People keep talking about “Federalizing the National Guard” and now you’ve got other States pledging their NG to Texas in defiance of the Supreme Court (see image).

So is this what CW2 looks like?

P.S. I’m a Brit

  • @Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world
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    A lot of you all must be too young to remember. This isn’t a new thing for Texas to do. They threatened to secede at least once (maybe twice) while Obama was president. Once it was straight out of the North Korean playbook, claiming a training exercise the military was conducting was a cover for a military invasion of Texas.

    • @HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world
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      And thats why I’m not worried about them doing anything other than what they’re already doing. They know they would be fucked if they leave.

      And if they do? Well then we deal with it when that time comes. Hopefully a bunch of left leaning people leave, including my brother and his wife, and a bunch of MAGAts can go there and talk about how much they love America while also leaving it.

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          There was some guy back in the day who was stating in all seriousness, that Texas was more hurt by the 9/11 attacks than New York was.

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      Texas has made an issue over their independence and God-given right to be Texas, in defense of their the right to own chattel slavery since their first secession. From Mexico. In 1836.

      Texas reconfirmed their desire to die on the hill of their divine right to own people, by seceding from the US in 1861.

      After the civil war, Texas was a haven for the Confederates - and their ideology has been fomenting ever since

      They’ve been talking of secession openly since at least the 1990s.

      I think this is the first time since the civil war that other states have involved their national guards in support of a hotbed issue that could lead to a secession.

      Edit: correction to grammatical error.

    • @Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee
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      The Dollop did a podcast on Jade Helm as it was happening. Definitely recommend listening to that one if you like American history podcasts. It’s episode 100 I believe