Again? Texas does this almost every election cycle and they aren’t dumb enough to try it. Or maybe they are. That’d be a show.
As a born and raised Texan, I’ve been seeing “Secede” bumper stickers for decades now. However, it’s the first time that I remember the governor saying it. So it is still notable, even if it’s old rhetoric.
I’m Canadian and this is like Quebec for us. None of us take them seriously, they do this so often. They’re also land locked and would die without the rest of the country. I for one would love it if French Canada stopped having so much political pull over the rest of the country.
People from the ROC hating Quebec without knowing anything about it is normal, but I have never seen someone forget the St Laurence River exists before.
I wish QC had more of an influence over the ROC, I’d learn the language the best I could to have the whole country adopt EU style consumer and privacy rights, and the tenants rights Quebec has. I felt like voting for Blanchet last time over the other bums honestly.
The funny thing about the language issue is that the really hardcore seperatists here would be 100% behind someone who resented needing to learn French in Alberta or elsewhere, and that is what all of their controversial language legislation is all about. They want to create a situation in which a francophone need not learn any English at all in order to live and prosper in Quebec.
I think that is a a pointless goal and I don’t support it, but I find the people who really dislike Quebec and it’s influence have very similar attitudes to the nationalists here, while not being aware of it.
Your desire to learn French is admirable and I can say it is a silly and beautiful language, and it will teach you a lot about English while you learn it.
Get rid of Ted Cruz and we’ll take you more seriously, chucklefuck.
I knew we were teasing World War III but I didn’t think it would start with a Civil War.
What a fucking idiot
Simpson’s predicted this.
Do it. Go on.
I don’t think Republican leadership is going to like losing 40 electoral votes.
money will drop him so fast he’s struggling to act out this bad
Ah so he’s taking a page from Ron DeSantis and plan to lose on multiple fronts.
The old Nazi split, the shitzkrieg
When Republican governors try to become mini-dictators… that does not bode well for America.
This guy, these people, are so thick headed.
The court ruled that the border patrol officers have the constitutional authority to move some razor wire in some areas (this case mentions 2.5 miles) because it’s in their way of apprehending people trying to get over the boarder - actually, people who have already set foot on US soil.
This is going to turn into some big thing because Abbot would rather let immigrants die in the river than permit border patrol to capture them.
Cool, let’s pull back their federal funding and see how things go
Texas is one of the few red states that contributes more to federal funding than they get out of it. Cutting it just gives them the excuse to cut more social programs that are tried to federal funding.
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Go for it, Abbott. Let’s see your beloved Texas Rangers go up against satellite-guided drone bombers.
It’s all fun and games until you are shredded by cluster bombs.
Or a Raytheon knife missile thingy
Ol’ Greg’s gonna cripple Texas’ economy with such maneuvers.
Ideas like this are so stupid that one wonders if that’s someone’s goal. Britain leaving the EU was one of the stupidest ideas earlier. A lot of the people pushing it were being completely disingenuous - foreign influence operations. This is even worse.
Yeah it would be a disaster, so probably just probably just posturing. If it’s not, then someone must benefit. Hard for me to see how, but rich people have schemes.
We’re heading for Greg vs. the-giant-oak-tree-on-top-of-Greg all over again.
Ah it’s fine, we know they’ll be totally fine on their own. I mean, they have their own totally reliable, independent electric grid, right?
There’s way too many people in here that either don’t know the difference between succession and secession, or don’t know how to spell, or just were too lazy to look at what they were typing or what was being autocorrected.
It’d be funny if someone built a Lemmy extension to allow others to grade people’s posts based on spelling and grammar.
Since smartphones became prevalent there has been open contempt and hostility for the idea that correct spelling and grammar are important for comprehensible communication.
Too many people don’t care to learn anything anymore because it makes them feel stupid when it’s pointed out that they didn’t just plop out of their mothers with all the necessary knowledge to interact with others and navigate the world around them.
Biden should call them the fuck out. Immediately withdraw all federal funding, including anything paid for by the government like power plants and highways. Let them suffer until they’re willing to play nice with the rest of us.
oh and all of those sweet military bases that basically prop up that shithole
That would be political suicide and motivate the red states against him for the election. He can point out that he’s wrong because of those in a funny way. But actually doing something about it would be detrimental to his election.
Like red states aren’t already motivated against him? That’s at least 90% of the reason Abbott is even doing this. Give old Joe a no win situation to deal with and take the focus off their abhorrent abortion and other human rights stances. Like, I know this involves drowning children with razor wire but he gets to control the narrative and move the focus off that.
Nothing would take the attention of off winning issues for democrats like abortion than Biden turning the empty threats of a blowhard into a verified constitutional crisis.
