Posted on 06/20/2022 12:42:25 PM PDT by DFG
Texas' GDP is on par with Australia. Imagine what it would be if it were to free up drilling and export it to the United States.
Add a few more states, and we could just call the new country "The SEC". It just means more.
Burden was not elected, he was declared the winner. He is a pretender.
“Texas passport ready to go..”
Finally something to look forward to.
Thanks for posting Dilbert San Diego.
Texas actually needs to lead ALL the states to effectively “secede” from the corrupt federal government by repealing the 16th and 17th Amendments.
Hopefully, even the desperate Democratic-pirated states will wise up to the constitutional reality that the so-called "federal" funding that the states regularly beg the feds for is arguably state revenues that the feds steal from the states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that the post-17th Amendment ratification Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Again, the states need to eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from "helping" the states to manage their revenues.
Corrections, insights welcome.
In the meanwhile...
Trump's red tsunami of patriot supporters are reminded that they must vote twice this election year. Your first vote is to primary career RINO incumbents. Your second vote is to replace outgoing Democrats and RINOs with Trump-endorsed patriot candidates.
Again, nsights welcome.
If you leave your job, your former employer's policies regarding mandatory training no longer apply.
Once you move out of your house, if the roof starts leaking that is no longer your concern.
If a state leaves the union, it is by definition no-longer bound by the union's laws and policies. I don't think the union gets a say in it, at all.
Sure, the union could try to take back the territory by coercion (sanctions, blockades, etc.) It could try to take back the territory by force. Though neither sounds like a particularly effective way to endear yourself to the locals. More like a good way to create a lot of insurgents and welcome them back within your borders.
The Republic of Fatmot.
FWIW an acquaintance of mine who was one of the highest raking Intel bureaucrats for some years said they discussed this over and over and consensus was if Texas goes, 10-15 states are weeks away from announcing their desire to go with them and that only way it could be stopped would be with massive military force which would not be workable or acceptable to much of the world
Basically, if Texas just said “we are out” and decide to do their own thing without severely crippling trade/travel or attaching anyone it would just de facto happen gradually over a period of years.
“The Republic of Fatmot.”
Is there such a creature?
So, the argument can be made that LEGALLY there is no prohibition to a state seceding.
First off I was responding to someone else who made a post where he said: Legally, constitutionally, there is no procedure for states to leave the union. Legally, there is a process to admit new states, but not a process for states to secede.
When I responded to his statement(s) with:
Constitutionally, there can be no such thing as secession of a State from the Union. But it does not follow that because a State cannot secede constitutionally, it is obliged under all circumstances to remain in the Union.
To do it constitutionally, you would need to amend the constitution as it exists right now, otherwise, you do it and the U.S. will determine if it allows Texas to secede peacefully or not. After all, the southern states did secede, but it came at a price, did it not?
No one stated that Texas could not secede, just that they could not do so constitutionally, as the constitution currently stands..
“No one stated that Texas could not secede, just that they could not do so constitutionally, as the constitution currently stands..”
It’s a question of interpretation.
If the Constitution is silent on the matter, then there is nothing constitutionally (the supreme law of the land) prohibiting it. It’s like the old saying about the law: “I didn’t break the law because the law does not prohibit it; thus, what I did was within the law that exists.”
Okay, say Texas DOES secede. How many seats would the Republicans lose in Congress? How many electoral votes?
“Leftists don’t give up.”
That’s the spirit!
Let’s make Texas a Republic again!
Got it.
Guess they’ve had enough of dc libtards flooding their borders? 🤪
I think it would be worth a try to find out.
If they do, I’m moving to Texas.
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