Six state governors have declared support for Texas so far: South Dakota Montana Oklahoma Florida Virginia Georgia
insane how little coverage an incipient constitutional crisis is getting. kinda ominous tbh lol haha
UPDATE: 16 states now lol lmao
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I'm of two minds about this:
The neo-confederacy's largest capital backers are the ones who decide whether it ever actually secedes/goes to war and Abbot/Kemp/DeSanctimonious are ultimately beholden to them.
This play by those capital-backers seems to be the usual "help the border is under invasion you gotta vote for the republican" so they get 100% of the economic policy they want instead of 99.95% of the economic policy they want (Biden's NLRB has seriously pissed off a lot of capitalists especially regarding recent union-recognition policy changes), but in the same way the "real adults who make the tough decisions and do the right thing" re: sustaining U.S. hegemony have all died and Pete Buttigieg is in their place is it possible that the capital-backers of the neo-confederacy are the long-line of fail-son/daughters/enbies at that same level of delusion about maintaining/creating a confederate state?
Also it's hilarious because Joe Biden has the SCOTUS on his side in this and is doing Jackson's "The Court has made their decision, now let them enforce it" except Biden is currently not enforcing it to his own regime's detriment. Truly the most liberal application of nullification possible.
Only one way to find out the result! The crumbling empire show is starting to get spicy.
In all seriousness stay safe/vigilant comrades in these states in case things do get worse incredibly quickly. If you're fortunate enough to be of good mental-health now is probably a good time to start learning/practicing firearm safety.
Succession of any major state is an existential threat to US hegemony - both in terms of dollar and military supremacy. Capital (certainly finance capital) will absolutely not allow it, though I think you’d be more likely to see Texas get the Cuba treatment than any actual military operation.
Well, the only way we'll know is through the eating of the pudding...
For all I know, the Dems and Rep won't even try and in fact, they'll try to re-ally with the Post-republican rightist and Trumpist states just to keep their hegemony
to some degree but things like this sometimes have a momentum all their own "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
No wonder western liberals despise china. They cannot even in their wildest fantasies imagine their government governing effectively.