#texit

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

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[ancaporado]

At a certain point in the immigration debate I'm just wondering if the open borders people could stomach the alternate solution to having huge fractions of central American nation's population living in the United States which is: the US should establish these nations as protectorates and territories till they get their shit together. If these places are such basket cases that their entire economy is based on remittances from the US they obviously could benefit from our legal system, we can drop trade barriers, and open legal immigration to them. Please tell me what's so wrong with the US just you know... annexing El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua at this point? If Texas is such an inseparable part of the Union and can't secede, why not Panama?

[prolifeproliberty]

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[pennsyltuckyheathen]

If only Texas "Republicans" would leave the US...

[tendie-defender]

So does the State national guard members get their Buc-ee’s Texas Rebellion patch at the end of this?

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[mxlabradorite]

"Going to Seattle" - the Mountain Goatsn't

My partner and I are moving soon and this idea wouldn't leave me alone until I did it.

[cashwhisperer]

Yesterday I received in the mail the highest civilian award bestowed from the Texas Governor that recognizes My 30 years of community service, volunteerism, work with veterans, and achievements toward improving the present and building the future of Texas.

[magicrainbowkitties]

Btw I, as a Texan, need y'all to understand something about this Supreme Court decision and why Abbott's defiance of both them and federal border patrol has people up in arms.

First of all, the decision was literally "the border and immigration are the jurisdiction of the federal government, not the states." Which. One would hope. This decision was in reference to border patrol agents needing to cut RAZOR WIRE in order to get to people who need medical attention or to be saved from drowning in the Rio Grande. This is because once you are on American soil, citizen or not, you are under American jurisdiction and they are required to help you in an emergency situation (eg, bleeding out from razor wire, drowning because of death buoys in the river, ect).

What Abbott and his flunkies are mad about is LITERALLY that those agents are trying to save SOME lives. Mind, Biden has built more border wall in his presidency than Trump ever did, and still continues to maintain these inhumane detention camps out near Eagle Pass that deny people blankets in the cold, water in the heat, and soap. Literally they don't let folks have fucking SOAP.

And Abbott is defying the will of the federal government because they want to save SOME people from his death traps in and around the Rio Grande (which are also, unsurprisingly, an unmitigated ecological disaster as well).

Now, there's a reason why talk of Texas secession is coming up specifically at this time. Because when Texas seceded back in the day, 2 sentences after the sentence which boils down to "we're seceding because we want the freedom to own black people," there's this utter gem:

"The federal government has failed in her duty to defend our state from Mexican bandits and Indian savages."

Gee, what's that sound like? If it sounds like "we wanna own black people and kill brown people," you're absolutely correct!

We have been here before. And it was one of the bloodiest domestic conflicts in the world, certainly the bloodiest war fought on American soil. We cannot allow assholes like Abbott and Trump to make us repeat this. We cannot sit idly by and let the poorest, most desperate people in this half of the world be murdered for the crime of fleeing for their lives.

If you take anything away from this post, let it be this:

This is not about people who don't go through the processes, or just barge in and sneak into your place and steal your jobs. That is a racist, xenophobic fabrication. These are people who have no choice but to flee their homes and seek refuge in America. And we greet them by trying to kill them, and then throwing them in prison while stealing their children and "deciding what to do with them."

And Greg Abbott and the Texas Republican party are mad that they're not being allowed to kill more of these people.

I will leave you with this thought: If these people indeed have the option to immigrate legally, why aren't they? Why are they trying to go across what is famously the most militarized border between two nations at peace in the world?

And why, if this immigration crisis is so dire that Texas is "full to bursting," why is my hometown just outside of Austin one of the fastest growing in the country, and why is it all white people moving in? Why is Abbott offering tax credits to people who move their tech and creative industries, and thus more people to work those jobs, and thus adding more people to Texas?

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

June 18, 2022

Heather Cox Richardson

Of all we have heard at the hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, Judge J. Michael Luttig’s testimony on Thursday stands out. Luttig is a leading conservative thinker, a giant in Republican legal circles, who worked in the Reagan administration, was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to a federal judgeship, and was on the short-list for a Supreme Court seat during President George W. Bush’s term. In January 2021, then–vice president Mike Pence’s staff turned to him for support to make sure Pence didn’t agree to count out electors; Luttig opposed the scheme absolutely. Luttig’s words carry weight among Republican lawmakers. On Thursday, Judge Luttig examined the ongoing danger to democracy and located it not just on former president Donald Trump and his enablers, but on the entire Republican Party of today, the party that embraces the Big Lie that Trump won the 2020 election, the party that continues to plan to overturn any election in which voters choose a Democrat. “[T]he former president and his party are today a clear and present danger for American democracy,” Luttig reiterated to NPR’s All Things Considered. And, as if in confirmation, delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party today approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”; requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization; treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9; getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve; rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment; returning Christianity to schools and government; ending all gun safety measures; abolishing the Department of Education; arming teachers; requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment; dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage; withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.” Luttig said that Republicans must start speaking to Democrats as ”fellow Americans that have a shared destiny and shared hopes and dreams for America.” “We cannot have in America either political party behaving itself like the Republican Party has since the 2020 election.” I’ve been thinking a lot since Thursday of Luttig’s clear-eyed view of the dangers we face in this country today, and of his willingness to cast aside old political loyalties to call them out in order to protect our democracy. They remind me of nothing so much as Abraham Lincoln’s description of the way northerners reacted to the 1854 passage of a law permitting the spread of enslavement into western lands from which it had previously been excluded. The passage of that law woke up Americans who had not been paying attention, and convinced them to work across old political lines to stop oligarchs from destroying democracy. Northerners were “thunderstruck and stunned; and we reeled and fell in utter confusion. But we rose each fighting, grasping whatever he could first reach—a scythe—a pitchfork—a chopping axe, or a butcher's cleaver” to push back against the oligarchic enslavers, Lincoln later said. Regardless of where they started politically, they stood up for democracy together. And while they came from different parties, he said, they were “still Americans; no less devoted to the continued Union and prosperity of the country than heretofore.” Over the course of the next decade, that new coalition argued and struggled and took the nation in an entirely new direction. It fought and won a war that involved more than two million men and cost more than $5 billion, established our first national money, welcomed immigrants, created public colleges, invented the income tax, gave farmers land, built transcontinental railroads, and—finally—ended human enslavement in the U.S. except as punishment for a crime for which a person had been duly convicted. And, of course, it saved the nation from those seeking to destroy it. “[T]o my knowledge, I’ve never spoken publicly a single word of politics,” Luttig told NPR about his extraordinary statements. In a later note he added: “I wanted to do this for America and I understood I had an obligation to do it for America. It was my ‘moment’ in my life to stand up, step forward, and bear witness to what I believe and what I do not believe.”

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Notes:

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/18/republican-party-texas-convention-cornyn/

https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/18/texas-gop-platform-gender-sexuality-preborn/

https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/facts.htm

https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/6-Permanent-Platform-Committee-FINAL-REPORT-6-16-2022.pdf

https://www.npr.org/2022/06/18/1106089263/former-federal-judge-warns-of-danger-to-american-democracy

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/16/us/j-michael-luttig-tweets-pence-trump.html

JMLuttig to HCR, June 17, 2022.

Abraham Lincoln, Peoria Speech, October 16, 1854 https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/peoriaspeech.htm

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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[ancaporado]

oh boy we cooking

[prolifeproliberty]

If you are a registered voter in Texas, sign this petition! This is to get a referendum on the Republican primary ballot that reads "Should the State of Texas reassert its status as an independent nation?"

Whether you want Texas to secede or not, whether you think we can secede or not, the voters should have the chance to answer this question for themselves. All this petition does is get the measure on the ballot so it can be voted on.

If you signed a petition about this in 2021, that was for the 2022 primary ballot and has expired. This is a new petition.

[arcticdementor]

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[tendie-defender]

They are watching us. Waiting.

“Texit: why Civil War 2 could start in the USA from Texas”

Another article.

"According to open sources, the Texas National Guard is a combined-arms army equipped with various types of armored vehicles (tanks, APCs, and other armored vehicles), artillery, and aviation (helicopters, fighters, bombers). In fact, Texas has its own National Guard, Air Force, and internal troops."