Texas Lt. Governor Responds to Question About Possible 'Civil War'
The title should read, Texas Lt. Governor does everything possible to foment civil war in a horrible situation of their own making
https://www.newsweek.com/dan-patrick-responds-tensions-over-use-razor-wire-border-1864642Open linkView original on lemmy.world193
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Did… Did anyone tell them the SCOTUS ruling? /s
No no, it's what they believe.
Feels before reals ¯\(ツ)/¯
I can't wait for these cowards to back down. And they will back down. They have nothing to fight the U.S. government with.
I say let them have at it and see if Texit goes any better then Brexit. I think they'll come crawling back in a few years with a lot more humility.
Fuck that. Get out all the good ones, wall it off, and let them go all mad max for a while.
It's what they want isn't it?
No regulation, everyone armed to the teeth, and a state government encouraging it.
Itd become akin to the Zone in STALKER, but instead of smuggling out artifacts its the organs of some random you shot at 300 meters.
It will be interesting to see what the Border Patrol union does. It seems as though they are on Texas' side...
From NBPC Twitter Friday, 1/26:
That almost sounds like they would strike instead
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Let them strike. This isn't between Texas and the border patrol anymore. This is between Texas and the federal government. The next step is to federalize the Texas National Guard just like Eisenhower did in Arkansas to support racial integration in schools.
Edit: Also, wow, that union Twitter page is just openly shilling for Trump.
Weak men love someone who pretends to be a strong man!
Everyone is talking about how they don't have the military power to win a civil war. I can't get over how 1 day of freezing rain can end electricity in texas for weeks. Their infrastructure couldn't handle some teens with a DIY hacking blog
This is so fucking accurate. I don’t think people understand how FRAGILE infrastructure is in Texas. I was there during the “holy shit it’s snowing” event of 2014 and all of south Texas ran out of gas.
Yeah, but since 2014 they learned their lesson and upgrad-
HAHA no they fucking didn't. Doing the right thing would require regulations and investments and Texas is against making good decisions.
Confederates the original participation trophy recipients....
Ok - so on Dan Patrick…I would encourage everyone to look up just how big of a piece of shit this guy is. As horrible as Abbott & Attorney General Ken Paxton are, this guy is somehow worse. You don’t hear about him as much because he’s the Lt. Gov, but in Texas that position carries a lot of power.
Anyway, here you go:
OK, serious question. Does this guy go home at the end of the day, and pour himself what I assume is a glass of orphan blood on the rocks, and think about the things he's done and genuinely feel good about himself?
It wouldn’t surprise me tbh
Texit would be a huge boon for Mexico, because it would create a buffer state to protect them from America 🤭
Texas finally secedes
"We should have built that wall when we had the chance." - Mexico.
... And somehow the GOP found a way to make Mexico pay for the wall. It just cost the Republic itself.
If Texas secedes the cartels will be running the place by the end of the week.
Civil war cosplay, in the run-up to an election.
I’m skipping the eclipse. I can go to more stable parts of the world than Texas.
You wouldn't want to be caught there when the cecdee happens anyway.
Treason.
Why are you so insecure?