Texas is a big place but I don't know if it has the capabilities support itself as a sovereign country and have a full scale war against 49 other states. That being said secession is a bumper sticker cause for most who support it not to diminish the threat but I think they are obviously overplaying their hand.
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I suspect it wouldn't be 49 other states- I'd bet that there's several other equally stupid states that would happily join them. Definitely Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and maybe Florida would join in. But I bet if Biden tried to call their bluff and pull all govt funding and military bases from those states they would freak out and change their tunes fast.
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it doesn't, but that doesn't mean idiots won't try to make it happen anyway.
Why is it that the crazy morons always have a louder voice than anyone else?
Isn't it cheaper and easier to buy a plane ticket and just move. Earth pretty big.
Sell them to Mexico, cheap.
The US cannot pay enough money to Mexico to make them take back Texas. ..
It WAS Mexico.
They don’t want it anymore,
If Texas wants to leave they can do it over the United States of America's dead body.
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Do it lmao, let's see how it turns out.
Hahaha good fucking luck. We all saw Uvalde, we watched your government let people freeze to death at home. Go ahead and try but historically oil rich nations with authoritarian leadership get some of that sweet American™️ freedom by force.
Who didn't see this coming? It was clear from beginning.
And it's another proof that compromise politic doesn't work.
Please insane Texans, do that, I already grabbed my popcorn and I can't wait to laugh at you
I honestly think we should not give voice to these people. It just adds legitimacy to their wacko delusions.
I wonder what the strategy of this rhetoric and defiance is. I don't think it's just about immigration. I imagine they are trying to get favorable precedents set by the right-wing courts. I could also see, in the not too distant future, blue states defying a Republican-controlled federal government on things like a national abortion ban and anti-lgbt laws, so ideas and precedents normalized here could be applicable there.
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