familiar<\/em>. When Rhett saw it he joked, “You should sue her.” Nah. Go for it, Heather Scott!<\/p>\nETA: This morning the list of states pledging moral and material support looks like this: ![\"Map](\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/20240125-State-Governments-backing-Texas-Border-Resistance-e1706205876111.jpg\")
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Of course, politicians are still politicians. There’s no telling what will come of this in the near future. <\/p>\n
But they’re no longer just slinging words or lawsuits. Abbott sent more razor wire and more troops. Reportedly (unconfirmed), yesterday evening, Florida Highway Patrol officers were seen working side-by-side with Texas National Guard members on the border near Eagle Pass. Other states seem to be implying more-than-verbal support.<\/p>\n
When he posted to the forums about Abbott’s proclamation, ComradeX asked, “Is Texas seceding?”<\/p>\n
Not yet. But Abbott is no longer just defying federal orders. He’s now defying a Supreme Court decision. And others — politicians, by definition insiders and within-the-system types — are standing with him. <\/p>\n
At what risk, who knows? Maybe small, but maybe earthshattering.<\/p>\n
On the forums, Silver noted that, while this may not be secession, this is how empires begin to fall — out on the borders, far from centers of power.<\/p>\n
I won’t even try to guess what’s next — or whether events will take five months or five years or 20 years to play out. Likely there will be long periods when nothing seems to happen, and others that feel like loss and defeat. <\/p>\n
But I do believe that, after the long, long agonizing years of seeming idleness and decay of freedom, as the cracks grew wider and the pressures built up, this ends the Awkward Stage.<\/p>\n
Decades from now, Americans will look at yesterday and agree, “This is where it all began.”<\/p>\n
Welcome to the future.<\/p>\n
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Personal note: I am not anti-immigration. I have always been pro-immigration and even believe, at least in theory, in open borders. But I’ve also always said you can’t have open borders with a welfare state. And now, with the federal government and global NGOs* encouraging and facilitating the entry of millions of random strangers (including violent criminals, foreign agents, carriers of exotic diseases, permanent leeches, and people who neither know nor value freedom) and moving them into the interior of the country with no vetting and no transparency, … well, to hell with them all and those who sent them. It’s a true invasion, and our own fifth-columnists are fully responsible.<\/p>\n*When things formerly called charities or foundations get called “non-governmental organizations,” you know they’re absolutely working dishonestly on behalf of governments<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By now you’ve heard. Maybe you tracked yesterday’s events live on Telegram or X. However and wherever you heard, what happened yesterday afternoon and evening was monumental. IS monumental — even if, as we cynics must always note — it contains as much performance and politicking as true defiance. Although I still, and always, hope there’s no shooting war between freedomistas and domestic tyrants, safe to say the long, unendurable, seemingly endless Awkward Stage is over. —– Yesterday … First came Texas governor Gregg Abbott, not only keeping his word — a rare enough thing for a politician — but…<\/p>\n
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