It sure would be nice if Democrats were as committed to doing good as Republicans are to doing evil.
this post was submitted on 26 Jan 2024
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But that's the problem. Democrats aren't heroes. They're just regular politicians trying to climb the ladder and maybe do a good thing for people they care about personally. They stand in opposition to evil, sometimes, but that's not the same as actively trying to make things better for everyone. You could count on one hand the number of leaders we have actively working towards a better world, and most of them would be considered crackpots.
A lot of the democrats aren't even good politicians, they're just less corrupt than the GOP so they have to do.
They're literally only less corrupt enough (and not an ounce more) such that they don't get laughed at when they say you should vote for the lesser of two evils.
Send in the fucking troops. When racist fucks like these tried to stop kids from going to school, that's what worked.
Fucking inbreds.
The troops are already there -- the President can federalize the Texas National Guard and give us a look a what a modern-day Little Rock High School looks like. Garland should be seeking an arrest warrant against Abbott for insurrection, as well.
Garland wouldn't even look into Jan 6th until being shamed into it. God I wish we had a super hardcore attorney general right now.
garland is a worthless stooge.
I really wish Texans would take a page out of French protestors and just start setting things on fire, spewing trucks full of animal waste all over the unecessarily fancy government buildings, and finally put Abbot and his entire wealthy billionaire grifting affluent family under the guillotine, done all in Minecraft.
Wouldn’t go over well in the end. “Antifa has started burning cities down, and is using biological weapons against the government. We are taking action against them.”
We’ve already seen black vans grabbing people in Portland during protests, what do you think will happen when their claims are only mostly baseless, and not completely baseless?
What do you think is going to happen doing nothing?
By that logic, I guess we should all live our lives in fear of the potential backlash of fascists to any social action. Wait, doesn't that just result in them deciding how we live our lives anyway?
In Minneapolis they burned a police precinct to the ground and that thing still hasn't been rebuilt to this day. Resistance is possible.
Greg Abbott's racist murderboner will not be quelled!
Wait do you think the boner works
I'd bet the only way he can get it to work is by killing brown people.
Texas: defies Supreme Court
rest of the country: wait, we can do that?
I hope this ends with Abbot in handcuffs.
Eisenhower Special! Eisenhower Special! Eisenhower Special!
Does the Texas National Guard fall under the regular Military Chain of Command? Could, say an Army General, order the guard to stand down/withdraw or face court martial?
Abbott's a bigoted demogogue asshole, but this entire thing feels way overblown, thanks largely to poor reporting.
The Supreme Court ruling in question was one of those zero-commentary "shadow docket" things that simply struck down a lower court injunction holding that the federal Border Patrol was not allowed to cut razor wire laid by the Texas state guard. The clear implication is that the feds have ultimate jurisdiction and the state needs to stay in their fucking lane. But because of the ruling's terseness, there's wiggle room for Abbott to say that they didn't explicitly order Texas to stop placing wire or to obstruct Border Patrol operations, only that the feds were permitted to remove it if they wanted. So he takes that legal loophole and uses it to give a big middle finger to the administration and the Court using the same hysterical rhetoric he always has.
Problem is all the reporting on the Court ruling glossed over the mechanics and interpreted it as saying more than it actually did, which in turn makes Texas's obstinacy look less like legal trolling and more like a full-blown constitutional crisis. But Abbott has not (yet) directly disobeyed a Supreme Court order, and I expect the administration will petition the Court for an expedited slapdown of his semantic bullshit. If he ignores that, or right-wing threats pressure the Court into reversing their prior decision, then we're really into nullification crisis territory. But the freakout roiling progressives is, at this point, premature.