Texas GOP leader endorses Texit legislation to secede from the union

[Belk]

The FBI says that was not of Trump.

Quote them please.

 

[TLK Valentine]

The FBI says that was not of Trump.

Link, please? Because the flags they are holding in that very picture, as well as their testimony once they got caught, say the exact opposite.

...which is irrelevant anyway -- the point remains that walls don't stop the worst riff raff.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Texans are independent. Texas once belonged to Mexico, and at great cost fought and defeated the Mexican army to gain independence and sovereignty.

Which was in part because Mexico was fighting to keep the Anglo riff raff out of their country.

Texas Revolution | Causes, Battles, Facts, & Definition

In April 1830, wary of the rapidly swelling deluge of immigrants from the United States, the Mexican government legislated against further settlement in Coahuila and Texas by Anglo-Americans and reimposed the suspended tariff. Over roughly the next two years, conflict arose in the area near modern-day Houston between Texans and a group composed of officials of the Mexican government and the small military force sent there to enforce the tariff as well as prevent smuggling and Anglo-American immigration.

Perhaps they should've built a wall?

 

[TLK Valentine]

Texas did not exercise its reserved sovereign right to secede from the union. The Confederacy seceded from the union, and there was no "being allowed back" into the Union, there was only compulsory submission to the Union.

And yet, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri chose not to join the Confederacy, in spite of their sovereign right to do so...

Texas made a choice -- and lost.

Texas still has the right to secede.

You have the right to get a face tattoo, take up banzai skydiving, and call Mike Tyson the n-word to his face...

... that doesn't make any of them good ideas.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

Little short on tolerance and long on self-righteousness.

Not hard to see what they want to get away from.

So where's the virtue in refraining from using power wherever one can find it?

Why are you trying to making excuses for people ,that don't care at all for you?

 

[cow451]

Tell it to the one who posted the picture.

I just did by pointing out the dereliction of duty by EX President Trump is not the topic.

 

[cow451]

Call it what you want. . .it and others are on tax-payer dollars.

All hospitals receive taxpayer dollars. Ben Taub is just like all other nonprofits that way.

 

[Clare73]

Why are you trying to making excuses for people ,that don't care at all for you?

And you know this, how?

 

[Clare73]

All hospitals receive taxpayer dollars. Ben Taub is just like all other nonprofits that way.

Ben Taub is not like all other private hospitals.

 

[Kentonio]

Which was in part because Mexico was fighting to keep the Anglo riff raff out of their country.

Texas Revolution | Causes, Battles, Facts, & Definition

Perhaps they should've built a wall?

Do we also mention the part where Mexico had recently banned slavery to the strong opposition of many prominent Texans too, or is that one of those things we're not supposed to mention?

 

[Vylo]

Texans learn from their mistakes.

you mean like the 2011 polar vortex that caused the same issues they didn't fix in 10 years?

 

[Nithavela]

And yet, Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri chose not to join the Confederacy, in spite of their sovereign right to do so...

Texas made a choice -- and lost.



You have the right to get a face tattoo, take up banzai skydiving, and call Mike Tyson the n-word to his face...

... that doesn't make any of them good ideas.

Also, they don't have the right to the secede.

 

[DaisyDay]

You hear right. . .you can get a tan just from the heat radiating off a parking lot.

And they should have been prepared for temperatures never seen in Texas since record keeping was started?

Not even close: The Coldest Night in Texas

The all-time record low temperature that was established at Tulia was tied years later when Seminole, in Gaines County in West Texas, reported a temperature of 23 degrees below zero on February 8, 1933.

Many Texas cities established all-time record low temperatures In February 1899. Below is a list of the record lows at various cities across the state.

Abilene.............9 below zero...set in 1947
Amarillo...........16 below zero...set in 1899
Austin..............2 below zero...set in 1949
Beaumont……..10 degrees......set in 1906
Brownsville........12 degrees......set in 1899
Corpus Christi.....11 degrees......set in 1899
Dallas/Fort Worth....8 below zero...set in 1899
Del Rio............10 degrees......set in 1989
El Paso.............8 below zero...set in 1962
Galveston...........8 degrees..... Set in 1899
Houston.............5 degrees......set in 1930 and 1940
Lubbock............17 below zero...set in 1933
Midland/Odessa.....11 below zero...set in 1985
San Angelo..........4 below zero...set in 1989
San Antonio.........0 degrees......set in 1949
Waco................5 below zero...set in 1949 and 1899
Wichita Falls......12 below zero...set in 1947
​

A Full List of All The Record Cold Texas Temperatures

 

[Vylo]

Also, they don't have the right to the secede.

I think a lot of people miss this point. If say texas were to secede unilaterally, it would be immediately invaded by the US, as they would have taken US land. Texas has a reputation for being tough, but I doubt that would go very well for them.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Do we also mention the part where Mexico had recently banned slavery to the strong opposition of many prominent Texans too, or is that one of those things we're not supposed to mention?

Also true, but "keeping out the riff raff" seemed more on point.

BTW, what you think of first when you hear "Riff Raff"?

 

[TLK Valentine]

And you know this, how?

In a time of crisis, they threw you to the wolves.

I thought you said Texans learn from their mistakes?

 

[TLK Valentine]

Meanwhile...

Ocasio-Cortez Fundraising Drive For Texas Relief Raises $4 Million

But I'm sure real Texans would rather send it all back and be content with the cute little seashells Ted Cruz brought back from Cancun.

 

[Clare73]

No, you are in error.

It's about in the time of emergency, Texans would have to ration for the sake of those who don't want to spend the money or do the nasty job of developing their own power.

 

[Clare73]

No, they don't.

Do, too!

 

[VirOptimus]

It's about in the time of emergency, Texans would have to do without for the sake of those who don't want to spend the money or do the nasty job of developing their own power.

You are seriously ignorant about how it works.