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Quick! I need a MAN to MURDER a bunch of Children so I can Pretend I care about the Constitution again!
Abbot just creamed his chair and he doesn’t even know why.
He just assumed it was more piss. Because Greg Abbott is a little piss baby
Texas would find itself a majority brown-skinned country with oil. You know, the kind of country the United States loves to “spread democracy” to.
Texas already owns all its oil, including ocean mineral rights. This was part of the terms of statehood.
They were allowed to keep their unallocated lands and mineral rights in order to pay off their debts and become a state, rather than the United States assuming the debt.
This turned out to be a huge financial boon for the state and continues to be.
Pussy ass Texans won’t do it, no balls.
GOP knows it too. They’d lose +13 R seats in Congress and +2 R seats in the Senate. As well as 38 votes in the EC, which despite Texas becoming more purple hasn’t gone D in a presidential election since 76. Taking Texas out of the equation could easily make both chambers and the executive D.
I think this comes up every year or so and never amounts to anything other than some headlines and a bump in Republican rah-rah.
However, when I follow this line of thinking to its conclusion it scares the shit out of me. It ends with armed militia showing up at my home to “enlist” my kids to be cannon fodder for these assholes’ holy war against the Yankee libs.
The feeling of inevitably and helplessness is crushing.
Texas should bring Oklahoma with it. Then it should join OPEC.
Good. Just remember to extract anything federal before they leave.
It’s a shame that they never went to school. If they had an elementary level education they would know what happens to successionists.
Remember the Alamo!
But not the “why” of the Alamo.
Let mexico have them. Those drug cartels would own them in no time. What was left would be no match for the true genius that is the current president of mexico.
Mexico would have to get in line. An oil rich independent nation with minimal defenses right on our border? They’ll be a protectorate within minutes, and PR can take their place as a state.
If Texas left the US, wouldn’t that be a massive blow to the federal Republican party losing all those electoral college votes and seats in the legislature?
Very few people of above average intelligence, have ever accused the GOP of having common sense…
Please someone get me out of this state before it descends into literal chaos
That’s the reason I’m working so hard to get my degree. More prospects elsewhere when I have a degree. Hopefully all the way out of the US.
That’s some pretty good motivation!
Someones give me a little pros and cons list if they secede. What do they offer the country?
No aid required next time their state freezes
cons - they have no legal right to secede and the US government won’t let them. It would not be pretty.
Tell them they can go if they take Musk with them.
Is Texas going to pay for the additional wall?
Texas lost the right to secede in The Civil War.
Presumably somewhere in Texas, this time they’ll have nukes. They shouldn’t 🤞 have a way to use them, but it’s curious what would happen with them if a vote to secede was successful.
Pantex plant near Amarillo is a MAJOR nuke servicing facility.
Why would that be the case? Nuclear missile silos are concentrated in the north central United States specifically to give them more time to fire before detection and landfall of incoming ICBMs.
The vulnerability of Texas to a submarine launch is too great to consider it a base for launch in a mutually-assured destruction scenario. It also doesn’t have any reactors capable of producing isotopes needed for nuclear weapons.
I won’t claim to know about ability to produce the components of a weapon or ability to actually use one, but it appears that the only facility in the US that has the capacity to assemble or disassemble nuclear weapons is in Texas.
I just thought that the prospect of Texas trying to secede is a bit more complicated and scary, and thought I would offer a take to balance the jokes.
or disassemble
That depends on how quickly and safely you want the disassembly to take place.
Yeah, that’s fucking scary.
Nuclear armed hostile state in political upheaval within the boarders of the contiguous US, also with substantial oil reserves … That’s like the royal flush of getting invaded
Or rather, was found to have never had the right to secede in the first place. Any vote to leave is less a declaration of secession and more a declaration of a war of independence against the United States.
I’m curious how Texas will handle “natural” disaster without proper tax structure and federal funding.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Their cause has been helped by a surge in tensions between Texan authorities and the federal government over the past few months, particularly over illegal migration and education.
On its official website the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), which campaigns for the state to leave the Union in a move it dubs TEXIT, said: “The inclusion of these planks in the Republican Party of Texas Platform is a major step that could have far-reaching implications for the TEXIT movement in the next legislative session.”
Newsweek contacted Texas Governor Greg Abbott for comment on Wednesday by email outside of usual business hours.
The Republican Party of Texas first backed calls for an independence referendum as part of its legislative platform in 2022, after it was approved by members at its convention that year in Houston.
In January the Supreme Court ruled razor wire placed along the Texas-Mexico border on the orders of Governor Abbott could be removed by federal agents.
Then in May, Governor Abbott instructed universities and community colleges in his state to ignore an update to Title IX equality legislation introduced by the Biden administration which would ban discrimination based on gender identity.
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