Step 1. Texas secedes from the Union.
Step 2. US invades Texas, takes all their stuff, sells Texas to Mexico.
Step 3. Profit, profit, and PROFIT!

It's mostly desert, with a hostile government, and they have oil. It's been done before.

/I'll sign your petition.

"We have heard them threaten to secede so often that I have formed an enthusiastic organization -- The American Friends for Texas Secession. This stops the subject cold. They want to be able to secede, but they don't want anybone to want them to."

--John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley, p 174

Anyone want to start a PAC for kicking out Texas?

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maddogdelta: "We have heard them threaten to secede so often that I have formed an enthusiastic organization -- The American Friends for Texas Secession. This stops the subject cold. They want to be able to secede, but they don't want anybone to want them to."

--John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley, p 174

Imagine, as a teenage runaway, discovering that your parents really were happy with you gone

TNM-PAC doesn't mention any specific candidates it plans to support, but from the site it's possible to speculate. Perennial candidate Larry Kilgore, who recently changed his middle name to "SECEDE" (yes, allcaps), received 250,000 votes in the 2008 GOP Senate primary and is planning on running for governor in two years.


Larry SECEDE Kilgore? I would've thought Texas would be hard pressed to find someone stupider than Rick "Oops" Perry-- but, apparently, not so much.

Secs-PAC?

Dusk-You-n-Me: Gotta be a weird feeling to love your country so much you wish to secede from it.


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Duke Phillips' Singing Bears: F*CK! secede. Dammit. dammit dammit dammit.

For them, wouldn't success be defined by seceding? So your successive posts were unnecessary. But I digress.

 

Go for it!

/Please.

So, uh, theoretically, if someone wanted to start a PAC to promote something incredibly stupid that would widely appeal to incredibly stupid people, what are the regulations? Can you pay yourself some huge salary and spend $10 on putting up flyers you printed out?

/Would LOVE to see Texas secede.

Stop. Don't. Come back.

Back in the 1960's, when young people were protesting the Viet Nam war, the older people and a lot of rednecks would counter that protest with signs stating:


AMERICA, LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT!

Now the old people and rednecks want to secede. Maybe they should just take the advice of those other old people and rednecks.

Why would we want Texas out? They'll likely be a swing state within 15 years. Imagine the years when Cali, Texas, and Ohio go blue. All the wailing and tearing of hair.

Also if they leave, forget PR,, lets get American Samoa in for another Pacific vacation destination. Or Guam. Or get Korea and Japan on the phone and get started on some world government amalgamation.

/can you imagine Texans faces if we showed them the door and then cut a deal with 200 million Asians?

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So do serious social commentators like Stephen Colbert and comedians like Sarah Palin.

timujin: Please just let them go. Then maybe all the other ignorant crackerasscrackers in the rest of the country would move there so they could be "free".

Okay, but then you'd have a state filled with Authoritarian types who have become accustomed to getting echo-chamber propaganda news from a single source. They'd have a chunk of our military men, and financing from megacorps who'd suck them dry as they've been all this time.

So, even assuming that the war didn't start when they left -- once things started to go bad, how long before they'd be whipped into invading the rest of the country? Ya'know, because the Liberal States of America was going to invade them, inevitably, and force them to have abortions, give up their guns, and turn muslim? And the best distraction for domestic problems is a foreign war, after all.

NeverDrunk23: Really hard to believe the claims that Texas will go purple in 10 years.

well, if this is the opposition, will the next generation stray far from Texan Ds?

hiker9999: oldfarthenry: Looks like y'all have an 'merikun version of Quebec on yer hands!
It's a shame they don't babble in a different language like our secessionist traitors.
Makes it a lot easier on the head when you can't understand WTF they're saying.

You've never heard Texans or southerners "talk", have you?

well, he is Canadian

oldfarthenry: Looks like y'all have an 'merikun version of Quebec on yer hands!
It's a shame they don't babble in a different language like our secessionist traitors.
Makes it a lot easier on the head when you can't understand WTF they're saying.

You've never heard Texans or southerners "talk", have you?

As someone who lives in Fort Worth, this will bring me years of unending entertainment. Watching tears of impotent rage roll down the cheeks of those who would rather speak in hyperbole, pursuing an unfeasible and self-defeating goal rather than truly try to correct the pile of issues upon which they heave their extremism and traitorous rhetoric, is quite possibly the best and most deserved schadenfreude.

Bring on the new People's Democratic Republic of Upper Mexico!

Reasons we should keep Texas: Large manufacturing and infrastructure investment, Houston space center, lots of military bases that would need shuttering, Austin, tacos.

Reasons to get rid of Texas: it's farking Texas.

Sorry Texans, this one is really a toss up for the rest of us.

JolobinSmokin: Do you think they accept my soveriegn nation check?

I'll even write it for one brazillion dollars.

Only if your flag has gold fringe.