• frippa
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    10 months ago

    Ok wtf is happening in Texas right now? Apparently the feds and the state government are arguing about who can abuse migrants, and like half the US states are supporting Texas, but I don’t know more than this.

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      10 months ago

      It would be funny if after weeks of European saber rattling about going to war with Russia, the US would go into an internal dispute and be a useless ally.

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      10 months ago

      Lemme copypaste what I wrote in another thread -

      Texas set up razor wire on the border. Feds want to cut some of it. Texas sued the Feds to ban them from cutting the razor wire and the Supreme Court narrowly overturned the ban that Texas sought. The Feds are being told they can take down Texas’ wires but Texas can replace them, only to be taken down again by the Feds. A lot of boba liberals are acting like the Texas Governor is standing against the Supreme Court but all the Supreme Court said was that the Feds aren’t banned from cutting wire (so long as it obstructs them? unclear because the entire decision is two fucking sentences).

      In my opinion, this is little more than yet another crack in the legitimacy but a lot of people are reading this as a powder keg waiting to explode if Biden doesn’t handle this carefully, potentially leading to a secession crisis (which admittedly, would be great).

      In short -