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Eagle Pass is today’s Fort Sumter. Biden must federalize the Texas National Guard.
Philadelphia Inquirer ^
| Jan. 25, 2024
| by Will Bunch
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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: border; escalation; texas
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To: eastexsteve
POKE THAT HORNET’S NEST JOE, C’MON, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO!
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posted on
01/26/2024 10:18:58 AM PST
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
To: Night Hides Not
--- "It’s an incorrect analogy, just like Jesus was a homeless child."
Excellent point. The Left has trotted out so many scurrilous and utterly incorrect "Jesus" themes -- one I'd read called him an "unemployed carpenter" -- for ONE reason only. To sully and lie so that the gullible rubes will consider them somehow sophisticated and educated, when they are neither.
When I worked throughout Europe, in my younger years, I would get asked questions "as an American." My answer always began with "liberty" and "freedom," on which these United States were founded. Today's Democrats and RINOs cannot begin their wordy strategies with this because they actively work against liberty and resent our contunuing urge to freedom.
Best wishes.
To: artichokegrower; All
History is chocked full of hostilities emanating from the failures of nations to prevent the mass movements of their populations across other countries’ borders. War with Mexico, in the event they ultimately decline to stop illegal emigration and accept deportations, is necessary and unavoidable.
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posted on
01/26/2024 10:34:54 AM PST
by
PerConPat
(The politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.- Mencken)
To: PGR88
It depends on who writes and who wins sadly
I am not optimistic
84
posted on
01/26/2024 10:35:15 AM PST
by
mel
(There are only 2 races decent and undecent people )
To: CIB-173RDABN
Even those illegals would be scared to enter that city!
To: RoseofTexas
Biden would look like an absolute idiot to send the military in to OPEN the border for Illegal immigration. The optics of that would look bad for even a large percentage of democrats. That would make headlines worldwide. He’s certainly stupid enough to try that, but I can’t believe his puppet master Obama is THAT dumb, too.
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posted on
01/26/2024 11:10:06 AM PST
by
norwaypinesavage
(The power of the press is not in what it includes, rather, it's in that which is omitted.)
To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
Great post! 44 years ago, I was a 26YO Army LT living in Traben-Trarbach, Germany. My German neighbors pleaded with me to vote for Carter, they were sure Reagan would start WWIII.
I countered with “the world is a safer place when America is strong.” That mantra rings true today.
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posted on
01/26/2024 11:10:49 AM PST
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
To: Texas Fossil
The Monolithic Media Cartel is now BEATING THE DRUMS FOR CIVIL WAR!
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posted on
01/26/2024 11:38:54 AM PST
by
2harddrive
(https://rumble.com/vdptuf-best-election-fraud-video-ever-unmasked-have-we-uncovered-the-truth-about)
To: BenLurkin
That’s because you are not looking at this with idiocy being your starting point. Journalism school can help with that flaw.
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posted on
01/26/2024 11:57:22 AM PST
by
lastchance
(Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
To: BenLurkin
"I don’t see any comparison to Fort Sumpter. None." I do, except Abbot is the one trying to preserve the integrity of the Union.
To: PGR88
"He will be seen as the corrupt, demented, sexually perverted puppet he is."
And he'll never be held criminally responsible for anything he's done because the Feds will claim he's so mentally challenged, that he can't understand the charges brought against him.
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posted on
01/26/2024 12:06:33 PM PST
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: artichokegrower
Barack Obama via Joe Biden, gives an ultimatum to Greg Abbott.
I’m hoping that Eagle Pass, TX will be Obama’s Armageddon.
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posted on
01/26/2024 12:39:34 PM PST
by
Jim W N
(MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
To: artichokegrower
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posted on
01/26/2024 12:39:44 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
To: BenLurkin
I don’t see any comparison to Fort Sumpter. None.
Yeah. No warships involved at all... yet.
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posted on
01/26/2024 12:44:59 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Texas Fossil
“Trust me, there would be an instant citizen militia. There are already groups there doing exactly that.”
Revival of the Minutemen?
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posted on
01/26/2024 12:55:29 PM PST
by
CottonBall
(How cute that people think there are still elections. )
To: Night Hides Not
Great post! 44 years ago, I was a 26YO Army LT living in Traben-Trarbach, Germany. My German neighbors pleaded with me to vote for Carter, they were sure Reagan would start WWIII. Oddly enough, because Carter undermined the Shah of Iran and caused Iran to be run by Islamic nut-jobs who are now making nuclear weapons, it looks like Carter is the guy who started WWIII.
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posted on
01/26/2024 12:56:51 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
01/26/2024 1:36:35 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: BenLurkin
writer Will Bunch has his panties in a bunch. Still have a job? not for long
To: Georgia Girl 2
Boonie and Clyde were from Texas.
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posted on
01/26/2024 1:53:45 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: chiller
There are more Guard than judges.
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posted on
01/26/2024 1:56:51 PM PST
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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