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I don't live in Texas, can I start a petition for them to secede?
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Jesus, I get off work and suddenly there are 20 reports on comments about Abbott being in a wheelchair.
Removing ALL of them. You want to make fun of him for being a useless fuck? Go ahead. Pick on him for being emotionally and intellectually bankrupt? Not a problem.
Going after him because he can't walk is low hanging fruit. Do better.
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Abbott’s neo-secessionist bluster, cheered on by GOP governors and Republicans in Washington, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, has set up a confrontation with the federal government over immigration policy. “We encourage all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border,” Donald Trump wrote on Thursday.
Maybe I’m reading about this too much, but I’m in Texas and really starting to worry about how this all ends & what the next step is. I don’t want to overreact, but with Abbott basically telling the feds to fuck off and Trump encouraging other states to send their National Guard…you know how crazy that fanbase is, we saw it on 1/6.
I know Eisenhower nationalized the Guard when Arkansas tried to pull this shit with desegregation, and yeah Biden has some harder choices because it’s an election year.
I guess I just don’t know where this goes and I hate it. I fucking hate that this is where we’re at.
Idk I'm eager to watch a bunch of riled up Gravy Seals with $5000 AR-15 kits fly to Texas thinking they can take on the feds
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You know what Texas already has? At least three Active Duty military bases. If every Guard wants to come driving down to say hi, you know what they need? Fuel.
And you can't find JP8 at Buc-ee's, so good luck using Cavaso's fuel point while on your way to flip off the feds.
Yes, the states can do what they want with their Guards but this isn't something to worry about unless you're worried about the waste of life and tax payers money.
Can’t Biden nationalize the Texas National Guard like Eisenhower did with Arkansas, as described here?
I suppose that coming to a head is what I’m worried about - Biden will issue the EO but the Texas National Guard will refuse to acknowledge it. And now there are convoys and shit joining them, so it will just be a standoff that goes on forever (not unlike the Bundy ranch saga) and potentially lead to a serious crisis within the military and the refusal to follow the ruling that SCOTUS handed down.
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Nothing is going to happen. Congress will pass a shitty immigration bill. Abbott will claim a victory for Texas and the whole thing will blow over.
The interesting thing is that Trump is trying to prevent congress from acting because he wants to campaign on the immigration issue. If Biden is able to get something through it will look like a victory.
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My tin foil hat theory is this is all a conspiracy to create another pain in the ass situation for Biden to have to deal with on an election year .
No need for the tinfoil, that's literally what this is.
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Both Parties Have Turned the Border Wall Into a Death Trap
Decades of bipartisan policies have turned the border into an ugly and dangerous laceration.
https://truthout.org/articles/both-parties-have-turned-the-border-wall-into-a-death-trap/
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The Astroturfing is strong here, does anyone actually believe that liberals are suddenly, with absolutely no warning, crawling over each other to mock his disabilities instead of his decisions, despite never having done so before?
Obvious setup is obvious.
The proper method is to call him a cripple and insult everything about him, proper fucken insult methods. Have some respect and do the job right I say.
I dont know if I should add an /s because im only half joking.
I'm weary af of liberals accusing all opposition of being russian plants, but it kinda wouldn't surprise me here. Maybe they're just the loudest, but the last couple weeks the only liberals I've seen have been doing shit like that, saying pro Palestinian protesters are Russian plants that should be executed, that anyone critical of biden is worse than a trump voter, lots and lots of abusive, thoughtless, maga tier shit. If I were Russia and wanted to keep leftists from voting for biden I'd hire a bunch of people to act like that. I still think liberals are just quickly devolving into magats, but maybe if I just touch some grass it'll be obvious that's not the case
Also liberals have always been bad for making fun of trump for being fat, this is completely within that wheelhouse, so I wouldn't take it as evidence of a psyop or anything
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C'mon, not every shit take on the internet is paid by Putin or whatever. If it was, I'd have enough money to do something else
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