Texas doesn't have a right to secede (Don't get your news from right wing message boards)

[LordBrownTrout]

We could but I suspect we won't. The US has but only a very short time before it falls.

Nah, competent people are in charge now. We'll clean up the mess.

Lol, you're beyond delusional.

 

[Nostra]

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico, who are we to stand in their way?

Pretty sure the Country of Texas would cut off the border, and all you Dimwinger's cheap labor.

Do y'all really think the entire border is in texas?

The entire Country of Texas border would be in Texas. Why would Texas give a shit who KKKalifornia lets in?

Are they gonna build a border wall around the western and northern borders?

Texas would make their own immigration laws, which would be to pick them up and ship them back. I doubt many will be clamoring to go to Texas for a quick trip back to where they came from.

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

Who's gonna tell them they can't, our legal system? We don't have a legal system, or at least one that works.

Break the law..and tell me if it's 'working'?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

(Don't get your news from right wing message boards)


This is hysterical coming from a CNN viewer.

 

[bodecea]

If you see posts in rinky dinky right wing message boards claiming that Texas voted to secede, dismiss the fake news.
A state cannot secede. There are zero ways to do it. They can't pass a law to secede.. They can do nothing.

Yet even before Texas formally rejoined the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that secession was not legal, and thus, even during the rebellion, Texas continued to be a state. In the 1869 case Texas v. White, the Court held that individual states could not unilaterally secede from the Union and that the acts of the insurgent Texas Legislature — even if ratified by a majority of Texans — were "absolutely null."

If there were any doubt remaining after that, late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia set it to rest more than a century later with his response to a letter from a screenwriter in 2006 asking if there is a legal basis for secession.

“The answer is clear,” Scalia wrote. “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. (Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, 'one Nation, indivisible.')”

Texplainer: If Brexit Can Happen, Can Texit?

Hey, Texplainer: Britain voted to leave the European Union. Can Texas secede from the United States?

www.texastribune.org

That's a shame.

 

[bodecea]

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico, who are we to stand in their way?

If Texas and like minded states seceded, you'd be left with the United Ghetto of America.

Oh honey, you have no idea how screwed Texas would be going it alone.....

 

[EvilEyeFleegle]

If you see posts in rinky dinky right wing message boards claiming that Texas voted to secede, dismiss the fake news.
A state cannot secede. There are zero ways to do it. They can't pass a law to secede.. They can do nothing.

Yet even before Texas formally rejoined the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that secession was not legal, and thus, even during the rebellion, Texas continued to be a state. In the 1869 case Texas v. White, the Court held that individual states could not unilaterally secede from the Union and that the acts of the insurgent Texas Legislature — even if ratified by a majority of Texans — were "absolutely null."

If there were any doubt remaining after that, late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia set it to rest more than a century later with his response to a letter from a screenwriter in 2006 asking if there is a legal basis for secession.

“The answer is clear,” Scalia wrote. “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. (Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, 'one Nation, indivisible.')”

Texplainer: If Brexit Can Happen, Can Texit?

Hey, Texplainer: Britain voted to leave the European Union. Can Texas secede from the United States?

www.texastribune.org

Do you know why Texas has the right to secede?

Because you motherfucking pussies will not do a goddamn thing about it.

The law of conquest rules all.

Too funny! Most Texans are Americans--you wannabe Sam Houston's are outta luck.

Again.

 

[Nostra]

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico, who are we to stand in their way?

If Texas and like minded states seceded, you'd be left with the United Ghetto of America.

Oh honey, you have no idea how screwed Texas would be going it alone.....

How so?

 

[Missouri_Mike]

The Left beats up on Texas all the time. The reality is the American Left needs Texas to help pay for all of the shit they refuse to cut spending for. Texas threatening to leave is significant. Remember when Bernie Sanders’ Vermont threatened to become part of Canada? No one gave two shits because Vermont hardly contributes compared to Texas.

If Texas left it would most likely bring Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico with it which would mean the U.S. would lose vital energy and ports needed for the nation besides a massive port of entries the U.S. uses for trade with Mexico and Central America...

So reality the U.S. need Texas just like it need California!

Missouri would join in.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

If you see posts in rinky dinky right wing message boards claiming that Texas voted to secede, dismiss the fake news.
A state cannot secede. There are zero ways to do it. They can't pass a law to secede.. They can do nothing.

Yet even before Texas formally rejoined the nation, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that secession was not legal, and thus, even during the rebellion, Texas continued to be a state. In the 1869 case Texas v. White, the Court held that individual states could not unilaterally secede from the Union and that the acts of the insurgent Texas Legislature — even if ratified by a majority of Texans — were "absolutely null."

If there were any doubt remaining after that, late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia set it to rest more than a century later with his response to a letter from a screenwriter in 2006 asking if there is a legal basis for secession.

“The answer is clear,” Scalia wrote. “If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede. (Hence, in the Pledge of Allegiance, 'one Nation, indivisible.')”

Texplainer: If Brexit Can Happen, Can Texit?

Hey, Texplainer: Britain voted to leave the European Union. Can Texas secede from the United States?

www.texastribune.org

They can petition the US Congress for permission to leave the Union.

 

[Mr Natural]

The Left beats up on Texas all the time. The reality is the American Left needs Texas to help pay for all of the shit they refuse to cut spending for. Texas threatening to leave is significant. Remember when Bernie Sanders’ Vermont threatened to become part of Canada? No one gave two shits because Vermont hardly contributes compared to Texas.

If Texas left it would most likely bring Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico with it which would mean the U.S. would lose vital energy and ports needed for the nation besides a massive port of entries the U.S. uses for trade with Mexico and Central America...

So reality the U.S. need Texas just like it need California!

Missouri would join in.

No great loss.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Will Trump put on a cowboy hat and move to Texas? And what about the millions of Texans who voted against Trump? Put em in camps? Re-educate ‘em on dude ranches?

Ironically more than a few leftists want Trump voters to be sent to Orwellian re-education camps so your
comment is about as sardonic and unfortunate as can be.

Yeah, sure, but what are you gonna do wit ‘em, cowboy?

They will leave on their own cross dresser.

 

[Orangecat]

Succession was forbidden in the USSR, too. How'd that work out?

 

[Ben Thomson]

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico, who are we to stand in their way?

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico..AGAIN. Mexico made the mistake of letting white settlers occupy what is now Texas. All those 'immigrants' had to do was agree to abide by Mexican law. They agreed but as soon as they thought they had the numbers they rebelled against Mexico. Maybe on a subconscious level the right wing xenophobes think something like that might happen again, only in reverse..enough Hispanics occupy Texas they might want to rejoin Mexico..(chuckle)

 

[LeftofLeft]

The Left beats up on Texas all the time. The reality is the American Left needs Texas to help pay for all of the shit they refuse to cut spending for. Texas threatening to leave is significant. Remember when Bernie Sanders’ Vermont threatened to become part of Canada? No one gave two shits because Vermont hardly contributes compared to Texas.

If Texas left it would most likely bring Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico with it which would mean the U.S. would lose vital energy and ports needed for the nation besides a massive port of entries the U.S. uses for trade with Mexico and Central America...

So reality the U.S. need Texas just like it need California!

Missouri would join in.

No great loss.

Given that Texas is a destination for income earners fleeing Texas, it would be a great loss..

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Too funny! Most Texans are Americans--you wannabe Sam Houston's are outta luck.

I appreciate the sentiment, but your comment actually misrepresents Sam Houston, who fought hard and long against secession. He was a complex man, a pro-Union slaveholder, whose last fight against secessionists in Texas was to ruin his political career there. He died in 1863, shortly after the fall of Vicksburg:

Why Sam Houston, Texas Hero, Opposed the Civil War

Sam Houston was conflicted — he loved Texas, loved America and hated a Confederacy that he feared would lead the nation on a path to destruction.

www.ozy.com

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico, who are we to stand in their way?

If Texas and like minded states seceded, you'd be left with the United Ghetto of America.

Oh honey, you have no idea how screwed Texas would be going it alone.....

Really?

10th largest economy

Own power grid

A HUGE sea port

Our own gold repository

And the 2 biggest military aircraft manufactures.

Oh, yeah....and guns.

 

[Nostra]

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico, who are we to stand in their way?

If Texas and like minded states seceded, you'd be left with the United Ghetto of America.

Oh honey, you have no idea how screwed Texas would be going it alone.....

Really?

10th largest economy

Own power grid

A HUGE sea port

Our own gold repository

And the 2 biggest military aircraft manufactures.

Oh, yeah....and guns.

Don't forget 1/3 of the nation's refining capacity. Texas would get to charge Americans whatever they wanted for gas.

 

[Bootney Lee Farnsworth]

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico, who are we to stand in their way?

If Texas wants to become part of Mexico..AGAIN. Mexico made the mistake of letting white settlers occupy what is now Texas. All those 'immigrants' had to do was agree to abide by Mexican law. They agreed but as soon as they thought they had the numbers they rebelled against Mexico. Maybe on a subconscious level the right wing xenophobes think something like that might happen again, only in reverse..enough Hispanics occupy Texas they might want to rejoin Mexico..(chuckle)

I would LOVE those pointie boot wearing bumpkins to try. Sancho would get a GLORIOUS ass ass whipping...AGAIN....for the THIRD time...

Then we will come after you bitches.

 

[ESay]

I am bloodthirsty for war. Bring it on. We'll be happy to rid the earth of some goddamn Mexicans

Well, maybe you wont need to fight a war with Mexico. It may well be that after a couple of decades Mexico will be within your state without a war.