboards have sprouted in San Francisco and Los Angeles, according to several online sources, including Twitter, Reddit, and the New York Post.

From the New York Post:

Mysterious new billboards are warning California residents not to move to Texas, as record numbers of residents flee the soft-on-crime Golden State for better quality of life in red states.

“The Texas Miracle died in Uvalde. Don’t move to Texas,” the billboards read, alongside a hooded figure and a crossed-out “Don’t mess with Texas” slogan.

The billboard seems to follow the trend of the anti-gun media and those who wish the population disarmed, of using mass murder to scare people into doing what the politicians want.

While mass school murders, such as those in Uvalde, Texas, are exceedingly rare, the media attempt to make them appear to be everyday occurrences.

Those who wish the population disarmed then try to tie the unpopular policy of disarming the public to safety, as if such a policy would stop mass murder incentivized by the Media.

It is unclear who is paying for the billboards, and just as unclear is what the purpose of the billboard’s message is.

According to SFGate, one billboard is on the corner of Folsom and 7th in San Francisco.

Some claim the purpose is to demonize Texas and stop the rampant flow of productive people and assets from California to Texas. Tesla and Oracle are two recent examples.  People who find freedom attractive might decide the billboard sends them a message of freedom. Others claim the purpose is to keep people who favor gun control from moving to Texas. People who had guns might be deterred from moving to Texas.

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To: marktwain

They’re right, of course. Don’t move to Texas. There are snakes and scorpions and hurricanes and armadillos and feral hogs and scorching summer days.

And whatever they do, they shouldn’t come to Florida. There are alligators and flying cockroaches and 10,000 spiders per square foot and more hurricanes and panthers and smothering humidity and, of course, Florida Man.


21 posted on 09/09/2022 7:21:20 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: larrytown

Californians wont even get that joke.

They dont read Twain, cuz waciss.


22 posted on 09/09/2022 7:25:08 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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To: marktwain

If one understands how the garden variety yard-sign virtue signaling chardonnay glass swirling proggy leftist thinks, then it’s clear to see how a billboard like this is perfectly manipulative; We need more of them!

All along the southern border, let’s try: “Martha’s Vinyard! Tierra de abundantes para indocumentes imigrantes!”


23 posted on 09/09/2022 7:26:57 AM PDT by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You forgot about fire ants.


24 posted on 09/09/2022 7:32:16 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: marktwain

I don’t know who put it up there, but I hope it keeps California nutcases from moving to Texas.


25 posted on 09/09/2022 7:53:39 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Americans DESPISE the corrupt elites, their media toadies and their corruption of the US government!)
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To: IYAS9YAS
They we're invading Idaho in the early 90s. Saw many a bumper-sticker reading "Don't Californicate Idaho" at the time.

In the early seventies the same was going on in Oregon. Losing battle.

26 posted on 09/09/2022 7:56:15 AM PDT by Chuckster (Friends don't let friends eat farmed fish)
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To: Regulator

The briar patch is Uncle Remus, and they’re even less likely to have read that.


27 posted on 09/09/2022 8:03:54 AM PDT by susannah59 ( )
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To: marktwain

Time for Texans to put up billboards saying, “Don’t turn Texas into California - vote Republican!”


28 posted on 09/09/2022 8:09:11 AM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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To: marktwain

Personally, I’m all for doing whatever we can to keep californians in california.

I do NOT want any more of them here in Texas.


29 posted on 09/09/2022 8:46:03 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: marktwain

As a lifelong born and raised Texan, I agree with these billboards warning “Californians” NOT to move to Texas!!

Please don’t!!!!


30 posted on 09/09/2022 2:38:26 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: marktwain

As a lifelong born and raised Texan, I agree with these billboards warning “Californians” NOT to move to Texas!!

Please don’t!!!!


31 posted on 09/09/2022 2:38:26 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Texas beaches are thick with seaweed and the Gulf currents dump tons of plastic, too.

The week I visited they were have a shark-fishing contest and the community was cleaning up after a hurricane.

Yep!.... Californians!... Do NOT move to Texas. Keep Californicate Californicate!


32 posted on 09/09/2022 3:04:41 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Feral pythons, too! :)


33 posted on 09/09/2022 3:05:47 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: marktwain

Probably Musk.


34 posted on 09/09/2022 3:07:14 PM PDT by CodeToad (No Arm up! They have!)
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To: crusty old prospector

Yep! Fire ants, too!


35 posted on 09/09/2022 3:07:27 PM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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