Texas Republicans have voted to track down and arrest dozens of Democratic legislators who have fled the state to block passage of a partisan redistricting plan.

The vote passed by 85 to 6, following Republican Governor Greg Abbott’s threat of bribery charges against the absent Democrats.

After the vote, the governor ordered state troopers “to locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans”.

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        All I’m saying is that Canada and Mexico are going to need to step up their border defense game, just in case

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          That’s gonna suck all around; America already does poorly with insurgencies, let’s see them fight one against their closest neighbour, who speak the same language, look the same, and follow most of the same culture.

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            I know that part of the Canada defence plan involves a bunch of people putting on american hats and some maps of critical us infrastructure.

            Don’t think that we have the same culture, ours revolves around not being americans.

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              It’s an interesting conundrum. They come in and say they’re from Canada, a good chunk of the US population would just say “I didn’t see nothing”

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              Don’t think that we have the same culture, ours revolves around not being americans

              We consume much of the same culture, courtesy of Hollywood, which makes it easier for us to blend in

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                “How do you do fellow americans”

                “Don’t worry about the anfo, by the way happen to know how well guarded the local power station is?”

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        Y’all-qaeda is going to have to get through us northerners first, and there are some of us who have been preparing . 🔫🫡

        I for one am not going to let my country’s army take a meter of my extended family’s homeland as long as I’m above ground. Also good luck on suppressing and insurgency in Chicago before heading north.

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            Yes, because this is, by design, a text only platform. You would not be able to see the “walking” here.

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              Yea like excuse me? I had my ass beat in 2020, I’ve been protesting here in Chi, and my community has been fucking up ICE. Look what their head said about Chicago. He hates us. Because we don’t fuck with ICE the way New York just let them stroll right in.

              Sit down, Americans aren’t as lazy as you think we are. We arrested our governor and we’ll bring that to the white house.

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        Is it you all or Greenland right now? I honestly can’t keep up anymore.