The Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) is campaigning for the Lone Star State to break away from the United States and become a fully independent country, using what it regards as the federal government's failure to control the Texan-Mexican border as one justification.

Just let the fuckers leave. Today. They can take their 2 Republican Senators and 38 Representatives (25R, 13D) with them. We'll build a wall on the border and make them pay for it.

Can we agree this state/federal "laboratories of democracy" bullshit is a failed experiment? Our framers were wealthy land owners who suggested land owners be the only class be allowed to vote, they were far from infallible, and their quarter millenia old framework isn't compatible with or flexible enough for modernity.

It just makes 50 societies often working against one another instead of one with common governance. This need for systemically enforced competition and disdain for the concept of cooperation is a self-destructive cultural value.

State National Guards ordinarily fall under the control of their respective governors, but they can be federalized by a mechanism known as Title 10 status, which places them at the direct disposal of the president and defense secretary, with active duty officers taking over day-to-day command

Title 10 isn't even rare...

They do it for all types of shit, and Biden is fully within past usage if he does it here.

I'm cautiously optimistic he'll do the right thing here.

His donors don't want the instability of a full on secession

It's all fun & games till you're arrested for violating 18 U.S.C 111 & you're looking at a year Federal time, a $100k fine & never being able to work in law enforcement again.

I hope Texas police officers are aware that qualified immunity doesn't cover you when you are obstructing federal officers in the execution of their duties.

This statute outlines certain types of assault against a federal officer and the appropriate charges and penalties. Penalties for Defenses for Assaulting or Resisting a Federal Officer A simple assault of a federal officer carries a $100,000 fine and up to one year in prison.

For example, simple assault is forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, **impeding, intimidating, or interfering with federal officers while performing their duties. As noted, physical contact or injury is not required for a conviction.**

Simple federal assault is a Class A misdemeanor that carries up to 1 year in jail and fines of up to $100,000.

Actually, I don't care. The DoJ needs to start making examples out of the #fascists & their thug enforcers.

Don't stop there, take over the entire state government. Throw traitors to the curb and clean house

Can we just shove Texas out into the ocean already?

Great, they can call it "Texit" and we all know how successful that movement is shaping up over the pond.

How many times do we need to teach you this lesson, old man?

why does everyone associate the corpo owned politicians with the citizens?

sure as with other states you will find plenty of people who want otherwise for their state and grouping them in with those slime politicians and saying let them go does not help anyone

Then go arrest Greg and beat him senseless for being a pos traitor.

I can't see that going well, at all. Not a mutiny or fragging type situation, but a massive pencil pusher revolt.

I imagine their chain of command will pencil whip the fuck out of anything they can do that will cause issues for D.C., and as much as a headache as it'll be for the feds, it'll also be hilarious.

I hope he does it. I'll have popcorn waiting.