Texas secessionists have not considered the ramifications of becoming a hostile force sitting on top of oil that the US regards as its own.
If there's two things you don't get between, it's a mama and her cub, and the US and oil.
There’s three things you don’t mess with.
US and oil.
US and their boats.
And the US and an excuse to pump more money into the military industrial complex that masquerades as our Economy.
You should also avoid bears in general.
Y'all qaeda about to find out
This would be so much fun to watch. They wouldn't be able to take the US army with them, US army bases would be dismantled, nukes would be removed, Mexico would be like "fuck no" and have no trade with them, and the US, being their former Union, would also give them the finger. Thousands, plug not millions of people would cross borders there to either leave or join the shit hole (because fuck the liberal US government!) causing a huge outflux of knowledge and competence and a huge influx of rednecks.
Let me be clear though: this will never happen, because the politicians calling for this know damn well that they'd be fucked. They're just riling their base with dumb but popular rhetoric.
If I was in texas, and I was forced to make the choice of whether to uproot everything and leave because of politics, or stay in a shithole...
well, damn, I'd fight back pretty hard against any government that would put me in the position where I would have to make that choice. Abbot and his ilk are going to be screwed from every direction if they keep pushing this poison.
Just seeing Alberta Canadian born Ted Cruz gone from the USA is more than enough for most of us
His real name is Rafael Cruz and I think it's time we start using it.
Not only is this just about the only deadnaming I support, I think we should all use the Spanish rolled “R.”
Also it’s the only time I’d be comfortable saying “No, where are you really from?”
Hey.. he's only HALF Albertan, so only half of our dumbest region. Whoever his other parent was, that person bears the rest of the responsibility for this deeply concerning narcissist.
Fun fact, there are 3 major power grids in the lower 48 united states': the Eastern Interconnection, Western Interconnection, and Texas.
Another fun fact: The failure of one of those grids resulted in over 200 people freezing to death. Guess which one!
What if Texas just does a Texit (akin to Brexit)? Or is that not possible?
The GOP would never be able to win the electoral college without Texas. So that's why it will never happen.
But maybe we can trick Abbot, he might be stupid enough to fall for it?
I don't know if it's legally possible, but even if it was, it would never actually work. Texas is propped up with federal funding, our electric grid is slowly failing, and most people who wanted to stay a citizen of the United States would leave if they were able, which would completely fuck the job market, and leave mostly people who want to be Texans rather than Americans, and those people can't run shit (hence the economicand infrastructure problems we already have). Or maybe I'm just talking out of my ass, idk. That's my opinion as somebody who lives in Texas against their will.
Nope, it's not possible. The only way it wouldn't be treason is if all states agree, or if they start a revolution and are successful; every other attempt would simply be treason. Hence, one nation indivisible. I'm sure they know that; they just want to push as far as they can to make the political situation even more absurd in America. They want to widen the gap between the people. I don't know who exactly profits from this situation, but it's not the American people.
Here's a video that explains it quite well: [Legal Egal] (https://youtu.be/1dhvry6E0jA?si=H62qIoiHzaLdJHQF)
Not sure if US law has a provision for this. Brexit was relatively orderly because the EU made sure there's a process for it.
Absolutely positive the US does NOT have a provision for this. We fought a little war about it once.
The south tried to secede and we fought a war about it, so no, pretty sure it's not possible.
I think the only two ways this can happen are is the federal government agrees to the succession or succession by force (aka civil war).
Please no. Some of us live here and like the US as it is. I would appreciate a change of state government, though.
There's not an ice cube's chance in hell that Texas successfully secedes. Do you remember what happened the last time some States tried to secede? The Union is about eleventy billion times more powerful than it was in 1865.
Believe me, I’m aware. Not gonna stop the idiots from trying.
You know all those migrants entering your state, fleeing the shit happening back home? Follow their example, pack up and move somewhere else. Texas being shit is nothing new and that won't change.
Man, do you think I’d still be here if I had any choice? I’m broke as hell, and the situation in this state isn’t making it any better.
We can't win it from the idiots if we all pack up and leave. I'm in this battleground state and I'm standing my ground. When Trump gets the nomination I'm going to do my best to remind the Republicans that I know that Trump has said he wants to become a dictator and uses the same blood purity bullshit racist rhetoric in speeches just like Hitler. I'm going to make them face the uncomfortable truth that a vote for Trump today is akin to a vote for Hitler in 1930s Germany.
I mean the parallels are uncanny at this point. The only thing missing is Trump actually getting jail time for attempting to overthrow democracy. At least Germany had the balls to put Hitler away before his rise to power.
The craziest part of the Republican party now is that they actually like Russia. What happened to them? Ruskie commies were the supposed mortal enemy of them until the fall of the USSR. now they want to help them? We gave the afghans a ridiculous amount of weapons and training to fight Russia and they used that later in terror attacks against us, but now we have the perfect opportunity to put the military industrial complex to use without putting Americans in the line of fire with a people that are highly unlikely to do the same as al queda. Oh but suddenly now its just too expensive to fund? Really this point needs to be driven home to all the military humping douches that would gladly suck the dick of anyone that has served in the military. Really what happened? We're really living in a time where the party that supports the military industrial complex more is the Democrats?
Honestly we need a new government. We have the technology to implement direct democracy. Our constitution and government are horribly outdated and the checks in the system are being pushed to the limit in all branches of federal government. Our state is failing and if we continue the ultra rich .01% billionaire class will soon rule our nation openly with impunity. We desperately need a new progressive movement.
I think if Texas pulled the trigger on secession, there’d be a few states that joined up with them, I don’t know that it’d be the entire US against just one state. If they seriously went for it, it’d probably be because they thought they had enough strength in numbers.
Unfortunately for them though, Republican-leaning states tend to have lower populations and wouldn’t really be able to provide much help. Florida I guess has a big population too, but not sure how helpful they’d be either with their demographics.
On the plus side though, we could potentially clear out alot of these MAGA idiots in office, assuming we actually started punishing people for insurrection.
The larger the state, the more internal resistance there will be. Not everyone in Texas or Florida will want to secede, and everybody can buy a gun. It's one thing to gather some pride boys and meal team six larpers in the town square and march around for a bit, but it's an entirely other thing to defend territory when you're outnumbered, outgunned, and half the population is against you.
Oklahoma and Arkansas might be up for it, but there's no way secessionists hold Miami or Austin.
So you're saying Texas is big enough that they'd Yo Dawg their civil war?
It’s just political posturing.
There isn’t going to be another civil war. Too much has changed between then and now in terms of military and economic organization. This is just Texas whacking off yet again, as they did under Obama and Bill Clinton.
The very real risks we’re facing are the election of Donald Trump - this is the biggest threat - and far right domestic terrorism. The former is an existential threat to the United States and should be treated as such. The latter is a law enforcement issue and should be treated as such. I suspect the Proud Boys are infiltrated all to hell as are the other major organizations, but there’s the potential for a significant amount of harm being done on a larger than 9/11 scale, although it’d be drawn out.
All their national guards will be federalized and fall in line the second they are told their lifelong benefits will be revoked if they disobey an order to remain in place.
Most of them are under 25s that joined for free healthcare and education they couldnt afford on their own. A fraction of a percentage are willing to fight and die in the name of a state, let alone one they dont live in 😂
Ok sorry if this is a stupid question, but why not let them?
It seems like the biggest concern is a humanitarian one - that sane people who remain in Texas will be worse off - but it significantly improves that same problem for everyone else in the union. And a war would possibly be even worse for sane Texans. It would be cheaper to subsidize relocation costs.
I just don't get why we'd fight to keep them, or pretty much any state these days. They don't have slavery, and there's nothing huge that we were right about to change.
There would be significant economic disruption for all parties. People seem to think that's no big deal, but it is.
Are you willing to lose your job because someone gets a hard-on when they see a picture of the Alamo? People that are brave on the internet will say that they're fine with that, but in real life they don't actually want that.
Because you lose some major shipping ports and oil refineries, and you'd have to share a border with a hostile neighbor.
Texas contributes more to the US economy than you'd think.
if texas did secede the federal US government would be blue for decades LMFAO. granted, texas is getting bluer by the day but still.
Hey now - Texas has the state guard too - do you think the entire weight of the Pentagon, it's carrier strike groups, and multiple branches of well-funded modern military is any match for ~1,600 good ol' boys?
Texarse.
They've never been the brightest state. They're just a more-westerly Florida.
