Posted on 01/26/2024 8:10:30 AM PST by artichokegrower
The high-stakes game of Texas Hold ’em taking place on the banks of the Rio Grande between the tin soldiers of that state’s Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Border Patrol has reached a tension level that some writers and online pundits have compared to the standoff at Fort Sumter, the South Carolina outpost where the first shots of the Civil War were fired in 1861.
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The media is trying to cast this as a Texas Vs the Border Patrol. Nothing could be further from the truth it's 100 present BS.
This is the Biden Administration Vs Texas. The Border Patrol has no say on policy. The Border Patrol is under Customs and Border Protection which is under DHS.
The only administration that ever ask the Border Patrol their opinion on securing the border was Trump's.
He took their advice and delivered what they asked for and it wasn't removing border barriers.
Both BP management and the union are in total agreement, Biden sucks. Texas concurs.
It shows the damage done by having the feds fund the national guard. Neutering the state militias (like in the original plan) concentrated power in DC.
BLM a while back thought they would defile the Alamo. Volunteers got wind of spray paint on a outlying statue, and were there heads up the next day. Armed and ready on the spot.
They saw what they faced and never came back. They made the right call. Some people you don’t want to screw with.
“The high-stakes game of Texas Hold ’em taking place on the banks of the Rio Grande between the tin soldiers of that state’s Republican Gov. Greg Abbott “
With “the tin soldiers of that state’s Republican Gov. Greg Abbott” you know the author of the opinion piece is a nut job.
Call up the militia if the national guard is nationalized. I also suspect there will be a mutiny within the ranks if Biden make s that decision.
Writer is totally delusional. This collective idea that there is a Civil War at hand will not end well. But it seems there’s a plan afoot.
Several things could happen
Razor wire is manufactured in China Hope not
Joe could ban Razor Wire
Razor Wire is the new diamonds in cost..
Razor Wire becomes a TikTok challenge
Concealed Carry Razor Wire
Yeah I know some of those are silly
Meanwhile Im off to WalMart to get some Razor Wire before they run out...
Razor Wire in every pot etc
If the analogy is Fort Sumpter, then I have to concede I will be a confederate.
The left is hell bent on provoking something bad.
That screed is hopeless, helpless.
Yes, people are dying, being murdered, women being raped, children being enslaved, etc.
Cutting the wire only promotes it.
Mexico is the primary enabler, not Abbott and his Confederate Southern plantation slaveholders, (I mean, if you read the article, that is what it says).
But aren’t we told that Biden is trying to secure the border.
Communist rag says what?
Well said.
That is, sadly, kind of ridiculous. You’ll have your own tape, but so what? No one will play it. The entire interlink will censor it. The Left will say whatever it wants. The Right has no “optics”.
The only “optics” available to the Right is darkness. Do what needs to be done WITHOUT any cameras there.
The camera said that Saint George Floyd was murdered, not that he died by shoving Fentanyl up his own kiester.
I"m not sure about the border patrol. Those guys know the real score about the border. They deal with cartels and criminal elements every day. They may end up supporting Texas.
Optics. Yes. But the MSM as Praetorian Guard will set the narrative and brand any opposition to open borders as Racist or Xenophobic. Two Minute Hate begins in three...two...one...
Most of the force is the Texas State Guard, which cannot be federalized.
I don’t think they know the difference between a State Guard and a National Guard.
FYI, The Texas National Guard (under federal jurisdiction) numbers 18K, whereas the Texas State Guard is 1,600, 1 tenth the size.
Would National Guard side with feds, or their state ? Many or all may want to side with Texas, but can they afford to do so ?
That will fail.
Twenty-five states support Gov. Abbott and Texas. Biden cannot arrest them all.
If we take James Madison's word in his Federalist essays, it's the federal government that's gone insurrectionist, not the states. It's the states that must band together to stop Biden's rogue administration.
James Madison, Federalist #46:
Were it admitted, however, that the Federal government may feel an equal disposition with the State governments to extend its power beyond the due limits, the latter would still have the advantage in the means of defeating such encroachments. If an act of a particular State, though unfriendly to the national government, be generally popular in that State and should not too grossly violate the oaths of the State officers, it is executed immediately and, of course, by means on the spot and depending on the State alone. The opposition of the federal government, or the interposition of federal officers, would but inflame the zeal of all parties on the side of the State, and the evil could not be prevented or repaired, if at all, without the employment of means which must always be resorted to with reluctance and difficulty.On the other hand, should an unwarrantable measure of the federal government be unpopular in particular States, which would seldom fail to be the case, or even a warrantable measure be so, which may sometimes be the case, the means of opposition to it are powerful and at hand. The disquietude of the people; their repugnance and, perhaps, refusal to co-operate with the officers of the Union; the frowns of the executive magistracy of the State; the embarrassments created by legislative devices, which would often be added on such occasions, would oppose, in any State, difficulties not to be despised; would form, in a large State, very serious impediments; and where the sentiments of several adjoining States happened to be in unison, would present obstructions which the federal government would hardly be willing to encounter.
This next part is the reason why the Framers made the Senate appointed by the state legislatures and not by popular vote.
...the prepossessions of the people, on whom both will depend, will be more on the side of the State governments, than of the federal government. So far as the disposition of each towards the other may be influenced by these causes, the State governments must clearly have the advantage. But in a distinct and very important point of view, the advantage will lie on the same side. The prepossessions, which the members themselves will carry into the federal government, will generally be favorable to the States; whilst it will rarely happen, that the members of the State governments will carry into the public councils a bias in favor of the general government. A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress, than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures of the particular States...But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. Every government would espouse the common cause. A correspondence would be opened. Plans of resistance would be concerted. One spirit would animate and conduct the whole...
The Senate made up of ambassadors of the states would have been instructed by their respective legislatures to resist a despotic President and work with their allied states to stop him.
A post-17th Amendment Senate would be useless today. In Madison's words, a post-17th Amendment Senate is the realization of Madison's rejection that "it will rarely happen, that the members of the State governments will carry into the public councils a bias in favor of the general government." That is exactly what happened after the 17th amendment was ratified.
This means that the Congress, the Judiciary, and the Executive have turned against the sovereignty of the states, making the federal government the insurrectionists. It is up to a coordinated resistance by the states to put the federal government back into its box, as Madison laid out in Federalist #46.
-PJ
Yes, I feel certain Texas would allow the guard to be federalized. 🙄
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