SOME FUCKING GUY: Y'know in TEXAS proper chili doesn't have beans.

ME: Who gives a shit?

Don't really have time for someone's weird, arbitrary and probably xenophobic anti-bean agenda.

Have you somehow never had beans? They're fucking awesome.

There was that period of sort of radial-Austin-cool when Texas got that rep of being sort of the independent-minded-Alaska-of-the-South, generally conservative-ish but quirky and sufficiently infused with kickass bands and early-SouthByish insurgency-cool that enough hipsters tossed it some props and ACTUAL SxSW became the garish clusterfuck it became, but, bitch, that shit is gone.

Motherfuckers overwhelmingly elected this sack of shit TWICE and he already put razorwire in a river to kill people and is now bitching about how he can't summarily machinegun people because of the big-government-overreach/liberal-scourge of PREPOSTEROUS "anti-murder laws."
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/abbott-migrants-shooting-remark-18603280.php

Visit Texas: We will terrorize you for your heretical attempts at pluralism in the most Klan-ish ways imaginable and get away with it because our sovereign state government has literally blessed Republican/neo-Nazi political affiliations and terrorist murder!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-launches-investigation-biden-bus-incident-texas-trump-supporters/
FBI investigating after Trump supporters surround Biden campaign bus in Texas

A Biden campaign official said the incident occurred Friday on I-35 between Austin and San Antonio.

CBS News
Here is a spot-on visual metaphor for exactly how cool and rebel-y Texas is right now and for the foreseeable future.
Oh hey, if you feel the need to do an explainer in reply to the OP in this thread, feel free to refer back to the OP in this thread.
@GrimmReality don't know if you saw it... I posted a pic of chili yesterday. As is proper, beans were present. Also, hi.
@GrimmReality my attempt at reply guying you. Kinda lame, I know.
@QueenOfCoffee IT LOOKS GREAT BUT WHAT'S BETTER IS WE _BOTH_ MADE CHILI AT THE SAME TIME
@GrimmReality so.... Are you also having thoughts about switching from wine to whiskey? Trying to plan accordingly here.
@QueenOfCoffee Not yet but you just planted the seed!
@GrimmReality let me know when to make the switch. Then I've got the excuse I'm drinking with a friend.
@GrimmReality I found my spouse in Texas. We don't live there anymore. Largely because of crap like that. We often worry about his relatives and our various friends who still live there.
@ShinyBlueThing Understand, I have many friend there I worry about as well. Congratulations on having gotten the fuck out of Texas, though! 🙌
@GrimmReality Texas state government is literally criminals.