I'm seeing some stuff been thrown around, about the texas state mobilizing their security forces to disobey federal order and something about they wanting to separate.
anyway, what do you think about this?
Fascist infighting. Probably nothing will happen but it does make the empire look really weak 🤷🏿♂️
It's a legitimate constitutional crisis, but I don't think any of the stake holders are willing to actually pull the trigger yet. I will say though that the longer this story goes on the worse it looks for Biden - imagine how much it would energize the blue maga people if he ordered the national guard to stand down and had the secret service drag Greg Abbot before congress in handcuffs for treason. It would be must-watch TV at the very least.
Not unrelated, but I was cracking myself up envisioning some pampered Texas suburbanite agonizing over the same question while hovering over the buy it now button for a gun flashlight attachment that has 15 more lumens than the one he currently has.
Sorry, it's stupid I know.
Texas wants to secede literally every three to four years; it's like clockwork almost perfectly synced up with the electoral calendar.
Texas feels bold enough to challenge the federal government because they’re essentially the only Republican-led state that actually can withstand the threat of federal fund withholding.
I wouldn’t consider a civil war very likely. Texas has power from companies being here — it wouldn’t be in the companies’ interest to civil war.
that actually can withstand the threat of federal fund withholding
Judging from the electricity grid thing from a few years ago, I guess this is because they don't mind their people dying from lack of resources
I’d say privatize the profits and socialize the costs but somehow they managed to profit off what should be costs
Oh come on how will we resolve the naritive tension of all the sabor ratteling
Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate: 👀
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/26/missouri-republican-dueling-statehouse
Preformative political shit with the Texan border.
Democrats folded as usual, Texans got what they wanted with stricter border reforms through "negotiations".
There is zero chance of a civil war so don't get your hopes up.
Even before this Texas shit there was non zero chatter about a potential looming civil war in the US.
Even though I don't like the Texas government, I want them to secede. But I don't think that's going to happen, neither is a civil war
I think the Democrats are unpopular so they've relaxed on migrants (as migrants are more democratic) which is good for migrants but also pretty opportunistic.
Even most democratic voters call the situation at the border "an invasion", which I don't agree with but the fact is Democrats are choosing to change course when it is unpopular in their own camp. Secondly, we all know it's not cause of empathy with migrants, they clearly lack that.
Democrats are trying to maintain power even at the cost of destabilization, Republicans don't want Texas, with it's 38 electoral seats to turn blue. Biden only lost in 2020 by 5%.
Non-citizens can't vote so the migrant issue will not help the democrats at the election. The migrants are being exploited for cheap labour.
Edit: there have been more deportations under Biden than under Trump.
He tried once to give illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. Obama too. Non-citizens can increasingly vote in local elections. And the more of them that come, the easier to pass this. Yes ik that Biden has deported more than Trump, that's what I meant when I said that they haven't been nice to migrants in the last few years. They are also definitely be exploited for cheap labour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Citizenship_Act_of_2021
