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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Texas Governor Greg Abbott declares that Texas law supercedes Federal authority and hints at secession

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott declares that Texas law supercedes Federal authority and hints at secession

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Greg Abbott writes that the Federal government violated the Constitution by failing to protect the states from an "invasion" of immigrants.
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    If Trump loses the 2024 election because Texas temporarily secedes, taking its 38 Republican electoral votes with it, I might die from the schadenfreude.

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      1.Just give Texas back to Mexico.

      2.Reverse UNO

      3.White Republicans are now the immigrants on the wrong side of the border

      4.Enjoy some queso

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        Tesla becoming a mexican business lmao

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          👌chef’s kiss

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        Mexico 2 days later: Amigo, please take these fuck faces back

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          Or cartel runs in and they have a lucrative cash for drugs trade, that they mostly funnel into other states for profit not seeing the irony in any if it…

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            probably quadrupling the length of border with Mexico.

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            the issue with that is that cartels like being paid for their products as much as any business- legitimate or otherwise. Texas won’t be able to pay when we remove them from the US banking system. there’s not enough cash to go around, and they’ll probably have to mint their own currency.

            Which… the Cartel won’t be dumb enough to do business in… which means they’ll have to do business in stuff like gold or whatever else.

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              Guns

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                the cartels already have better guns than most texans, so, yeah.

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        Americans who move to other countries always call themselves expats since immigrants are “those other people”.

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      I haven’t had an orgasm since 2017, but I think that would do it.

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        What happened in 2017

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          Their last orgasm obviously.

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