My favorite part of this is that despite this “border crisis, ”Gregory Wayne Abbott is galavanting around fkn India like he’s Anthony fkn Bourdain. Meanwhile, we have all sorts of shit convoys and armed goofies coming there to “volunteer in Texas.” Eagle Pass is only 97% Hispanic, so I’m sure nobody will get confused and murder some nice citizen or anything.
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Go for it, Abbott. Let's see your beloved Texas Rangers go up against satellite-guided drone bombers.
It's all fun and games until you are shredded by cluster bombs.
If Trump loses the 2024 election because Texas temporarily secedes, taking its 38 Republican electoral votes with it, I might die from the schadenfreude.
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This walking corpse needs to be slapped back to reality. Secession talk should get you fucked into the ground.
Traitor scum.
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Sounds good, we’ll take them back after the 2024 election.
How do 1%ers hear this and not immediately pull campaign funding, what would a civil war do to the US economy. When a nation with the most guns in the world has people starving what do they think is gonna happen. I guess they are counting on being kings in the aftermath or that Jesus will come back or something.
The 1% use political theater to distract people from the fact that half of Americans can't afford rent.
This is exactly what they want.
See, your problem is you assume the 1% are intelligent. They are not. The attribute they have the most of is greed. Greed can blind even the intelligent, and most of them aren't even playing with a full deck.
Of course they’re intelligent. Lots of people are greedy but most of them aren’t greedy and rich.
Being intelligent doesn’t make you rich, being ruthless to your fellow humans makes you rich.
Normal people wouldn’t fuck over any and everyone for a dollar.
Yes, but being intelligent and ruthless means you're more likely to succeed.
You can have multiple traits that affect things. It's almost never just one thing or another.
Eh, I wouldn’t say it’s a largely influential factor.
Maybe a handful of tech company founders (e.g. Atlassian guy) have some degree of intelligence in their field, but id argue connections, sociopathy, and the right place at the right time are bigger factors. But most are born into it idiots like Trump or Musk.
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Bye Felicia
So what about Texas invading other states by bussing migrants there?
I have yet to see this mentioned in any of these threads, at least the ones that I have read. If Texas secedes or tries to, Republicans lose 38 seats in the House of Representatives and two Senate seats. This give the House to Democrats for the foreseeable future and Democrats an easier path to passing bills in the Senate. Not that Texas, Abbott, cares.
Here's hoping a congressman disappears him.
But seriously, there needs to be a mechanism for the feds to impeach a governor.
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GM: "Well, you can certainly try."
"Roll for initiative."
As a city Texan who lives in one of the most military-friendly and full cities in the state, I say I’d like to see you try greggy.
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the nihilist in me really wants to see texas attempt this.
confederates === domestic terrorists. lets act accordingly.
the nihilist in me really wants to see texas attempt this.
Just to get rid of Abbot and Cruz it would be worth it.
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No. Please. Don't. Go.
Oh well.