Yo,

867 US-of-A Military bases around the world poses a security problem for everyone else, wouldn't you say ???

You want a look at the future Stellar ???

Here, I'll post it up for the 3rd time, so see attachment folks !

 

 

Of course you feel this way PowerStroker, every illegal that comes here probably gets handed a mail in ballot to vote Democrat.

If illegal immigrants were voting Republican you guys would probably be capping them like they were storming the beach at Normandy.

There are loop-holes to your argument -- which have been spelled out as such,

 

IIRC there is also some language in the 2nd amendment to this effect. 

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The primary purpose of the Second Amendment is to ensure that should a tyrannical power overtake the Nation, Americans will be able to defend themselves; because this danger always exists.

Yo,

This article from your ABC may interest y'all, & help explain a few things of late....






WASHINGTON --

"For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico last year surpassed China as the leading source of goods imported by the United States. The shift reflects the growing tensions between Washington and Beijing as well as U.S. efforts to import from countries that are friendlier and closer to home.

Figures released Wednesday by the U.S. Commerce Department show that the value of goods imported by the United States from Mexico rose nearly 5% from 2022 to 2023, to more than $475 billion. At the same time, the value of Chinese imports tumbled 20% to $427 billion.

The last time that Mexican goods imported by the United States exceeded the value of China's imports was in 2002.

Economic relations between the United States and China have severely deteriorated in recent years as Beijing has fought aggressively on trade and made ominous military gestures in the Far East.

The Trump administration began imposing tariffs on Chinese imports in 2018, arguing that Beijing's trade practices violated global trade rules. President Joe Biden retained those tariffs after taking office in 2021, making clear that antagonism toward China would be a rare area of common ground for Democrats and Republicans.

As an alternative to offshoring production to China, which U.S. corporations had long engaged in, the Biden administration has urged companies to seek suppliers in allied countries ("friend-shoring'') or to return manufacturing to the United States ("reshoring''). Supply-chain disruptions related to the COVID-19 pandemic also led U.S. companies to seek supplies closer to the United States ("near-shoring'').

Mexico has been among the beneficiaries of the growing shift away from reliance on Chinese factories. But the picture is more complicated than it might seem. Some Chinese manufacturers have established factories in Mexico to exploit the benefits of the 3-year-old U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement, which allows for duty-free trade in North America for many products.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this week that the trade status gives Mexico new leverage, saying it would make it hard for the U.S. to close the two countries border to limit immigration, as suggested in negotiations on a border bill in the U.S. Senate.

The negotiation is proposing closing the border, he said. Do you think Americans, or Mexicans, but especially the Americans, would approve that? The businesses wouldnt take it, maybe one day, but not a week.

Some industries especially auto manufacturers have set up plants on both sides of the border that depend on each for a steady supply of parts.

Derek Scissors, a China specialist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, noted that the biggest drops in Chinese imports were in computers and electronics and chemicals and pharmaceuticals all politically sensitive categories.

I don't see the U.S. being comfortable with a rebound in those areas in 2024 and 2025," Scissors said, predicting that the China-Mexico reversal on imports to the United States likely "is not a one-year blip.''

Scissors suggested that the drop in U.S. reliance on Chinese goods partly reflects wariness of Beijing's economic policies under President Xi Jinping. Xi's draconian COVID-19 lockdowns brought significant swaths of the Chinese economy to a standstill in 2022, and his officials have raided foreign companies in apparent counterespionage investigations.

I think its corporate America belatedly deciding Xi Jinping is unreliable, he said.

Overall, the U.S. deficit in the trade of goods with the rest of the world the gap between the value of what the United States sells and what it buys abroad narrowed 10% last year to $1.06 trillion".

The Texas National Guard answers to the governor of Texas, sure... Unless President Biden federalizes them. But jurisdiction over guarding our borders falls to the Federal government. The Texas National Guard may assist in that effort, but MUST defer to the US Border Patrol. And the Supreme Court recently affirmed as much.

What is happening is the equivalent of Texas printing its own currency and saying the US dollar isn't legal tender there, it ain't gonna fly. There are many rights the states do have, but ignoring federal jurisdiction isn't one of them. This isn't even a close call.

Texas takes more financial help from the federal government than they contribute. They are essentially a welfare state living off the generosity of California and New York.

If Texas made their own currency you'd really prefer it to the dollar?

 

On a per person average by state, notice the trend as it transitions from blue states at the top, to red states on the bottom as to how much contribution is made to the US Treasury.

There are reasons the South lost the war, and would be destined to lose a second one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/07/states-federal-benefits/

PowerStroker wrote:

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The Senate passed a bipartisan bill that would pour a ton of resources into securing the border. Biden supports it, but Speaker Mike Johnson won't bring it up for a vote in the House because twice impeached, adjudicated rapist, and con-man Trump wants the issue to be unsolved so he can run on it.

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As you can clearly see, there is no issue at the border, it's an election pawn used by the folks playing-the-game !

Do you have a problem with democracy? One would think democracy is something worth defending by people of all political stripes.

PowerStroker wrote:

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Do you have a problem with democracy? One would think democracy is something worth defending by people of all political stripes.

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I have a problem with the new "idea" of what Democracy has come to mean under the Democrats who have claimed the word as being inherently "Democrat" -- because of course Democracy sounds like Democrat...

I guess it's the same reason that Republicans are more likley to prefer using the term "Republic"... I also assume that is the reason liberals are trying to do away with the pledge of allegiance. 

"And to the Republic - for which it stands, one nation - under god, indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all"

But that is just WAY to patriotic for libs to gut...

 

Fair enough.