• KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    There’s not going to be a Civil War. Stop believing all the posturing that Texas is doing. They can’t even survive a bit of cold weather (or a bit of hot weather!).

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      5 months ago

      While I agree that the Texas bullshit is a big nothing burger, I can see scenarios where if Trump is President again and orders the military to do something unconstitutional some parts of the military refuse to carry out the order (as they’re supposed to) and other parts of the military (possibly not understanding the constitution) feel duty bound to carry out an order from the commander in chief.

      That’s something that could get messy.

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      5 months ago

      Probably not. But you know what is going to happen? Abbot is going to stoke fears over undocumented migrants, and say that the feds refused to do anything --while he has been actively working to prevent them from doing anything–allowing Trump to say that he’s the only one that has a strong anti-immigrant stance. That gets the MAGA shitheads riled up and excited to vote, despite Republicans accomplishing fuck-all in the last four years, while Biden has managed to deal with a lot of shit.

      And if Trump doesn’t win? Then all this shit goes to SCOTUS, which further weakens the ability of the federal gov’t to do anything for public good.