Posted on 01/26/2024 8:10:30 AM PST by artichokegrower
Home starts as well as commercial real estate are not the industries to put money in unless you have connections for government contracts.
“I suspect TX National Guard can NOT afford to follow orders to open the border.
They live there, with friends, family, neighbors, but could they be subject to a court martial. Court martial —applicable or not—would be the Biden threat.”
Yes, but... threat of a court martial is nothing compared to what they face if the Marxist left agenda is fulfilled (ie open invasion via the open border). Add to that the fact that O’Biden is, like all leftists, ignoring and defying the US Constitution. Anyone upholding the enforcement of the border would be adhering to the Constitution in a court of law, so a court martial might not even be legal.
Bottom line, this is the war we’re in now. The only question is, will the 2nd shot (1st one killed Babbitt, IMO) officially kick it into “hot mode”. I suspect that if we were of the same grit and courage as our forefathers, that question wouldn’t be necessary and we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Consider all of the lawlessness that the Marxist left has already allowed, enabled and encouraged. Knowing how leftists roll, that was just a tiny preview of what’s coming to America under “their rule”.
We have passed the point where "optics" can be decisive. It can be helpful, but by itself will not change the outcome.
This conflict will be resolved by force. Or at least the credible threat of force. The side willing to escalate the farthest will prevail. That will require some level of demonstration to make the point. Somebody will be arrested or shot resisting arrest. How far things go beyond that is an open question.
Who actually controls the police and military forces is the critical factor.
"Optics" which show hesitation or failure, or defection of Federal forces will be very helpful to Texas. And vice-versa.
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That’s Will Bunch.
Agreed. But other states are helping in more than just talk. Alabama sent hundreds of troops to help.
Abbott can use, maybe is using, the Texas State Guard, which can’t be federalized. This is a BS story, if so.
Thanks for the link.
I was discharged in Jun 1976.
I ran a Navy/Marine Corp MARS station out of my home for 19 years after that. Advanced Ham Op since 1976, held an Amateur Extra since 1985. Hold GROL commercial license since 2000.
Am 76. Doubt they would be interest in me. smile.
That does not mean I would not help if it was necessary.
"In the face of arms, the law is silent". (Attributed to Cicero)
Legal arguments are merely cleanup details and rationalizations after the conflict is settled by other means. Our system is too badly corroded for laws to be decisive.
The Federal government has repeatedly abandoned the rule of law. Officials ignore Supreme court rulings when they are inconvenient and insist that the 'little people' obey those rulings when they favor the Federal authority.
Nope. We are not having that system.
“The Federal government has repeatedly abandoned the rule of law. Officials ignore Supreme court rulings when they are inconvenient and insist that the ‘little people’ obey those rulings when they favor the Federal authority.
Nope. We are not having that system.”
Agreed. And we have allowed ‘that system’ to prevail for far too long already.
They saw what they faced and never came back. They made the right call. Some people you don’t want to screw with.
It's not like people wouldn't notice. We always saw the Alamo in our history books setting above a rolling plain with grass for miles around. Then I saw the Alamo IRL with the city encroached up to its walls.
We literally walked up the street from a tiddy bar and there it was. Very accessible but still magnificent.
The blithering imbecile who wrote this pile of dog pooph hasn’t, as of today, taken even one of these illegals into his his home. People are not being manipulated with hollywoodstyle virtue signaling. So, there you have it, no more virgins.
These folks seem to have their act together...
https://texasstatemilitia.org/
https://youtu.be/MdjS9woScxI?si=OcRNtlCetNrJrAw0
It has a quiet presence, inside.
And a reverence to most who come there.
We are in uncharted territory.
As I recall the story, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed urban renewal on New Orleans, there was a robust debate at senior levels in the White House about whether President Bush should nationalize the Louisiana National Guard.
The mayor and governor were basically AWOL. They had failed to evacuate New Orleans until a day or more after the rest of the Gulf Coast states had ordered evacuations. Everyone with a car and a grain of sense had gotten out of New Orleans anyhow, including the city and school system bus drivers who would have driven the evacuation busses. The people left in New Orleans were the very poor, many of them project dwellers, who didn’t have their own transportation, and the available busses flooded in their parking lots. Since no effort had been made to evacuate the jails, the criminals were simply released. Looting broke out.
When the Louisiana NG finally appeared, well after the city had flooded, the governor ordered it halted on the causeway outside of town due to reports of shots being fired in the city. The governor was afraid that the Guard might end up shooting a looter and that the optics would be bad. The Guard had finally arrived with trucks for emergency supplies and evacuations, but a cretin of a governor wouldn’t let the Guard move in and do its job.
At some point, people in the White House came to President Bush, made the case that the Governor was a feckless idiot, and argued that Bush should federalize the Guard and send it in. The White House lawyers argued back, saying that the president had no authority to do such a thing. The National Guard can be federalized in cases of major natural disasters, rioting and insurrection. Outside of those particular cases, the Guard belongs to the state.
I know, I know ... that was a long time ago, when we still pretended that statutory law has cognizable meaning. That was a long time ago. The democrats have abandoned that idea. But still ... there are limits to what the president can lawfully do with the National Guard, and I am pretty sure that federalizing the Guard to facilitate a foreign invasion of the United States — and the Great State of Texas — is not a lawful purpose.
I hope Governor Abbott has those briefs prepared, that he has had the needful conversations with the senior officers of the TNG, and that he has run the traplines with other Republican governors. If you draw a line in the sand, you had better be prepared to defend it. The case here is that it is Biden who is acting illegally and unconstitutionally, Biden that has violated his oath of office to faithfully execute the laws, and Biden who is acting in a revolutionary manner, making common cause with the nation’s enemies. There needs to be a united front on this, across the country and at all levels.
Yes, they do. I have personal knowledge of these folks. There is only about 500 of them. but they are a serious bunch, and they are in regular contact with the governor.
I see another Alamo, only this time the enemy is our own government.
I’m also thinking that Biden doesn’t understand what kind of hornet’s nest he is poking….
I’n not in Texas, but I wish I was, along with wishing I was a few years younger.
I’m hard pressed to see the Border Patrol boots on the ground as enemies of the Texas troops. Why would any BP agent want to remove a barrier to illegal entry? The suits in the managers’ offices, on the other hand...
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