These dumb fucks can't go a single winter or summer without their power grids going down and then begging for free money and help but they somehow thing they can be their own country? Fuck it, let em try and then they will find out that the Mexican cartels don't fuck around.
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Old guy who is only getting older wants to dictate so that he has some sort of legacy.
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Inciting an insurrection…
Texas is a drag on our society. I say say cut em loose.
Ah it's fine, we know they'll be totally fine on their own. I mean, they have their own totally reliable, independent electric grid, right?
I don’t think Republican leadership is going to like losing 40 electoral votes.
money will drop him so fast he's struggling to act out this bad
Ah so he's taking a page from Ron DeSantis and plan to lose on multiple fronts.
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When Republican governors try to become mini-dictators… that does not bode well for America.
Good luck. Remember what happened last time?
If it means Ted Cruz will be forced to fuck off, don’t keep us waiting.
God damn we can only hope
Dog whistle to his supporters, that's all.
If they actually tried anything they'd be snuffed out pretty fast.
I knew we were teasing World War III but I didn't think it would start with a Civil War.
It's an unlikely threat. Texas has the second highest number of electors (California has the most) that vote in the electoral college. Furthermore, the senate and house lose two representatives each. That means a Republican presidential candidate is going to have a hard time getting elected.
Texit
The south is stupidly rising again
Can we just acknowledge that this is unhinged? Biden has the strongest border policies ever implemented by a Democrat. This just shows that there is no compromise possible with these traitors. They will never admit you made a step in their direction, only demand more and more and more until you're just doing their bidding.
This is truly the way of extremists and terrorists, they demand the country be run to their preferences, democratic systems be damned.
Is there somewhere I can read about Biden's border policy compared to other Democrats? This is definitely something I'm totally uninformed about and I'd like to read up a bit, if you know of a good rundown.
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It really is sad to see so many Americans captivated by misinformation that they've convinced themselves is real. Abandoning science, reason, discussion, compromise, even tolerance. I try to keep my bloodthirst in check but after years upon years of them growing like a cancer, forming cult-like militia, becoming full blown domestic terrorists threatening high treason, it can't be tolerated any further. It was cute when it was just posturing, symbolizing they were unhappy with the system at large and wanted to fuck with it a little.
Now it's spiraled out of control. Now the punishment for treason should be felt. Either mercifully with the arrest of Abbott or vengefully with the GOP Texans being buried under the new courthouse.
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Please, try it. I dare you, Abbott.
Would be a late Christmas present to make Texas a blue state by March.
biden should call the bluff and ask the house and senate to release texas from the union under the condition it compensates the US for any federal land and supplies.
Not even. We take what’s ours, they can keep the land and what infrastructure is left. All federal funds are frozen and all US based assets for Texans are frozen until diplomatic relations are formally established and financial treaties are in place. All power, pipelines and rail are blocked/shut off at the border. All passports in Texas names are null, along with all no cost governmental passports. Military Checkpoints at all major roads in and out of Texas with nobody allowed in or out without a valid US passport. All airport and federal airport staff are reassigned or permitted to resign with negative SF50 rehire status. All airspace on the US side is closed to any transit.
Most of this can be accomplished in a week or two with the military securing the border operations (as is appropriate). It would be fair to allow, say, a month grace period for anyone who wants to stay in the US to relocate. After they are free to leave by the gulf or, if Mexico decides to honor the defunct passports.
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cut off all federal funding
let then secede
invade and retake them as a territory with no federal voting rights
make dc and puerto rico states
republicans never win again
Naw, split up the state into 4 states, with Houston, Austin, Dallas and San Antonio as capitals. Cut state lines and populations up to ensure that as the main city votes so goes the state.
That'd be 8 democratic senators.
Add DC, PR, American Virgin Islands American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and that's potentially another 12.
Regardless of politics the territories, and DC, should have statehood and equal rights and representation as the rest of us or they should have independence. It's part of our national identity. No more colonialism or secondclass sub citizens.
Please stop I can only get so erect
So all federal money cut off.
But wait, doesn't Texas pay more than they received?
Yes, but let's really look at this. Military and veterans don't get paid. Oil confiscated by the Navy stationed on both the East and West coast. Any company with a federal account closes down bc Texas doesn't pay the same. Massive border to protect against a reunification force.
I think they change their mind in a split second.
They did pay into the federal system more than they took at one time, but it hasn't been like that for a long time now. They couldn't handle having federal funding cut off.
No one could. We're solidly in deficit spending now.