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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 93 points 1 year ago

BAL KAN IZE! BAL KAN IZE! BAL KAN IZE!

This is so flagrantly illegal. Free travel between states is a very plain and well established constitutional principle. I wish this man a very freeze to death this winter.

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 55 points 1 year ago

comrade tree should have finished the job

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

The US if Greg stopped walking for a few seconds to pick up a penny on the sidewalk during the storm

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago

I wish this man a very freeze to death this winter.

You are much kinder than I am. I can't say what I think because it would be big-time fed posting.

[-] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 83 points 1 year ago

Literally a nullification crisis and the Biden admin does nothing. Useless liberals.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago

I was going to make my typical joke that he'll give a speech about it but then I realized he won't even do that. Also - Biden's DOJ might send Texas a letter and if so - Texas will simply ignore it. Or maybe Abbott will tweet "Don't mess with Texas!" about it.

[-] Findom_DeLuise@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Biden's DOJ has sent in a silly letter. We shall neither print it nor reply to them.

kitty-cri-texas speech-l

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

tfw dark brandon was a meme and he won't be rolling tanks through Austin sadness

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago

someone should do a version of Papers Please with southwestern US aesthetics instead of anticommunist brainworms

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

I hate how all those games are just anticommunist garbage and the devs don't think maybe criticism of the society they live in is more pertinent

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

biden could literally arrest this man, and the supreme court would probably uphold it. the democrats allowing this is the highest order of incompetetence. who could vote for people who won't govern and actively collaborate with the opposition like this?

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

I can't stop thinking about yesterday when I Lemmy lib popped into my thread and unironically said...

I love people acting like a lone Senator can achieve anything.

Being a liberal means you lecture people to vote and then when the dems don't actually do anything - you lecture them more. And when a leftist points out that fish rots from the head and Biden the biggest problem then you tell that YoU dOn't UnDeRsTaNd HoW pOlItIcS wOrKs.

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if you really think about it, the important thing is that no changes are made that might reduce my material privilege

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you want to point out to libs how Biden could easily fix this, the hypothetical is that he could federalize the Texas National Guard and order them to tear all this down.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An actually Dark Brandon: "I'm federalizing the Texas National Guard and I have instructed them to tear down the illegal barbed wire fence installed by the unhinged right-wing Texas governor. He put it up between Texas and New Mexico. I will not allow such a fence between states!..."

Lib Dark Brandon: Biden with laser eyes on a coffee mug.

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

Dark Brandon used to be a right-wing fever dream, and then the libs discovered it.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Distract a baby - jangle car keys.

Distract a lib - Dark Brandon!

It's so depressing to me how libs religiously follow and are totally outraged by everything related to Trump. They've made him their boogeyman but they refuse to accept the entire republican party is a danger to the country.

Scalise called himself "David Duke without the baggage" and he might become speaker soon but they yawn at stuff like that. Trump is all they care about.

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Scalise called himself "David Duke without the baggage" and he might become speaker soon but they yawn at stuff like that.

Libs yawned at David Duke too, baggage be damned lmayo

Libs are entranced to the Spectacle, both good and bad. If it isn't spectacular it never crosses the lib. X without the baggage is precisely (*sniff*^1^) what liberals want. He's signalling his anti-spectacular-ness. After years of Trump hysteria, it speaks to a genuine desire (*sniff*^1^) for a politics that doesn't constantly drive them to anxiety. The best way I characterize liberal "progress" is letting the old racists/bigots/etc die and society will "naturally" (*sniff*^1^) drive towards progress and Justice^2^. Its self-serving because they don't have to do anything. It's ahistorical; materially ignoring all the others in the past who actively fought for that progress. But I understand the desire for a calm.

^1^ It's *sniff* pure Ideology, you know zizek

^2^ This progress is a material force, which is why the Conservative counter-hysteria about progress has some truth. History Bends Towards Justice, but the liberal forgets the material hands (often bleeding) doing the bending.

[-] rubpoll@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

biden could literally arrest this man

Should, but shant.

and the supreme court would probably uphold it

Eh, 50/50

the democrats allowing this is the highest order of incompetetence

Yes.

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Eh, 50/50

i was being hopeful since the relevant bit of the constitution is completely unambiguous but you're probably right lmao

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 44 points 1 year ago

So the migrants are going to now instead cross the border at New Mexico, get some bolt cutters, then enter Texas

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 39 points 1 year ago

Now, pardner, you just made a real good case why the good ol' Texas Rangers ought to op'rate cross state lines to protect the sovereignty of the Lone Star State.

[-] GrumpigPoopBalls@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago

The texas rangers are launching a special security operation in New Mexico

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

That's a joke, right? Right?

For Texas - sovereignty means whatever Texas wants to do.

[-] huf@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

as long as they buy american made bolt cutters in new mexico, i dont see the problem. they'd be contributing to the US economy

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They should just do this for the entirety of Texas' border. Fulfill the independent nation of Texas fantasy.

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 year ago

independent nation of Texas

Texas actually already did that, but they were begging to join the US the whole time lol

[-] ProletarianDictator@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Texas saves the world by balkanizing the US

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 year ago

Gotta keep those women from their gynecologist some how

[-] Cummunism@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

nuke Texas. gotta nuke something.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

gotta nuke something.

You gave me a posting idea - https://hexbear.net/post/816916

[-] Maoo@hexbear.net 31 points 1 year ago

Texas-based balkanization might be the fastest path to the death of America

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Does that mean Balkanizing Texas into five states?

[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

or texas is split between its neighbors sicko-satan

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Only okay if we deal with Oklahoma

[-] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 27 points 1 year ago

de-facto balkanization's here folks enjoy it

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

geordi-no Balkanization

geordi-yes Californication

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Here comes Flea with a sick bass solo.

[-] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

Cmon this has to break the commerce clause

[-] rubpoll@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

"Founding Fathers never intended for there to be a New Mexico." - SCOTUS in a week.

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[-] YEP@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

literally middle school us history level offence doesn't gibbon vs Ogden enumerate states cannot control navigation between states

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

I hope another tree falls on him. Cmon mother nature! Finish the job!

[-] jabrd@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

America’s climate change plan in action

[-] autismdragon@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

This guy is very high on my "if I had a one use Death Note" list.

WELL IT'S IN THE NAME!

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Wait, there's a new Mexico?

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