▲ 460 ▼ Joe Biden Faces Growing Calls to Federalize Texas National Guard (www.newsweek.com) submitted 2 years ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 107 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 child) If Texass suddenly became its own country, I wouldn't expect them to be so generous to those people as to keep sending them to better places. They'd probably decide those people should be concentrated somewhere away from decent Texans. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Those Texans forget that current prosperity relies on being part of the Union. As soon as they leave they will be worse than just having tariffs; they'd be embargoded so hard Cuba looks like a trade empire. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I had a buddy in the army who desperately wanted to believe Texas was a fully functional country that needed no America. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Those Texans forget that current prosperity relies on being part of the Union. As soon as they leave they will be worse than just having tariffs; they'd be embargoded so hard Cuba looks like a trade empire. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I had a buddy in the army who desperately wanted to believe Texas was a fully functional country that needed no America. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] StraySojourner@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago I had a buddy in the army who desperately wanted to believe Texas was a fully functional country that needed no America. permalink fedilink source parent