re: If TX had the votes to secede, and went through with it...then what?

Then the Democrats say “no” and then the SCOTUS also says “no”.

Texans will have continued to pay income taxes the whole time for fear of getting in trouble but a few outliers will be made examples of.

Texas can never secede. It’ll be blue in 10 years anyway.

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The democrats don't have the balls to start a violent conflict

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You really haven’t been paying attention. They view you as subhuman and themselves as morally superior and that’s why they are dangerous.

They won’t need to get violent tho. Their IRS and corporate America will keep you all in line.

And this too shall pass...

Who gives a frick what the Feds next move is. I just pray South Carolina, Florida, and the rest of the south immediately join and start building that wall Trump talked about, just in a new location.

Oh and Georgia and North Carolina aren't invited. Unless of course you want to create Conservative Moving Parties and escort your liberals out of your state lines.

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They'd never be able to get away with this.

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Certainly you don't think they'll just shrug their shoulders and go "oh, well...looks like Texas is out".

Come on.

If a state wants to disconnect from the union, the first proper thing to do would be to remove union support. No more fed dollars. No more SSI. No more Medicare. No more interstate commerce.

You are 100% bananas if you think otherwise.

If Oregon wanted to secede while Trump was in office these would have been his first steps. Don't want in? Fine. You're cut out.

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The Supreme Court has already said no to secession. The Union is an insoluble bond.

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Well to be absolutely correct.... if you seceed and the fed gov either 1) ultimately agrees with it or 2) can’t do shite about it.. that ruling is then invalid.

Or at least if the justices can’t come down and talk them in to returning. Kinda like the old Andrew Jackson approach.

I know where I'm moving for retirement - and probably A LOT sooner.

Where have you been? No one gives a frick what the supreme court says anymore.

We are entering a new era. Some of you havent come to grips with it yet. The old USA is gone.

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More than 90% of Texas has its own grid. Only remote areas in East Texas and far west Texas are connected to the national grid.

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I understand. Those areas would be disconnected from the federal grid. That's all I'm saying.

They'd also discontinue any monetary federal support. LINK ]For Texas, that's almost $270 billion, 2nd most in the country.

Now, Texas would be in the top 10 most robust economies in the WORLD, for sure. However, that only reinforces the federal government's need, even if only purely economical, to keep them in the union. Of course, deducting 270 billion dollars would drop their GDP below 1 trillion and put them outside the top 10...but still.

I said in another thread, if Montana wanted to secede the feds can wait them out. Disconnect from the grid, tariff the tits out of little they can produce and export, shut down interstate travel, etc.

But if you think the US is going to let 1.9 trillion dollars of Texas GDP walk without a fight...my man. You've got another thing coming.