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That sure is a lot of guns you got there. lolol
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All the bombs, missiles, planes, and tanks are how the US got a decisive victory in Vietnam.
Were the Vietnamese fighters morbidly obese, middle-aged men with no training who wouldn't even tolerate a paper mask to save their families?
I think the people of Vietnam had a lot less fucks to give than your average Texan. I don't see Texans building and living in an underground tunnel system that they themselves dug out. I dont even know how those idiots survive without a chick fil a within driving distance. Guerilla warfare involves some terrible living conditions for the guerilla fighters, and Yall Qaeda is not strong enough to live that way.
I'd like to see them attempt the CNN-monkey-bars thing to posture though. Just for laughs.
And Afghanistan.
4 presidents, 20 years, and trillions of dollars, and we successfully replaced the Taliban with...the Taliban.
A perfectly bipartisan effort, too! A true symbol of what we can do if Republicans and Democrats work together
It's pretty rich that you evidently think lardass middle-aged Texans with guns are in any way nearly as self-sufficient as the Taliban. The US lost in Afghanistan and Vietnam because the opposition in those countries was willing and able to wait out the US. In this hypothetical the opposite would apply; the US would be more than happy to never fire a single shot and to simply isolate Texas from the rest of the world and watch it fall apart as its utterly interdependent economy collapsed.
Aww, did you delete your reply? That's not very big, brave gun owner of you. Thankfully, it still arrived in my inbox.
While I'm all for people changing their deeply stupid beliefs, it's still surreal that for at least a few minutes, you thought that a good argument was "Our guns will be all we need against an actual military because we can use them for domestic terrorism targeting pregnant white women".
I reconsidered because I thought someone would misrepresent/ misconstrue my meaning. Congrats.
If the shooting starts, it won't be the old scooter patrol on the front lines on the Texas border. It will be a guerilla war and the targets won't be pregnant women. People who lack critical thinking skills or haven't studied history think bombs and tanks matter in that sort of war. Hurr durr, no one can stand up to the military. Lol
Leaving the union: All social security, Medicare, Medicaid disappear immediately. Who is fighting the U.S. Navy for the oil wells? All imports stopped. All exports stopped. The companies who drill the oil and lobby the politicians are going to choose to sell to the U.S. instead of a single entity that won't be able to pay. Now there is no fuel for vehicles.. workers aren't at the power plants, electricity failing more often than already overloaded grid they failed to maintain. It's 100+ degrees in Texas how often?
People dying, starving, traveling back in time... Do they still think they are better than the immigrants coming over to offer work and pay sales taxes?
Maybe brokering a deal to figure out immigration policies where they are processed cheaper, documented and turned into workers paid for by the the entire U.S. won't sound so bad then... Maybe they will even think assisting other countries so the people don't leave will be so bad either.
To be fair if we're talking Texas this part is kindof a moot point and might not be felt.
They're one of like 11 states (don't quote me haha) that rejected free money for Medicaid expansion, so you need to be making like $1,900 a YEAR to be eligible for any kind of aid...unless you're an individual and not a family, in which case, they want you to either suddenly get lots of money or die in a ditch.
Edit - there's a source so I wasn't being intellectually lazy lol. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/medicaid-expansion-benefits-legislature/
And to add to all the rest of your very good points:
With their power grid, if they actively became hostile we'd just have to wait til the extreme weather crumbles their utilities infrastructure again.
Agreed, it would be a fucking mess, particularly if some of the states that are supporting Texas join in secession. But if there isn't a border, there isn't a country. And 2 million a year is beyond sustainable, and with zero vetting is beyond stupid and beyond dangerous. Who is coming in? MS13, Hamas/ ISIS? Trafficked children? Or is every single one just looking for a better life.
We have immigration laws, and the Biden administration isn't following them. They are in fact, actively ignoring/breaking them.
Why?
Oh, so let me get this straight, tens of thousands of lardass Texas militiamen are somehow magically going to be willing to live in tunnels with the most primitive amenities and horrible conditions? Why the fuck would you think that for a moment? These aren't third world peasants who are used to living in extreme privation and are willing to die for their cause no matter what. They're a bunch of out of shape untrained fat body crybabies who wouldn't last a week without easy access to the rest of North America's logistics, financial and power infrastructure.
The US wouldn't have to fire a single shot, they'd just bomb the Texas power stations, shut down all border crossings into and out of the state, shut down all banking so that only a barter economy existed, and within a week or so the entire state would be on its knees begging for relief.
You can't do that in places like Vietnam or Afghanistan where the enemy is totally self-sufficient and is quite happy to wait you out. You really think Texans are going to be able to do that? In what universe? What a joke. You obviously haven't thought this through.