I don't think Texas should secede from the union.

[Atman]

I think we should kick their crazy asses out and give them back to Mexico.

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Texas Governor Deploys State Guard To Stave Off Obama Takeover
May 02, 2015 9:27 PM ET -- Wade Goodwyn

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas National Guard to monitor a joint U.S. Special Forces training taking place in Texas, prompting outrage from some in his own party.

Since General Sam Houston executed his famous retreat to glory to defeat the superior forces of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Texas has been ground zero for military training. We have so many military bases in the Lone Star State we could practically attack Russia.

So when rookie Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced he was ordering the Texas State Guard to monitor a Navy SEAL/Green Beret joint training exercise, which was taking place in Texas and several other states, everybody here looked up from their iPhones. What?

It seems there is concern among some folks that this so-called training maneuver is just a cover story. What's really going on? President Obama is about to use Special Forces to put Texas under martial law.

Let's walk over by the fence where nobody can hear us, and I'll tell you the story.

You see, there are these Wal-Marts in West Texas that supposedly closed for six months for "renovation." That's what they want you to believe. The truth is these Wal-Marts are going to be military guerrilla-warfare staging areas and FEMA processing camps for political prisoners. The prisoners are going to be transported by train cars that have already been equipped with shackles.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2015/05/02/403865824/texas-governor-deploys-state-guard-to-stave-off-obama-takeover

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an even better article here, almost Rude Pundit style:

Jade Helm: The Insanity that Ate Texas

Jade Helm.

Martial Law.

FEMA Death Camps.

Oh, it’s coming, Folks. It’s a comin’.

This is it. This is the big one. Obama is about to make his move. Martial law, you betcha, FEMA death camps and secret tunnels under Wal-Mart. Oh they warned us, they did, the powdered wig wearing Patriots of the Tea Party, they warned us. Grab the wimen’ folk, load yer guns, hoist the Confederate Battle Flag! To the bunkers! To the bunkers!

http://www.stonekettle.com/2015/05/jade-helm-insanity-that-ate-texas.html

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Yes, because here in Texas, we all totally believe that.

Fuck that noise.

[Texasgal]

4. Even many of the republicans

don't believe that shit for one minute!

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. Nope.

I figured this idiocy would be picked up by people who really have no idea.

[Atman]

6. Does it really matter what you personally believe here on DU?

YOUR GOVERNOR did this! The guy running your state. People elected him.

Same to Tammyyammy. You don't like it, talk to your legislators and tell them you are tired to be made to look like a laughing stock.

Or you could just blame me for posting a couple of articles. YOU live and put up with this lunacy. I live elsewhere and observe it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

9. Fuck. That. Noise.

Sorry, dude. Some of us are actually out there. You live elsewhere. Case in point. You really have no idea.

[SusanCalvin]

14. You have no idea.

Yep.

[leftofcool]

7. We know you don't believe it.

Everybody needs to rag on Texas once in a while. I am originally from Oklahoma. If ya'll go, you gotta take the Okies with you.

[Atman]

8. I could be wrong.

Maybe the Texas governor is so dense that he actually feared an Omaha takeover.

[SusanCalvin]

15. He's pretty smart.

He's also a real jerk.

[okaawhatever]

22. He's wicked smart and wicked crazy. He's more conservative and more dangerous than Perry ever

was.

[leftofcool]

2. Oh hell no! Let em leave on their own!

If we kick them out, we have to buy back all the infrastructure, public lands etc... If they leave on their own, we take it from them!

[Yupster]

24. Texas left once already

In fact they voted 80 % to leave. It didn't seem like that big a deal to them at the time. In 25 years they had been a part of Spain, Mexico, an independent nation, the US, and then they were leaving again.

Little did they know when a state joined the US, it could never leave again.

Yankee armies and all that.

[rogerashton]

27. Right, and Texas seceded in 1861 for the same reason

they seceded from Mexico in 1835: to keep slavery. Mexico had abolished slavery, so Texas fought to get out and keep it. It worked that time ....

[SusanCalvin]

32. A person who knows Texas history!

[tammywammy]

3. Bless your heart

[daredtowork]

5. Hey leave Texas alone

they have nothing on the nukes about to rain on Charleston. Get your false flags ready!

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

10. It's too small to be a country and too big to be an insane asylum.

Though it's striving to be both.

With apologies/credit to James Petigru who said much the same about South Carolina just before it seceded.

[hifiguy]

21. Your title line deserves a DUzy

for truth alone.

[SusanCalvin]

11. Mexico wouldn't have us.

Part of the reason we fought for independence is they wouldn't let us keep our slaves.

Nevertheless, I do deplore the broad brush.....

[951-Riverside]

13. +1000. While we at it lets give them back California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico too

and only Native America tribes can vote in national elections after all its their land, it does not belong to the mostly Africans and Europeans who occupy most seats of government.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. I'm not sure Mexico would want them back -

at least, not if they had to take Abbott and Cruz and the likes of Louie Gohmert as part of the deal.

[Blue_Tires]

17. I'm starting to believe now that just to fuck with their heads,

Obama really should invade just to teach them a lesson...Confiscate all their guns, their Dodge diesel pickups, relocate two million muslim refugees from war-torn areas there, sell all their oil wells to the Saudis, and make the entire state subject to Sharia law...

[leftofcool]

18. OMG! You really do want to upset some GOP Texans!

[True Blue Door]

19. Texas is a hemorrhoid of hate, but it's definitely OUR hemmorhoid.

There is no escaping it. By itself, it would just turn into a white Christian radical version of Somalia on America's doorstep, and constantly threaten and rob us from outside.

And I don't see much likelihood of secessionist psychos succeeding in the state, because there are plenty of Texas psychos who consider the United States their property, and wouldn't want to relinquish it for the sake of moral local ambitions. Any such movement would be mostly a Texas Civil War, not so much a larger American one.

[hifiguy]

20. This is what happens when you mistake the lead-paint chips

for the potato chips. This is batshit insanity cubed.

[Paladin]

23. Over 3 million Texans voted for Obama in both 2008 and 2012.

I guess you Texas haters are content to let us just fuck ourselves, correct? Some things never change around this place.....

[Glassunion]

26. But it's fun to bash Texas and the south.

gives the posters a feeling of superiority. Don't piss in their corn flakes... I think it's all they've got.

[lovemydog]

36. +1

I too hate the overgeneralizing about states. Every state has progressive areas and people.

[tammywammy]

37. At least they didn't pull the

"Let Texas leave, but let's keep Austin" bullshit.

[Paladin]

38. Funny how they missed that, isn't it?

I grew up in Austin, and as far as I'm concerned, it stopped being cool about 30 years ago.

[Thinkingabout]

25. The ones saying secede from the union have only studied pre Civil War history.

When the states was readmitted to the union it was agreed they would not secede again. It is a big OOPS moment by those either uninformed or very good at lying. The GOP leaders we have are suffering from conspiracy theories and are fed by those like Alex Jones.

[LiberalAndProud]

28. Honestly,

if we could just erase the Greg Abbott voters from the polls, our country would be better off. There are too many truly great Texans to excommunicate Texas entirely.

[SusanCalvin]

33. Molly. nt

[LiberalAndProud]

34. Ann Richards. Bill Moyers. Sheila Jackson Lee.

The list is long.

[moondust]

29. Is Texas the Capitol of the New Confederacy?

[blogslut]

30. Golly, that's a joke worthy of Bob Hope or Milton Berle!

The hip kids bag on Florida now. Didn't you hear?

[LiberalElite]

31. "to the bunkers" - what? No ALAMO? nt

[fadedrose]

35. When I read your opinion in the Title

I thought to myself, "No, we ought throw her out." and then saw your comment and laughed.

At last someone to agree with, sort of.

But I thought Walmart got PO'd because the workers wanted higher wages or a union or some other crazy request, so the Family got even by closing 6 stores for 6 months or so, not only depriving these folks of higher wages and a union, but no union and no wages instead. You can't outsmart the richest family in the US. I think they only hire people they know they're smarter than.

I think they put shackles on the families of these workers to keep them from begging for food and embarrassing The Family.

I really like your story a lot better. It combines a lot of knowledge with a lot of imagination, and I'm giving you an "A" on this report.

[Atman]

39. It kind of shocks me that so many of you would consider this "South Bashing."

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I'm from Florida. Goin' home next week for ten days, will be doing business there.

READ THE ARTICLES.

This is not "South Bashing" or "Texas Bashing," and Florida is not the new cool place to bash. THIS IS A STUPID FUCKING GOVERNOR. If he was the governor of my state -- any state -- I don't care. He is a goddamn idiot. Don't make it into something it's not. Sometimes stupid is just stupid. Enter, Texas Governor Greg Abbott. He stepped up to the podium, he can eat his own words or stand by them. But my op had NOTHING to do with Texas Bashing or South Bashing. If you support this man, then I will bash you for being an idiot. I don't care what state you live in.