{"id":22622,"date":"2016-06-25T10:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-25T17:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2016-06-25T10:28:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-25T17:28:22","slug":"texit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/25\/texit\/","title":{"rendered":"#Texit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I have not been able to follow the Brexit news as closely as I wanted to, but felt dismayed to learn that the Brits have surrendered their prerogative to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/humor\/borowitz-report\/british-lose-right-to-claim-that-americans-are-dumber\" target=\"_blank\">call Americans stupid<\/a>, as Andy put it so well.&#160; However there are a couple silver linings.&#160; First, the UK Tory government is toast.&#160; More important the secessionist seditious Republicans in Texas want to follow suit.&#160; That&#8217;s the one really good thing for the US!<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0625texit-tnm\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0625texit-tnm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0625texit-tnm.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"470\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re at it again. Sarah Palin was encouraged by the Brexit vote to call for the US <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/06\/24\/global-jaws-drop-sarah-palin-outdoes-trump-racist-response-brexit.html\" target=\"_blank\">to divorce the UN<\/a>. But in Texas, they aim for something bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind that the United States Constitution forbids it: Inspired by Brexit, the Texas Nationalist Movement [<em>Republican seditionists delinked<\/em>] wants to #Texit. Just as Donald Trump failed to realize Scotland did not vote to leave the EU, Daniel Miller, president of the TNM, doesn\u2019t seem to realize that not only do most Texans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/houston-texas\/texas\/article\/Texas-secession-resolution-passes-GOP-committee-6676280.php\" target=\"_blank\">not want to leave the Union<\/a>, but they couldn\u2019t if they wanted to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Miller irrelevantly lamented to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/finance\/economy\/world-economy\/texas-nationalist-movement-wants-state-to-leave-us\/news-story\/a183385d5b505e19450801937a3b12b5\" target=\"_blank\">news.com.au<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe vast majority of the laws, rules and regulations that affect the people of Texas are created by the political class or unelected bureaucrats in Washington.\u201d\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026Honestly, given how Texas is governed, it\u2019s not surprising that the uneducated and poorly informed would think it\u2019s the Federal Government and not their own Republican Party running their state down&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicususa.com\/2016\/06\/24\/texas-secessionists-texit-cheer-much.html\" target=\"_blank\">PoliticusUSA<\/a>&gt;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans love the idea! Here&#8217;s a Republican fascist calling for Texit!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#ff0000\"><strong>Barf Bag Alert!!<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/TS-TNSV3kOc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There is one thing about this that boggles the mind.&#160; If Texas secedes, they could make Rump Dump Trump correct about Mexico cooperating with the US in building a wall&#8230; a wall to surround Texas!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have not been able to follow the Brexit news as closely as I wanted to, but felt dismayed to learn that the Brits have surrendered their prerogative to call Americans stupid, as Andy put it so well.&#160; However there are a couple silver linings.&#160; First, the UK Tory government is toast.&#160; More important the <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/25\/texit\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}