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Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
« Reply #46 on: January 28, 2024, 09:24:42 AM »
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  • It's all political theater. And Abbott is a fraud.

    Gates wide open just a half mile down the road:

    https://twitter.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1751407844123893790
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    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #47 on: January 28, 2024, 10:21:12 AM »
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  • It's all political theater. And Abbott is a fraud.

    Gates wide open just a half mile down the road:

    https://twitter.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1751407844123893790

    Yes, unfortunately, I've come to believe that to be the case.  I believe that nearly all governors are controlled, and that they wouldn't have been allowed to become governors had that not been the case.

    Offline 2Vermont

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #48 on: January 28, 2024, 11:31:42 AM »
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  • It's all political theater. And Abbott is a fraud.

    Gates wide open just a half mile down the road:

    https://twitter.com/The_Real_Fly/status/1751407844123893790
    Although Eagle Pass is just a portion of the border, I'm not sure I buy this particular report.  If illegals are coming through those open gates, where are they?  

    That's not to say that I'm not suspicious of the focus just on Eagle Pass, however.  But, hopefully that's because it's just the start.

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #49 on: January 28, 2024, 11:38:14 AM »
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  • Although Eagle Pass is just a portion of the border, I'm not sure I buy this particular report.  If illegals are coming through those open gates, where are they? 

    That's not to say that I'm not suspicious of the focus just on Eagle Pass, however.  But, hopefully that's because it's just the start.
    For certain they are flooding through Lukeville, AZ. Our psycho-bitch governor is an enabler.


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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #50 on: January 28, 2024, 04:28:31 PM »
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  • From last year, but still relevant today:


    Court ruling could overturn federal control of the National Guard
    https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2023/07/06/court-ruling-could-overturn-federal-control-of-the-national-guard/
    A federal judge suggested that key federal oversight mechanisms are unconstitutional. Now what?
    By Davis Winkie
    Jul 6, 2023

    Soldiers from 3rd Battalion, 141st Infantry Regiment, Texas Army National Guard, participate at the 2013 George Washington Birthday Celebration Parade in Laredo, Texas, Feb. 23, 2013. (Staff Sgt. Malcolm McClendon/Army)
    Who owns the National Guard? It’s complicated.

    A recent court ruling in Texas could complicate matters further. The stage is set for a fight over control of the Guard — and this time, the states have the upper hand.

    For more than a century, the federal government’s authority over the National Guard has steadily increased, as has its usage overseas.

    States, who once held near-total control over their militias, sacrificed autonomy on the altar of a federal financial firehose, which gave the Defense Department leverage to shape the Guard in the image of its full-time counterparts. In return, governors now have highly trained forces at their disposal for missions at home, and they’re using them more often than ever.

    Both sides have benefitted from this deal since 1990, when the Supreme Court unanimously decided the last major legal battle in favor of the DoD.

    But the deal may soon be dead, experts say, after a recent court ruling in Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s legal fight against the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

    Army Times reviewed court docuмents, researched historical cases and spoke to legal scholars about the ruling, the ongoing legal battle, and its potential impact on the Guard.

    “What the ruling essentially says is that state compliance with federal guidelines is completely voluntary,” said Jeff Jacobs, a retired Army Reserve two-star general, attorney and author of a 1994 book analyzing the Guard’s dual control structure. “And the only recourse the federal government has — because Texas did not dispute this — is to withdraw funding for [the state’s] National Guard.”

    Jacobs warned this decision at its “logical conclusion” allows governors to block military personnel requirements, offering free rein to protect non-federalized Guard members from military punishments for everything from marijuana use to fitness tests. But even under the ruling, troops must meet all federal requirements to join.

    “It gives the governor(s) a veto to play politics with every single thing that the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Army or Air Force do,” the retired general warned.

    Both the DoD and the National Guard Bureau declined to comment, citing ongoing litigation. In an emailed statement, Abbott spokesperson Andrew Mahaleris said the governor “appreciate(s) the Fifth Circuit’s adherence to the rule of law, and Texas will not stop fighting until the brave men and women of our military receive the full benefits they have more than earned.”


    An Air National Guard officer draws Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from a vial into a syringe at Bradley Air National Guard Base in East Granby, Connecticut, Dec. 30, 2020. (Staff Sgt. Steven Tucker/Air Force)

    The Abbott administration, later joined by Alaska’s governor, asked a federal judge in Tyler, Texas, to block the DoD’s vaccine mandate in January 2022.

    In court filings, the governors claimed that “only the state, through its governor, possesses legal authority to govern state National Guard personnel” when not mobilized under federal control, regardless of who is cutting the drill checks.

    Responding to the governors, the federal government contended it has the authority to set readiness requirements and enforce them. They contended that in order to receive federal pay and federal benefits — even when in a state-controlled, federally-funded Title 32 status — members of the Guard needed to comply with federal readiness requirements.

    After in-person arguments in June 2022, U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker denied the governors’ request for a preliminary injunction, a rare pre-trial declaration that would have blocked the vaccine mandate for Guardsmen nationwide.

    The Abbott administration appealed the denial to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and the result could upend federal control of the Guard.

    A shot over the bow
    Within the context of the case, the court’s decision was minor, explained Jason Mazzone, a law professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s College of Law.

    A panel of three appeals judges unanimously voted to vacate — or undo — Barker’s denial of the preliminary injunction. The lower district judge must reconsider the matter in the months ahead, and final resolution could be years away.

    But when appeals courts vacate district court decisions, as the 5th Circuit did on June 12, they typically publish a legal opinion, a memorandum explaining their reasoning that provides legal guidance to lower courts about the issue. According to Mazzone and Jacobs, pre-trial opinions often foreshadow later decisions.

    The June 12 opinion, written by U.S. Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham and signed onto in part by U.S. Circuit Judge Don Willett, left little to the imagination. Oldham, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, ascended to the 5th Circuit on a 50-49 Senate vote in 2018. He spent the previous three years as an official lawyer for Abbott, culminating as his office’s general counsel.

    The panel’s third member, U.S. Circuit Judge Carl Stewart, declined to join the opinion.

    “The President of the United States asserts the power to punish members of the Texas National Guard who have not been called into national service,” Oldham said. “The Constitution and laws of the United States, however, deny him that power.”

    The ruling overturned Barker’s analysis for the lower district court. Barker held that the federal government can withhold pay and punish members of the National Guard who refuse to comply with readiness requirements. That’s because Guard troops hold simultaneous and overlapping, but legally distinct, memberships in their state’s organized militia and the federal National Guard, Barker argued.

    But Oldham disagreed. He analyzed the Constitution’s Militia Clauses, which were a 1780s power-sharing compromise between the federal government and the states. The states feared the potential tyranny of a federal government with a large standing Army, but the Federalists, who favored a strong central government, argued that Congress needed to defend the country.


    Reenactors participate in a living history encampment for the 200th commemoration of the Battle of New Orleans in Chalmette, La., Jan. 9, 2015. (Staff Sgt. Scott Raymond/Army)

    Under that bargain, the state militia had state-appointed officers and remained under state control on a day-to-day basis, though the federal government set their training standards. The central government also gained absolute power over the militia and its members if and when it was ordered into federal service to repel invasions or suppress ιnѕυrrєcтισns.

    Oldham acknowledged that later laws established the National Guard as the organized state militias and increased the federal government’s oversight and funding. But the government’s proposed punishments for Guard members who refused the vaccine mandate — which Oldham said may still occur, citing Military Times’ reporting — “unlawfully usurp Governor Abbott’s exclusive constitutional authority to ‘govern’ the non-federalized Texas militia.” That includes administrative actions like withholding pay and discharging troops.

    Jacobs, the retired Reserve general, said Oldham’s reasoning could allow governors to defy any federal requirement they don’t see fit to enforce on their state’s National Guard.

    “Let’s say you can’t pass a [physical fitness] test,” Jacobs said. “What Judge Oldham is saying is, ‘Well, Department of Defense [and] Department of the Army, you have no authority to yank that soldier’s recognition...[and] discharge him from the Army National Guard.’”

    The federal government can theoretically federalize an entire state’s Guard to undo a governor’s orders, as President Dwight Eisenhower did in 1957 when the governor of Arkansas had deployed his troops to block Black students from integrating a school. But mass call-ups require significant political will, and Oldham noted that Biden appears “unwilling or unable to do so” to enforce the vaccine mandate’s punishments.

    Responding to the federal government’s argument that federal laws give it punishment options for non-federalized Guardsmen, Oldham implied such laws are unconstitutional. “Regardless of whether the Government’s reading of these statutes is correct, the Constitution forbids President Biden from bypassing the States, stepping into Governor Abbott’s shoes, and directly governing Texas’s non-federalized militiamen.”

    Offline Geremia

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #51 on: January 28, 2024, 10:04:53 PM »
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  • YouTuber Cassady Campbell posted a video confronting Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) about the World Economic Forum.
    Abbott was asked to denounce the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, and The Great Reset.
    Watch his response:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=VLehajMI9Q4
    Here’s a backup video via Bitchute:
    What do you think of Argentina president Javier Milei? He shut down their central bank and called out the globalists at the WEF conference, but Argentina's inflation rate is still 25%+ per month. Argentina seems WEF-controlled, too. And Milei visits the "Wailing Wall"…
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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #52 on: January 28, 2024, 10:21:51 PM »
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  • I haven't followed Milei closely enough to have a strong opinion.

    There were reports of him backtracking after his election, as you say, supporting "Israel." Notwithstanding his tough talk at Davos, he had some WEF connections, so I can hardly be enthusiastic about him.

    I think one basic principle is that nobody gains prominent position or a spotlight unless they serve the (((agenda))).  I recognize that is a difficult threshold to surmount, so leaves me trusting and supportive of very few people. Oh well.

    While the world situation looks "Biblical," I don't know the hour of His Coming, so I will not sit around waiting to be saved. I'm amazed that it has not yet come to "gloves off" for us. Satn and his minions are expert at boiling frogs and as best I can discern, the frogs mostly think they are hot-tubbing.

    I was particularly put off today by news that the WEF is ginning up rhetoric against home gardens. These demons won't let anyone mind their own business peaceably.  https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/climate-change-roundup-backyard-gardens 



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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #53 on: January 29, 2024, 02:16:59 AM »
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  • What do you think of Argentina president Javier Milei? He shut down their central bank and called out the globalists at the WEF conference, but Argentina's inflation rate is still 25%+ per month. Argentina seems WEF-controlled, too. And Milei visits the "Wailing Wall"…

    Milea has announced his intention to convert to Judaism.

    Politics will take a HARD RIGHT

    as they implement the Noahide Laws which are

     "pro-life" and "anti-sodomy"

    (and also happen to mean the beheading of Christians---shhhh)

    and duped conservatives will cheer!!!


    He is part of "Team Light" along with Trump, Jordan Peterson who has an alternative WEF plan

    funded by the same people as the WEF,

    Tucker Carlson etc. to take down the "deep state".

    Yes, they will take down the central bank!

    The US Debt Clock has announced its eminent arrival:





    Whewwwwwww!


    This will be the big financial reset.   

    TRUMP's Nesara/Gesara  (look that up!)


    They will introduce a 

    NEW CURRENCY.

    What currency is that?


    See:

    https://www.cathinfo.com/fighting-errors-in-the-modern-world/your-body-is-the-new-bitcoin!/msg925260/?topicseen#msg925260
    I exposed AB Vigano's public meetings with Crowleyan Satanist Dugin so I ask protection on myself family friends priest, under the Blood of Jesus Christ and mantle of the Blessed Virgin Mary! If harm comes to any of us may that embolden the faithful to speak out all the more so Catholics are not deceived.



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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #54 on: January 29, 2024, 04:19:51 AM »
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  • What do you think of Argentina president Javier Milei? He shut down their central bank and called out the globalists at the WEF conference, but Argentina's inflation rate is still 25%+ per month. Argentina seems WEF-controlled, too. And Milei visits the "Wailing Wall"…
    He's a Jєωιѕн convert

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #55 on: February 01, 2024, 02:14:12 PM »
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  • Here's the latest:  De Santis sending 1,000 National Guard troops to Texas

    Ron DeSantis to send Florida National Guard to Texas border (nypost.com)


    Offline Pax Vobis

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #56 on: February 01, 2024, 02:18:27 PM »
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  • Quote
    They will introduce a 

    NEW CURRENCY.
    Even if George Washington was raised from the dead and regained the presidency, we’d still have to have a new currency.  The current one, after they took us off the gold standard in 71, is worthless.  

    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #57 on: February 01, 2024, 05:21:59 PM »
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  • Politics will take a HARD RIGHT

    as they implement the Noahide Laws which are

     "pro-life" and "anti-sodomy"

    (and also happen to mean the beheading of Christians---shhhh)

    and duped conservatives will cheer!!!


    He is part of "Team Light" along with Trump, Jordan Peterson who has an alternative WEF plan

    funded by the same people as the WEF,

    Tucker Carlson etc. to take down the "deep state".

    Yes, they will take down the central bank!

    The US Debt Clock has announced its eminent arrival:

    :facepalm:

    Offline Ladislaus

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #58 on: February 01, 2024, 05:24:19 PM »
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  • The US Debt Clock has announced its eminent arrival:

    imminent.  And the US Debt Clock message is just some Bible beater beating away.  He's been putting rotating images up there blocking the content, perhaps trying to persuade people to get the mobile app.

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    Re: Thoughts on what's going on at Texas border?
    « Reply #59 on: February 01, 2024, 06:37:27 PM »
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  • Yea, over paid Supreme Court Catholics in name only should read their bibles and the US Constitution.
    I personally have come to the conclusion that the constitution is Luciferian.