So tired of nut jobs and grifters. So very very tired.

Too bad, Lincoln's post-Civil-War supreme court preemptively torpedoed this one. It's been ruled that you need permission from the rest of the union to secede and can't do it unilaterally, even through the union was formed in the first place via unilaterally seceding from the British empire.

...Because that makes sense.

Anyhoo, even if these dingbats succeed according to their own metrics the federal government won't let them go. So have fun with that. Not that I trust any of said dingbats to have actually studied any history on the matter whatsoever, or on any other matter while we're at it.

For a while now I have been hearing a lot of quiet and not-so-quiet talk about people fed up with the One Star State and leaving Texas, or at least working toward that goal. There are a lot of great people there, as in every state, and I don't want to bash the ones trying to make it better, but for some the pros are strongly outweighed by the cons.

It's hot and expensive and corrupt and has a governor who brings to mind that tired old poem An Ode to a Tree every time I have to hear about some other anti-human act of cruelty he's pushing forward, and a lieutenant governor who said grandparents should be willing to die of covid to save the economy for their children.

And then there's all the anti-immigrant, anti-women, anti-healthcare, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-DEI, anti-voting, anti-democracy, pro-hate, pro-culture war, pro-pseudo-religious horseshit they're up to, including praying for the death of an actual Christian candidate because he's telling people there's actually a difference between real Christianity and this twisted political version they're pushing.

Oh, and Texas gets hurricanes AND twisters too, forgot about that. And Ted "Cancun" Cruz, but never at the same time: that's his Superman power. You'll never see him in Texas at the same time as a natural disaster or destructive weather. I could think of more, but that's Texas right now, most of it having to do with its own insanely corrupt governance. New Mexico has problems too, but not like Texas.

So I already know this is a scam. No one in their right mind is running toward Texas. No one.

Has anyone asked New Mexico what they think of this plan, or is that buried with the Epstein files now?

They probably just want Eddy County because of the Navajo Refinery that refines a bunch of the oil out of west Texas.

Fuck off, we should go back to being Mexico first.

This will never happen for the simple reason that Texas's outline is too damn iconic.

Having read the article, I like the notion of some counties being able to redraw state lines with some limitations. There’s parts of states that feel like parts of other states and letting local folks choose their government was kind of the point.