[Viennacon]

Texas needs to secede. This is tyranny, top down. I will gladly come to Texas and join secessionist forces. We do not need to remain beholden to the Barack Stalin thugs.

[Responsibility2nd]

I live in Texas. And I predict that Texas will ignore any queer marriage rulings. Our Attorney General - soon to be Governor Gregg Abott has made traditional marriage a main plank of his carreer. And the new elected A/G (Paxton or Branch) have already made campaign promises to keep Texas straight.

Sure, we have liberal politicians like the Castro brothers and Abortion Barbie. But they are useless and actually provide amusement for us with their stupid antics.

[Ancesthntr]

“Texas needs to secede.”

Texas sends more in taxes to the fed.gov than it receives.

We have more than enough income from oil and gas than we need (and it is expanding at a rapid rate and will continue to do so for quite a while).

We have ample agriculture, so we can feed ourselves...plus we have a bunch of fishing off the coast and in our many lakes.

We certainly can defend ourselves - the federal equipment that our taxes paid for would be perfectly adequate. We can build nukes at the Pantex plant, rockets to sit them on in Houston, and have at least 50 million guns (and people who know how to use them).

We can thus feed and take care of ourselves, and have shown an ability to do just that for well over 175 years. Frankly, I don’t know why we remain in the decaying and disintegrating Union. I’m sure that several of the surrounding states would join us - heck, we’d make a pretty good-sized country, one with traditional American values that would prosper and grow mighty, while Lieberal-land on the coasts and the upper Midwest would continue to sink into the muck and mire.

[The_Republic_Of_Maine]

"Texas needs to secede. This is tyranny, top down. I will gladly come to Texas and join secessionist forces. We do not need to remain beholden to the Barack Stalin thugs." In Texas it takes a vote of the Legislature and approval by the Governor. In Maine a simple vote of the people or an armed revolution can do it, our Constitution makes Maine the most likely state to secede, not Texas, not land locked Utah, not communist Vermont.

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF MAINE

2003 ARRANGEMENT

(Arranged by the Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and approved by the Maine State Legislature,
Resolve 2003, chapter 98, pursuant to the Constitution of Maine, Article X, Section 6)

PREAMBLE.

Objects of government.  We the people of Maine, in order to establish justice, insure tranquility, provide for our mutual defense, promote our common welfare, and secure to ourselves and our posterity the blessings of liberty, acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity, so favorable to the design; and, imploring God's aid and direction in its accomplishment, do agree to form ourselves into a free and independent State, by the style and title of the State of Maine and do ordain and establish the following Constitution for the government of the same.

Article I.

Declaration of Rights.

Section 1.  Natural rights.  All people are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural, inherent and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness.

Section 2.  Power inherent in people.  All power is inherent in the people; all free governments are founded in their authority and instituted for their benefit; they have therefore an unalienable and indefeasible right to institute government, and to alter, reform, or totally change the same, when their safety and happiness require it.