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They would have 40 electoral college votes in 2024.
If they secede, that would also mean losing 2 Senators and 38 Representatives, changing the balance of power in the House and Senate.
Don't threaten me with a good time!
Edit I also want to see Ted Cruz's face when he learns he's not a Senator anymore because Texas seceded.
Oh no. Democrats would need to find two additional no votes to block anything progressive.
So nowhere in the article is it mentioned that the supposed "Texas right to secede" is actually bullshit, and a complete misunderstanding of the actual right that they have, which is to be broken up into five separate states.
Except even that is bullshit, because it was talking about the Texas Territory, which was larger than modern day Texas.
The constitution clearly says that;
New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
So yes, Texas could request to be broken up, but congress still needs to okay it.
Now, as to the "right to secede", that bullshit was settled with the Civil War, States do not have the right to secede, not even Texas.
Republicans like to pretend the Civil War never happened, and want a repeat, I guess.
That's true, though to be fair most secessions are illegal and are settled by violence.
lol. Please 🙏
GOP would not win the presidency for 20 years at least
It would also reduce the number needed to win.
538 EC votes / 2 = 269. 50%+1 for the win so 270.
Texas drops out, so now it goes from 538 to 498. / 2 = 249. 50%+1=250 to win.
And suddenly 270towin.com needs a new CNAME.
Just playing around with what something like that might look like:
OMFG I hope they do. They could no longer bus immigrants to other states and would have no other choice but to police their border with Mexico entirely on their own without any federal support. Fucking dumbasses.
A Texas independence would not only violate the Constitution, it would sink the GOP in the remaining states due to the loss of Texas' electoral votes, thus ensuring a Republican president would never be elected again. This is the biggest reason Texas will never secede, regardless of the state's conservative nativism.
it would sink the GOP in the remaining states due to the loss of Texas’ electoral votes, thus ensuring a Republican president would never be elected again
So you're saying we should forget the constitution just this once?
I'm always baffled by how people point out succession as illegal as if it's expected or common otherwise that bits of a country can break away whenever they feel like it.
Would an independent Texas care if there was never a Republican president of a country they had left? Or would the see it as just rewards for those that those to stay there?
One of the top questions asked by Texas residents during their last succession vote was if social security checks were still going to be delivered. I hope they do vote to leave, I want to see the realization sink in and the chaos that ensues.
lmao literal FAFO
It’s like people don’t learn from history and, in these cases, people don’t pay attention to world history/current politics. This would be “Texit” and it would be called that because it rhymes with another vote where the realization of what was happening sunk in after the fact.
Please, for Christ's sake, just leave. Have the plebiscite. Take it to Congress. Let them release you on the condition that all Americans in Texas be allowed to emigrate, fully compensated, and all wannabe Texans are allowed to immigrate, fully compensated, for the next 6 months.
Oh, and we keep the military equipment. I'm sure their 'well-regulated militia' will be enough for them.
We'll leave it there for convenience when we invade since they will be an unstable oil rich nation in need of freedom.
Ugh, no, let them stay out. We don't need a Resource Trap country to try nation-building on, pretty sure we already tried that one.
Not 80s-90s era 'nation building', 40s era reconstruction. If nazi germany is salvageable we can probably figure texas out with the correct level of commitment.
~~Also we'll build a wall at the Texas-US borders, but not because we think it'll be effective, just because it'll be hilarious~~
ITT: A bunch of people who don't realize Texas is nearly purple, but gerrymandered to hell. There are millions of us who are blue.
Are you looking for credit for almost being a state governed by sane politicians? Almost doesn't count for much against fascism.
Texas is certainly not the only state with this problem but you're also not the only state that's close to giving Republicans the boot. Until it happens the rest of the country has every right to talk trash on the ridiculous bullshit that passes for political discourse there.
People who say stuff like this don't understand how anything works. Sure, talk trash about policies, the GOP and politicians. But it's shitty and counterproductive to say the progressive voters of Texas didn't try hard enough. Why don't the people of North Korea raise up and oust the regime? Would you say it's because North Koreans don't want it bad enough and so they deserve whatever they get?
Y'know, if Texas secedes, we won't have to change the flag and remove a star if we make Puerto Rico a state. Just sayin'.
I'd love to see that happen.
Do you think the US would leave it's army and it's nukes in a different country just like that? Texas has a fun economy
Then the Republican party would lose a large red state, we would finally be rid of Republican presidents and houses, no more extremist bullshit to deal with.
The US would flourish again and go truly MAGA as it no longer had to deal with the Republican shit.
Texas has shit infrastructure that they don't manage well enough to keep up, it would be a hoot
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.
The United States absolutely would not allow Texas to secede.
This is an absurd escalation that is nothing more than theater.
Oh yes please. The next hurricane that hits we won't have to pay for, and when they freeze or melt because their electrical grid collapses we can just watch.
I'm not sure Texas is thinking this through. We'd build a wall and make them pay for it...
don't let the door hit you in your racist ass. good luck with that whole electricity thing, we're proud to welcome refugee from The Christian Republic of Trumpistan
Best of luck, turds.
Those idiots can't handle independence.