• PrincessLeiasCat
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    10 months ago

    Can’t Biden nationalize the Texas National Guard like Eisenhower did with Arkansas, as described here?

    I suppose that coming to a head is what I’m worried about - Biden will issue the EO but the Texas National Guard will refuse to acknowledge it. And now there are convoys and shit joining them, so it will just be a standoff that goes on forever (not unlike the Bundy ranch saga) and potentially lead to a serious crisis within the military and the refusal to follow the ruling that SCOTUS handed down.

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      10 months ago

      Secession will literally never happen. If they did, they’d be throwing 38 red electoral votes in the garbage and the Dems would win every national election for the next 3 decades easy, probably more.

      IF they did (not even a big if, seriously, like i said above it will never happen). No need to fight a war over it, no need to even fire a shot. Let them take everything they want in the state. Cut off all trade, blockade their international shipping, seize all assets outside Texas of all businesses based there, then watch as they have to now come to terms with the fact that their only viable land based trading partner is the same country they have been trying to stop immigration from for over half a century.