Define Insanity: Simple "T-E-X-A-S" Let Mexico Have Them & Good Riddance "Texit"

Growing Number Wants to Secede from the U.S. 

“Texit” to Mexico

(Hasta la vista bebé)

UPDATE ON THE FOLLWING POST: More red meat from the crazies in Texas who want to secede from the Union based on this article from NEWSWEEK with this headline:

“Supreme Court Decision Sparks Texas Independence Calls”

Calls for Texas to declare independence from the U.S. (TEXIT) are growing after the  Supreme Court's recent decision siding with the Biden administration over a border barrier dispute.

In a 5 to 4 vote, a majority of the Supreme Court justices allowed federal officials to cut or remove parts of a razor-wire barrier that Texas had erected along the border with Mexico to keep migrants from crossing into its territory.

Justices Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh dissented.

Even GOP Rep. Clay Higgins from Louisiana condemned the Supreme Court's ruling, saying: “The Feds are staging a Civil War and that Texas should hold its ground.”

Despite rising calls for “Texit,” the state cannot legally secede from the U.S., as it was established following the Civil War, which saw the victories of the union and Texas rejoining the nation.

In Texas v. White (1869) SCOTUS ruled that individual states could not unilaterally decide to leave the union.

The Biden administration brought the case up to the Supreme Court, which ultimately sided with the federal government, saying that federal agents have the right to cut through the state-erected barrier in Texas if they deem it necessary.

Gov. Abbott wrote on X: “This is not over. Texas' razor wire is an effective deterrent to the illegal crossings that Biden encourages. I will continue to defend Texas' constitutional authority to secure the border and prevent Biden Admin from destroying our property.”

ORIGINAL STORY FOLLOWS:

How do we define insanity in Texas? Well, this article in NEWSWEEK tells how Texas politicians measure that with this insane story headline:

“What an Independent Texas Would Look Like”

Introduction, highlights, and key parts of the story: Texas supporters of “Texit” (copycat of the UK’s “Brexit” movement) the campaign for Texas to secede from the United States and become a fully independent nation, have had a busy year.

Earlier this month the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM), the leading pro-independence campaign group, delivered a petition with 139,456 signatures to the Republican Party of Texas in Austin.

That result called for an advisory referendum on Texan independence to be included on the March 2024 primary ballot. 

According to the Texas election code, the minimum number of signatures needed for a referendum to be considered is “5% of the total vote received by all candidates for governor in the party's most recent gubernatorial general primary election,” and since the most recent Republican gubernatorial primary was in 2022, when Gov. Greg Abbott was elected with 1,954,172 votes.

Therefore, a total of 97,709 signatures are needed for a referendum to be considered, so they have met and exceeded the number for the petition to go on the 2024 ballot.

Background With Key Historical Points:

According to Miller the TNM wants “the United States and Texas to maintain a frictionless movement of people and goods between the two *U.S. and Texas* should they split. 

On its website the group points to the U.S. relationship with Mexico as a model and states Texas would “readily qualify for America's federal Visa Waiver program,” which allows citizens from 41 countries to enter the U.S. for 90 days without requiring a visa.

The TNM program calls for the establishment of an independent Texan military after independence, claiming if the new nation spent the NATO minimum of 2% of GDP of defense each year it would fund “an active duty enlistment in excess of 125,000 troops.”

These would primarily be used for home defense, but the TNM also suggests Texas would contribute to “the combined military might of the western world to tackle threats to international instability.”

Historical Note: Any bid at secession would almost certainly result in intense legal disputes, cited in the U. S. Supreme Court case of Texas v. White (1869) that a state leaving the union is unconstitutional.

Miller at TNM disputes that saying: “Article 1 Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution lists all actions that are prohibited to the states. Withdrawing is not in that list. Therefore, under the 10th Amendment to the Constitution, the lack of an explicit constitutional prohibition means it is a right reserved to the states and the people.”

However, James Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin, argued that the debate over Texan independence is more about internal Republican politics than a serious project in its own right telling NEWSWEEK: “Texas nationalists calling for something akin to a Texit represent some combination of fantasy and symbolic gesture, each divorced from reality…the GOP party apparatus has become the favored dwelling place of extreme and esoteric elements, where such factions are treated much more seriously than they are among the general public. In some areas, they sometimes succeed in moving the center of the party to the right, and in attracting attention to ideas and proposals that have little relation to reality — like the idea of an independent Texas.”

Joshua Black, an expert in state politics at the University of Texas at Austin, and research director of the Texas Politics Project said: “Any ‘Texit’ is unlikely to be peaceful and would require a greatly expanded state capacity of the type that would repel many Republicans.” 

Further in his interview with Newsweek Black said: “I think history has made clear that there is no plausible scenario in which Texas could peacefully extract itself from the United States, even were that the will of its populous — which there is no indication of to my knowledge. When you start to think about the mechanics of Texas withdrawing from the United States, the ridiculousness of the proposition quickly makes itself apparent. As much as Texas prides itself on the notion of independence, like most states, Texas relies on federal dollars — especially in recent years — to help provide a relatively low baseline of state services. For Texas to withdraw from the U.S., the state would have to significantly increase its revenue through both taxes and fees to make up for lost federal dollars, but also, to begin providing funding for the many, often very expensive, services no longer provided by the federal government. A central element of Republican orthodoxy in Texas is a government model based on low taxes and few services. Filling in the gaping financial and service-providing role of the federal government would require a dramatically different, significantly expanded, model of government in Texas, one that I would suspect most GOP voters would detest more than Texas' ongoing participation in the United States.”

That is the main key points of the article and the madness in Texas.

My 2 Cents: I asked up front how to define insanity – well this “Texit” movement hits that definition smack dead center with this utter madness. 

Not much else to say except perhaps give Texas back to Mexico and take away their U.S. citizenship (which right now is not legal, as withdrawing from the Union is not either). 

Then see how they like their “old, new Mexican citizenship.” 

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