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(29,239 posts)but please oh please TEXIT.
TexasMommaWithAHat
(3,212 posts)We will turn blue. Just have some patience!
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)PJMcK
(22,065 posts)calimary
(81,565 posts)MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)Sorry to disappoint you but we aren't going anywhere.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)fleeing TEXIT insanity!
We could also offer full employment building the new wall and heavily guarded gateways into the Texican Nation!
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Do you?
MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)I sure it is as pure as ______________!
And laugh at us all you want, we Texas Democrats aren't going anywhere. We are here to change our state politics. It is already happening.
And as our Wisest President said, "There are no Red states or Blue states, there is only the United States of America"
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Texas is turning blue I hope.
MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)Every F'ing state in the union is f'd up. So, again tiresome bullshit!
We are working on changing our state politics.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)TwilightZone
(25,512 posts)Support for secession within the state is rarely higher than 20-25%. The Facebook pages of some of the newspapers are pretty amusing every time it comes up.
You can get 20% of people to agree on almost anything.
Meldread
(4,213 posts)Last edited Fri Jun 24, 2016, 05:41 PM - Edit history (1)
1. All individuals who wish to leave the United States because it objects to the cultural, political, and economic changes taking place must be allowed to relocate there.
2. All individuals who want to remain part of the United States must be allowed to leave.
3. Once all the right wingers and the religious right are safely in Texas, we build a wall. Don't worry. It will have a big beautiful door to make sure we can keep shipping them in there.
4. Then once we have them all in there, we see if the sands of Texas can glow in the dark.
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kentauros
(29,414 posts)Or do you have magic nukes that revert the lands and waters back to normal after a certain period of time?
So nice to see around here people advocating massacres of 'other' people they don't like...
Meldread
(4,213 posts)...and applying them to Texas. He said he wanted to carpet bomb the Middle East until it glowed in the dark and turned the sand to glass. Hence the reference.
Obviously, Texas is never going to leave the United States. Attempting to do so would be treason.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)I'm happy enough knowing that his ultimate plan for the US is to turn it into a theocracy into order for me to be forever against him. I don't need to remember every asinine quote he's made for me to make that decision.
Meldread
(4,213 posts)I was referencing this moment.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)Reading about him is sickening enough.
MagickMuffin
(15,976 posts)Aren't you special wanting to bomb a whole state along with all the people in it???
So, be careful what you wish for!
Meldread
(4,213 posts)...and applying them to Texas. He said he wanted to carpet bomb the Middle East until it glowed in the dark and turned the sand to glass. Hence the reference.
Obviously, Texas is never going to leave the United States. Attempting to do so would be treason.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Just sayin'.
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struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)The ruling in the 1867 Supreme Court case Texas v. White makes any state effort to legally secede from the U.S. absolutely pointless.The cold, hard fact is this: Any state attempting to leave the union wouldnt be seceding, it would be rebelling. We all know how well that went last time.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)TwilightZone
(25,512 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)This from your second link is what I read about I guess:
Texas cannot actually secede from the union. The 1845 Joint Resolution for Annexing Texas omits the right to secede but affirms Texas' right to divide itself into five states if it chooses.
TwilightZone
(25,512 posts)misrepresented it to mean TX can secede.
They also selectively edit some of the other docs re: secession to make them sound like it's possible.
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)I wish more people would read.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)here is a good read on Texas becoming a state and issues around it-
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/public-land-texas-brief-history/
snooper2
(30,151 posts)Additionally, in most states in the West, extractive industries are permitted and regulated through the BLM; this is not the case in Texas, where the Railroad Commission of Texas is the agency through which companies gain access to the subsurface deposits of oil and minerals in the state.
How did this uniquely Texan condition, a wide-open western state with relatively little public-owned land, come to be? In a word: History.
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The Republic attempted to entice new settlers with grant programs and relatively cheap land costs, although the uncertainty of the Republics future, continued wars with Native Americans, and the ever present threat of war with Mexico greatly reduced immigration.
As a result of low immigration, Texas was unable to maintain a sufficient tax base, resulting in the young Republic being saddled with crushing debt.
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Texas wars with Native Americans and skirmishes along the Mexican border meant it owed a lot of money. The US did not want to take on that burden, however, so Texas entered the union with both its debts and lands intact, the first state since the original 13 colonies to do so.
The crushing debt would eventually be cleared as part of the compromise of 1850, which saw Texas ceding its claims over the territories in what would become New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Oklahoma in return for $10 million in bonds. However, as a part of the resolution, all of the land within the new, fixed boundary of Texas was the property of the State, rather than the federal government, a situation markedly different from other territories in the West that would eventually become states.
http://www.wideopenspaces.com/public-land-texas-brief-history/
Yavin4
(35,453 posts)The Bushes, Rick Perry, the Dallas Cowboys. They can go. Just leave Willie Nelson, and we'll call it even.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And all the US military bases and equipment would be repatriated upon succession of course.
Just get Ted Nugent out the on the front line and televise it please!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)it one state way back when.
In fact, I would encourage Mexico to invade it.
Yavin4
(35,453 posts)Hmmmm. Might be worth it.
ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)Watching them suck year after year, after proclaiming "this is the Year", is the best thing about the NFL.
Yavin4
(35,453 posts)Totally worth it.
Renew Deal
(81,893 posts)For the humorously challenged, this is A JOKE.
Norrin Radd
(4,959 posts)Bernie as President of Cascadia.
Humanist_Activist
(7,670 posts)Iggo
(47,586 posts)And they're not as well armed as they think they are.
harun
(11,348 posts)blogslut
(38,021 posts)oh joy, the old chestnut has a new nickname
Buzz cook
(2,474 posts)And Texas will be pacified.
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)will be fought close to home.