• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I’d love to see that happen.

    Do you think the US would leave it’s army and it’s nukes in a different country just like that? Texas has a fun economy

    Then the Republican party would lose a large red state, we would finally be rid of Republican presidents and houses, no more extremist bullshit to deal with.

    The US would flourish again and go truly MAGA as it no longer had to deal with the Republican shit.

    Texas has shit infrastructure that they don’t manage well enough to keep up, it would be a hoot

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      11 months ago

      Texas is home to some of the largest military installations on the planet (Fort Bliss and Fort Cavazos) - the federal economic footprint these (and Lackland, and JSB Carswell and a dozen others) bring to their local economies is massive. Hell, the defense industry footprint in texas is ridiculously large (existing and future helos & fixed wing f22/f35 production) - removing them from Texas would crater their economy.

      I tend to look at this like another grift to skin more funds from the stupids.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, nobody currently in charge would be stoopid enough to do this, but then again each subsequent Republican generation becomes dumber and starts doing the things the previous generation only threatened for money and power. I see them dumb enough to try this 10 years down the road

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        11 months ago

        Joint Base San Antonio is essentially three bases that almost surround most of San Antonio.

        As if the feds are just going to walk away from that AND NASA? No way.