Posted on 12/09/2020 7:41:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In the early 19th century, Texas was frontier and a land of great opportunity and promise. It was also a magnet for folks who wanted (or needed) to leave Europe or the United States behind and start fresh. As the exhibit I co-wrote and produced for the Alamo in 2017 attested, Jim Bowie himself was but one of many who moved into Texas for fortune, glory, and to escape things that may be best left behind.
When people left their homes and headed west to the Texas frontier, they’d often leave a simple carving in a prominent tree or another spot on their property that consisted of three letters: GTT.
Gone to Texas.
In Bowie’s case, he was the original Indiana Jones. He pulled up stakes and came to Texas, then a Mexican state, on New Year’s Day 1830 and hunted for the gold and silver of the legendary lost mines of San Saba, whereupon he and his small party were surrounded and badly outnumbered by hostiles from several tribes. Bowie led a successful siege and cemented his already intimidating legend as a Texas fighting man. He’d previously made his name and his knife famous in a duel on a sandbar a few years prior. He’d pass into history just a few years later in San Antonio.
Just 190 years since Bowie’s 1830 arrival, Texas has become a neo-frontier, offering not free land this time, but freedom itself. Economic freedom and the freedom to live far from the edicts of the likes of Govs. Gavin Newsom and Andrew Cuomo. The freedom to breathe.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
Elon Musk, the inventor, corporate titan, and space-farer confirmed Tuesday that he, like so many before him, has gone to Texas because California, where he still has “massive” SpaceX and Tesla operations, is intolerant of freedom and just about played out.
Elon is good at math..
13.3 > 0
...Income tax rates in CA versus TX...
I’m not sure if true, but I think there’s talk of raising the highest state rates even higher.
Would not surprise...
Gotta pay healthcare costs for all those new voters flooding in under Sleepy Joe and Cameltoe...
Be careful of Musk. He’s tied to Soros. But he’s become a cultural icon to youth.
His SpaceX is aimed to link a zillion satellites with 5G for controlling and monitoring. He’s part of the Great Reset globalist agenda.
Be careful Texas.
Better yet, be smart. Take control of his business and put him out to Canadian pastures where he hails from.
Texas and every other state with large cities is in inevitable decline into tyranny unless they can find a way to neuter and isolate the cities, and immunize the free counties so as not to grant full rights to people fleeing the cities, who will continue to vote badly.
Also we will see which state if any is first to actually stand up and say NO to federal firearms regulations, then to all other infringements by the federal government.
States have toyed with legislation barring and punishing any enforcement of such infringements, but to my knowledge nothing has become law.
I don’t know the exact list, but ID, MT, WY, NE, KS, OK, IA, MO, AR, TX, LA, AL, MS, FL could unite, but one has to stand up first.
> I don’t know the exact list, but ID, MT, WY, NE, KS, OK, IA, MO, AR, TX, LA, AL, MS, FL could unite, but one has to stand up first.
Add ND, SD.
Uh, Musk is from South Africa.
You want government to “take control” of his business?
That’s a very odd opinion for a conservative
I’ve seen Canada. Maybe he’s ZA to Canada to CA to TX.
But you should understand this is not the point.
Texas People.
Constitutional states should take control of every business and person that comes to them, or that enters a free county from a communist county inside the state. No citizenship privileges should be granted until the person or business receives rigorous constitutional citizenship training, and they should not have any voting rights for a long time.
Your idea of “conservative” is fifty years out of date. You are the problem. Go home.
As I now live in Texas (originally born in Louisiana, worked and lived in Washington for 20 years), I understand the "point" very well. Accuracy is accuracy....practice it, please.
Are you proud to be a fool?
“Elon Musk. He holds South African, Canadian, and U.S. citizenship ...”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
Unless you’re a paid tool of Musk or dream of sniffing his butt, you should apologize for your stupidity which a one minute internet search could cure.
To the sane viewers of these forums, Musk’s mother was Candaidan, he is 50 years old now and resided in Canada starting at age 17. he spent the majority of his life there.
No offense to Canucks but your Trudeau embarrassment is another symptom of the ruling class that Musk is a member of. I understand you face pressures to ‘comply’ and have long faced reprisals for acting independently just like Americans are starting to see now.
But hey, Musk is a Tech Beatle with a cute face!
Time will take care of that but very likely his sinister connections and their agenda will do him in first.
But he did do one thing that was smart in my view, he admitted publicly that he was bipolar. So his love of money (given to him as a condition of selling out) can be explained away in episodes of insanity overcoming his moral compass.
But because the kids think he’s such a hit, a cultural icon, my view is he should be put out to pasture quietly before the Great Awakening circles back to him after the masterminds are exposed and scalped.
Hell, yes. Welcome to Texas, Elon.
I repeat, accuracy is accuracy. Use it. And keep your asshole insults to yourself!
Ha ha ha, post #15 did you in and now you’re acting like a crybaby.
That was easy.
Tied to Soros.....bullshit
Soros Investment Funds holds 35 million in Tesla bonds and had 305 million In A solar start up by Musk that Tesla later absorbed
Elon Musk controls many companies
Tesla has a market cap of 600 billion
Space X is valued at 50-200 billion depending on who’s figuring and when
George Soros invests like Warren Buffet or The Walton Family in 1000s of companies where they see promise of return
The investments Soros had made are tiny in proportion
Soros hardly controls Musk whose own balance sheet dwarfs that of Soros
Do they know one another...I’m sure they do...hell I think all the super rich come in contact with one another
Musk grew up in South Africa in a troubled family....he moved to Canada after secondary school as a segue to getting to the land of opportunity
Here
Texas could do worse
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