Texit

[tx 3 putt 76395]

3 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

Texit?

 

cons:

insurgency

war with the US

infiltration by the mexican drug cartels

devastating economic misery

collapsing health care system

3rd world electrical grid

extreme weather events with no federal aid

thousands of miles of border with newly hostile neighbors

 

 

pros:

owning the libs!

 

edit: Out of all the other states, I'd guess Oklahoma would probably be the most likely to texit with us. Not sure if the texit morons would consider that a pro or a con.

 

 

the cartel would be running the border within days and the bigger cities within weeks 

[CooterBrown 17913]

When I went to my hometown in Texas last month I saw people with "Texas Secede" shirts on. I saw more Duck Dynasty beards at the weekly Cornball League (The state champion is from my hometown and I grew up with him. I don't think he cares one iota about politics, at all. He can BBQ and grill some amazing food though.) than I have seen in the rest of my life combined and I had a friend who had a pistol above his fireplace that I am hoping was just a gift and not something he had made himself. I had a BLM hat that I wear often that I was advised by a good friend to put away or it would cause a fight. I was not there for any of that so I just put on my Yankees hat. 
These people are grossly misinformed and are swimming in a sea of lies filled with grifters. I had not been home to visit, other than for my aunt's funeral in January, in almost 5 years. I cannot believe what I witnessed. That shirt though was just the height for me of how off things are there.

I just saw a friend’s dad’s Facebook page and holy shit. It was all plandemic, chips, MAGA, etc. This guy was always a 60s flower child hippie. Pro weed, pro universal healthcare, only voted Democrat,etc. his kids are very liberal. One is a faculty member at the Dell medical school and I he other is a graphic artist in CA. Fuck. The guy got married barefoot in a park by a goddamn shaman back in the day. No idea what happened other than he’s been stuck in my hometown his entire life.

[RDCanecutter 26281]

42 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

the cartel would be running the border within days and the bigger cities within weeks 

If I were a successful cartel already running things in the US, no one would know that I was already running things in the US.

[F250 28691]

1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

If I were a successful cartel already running things in the US, no one would know that I was already running things in the US.

So are you saying Abbott is...

[FORTY NINE TO ZERO 2630]

It’s clockwork. 
 

Democrat president  - Texas mouth breathers get their jollies on leaving the union

republican president - Cali mouth breathers get their jollies on leaving the union. 
 

same as it ever was. 

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5 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Texas taxes would increase if it were an independent nation. While Texas isn't nearly the worst, it is currently a net federal taker.

That's an understatement-and-a-half.

The amount we would have to pay on border and coastal security alone would bankrupt us.

And there would be trade embargoes by the US.

And OPEC would gut our O&G industry, which means some kind of welfare/unemployment for a shitload of people who still have lots to pay on their dualies and double-wides.

And we can print all the Texas money we want, but we don't have the means to back it up.  For fuck's sake, the state couldn't even make a gold repository (more like suppository) work.

And there would be a massive drain of high-paying jobs in various industries as the people who could afford to get out and go somewhere else more financially secure, would do so.  All those high-tech jobs would empty pretty quick when people get tired of massive price fluctuations in food, gas, etc.

I can only imagine what our power grid would be like, if our state legislature became national legislature, bought-and-paid-for.

These fucking Texit idiots really don't understand how amazingly stable our state and economy is thanks in part to being a part of the US.

Of course, they don't even realize we can't legally secede.

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5 hours ago, Herpa Derpa said:

A quick look at the post-Texit government in action:

More like 

 

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5 hours ago, C-Man said:

Colorado, New Mexico, the Caribbean are all looking like nice alternatives to Texas at this point.

I want to go to New England and build a replica fishing lodge that resembles the Possum Lodge on the Red-Green Show.

 

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2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

I just saw a friend’s dad’s Facebook page and holy shit. It was all plandemic, chips, MAGA, etc. This guy was always a 60s flower child hippie. Pro weed, pro universal healthcare, only voted Democrat,etc. his kids are very liberal. One is a faculty member at the Dell medical school and I he other is a graphic artist in CA. Fuck. The guy got married barefoot in a park by a goddamn shaman back in the day. No idea what happened other than he’s been stuck in my hometown his entire life.

Older people on fixed incomes/pensions are scared shitless of losing everything, and Trump was able to tap into that.

Of course, Texit would completely destroy that financially security they still have, so must have been some bad acid.

[David Dennison 18659]

3 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

I just saw a friend’s dad’s Facebook page and holy shit. It was all plandemic, chips, MAGA, etc. This guy was always a 60s flower child hippie. Pro weed, pro universal healthcare, only voted Democrat,etc. his kids are very liberal. One is a faculty member at the Dell medical school and I he other is a graphic artist in CA. Fuck. The guy got married barefoot in a park by a goddamn shaman back in the day. No idea what happened other than he’s been stuck in my hometown his entire life.

I think the switch happens when they get their first pair of white New Balances and CBS crime procedurals start to make up over 50% of their non-Fox News television intake.

[conVINCEd 21468]

2 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

I think the switch happens when they get their first pair of white New Balances and CBS crime procedurals start to make up over 50% of their non-Fox News television intake.

It begins when they get their first social security check.  More time at home watching tv and more time to mindlessly pursue social media.

[DonkeyCigars 144]

@Brisketexan, tell me more about how issues with water and power in Texas are so different and worse than in utopia's like California and PNW and how people are leaving better weather and infrastructure situations in droves to a worse one.

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California is going through an extreme drought this year, after a decade marked by record-breaking dry spells. Rivers and reservoirs are low and strained. Aquifers are draining; wells are going dry. Some households don’t have access to clean water, whereas others are rationing and have been for months. This has led to a great many uses of the word “emergency”: a drought state of emergency has been declared for forty-two per cent of the state’s residents; an emergency curtailment order has prohibited further depletion of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed; in an emergency procedure, nearly seventeen million juvenile Chinook salmon, spawned in Central Valley hatcheries, have been displaced, by truck, to deeper, cooler bodies of water. In May, farmers with ties to Ammon Bundy camped along the border with Oregon to protest water shutoffs. In August, the federal government declared a water shortage for the Colorado River, which, among other crucial functions, feeds Lake Mead, the reservoir propelling the Hoover Dam—a significant source of power for Nevada, Arizona, and Southern California. Lake Oroville can no longer support its underground hydroelectric plant. Illegal cannabis growers are thought to be conducting overnight water heists.

Governor Gavin Newsom, who on Tuesday won a recall election that threatened to remove him from office, has asked Californians to reduce their personal water usage by fifteen per cent. This isn’t the first such request, and people know what to do: they neglect the lawn, skip the car wash, watch the tap, and line the bathtub with buckets for gray water. Before I lived in California, I used to find Joan Didion’s rhapsodic appreciation of municipal waterworks, from 1977—“The water I will draw tomorrow from my tap in Malibu is today crossing the Mojave Desert from the Colorado River, and I like to think about exactly where that water is”—a little unconvincing. It seemed like poetic license. Now I see that it is the sentiment of someone for whom basic infrastructure has proved unreliable.

 

and the climate change and wildfires toothpaste ain't going back in the tube anytime soon.

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During this summer’s unprecedented and prolonged heat, California farmworkers, exposed to triple-digit temperatures, were vulnerable to dehydration and heatstroke. Dairy cows suffered from heat stress, and steers and lambs were lethargic. Prune plums dropped prematurely; tree nuts and apples were sunburned. Up the coast, in Canada and the Pacific Northwest, berries rotted on the vine, baby hawks jumped their nests to avoid the sun, and clams and mussels baked in their shells. Avocados and lemons are smaller than usual. Food staples are getting more expensive. Smaller short-grain-rice plantings in the Sacramento Valley, coupled with a looming salmon shortage, portend a crisis for the “sushi supply chain.” Meanwhile, if the past few fire seasons are any indication, farmworkers will continue to pick produce in ash-laden air, harvesting fields thick with smoke for the fifth year in a row.

 

Edited September 16, 2021 by DonkeyCigars

[Beau Vine 54003]

8 hours ago, Gap03 said:

No deal unless we can get rid pretty much everything east of I-45 from Dallas to Houston ... and they go ahead and euthanize Gohmert, cuz I'm no going to listen to him bitch about the outcome once the deal is done.

This new state is going to look more jerrymandered than the Bandera TV coverage map.  

[F250 28691]

8 hours ago, Gap03 said:

No deal unless we can get rid pretty much everything east of I-45 from Dallas to Houston ... and they go ahead and euthanize Gohmert, cuz I'm no going to listen to him bitch about the outcome once the deal is done.

Wrong!!! That would keep collie station in Texas.

 

Here is my ideal new Texas.

 

Sorry Houston but sacrifices must be made.

 

[Foosters 17733]

1 hour ago, DonkeyCigars said:

@Brisketexan, tell me more about how issues with water and power in Texas are so different and worse than in utopia's like California and PNW and how people are leaving better weather and infrastructure situations in droves to a worse one.

and the climate change and wildfires toothpaste ain't going back in the tube anytime soon.

 

It's your position that people are fleeing California because of the weather and infrastructure?

[DonkeyCigars 144]

7 minutes ago, Foosters said:

It's your position that people are fleeing California because of the weather and infrastructure?

No. For further reading, please see last page where I have laid out my position for you to review if you care and/or have the time.

Brisket's contention is that my position is fundamentally wrong because of, among other political concerns, water/infrastructure concerns. 

Edited September 16, 2021 by DonkeyCigars

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

Is this a back door way for Aggy to finally win a national title in something?

Umm, no. Texas National Guard + Aggy Corp would be hard pressed to push back against a 2021 freeze let alone an actual armed force.

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[Scheiss Meister 8399]

I bet these dipshits believe that the US would just hand over all of the equipment and arms at Fort Hood and Fort Bliss, all of the Air Force bases, all of the Naval installations, and all of the Reserve components in Texas.  And you know the US isn't leaving anything at Pantex.  Pinheaded idiots, the lot of them.

[Sawbonz 27436]

3 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

It begins when they get their first social security check.  More time at home watching tv and more time to mindlessly pursue social media.

Do they get the reverse mortgage because of they spent all their savings on silver coins or do they use the reverse mortgage checks to buy the silver coins?

[conVINCEd 21468]

4 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

Do they get the reverse mortgage because of they spent all their savings on silver coins or do they use the reverse mortgage checks to buy the silver coins?

Ask Joe Namath or Magnum PI.

Edited September 16, 2021 by conVINCEd

[Sawbonz 27436]

4 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

Ask Joe Namath or Magnum PI.

I always think of the Knots Landing dude

[conVINCEd 21468]

3 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

I always think of the Knots Landing dude

Shit, I’m too young to remember Knots Landing.

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10 hours ago, Scheiss Meister said:

I bet these dipshits believe that the US would just hand over all of the equipment and arms at Fort Hood and Fort Bliss, all of the Air Force bases, all of the Naval installations, and all of the Reserve components in Texas.  And you know the US isn't leaving anything at Pantex.  Pinheaded idiots, the lot of them.

It'd be cool if these idiots considered firing on Fort Hood or Fort Bliss as their Fort Sumter moment, because it'd turn into the ultimate Fuck Around and Find Out moment.

[David Dennison 18659]

But bros, most of the troops at Fort Hood and Fort Bliss would totally be on the side of Texas! 

[Francisco 2.0 32342]

Counterpoint:  without Texas, it might get a little more difficult for any republican to win the Electoral College.

 

 

 

 

[Js1 85110]

9 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Counterpoint:  without Texas, it might get a little more difficult for any republican to win the Electoral College.

 

 

 

 

Technically, no, because Texas' 40 votes just disappears from the map, so it's 498 electoral votes / 250 to win.  

They are definitely fucked because they lose 2 Senate seats and 23 House seats.  Dems only lose 13 seats.  

435 - 38 = 397 House seats. 199 for control.  Dems would have 209 and GOP would have 190  (3 vacancies but they are safe seats, so I added 2 to the Dems and 1 to the GOP). 

Edited September 16, 2021 by Js1

[Francisco 2.0 32342]

1 minute ago, Js1 said:

Technically, no, because Texas' 40 votes just disappears from the map, so it's 498 electoral votes / 250 to win.  

 

[Huckleberry 32703]

Well it does make it harder but not as much as you first think because of what you're saying. But it is harder. Let's start with this as the basis for the thought exercise:

So right now the Republicans have to win 82 of 141 competitive electoral votes (58.2%) to get from 188 to 270. Take Texas out. Now Republicans have to win 102 out of 141 competitive electoral votes (72.3%) to get from 148 to 250.

[Shaggy3.0 1695]

On 9/15/2021 at 10:16 AM, Brisketexan said:

Yep.  We'll be a white supremacist petro state, where the only people with any assurances of safety, security, and the basic functions of life, will be the oligarchs.

Texas has ALWAYS had a dark side.  What surprises me is the enthusiastic fervor with which we have embraced it in the last decade, jammed our foot down on the gas, and completely disabled the brakes.

All gas no brakes?

 

[SimonBolivar 10931]

19 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

the cartel would be running the border within days and the bigger cities within weeks 

Not if you exterminate all minorities!

[C-Man 27057]

Response on a thread by a local ambulance chasing attorney acquaintance of mine discussing the Texans who got in a fight with a NYC restaurant hostess when she asked them for their proof of vaccination.

[F250 28691]

15 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Response on a thread by a local ambulance chasing attorney acquaintance of mine discussing the Texans who got in a fight with a NYC restaurant hostess when she asked them for their proof of vaccination.

Succeed?

 

[Js1 85110]

2 minutes ago, F250 said:

Succeed?

 

Prey? 

[C-Man 27057]

4 minutes ago, F250 said:

Succeed?

 

 

2 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Prey? 

I pointed both of those out to him. I'll update with any ragey responses from Ray Meek.

[Huckleberry 32703]

Attorney? 

What right was violated? I assume he's okay with a bakery refusing to make a cake for a gay wedding. But a restaurant refusing to seat someone for a choice they've made is a violation? 

[C-Man 27057]

[RDCanecutter 26281]

6 hours ago, Js1 said:

Prey? 

What's said?

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The grifting is so fucking easy. 

I should have setup a fucking t-shirt company.

https://mataca.net

 

[Fudge Nuggets 19151]

Secession is the only way Raphael would have even half a chance of becoming president of anything.  He will be all in.

[tx 3 putt 76395]

9 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

The grifting is so fucking easy. 

I should have setup a fucking t-shirt company.

https://mataca.net

 

 

those tshirts actually look normalish, not nearly gaudy enough 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

Here’s how to shut them all up: make it so Texas competes in international sports as its own nation, like Puerto Rico, or how all the composite parts of the UK compete on their own. 
 

As for football we could have a TFL whose winner takes on the NFL Champs. Teams everywhere, like five in DFW and Houston, three apiece in SA and Austin, and one more in smaller towns all the way down to San Angelo size. 
 
after a year or two of growing pains, this league would regularly dominate the NFL because we’re Texas. Even if we could only afford ten percent of what they’d get in the league, native born players would stay out of Texan pride and “Americans” would flock to play in our league because they are competitors and want to be the best. 
 

 

 

[bluto 4894]

Here’s how to shut them all up: make it so Texas competes in international sports as its own nation, like Puerto Rico, or how all the composite parts of the UK compete on their own. 
 
As for football we could have a TFL whose winner takes on the NFL Champs. Teams everywhere, like five in DFW and Houston, three apiece in SA and Austin, and one more in smaller towns all the way down to San Angelo size. 
 
after a year or two of growing pains, this league would regularly dominate the NFL because we’re Texas. Even if we could only afford ten percent of what they’d get in the league, native born players would stay out of Texan pride and “Americans” would flock to play in our league because they are competitors and want to be the best. 
 
 
 

How’s this Texas league doing on ncaa level the last 10 years?