Remember the bad ice storm a few years ago? My cousin is on the executive leadership team for a major electricity company. He told us about one of the major contributors to the problem.
There isn’t one power supplier in Texas, there are a bunch both large and small. What was supposed to happen was that all the companies supplied power to the whole grid.
But a lot of the smaller companies pulled out of the grid when it started getting bad.
And that would probably be the biggest problem we would have. Too many of these people calling for secession are of the “I’ve got mine so F you” mindset
They did it by looting Europe, which wouldn’t be an option for Texas. And they seriously screwed up their scientific establishment between the persecution of “Jewish science” and Nazi pseudoscience. They basically gutted their own economy to build a war machine and fueled it by looting, the opposite of being “highly developed”.
Texas Secession 'Closer' Than Anyone Thinks Texas seceding from the United States is “closer than pretty much anyone else thinks” according to a leading Lone Star independence campaigner who argued a series of triggers, such as the reelection of President Biden or an intensification of the migrant crisis, could see the Lone Star State attempt to leave the Union.
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Speaking on his podcast Miller said that Texan independence, dubbed TEXIT by some supporters, is “closer than pretty much anyone else thinks” and argued a single external or internal shock could push this over “the finish line.”
Miller suggested the reelection of Biden, concerns about the validity of the 2024 election result, immigration issues, or a financial crisis could also trigger a Texas independence movement.
He said: “If you were to see major anomalies in the 2024 election again accelerator down to the floor. The fact of the matter is legitimate concerns about the integrity of our electoral system have gone unanswered … . If you see major anomalies in the 2024 election the calls for TEXIT will become overwhelming and I believe the same thing happens if Joe Biden gets reelected as president of the United States.”
I think it’s fair to say that the desire by Texans for Texit will skyrocket in all those “doom for RW wackos” scenarios the cited article posits.
Their ability to deliver Texit is absolutely positively exactly zero. But the ability of Texit as a campaign issue to deliver lots and lots of wackos into office will be unprecedented.
And that’s what’s really in play here. The ability to use Texit-related outrage as a super duper wedge issue to energize the wackos to vote hard Right.
So of course they’re going to talk this up as a real thing. Now that abortion has been eliminated as a rallying cry on the wacko (or even the sane) Right, they need a new thing to promise (and fail for decades) to deliver to keep the rubes coming back for more.
Like the dog catching the car, they’re screwed if they catch it. All the benefit is in the futile chase.
The Texit folks, who are mostly terrified of the looming possibility of future Democratic control imho, will never be able to win enough support for secession at the ballot box. And a conservative takeover by force Is laughable.
Though if Texas seceded, they might refuse to deposit into a Texas bank, and you might have trouble getting your funds from a non-TX bank into your TX account. Presumably an expat living in another country even now might have similar issues - there may be some countries where you cannot be paid (e.g. Cuba), and of course the bank would have to accept electronic transfers.
For some reason, the other day I stumbled across an article about living outside the US as a retiree receiving Social Security. For a citizen, there’s no big deal. If you are “just” a permanent resident, there seem to be extra rules, like needing to return to the US periodically. I can’t find the article now, of course.