Gov Abbot orders Texas State Guard to "monitor" US Troop exercises

There are a lot of weeds out here dude and regardless on if I agree or disagree with what he said I believe he did the right thing by at least addressing it to try to calm people the F down and or give them some reassurance. I live not far from where one of the Wal-Marts closed and many of the people I've come across are worried even if they shouldn't be.

 

Embarrassing for the state.

 

I'm suspicious of this news. Most conservatives in Texas, especially in rural central Texas where they're talking about, are very pro-military and would love having a bunch of Special Ops forces here to train. You have to be pretty fringe ultra-rightwing tinfoil-hat crazy to protest Special Ops training as some sort of covert attempt by Obama to overthrow the Texas government. We have some people like that, but not nearly as many as the flag-waving soldiers-are-heroes types.

 

I'm pretty certain that the Governor's instruction to monitor consists of one of his flunkies sending an email/calling the Texas National guard commander and saying "make sure them army boys don't try no funny business! or more likely "i'm going to put out a press release saying you're on top of this, so google it or something" and the Texas National Guard commander rolling his eyes and pressing "Delete" or hanging up the phone, and then Abbot's gang of numbnuts putting out this glorious press release so that the black helicopter crowd feels nice and appreciated.

Sadly though this cynical interpretation is probably more depressing in a way than the reality of if actual monitoring were going on.

 

It's really embarrassing. I guess Texans deserve what they've elected.

 

I meant I was suspicious as to the motivations for Abbott's orders. This other article puts in a little more context: http://www.chron.com/news/article/Covert-warfare-comming-to-Texas-6157685.php. Apparently, Alex Jones started some stupid panic.

 

I never said it wasn't ridiculous and embarrassing. Only that the supposed explanation offered in the OP article didn't make any sense.

I suppose this move is a lot like Perry's mobilization to 'defend' the Texas border. I guess they got good poll numbers back for that little stunt.

 

Does the National Guard stand a chance against Obama's American troops?

 

It is time for Abbott to stand up and be held account for his actions.

 

of course

 

I agree with you about "most conservatives in Texas" being supporters of our troops and that they would welcome our military doing training exercises in the state. The point I want to make is that it is exactly the "fringe ultra-rightwing tinfoil-hat crazy" Republicans that Abbot is appealing to. Why? Because they vote in the primaries. Their numbers are a relatively small percentage of the GOP, but their influence (and this illustrates it, in my opinion) goes far beyond what those numbers should justify.

If Texans would simply get off their arses and vote in the primaries, the political landscape of Texas would look quite different than it does now. Our government would better reflect the people of this state. The GOP has been captured by a minority within the party, and the Democratic Party is just as guilty of not getting rank and file members of their party to simply get out and vote, and vote in more than the general election.

Texans need to vote in the primaries.

 

Gentleman's sweep, at best.

 

Well, if they're Obama's, how do we know they're *really* American?

Need more facts.

 

What would be great is if he worked out a deal to allow the national guard officers to observe the special forces officers in action to LEARN rather than monitor.

This whole "monitoring" as if the national guard could protect the state if the US military decided to invade Texas is just asinine. Whatever you got to do to get the wingnut vote I guess.

 

Of course, because we're Texas.

 

Good.

Practice for the secession.

Soon.

 

Why do ou hate America?