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Brexit - Texit
« on: June 20, 2016, 12:48:14 PM »
Doesn't sound like something that will ever "secede"  :rimshot: but with a 1/4 million supporters, it sounds like more than a handful of looneys. Or are they looney tunes?  foxynewsdot I am a gay twerker that has no balls!!!!  I also have no idea how to use the quote function to post stories, so I annoy the piss out of others.  I like male genatalia in and around my mouth.

Some Texas residents are keeping a close eye on Britain’s upcoming vote on whether to leave the European Union later this month and are hoping they could use the referendum as inspiration to break away from the U.S.

Daniel Miller, 42, the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, told The Guardian Sunday that he’s tracking every step of the so-called “Brexit” movement and is hoping Texas can conjure a similar “Leave” vote to secede.

“There are a lot of people asking, if Brexit why not Texit?” he told the paper. “I do talk with some folks over there on a pretty regular basis that are involved in Ukip and the Conservative party.”

Miller said Britain’s situation is nearly identical to Texas. He told The Guardian to replace the “EU” with the “US” and “Brussels” with “Washington.” He told a local Tea Party group that the relationship between Britain and the EU was fractured over irreconcilable differences.

He said the reasons lawmakers have for wanting Britain to leave the European Union are nearly identical to why Texas nationalists want to secede from the U.S. Miller claims Texas could reach a higher potential if it wasn’t “shackled” to the federal government.

Texas won independence from Mexico in 1836 and joined the U.S. in 1845. March 2 is an annual state holiday, and in 2003 a state law was enacted forcing students to pledge allegiance daily to the U.S. flag and the Texas flag.

The Republic of Texas, another Texas nationalist group, claims that Texas never ceded its sovereignty when it joined the U.S. On the group’s website, it claims a “great deception can be undone – stay tuned.”

The Texas Nationalist Movement wants to secede from the U.S., using the political system rather than force or setting up some kind of parallel government. Miller said his group has more than 250,0000 supporters, including Russians who have taken great interest in seeing the break-up of the U.S.

Jeff Sadighi, a Texas secession backer, told The Guardian that he wants the possibility of a “Texit” to be debated just as fiercely as gun rights, illegal immigration and marriage equality.

“The bottom line is, the federal government due to their legal structures can only offer one size fits all solutions,” he said. “People in Massachusetts aren’t going to approach challenges the same way we are.”

As nationalists continue to try to get a vote on the floor of the State Legislature, Miller is waiting eagerly for the upcoming Brexit vote.

“At a cultural and spiritual level there are a lot of similarities. A fiercely independent spirit. Keep calm and carry on,” Miller explains. “The stoicism. There’s a sense that when you’re pushed, you don’t just crumple like yesterday’s newspaper, you stand up for what you believe in. We are easygoing, we are friendly, but when our core values and principles are threatened, we don’t take kindly to it.”

There have been two Texas petitions on the possibility of secession in the last few years and both of them were rejected.

When President Barack Obama was re-elected in 2012, a Texit petition garnered more than 125,000 votes but was shot down by the White House.

A petition to put the issue to a non-binding vote didn’t get enough signatures, but secession was debated at the party convention last month.
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Re: Brexit - Texit
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2016, 12:56:07 PM »
Let 'em go.

See how long they survive without the federal infrastructure/money.
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« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2016, 01:22:01 PM »
A lot of talk about that around here, some are saying/claiming that what we would lose in federal dollars we make up in not paying federal taxes/payroll taxes and such.

Ain't gonna happen but it would be fun to watch.
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« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2016, 01:32:06 PM »
Let 'em go.

See how long they survive without the federal infrastructure/money.

This. All of it.

Sick of hearing the talk from them. These are the same people that have big money boosters for football teams with kids on them aged 14-18. And still believe Jade Helm is a secret attempt to overthrow them "cuz the gubbment iz a skerred of us".
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« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2016, 01:39:54 PM »
A lot of talk about that around here, some are saying/claiming that what we would lose in federal dollars we make up in not paying federal taxes/payroll taxes and such.

Ain't gonna happen but it would be fun to watch.

Have fun eating cactus, peppers and beef. Because no one else will trade anything else with you if that happens.

Your resident natives out there are so delusional from their own self built egos that they don't know the reality of how this shit works. And that you would crumble without the rest of the country. Believe it or not that state was probably in a better position to do this 40 years ago when they had a higher % of the oil sector. Now it's everywhere. And as hard as it is to believe California and Florida hold more their own self sustainability than Texas because of their resources.
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« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2016, 02:29:22 PM »
Gotta' pay closer attention.  I meant this for the political forum.  ***Face palm***
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« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2016, 02:44:29 PM »
Gotta' pay closer attention.  I meant this for the political forum.  ***Face palm***

Wes is right though. Economically they might as well be putting a noose around their own necks.
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« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2016, 02:53:02 PM »
Wes is right though. Economically they might as well be putting a noose around their own necks.


nah, we will sell somebody the Cowboys. Should put us ahead 4 or 5 bucks.
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« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2016, 03:15:01 PM »

nah, we will sell somebody the Cowboys. Should put us ahead 4 or 5 bucks.

Hubris tripped up even the mighty British and Roman empires.
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« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2016, 03:25:32 PM »
Domino theory people!
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« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2016, 03:46:10 PM »
save the sea turtles.
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« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2016, 08:54:43 PM »
Let 'em go.

See how long they survive without the federal infrastructure/money.

More importantly, who would enforce immigration laws and build a wall? Oh yeah, and who would stem the tide of illegal drug smuggling and ISIS infiltration.  Is it just me, or does anyone else find it suspicious that this so-called bullshit hit list put out by ISIS is targeting practically all RED STATES? I personally believe there are political ties to ISIS from the left. And probably from the liberal right too. Just don't call me a conspiracy theorist because this could indeed be fact.
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« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2016, 09:55:47 AM »
Anyone follow this?  Amazing that most of the sound bites for voters in favor of leaving being immigration.
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« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2016, 10:02:09 AM »
Yeah, been watching it relatively closely and seems like the people have spoken and the prime minister let his mouth overload his ass.
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« Reply #14 on: June 24, 2016, 10:28:37 AM »
Trump and his anti-immigration rhetoric has caused the fall of the European Alliance.
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Re: Brexit - Texit
« Reply #15 on: June 24, 2016, 10:52:21 AM »
Trump and his anti-immigration rhetoric has caused the fall of the European Alliance.

So what's the issue? Aside from temporary market panics.
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« Reply #16 on: June 24, 2016, 10:54:56 AM »
So what's the issue? Aside from temporary market panics.

Exactly.
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Re: Brexit - Texit
« Reply #17 on: June 24, 2016, 11:42:13 AM »
save the sea turtles.

Save those big fat funky whales.

But kill the seals.
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« Reply #18 on: June 24, 2016, 11:44:20 AM »
Save those big fat funky whales.

But kill the seals.

Did you just threaten the Unites States military?  No more flying for you and give me your fucking guns. 
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