Uh, good luck with that.
During former Trump strategist Steve Bannon’s podcast last Friday, Wyoming GOP Chair Frank Eathorne signaled approval of a Texas Republican lawmaker’s push for the Lone Star State to secede from the Union in a “Texit.”
Ya think so, Sparky???
Amazing! The Federal Government is their cash cow and they want to divorce themselves from it! First to cry welfare! for others but gimme when they reach the trough! Starve their legislature for awhile and see how swift they capitulate.
a different state constitution than we do as far as wording
Oh, just as far as wording. Apart from that they’re identical.
Suspect he isn’t smart enough to realize that all that land doesn’t automatically become theirs when they secede. Plus he seems to have a rather myopic view of the state’s reliance on the Feds to function.
What did that southern politician say before secession. “Too small for a republic, too big for a lunatic asylum.”
I met a Paraguays down in Key West. Nice couple.
All that plus a paltry GDP of $40.4 billion makes any “Wyexit” a flatly terrible idea.
And this is before US and International sanctions that would accrue after Wyoming fulfilled its destiny as a failed state controlled by fundamentalist and extremist terrorists.
Soooooo… Right on the heels of a violent insurrection and occupation of the Capitol, politicians are calling for secession…
@agnesbee, this the new wave of comity and seriousness you were expecting?
Hey, sure, let one of those “taker” states try it and see how it works.
I dare ‘em.
ETA: oh, yeah, and we can put ICE agents and holding tanks all along their border. In case they want to go shopping in Denver or something.
I believe we settled this question in 1865.
Secession is illegal.
In a few days:
Knock, Knock.
Eathorne: Hello?
Mr. Eathorne? This is the FBI. Open the door. Now.
There’s a war brewing between the two Republican factions, and it’s really coming forward…AZ GOP attacking the centrist Republicans, and now this. We’ll see a lot more of this going forward, especially if a number of Republican Senators vote to convict Trump…even if they don’t succeed they will be attacked relentlessly. And, if Trump is convicted and barred from office, it will get really ugly.
Good, they sowed this crop of insanity, they deserve to reap the whirlwind of insanity that is coming for them. And, it’s going to be worse for them…the videos of the Capitol invasion, and the calls to police as traitors for not helping the insurrection, makes it clear that the nuts will turn against anyone they expect to help them far harder than any liberals. And, no surprise there, that’s how cults always are.
Yes, James Petigru, South Carolina politician but also a supporter of the Union.
Republicans do not want to lose their two sure thing Senators from Wyoming.
Not in Vermont. It’s explicitly in Vermont’s Constitution that we have the right to secede.
Every now and then folks raise it up for amusement, likely impractical, but as we never were in rebellion, never lost the right to do it.
And a good thing, too.
We still hang traitors, right? What was the punishment during the civil war, I can’t recall. Prison at least.
And didn’t parolees have to make three declarations of loyalty to the United States?
The federal government needs to make a few ‘examples’ here. The nullification crisis and the civil war answered this question. Why do we have to keep coming back to it?