Texas GOP wants a referendum on whether to secede

[brettdale]

So its comes to this.

I wonder what ferret face Cruz has to say about this.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-gop-website-crashes-after-push-vote-secede-us-1717449

[msongs]

1. great, repubs will lose all those electoral votes, 2 senators plus house reps nt

[PXR-5]

2. Good point!

Let em go!

[Deuxcents]

3. Not gonna happen

They are one hurricane away from reality. And ‘tis the season

[LastDemocratInSC]

4. If Texas seceded and the United State military withdrew from the state

Texas would be low hanging fruit for the Mexican armed forces. All the AR-15 Bubbas and the Meal Team Six guys would be in for a hell of a fight.

[Celerity]

12. Meal Team Six

[LastDemocratInSC]

17. Those are perfect images. Very creative. Thank you.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. No, Texas can't legally secede from the U.S., despite popular myth

I have heard this myth over the years. It is not true

Link to tweet

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/29/texas-secession/

In June 2022, the Texas State Republican Convention adopted a resolution urging the Legislature to put a referendum before the people of Texas in November 2023 “to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”

Secession and independence have been perennial themes throughout the history of Texas, which broke away from Mexico in 1836 and was an independent republic before it was annexed by the United States in 1845. As the United States was torn apart by divisions over whether slavery could expand into the nation’s western territories, Texas in 1861 voted to secede from the Union. In the ensuing Civil War, up to 750,000 people — more than 2 percent of all Americans — died. Following the defeat of the Confederacy in 1865, Texas was formally readmitted to the Union in 1870, during the Reconstruction Era.

Despite perennial talk of another secession, the law is clear that Texas may not leave the union.

The idea is most often raised by conservatives in the state who are angry over some kind of policy coming from the federal government — and the calls seem to become more frequent when a Democrat is occupying the White House. State Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-Fredericksburg, filed a bill in 2021 to create a referendum election on whether Texans should create a joint legislative committee “to develop a plan for achieving Texas independence.”

“It is now time that the People of Texas are allowed the right to decide their own future,” he said in a statement announcing the legislation.

Even if the Legislature were to act on the new Republican Party proposal to put an independence referendum on the general election, it would not be legally valid.

[LeftInTX]

6. The Texas lege will ignore their requests like they did in 2021

[malthaussen]

7. Gay Republicans? What are they using for brains?

Is this some kind of earnest hope that the Party could be reformed from within, or some other delusion?

-- Mal

[Ladythatvotesblue]

8. Texas wants to leave?

Why don't we just sell them back to Mexico?

[inthewind21]

9. Couldn't

Get much. Better to donate them back and take the tax write off.

[RevBrotherThomas]

10. Well, sh*t...

Don't let the door hit you in the kiester on the way out, zeke.

[Talitha]

11. My siblings and I once voted to make Mom and Dad buy us a pony.

[Initech]

13. They will reach third world shithole nation status very quickly.

Given how Abbott and Fox News are currently running the show there. And I can't say that I will be shocked or surprised when this happens.

[Emile]

14. How many US Government jobs including the US Post Office

jobs would Texas lose?

[Samrob]

15. Then we can get them out of our government's way? nt

[Yavin4]

16. So, the Cowboys will no longer be America's Team.

Works for me.

[LiberalFighter]

18. I like that idea. Get rid of Jerry Jones too?

[Jazz Jon]

19. Go for it

Last edited Tue Jun 21, 2022, 08:41 PM - Edit history (1)

[Life would be so much better if Texas was not a part of the USA. All that conservative political weight would be negated. We would instantly have control of the House and Senate. Sane progress could begin on gun control, climate change, tax reform, election security.... the list of benefits is endless. Make it legal for them to secede. Let's let them go. The sooner the better. Let's encourage Texas to secede. Give em a push. Texas would self destruction in about a year without moderating influence from the other states. Let's all pray for Texas to secede!