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
    693·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      22·
      9 months ago

      The older I get the more I eyeroll at the political posturing. It’s definitely worse than when I was younger, but also it’s all happened before. It’s just loud people trying to be loud to keep us all afraid and obediently going to work, then every 4 years it gets loud again so we vote for who they want us to.

      Real convenient the border is such a huge issue a few months before the election.

      Of course we still have to take it seriously, the minute we let our guard down they start implementing stuff, look at roe v wade, but even then they didn’t know what to do after that. It’s all about staying in power for them

      • jandar_fett@lemmy.world
        7·
        9 months ago

        I get what you’re saying, but at some point we have to admit that there really aren’t any adults at the table. A direct example is the governments covid response and another more recent is the emergence of the so-called freedom caucus. Basically I subscribe to the depressing notion that all these fuck head fascists that came before have sewn their seeds and now there is an alarmingly large amount of the populace who have drank the koolaid, made from those seeds, and even worse is a lot of the original sewers (heh), have lost the thread and are drinking their own koolaid…

      • RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world
        3·
        9 months ago

        Ok, but we also haven’t had such extreme right wingers in mainstream government before.

        And also, what about the National Guard thing?

    • HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world
      181·
      9 months ago

      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.

    • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
      15·
      9 months ago

      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
      9·
      9 months ago

      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