Posted on 01/30/2024 8:30:11 AM PST by delta7
Texas Can Survive as the Lone Star State Posted Jan 30, 2024 By Martin Armstrong |
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Most importantly, Texas has oil, gas, and refining capacity and would continue to produce and refine fossil fuels. Without Texas, the United States would not be able to wage war, lacking the energy to fuel its tanks. Texas could stand on its own, and to ensure energy, other Red States would join hands against Washington.
Energy Crude Production by State USA
There is rising sentiment toward separation due to the Biden Administration’s abuse of executive orders. The Biden Administration thinks executive orders are the way to change the character of the United States without the people’s consent. Truman seized all the steel mills without statutory authority using an executive order that the Supreme Court reversed.
We have so many violations using executive decrees without statutory authority, circumventing Congress and the people. The abuse of this power is causing severe discontent. People are talking about separating, even in Florida. When historically a centralized government seeks total control, it collapses like the Soviet Union.
Most people do not know that Lenin wanted to copy the United States, whereas each province retained its sovereignty. Stalin poisoned Lenin and his wife and usurped total central control. Biden has endangered the survivability of the United States. Washington cannot override the sovereignty of the states.
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Interesting times indeed.
Would they be able to fly or do anything the federal alphabet agencies control in their state?
Maybe Texas can join NATO
As I recall, Texas was an independent nation before they joined the Union, with Embassies in Britain and many other nations. When they decided to join the Union, it was with the specific stipulation that they could separate and return to being an independent nation at any time. This should be interesting . . .
I would strongly consider immigrating to Texas.
I watched the youtube clip about the Karen head of the illegal alien lawn and pool boyz union. At least the freeloaders have enough sense to wear parkas when they sneak into the land of “global warming.” Lots of BP Diaper Delivery trucks driving around in the clip. I hope those things are EVs. If not, they are polluting the hell out of the Mexican Moth’s “enviomen.”
I think Oklahoma would join the new Republic of Texas.
> Washington cannot override the sovereignty of the states. <
True, in theory. The Constitution is clear on that. But try it in practice, and General Sherman will come knocking at your door.
At one point, an Article V Convention of States might have worked. But 2/3 of the states are required to call such a convention. And 3/4 of them are needed to ratify an amendment.
No way could those hurdles be met today. So it sure looks like we’re stuck with an imperial nanny state. Until the whole thing collapses, of course.
Not with a very hostile pair of neighbors… one with nukes .
DC should boycott Texas fossil fuels. That will teach Texas a lesson!
In fact, DC should boycott all fossil fuels. DC should go entirely zero-emission, banning all but solar and wind energy sources.
Become that shining beacon of environmental justice on a hill.
Why wait?
If Texas was to declare independence from the USA, get rid of all illegal criminals in the state, and get their financial house in order I would move there in a heartbeat. I don’t care if I had to live in my car.
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Texas IS trying that in practice, as we speak.
We'll see what happens.
Since you support sovereignty for Texas how about supporting sovereignty for Ukraine?
“Without Texas, the United States would not be able to wage war...”
Which is why anyone who thinks the US would let Texas just peacefully walk away is an idiot.
> Texas IS trying that in practice, as we speak. We’ll see what happens. <
Yes, indeed. The states are supposed to be, among other things, laboratories of democracy. That idea is supported by the 10th Amendment. It will be interesting to see how this Texas “experiment” turns out.
Maybe Biden will let Texas be, after he fusses a bit. After all, illegal immigration is hurting his poll numbers.
The general public in Texas lacks to will. Never going to happen.
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1861
“Descending from these general principles, we find the proposition that in legal contemplation the Union is perpetual confirmed by the history of the Union itself. The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was “to form a more perfect Union.”
“But if destruction of the Union by one or by a part only of the States be lawfully possible, the Union is less perfect than before the Constitution, having lost the vital element of perpetuity.
“It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.”
This is worth reading:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/lincoln1.asp
But consider Amendment X:
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
In my opinion Amendment X voids the Articles of Confederation and the preamble of the Constitution for states that are parties to the Constitution.
Texas could file at the Supreme Court a petition for divorce from all other governmental parties to the Union on the grounds of irreconcilable differences.
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