Texas Governor Greg Abbott declares that Texas law supercedes Federal authority and hints at secession

If Trump loses the 2024 election because Texas temporarily secedes, taking its 38 Republican electoral votes with it, I might die from the schadenfreude.

1.Just give Texas back to Mexico.
2.Reverse UNO
3.White Republicans are now the immigrants on the wrong side of the border
4.Enjoy some queso
- Mexico 2 days later: Amigo, please take these fuck faces back
- Tesla becoming a mexican business lmao
- Americans who move to other countries always call themselves expats since immigrants are “those other people”.
- All the morons screaming about colonization aboard are already packing their bags to leave Texas right? RIGHT? California too, if they're anything but sjw Jack offs.
I haven't had an orgasm since 2017, but I think that would do it.
- What happened in 2017

the nihilist in me really wants to see texas attempt this.

confederates === domestic terrorists. lets act accordingly.

the nihilist in me really wants to see texas attempt this.
Just to get rid of Abbot and Cruz it would be worth it.
Ah ha, I found a JS dev lmfao
- Normal languages: "does this equal that?"
  JS: "does this REALLY equal that, or just 'equal' that?"
I doubt this whole display is anything more than a distraction from the impending elections but I'm going to keep saying it anyway:
Please remember there are sane, reasonable, nonconservative people living here without a good way out. We're not the enemy.
Might not be domestic for long. Plus I hear they've got oil! Not sure they've thought this through.
Not just confederates, it's the current MAGA "Republican" party. CPAC, Dallas, TX, Aug. 4-7, 2022:
The persecution fetish is bigger in Texas.

Can we just acknowledge that this is unhinged? Biden has the strongest border policies ever implemented by a Democrat. This just shows that there is no compromise possible with these traitors. They will never admit you made a step in their direction, only demand more and more and more until you're just doing their bidding.

This is truly the way of extremists and terrorists, they demand the country be run to their preferences, democratic systems be damned.

It really is sad to see so many Americans captivated by misinformation that they've convinced themselves is real. Abandoning science, reason, discussion, compromise, even tolerance. I try to keep my bloodthirst in check but after years upon years of them growing like a cancer, forming cult-like militia, becoming full blown domestic terrorists threatening high treason, it can't be tolerated any further. It was cute when it was just posturing, symbolizing they were unhappy with the system at large and wanted to fuck with it a little.
Now it's spiraled out of control. Now the punishment for treason should be felt. Either mercifully with the arrest of Abbott or vengefully with the GOP Texans being buried under the new courthouse.
Is there somewhere I can read about Biden's border policy compared to other Democrats? This is definitely something I'm totally uninformed about and I'd like to read up a bit, if you know of a good rundown.
- Not really a rundown. Just years of paying attention. The basic thing is they aren't recognizing the right to declare asylum after entering the country anymore. You have to wait in your home country or Mexico until your paperwork is processed. Of course that's ridiculous considering how the cartels prey on the refugees and asking someone to stay in the country they are seeking asylum from.
A more cynical person might suggest they are doing this BECAUSE of that. Biden can't run on the numbers if Texas keeps blocking action.
- That's not cynical, they've come right out and said this is what they're doing. https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4429211-romney-trump-border-bill-biden/
Pra ba jeebus

I have yet to see this mentioned in any of these threads, at least the ones that I have read. If Texas secedes or tries to, Republicans lose 38 seats in the House of Representatives and two Senate seats. This give the House to Democrats for the foreseeable future and Democrats an easier path to passing bills in the Senate. Not that Texas, Abbott, cares.

not to mention then they'll be a country with oil within peacekeepin' distance of the USA
- Can anyone tell me how much of Texas' oil production is offshore? Because the US would claim all of that on day one.
- We're going to have invade every 20 years to get rid of some horrible dictator or another.
Here's hoping a congressman disappears him.
But seriously, there needs to be a mechanism for the feds to impeach a governor.
- They have one now but it's messy and stains the carpet.
if the secede their electoral votes shouldn't count until congress passes a bill readmitting them. it's only fair
I mean it goes without saying that you aren’t arguing this, but they will never secede. This is fodder for local politicking

Brexit was so successful, it's now time for Texit!

Stop threatening the rest of us with a good time

cut off all federal funding

let then secede

invade and retake them as a territory with no federal voting rights

make dc and puerto rico states

republicans never win again

Naw, split up the state into 4 states, with Houston, Austin, Dallas and San Antonio as capitals. Cut state lines and populations up to ensure that as the main city votes so goes the state.
That'd be 8 democratic senators.
Add DC, PR, American Virgin Islands American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and that's potentially another 12.
Regardless of politics the territories, and DC, should have statehood and equal rights and representation as the rest of us or they should have independence. It's part of our national identity. No more colonialism or secondclass sub citizens.

These dumb fucks can't go a single winter or summer without their power grids going down and then begging for free money and help but they somehow thing they can be their own country? Fuck it, let em try and then they will find out that the Mexican cartels don't fuck around.

These jackanapes get to yammering about secession every few years but haven't actually done anything about it for decades. It's all performative.

This Texan checked into it, and unfortunately we have no procedure for recalling our treasonous governor. At a minimum, he should be held in contempt of court and jailed. I would like to see a treason indictment.

just break the elevator in the state house
there is- at the federal level some vague means of getting "congress" to do it. Victor Berger was removed by a vote of the full house (WI rep that was convicted improperly of espionage. he was part of the socialist party in 1919.) He was elected as a representative to the house (and the specific side of congress has jurisdiction over itself).
There's nothing saying the senate, for example, couldn't weigh in, declare him unfit and have him removed from his position. I have no idea how that would shake out... but given his announcement or declaration or whatever that was, that's basically invalidating the US constitution... that is definitely insurrection against the US. The 14th amendment section 5 gives authority to soley Congress to enforce 14th's section 3 (you know the insurrection clause).
I would expect that if the house of senate voted to remove him... then the shitheads in SCOTUS would say that it has to be unanimous with the house of reps. but it would be something more than what's currently being done- which is nothing.
- I don't believe the federal legislative can remove the executive of a federated state.
  He can be arrested and tried though.
- The 14th Amendment's 3rd clause is self executing, so arguably he's just disqualified himself from office.
Unfortunately for us, people kept voting him into office even after he called the Texas guard to watch the US army with the Jade Helm panic that Russia started. Idk if they will ever vote him out
- His last election was the most competitive of his career.
  The public in general leans pro-choice, so Republicans are absolutely losing support with their insane anti-abortion policies even if it isn’t obvious yet.
  He’s also been in national headlines a lot lately for his extremism. He has always been horrible, but he has never been so visible for it.
  Next election, he will be hanging on by voter suppression, a wish, and a prayer.
  What worries me though is why he’s gone off the deep end already if he still believes he needs to get re-elected…

The only issue I have with secession talk is there are lots of Texas citizens who aren't the problem. Every red state has people with common sense, they just don't have the ability at the moment to shut up the idiots. Plus secession at this point is ludicrous, leaving with your toys isn't how you fix problems. Oh wait, it's Republicans, they don't ever have solutions anymore anyway it's all a political game.

The pro-seccession crowd here isn't even the majority of Republicans. They brought a petition to out a measure on the primary ballot and the state GOP said no. Then the state Supreme Court declined to intervene.

As a city Texan who lives in one of the most military-friendly and full cities in the state, I say I’d like to see you try greggy.

Here in Houston, doubt many here would back his bullshit.
In fact, Abbott barely won texas against Beto, who has said that he actually wants to take guns from people. In texas...
- I hope Beto eventually wins something.

I don’t think Republican leadership is going to like losing 40 electoral votes.

money will drop him so fast he's struggling to act out this bad
- When Republican governors try to become mini-dictators… that does not bode well for America.
- Ah so he's taking a page from Ron DeSantis and plan to lose on multiple fronts.

GM: "Well, you can certainly try."

"Roll for initiative."
- The DM watching Texas lose power, unable to pay for its own army, pay for its own healthcare, pay for food with its ports blockaded unable to secure basic goods from both Mexico and the US, etc.
  "You guys are under prepared and over fucked."
- I got a perfect “1” - that means I go first, right?
suddenly reconsidering opening the chest I was promised had 10 million gold in it
- I promise, it's not a mimic!
- Are you sure you want to do that? -The GM
Is a 3 in intimidation good?

Do it, you chicken shit piss baby

How do 1%ers hear this and not immediately pull campaign funding, what would a civil war do to the US economy. When a nation with the most guns in the world has people starving what do they think is gonna happen. I guess they are counting on being kings in the aftermath or that Jesus will come back or something.

See, your problem is you assume the 1% are intelligent. They are not. The attribute they have the most of is greed. Greed can blind even the intelligent, and most of them aren't even playing with a full deck.
- Yeah just look at the latest posts by Elon on twi....I mean X...
- I think it's more the assumption that things won't change. Plenty of large, previously-succsssful businesses have collapsed because they did not keep a finger up to feel if the winds of change are shifting and instead doubled and quadrupled down on a no longer viable business model.
- Of course they’re intelligent. Lots of people are greedy but most of them aren’t greedy and rich.
The 1% use political theater to distract people from the fact that half of Americans can't afford rent.
This is exactly what they want.
It’s because they know it’s political theater. Bullshit posturing. Virtue signaling. As long as it gets the red state voters worked up so they’re not paying attention to actual issues, that’s what counts.
Texas is not going to secdee.
They just leave the country, invest in defense stocks, and make a bunch of cash
Because it’s theater. It’s part of the tongue in cheek game they play where the Republican leadership all basically play the part of the fourteen year old male imagination. They’re gonna beat up the bully, kiss the cheerleader, and win the football game. Everyone knows it’s fantasy but it’s comforting fantasy that makes them feel big, and they want that. They expect it.
Trump is fascinating because he DID those things. He hurt the right people to satisfy a growing chunk of the core GOP base that have Poe’s Law’d so hard they actually take the fantasy seriously. If he said he’d let Texas secede I’d honestly believe he’s stupid and/or nihilistic enough to do it

Obviously he'll flip into "federal authority is absolute" against states like California if a Republican (read: Trump) is president.

The only legitimate authority is the party I'm a member of.
No need to wait, look at what they did for the article 14 stuff. They don’t give a fuck about anything unless it somehow directly impacts them, states rights included

So what about Texas invading other states by bussing migrants there?

Secure the boarder!!!!
- Yeah, lock up Kelly Slater!

if they secede we'll have to update all the flags. what a pain. maybe we could just add in puerto rico really quick

Would rather have Puerto Rico anyway. Texas will return to being Mexico pretty swiftly and that's probably better for everyone.
- Mexico won't want them. My bets are they break into even more countries, some of which get incorporated into the US and Mexico. Then the remains become a lawless region because they don't have the money to fight the cartels. So we get a military occupation on our southern border. Nobody comes away happy but the MIC.
  Which given the arc of history in the post WW2 period is, I believe, the best indicator of how things will go.
- Mexico already has enough oil

Abbott is unfit to hold office.

If it means Ted Cruz will be forced to fuck off, don’t keep us waiting.

This walking corpse needs to be slapped back to reality. Secession talk should get you fucked into the ground.

Traitor scum.

This ~~walking~~ rolling 🧑‍🦽 corpse...

If Texas has complete control and final authority over their majority portion of the southern border, shouldn't they be the ones are responsible for spending the resources for securing it as well as being accountable for the humanitarian disaster?

The Republicans want it both ways: They want to blame the President and federal government for the situation at the border (but only when it's the Democrats in office and never when they are, of course), and at the exact same time they want to claim total authority over border policy on the state level. On top of that, they love to pull political stunts wrt the border every election year, but when it comes to actually passing an immigration bill, they'll tank it because Trump doesn't want to let Biden have yet another win.

Talk about having your cake and eating it too. Fucking pick one you disingenuous scumbag clowns.

Abbott is so full of shit. Texas isn’t succeeding from anything.

Texas is neither succeeding nor seceding
Aren't you for the freedom of self-determination?

For a party that claims to love and respect the US Constitution, being filled to gills with "constitutional orginalists," I don't think any Republican has ever actually read the document. If they had even glanced over it, they would have looked at Article 6, Paragraph 2 also known as the "Federal Supremacy Clause." It's meaning is that law at the Federal level supercedes State laws and even state constitutions. The "Founding Fathers" intended for the Federal government to hold supremacy over the state governments... now it isn't written in plain English, but it is plain enough. Further, the end of our Civil War the court case Texas v White made it plain as day legally that no State may leave the union. Again, the party of "law and order" comes in clutch with that misunderstanding of what those words mean.

All that being said, succession isn't actually that popular (even in Texas). There would likely be a mass revolt against it in any state attempting it. Further, even a play at attempting it would be a political death sentence (as well as, perhaps, a literal one). Any insurrection against the federal government, even by a collection of contiguous states, would face a similar challenge the capitalists/monarchists (or Whites) of the Russian Civil War faced. The major population centers wouldn't recognize the authority of those in revolt and all they'd be left with would be the hinterlands and rural towns. Which is not a great position to be in strategically (again, see: the outcome of the Russian Civil War).

This is all not to mention, while States have their own National Guards, the insurrectionists would have to convince those troops to fire on troops who are wearing the same uniform. You'd have to convince their officers to break their oath to uphold both US law and face a possible death sentence if captured. I don't know Abbott's relationship with his National Guardsmen, but I highly doubt many officers will go in with him in this piece of political theater.

For a party that claims to love and respect the US Constitution, (...) I don't think any Republican has ever actually read the document.
They just don't care - they're self-serving liars and grifters, and they know it. It's very simple.
I look forward to the possibility they'll fuck around and find out, but they'll likely just bully concessions out of Biden, who will be too afraid of being uncivil or disturbing the status quo to take action to uphold the rule of law and defend the constitution.
- Even if they do sit down to "read" the constitution it would be similar to their bible studies. You have a pre-made conclusion that you dance around with some text to then just conclude what you wanted to and some cop out if there is a contradiction.

Hmmm... 🤔

"states have a right of self-defense, under Article 4, Section 4 and Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution."

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/full-text

Article 4, Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

I don't see a) anything there that defines "invasion" or b) grants the states the power to act if the United States chooses not to.

Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3:

"Section 10: Powers Denied to the States

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

Again, "invaded".

It's pretty clear from section 10, since it's also speaking of troops, ships of war, and engaging in war that it means MILITARY invasion, not an influx of citizen refugees.

Dictionaries at the time back up that reading:

https://mises.org/wire/what-did-founders-mean-invasion

Rich of them to quote the U.S. Constitution when they're trying to leave - which would mean that they don't recognize the U.S. Constitution for being a foreign entity.
It's in the Constitution! Democrats can never be the government of any state, only Republicans can create a Republican form or government.
Checkmate liberals!

That would be political suicide and motivate the red states against him for the election. He can point out that he's wrong because of those in a funny way. But actually doing something about it would be detrimental to his election.
- Like red states aren't already motivated against him? That's at least 90% of the reason Abbott is even doing this. Give old Joe a no win situation to deal with and take the focus off their abhorrent abortion and other human rights stances. Like, I know this involves drowning children with razor wire but he gets to control the narrative and move the focus off that.
oh and all of those sweet military bases that basically prop up that shithole

He is wrong. But also imagine what that looks like. You think people in the UK regret brexit? Hahaha I hope Texas can grow all their own food.

Or don't have any natural disasters they aren't prepared for.
That's your concern? We have farmland coming out our ass. Food isn't going to be the problem.
- While Texas has a hell of a lot of natural resources, trying to break away from the entire commerce cycle and keep growing food ends up getting a bit tricky.
  I mean hell you guys can't even produce your own electricity effectively enough to keep people from freezing to death. Even fixing that problem without local suppliers and engineers ends up being pretty damn expensive.
  It'll start well enough trying to turn resources from outside the state to local sources. A lot of local small and medium industry will probably be bolstered. But then what happens when the US stops allowing import of cattle. You've got plenty of food, food isn't your problem anymore, but now all those giant farms don't have anybody to sell their goods to anymore. They're going to go from feeding 50 states to trying to feed one state that already has all they want of that product. You can't just f*** with supply and demand like that your economy will s*** itself. You'll be trying to sell oil and gas to Mexico. Your ports will just be packed with tankers trying to find somebody that'll buy your oil, so you can trade for stuff you really need. You won't even be able to fill the tankers fast enough to keep that section of the economy flowing like it is now.
  When brexit did it they just got a taste of the pain because all of their trade routes and agreements More or less remained in place just today non-preferential price.
  Credit due, you've got a better chance of making it work then just about any other state, but y'all go mad Max before you got it sorted.
- You're going to be eating cotton and hay or fighting cows for their corn
- Lol okay, have fun eating all that seed corn and cotton.
- Sure, here's why that doesn't make any sense. Texas's main crops are: Cotton, Corn, Sorghum, Oats, Wheat, Hay, Peanutes, Rice, Roots, Bulbs, Fruiting Veggies, Melons, Citrus, and Herbs\spices. That may seem like a diverse amount of food, but you don't have enough to feed everyone in your state and you will grow very tired of the same old shit without import\export trade.

Someone should tell these guys it's not 1861 anymore. They might find themselves on the business end of a hellfire missile if they keep running their yaps with impunity or take actionable steps towards actually seceding. Also known in modern vernacular as "Fuck around and find out".

"The dildo of consequence rarely arrives lubed"
That's silly talk. I say we deny their citizens all American benefits instead. VA, SS, Medicare, all of it. Only if they seceed.
Why should we tell them again?
- No, no... Let them leave. #Texit

The great Texas economy won't fair to well when trade tariffs kick in and they stop benefiting from all the trade deals the US has.

Imagine the reaction on day one when Biden nationalize all assets of Texas based companies that aren't within the borders. And day two when Biden decrees that us banks can no longer accept funds or distribute funds to Texas based entities. They'll have to create their own currency and deal with conversions that will not be favorable.
In fact leaving the US is leaving NAFTA so it doesn't even require new tariffs they would immediately throw up trade barriers with their two (or three if you count the US) largest trade partners. Their economy would tank immediately.

I don't fucking get this. Abbot literally ships illegal immigrants by the bus load into the country free of charge, how is he not a fundamental cog in the illegal immigration machine?

They've basically finally got around to calling the bluff. No one's going to do anything.
We had a coup attempt last year and people are getting slapped on the wrist.
The government's not going to do anything about anything until there's a full-on civil war.
- If that.
  The U.S. government is incapable and unwilling to protect its own people, therefore it is illegitimate. And it has been for a very long time.
One star states gonna one star. Fucking shit hole.

So all federal money cut off.

But wait, doesn't Texas pay more than they received?

Yes, but let's really look at this. Military and veterans don't get paid. Oil confiscated by the Navy stationed on both the East and West coast. Any company with a federal account closes down bc Texas doesn't pay the same. Massive border to protect against a reunification force.

I think they change their mind in a split second.

They did pay into the federal system more than they took at one time, but it hasn't been like that for a long time now. They couldn't handle having federal funding cut off.
- No one could. We're solidly in deficit spending now.

No. Please. Don't. Go.

Oh well.

Can I apply for refugee status and move to a state not run by this sociopath?

biden should call the bluff and ask the house and senate to release texas from the union under the condition it compensates the US for any federal land and supplies.

Not even. We take what’s ours, they can keep the land and what infrastructure is left. All federal funds are frozen and all US based assets for Texans are frozen until diplomatic relations are formally established and financial treaties are in place. All power, pipelines and rail are blocked/shut off at the border. All passports in Texas names are null, along with all no cost governmental passports. Military Checkpoints at all major roads in and out of Texas with nobody allowed in or out without a valid US passport. All airport and federal airport staff are reassigned or permitted to resign with negative SF50 rehire status. All airspace on the US side is closed to any transit.
Most of this can be accomplished in a week or two with the military securing the border operations (as is appropriate). It would be fair to allow, say, a month grace period for anyone who wants to stay in the US to relocate. After they are free to leave by the gulf or, if Mexico decides to honor the defunct passports.
- I don't think we give these military installations up.
- The US / TexAss border would be nearly as long as the entire east coast of the US. Securing that isn't going to be fast or easy.

Texas is a drag on our society. I say say cut em loose.

Hypothetical from a non American. Let's say Texas DOES secede. What happens to the citizenship of the Americans in Texas? Do they lose it? Do they have to leave Texas in X days to keep it? Can it even be revoked? Should it?

If they kept it, would they need to still declare their taxes, as US citizens must pay tax on international income?

They would become a territory, like Puerto Rico. They would still have citizenship and the benefits of citizenship, such as they would still have taxes. But would not vote in presidential elections, and their representatives would get no vote.
It is the best of all worlds. /$
- Taxation without representation you say?
- You mean their politicians can just blame everything on the federal government and pretend they took their voting rights away? Sounds like a dream for them.
I'm not like a US civil war scholar or anything, but there's at least a glimmer of precedence to be found there with what happened to average folk living in the Confederate States when those states seceded. Babies born in the Confederacy were considered US citizens because the US (the Union) never recognized the Confederacy as independent and legally considered it US territory still. As for adults, it was similar... The US treated them as if they had never lost US citizenship and either punished or pardoned people for treason and war related crimes after the war. So I guess the answer would depend on whether Texas wins or loses the inevitable war that the US would fight to keep Texas from seceding/declaring independence in the first place.
- To add to that- it’s nearly impossible to lose American citizenship against one’s will. If you were born a citizen or earned it later, you will likely remain a citizen until you die, unless you give it up.
  Even Jefferson Davis died an American citizen.
- About inevitable war - I heard some mentions of Texas' conditions of entering the union being different, since it, eh, became part of the US at a different point of history. And thus that in case of Texas specifically secession would still be their right.
  Have you heard of such a thing?
  Anyway would be awfully stupid to see a war over this.
  It would make more sense for Texas to be like Christiania in Copenhagen for some time in case of such a weird event - no recognition, but also no war and no borders.
The other replies to you are wrong. Texas can't secede. Unlike the EU, joining the United States is one-way. No matter what laws the Texas government passes, or claims to be true, from the perspective of the US gov't they cannot leave the union (or revoke US citizenship from their residents).
If you're looking for precedence, see the US civil war which settled the matter pretty decisively.

Cool, let’s pull back their federal funding and see how things go

Texas is one of the few red states that contributes more to federal funding than they get out of it. Cutting it just gives them the excuse to cut more social programs that are tried to federal funding.

This guy, these people, are so thick headed.

The court ruled that the border patrol officers have the constitutional authority to move some razor wire in some areas (this case mentions 2.5 miles) because it's in their way of apprehending people trying to get over the boarder - actually, people who have already set foot on US soil.

This is going to turn into some big thing because Abbot would rather let immigrants die in the river than permit border patrol to capture them.

There's way too many people in here that either don't know the difference between succession and secession, or don't know how to spell, or just were too lazy to look at what they were typing or what was being autocorrected.

It'd be funny if someone built a Lemmy extension to allow others to grade people's posts based on spelling and grammar.
Since smartphones became prevalent there has been open contempt and hostility for the idea that correct spelling and grammar are important for comprehensible communication.
Too many people don't care to learn anything anymore because it makes them feel stupid when it's pointed out that they didn't just plop out of their mothers with all the necessary knowledge to interact with others and navigate the world around them.

Again? Texas does this almost every election cycle and they aren't dumb enough to try it. Or maybe they are. That'd be a show.

As a born and raised Texan, I’ve been seeing “Secede” bumper stickers for decades now. However, it’s the first time that I remember the governor saying it. So it is still notable, even if it’s old rhetoric.
I'm Canadian and this is like Quebec for us. None of us take them seriously, they do this so often. They're also land locked and would die without the rest of the country. I for one would love it if French Canada stopped having so much political pull over the rest of the country.
- People from the ROC hating Quebec without knowing anything about it is normal, but I have never seen someone forget the St Laurence River exists before.

Can the people of Texas recall their governor? Has to be a lot of them unhappy with this clown.

The problem is that rural old people vote more than everyone else, and they all have brain damage from lead poisoning.
- The problem is Texas has some of the most egregious gerrymandering/voter suppression in the country.
He's one of the reasons my wife and I moved out of Texas.

Old guy who is only getting older wants to dictate so that he has some sort of legacy.

Also his wiener doesn't work correctly (...nor do any of his lower extremities), and this makes him very cranky. Bless his heart. Let him pretend to govern, what's the worst that could happen...
- I assume you are being sarcastic, but in case anyone thinks Abbott is a harmless delusional, this whole latest secession thing sprouted up because Abbott is ordering state employees to prevent federal employees from rescuing drowning people and those people are dying because of the interference. Not to mention the Texans that die every time their power grid fails and the Texan women who are being forced under threat of legal penalty to carry life threatening pregnancies to term

I’m not suggesting that someone should disable the brakes on his wheelchair and then roll him into the street, but were he to be rolled into the street with no brakes, I wouldn’t be surprised.

- I believe you mean to the razor wire his hatefull ass put there.

I want to say it'll never happen, but they may not be so good at paying attention to prevailing trends. If Texit happens I'll be watching with a big bowl of popcorn.

Willy Wonka: Stop. Don't. Come back.

How's Trump's electoral math work out without Texas in the union?

Let them go and remove their risk from the power grid.

I believe Texas has its own power grid. Also, still, let them go.
- Am Texan. Am American. Love being both, and so do most of my neighbors. We aren’t seceding, and Abbott is an asshole of the highest proportion.
  Also, we do have our own power grid. It sucks and nearly kills us on a regular basis. That’s Abbott’s fault too.
- No. Fuck that. They want to leave the Union? FUCKING LEAVE TEXAS. Texas, the land belongs to us.

Tx threatens secession every other day. why does he wear boots. js

Dog whistle to his supporters, that's all.

If they actually tried anything they'd be snuffed out pretty fast.

Do it. Go on.

Go for it, Abbott. Let's see your beloved Texas Rangers go up against satellite-guided drone bombers.

It's all fun and games until you are shredded by cluster bombs.
- Or a Raytheon knife missile thingy

Please, try it. I dare you, Abbott.

Would be a late Christmas present to make Texas a blue state by March.

They know federal law supercedes state law, right?

the argument is that because they're being "invaded" and that the federal government isn't doing anything to protect them from that "invasion"... it's a "breach of contract" that then invalidates everything else.
Which is a dissenting opinion by a lone justice, and not what was the actual ruling in that precedent; and there's no legal or technical definition that defines migrant refugees showing up seeking asylum as an invasion.
- Is Abbot on the SovCit bandwagon?

I ducked into Texit Twitter yesterday and it's like an Alamo cosplay, an entirely fictional version of events is everywhere where there's somehow a 10th Amendment right to secede and Abbott is proving state supremecy by not complying with some deadline the federal government gave them to comply with the Supreme Court order. As if it was Iraq not abiding by Bush's demands and thus initiating war instead of the obvious actual situation where they are going to be sued again.

Get rid of Ted Cruz and we'll take you more seriously, chucklefuck.

Texit

The south is stupidly rising again

Inciting an insurrection…

If that shithole secedes, can’t we just immediately go to war with them- reclaim it as American territory, and then put someone in charge with a brain?

I got $400 on Cartels blowing them the fuck away.

No they will just buy guns from them and it will become a gun/drug economy, probably ironically sending drugs into other states.

He's about to go full Sovcit

I knew we were teasing World War III but I didn't think it would start with a Civil War.

I hope someone steals his wheelchair.

So you take the going lower option in "when they go low, you go high" lol ... I had to upvote for the image of someone in the 21st century stealing a mobility device from a governor of Texas. Does Abbott deserve such treatment as a handicapped individual, debatable. But in his official capacity as Governor of Texas, absolutely!

I don't want Texas to secede, they would be a shitty ass neighbor.

A shitty ass neighbor is a hell of a lot better than a shitty ass sibling

Another afflicted with magabrain.

Man, Texas sure does blow

He looks like he's on a game show, bright colours behind him and everything.

The way his mouth is open almost looks cartoonish

My favorite part of this is that despite this “border crisis, ”Gregory Wayne Abbott is galavanting around fkn India like he’s Anthony fkn Bourdain. Meanwhile, we have all sorts of shit convoys and armed goofies coming there to “volunteer in Texas.” Eagle Pass is only 97% Hispanic, so I’m sure nobody will get confused and murder some nice citizen or anything.

Last time they tried this we fought a whole ass war over it. I highly doubt that it'll go nearly as swimmingly lol.

This guy is all talk, while sucking on the feds tit.

Personally, I hope they successfully secede, then get taken over by Mexico. #maketexasmexicoagain

LOL.

Hints at moving entire state to Mars.

What a fucking idiot

Ah it's fine, we know they'll be totally fine on their own. I mean, they have their own totally reliable, independent electric grid, right?

Texas in succession would not look unlike the West Bank before October of last year.

A shitshow of Israelis shooting other Israelis while secessionists pop out of house windows firing RPGs and tens of thousands of civilians are slaughtered needlessly?
As a Houstonian... shit sucks and I would prefer we not.
- No, I meant that it would be blockaded and isolated until you left or dealt with the terrorists that you and your neighbors have chosen to represent the place.
I think you're mixing up Gaza and the west bank.
The west bank is ran by Fatah, part of PLO and Arafat's political party. Hamas runs the Gaza strip.
If Texas would be like that I guess it would be full of foreign permanent setlers. A bit counter productive
- Right it wasn't a perfect analogy.

Ideas like this are so stupid that one wonders if that's someone's goal. Britain leaving the EU was one of the stupidest ideas earlier. A lot of the people pushing it were being completely disingenuous - foreign influence operations. This is even worse.
We're heading for Greg vs. the-giant-oak-tree-on-top-of-Greg all over again.

Do it wuss

Sounds good, we’ll take them back after the 2024 election.

Stop...

Please...

Don't go...

From Brexit to Texit

Can't wait for "The second American civil war - Oversimplified'". Coming soon.

You mean in at least a year

Texas: proceeds to get messed with

Oh, please, please!!

Bye Felicia

This is what happens with legal positivism and going off the gold standard.

Everyone is a prophet.

Shit or get off the pot.

Well... Bye.

- "Where's Abbott?"
  "Oh... he's down by the river... rollin' on water."

Wish the tree has finished the job and killed the evil fuck.

Texas? Receding?

Ahhhhh! Noooo!

Anyway.

Here we go

Sounds good to me.

Imagine Lady Liberty in an ice-blue dress, singing "Let them go, let them go..."

Simpson’s predicted this.

Good riddance, fucktard.

Good luck. Remember what happened last time?

If he only had enough dick and balls in his pants to pull this through.

Nice to see it's business as usual in USA. /s

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Isn't Texas a democratic state? Like you'd have to have a vote to do something like that right?

This rules, critical support to the shithole of Texas in its war on America

Watch it all burn, so they say.

If you guys claim that you're a country that respects freedoms and democrasy, you must listen to what Texas wishes. If they want to break off from the US, so be it. It'll be their choice that to be respected. They aren't happy with Biden and the US as a whole -- it's also their opinion and you're to respect it too. Wouldn't it be a democratic decision?

You can't have it both ways: blame other countries for the ways they handle internal matters, yell "suppression of freedom! one must respect democrasy!", yet suppress the opinions and thus freedom of your people in Texas.

Most of us on the left here would like nothing better than to be rid of most red states. On the whole, they take more federal tax dollars to prop up than they contribute, and their backwards ass attitudes hold the rest of the country back.
HOWEVER...
Most progressive voters would rather not abandon all of the disempowered minority groups in those states to their fate.
A "national divorce" as described by the space lasers lady would be incredibly messy and potentially devolve into a war and further violent and messy balkanization of the country.
Finally, having an impoverished, highly inequitable theocracy for a neighbor sounds like a massive headache.

The United States is too big and needs to fail. And I say this as the United States citizen, I would like to see it broken up into smaller independent countries. With less military so that we can stay the fuck out of other people's business.

The United States is too big and needs to fail
Yeah, I don't think you understand what that statement means. A government failure would absolutely lead to a significant part of the the population dying. And that would be the good outcome for a lot of folks. A whole lot more would starve to death very slowly.
I would like to see it broken up into smaller independent countries
Very, very, very few States have the experience at this moment to operate as an independent nation. Like maybe four or five. The rest would either devolve into complete chaos and with it take a significant part of the population, or be invaded which would very likely have similar outcome.
With less military so that we can stay the fuck out of other people’s business.
Yeah, there's a lot of people like it or not that have an axe to grind. And wouldn't really matter to them if the US fell apart, in fact it would encourage them to settle that chip on their shoulder.
So I'm just going to tell you, your proposal would very likely get yourself killed and everyone you love killed and pretty much everyone commenting on this story killed as well. There would be a lot of dead bodies. Just literally look at any country that began falling apart and you can see that the body count starts increasing at a rapid pace when the Government completely falls apart.
I don't understand why people think that government falling apart or civil war means that a significant part of the country's population doesn't die? There's over 8,000 years of evidence of societies collapsing equaling a shit ton of people dying. If there's people wanting to die that badly, there are better ways that do not involve 10% to 20% of the civilian population.
- A lot of people will die, but probably nowhere near a majority, but the reason for unity is the same as the reason 250 years ago: if we split up each small part will become the puppet to some foreign country.
just make new england a canadian province pls

If US sends weapons to Taiwan pretending that it's for democrasy and freedoms of the island, China now must being to send weapons to the people of Texas for the same reason. People of Texas excerise nothing other than their constituional freedom of speach and self-determination.

Look at how they're sick of Biden's bloody regime, his nature of a dictator, that they want to break down from the US. Let's help the people of Texas, let's protect democrasy in Texas!

This argument was blatantly false and destroyed already during your civil war. There's no constitutional right to violate the rights of others which is what Texas is trying to achieve.
- Don't feed the trolls
- No, it wasn't
Do people actually think like this? I have never seen a right winger who espouses such things or types with such poor spelling. 🤔
- In my experience, people who think Taiwan belongs to China are generally the same people who think China is a glorious utopia headed by a benevolent saint Jinping.
  So it's a 50/50 toss up on bot or troll lol
- Do people actually think like this?
  Of course. Plenty of americans, including the government, do when it comes to protests in other countries that aren't allies with US
Sounds good to me. Send free weapons pls. No armed conflict will come of this, but having free weapons from China sounds like a good deal
- Sounds good to me.
  I knew it would