Not very likely, if they see increased profits at the expense of taxpayers and/or the environment. For corporations, it’s all about the Benjamins.
(ETA: And it would be one thing if corporations pulled head offices out; yet another for the Republic of Texistan to nationalize the companies ala Cuba. I just don’t see the Crazy wing of the Texan Republicans going full Marxist)
Not Marxist. Socialist. National Socialist.
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It’s OK When A Republican Goes Socialist
This is not a Texas thing, this is a core Republican issue. Several years ago, when i moved into a purple town in a blue state in the North East, i wanted to research my candidates for state representative. So i called the office of the people running, and asked about an issue i cared about, what their stand was on the death penalty. That wasn’t a major issue on the news, but the legislature was close, and i cared.
I reached someone representing the Democratic candidate and asked. He said, “i don’t know, but if you give me contact information, the candidate will get back to you.” So i did, and a week or two later i got an email from the candidate with a wishy-washy statement that addressed the question.
I also reached someone representing the Republican candidate. He flat out refused to answer, saying, “why do you care about that? Aren’t you upset that illegal aliens who live in the state get the state discount at state colleges?”
I asked how much that was costing us, and how much it would cost the system to validate the citizenship of these students. He had no idea. “But aren’t you angry?”, he asked me repeatedly. I never did find out where that candidate stood on the death penalty. (I asked several times) and i never did learn what the net cost to the state was of giving the in-state price to undocumented kids who grew up there. But i did learn that it was an issue that the state Republican party cared a great deal about, and that the key problem was that it made them angry.
War would be a bad bad bad idea for everyone.
“This aint no Washita River General and those arn’t women and children”
If there were a national divorce, I’d have no problem with it and living in Oklahoma if OK went with it (Under certain conditions)…but if there were a war?? I’d move. I’m not getting caught in that shitshow.
This is like a Ransom of Red Chief deal–a fraction of right-wing nutball lunatics are all “Yeah, an independent Texas!!” and even louder are that fraction of people in the other 49 going “Okay with us!”, daring them to do something about secession. I actually think the latter group are far more eager for such an outcome, knowing that the attempt is bound to fizzle out, and is probably designed to fizzle out. Loudmouth blowhards are virtue signalling to demonstrate their contempt for us, but they can’t begin to afford seceding, and would quickly go belly-up if they somehow managed to pull it off. Personally, I would enjoy their economy cratering, and their residents begging (invididually or as a state) to be reinstated as belonging to the US again, but there’s no way I’ll ever get the satisfaction, so it remains for me as for them, a fantasy.
Maybe it would work if they did it in baby steps. Just take one small aspect of civilization and see if they can successfully run it on their own separate from the rest of the country than we think about separating some other things. Something not too hard with all the infrastructure in place, like, oh say, a power grid.
I think their only real chance for independence is to outsource running their civilization to Mexico.
No, they are much happier bitching about how oppressed they are and claiming they’ll be happy if only we would give them their independence. They wouldn’t know how to pour piss out their boots if the US wasn’t there to help them do it. Just imagining how they’d manage their borders or ours puts a smile on my face.
One thing to consider is: If Texas secedes then the rest of the country will have to create a new federal holiday because there has never been a more joyful, super-positive event in out history. This could lead to having to eliminate another federal holiday. Columbus Day maybe?
No matter what else, there would be non-stop partying and celebrating in the streets in the other 49 states for months. Probably in Texas, too, until they wake up and realize that they utterly screwed themselves.
… the instructions were printed on the heel.
(Has to be my favorite insult ever. I credit Cormac McCarthy but I doubt he originated it.)
I think we can repurpose Independence Day and Thanksgiving and celeberate twice a year.
I’ve been hearing it long before he could hold a crayon.
I suspect the original was written in Latin.
“He couldn’t pour piss out of a sandal,” is an even better burn.
It’s true, the US would no longer have military bases in Texas but the US would still have every scrap of materiel and every enlisted serviceperson and officer they had before. All Texas would gain is the land the bases were on. Empty, loney land with not so much as a fencepost left behind. Just tumbleweeds.
And who are you saying would now be a nuclear power? We (the US) already are a nuclear power. I know you weren’t referring to Texas becoming a nuclear power because obviously the US wouldn’t accidentally leave a nuke behind.
The nukes (and the planes and the tanks and every single other weapon) would be among the first things we’d be sure grab out of the new rogue state.
Eliminate Columbus Day, add Goodbye Texas Day, sorta another Cinco de Mayo type celebration. Drink, Drugs, Debauchery type celebration. In your face type of thing.
BBQ.-
Indeed, BBQ, too.
It’s as American as baseball, apple pie, and Goodbye Texas Day.
But would we avoid Texas BBQ on that day, or embrace it for the irony?