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Don't Mess With Texas: Abbott Orders National Guard to Protect Border

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Texans don’t only proudly proclaim “Don’t mess with Texas!” — they mean it. Moreover, when you push Texans too far, they do something about it. The something, in this case — sending the Texas National Guard to a portion of the Rio Grande to keep illegal aliens the hell out of the Lone Star State.

Oh, and also continuing construction of the Trump-turned-Abbott border wall.

To kick off the festivities, three words: Biden Border Crisis™.

Army National Guard troops and equipment deployed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott have moved to block a portion of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, as reported by Breitbart on Saturday. The Guard began arriving Friday and took up positions along a one-mile stretch of the river near the downtown area.

(Meanwhile, Joe was seen listlessly wandering around the White House halls, incoherently mumbling to himself as ice cream dripped down his chin onto his Captain America jammies top.)

Via Breitbart:

The troops are stationed in Humvee vehicles carefully placed along the riverbank to serve as a deterrent to illegal crossings near the city. Nearly 30 vehicles are parked less than 150 feet from each other facing Mexico. Border Patrol agents in the area tell Breitbart Texas that more troops were scheduled to arrive later in the day.

The area surrounding the ports of entry in Eagle Pass are known as high traffic areas for illegal crossings and are problematic for the Border Patrol due to the proximity to private residences in the city.

Although many migrants choose to surrender hoping for quick release into the United States, many others, usually single adults, attempt to elude apprehension.

(Meanwhile, Clueless Joe™ and Circle-Back Psaki™ drove through town on their way to uncover “the root causes” of the Biden Border Crisis™. Circle-Back could be seen laughing and talking on the phone with Kamala Harris, who was at an area pastry shop sampling French croquembouche.)

A short distance away, according to Breitbart, construction crews were working to build the border wall where the National Guard blockade ends. The two-mile Texas border wall will stand 18’ tall and stretch along one of the busiest migrant crossing areas in Eagle Pass.

A source involved in the construction told Breitbart the project is progressing quickly. The source expects a state delegation to visit the construction site soon to observe the progress firsthand.

(No word if Joe and Kamala will be attending the ribbon-cutting ceremony or sending a congratulatory photo of themselves — suitable for framing, of course.)

The Texas National Guard deployment is part of Abbott’s Operation Lone Star, in conjunction with the Texas Department of Public Safety, which the Governor’s Office announced in a March press release.

The Operation integrates DPS with the Texas National Guard and deploys air, ground, marine, and tactical border security assets to high threat areas to deny Mexican Cartels and other smugglers the ability to move drugs and people into Texas.

“The crisis at our southern border continues to escalate because of Biden Administration policies that refuse to secure the border and invite illegal immigration,” said Governor Abbott.

“Texas supports legal immigration but will not be an accomplice to the open border policies that cause, rather than prevent, a humanitarian crisis in our state and endanger the lives of Texans. We will surge the resources and law enforcement personnel needed to confront this crisis.”

This decision follows a meeting last month between Governor Abbott and DPS Director Colonel Steve McCraw where they discussed strategies to enhance safety and security along the border.

(Meanwhile, Biden was in Scranton, PA, drinking whiskey sours with some random old guys at a local bar, boring the ever-loving hell out of them with some lie about an old Amtrak dude he knew.)

As noted by Breitbart, the operation has resulted in 6,799 criminal arrests, 1,195 migrant prosecution cases for criminal trespass, and more than 71,000 migrant apprehensions. The highway patrol has been involved in more than 800 pursuits since the inception of the operation.

(During the same time frame, Joe ate 752 ice cream cones — 723 of which dribbled down his chin.)

For related RedState Biden Border Crisis™ news, check out the following:

White House ‘Clean-up’ on Joe Biden’s Claim of Past ‘Border Visit’ Just Makes It so Much Worse

Biden Faces ‘Let’s Go, Brandon’ Challenge as His Border Wall Hypocrisy Is Revealed

Stand-up Comic? Biden Lackey Says Kamala Harris ‘Has Done a Tremendous Job’ on Border Crisis

Biden Faces 'Let's Go, Brandon' Challenge as His Border Wall Hypocrisy Is Revealed

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According to endless Democratic mantra, walls are racist.

Joe Biden stopped the building of President Donald Trump’s evil wall that would have further protected Americans and slowed illegal entry and drug trafficking across the border. Indeed, we were still paying out millions a day even as it wasn’t being built, as the building materials sit there, lying fallow. On July 24, as I reported, we had already paid out $2 billion not to build the wall.

Earlier this month, they canceled the contracts — in the middle of a border crisis — and this is what they are spending the money on instead.

The unspent cash that Congress allocated for wall construction will be spent on environmental projects — including “biological, cultural, and natural resource surveys” in the border region — instead, according to the statement.

So now that we’ve established what a really bad thing Joe Biden thinks this is to have a wall, we have a question for him: Why did he just spend our money to build a wall around his beach house?

According to the NY Post, Department of Homeland Security money to the tune of $456,548 — almost half a million dollars — was shelled out to a Delaware construction company to build fencing around Biden’s beach house in Rehoboth Beach. It’s listed on USAspending.gov, which tracks federal spending. The project started on September 21 and is expected to be completed by December 31.

Biden not only gets a wall, but the Secret Service has created a checkpoint to get past an intersection on the way to the home and they’ve also created “security zones” in the Lewes-Rehoboth Canal and Atlantic Ocean, not to mention frequent restrictions on the airspace in the area. I’m sure that’s not at all bothersome to the neighbors.

Meanwhile, while Biden is safe with his wall, the Border Patrol revealed that we had the highest  number of people entering illegally across the southern border since 1986 — 35 years ago — with 1.7 million migrants. It’s anticipated that 400,000 will enter illegally this month. While they noted that 208,000 had been encountered by the Border Patrol entering illegally in August, they just released the numbers for September and it’s the most ever for September: 192,000.

But both Missouri and Texas are suing Biden to make him restart building the wall.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton argue that the administration’s halting of the wall’s construction when President Joe Biden took office in January redirected funds appropriated for the project, and in doing so violated the separation of powers and the Take Care clause of the Constitution. [….]

“The Biden Administration’s flat refusal to use funds that have already been set aside by Congress to build the border wall is not only illegal and unconstitutional. It’s also wrong, and it leaves states like Texas and Missouri footing the bill,” Paxton said in a statement, adding, “I will not sit idly by while this Administration wreaks more havoc on our state.”

Paxton had a special message for Joe Biden for what he did to the wall and how it’s harmed places like Texas.

“Let’s go, Brandon,” Paxton said. “We’ll see you in court!”

Louisiana AG Demands Answers About JPMorgan's Stance On Gun Control

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The gun control lobby’s been successful over the past few years at convincing several of the country’s largest financial institutions to adopt anti-gun policies when it comes to doing business with the firearms industry, but Second Amendment supporters are beginning to push back on the big banks. In Texas, a new law blocks banks that have internal policies discriminating against the industry from participating in the state’s municipal bond market, and other Republican-led states are weighing similar legislation.

Louisiana’s had a similar measure in place since 2019, though it was the state’s Bond Commission and not the state legislature enacting the policy. According to the commission’s policy, Louisiana has the right to end business relationships with any financial institution, so long as the company’s engaged in “restrictive practices against law-abiding citizens”, including the “right to purchase and sell arms.”

In fact, in 2019 the state said that Citibank and Bank of America weren’t eligible to underwrite a $600-million road plan because of their anti-gun policies, and now Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is turning his attention to banking giant JPMorgan Chase.

JPMorgan Chase is one of eight banks selected by the bond commission to serve as a senior managing underwriter for major financial transactions. According to Landry, a bond commission member, the New York-based financial institution has participated in two transactions since February 2020, totaling as much as $1.1 billion.

As part of the selection process, a Solicitation for Offers (SFO) document includes a question asking banks about any policies that would restrict or infringe on constitutionally protected gun rights or discriminate against Louisianans who exercise such rights.

JPMorgan Chase said it had none.

In a letter sent last week to Jamie Dimon, the bank’s chair and CEO, Landry cited Dimon’s testimony before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee in May that could suggest otherwise.

“In this testimony, you stated the following in response to a question from Rep. Madeleine Dean (D-Pa.): ‘we do not finance the manufacture of military-style weapons for civilian use,’” Landry wrote.

Landry also said the response “called into question your ability to do business in several states, including Louisiana.”

I think Jamie Dimon is about to get a lesson in why corporations can never win by going woke. Landry’s correct in noting that Dimon’s testimony back in May certainly indicates that JPMorgan Chase discriminates against some gun makers. In fact, I can’t understand why JPMorgan Chase would have told the Louisiana Bond Commission otherwise, given the fact that the company has already decided it can’t participate in the Texas municipal bond market because of its policies. And it’s not like these policies were a secret. The financial firm was happy to discuss their discrimination when their policies changed in 2018.

JPMorgan Chase’s business relations with gunmakers “have come down significantly and are pretty limited,” Chief Financial Officer Marianne Lake told reporters after the nation’s number one bank by assets issued its first-quarter earnings results.

“We do have robust risk management practices and policies associated with this, and we have had (them) for a number of years,” said Lake. “We continue to always refine them and work on them.”

It seems pretty indisputable that JPMorgan Chase has policies that place its services beyond the reach of many businesses in the firearms industry, which should indeed make the company ineligible to participate in Louisiana’s municipal bond market as well. But while the bank is shutting itself out of underwriting these bonds because of their anti-gun policies, some gun control activists have complained that the company should be doing more. Back in March, the Reno, Nevada City Council decided to delay a vote on banking with JPMorgan Chase because of its alleged “inaction on gun reform.”

Councilman Devon Reese led the charge, arguing the council should reject JP Morgan Chase as a way to take a stand against gun violence.

“The way to express our concern, at least one that I think is powerful, is with our financial wherewithal so that JP Morgan Chase knows we will not support them because they are making policies that continues to perpetuate gun violence in this country,” Reese said.

… JP Morgan Chase was given an “F” rating by Guns Down America, an advocacy group that drives a “fewer guns, safer communities” message.

The report’s rating is based off of: the financial relationships between banks and gun, ammunition, and accessory manufacturers during the last three years; financial relationships between the banks and the National Rifle Association or Gun Owners of America; whether or not the banks give National Rifle Association members benefits; statements made by banks reflecting their public positions on gun violence, gun control policy, or mass violence; and campaign donations to the NRA’s Million Dollar Members.

Jamie Dimon has managed to hit the sweet spot of making JPMorgan Chase too anti-gun for states like Texas and Louisiana, but not anti-gun enough for the likes of the gun control lobby. I guess talent like that is why he gets paid the big bucks.

The easiest thing for Dimon to do to repair the damage would be to simply declare that JPMorgan Chase isn’t going to take a position on the right to keep and bear arms, and they’re happy to do business with any company producing a legal product as long as it makes good financial sense to do so. Sure, the gun control lobby wouldn’t like it, but given the fact that they’re already complaining the company hasn’t gone far enough to deny the firearms industry access to its services, it’s clear that JPMorgan Chase can’t win by going woke. Instead, they should ditch their foray into the world of anti-gun activism and get back to business.

Canceling History: Tearing Down Thomas Jefferson Statues is Reductive Nonsense

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Born around 1845, Quanah Parker became one of, if not the most feared and respected Comanche in the latter half of the 19th century. He’s certainly the best-known Comanche. Any book written about Comancheria, Quanah Parker would be prominently mentioned.  He was respected by Comanche and feared by Texans.

Parker left a decade-long bloody trail through North Texas before surrendering to authorities in 1875. He was a smart man and knew that his days on the plains were over.  He also knew that any admission to murdering white settlers would land him on a scaffold with a rope around his neck, so he kept his secrets; but there is little doubt that during his time on the Texas plains, he participated in murder raids where settlers were brutally tortured and murdered. During those raids, people who didn’t end up dead were taken captive and enslaved. One of those enslaved was his mother Cynthia Ann Parker. Cynthia was taken captive at the age of 9. Although slavery was widely practiced by Native tribes including the Comanche and was a common practice of native tribes throughout the continent, it’s generally ignored by historians. Quanah Parker likely owned humans. And he undoubtedly murdered and tortured people and was himself the son of an enslaved white. Yet, he is revered.

Quanah Parker is honored by Texas generally and the Texas Historical Society specifically. His likeness is preserved in bronze statues that grace landmarks and parks throughout the state. Parker was a man of his time and, slavery was part of his culture. After his surrender, Quanah Parker was also a vocal advocate for his fellow Native Americans. After settling in Oklahoma, he labored tirelessly for Native land ownership and use. He helped preserve native culture and native religion. He became friends with whites, including Teddy Roosevelt. He was in summary far more than the ugly parts of his past. He deserves to be remembered.

Recently the New York City Council voted to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson that graced the council chambers for over 100 years.  Jefferson, they complained, was a slave owner and they just couldn’t bear to look at his likeness. It’s reductive nonsense.

If we reduce everyone to his or her lowest common denominator everyone is erased from memory. That’s the game the left is playing. The author of the Declaration of Independence is reduced to his ugliest practice and defined, not for his greatest moments, but by his lowest. It’s an awful and dangerous precedent that no human, living or dead could survive. If removing statues because of that person’s lowest trait is the benchmark, Quanah Parker is reduced to a slave-owning murderer. He’s a son of a slave, who sold out to the white man. Martin Luther King is reduced to a philandering socialist. It has to stop. It needs to stop.

Founders are having their statues torn down or removed because they were born 300 years ago into a system they didn’t invent. While statues of truly great men and women are being pulled down, others are being erected. George Floyd comes to mind. This game is only played in one direction.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Nails It on Why the “Let’s Go Brandon” Trend Is So Popular

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You can count Texas Governor Greg Abbott amongst the throngs of people shouting “Let’s Go, Brandon,” and what’s more, he’s got a pretty good explanation as to why people love saying it.

In an interview with Breitbart done ahead of the Texas vs. Oklahoma State football game at the Darrell K. Royal Stadium in Austin, Texas, Abbott gave his own “Let’s Go, Brandon” — the polite way of saying “F*** Joe Biden” at the start of the interview and went on to tell Amanda House why people are so into saying it. While he did say that Biden’s policies are making people angry, “Let’s Go, Brandon” is a call of direct defiance against what Biden would like to implement in places where he’d like to implement them.

“People are angry,” he told Breitbart. “People who come to these stadiums, who want to gather and celebrate a great American tradition like college football, and you have Joe Biden trying to shut things down and shut people out and you got Fauci saying you got to stay home until Christmas or whenever — and it’s just ludicrous the policies that Joe Biden is advancing.”

“So when people gather at stadiums, or maybe anywhere, they’re just angry about the Biden administration policies,” continued Abbott. “Only part of it relates to COVID. Part of it is about the border. Part of it is about inflation. Part of it is about the other catastrophic policies he’s implementing.”

“So you see this rising anger across the United States,” concluded Abbott.

The trend began when an NBC reporter purposefully misrepresented a NASCAR crowd that was chanting “F*** Joe Biden” as “Let’s Go, Brandon.” Since then, the chant can be heard in stadiums, restaurants, and music halls.

Various personalities have also been seen saying it, including streamer Dr. Disrespect.

An official “Let’s Go, Brandon” song has even reached the top of the charts on iTunes.

As Abbott indicated, the chant is a direct response to many of Biden’s policies and failures, but make no mistake, the fact that it’s heard wherever Americans to gather en masse isn’t by accident. Democrats have shown time and time again their contempt for crowds gathering together under the guise that they’re only helping spread the Coronavirus. This fear seems to end if the crowds are gathering for left-wing purposes such as Black Lives Matter marches/riots.

“Let’s go, Brandon” is America telling Biden and the Democrats that we won’t be controlled.

Rest assured, they’ll get the message even harder during the midterms.