Some interesting history from the song (I lived there as a kid). The lyric “In Birmingham they love the governor, now we all did what we could do,” is about Wallace winning the whole state but losing Birmingham soundly. To pay them back, he shut off road funding, and for years, the interstates stopped in midair on the way into town.

Edit: to talk about the state itself, it has some of the worst roads in the nation. The beaches are flat and rather milquetoast. The pine forests are beautiful when it’s not hot and humid. There have been a number of comments about the wealth disparity, and that’s big all along the gulf of mexico.

The battleship in Mobile is pretty cool, though.

Knowing america has written you off is disheartening, but at least you have your fellow texans to rally together.

As an anerican my faith in the government stopping this is maybe 20%.

Please expand on how the highest paying research is corporate, and how that proves your point. It sounds very much like the hand-wavy stuff people say before they start yelling because they have no argument, but I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. Are you yourself a researcher?

Don’t talk ill of him, he might be near children.

Has anyone suggested tattoos and gas chambers or we not going with full irony quite yet?

Dropping them in texas is alarming, though. The battle was originally to keep them contained in central america near the isthmus. If they’re in texas they can spread widely around the us south, creating yet another reason not to want to be there.

New Zealand is quite lovely; I could afford it and I’m on the expedited list of specialties. Can’t leave the kids, though, so I’m stuck watching the ship go down.

We will only recover from this one day if China lets us.

Can I have a little sausage, as a treat?

That’s something I’ve thought about a lot; these people are going to war with their society, and their and their family’s names and addresses are one data breech away from public knowledge.

Fortunately the government is protecting them by mass layoffs and encouraging mass retirements from anyone involved in data security.

My personal bingo card has the families of some these people dropped off in the chihuahaun desert if they piss off the cartels.

Other shoppers bundled this purchase with a really big american flag.

Well I mean crimes of passion were left off the list.

I thought ICE travelled in packs.

You should try that farm labor, some fresh air might be good for you.

No, that’s the National Gardeners.

If we wanted kissing we wouldn’t be behind the dumpster.

After the attack we’ll call it Less A Lago.

And then he showed these men of stupid what true stupidity really was. He said he’d rather kill his own country rather let it live another day after this. He lets the last Floridian go. He waits until democracy is in the ground and then he goes after the rest of the country. He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents’ friends. He lets burn down the houses they live in and closes the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone. Underground. Nobody has ever seen him since. He becomes a myth, a spook story that Democrats tell their kids at night. “Vote republican, and donald trump will get you.” And no-one ever really believes.

Watching my country degrade to a regional power is very humbling.