How Right-Wing Extremists Took Over Texas

[fskimospy]

It's unfortunate to learn that the extreme right is the only side concerned with no-knock warrants, the NSA, the TSA, the war on drugs, etc, but hey, at least I'm on the right side. :awe:

Of course they aren't the only ones concerned with it. It is hardly a surprising coincidence that many on the extreme right who spent years vilifying those on the left for being insufficiently tough on terrorism suddenly found the civil liberties religion when the other party got into power.

 

[michal1980]

Of course they aren't the only ones concerned with it. It is hardly a surprising coincidence that many on the extreme right who spent years vilifying those on the left for being insufficiently tough on terrorism suddenly found the civil liberties religion when the other party got into power.

Just like the left abandoned all civil liberties when they got power and doubled down on policies they disagreed with?

 

[senseamp]

Texas Miracle

 

[Greenman]

Texas Miracle

Wow! That image pretty much tells the tale. I had no idea poor people were so partial to warm climates.

 

[bradley]

Deportations of Immigrant Minors Have Plummeted Under Obama
http://time.com/2959887/obama-data-...gn=Feed:+timeblogs/swampland+(TIME:+Swampland)

LETTER: Border states should send illegal immigrants to D.C.
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/07/letter_border_states_should_se.html

Great suggestion.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Texas Miracle

Potentially misleading. A "poverty area" is defined as a place where 20% or more of inhabitants are considered to live in poverty. So if one one state has a relatively even distribution of neighborhoods with 15-19% poverty rates, while another has just a few very large poverty areas with 25% poverty rates, the former will look much better even if the overall percentage of impoverished people by state are comparable. Considering the number of illegal immigrants undoubtedly counted, and that they have a tendency to live in more compact households in neighborhoods with their own kind...

 

[ivwshane]

Deportations of Immigrant Minors Have Plummeted Under Obama
http://time.com/2959887/obama-data-...gn=Feed:+timeblogs/swampland+(TIME:+Swampland)

LETTER: Border states should send illegal immigrants to D.C.
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2014/07/letter_border_states_should_se.html

Great suggestion.

Either you don't believe people are entitled to our laws (the constitution would be against you on that) or you didn't read this little tidbit:

The administration says the decline stems from a 2008 law signed by Bush that makes it difficult to send unaccompanied minors back to their home countries without putting them before an immigration judge. The Obama administration recently asked Congress for additional resources, including more judges, to more quickly process the spike in unauthorized arrivals.

Bush strikes again!

 

[senseamp]

Potentially misleading. A "poverty area" is defined as a place where 20% or more of inhabitants are considered to live in poverty. So if one one state has a relatively even distribution of neighborhoods with 15-19% poverty rates, while another has just a few very large poverty areas with 25% poverty rates, the former will look much better even if the overall percentage of impoverished people by state are comparable. Considering the number of illegal immigrants undoubtedly counted, and that they have a tendency to live in more compact households in neighborhoods with their own kind...

Good point, but in reality there isn't really a significant difference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_poverty_rate

 

[unokitty]

Texas Miracle

Proud of keeping the brown and the black man down Yankee?

Uno

 

[senseamp]

Proud of keeping the brown and the black man down Yankee?

Uno

Except most of those blue areas are in Dixie

 

[Jhhnn]

Potentially misleading. A "poverty area" is defined as a place where 20% or more of inhabitants are considered to live in poverty. So if one one state has a relatively even distribution of neighborhoods with 15-19% poverty rates, while another has just a few very large poverty areas with 25% poverty rates, the former will look much better even if the overall percentage of impoverished people by state are comparable. Considering the number of illegal immigrants undoubtedly counted, and that they have a tendency to live in more compact households in neighborhoods with their own kind...

Here it is by county-

You were saying?

 

[Greenman]

Proud of keeping the brown and the black man down Yankee?

Uno

I'm pretty sure there is more than one minority involved. I also think you need to get that chip on your shoulder looked at.

 

[Jhhnn]

I'm pretty sure there is more than one minority involved. I also think you need to get that chip on your shoulder looked at.

Not to worry. What he's trying to say is that the correlation between race & poverty means that racism is dead. Or so they say.

The fact that half the state budget of Mississippi, for example, comes from federal funds & that they get back $2 for every dollar they pay in federal taxes is the yankees holding 'em down in some mysterious way that only righties can comprehend.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

You were saying?

That illegal immigration (border counties) seems to have a significant impact on the poverty rate of Texas overall, yes.

 

[Jhhnn]

That illegal immigration (border counties) seems to have a significant impact on the poverty rate of Texas overall, yes.

Negative. Illegals get far away from the border as quickly as they reasonably can. Other than migrant farm workers, they head for places with some affluence, where they can get work. They go where the money is. Those counties in Texas were dirt poor before illegal immigration was much of an issue at all.

 

[Zebo]

Meh I don't have a problem with this. States are supposed to be laboratory of democracy. Just like California and Mass can be super liberal Texas can practice misis capitalism and gun toting. You are free to move to where you want.

 

[Matt1970]

Texas Miracle

Proud of keeping the brown and the black man down Yankee?

Uno

Owned.

 

[unokitty]

Except most of those blue areas are in Dixie

The Blue Area has a name.

"It is called AZTLAN, which means Paradise; it is where the Spirit of Truth lives."
-Yaqui Elder Rafael Guerrero, Coronel, Division del Norte de Pancho Villa

Aztlán Underground – Decolonize 7 minute Youtube Video
From the top of Alaska to the tip of South America
Abya Yala, Anahuak, Turtle Island
506 years of indigenous resistance
The prophecies are coming true
The redemption of the red people has come!
The 6th sun now arises
The 7th fire has arrived
Cihuatl is reclaiming
We have returned to Aztlan
We have returned to Aztlan!!!!
WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US
WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US
WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US

Go back to Boston! Go back to the Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You're old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you; leave like beaten rats.

You old white people, it is your duty to die. Even their own ethicists say that they should die; that they have a duty to die. They're taking up too much space, too much air. -- Augustin Cebada

Aztlan, you Yankees stole it. Its yours, for as long as you can hold it.

LOL

Uno

 

[Orignal Earl]

TIL the real name of Mexico is United Mexican States

 

[rudder]

If the Yankees didn't want Tejas, why did they steal it from the Mexicans?

Viva la Reconquista!

Uno

Mexico went to war over Texas which was annexed by the United States. After the Mexican-American war, Mexico agreed to sell territory to the U.S. (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo). Those former Mexicans now in the U.S. by virtue of the land sale were granted American citizenship. They were not forced to give up land or leave... they simply became U.S. citizens and went on about their lives. Somehow people think the Southwestern U.S. was stolen... hell how did Mexico get their land. They conquered it and took it.

 

[SlickSnake]

The Blue Area has a name.

"It is called AZTLAN, which means Paradise; it is where the Spirit of Truth lives."
-Yaqui Elder Rafael Guerrero, Coronel, Division del Norte de Pancho Villa

Aztlán Underground – Decolonize 7 minute Youtube Video
From the top of Alaska to the tip of South America
Abya Yala, Anahuak, Turtle Island
506 years of indigenous resistance
The prophecies are coming true
The redemption of the red people has come!
The 6th sun now arises
The 7th fire has arrived
Cihuatl is reclaiming
We have returned to Aztlan
We have returned to Aztlan!!!!
WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US
WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US
WE DIDN'T CROSS THE BORDERS, THE BORDERS CROSSED US

Aztlan, you Yankees stole it. Its yours, for as long as you can hold it.

LOL

Uno

Not to mention, the Spanish did such a super job at wrecking indigenous "Aztlan" since the conquistadores plundered, raped and killed off most of the natives. And those prior natives certainly weren't all the various intermixed races (many from South America) that protest and pretend to claim the lands now.

 

[SlickSnake]

Mexico went to war over Texas which was annexed by the United States. After the Mexican-American war, Mexico agreed to sell territory to the U.S. (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo). Those former Mexicans now in the U.S. by virtue of the land sale were granted American citizenship. They were not forced to give up land or leave... they simply became U.S. citizens and went on about their lives. Somehow

And those original "Mexicans" that were already here also vastly preferred American rule to having the Spanish pushing them around and stealing from them to support their blood thirsty armies every chance they got. And not that much changed in Mexican politics after all these generations, too.

I guess the reconquista movement just can't wait for the chance to bring lawlessness and disorder here like they already support and know so well in old Mexico. Why they don't put this much effort in overthrowing their corrupt Mexican government and stay home is beyond me. But I'm sure the fact they lock them up and throw away the key for nothing there, then require bribes to eventually get them out probably has something to do with their lack of will to overthrow the government there.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

If the Yankees didn't want Tejas, why did they steal it from the Mexicans?

Viva la Reconquista!

Uno

Mexican is a nationality not a race. Mexico never existed until the Spaniards from Europe arrived and created it by conquering the Aztecs. Nevermind that the Aztecs never set foot in California, Arizona, New Mexico or even Texas.

 

[Zaap]

Mexico went to war over Texas which was annexed by the United States. After the Mexican-American war, Mexico agreed to sell territory to the U.S. (Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo). Those former Mexicans now in the U.S. by virtue of the land sale were granted American citizenship. They were not forced to give up land or leave... they simply became U.S. citizens and went on about their lives. Somehow people think the Southwestern U.S. was stolen... hell how did Mexico get their land. They conquered it and took it.

You're talking about people too stupid to even know they speak a European language called Spanish, not "Mexican". IE: too dumb to know they are just arguing over one European imperial conquest vs. another as if one "wins" just by virtue of being different than the other.

 

[Olikan]

You're talking about people too stupid to even know they speak a European language called Spanish, not "Mexican".

.....
meanwhile, a great american population have problems with "your" and "you're", when speaking american

but i see your point