Texas Republicans get deadly serious about secession
“You may have seen headlines earlier this month about how the Republican Party of Texas, in its biennial convention with thousands of delegates from across the state, approved a new platform that declared homosexuality an ‘abnormal lifestyle choice’ and said Joe Biden was ‘not legitimately elected’ president. The Texas GOP platform is routinely viewed as a hodgepodge of far-right fantasies, and these planks do nothing to contradict that verdict,” Casey Michel writes for the Bulwark.
“But another plank deserves more attention than it has received, because [it] presents a historic break—and points to the direction for the Trumpist right moving forward. With its new platform, the Texas Republican Party has formally endorsed a referendum on the state seceding from the United States.”
Can we call it Texit ?
I bet the second thing that happens after Texas secedes is Mexico invades.
The first thing should be a long and serious conversation with the US State Department. We will have some demands, of course:
- Please return any unspent US funds (Medicaid, highway, housing, etc.)
- Please return any unspent subsidies (agriculture, cotton, tobacco, oil & gas, etc.)
- Please facilitate closing of military bases and send payment for land
- Please facilitate closing of all National Parks, forestry centers, monuments, etc. and send payment for land (Remember the Alamo?)
- Please assist as able with removal of US Border Patrol agents and immigration officers from the southern border, and send payment for land.
What else? Hmmm ...
- We will no longer send the funding for various programs; this amounts to about $300/resident annually. (https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/federal-aid-by-state)
- On the other hand, if you don't work for the US Government, you no longer need to pay income tax to the IRS! Wheeeeee!
- Also, you'll need a passport to enter the US.
This should be fun! You go, Texas - no, really, I mean it. You go.
