Bye Bye New Jersey!

[Hardcore troubadour]

Exxon Mobil has been in New Jersey since 1882. Not anymore! Moving to Texas! Nice job libtards! 

[seafoam1]

Just now, Hardcore troubadour said:

Exxon Mobil has been in New Jersey since 1882. Not anymore! Moving to Texas! Nice job libtards! 

I love it. 

[Maximum Overkill]

What took them so long? 

[WhiteWonder]

Mikie likes it

[easilyscan]

Maybe they could retrofit the refinery to make tampons since demand has gone up due to males needing them. 

 

[Voltaire]

I understand welfare leaches, criminals, and transgender athletes, but why any other business or person would want to reside in a blue state is beyond me.

[5-Points]

5 hours ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Exxon Mobil has been in New Jersey since 1882. Not anymore! Moving to Texas! Nice job libtards! 

 Chevron is leaving CA too. Been here since their founding in 1879. 

When do the idiots figure it out? 

[Caine Mutiny]

2 hours ago, Voltaire said:

I understand welfare leaches, criminals, and transgender athletes, but why any other business or person would want to reside in a blue state is beyond me.

Blue states are better for free trade. In California that is far more important than almost anything else. 

[Maximum Overkill]

1 minute ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Blue states are better for free trade. In California that is far more important than almost anything else. 

Really? Then why are businesses leaving in droves? 

It's happening whether you believe it or not 

[Caine Mutiny]

1 minute ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Really? Then why are businesses leaving in droves? 

It's happening whether you believe it or not 

Some are leaving because taxes are high. We have a lot of stuff to pay for. Our economy is #1 in the U.S. by far. Our quality of life is 5th overall. Our eduction is always in the top 10-most of the southern red states are at the very bottom. Same for our social services. These things cost money. 

[seafoam1]

10 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Some are leaving because taxes are high. We have a lot of stuff to pay for. Our economy is #1 in the U.S. by far. Our quality of life is 5th overall. Our eduction is always in the top 10-most of the southern red states are at the very bottom. Same for our social services. These things cost money. 

Your state economy is the most in debt than any state in the nation. If you are so rich, why not pay it off? 

You have no answer for that, so no need to even try. 

[Maximum Overkill]

17 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Some are leaving because taxes are high. We have a lot of stuff to pay for. Our economy is #1 in the U.S. by far. Our quality of life is 5th overall. Our eduction is always in the top 10-most of the southern red states are at the very bottom. Same for our social services. These things cost money. 

New Jersey is a shitt dump. I spent many years there and it's an absolute toilet. I won't go back 

[easilyscan]

Highest corporate taxes in the nation. Minnesota is 2nd

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/zjpBq/6/#?secret=fKKyWkVXJw

https://www.americanexperiment.org/for-smaller-businesses-minnesota-has-the-highest-effective-corporate-tax-rate-in-the-united-states/

 

[seafoam1]

21 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

New Jersey is a shitt dump. I spent many years there and it's an absolute toilet. I won't go back 

Armpit of America. California is the anus. 

[5-Points]

41 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Some are leaving because taxes are high. We have a lot of stuff to pay for. Our economy is #1 in the U.S. by far. Our quality of life is 5th overall. Our eduction is always in the top 10-most of the southern red states are at the very bottom. Same for our social services. These things cost money. 

#1 in homelessness 

#1 in overall crime 

#1 in violent crime

#1 in homicides/rapes

#1 in robberies/agg assault

#1 in non-violent crime

#1 in property crimes

 

Yay! Were number one! We're number one!

Number one!

 

 

[Hardcore troubadour]

56 minutes ago, Maximum Overkill said:

Really? Then why are businesses leaving in droves? 

It's happening whether you believe it or not 

They don’t know what they’re doing of course. That’s how they became successful enough to go where they want.  

[5-Points]

14 minutes ago, seafoam1 said:

Armpit of America. California is the anus. 

Not for nothin but Florida resembles a colon more so than does California. 

You guys need to take another look at the last 3 presidential electoral maps. California has plenty of intelligent, conservative people with common sense and a well deserved hatred of moronic leftists. Its just LA, Sili Valley and rigged elections that keep CA the shithole that it is currently. 

But things they are-a-changin. 

 

[Fireballer]

57 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Some are leaving because taxes are high. We have a lot of stuff to pay for. Our economy is #1 in the U.S. by far. Our quality of life is 5th overall. Our eduction is always in the top 10-most of the southern red states are at the very bottom. Same for our social services. These things cost money. 

Who reaps the benefits of those Top 10 school systems?

[Voltaire]

1 hour ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Some are leaving because taxes are high. We have a lot of stuff to pay for. Our economy is #1 in the U.S. by far. Our quality of life is 5th overall. Our eduction is always in the top 10-most of the southern red states are at the very bottom. Same for our social services. These things cost money. 

You've not been keeping up with the news. While you weren't paying attention, southern red states climbed out from the bottom. Times have changed on education outcomes (among other things) in ways that will surprise.

You are clearly unaware that California has squandered its advantages on education by chasing the equity fairy down the toilet, with dumbed down education standards, lowered expectations, in combination with social promotions policies pushed by teacher unions. 

Mississippi is now #9 in student achievement and. adjusted for race and poverty, Mississippi becomes #1. Black 4th grade students in Mississippi are better readers than black 4th graders in Massachusetts and are 2 1/2 times more likely to read by 4th grade than black kids in California, Massachusetts or New York' and they do it with significantly smaller budgets. Louisiana and Alabama are showing the same results. This is all happening despite the really bad levels of literacy among parents.

The reason they're getting good results is because unlike blue states, they are taking testing metrics and absenteeism seriously.

And my source for this shocking news is Nick Kristof, who I'm sure you're familiar with and hold in the highest esteem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opinion/red-states-good-schools.html

Here's a bypass to the firewall. https://archive.li/PYmsY

 

[5-Points]

26 minutes ago, Fireballer said:

Who reaps the benefits of those Top 10 school systems?

He's full of sh!t.

States with the Lowest Literacy Rates

1. California

California’s 23.1% of adults lacking basic prose literacy skills make California have the lowest literacy rate of 76.9%. The state of California and the state Department of Education are being blamed and sued for the failing literacy rate, as families and students believe that they are not receiving a quality education in reading and writing.

HTH

[Hardcore troubadour]

1 minute ago, 5-Points said:

He's full of sh!t.

States with the Lowest Literacy Rates

1. California

California’s 23.1% of adults lacking basic prose literacy skills make California have the lowest literacy rate of 76.9%. The state of California and the state Department of Education are being blamed and sued for the failing literacy rate, as families and students believe that they are not receiving a quality education in reading and writing.

Wow! Holy shitt! And that’s after they dumbed everything down, like they have done in all the blue states. I talk to public school parents all the time and they tell me their kids get no or very little homework. NY is FOS too. 

[Caine Mutiny]

Our literacy rates are low, despite our excellent education, because we take in a lot of immigrants from other countries. And overall that’s a great thing .

California isn’t perfect. But I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. It’s the least imperfect place in the country. 

[5-Points]

8 minutes ago, Hardcore troubadour said:

Wow! Holy shitt! And that’s after they dumbed everything down, like they have done in all the blue states. I talk to public school parents all the time and they tell me their kids get no or very little homework. NY is FOS too. 

This is what decades of one dumb party rule does for a state. 

 

[5-Points]

1 minute ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Our literacy rates are low, despite our excellent education, because we take in a lot of immigrants from other countries. And overall that’s a great thing .

California isn’t perfect. But I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. It’s the least imperfect place in the country. 

Lmao

Ok

[5-Points]

6 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Our literacy rates are low, despite our excellent education, because we take in a lot of immigrants from other countries. And overall that’s a great thing .

California isn’t perfect. But I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. It’s the least imperfect place in the country. 

We should prolly teach them to read and write before we allow them to vote. And maybe achieve citizenship.  Don't ya think? 

[Voltaire]

16 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

Lmao

Ok

I'm cool with people vote for the government they want. 

The reason that I don't want to tell blue people how to run blue states is because when the shoe is on the other foot, I don't want them telling us how to run ours.

We have whole different ideas on how to live our lives on laws and morals and ethics. I don't want to kill them or anything.  Just go live over there amongst your own kind, leave us the fock alone, and feel free to do what you want (and don't get any on me).

[5-Points]

13 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

I'm cool with people vote for the government they want. 

The reason that I don't want to tell blue people how to run blue states is because when the shoe is on the other foot, I don't want them telling us how to run ours.

We have whole different ideas on how to live our lives on laws and morals and ethics. I don't want to kill them or anything.  Just go live over there amongst your own kind, leave us the fock alone, and feel free to do what you want (and don't get any on me).

California isn't a blue state. Its a red state with too many blue idiots in certain locations with a strong cheat game. 

Take a look at the last few presidential electoral maps. 

 

[Voltaire]

6 minutes ago, 5-Points said:

California isn't a blue state. Its a red state with too many blue idiots in certain locations with a strong cheat game. 

Take a look at the last few presidential electoral maps. 

 

The large red areas on the map are an illusion since few people live in the red parts. Most people live on the coast, where the population density is massive, they vote heavily blue, and easily drown out the red votes in outlying areas to the east and north.

[5-Points]

16 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

The large red areas on the map are an illusion since few people live in the red parts. Most people live on the coast, where the population density is massive, they vote heavily blue, and easily drown out the red votes in outlying areas to the east and north.

Most people don't live on the coast. They haven't been building more homes on the coast for a while. A lot of rich people live on the coast because they are the only ones who can afford to do so. 

The vast majority of new home building is in the central part of the state from the bottom to the top. 

Watch this year's Gubernatorial election closely. The people of California are tired of the Dem's buIIshit. We might end up with two Republicans on the November ballot. Its a long shot, but it might just happen. 

 

ETA: a lot of those rich coastal elites are leaving the state because of the buIIshit they voted for. California is experiencing an exodus not seen before in it's history. With any luck, this state will lose electoral votes and senate seats in the coming years. 

[Caine Mutiny]

3 hours ago, 5-Points said:

We should prolly teach them to read and write before we allow them to vote. And maybe achieve citizenship.  Don't ya think? 

Of course. That’s already a law BTW. Perhaps you’re not familiar with our citizenship laws? 

[FrancieFootball]

Woo!

[5-Points]

6 hours ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Of course. That’s already a law BTW. Perhaps you’re not familiar with our citizenship laws? 

Wait, are you trying to claim that California doesn't allow non-citizens to vote? 

[listen2me 23]

Sure both parties get trapped into their own echo chamber some.  But for me the red vote is much more genuine.   Sure you can say rural if you want.  But all over a state like Cali is red.  People with similar standards/ideas come from all over a state map. While Dems are confined to small spots.  The Lib vote is much more group think.  

[peenie]

I’m glad NJ won’t allow them to destroy our farmlands and they care about the consumer. I don’t know the full story (and clearly neither do you) but Texas won’t allow shareholders to sue Exxon Mobile or some-such. Why would you side with a corporation’s wrong doings? Money isn’t more important than people or nature. 

NJ has the best schools, best places to live, best healthcare, best food and strong economy. The only bad thing I can think of is some of the poor neighborhoods are really bad or were when I was living there long ago and the property taxes are high. Other than that it’s a great state. Trump even has property in NJ.

Georgia is better for me though because it was more affordable. 

[Caine Mutiny]

1 hour ago, 5-Points said:

Wait, are you trying to claim that California doesn't allow non-citizens to vote? 

Yes. They are not allowed to vote. 

https://calvoter.org/content/fact-check-noncitizens-cannot-vote-california-congressional-elections

[Caine Mutiny]

Not surprising how many of you guys are jealous of California. 

[Meglamaniac]

30 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Not surprising how many of you guys are jealous of California. 

It's not surprising you mistake mockery for jealousy

 

[Fireballer]

51 minutes ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Yes. They are not allowed to vote. 

https://calvoter.org/content/fact-check-noncitizens-cannot-vote-california-congressional-elections

How are these laws enforced?

[Mike Hunt]

12 hours ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Our literacy rates are low, despite our excellent education, because we take in a lot of immigrants from other countries. And overall that’s a great thing .

California isn’t perfect. But I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. It’s the least imperfect place in the country. 

how many other states have you lived in?

Anyplace you take over a business that your family started it a good place to live. Safety nets make many places very acceptable.

[TheNewGirl]

12 hours ago, Caine Mutiny said:

Our literacy rates are low, despite our excellent education, because we take in a lot of immigrants from other countries. And overall that’s a great thing .

California isn’t perfect. But I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. It’s the least imperfect place in the country. 

Higher education rates high, but our Pre-K/Elementary is among the lowest. 

You need to cite your sources, or tell the ENTIRE story...as usual. You leave out the caveats and nuances so you look better. 

#notsurprised