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The chances are 100% that Trump will look to use federal agents (fbi, ice, us marshals) to deliver the Texas dems back to the Capitol. He will love to trigger the Dems to see their politicians in zip tie handcuffs and perhaps black bags over their heads.

even if a court ultimately said that the feds exceeded their power, who cares if that ruling comes down after the fact.

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Just now, Nice Guy Eddie said:

The chances are 100% that Trump will look to use federal agents (fbi, ice, us marshals) to deliver the Texas dems back to the Capitol. He will love to trigger the Dems to see their politicians in zip tie handcuffs and perhaps black bags over their heads.

even if a court ultimately said that the feds exceeded their power, who cares if that ruling comes down after the fact.

That's why they for dead-certain real need to go into actual hiding.  And that starts with ditching all existing cell phones and devices.  Get them burner phones.  Start acting like you are the resistance to a gestapo police state.  Because that's exactly what you are.

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15 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

That's why they for dead-certain real need to go into actual hiding.  And that starts with ditching all existing cell phones and devices.  Get them burner phones.  Start acting like you are the resistance to a gestapo police state.  Because that's exactly what you are.

this.

i assume there's also some lawfare (outside of Texas) they could try since this is related to federal elections, like a restraining order from an indigenous mutiracial nonbinary genderqueer Biden appointee

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It’d be funny if Trump ordered the FBI to arrest them and the FBI just refused. That’s the one federal law enforcement organization that has plenty of reason to hate Trump.

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48 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

It’d be funny if Trump ordered the FBI to arrest them and the FBI just refused. That’s the one federal law enforcement organization that has plenty of reason to hate Trump.

You haven't been paying enough attention.  They will probably just send in ICE to do the job.  They hired authoritarian losers for a reason.  

 

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Seems like a dumb and futile move, actually.

Okay, so you’re critical of the Democrat response to a situation.

Just to clarify, how do you feel about the actual situation that prompted that response? Do you think Texas should redraw congressional districts before the 2026 midterms?
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On 8/4/2025 at 4:15 PM, InkaUtexas said:

The Texas House of Representatives voted on Monday to compel more than 50 Democratic Party lawmakers to return to the body in order to vote on a highly controversial redistricting effort to try and net the national Republican Party 5 more seats in Congress. The House officially empowered Texas state troopers and the House’s sergeant-at-arms to track down the members and arrest them, but they would not face any kind of charges under the order.

House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) announced he would sign the arrest warrants after the vote on Monday, which are only valid inside Texas’s border – making them purely symbolic as the lawmakers have all fled the state.  Democrats are trying to delay the vote by not allowing the GOP-controlled body to have a quorum — a minimum number of members present in order to conduct official business.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) also ordered the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest the absent Democrats.

“Texas House Democrats abandoned their duty to Texans by fleeing the state, Texas House Democrats are holding hostage critical legislation to aid flood victims and advance property tax relief. There are consequences for dereliction of duty,” Abbott’s office said in a statement, adding:

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/just-in-texas-issues-arrest-warrants-for-democratic-lawmakers-who-fled-to-avoid-redistricting-vote/

 

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1 hour ago, DalTxHornFan said:

Seems like a dumb and futile move, actually.

Just lay back and enjoy it. 
             —Clayton Williams

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15 minutes ago, CTC2 said:
42 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:


Okay, so you’re critical of the Democrat response to a situation.

Just to clarify, how do you feel about the actual situation that prompted that response? Do you think Texas should redraw congressional districts before the 2026 midterms?

Just lay back and enjoy it. 
             —Clayton Williams

You both misunderstood my comment.  I think that it is dumb and futile to get the FBI involved in a state issue.

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So say I live in Massachusetts and wanted to offer my guest room to a traveler in need, would any of you know whom I should contact?

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One way to frame this situation is enough people have withdrawn their consent to be governed, according to our laws, and the lege needs to find a way forward without jack booted thugs, activist judges, and a power mad executive dictating to the people.

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2 hours ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

So are we going to live in a state where the governor can just pick and choose what representatives get to stay in office and unilaterally remove those who oppose?

 

 

Let this come to fruition and I will put $10K in the Gene Wu for governor campaign pile.  

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2 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

One way to frame this situation is enough people have withdrawn their consent to be governed, according to our laws, and the lege needs to find a way forward without jack booted thugs, activist judges, and a power mad executive dictating to the people.

 

define an 'activist judge'

 

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