Greg Abbott - Gregory Wayne Abbott, former TX AG, now 48th Governor of Texas

[p0rtia]

Regardless of which "side" anyone is on, the optics of this are horrible. Jackbooted (almost literally) armed thugs lined up against a bunch of college kids.

We've been here before, haven't we?

Yes, and I was just a little kid then.

I just wanted to point out Abbott's lying if he's saying "pro Hamas" when they're anti war. Manipulating public opinion.

Manipulating his language use too:

"Students joining in hate-filled, antisemitic protests at any public college or university"

He's shifted his rhetoric to cover his ass: He started out calling the students pro-Hamas/anti-Israel and has shifted to students just being in the same place with what I'll call agitators. The fascism is strong in this one.

[Flatpoint High]

Breaking: "Texas is a sovereign state, not a sovereign country," U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra declares in rejecting Texas's motion to dismiss the US's lawsuit against the state based on the buoy barrier it is trying to establish in the Rio Grande.

[Dave from down under]

Texas will appeal

Fs must F.

[raison de arizona]

[raison de arizona]

Don't sleep on the fact that Greg Abbott is now deliberately inflicting $32 million dollars in economic damage PER DAY just to make a point about the border. And that's just on the Mexican side. US businesses are being hurt too, likely to similar scale.

https://borderreport.com/news/trade/tex ... cial-says/
EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – Juarez industry officials say commercial truck delays at El Paso border crossings are costing them up to $32 million a day.

The delays started on Saturday when the Texas Department of Public Safety resumed enhanced safety inspections of all trucks coming across from Mexico at the Ysleta port of entry and the Bridge of the Americas.

Trucks waiting up to 8 hours to cross from Juarez to El Paso as Texas DPS resumes enhanced safety inspections at Ysleta port of entry. Commercial ports in Tornillo, Texas, and Santa Teresa, N.M., implement expanded inspections hours.

[raison de arizona]

[Ben-Prime]

I haven't heard much about this proposal so am off to do research, but my first question would be 'Does this mean they become active-duty Space Force units or a Space National Guard?' and my second question would be 'if the latter, aren't they remaining a National Guard attached to the state and if so, does that still defy the laws and policies that Abbott cites?'

[bob]

I haven't heard much about this proposal so am off to do research, but my first question would be 'Does this mean they become active-duty Space Force units or a Space National Guard?' and my second question would be 'if the latter, aren't they remaining a National Guard attached to the state and if so, does that still defy the laws and policies that Abbott cites?'

My brief research suggests there is no Space National Guard (which is part of the problem).

Basically, it sounds like there's a personnel shortage in Space Force's space guardians (which is their actual name!). So this is a one-off move to staff up Space Force by converting states' guard members into space guardians.

Because slavery is basically illegal in the United States,* a state guard member who doesn't want to become a space guardian doesn't have to. But some will, which will cause shortfalls in states' guard ranks. Hence the whining.

It is less than a thousand people spread over around seven states. Really, much of this is just performative against the federal Biden government.


* Ob. "except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted."

[keith]

Question. Do some National Guard units receive specialist training for unusual threats? Like say protecting nuclear power plants or dealing with the aftermath of a disaster occuring at one?

Why would rocket launch sites and testing facilities not require similar specialist training?

[bob]

Question. Do some National Guard units receive specialist training for unusual threats? Like say protecting nuclear power plants or dealing with the aftermath of a disaster occuring at one?

Why would rocket launch sites and testing facilities not require similar specialist training?

I don't know, but currently states' air guards are trained in certsin duties needed by the Air Force. And those certsin duties are being taken over by Space Force. (Because there's no Space Force reserves), Space Force is understaffed and wants to poach people.