Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agoJoe Biden Faces Growing Calls to Federalize Texas National Guardwww.newsweek.comexternal-linkmessage-square110fedilinkarrow-up1472arrow-down112
arrow-up1460arrow-down1external-linkJoe Biden Faces Growing Calls to Federalize Texas National Guardwww.newsweek.comRapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 10 months agomessage-square110fedilink
minus-squareTenthrow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·10 months agoPlease don’t leave me here.
minus-squaredhork@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·edit-210 months agoJust learn some Spanish and Abbott will let you get on a bus to come up North, for free!
minus-squareBilliam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up19·10 months agoIf Texass suddenly became its own country, I wouldn’t expect them to be so generous to those people as to keep sending them to better places. They’d probably decide those people should be concentrated somewhere away from decent Texans.
minus-squareInternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThose Texans forget that current prosperity relies on being part of the Union. As soon as they leave they will be worse than just having tariffs; they’d be embargoded so hard Cuba looks like a trade empire.
minus-squareStraySojourner@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoI had a buddy in the army who desperately wanted to believe Texas was a fully functional country that needed no America.
minus-squarePugJesus@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up8·10 months agoWe’ll send helicopters to evac the sane.
minus-squareSemi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 months agoPerhaps some kind of railroad, but hidden somehow like it was underground
minus-squareSuiXi3D@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoBut much like Texas railroads currently, it’ll get bogged down in lawsuits and never happen. I just wanna be able to ride a train around the state. Is that so hard to ask?
Please don’t leave me here.
Just learn some Spanish and Abbott will let you get on a bus to come up North, for free!
If Texass suddenly became its own country, I wouldn’t expect them to be so generous to those people as to keep sending them to better places.
They’d probably decide those people should be concentrated somewhere away from decent Texans.
Those Texans forget that current prosperity relies on being part of the Union. As soon as they leave they will be worse than just having tariffs; they’d be embargoded so hard Cuba looks like a trade empire.
I had a buddy in the army who desperately wanted to believe Texas was a fully functional country that needed no America.
We’ll send helicopters to evac the sane.
Perhaps some kind of railroad, but hidden somehow like it was underground
But much like Texas railroads currently, it’ll get bogged down in lawsuits and never happen.
I just wanna be able to ride a train around the state. Is that so hard to ask?