LMAO. Are you finally figuring out what’s wrong with privatizing, eh guys?
“Texas f–king blows,” comedian Shane Gillis said in a June episode of the Andrew Schulz podcast, recalling a storm that left his Austin home without power for three days. “It’s hot as f–k. The second we ran out of power, the house was 90 degrees and bugs came in immediately.”
“They’re on their own power grid, like f–king idiots,” Schulz added.
Every season has some kind of power problem and they keep trying to blame the renewables as if it wasnt the thing actually saving them from worse outages.
yep. it’s hilarious considering how crazy texas benefits from their frankly enormous renewables - they’re propping up ercot, not hindering it - and with more battery storage units coming online daily it only gets better… but texas is so tonsils-deep on fossil fuel that they’ll just lie and pretend it’s a problem.
Another thing: texas still doesn’t allow elon to sell cars in texas. elon doesn’t want dealers taking a cut, and texas is tonsil deep on auto dealer political contributions they force Tesla to sell online, you can’t go into a Tesla showroom and pick out your car. After you order online that car has to be then shipped from out of state! it’s fucking bonkers. THEY BUILD THEM THERE LOL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_US_dealership_disputes
Texas man… so blatantly awful
Good. Fuck that racist douche.
I assume you’re talking about Gillis; Schulz is an even bigger asshole than Gillis too
Yes, sorry I should have been clear. I don’t know of Schulz at all.
Nocontext: Thats the face of a man who is tired of winning but too addicted to stop.
Are you finally figuring out what’s wrong with privatizing
Oh no, no. No. No, these are “comedians, podcasters, and UFC fighters” so while they define an open mind and good works, they actually won’t learn a damned thing or do anything about it.
“I do not know what a generator is”
In 2020, Joe Rogan moved from Los Angeles to Austin after visiting and realizing he didn’t have to wear a mask at a restaurant.
What a profoundly stupid man. Him and all his idiot followers deserve far worse than they’re getting.
Lol he moved for tax reasons but that probably wouldn’t play well with his listeners
Ah yes, the one star state. How could you expect anything more?
Lol, never heard that one before
I lived in Austin from 1999 until 2023. The irony here is that the main reason the city is soulless is because of the steady influx of douchebags like themselves.
In the 90’s Austin was arguably the slacker capital of America. The dot-com bubble killed that but after the bubble burst the tech folk that stayed behind decided to do their own thing. The Austin tech sector had a distinctly relaxed vibe. It felt sustainable and it felt like everyone knew each other. Big city tech center with a small town vibe. The downside was that we didn’t have much on the way of amenities. Prices were low and a concerted effort was made to revitalize downtown. Soon we had good food, great bars, low rent, and a genuinely fun city to be in. Then the douchebags caught wind of it, prices skyrocketed, and they ran out everything that made the place a joy to be in.
Austin can still be great, but it will never be L.A., and thank god for that.
LAs biggest advantage is that it was able to utilize its oil wealth, farming industry, and trade advantage to turn itself into an absolute beast of an economic driver. It’s basically an Engine on a big piece of industrial equipment, it smells like shit and it ain’t pretty but it damned well works. No other city should be LA because one is more than enough. I say all of this as an born and raised Inland Imperial I fucking hate LA, if any one talks shit about LA without having at least honorary Southern Californian status I will flay them alive and then dump them in the Salten Sea.
Grew up in SoCal, been back many times to visit family over the years, I don’t see why anyone moves there who isn’t aspiring artist of some kind - and even then… good luck!
High cost of food and supplies, excessive housing costs, droughts, wildfires, car-centric everything yet questionable civic planning, smog haze basically daily, termites eat your house every few years, and the sprawl… Jesus. Knew an old hat Boeing engineer who built his dream home way outside the city, and over the decades his commute went from 45 mins to three hours. Before he took early retirement he found a carpool buddy to trade off days driving so at least one of them got to use the time effectively.
But hey! It’s right by the ocean, and the weather is perfect - if you love cloudless sunshine and hate season.
Yeah I generally concur don’t know why anyone would want to actively move here, I could kinda get Eastern California up against Nevada or even NorCal but choosing to move to LA is questionable. I do generally want people to stay out of San Bernardino as well since well most of these bastards are overflow from LA and can be quite annoying. My kin settled here so I ain’t moving, ancestors killed too many Mormons for me to piss off anywhere except maybe an independent Scotland.
I do love the mountains and the desert, mostly because they eat dumbasses and spit out heatstroked morons and or corpses.
Also fuck housing tracts haven’t you motherfuckers heard of townhouses or gods forbid multi residential buildings? Stop building mcmansions in fire zones you ignorant cunts, the lands relatively cheap because it burns every 5 to 10 years. I wish the state would buy up some of those 1940s-1950s era housing tracts bulldoze them and build something with even slightly high density, preferably with mixed commercial use.
Dunno, ancestors like that should get you a warm welcome most places
Yeah but we split blood here, not somewhere else. If my ancestors pulled the same shit in IDK Nevada I’d still feel the same way. Also I gotta stay to correct the Seventh Day Adventist issue, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.
moved from New York City to Austin in 2023
“I just wanted to move to a place where you can do standup during the week,” Gillis told Theon Von in 2024. “Forever it was just New York and LA, now you can do it in Nashville in Austin.”
But according to his own words, he was already living in a place where he could do standup during the week??
“I’ve been canceled!” says the comedian who is on stage and being broadcast nationally.
Says Dave Chapelle in his latest Netflix special.
Last two or three, I lost count.
I have not watched the last couple because I don’t care to watch someone bag on trans people for 20 minutes while being unfunny then unironically say essentially " it’s fine I have a trans friend"
I forced myself to watch the first Netflix one to see if it was as bad as people said, and it absolutely was. Really disappointed.
Heard the follow ups were more of the same and took their word for it.
I think he was legit cancelled after the Chinese slur incident.
If you are referring to Shane Gillis, he is currently on tour: https://www.shanemgillis.com/
Getting kicked off SNL or a show or two for a short period of time isn’t really being canceled.
I’m just curious, to you what is not being canceled look like? Because according to you being canceled means getting multiple Netflix specials and your own show and hosting big events and touring successfully. I think most people would call that extremely successful. I think a lot of people would kill for that level of success. And yet that’s being canceled to you. So what is not being canceled?
Emphasis on was. Bro, I don’t care. But people might not be aware that he was fired from SNL as his career was beginning to take off for using the word “chink” which sounds like it would fit most anyone’s definition of cancelled. His career has since recovered, obviously.
So canceled means not getting a job because of your past of using racist comments. Good to know.
Canceled is getting the job then getting fired cause of an old clip. Deserved or not it fits the definition.
So anytime you don’t get a job you’re being canceled?
He got a job on SNL and within 24hr someone had dug up an old podcast clip and he got canceled for that.
He didn’t say that, and I don’t think he’d agree with any statements implying that he has been. The racist podcast jokes that surfaced during his SNL stint weren’t terribly defensible, but he’s never seemed like the type to cry cancel culture. I recall he shrugged off his SNL firing pretty quickly. Maybe he’s said otherwise more recently, I dunno.
FWIW his whole career arc seems like what would happen if SNL tried to hire Nick Mullen.
I was making more of a joke about the trend of comedians whining about being canceled while on stage, like Dave Chappel. No idea if Gillis did it himself or not.
Oh OK, yeah. Good grief Chappelle is fucking intolerable these days. And I don’t think it’s all chalked up to him changing, I feel like cowriters kept him from punching down too hard back in the day.
Yeah, I liked him a lot more before his stand up routine became about how he was ‘canceled’ and had one trans fan. I just don’t get how he didn’t understand the latter was the same thing as having ‘one black friend’.
He wanted to move to a red state where he could do standup during the week.
Good. That’s what your sycophantic behavior gets you.
As a dude that is from and spent over 3 decades in Texas my reaction is, “Well they’re not wrong.” Texas and especially Austin is terrible, but them being there is making the place worse.
Nah, I lived in Texas for three years, Austin was the best of. If I had to move back to Texas I’m going to Austin.
Well have fun. I escaped Texas and I hope I never return.
Yeah, that’s why it’s if I HAD to go back.
Where’d you end up? Jealous btw, trying to get out myself.
Philly
At least they didn’t move to Russia and get conscripted to front line infantry?
We could only be so lucky.
Saved you a click: Lack of culture, heat, bugs, homelessness.
Idk, Austin was really nice, fun music scene and allllll the bbq. Then again, not that surprising the blue haven has culture in the desert.
I’ve never been to Austin, but I’ve heard good things about it. Not a fan of Texas in general, didn’t like it for many reasons. But Austin sounds different.
All this said, these comedians skewering Austin and Texas as a whole is not the fatal blow they think it is. They sound like douchebags who are so far up their own assholes they are wearing their own tonsils as earrings. The fact that they were following cretin-in-chief Rogan around like lost little puppies further supports this take.
Texas is a shit hole.
He moved there because he didn’t want to wear a mask during COVID times? Lol that’s so stupid that was just a temporary thing anyways who bases their life decisions on something so stupid?
He’s there because there’s no income tax and he didn’t want to pay on the Spotify deal.
Very stupid people. Like Joe Rogan.
Texas lacks culture and amenities compared to the largest cities in the US!? Wow that’s shocking to learn. Truly.
Edit- Houston isn’t that far away, and has at least a few more restaurants. Maybe they can try again there.
I’m from Houston. The food is way better, but the traffic and humidity are worse.
Also, it’s more prone to flood there as well. Houston like Phoenix, Arizona shouldn’t exist like they do.
Who was it who said, “If you want America to build a wall along its southern boarder, let Texas secede.”
Everything’s bigger and dumber in Texas.
Texas is great. Texas politics is dogshit.
Also, Rogan’s weird podcaster cult all piled into the Austin suburbs, which really are miserable - expensive, cramped, horrible traffic, and full of people Rogan’s crowd hates.
It would be like the Pod Save America hosts getting their affiliates to move to Keene, NH. What did you think was going to happen?
Honestly, what’s so great about Texas? I’ve been to a few cities there and I can’t see why people say it’s great.
Neither do I, its suburban hell
There’s more than a few good things. Near cities, lots of diversity - so, Indian, Syrian, Nigerian, and Texas BBQ all within five miles of each other. Farther out from cities, lots of natural beauty. A bunch of state parks, beautiful dark sky areas, and so on. The weather isn’t terrible once you acclimate unless you really like rain.
That said, it’s 90% cult speaking when people say that. Texas is the cool thing to say because guns and Jesus. Most Texans stay indoors and don’t care about anything more than that nearest shipping mall or grocery store. Most Texans just go to fast food joints. Austin is a shit city.
But, with how big Texas is, it would be really hard to say there’s not something to love. Not the politicians or the fake freedom but there’s something.
The thing is, those things you listed can be found in many other places that aren’t Texas, at least in the US. I’d rather live in those places rather than Texas.
You don’t have to live there, just go visit Big Bend.
But I also don’t want to visit (and contribute any tax dollars), especially as a trans person.
I’d say fill up out of state and bring your own snacks but… I’m not sure it’d be good to contribute to any of the surrounding states either.
What about the people who keep those politicians in power? I’m sick of people saying it’s the politicians. They don’t get to power in a vacuum.
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.
They elect politicians who lie to them because any time they encounter a new thought they revert to fear and racism.
But also remember that over 4.8 million Texans voted against Trump which is more than the population of at least half of the other states in America. There are more Democrats in Texas than people in other states. Many of their votes are not heard due to the Republicans in power and, not to mention, local candidates who run as Democrats and turn coat.
AND that’s not even counting how ‘right wing’ Democrats are. Yeah, ‘proud Texans’ by and large suck. You’re not wrong.
all true. esp the blazing saddles bit. but.
was in texas when beto lost to cruz… will never understand how the fuck that happened, nor how abbot’s junta clown circus keeps fucking texas left and right (and the women and minorities especially) yet somehow stays in power.
they used to say ‘don’t mess with texas’, I’ve come to believe that’s because texas conservatives don’t want any competition.
damn I miss Ann Richards.
Please keep Crockett in office, she’s a ray of hope.
Honestly, what’s so great about Texas
Excellent food, beautiful scenery, lively music, friendly people, good jobs, low cost of living, a bunch of wonderful little university towns… You could say this about a lot of states, and you can say it about Texas, too.
I can’t see why people say it’s great.
shrug
I hit up Memorial Park in Houston every weekend and sip coffee under the shade with my wife while my son plays in the little playground, and it leaves me feeling happy.
I work downtown and hit up all the little restaurants in the tunnels. Sometimes catch a baseball or basketball game or get tickets to the dozens of concert venues or just enjoy one of the dozens of nice restaurants, and I like it here.
Texas people are dog shit also they keep voting that way.
Texas is sharply divided between its cities and rural oilfields. And if you’ve ever actually lived in an oil town, you’d understand why (there’s an absolute saturation of fascist media and marketing, largely to discourage unionization).
Combine that with the systemic disenfranchisement and the gerrymandering and the police violence, and you can give guys like Beto a bit more credit for his “It’s not a Red State, it’s a Non-Voting State” (even if the only remedy he could come up with is “Vote Harder!”)
