05 Jul 2016 08:46:02
The Texas call for independence seems to be gathering some wind. The disintegration of the US from within is a possibility.
05 Jul 2016 11:08:28
A few thousand people out of a population of 20 odd million. I don't see it happening to be honest. If they're willing to start wars half way around the world to get their greedy hands on fossil fuels, they're hardly going to wave goodbye to their own biggest source of it at home.
A few thousand people out of a population of 20 odd million. I don't see it happening to be honest. If they're willing to start wars half way around the world to get their greedy hands on fossil fuels, they're hardly going to wave goodbye to their own biggest source of it at home.
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05 Jul 2016 17:03:48
I believe the current signatures on the petition was 236000 earlier. Around 1% of the Texas population. That figure will pick up. If it came to a vote and Texas did secede it would be the largest constitutional crisis since Watergate.
If, and obviously its a huge if, Texas voted to leave what could the Federal government do. This isn't 1861 and there isn't a pretext to fight a civil war. The entire union would fracture.
I believe the current signatures on the petition was 236000 earlier. Around 1% of the Texas population. That figure will pick up. If it came to a vote and Texas did secede it would be the largest constitutional crisis since Watergate.
If, and obviously its a huge if, Texas voted to leave what could the Federal government do. This isn't 1861 and there isn't a pretext to fight a civil war. The entire union would fracture.
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06 Jul 2016 01:29:52
It's not going to happen KP. Not a chance. But if it did, it wouldn't be the largest constitutional crisis since Watergate, it would dwarf it.
It's not going to happen KP. Not a chance. But if it did, it wouldn't be the largest constitutional crisis since Watergate, it would dwarf it.
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06 Jul 2016 08:30:16
Well the largest of course was 1860-61 but none of us were around. I also don't think any of us were here for Teapot Dome. So Watergate is the only available context.
Well the largest of course was 1860-61 but none of us were around. I also don't think any of us were here for Teapot Dome. So Watergate is the only available context.
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06 Jul 2016 09:33:18
By that absurd rationale, if we were both in our thirties we couldn't reference Watergate on the basis that we weren't around when it happened. Ridiculous.
By that absurd rationale, if we were both in our thirties we couldn't reference Watergate on the basis that we weren't around when it happened. Ridiculous.
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06 Jul 2016 13:32:15
Never said you couldn't reference it. Just that Watergate is the only comparative in living memory. Everyone knows Watergate and anyone in their 30s can go ask people who lived through it.
Never said you couldn't reference it. Just that Watergate is the only comparative in living memory. Everyone knows Watergate and anyone in their 30s can go ask people who lived through it.
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06 Jul 2016 16:02:07
Watergate isn't the only available context, you just think it is.
You said yourself the largest was 1860-61, it's also the most relevant because of secession, but just because we can't go ask people who lived through it doesn't alter the fact that a Texit would be the largest constitutional crisis since then, and not Watergate.
Watergate isn't the only available context, you just think it is.
You said yourself the largest was 1860-61, it's also the most relevant because of secession, but just because we can't go ask people who lived through it doesn't alter the fact that a Texit would be the largest constitutional crisis since then, and not Watergate.
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07 Jul 2016 14:46:08
"texit"? Good god. That's even more vomit than "brexit"
"texit"? Good god. That's even more vomit than "brexit"
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